Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 486

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Chapter 486: Chapter 486 - Taming the Keys

While everyone processed the implications of the revelation, the small fungus continued forward, the sound of its small feet echoing on the crystalline floor.

"That means the slight changes we’ve seen in the underground..." Julius began.

"I’m not sure what they did in my absence, but yes... Their side may be affecting ours from their main vein," Dragarion nodded.

Ren’s small fungus was still walking through the chamber, completely ignoring everyone present.

Dragarion observed the small being with growing curiosity, his eyes following the trajectory toward where it was headed.

"If what you told me about a beast that speaks is true and it lost its way of communicating... I think it will go straight to the golden crystal," he murmured, pointing toward the lower section of the mural where the diamond blue crystal gave way to a golden window that pulsed softly.

The section was small and circular, perfectly smooth like a mirror, different from the rest of the crystalline structure surrounding them. It emitted a warm glow that contrasted with the blue coldness of the rest of the chamber.

This golden section seemed almost alive, pulsing with a rhythm that suggested more than mere magical resonance.

"Isn’t it dangerous to bring an unknown beast here? I know it seems harmless but Ren isn’t normal, he always..." Julius analyzed.

"I don’t fear giving it access... because it transformed energy into something that feels ’cleaner’. During that ’purification’ I think I could sense its intentions," the king continued, not taking his eyes off the fungus.

"Maybe you didn’t feel it like that because you don’t have a point of reference, but..." His expression darkened with a memory. "They were completely opposite to what I experienced when I touched Yino’s purple crystal years ago. Where that one filled me with a viscous sensation that took weeks to clean from my system, this creature’s energy felt... clean. Light. Undoubtedly opposite in every sense." 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Zhao moved closer, his mind connecting pieces. "Do you think his beast is the key to stopping the corruption?" he asked.

"It’s possible," Dragarion admitted. "That’s why I want to risk seeing what it wants to do. For decades I’ve searched for a way to cut the corrupt crystal connection between the veins, to stop the constant expansion of abyssal corruption."

Perhaps this small creature that everyone considered the weakest in the world was exactly what he had been looking for.

He pointed to the "golden window"... He paused, considering his words carefully.

"By touching the golden crystal you can hear strange voices that speak directly to your mind. They’re not words, they’re more like images, pure concepts. But it overloads you quickly, and not everyone can withstand that kind of direct communication."

If the fungus wanted to recover its communication, then...

But the small fungus passed by the golden crystal without even looking at it.

Instead, it headed directly toward the enormous door that Dragarion had mentioned earlier, the one that required the three rings to open. Its steps stopped in front of the massive structure, and it stayed there, jumping in circles, expectant.

Dragarion remained thoughtful for a moment, a grimace crossing his face before he laughed casually to hide the awkward moment.

"Well, that wasn’t what I expected," he admitted, approaching the small fungus.

He placed Ren carefully on the ground, keeping him stable but allowing him to be closer to his beast.

He crouched in front of the creature, studying its body language with the attention he normally reserved for enormous dragons...

"Is what’s on the other side of that door what our genius boy needs to be well?" he asked, referring to Ren with a smile.

The fungus nodded vigorously, though it seemed distracted and worried, as if it didn’t understand the magnitude of what it was asking for.

The creature’s behavior was both endearing and concerning. Its earnest determination suggested it knew exactly what it needed.

"We don’t have all the keys," Dragarion explained patiently. "There are three rings, and I only have two."

He raised his hand, showing the five rings he wore, two of which glowed with distinctive power that marked them as the necessary keys.

The small fungus seemed to realize something at that moment.

Its eyes opened so wide it became comical, as if a revelation had struck its small mind.

For a moment it seemed to completely forget about Ren, a giant smile drawing across its face before quickly hiding it and beginning to make funny gestures to the king.

Dragarion continued underestimating the creature. After all, its mana footprint was tiny compared to his, barely a whisper compared to the roar of power he naturally emanated.

"Do you want me to ’lend’ you the rings?" the king interpreted, amused by the fungus’s gestures.

When the creature nodded enthusiastically, Dragarion removed one of the rings without much ceremony.

"Very well, let’s see what you have in mind."

The fungus made more gestures, clearly asking him to put the ring in its mouth but quickly changing its mind and pointing to one of the door’s grooves. Dragarion looked at Ren, who was still clutching his chest with his eyes and teeth tightly closed, and obeyed, inserting the ring into the first slot.

"But it doesn’t work if you don’t put in all three," he explained as he did it, "and you also need the genetic key."

His eyes turned toward Luna, who had been observing the small fungus with intense attention.

Dragarion had had a specific reason for letting Luna come.

According to ancient translations, someone with a genetic key had to put their hand in the special groove, a hollow located above the ring slots that seemed to hold a fist.

She had the strongest Starweaver genetic key in a while... They discovered this when putting her as a baby in contact with a ring, but the king had decreed that her key would be used when she was an adult, so everyone had been waiting for her to grow more.