Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 481

Chapter 481: Chapter 481 - Taming the Platinum Ring - 5

The first days were manageable.

Zhao established a rudimentary camp at the entrance. Fortunately, the tunnel offered protection and a clear view of the corridor for a good stretch, and it was empty. The mountain seemed to be full of passages and chambers reflected in the crystal, but exploring them without the king was guaranteed suicide for a Silver rank.

The mana mountains of the rings had high-level trials, beasts and natural traps that required real power to overcome. Or that had been the intelligence that Victor brought...

And not just that...

The underground Platinum Sprouts and other species couldn’t enter, but there were high-level species that had entered at some point before the Dragons long ago and adapted differently inside here.

After a few days of tension, Zhao understood that the monsters inside the mountain didn’t seem to move from their place.

The realization was both comforting and unsettling. These weren’t wandering predators but still dangerous territorial guardians, each claiming and defending specific areas within the mountain’s crystalline maze.

Luckily, as long as he didn’t venture into their domains, they seemed content to ignore his presence entirely.

His medicine against mana excess worked well initially. A dose every twelve hours kept symptoms under control, allowing him to care for the unconscious king while continuing his own cultivation.

Absorbing the processed crystals for his raptor had been an unexpected burden. There was already excess in his system, and adding more load wasn’t helping.

But he wasn’t willing to ruin his last hope of cultivation to Gold rank if he could avoid it.

With time and concentration, he could continue his beast’s development even under these extreme circumstances. Each day of progress made his mana resistance improve marginally.

The irony... Here he was, trapped in what might become his tomb, yet still dutifully following Ren’s cultivation schedule.

"Fortunately I have more than enough medicine," he murmured while applying another dose, observing how his skin recovered normal color momentarily.

But "enough" was a relative term when you didn’t know how long you’d need to survive.

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The first month passed without major changes in the king’s condition.

Although he was regenerating and could be perceived as healthier thanks to his powerful beasts...

Zhao began to worry seriously. He had expected Dragarion to recover in days or weeks, but the monarch remained in a deep coma, his breathing regular but his consciousness absent.

"How severe was the internal damage?" Zhao wondered, studying the king’s vital signs with increasingly worried eyes.

The visible wounds were already gone, but Zhao was beginning to suspect that the real damage remained inside. Damage on a scale that would have killed any other tamer, accumulated during weeks of battle against the Dragon Tree.

And he wasn’t the only one with internal damage...

His own medicine was working less effectively. The doses that had previously lasted 12 hours now barely provided 8 hours of relief. He was developing some kind of resistance that would make each subsequent dose less effective and his system was hurting more and more each day.

"This is going to be longer than I thought," he admitted, carefully rationing his remaining supplies.

Fortunately, he had found water in an empty chamber to the right of the main tunnel that seemed to contain a water element beast at the bottom, which thankfully had no interest in coming to the surface.

As long as Zhao didn’t take too much time filling his canteen...

The creature below was massive, he could sense that much through the water’s distortion. Whether it was sleeping, meditating, or simply indifferent to surface dwellers remained a mystery he had no desire to investigate.

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Three months after the rescue, Zhao was fighting unconsciousness.

The vitality and endurance of their beasts had allowed them to survive without food thanks to having water.

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