Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 584

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Chapter 584: Chapter 584 - Taming the Fourth Year: Journey - Struggle - 3

Had Min ruined everything with his innocent question about whether it was all over?

No...

It surely was nothing more than coincidence, but... the arm-claw began pulsing with renewed intensity just after his words.

The mutant creatures that had already been advancing aggressively worsened. Their movements became even more aggressive, more intense, as if something had enraged them beyond their already considerable fury.

"The big creature no longer controls them," Liu observed while leaning heavily on Taro, his voice strained from exhaustion, "but the artifact is definitely still a problem."

Zhao attempted to launch some feathers toward the pulsing arm, taking advantage of his remaining fusion power, but again they bounced harmlessly against its surface. The ancient construction seemed to mock their efforts.

Julius also tried attacks with his most powerful minerals, but the ancient structure absorbed the impact without showing the least damage.

"We can’t affect it with normal attacks," Julius murmured, rapidly evaluating their limited options while watching the creature tide grow larger. "And we don’t have energy for prolonged attempts."

"Then we only can escape," Zhao declared pragmatically, though his voice carried the frustration of leaving an unsolved problem that would likely claim lives later.

But Ren still hadn’t given up like the others.

The purified roots in his system, those that had been cleansed by Sirius’s attack but not completely eliminated, began feeling more energized in a different way.

His system had expanded again, but it wasn’t like the uncontrolled corruption from before. Instead, it was something calmer, more controllable.

Perhaps now he could understand it.

"Ren," Julius called when he noticed him advancing toward the center of the bowl, "we don’t have time for experiments."

"I can feel something," Ren responded, approaching the pulsing artifact. "My system is reacting... as if it recognizes the energy."

Zhao and Julius exchanged worried glances but positioned themselves to resist the growing advance of creatures, clearly reluctant to stay there with so little energy but trusting that Ren was about to discover something crucial.

Ren hurried and, ignoring his companions’ protests, extended his hand toward the arm’s surface.

The contact released an immediate and intense flow of information. He could feel a bit of the artifact’s intricate construction through energy that was like his own but also contrary by nature.

The patterns were complex, layers upon layers of purposes he couldn’t completely decipher.

Maybe if his fungus were here to provide the deep understanding he needed...

But he couldn’t lament what he had lost or what he didn’t have now. There was no time for subtleties or complete comprehension.

So he decided to use brute force.

He channeled a good part of the purified energy he had available directly into the artifact, trying to overwhelm whatever corruption had taken hold of its original systems.

An intense effort and then...

A small section of the artifact went dark, the corrupt energy visibly cleansing like ink being washed from a surface. For a moment, Ren felt hope that he could purify the entire structure, that his sacrifice of power could be worthwhile.

Then there was a rebound of corrupt energy in the artifact, and a wave traveled through the ground and environment in response to his interference.

The mutant creatures stopped completely, as if they had received a silent signal. Then, with an almost maddened intensity they hadn’t shown before, they became much more aggressive and desperate. Their movements lost all semblance of natural behavior, becoming deranged.