Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 604

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Chapter 604: Chapter 604 - Taming Presumptions

Larissa adjusted the straps of her bag, something like her school backpack, for the third time... her hands trembling slightly from nerves about returning to the academy.

María rolled her eyes.

It wasn’t as if she needed to carry more things by hand when she had carriages full of "indispensable" items that would be transported from the castle... But perhaps it was her way of coping, so she didn’t insist on carrying it for her in the end.

Her enormous room had been converted into the recovery chamber for the four girls from their group of twelve who needed rest. It was filled with expectant silence, broken only by the occasional whispers of maids monitoring the two unconscious guards and the soft hum of energy emanating from the procedure they were performing.

In the center of the room, two beds had been positioned to allow Hana, with her evolved Venus Flytrap, to extend her beast’s thinner roots toward Mako and Shizu. The roots, which glowed with a dim light, were connected directly to the sleeping guards’ mana systems at specific points, while Kira and Hikari coordinated the injection of processed crystals using their specific cultivation methods directly into their beasts.

It was a technique that Wei had been teaching publicly for the past few months, though all of them knew it had originally been developed by Ren.

Like so many other innovations that had changed how the kingdom functioned, his genius had found a way to accelerate recovery and prevent lethargy periods from completely interrupting the cultivation process.

Luna began to stir in her bed, her eyelids fluttering as she gradually emerged from the deep sleep that followed prolonged double fusions. Liora was already half-awake too, her eyes studying the ceiling with the thoughtful expression the mischievous girl adopted only when waking up.

Of the three maids and six guards, only Mako and Shizu had needed recovery. Of the three "princesses", Luna and Liora had required rest due to their rough power usage.

Larissa sighed, adjusting her ’backpack’ once more. Her own fusion had lasted less than five minutes, so she had avoided most of the lethargy side effects her cousins had experienced.

But that minor advantage felt insignificant compared to the emotional weight of everything that had happened. In a way, she also felt exhausted... not physically, but in a deeper way that rest couldn’t easily cure.

Luna looked directly at her from the bed when her eyes fully focused, and Larissa could see the familiar obstinacy that meant her friend wanted answers and no more sleep.

And not the simple answers given in official reports, but the complete truth about how everything had ended on both battlefields and what had happened after the creatures retreated and they collapsed from exhaustion.

The three maids approached to help Luna and Liora sit up, offering them water and checking their vital signs with the professional efficiency they had developed during the past years of managing the consequences of forcing double fusions.

While they prepared them and helped them fully regain consciousness, Larissa organized her thoughts, trying to decide how to explain a sequence of events that she herself wasn’t sure how to process.

Her mind tried to organize everything into a coherent picture.

She had already been here in her room when Arturo’s message arrived about the resolution of the situation at Yino’s wall.

That side, defended by Victor, hadn’t fared any better than Ren’s...

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The original wall had been partially destroyed and rebuilt several times, with temporary mineral sections filling gaps where original stone formations had been pulverized by impacts from the giant creature. The soldiers moved with the desperate urgency of people who had been fighting for their lives for hours.

Arturo had been forced to leave logistics and intervene as a last resort, but that had been insufficient too. Even with his considerable power and tactical expertise, the fused creature had proven too strong. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂