Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons

Chapter 466: Chapter 466 - Tamers War - Medical Experts

Moving through the castle corridors, Ren gradually realized the structure was truly enormous, much more than he had anticipated from the already imposing exterior.

A bunch of people with different tasks seemed to live here permanently. There were cooks running with trays, cleaners maintaining tapestries, scribes carrying documents, guards patrolling in rotations, and dozens of other workers whose specific functions Ren couldn’t identify.

Most looked busy and hurried, though he didn’t know if this was normal or if the current frenzy was because of the war.

The scale was impressive, a self-contained ’city’ within the castle walls, hundreds of people whose lives revolved around maintaining and supporting the royal family and their operations.

After considerable time moving through different corridors and stairs, many more than Ren first expected, they finally arrived where Julius wanted to take them.

It was a castle section clearly dedicated to medical functions, with specialized rooms and the distinctive smell of medicinal herbs and healing potions.

There were the experts Julius had mentioned.

The first was an older man with a Parasitic Venus, a disturbing-looking beast that resembled a carnivorous plant but with tentacles that looked like hair all over its body and moved constantly.

It was an evolutionary variant of Hana’s Venus Antenna (one of Larissa’s guards).

The creature was Silver rank and had detection abilities that could analyze internal body conditions with micrometric precision.

The second expert had a Leech Bee, equally Silver rank, whose appearance was a somewhat disturbing amalgamation between insect and lamprey. It was significantly larger than a three-year-old child, with a pulsing abdomen and long, hairy antennae with enormous sensory capacity.

Ren immediately realized both beasts were tremendously useful for medical diagnosis.

They were specialized directly or indirectly in detecting exactly what was happening in patients at the cellular level. The combination of their abilities would provide comprehensive understanding of even the most complex medical conditions.

The expert with the Leech Bee reacted quickly when he saw Julius approaching with Zhao. He fused with his beast and breathed deeply, sniffing the patient even before Julius explained the situation.

But his facial expression wasn’t very optimistic.

He looked at the other expert and the first invited him with a silent hand gesture, clearly communicating through years of working together.

”He’s an important soldier,” Julius began explaining, worried by the not so subtle expert’s expression while they carefully placed Zhao on the examination bed. ”Tyto Zhao isn’t the leader of an important house or a Gold-rank royal guard, but he’s one of the most effective and efficient operatives I have in my service.”

Julius moved nervously while speaking, clearly worried about someone he valued enormously. He had even forgotten to have his usual consideration of not calling him by his name... Zhao didn’t love the sound of it and felt it ruined the image he wanted to project.

”He’s taken missions above his rank and whenever stealth or tracking has been necessary in a mission, Zhao has been excellent. Often surpassing my brother Victor’s Gold-rank assets.”

He stopped for a moment, holding his head.

”I’ve always trusted him for many important missions. If Zhao were Gold rank like the almost 500 we have in all of Yano, I have no doubt he’d be among the best five soldiers, if not the best.”

He looked toward Ren with evident gratitude.

”With the gift Ren gave him, he’ll be even more important for our operations... under no circumstances can you let him die.”

The expert with the Parasitic Venus, gently pushed by his colleague, began the detailed examination. He sent his beast’s small roots toward Zhao, and these entered his body through skin pores.

Little by little, the roots expanded through Zhao’s circulatory system, like a biological sensor system exploring every part of his internal anatomy.

The expert’s face became progressively grimmer while processing information his beast’s roots transmitted.

”His mana system is too damaged,” he began explaining, his voice carrying the certainty of decades of medical experience. ”Almost his entire mana processing center is destroyed in thousands of small microscopic wounds.”

He paused, clearly struggling to find a way to explain the situation’s gravity.

”It’s a miracle they brought him alive from wherever there was such an extreme mana level. Most people would have died from shock long before developing this type of systemic damage.”

”But can he be cured?” Julius asked anxiously.

The expert slowly shook his head.

”I’m truly sorry since you seem very fond of the soldier... This will only continue deteriorating. Healing will be extremely difficult, practically impossible, because closing those microscopic wounds throughout his system would be weeks of work for a group of expert healers, weeks that his body wouldn’t withstand.”

He pointed toward different parts of Zhao’s body while explaining.

”Mana keeps escaping from his system constantly and is crystallizing in his body around his entire beast circulation system. It’s like he has thousands of small magical glass fragments...”

He paused and shook his head.

”...It’s very regrettable because I realize he’s a double with still unrealized potential,” he murmured. ”But we can do almost nothing with conventional methods.”

”Why not?” Liora asked, though her voice suggested she feared the answer.

The second expert, whose Leech Bee had been analyzing toxins in Zhao’s system, added his own grim diagnosis.

”To begin with, anti-mana medicine won’t work because his system is already extremely intoxicated with it,” he explained. ”His body can’t process more toxins without collapsing completely.”

The second expert elaborated with technical details that made Julius pale.

”The worst part is that anti-mana medicine formed small pockets around the small crystallizations and stuck to them. Being unable to be processed correctly, nor being sufficient to disarm crystals that were no longer in their pure original form...”

”Original form?” Julius asked.

”Environmental mana is believed to exist in a state between light and gas,” the expert responded. ”When mana crystallizes naturally, it loses its semi-ethereal properties that allow it to be gradually reabsorbed by our ’mana veins’, which are more like pathways and arrangements that reflect our beasts’ integration into our system...”

”...But once pure mana solidifies we need to process it again and inside the body that’s... Without medicine for excess... We’re at a crossroads.”

”In summary... Medicine is the only solution to crystals in his body but at this point it will only make things worse,” the first expert concluded.

Julius looked devastated. ”So there’s nothing that can be done?”

The two experts exchanged glances that confirmed the terminal prognosis.

”Not even with the most modern methods, no,” they admitted. ”We’re sorry.”

It was then that Ren stepped forward, finishing processing how to explain his solution while absorbing the information and medical jargon he had been taking in.