Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons

Chapter 811 - Taming the Fifth Year - Titans - 4

The final defensive layers had absorbed what remained of the beams before they could reach the beetle itself. Taroʼs beast remained unharmed behind its fortifications that now looked like a bombarded lunar landscape, cracked and fragmented but still functional in their purpose.

The beautiful thing about sand and living minerals was that they could behave almost like liquids when needed, refilling the spaces rapidly.

Ren considered his options while observing the destroyed defenses beginning to regenerate quickly. The beetle could maintain this pattern indefinitely if Ren only continued using pure light and that would waste all the hydraʼs energy. He needed something with more penetration and power, something that would exploit the inherent weaknesses in that type of relatively loose and stratified defense.

He had a more powerful attack available in intensity. The combined light and darkness beam heʼd used against Larissaʼs fairy, but this time he didnʼt need to fire so quickly, so he could maximize the output.

It was a considerable power escalation that would require significant energy expenditure from the hydra but likely cheaper in the long run.

Though it was not that expensive since he really had something even stronger than that saved, but didnʼt want to use it unless absolutely necessary. That new move was a card he preferred keeping hidden until a moment where victory depended 100% on it.

”Combination white and black, spiral,” Ren ordered, his tone communicating the situationʼs seriousness through the bond.

The hydraʼs heads responded, but this time the charging process took noticeably longer. The first head began glowing with familiar light, intensity growing to almost blinding point. The second head darkened, blackness manifesting as tangible absence of light that seemed to absorb part of its twinʼs brilliance. The two contrary energies began rotating around their respective points of origin, creating spiral patterns that intertwined visually even before the shot.

Taro saw the preparation and recognized immediately that a significantly more dangerous attack was coming. He couldnʼt simply wait passively and trust that his defenses would be sufficient this time. He needed to interrupt the attack before it launched completely charged.

The beetle struck the ground with one of its massive legs, the impactʼs force resonating through the earth like a small localized earthquake. Earth control exploded from that contact point, energy running through the ground toward the hydraʼs direction with alarming speed.

The terrain began deforming violently, giant rock spikes emerging in a straight line toward Renʼs beast.

It was one of Taroʼs new signature attacks, the move heʼd been perfecting during months of training. A wave of spikes that could shatter conventional defenses and impale opponents who didnʼt react with sufficient speed. The spikes grew in size as they approached their target, eventually reaching more than ten meters in height each, tips sharp as spears aimed toward the hydraʼs body.

But the hydra possessed earth affinity as well...

One of the hydraʼs legs lifted and struck the ground with perfect timing, just when the spikes were about to emerge beneath it.

The hydraʼs earth control clashed against the beetleʼs in direct conflict. Energy against energy, will against will. And although the beetle was specialized in that specific element, the hydra was also naturally specialized in it, though it added light to make it a less specialized repertoire... But it had the advantage of receiving control extras from the wolverine and mantis, besides it was easier to cancel the control when defending instead of attacking.

It negated the spike formation directly beneath itself, dispersing to the sides the energy that Taroʼs enormous beast had sent through the ground.

The spikes at the front collapsed, rock fragmenting into harmless pieces that fell back to the earth.

And in that moment of interruption to Taroʼs attack, the hydraʼs heads completed their charge...

They fired simultaneously.

Light and darkness launching from the hydraʼs heads across the barely thirty meters separating the two beasts.

The beams intertwined immediately after emerging, spirals converging in a hypnotic pattern that made them challenging to track visually. The contrary energies moved strangely better together than they should, the light feeding the darkness while the darkness defined the lightʼs boundaries, creating a paradoxical synergy that enhanced the total power beyond the simple sum of their components.

The beetle had already begun increasing its defenses in anticipation of the attack it knew was coming. Layers multiplying from its carapace, sand and mineral compacting into increasingly dense structures.

The spiraling beam struck the beetleʼs layered defenses with force that made the previous attacks look gentle by comparison.

And this time the layers dispersed more easily under the beamʼs assault. The spiral movement of the two contrary energies acted like a drill, penetrating through defenses with efficiency that pure light couldnʼt replicate.

The first layer shattered immediately, unable to withstand the combined assault.

The second layer held for perhaps half a second before the darkness ate through the mineral structure while the light burned away the sand.

The third layer cracked like glass.

The fourth layer buckled.

Taroʼs eyes widened as he saw the penetration continuing deeper, faster than any previous attack.

”More layers!” he ordered desperately through his bond.

The beetle responded, generating defensive barriers with frantic speed. Sand and mineral pouring from its body in quantities that seemed physically impossible.

Sixth layer. Seventh. Eighth.

The beetleʼs defense kept being born from its own body, manifesting continuously to combat the more effective power it now faced. Taro was pushing his beast to the limit of its defensive generation capacity, mana flowing in torrents to create barrier after barrier.

Ninth layer. Tenth.

But the layers were being created slower than they were being destroyed now. The spiral beam excavated an inexorable path toward the beetle itself, implacable penetration showing no signs of stopping.

The hydraʼs heads didnʼt yield.

Ren kept them completely focused on the objective, sustaining the continuous fire even while feeling the beastʼs external energy reserves depleting rapidly. It was a massive mana expenditure that the hydra normally wouldnʼt maintain for more than a few seconds, but these seconds were critical.

He could always recover the external mana quickly by spinning the internal system as heʼd learned thanks to the runes, it would take little time... And most importantly:

The beetleʼs last defensive layer fragmented under the continuous assault.

And the beam impacted directly on the golden carapace.