Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 576

Chapter 576: Chapter 576 - Taming the Fourth Year: Journey - 14

The guards, being dual tamers with a Gold rank beast, easily eliminated the first dozens of creatures.

Their powerful attacks tore through the Silver rank beasts like target practice.

But Julius could see that, just as had happened with the Golden Noses when they were overwhelmed by numbers and displaced despite their superior power, even the most powerful guards would eventually be pushed back by the insane quantity of enemies.

Their techniques were flawless, their teamwork perfect, but flesh and mana reserves had limits that numbers could exploit.

Despite Sirius launching attacks from the flanks, eliminating and dispersing many of the creatures as he advanced toward the Gold 3 ring, he couldn’t spend too much energy on the task.

The mutants had reached this point from Gold 3 after all. The quantity of creatures lost in the two forests populated by stronger beasts must have been enormous, yet despite those losses, the flow remained overwhelming. It spoke to their true numbers... an endless tide that could afford massive casualties and continue advancing.

Julius quickly returned his attention to Ren, who was watching the battle with a perplexed expression that mixed confusion with growing understanding.

"Now we really must go to the city," Julius declared firmly. "There’s nothing you can do if they’re not following you, is there?"

The initial motive for the operation with his friends had already failed. Sirius seemed to have left the range of the supposed seal that Ren had heard mentioned in that secret meeting. So perhaps it would be better to surrender what couldn’t be changed and return now to protect the city that housed his parents.

Although it pained him not to have been able to prevent the situation that saddened Luna, maybe protecting her in the city was already a better use of his time and energy. The letter in his pocket pressed against his chest like a huge weight.

Ren seemed about to accept, though he was still clearly confused by his apparent ability to hear the beasts but unable to use it for anything practical...

The connection he felt was real, but it offered no control, no influence.

And they weren’t seeking him specifically, that much was evident.

’Maybe if I found the big one from that day...’ he thought, remembering the one that had seemed to have higher hierarchy, that had attacked and controlled the smaller ones during their previous encounter. ’Julius saw it too so...’

But when he stopped wandering mentally and was about to ask Julius about his deduction of where the larger creature might be, a strange sensation swept through him.

The feeling was like tuning into a distant radio frequency, suddenly clear signals emerged from the background static of his consciousness.

"Julius!" he shouted suddenly, his voice cutting through the sound of distant battle. "We have to go back, but not to the city!"

"What do you mean?"

"We have to go to the area between the Bronze and Iron rings of Goldcrest territory, near where I used to live," Ren pointed back but angled to the right, his hand trembling slightly with the urgency of what he was sensing. "I’m feeling the same signals, the same ’voices’ that I sense here."

Julius immediately understood the implications. If Ren was correct, it meant there were also mutants coming from that direction, probably heading toward defenseless civilian populations from a much closer ring.

The area Ren mentioned was quite far away. Even at his Qilin’s maximum speed, they would take time to arrive. They might reach there too late to make any difference, arriving only to witness the aftermath of a massacre.

After nearly an hour of rapid travel, they were finally close. Julius had pushed the celestial beast to speeds he reserved for true emergencies, the creature’s hooves barely touching the ground as it flew across the landscape in bounds that covered miles with each leap.

A messenger falcon intercepted them as they crossed into what had been Goldcrest territory. Julius extended his arm to allow the bird to land, immediately noticing that it carried multiple responses to his earlier messages.

"What do they say?" Ren asked while Julius rapidly read through the reports, his eyes scanning the cramped handwriting.

"They received the information," Julius summarized, though his expression remained tense as he continued reading. "Selphira and Victor worked together to block the inner entrance to the city with a massive combined wall of ice and reinforced minerals in time."

Ren felt a moment of relief wash over him, his parents were safe behind those defenses, along with thousands of other civilians. But Julius continued reading with a furrowed brow that suggested the news wasn’t entirely positive. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"But to defend the entire city properly, they couldn’t cover the area inhabited by all the outskirt dwellers. They evacuated them deeper into the city in a massive aid effort."

"How did the people react?" Ren asked, remembering the social tensions between his former social stratum and the city dwellers. The integration had always been uneasy, marked by prejudice and economic disparity that could explode back under stress.

"Surprisingly well," Julius seemed genuinely relieved by this point. "The changes that your information has brought about apparently reduced resistance to helping refugees from the outskirts. There weren’t as many discrimination problems as we would have expected a few years ago."

The Qilin finally landed when they reached the zone Ren had identified as the source of the strange signals. The landscape had changed considerably since the last time he had been here, but something immediately familiar caught his attention.

"Julius," Ren murmured, studying the surroundings with growing certainty as memories flooded back, "this is the zone where the cave that helped me cultivate differently was located... a ruin. It’s a cave where I already came three times with my fungus."