Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 560

Chapter 560: Chapter 560 - Taming the Fourth Year: Lin’s Punishment - 2

Lin launched a barrage of kicks that forced Ren to use the dagger as a shield. The teacher was so fast she could avoid the blade at the last moment of impact by moving her foot and claws around it.

Each strike tested the limits of physics and his reflexes.

The golden crystal blazed intensely with each impact, dispersing the kinetic energy that would have knocked Ren out with the first successful hit. The weapon hummed each time with the canceled force.

"Isaac really outdid himself with that thing," Lin murmured appreciatively while pulling back to recover momentum. "But like your body, a weapon is only as good as whoever uses it. And you... you’re still acting like prey instead of predator."

She paused mid-circle, her eyes narrowing.

"Accept that you’re not ready to help with this. Let someone else solve it. It’s not your responsibility."

Ren felt a spark of genuine anger, an emotion similar to the day Leopold had dared to place his problems above Ren’s. An emotion he had been trying to control since losing his fungus.

The feeling burned in his chest like molten metal.

"I’m not prey," he finally responded, his voice filled with determination that surprised even him. "I won’t step aside, and I decide what’s my responsibility."

"Not?" Lin smiled, beginning another circle. Her claws clicked against stone with each step. "Good. I don’t dislike stubbornness in my student... but then prove it. Stop reacting to my attacks and create space for your own. Stop depending on that shiny toy and use your body as the extension of your will it should be."

The criticism was fair but painful.

And ultimately, although Lin accepted that he could "play" and develop however he wanted, she also didn’t love the idea of learning to use weapons.

Still, she was right. Throughout the entire fight, Ren had been in defensive mode, using the dagger to compensate for his disadvantages instead of creating offensive opportunities.

Lin concentrated, and Ren could feel her mana pressure intensify. The air itself seemed to thicken around her transformed form.

When she attacked this time, it was with the clear intention of ending the combat.

Her legs moved with the same techniques that Ren recognized from years of observation, but executed at a speed and with a force that surpassed everything he had faced until now.

She was no longer trying to ’softly’ knock him out.

She was trying to finish this now.

Ren found himself constantly losing ground. His dodges became more desperate, his counterattacks still failing to begin. The large difference in basic statistics was starting to show its inevitable weight.

The dagger increased Ren’s arm reach, yes. But Lin’s reach was still greater. Her transformed extremities gave her advantages that no amount of basic ’elemental tricks’ could completely compensate for.

One strike passed so close to his head that he felt the air displacement cut strands of his hair. Another blow resonated against the side of the dagger on his left arm with enough force to temporarily numb it.

The impact traveled up his bones.

His grip faltered for a heartbeat.

"Very good, very good," Lin stopped abruptly, her eyes shining with something that could have been genuine pride. "You’re still standing... You’ve improved incredibly in technique since you lost half your power."

She relaxed slightly, though she maintained her guard.

"A week ago, this fight would have ended in our first exchange."

But her expression hardened again, focus returning.

"But I’m not going to let you go anyway... So now comes the hard part. I’m going to come with every intention of hurting you again. Are you ready?"

It was a genuine question, not mockery. Lin really wanted to see if Ren had developed a solution for the apparently unsolvable problem she represented.

A teacher’s challenge wrapped in a threat.

Ren felt emotions intensifying in his chest, combining in a resonance that made the energy encysted in his core respond with greater force.

He concentrated on them, released air slowly. The mana flowed more freely through his body from his chest, and his elemental control sharpened. Wind responded with greater precision, earth obeyed with more fluidity.

The world seemed to slow by fractions.

Lin noticed the change immediately.

"If you still want this," she murmured, studying the way Ren’s mana had begun to flow more naturally.

She attacked again, but this time Ren was prepared in a different way.

Instead of simply reacting, he began to anticipate. His intimate knowledge of Lin’s movement patterns, combined with his perception enhanced by the intense emotional state, allowed him to see the tiny openings he had been missing.

Three years of observation crystallized into true understanding.

The dagger moved with real offensive purpose for the first time in the fight. Not just blocking or deflecting, but actively seeking opportunities to counterattack.

Lin had to retreat half a step when the golden blade passed dangerously close to her left thigh.

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