Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons

Chapter 914 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition - Final Battle - 13

The earth wolverine and the Qilin Julius had carefully cultivated merged. Both matured through the thousand-day method that had refined their capabilities beyond what time alone would achieve. Both at the same Gold 1 rank and balanced so perfectly their energies complemented instead of creating any friction.

He began the fusion but kept it contained in his human body rather than permitting the beasts to manifest physically.

It was a tactical necessity imposed by the tunnelsʼ small space where theyʼd have to advance after each chamber. Walls that were indestructible for his power level by design of the ancient civilization that had crafted them.

The tunnel couldnʼt accommodate creatures of the size that the vast majority of Gold-rank beasts reached when fully manifested, let alone fused ones. It was a restriction that would have made using the power of their body appropriately impossible if heʼd attempted invoking the second copy outside his own human body.

But maintaining an internalized fusion using both copiesʼ power at maximum was considerably more difficult.

The pressure of two massive energies compressing in his human form would be creating stress requiring extraordinary control to manage without permitting the bond to collapse or his body to fracture under a load exceeding normal limits.

It was like trying to contain an explosion of energies wanting to expand, that fought against the constraints forcing them into a human-sized container.

And Julius had to hold them. Direct them… All while maintaining coherent thought and awareness.

Most tamers couldnʼt do it at all. Those who could usually would manage for minutes at most before the strain became unbearable.

Julius felt the power of that transformation propagating through his system while both beastsʼ characteristics integrated with his form.

His skin hardened with mineral texture in some parts. Natural defense the earth wolverine provided. Like stone growing over flesh creating armor that could turn into blade or claw that would cut normal skin.

Muscles reinforced with the potential the Qilinʼs musculature contributed. Strength permitting movements that would shatter ordinary human bones instantly.

It was power eclipsing what heʼd possessed moments before. Multiplication of capabilities justifying the cost that would come after when the fusion exhausted and left him vulnerable.

But for now, for a maximum of thirty minutes the complete fusion could maintain, it was a force rivaling any of the most exceptional tamers in all the kingdom.

He could feel it. The raw potential coursing through every cell. This was what it meant to truly merge your beasts, transcending limitations of either form individually to achieve something greater than the sum of their parts.

”Now!” he shouted toward the soldiers behind him whoʼd also been preparing their own fusions.

The groupʼs push began with a synchronization of mana that showed a professionalism separating elite forces from simply competent ones.

Soldiers with earth affinity activated their fusions in a cascade and began channeling their earth mana toward Julius from behind. Channeling that amplified his energy.

It was an exceptional support technique. Not simply adding forces but multiplying their leaderʼs effectiveness converting the group into a unified weapon rather than a collection of individuals operating independently.

Just like the fusion…

The principle was geometric rather than arithmetic growth.

BHaving all that power flowing through a single controlled outlet meant an intensity that dispersed force couldnʼt match.

Julius created with it a rotating point of minerals and pushed forward with the combined power flowing through him.

They advanced in minutes what compared with the progress of a few meters theyʼd achieved before could genuinely be called reaching near the exit quickly.

The tunnel that had seemed to extend interminably before them, when facing it with ordinary methods, now advanced at a rate making it seem the distance compressed under the assault of a power accepting little resistance.

Abyssal creatures that had been blocking the route with their bodies, and a pressure that pushed one behind another, were now crushed and pulverized when they tried resisting.

The rotating mineral point Julius crafted didnʼt just pierce through enemies. It grounded them to dust. Obliterated them so thoroughly that following soldiers didnʼt even need stepping over bodies, there were no bodies, just purple pottage on tunnel walls.

It was brutal… But efficient. An absolutely devastating demonstration of what concentrated almost Platinum-rank power could accomplish.

And then they reached the last tunnel. The final section to finally gain control of moldable earth from the surroundings that should carry them directly to the surface where they could finally escape the beast flow and the underground prison that had consumed precious hours.

Julius felt anticipation building. Almost free... Almost able to respond to whatever crisis was developing above.

But reality was cruel.

Like when his older brother Victor had tried exiting the ruin in another territory days before, in the place where now Selphira and Arturo desperately fought to stop another river of beasts threatening the city, Julius also received an attack not permitting him to continue as easily as making a hole through a purple biological wall.

It was again a beam.

But it wasnʼt the beam of intertwined light and darkness that had struck Victor. That combination of white and black. That strange fusion of opposed elements that shouldnʼt coexist.

This was a bit different.

The beam obstructing the path being fired from the exit was different in composition. Brilliant blue and burning red. Fire and water mixed in a chaotic figure that shouldnʼt exist according to conventional elemental physics.

Elements fundamentally opposing each other rotated around themselves. Impossible balance achievable only through extraordinary control or through devices imposing stability externally.

Fortunately for Julius, his primary element provided considerable resistance against the energies from both fire and water composing the attack.

Earth wasnʼt immune to thermal effects or erosion that liquid caused. But it had natural durability making damage accumulate more slowly than if heʼd had any other affinity those elements specifically exploited.

The combination was still dangerous but manageable in ways it wouldnʼt be for someone with wind or wood primary affinity.