Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons

Chapter 1265 - Taming the Old World - Shadow Dragons - 12

Liu's voice arrived crisp and clear, sounding exactly as if he were hovering right over Ren's shoulder.

"Ren, do not break your focus over what I am about to tell you; just listen!"

Ren offered a curt nod, never once diverting his attention from the roaring energy pouring into his Hydra.

"Grandma Selphira just received two urgent messages, and...!"

Liu swiftly outlined the deteriorating situation in the capital, detailing the incoming reports from the south and Arturo's grim premonition. He explained that Selthia was actively redirecting her surviving northern forces, shifting the assets from this lost territory to reinforce the other global fronts.

Ren processed the intelligence for a brief moment and prepared to formulate a response.

Liu was equally capable of hearing Ren, provided the young general remained relatively stationary while Liu focused his delicate auditory perception directly on him. The scout knew a vocal reply was highly probable right now, considering Ren was suspended in the sky, anchored in place by a massive attack that demanded his full concentration.

So Liu was actively listening at that very second, a fact Ren intrinsically understood without needing any confirmation.

Ren shouted into the open air anyway, projecting his voice loudly to make it easier for Liu to hear him, even though the high volume was technically unnecessary… Liu simply had never bothered to correct the habit.

"Based on how things are developing here, and with Selthia retreating exactly as you described, we do not need our entire strike force to finish this here!" His voice carried clearly to the ground far below through Liu's specialized ability. "Liu, assemble a rapid response team! Take at least three or four elites. Go support the capital right now…"

"...The southern squad under Zhao can fall back through the air without any major issues if things get too heavy, so they are not the primary concern. And if the city perimeter remains stable with our help, I trust Arturo to calculate whether they can spare the manpower to assist the south or not... Let him manage the logistics as always!"

Liu sent a soft chime back into Ren's ear, confirming the orders were received and understood.

Ren shifted his total focus back to the elemental stream, meticulously holding the output at the exact maximum threshold his body could endure.

He quickly shouted the new intelligence and his recent commands to the girls beside him.

He quickly shouted the new intelligence and his recent commands to the girls beside him.

They were equally immersed in the struggle... Luna and Larissa were physically touching him, anchoring the massive beam alongside Ren, leaving them with barely enough mental bandwidth to process the update.

Only Liora possessed a bit more freedom, keeping her energy safely bottled up, remaining on high alert to intervene or jump with them if any disaster struck.

After hearing Ren's tactical shift, all three of them nodded in agreement.

"Sending reinforcements is a smart move," Luna strained to say, refusing to let her concentration slip for a second. "The city needs them far more than we do."

"And our battle is very likely going to conclude much sooner than we originally calculated," Larissa added, keeping her eyes locked on the volatile point of contact that continued to inch forward. "We assumed the black dragon would play a heavy defensive game, dragging the fight out to exploit its regenerative abilities. But with that inferno consuming its body so unexpectedly, it can no longer hide inside its swamp or stall for time. It is going to collapse much faster, also because it is burning through its own energy so intensely to fight us!"

"Let us focus on securing a rapid victory here," Liora urged, her posture taut and ready. "Then we can also return together."

Ren nodded firmly.

The comforting warmth of having all three of them steadfastly by his side easily eclipsed the searing heat radiating from the burning earth below. The apocalyptic clash of energy beams remained a steady triumph for Ren's Hydra, moving slowly, yet constantly in his favor.

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Down on the ground, Selphira was already locked in a rapid discussion with Julius.

Selphira understood exactly why Ren remained so calm. It was the very same conclusion she and Julius had discussed earlier: Selthia had acted far too late.

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However, this was no simple coincidence... This was the precise reason Ren had waited so long before launching the ambush, allowing the corrupted mutants to slowly grind themselves down in the north without rushing the assault.

He intimately understood the strict arithmetic of time and distance.

Selthia's beasts marched at a terrifying pace. They possessed almost boundless stamina, moving swiftly without suffering the exhaustion that plagued a human army. Yet sheer distance did not vanish into thin air.

Redirecting the surviving forces from the lost northern front toward the capital and the south was a tactically sound maneuver, but a severely delayed one; those reinforcements still had to cross the entirety of the explored territory, and that crossing demanded time.

It was precious time the Vanguard defenders could utilize to prepare themselves, dispatch reinforcements, and adjust their defensive lines as they had planned.

Yes, Selthia had finally issued her counterattack. Still, Ren and the elites knew her army would arrive late to every single battlefield, simply because the humans had already mapped out their next phase.

That calculated delay granted Ren the perfect margin to execute his current maneuver: calmly detaching a support squad while maintaining a steady, sustainable energetic output without a single ounce of panic.

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"Who are the least useful combatants here," Selphira asked quietly, "and the most valuable over there?"

Julius pondered the question, mentally cross-referencing everyone's unique abilities against the escalating situation back in the capital. A duel against a blazing dragon required vast spatial control, concentrated firepower, and tamers capable of operating high in the air. A massive wall siege demanded an entirely different skill set: heavy defense, crowd containment, and fighters who could instantly seal structural breaches and hold a static line.

"Arturo will definitely want us, the heavy earth users," Julius concluded. "They need us to reinforce the wall..."