Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons Chapter 893 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition - Order

The mantis's physical form converted back to pure energy. The beast code flowed back along the bond connection to Ren's mana core. The manifestation ended cleanly without the jarring disruption that ca from forced bond severance through excessive damage.

Ren felt the feedback through their connection. So exhaustion and channels strained from excessive mana cycling.

Master Yang raised his hand to signal the result officially. "First partial victory: Team Luna!"

The audience erupted in applause and excited conversations about the exchange they had witnessed. It had been a confrontation that had oscillated between the combatants multiple tis, with montum shifting back and forth as each side revealed cards and counter-cards.

And the final twist where Min had revealed the capacity to manipulate temperature had been a mont that nobody would forget any ti soon. Two ice-capable tars in the sa generation. Statistical improbability that scholars would be analyzing for years.

The volu of conversation in the stands was deafening.

Ren observed the Amphibian still on the field while considering options for the next combatant.

The creature was certainly tired, had spent considerable resources on its cold technique and in executing multiple explosions. But it wasn't nearly as exhausted as the mantis had been. Gold-rank reserves provided depth allowing it to absorb losses that would have incapacitated a lower-rank beast. And more importantly, it had barely received any direct damage throughout the entire exchange.

Maybe 5-8% of its total durability was compromised through minor burns and superficial wood-elent damage before the cold technique cleared the plant invasion. Nothing it couldn't heal in a second. Just tired and depleted but fundantally intact.

Ren needed to decide which of his two remaining beasts he would send against the amphibian.

As he had been supposing during previous planning, the hydra should be saved because he still didn't know when Luna would deploy her wolf. That confrontation would be critical and would require having a beast with specific elental advantage available, particularly the enhanced capacity to use light to counteract the wolf's inclination toward darkness and good resistance.

Light versus darkness wasn't an absolute counter like water versus fire. But it was a aningful advantage. Which ant his wolverine would enter first against the amphibian.

And thanks to the mantis's efforts in reducing the temperature with the last-mont fire attacks, it wouldn't be terribly difficult for the beast with considerably superior elental control to finish an amphibian with low mana reserves.

The lted zones the mantis had created would allow imdiate plant growth without needing to overco frozen soil conditions first. The amphibian's cold generation capability had been demonstrated, which ant it could be countered rather than surprising the wolverine. The explosive defenses were known and could be adapted to. The energy reserves were depleted to levels where extended combat would favor the fresh opponent.

Easy mode…

Ren activated his second bond and allowed the wolverine to manifest in the arena.

The creature materialized with the sa presence it had on the semifinal communicating power over the elents.

It was the difference between level 3 and 6 of cultivation. A gap of 3 levels… The disparity that beca obvious in direct comparison when both beasts belonged to the sa tar and shared buffs and similar training thodologies.

Basically better in every stat, but more important than raw physical stats was the mana capacity and control sophistication.

The Jade Wolverine's mana reserves were already big for the rare variant and around the sa in 'mana points' but more than double what the Amphibian currently had available if taking into account all efficiency related buffs. More than 20 tis what the Mantis had possessed at full capacity.

The amphibian's control efficiency was solid for Gold 1 but not too exceptional if taking the double tar's extra buffs out.

The gap in both capacity and efficiency ant the Wolverine could accomplish more with less expenditure while having deeper reserves to draw from. Overwhelming advantage that numbers alone couldn't fully capture…

It evaluated the field in an instant with senses processing elental information on multiple levels simultaneously.

Temperature distribution, soil moisture and frozen colder areas.

Residual mana signatures if the amphibian's water and cold essence still dominant but fading. Mantis's wood and fire traces scattered throughout. Min's mana imprint on the entire battlefield from his last technique usage.

Available resources were abundant water, moderate organic material from dead frozen plants, ample mineral content in the sand for earth manipulation.

Conditions favorable for wood-elent assault with water and light support. Amphibian vulnerable… Victory within 5 minutes.

And then the Wolverine executed a technique demonstrating exactly why rank disparity mattered so much when both sides shared similar retroactive enhancent bonuses.

Plants surged from the ground on a scale completely eclipsing what the mantis had accomplished.

Not dozens but hundreds of structures sprouting simultaneously from points distributed throughout the complete arena. Not gradual growth that could be interrupted but nearly instantaneous manifestation, with refined elental control converting the frozen remains and saturated soil into rapid aggressive growth.

The chanism was fundantally different from what the mantis had done.

The mantis had operated by imbuing seeds with wood mana and launching them toward targets. The resulting plants had needed continuous energy input to grow aggressively. The entire process had been relatively slow and mana-intensive because the mantis lacked the control to command the elent at range efficiently.

The Wolverine simply commanded the elent at distance directly, with wood responding to its will with what seed like absolute obedience.

No launching seeds, no germination delay and no continuous energy input required once the initial structure was established. Just pure elental manipulation that raised 'mana plants' from available organic matter and mana without interdiate steps.

And the efficiency was staggering.

Roots grew upward from the ground, reaching toward the amphibian's legs and lower body. Much thicker than what the mantis had managed. Harder to destroy and more resilient to explosive counterattacks.

Mantis root diater more than doubled on average and in structural differences it got approximately 8× greater cross-sectional area, translating to dramatically higher durability.

And these roots weren't just larger but also more sophisticated in their construction.