Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons

If to them, humans weren’t prey or competitors... but forces of nature that occasionally swept through their domain. Better to facilitate their passage than risk drawing their attention.

”Smart,” Zhao murmured, appreciating the elegant simplicity of the possible solution. ”Very smart.”

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The transition to the third gold ring hit Zhao like a slap of evolutionary reality.

”What the...?” he murmured, stopping at the edge of what had once been familiar territory.

The landscape had completely transformed. Where enormous ”trunks” of Golden Noses had once existed, now rose a true forest of incredible vegetal giants that defied all logic of proportions. The new ”trees” stretched toward the sky like living columns, their 15 trunks together forming circumferences so wide that they would need 100 people to surround them.

But the real surprise wasn’t just their size.

”They moved up in the food chain,” Zhao whispered, his enhanced senses picking up the subtle changes in the ecosystem... and the corpses. ”The trees have become the predators.”

His camouflage broke for a moment, his scales adopting nervous patterns that couldn’t decide between mimicking bark or earth.

The evolved Golden Noses had grown to become something that could no longer serve as food for the Giant Cat Bears even if they had leveled up. Their main trunks had become so massive that the super thick ’bark’ had so little nutrition (mana) that it wasn’t worth it.

The beaks no longer even reached the ground, and the horns had transformed into appendages for catching prey. But most striking were the spherical formations that hung from their peaks like enormous grotesque glowing fruits. These spheres pulsed with concentrated golden light, clearly specialized organs for accumulating and processing mana.

”The legendary mana fruits,” Zhao murmured, fascinated despite the danger. ”They developed external organs to accumulate the mana concentration necessary for the first evolution to Platinum.”

Each fruit represented years of accumulated power, a crystallization of the creature’s evolutionary ambition. Some glowed brighter than others, suggesting different stages of development or perhaps different intended purposes.

The beasts always wanted to advance, and Platinum Ring 1 was the only thing these creatures had on their minds... These monstrosities weren’t even the worst he would see yet.

The Platinum rings...

Zhao, being Silver 3 in his strongest beast, could be in Silver Ring 3 without major problems. His beast having matured allowed him to be in Gold Ring 1 with little difficulty, and now being a double thanks to Ren, Gold Ring 3 was a limit where he wouldn’t feel too affected...

The problem would be the 3 Platinum rings... during the journey that would be twice as long as that of the gold rings, Zhao would have to endure increasingly worse mana concentrations while hiding from terrible beasts.

Each ring represented exponentially increasing danger, not just from the creatures but from the mana itself. His body, enhanced though it was, had limits. The anti-mana potions in his pack might not be enough even for the one way trip there.

His raptor stirred restlessly, sensing his apprehension. The beast’s natural instincts were screaming warnings about the mana density ahead, about creatures that existed beyond their ability to survive.

”I don’t love it either,” Zhao whispered, more to himself than to his companion. ”Still... We’ve come too far to turn back now.”

First he would have to survive this ’legendary’ forest.