Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons

Chapter 843 - Taming the Fifth Year - How High Can You Go? - 2

Ren was making 5 of those towers now.

4 at the sides of the field marking the corners and 1 in the exact center. Relatively thin towers compared to their bases but massive in height, continuing to grow as they absorbed more material from the surrounding field.

The transformation was fascinating to watch. Earth flowed upward like a reverse waterfall, defying gravity as it was pulled into the growing structures. Roots emerged from underground networks and wove themselves into their cores. The entire arena was being reshaped, repurposed, elevated.

”How is this even possible?” someone breathed in the stands.

”The control required...”

”Each tower needs constant adjustment. Heʼs maintaining 5 simultaneously.”

Professor Wei was scribbling frantically, his notes becoming increasingly illegible in his excitement. This was textbook material. Literally. Heʼd need to completely rewrite the chapter on advanced earth manipulation.

Liora kept the Bashe climbing higher in the air as the towers grew, trying to maintain it away from structures that were clearly part of Renʼs strategy that hadnʼt yet fully revealed itself.

Every meter the towers gained, the Bashe rose the same. Maintaining distance. Staying out of reach.

She knew the wolverine could be inside any of the pillars, hidden in the root core or in a cavity in the compressed earth, ready to emerge at the optimal moment for a surprise attack. Those structures werenʼt just towers, they were potential ambush points, concealment that could hide a beast the wolverineʼs size with ease.

She couldnʼt approach them to verify. Getting close would be walking into whatever trap Ren had prepared.

So she climbed, and the towers chased her skyward.

But she couldnʼt escape forever…

The towers had reached heights exceeding the arena walls, structures rising like temporary monuments to elemental control skill.

150 meters. 155 meters. 160 meters.

Still growing.

The crowdʼs necks were starting to hurt from looking up. Some spectators in lower sections had actually stood and moved to get better vantage points. This had stopped being a simple battle and become something else… a demonstration, a spectacle, an exhibition of what peak elemental control could accomplish.

And Ren wasnʼt even spending too much mana on construction despite the impressive scale of the project.

The process was deliberately slow, optimized for efficiency instead of speed. Rush construction would have cost from 5× or even as far as 40× as much mana. This measured approach, while time-consuming, was sustainable.

He kept the wolverine entombed deeply to take advantage of direct connection with deep earthʼs mana that amplified the wood elemental absorption.

He was exploiting the small roots heʼd created that could absorb residual mana deep in the ground and from previous battles that had left dispersed energy in the field, allowing them to become enormous.

Every technique left traces. Every elemental attack scattered mana particles that slowly dissipated over hours or days. The arena soil was saturated with it after days of intense battles, fire mana, water mana, earth mana, lightning mana, all mixed together in chaotic residue.

Renʼs wolverine with its 7-element mastery could absorb it all too. The roots grew bit by bit using mostly natural mana from the depths but that recovered energy too, supporting the ”construction project” without draining the wolverineʼs reserves significantly.

It was resource recycling that converted what should have been massive expenditure given the enormous scope into something manageable over an extended period.

Always efficiency with Ren. Never waste anything that could be used. Never throw away advantage that could be leveraged.

What did take more noticeably from his own mana were the 10 launch stakes he was preparing simultaneously with tower construction.

Of those 10, heʼd already completed 5 fully, perfectly formed projectiles waiting for the command to be fired. And heʼd absorbed those 5 into the towers as he completed each one, transporting them vertically through the structure of roots and earth to store them in elevated positions.

1 stake in each of the 4 corner towers. 1 stake in the center tower.

Positioned at considerable height above the field, ready to launch.

When the moment came to fire them, gravity would assist initial acceleration and height would provide attack angles that would be difficult for the serpent floating in relatively limited space to avoid.

Physics became weaponized. Potential energy converting to kinetic energy. Height advantage translating to velocity advantage. The higher the position, the faster the projectile at impact, and these were already fast projectiles enhanced by multi-element propulsion.

And the angles. Oh, the angles were beautiful.

From the ground, you could only shoot up. The Bashe could dodge more easily

But from 5 towers at different positions, all at extreme height? Now you had converging trajectories from multiple directions simultaneously. Dodge left, and the corner towerʼs stake still tracked you.

Three-dimensional death trap disguised as impressive architecture.

The wolverineʼs core spun at high speed to recharge mana spent producing the stakes, like an athlete whoʼd just completed a long sprint and needed to recover their breath.

The internal rotation was visible underground to those with mana sight. a vortex of energy being drawn from Ren through the bond, compressed in the beastʼs core, then distributed to internal reserves. The process took time, but it was faster than natural recovery would be.

Ren had perfected recovery techniques that allowed energy replenishment more quickly than standard methods, but it still required time he was using in tower construction to mask the necessity of the pause.

Liora watched the towers grow with attention that intensified with each additional meter of height.

She realized with growing clarity that Renʼs beast remained hidden at the structuresʼ base, probably buried deeply where the roots were densest and where connection with earth provided maximum defensive advantage.

Smart. Infuriating, but smart.

The wolverine could emerge from any of the 5 towers. Or it could stay hidden indefinitely, protected by meters of compressed earth and interwoven roots that would resist even Gold-rank attacks. Trying to dig it out would mean going closer to the ground, that would be suicide, the moment she committed to an attack on one tower, it could emerge from another and strike her exposed position.

Additionally, the towers were nearly at the 200-meter height limit that Liora couldnʼt exceed or sheʼd be disqualified for fleeing, an altitude making them visible from considerable distance outside the arena and demonstrating exactly how much control Ren had refined during his training with Taro.