Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons - Chapter 860 - Taming the Fifth Year - The Board - 2

Chapter 860 – Taming the Fifth Year – The Board – 2

Seiya looked at him with confusion demanding elaboration…

Orion decided this was an appropriate moment to provide more complete information about aspects of the situation that had remained hidden until now because the plan was already in motion.

“I once fell into the trap of not fully understanding how the stones that attract or repel corruption’s beasts function,” he explained, voice taking a more serious tone.

He remembered that time. The fear, the desperate scramble to understand what was happening before it killed him, and the lesson learned through pain rather than study.

“Those ‘stupid imitations’ initially used in Yino were replicas. They worked to a certain point but had limitations.”

The imitations had been functional enough.

But they failed to be specific.

That failure had nearly cost Orion everything during the phase when he had been expendable, a simple external helper. But now that the bulk of the corruption’s party was absent, the opportunist found the best opportunity… Control was entirely his.

“But now,” he continued while reaching toward a nearby container, “I have the real version. Not imitations but genuine artifacts the ancient civilization created and the entity transformed with the specific purpose of controlling exactly this type of threat.”

He raised his hand.

And revealed that he could make not only the 4 stones he’d been holding rotate but 9 of the 11 additional objects he’d maintained stored until this moment of demonstration.

Only the blue and red ones escaped his control. But he could control the 7 purples, the white, and the black.

Almost all… 9 of the 11 crystallized cores. Each pulsing with energy visible even in normal room lighting.

They floated. Simply existing in suspension, as though gravity had politely stepped aside to accommodate them.

The purple stones absorbed nearby light, creating small shadows around each one that shouldn’t have existed given the room’s illumination. The black stone generated that same void-pressure Orion had felt when first touching it, now amplified by proximity to its fellows. The white stone’s gentle glow intensified, casting everything in clean luminescence that made the room feel simultaneously warmer and more sterile.

9 points of power orbiting each other in patterns that seemed rhythmic.

Seiya took an involuntary step backward. Some deep instinct that told him he was looking at something fundamental. Something that existed before humanity. Something that would exist long after.

“What…” he started, then stopped. Swallowed. Started again. “What are those?”

Orion smiled. “The future,” he said simply.

The 9 stones continued their slow rotation, patient and eternal, waiting for the moment their owner decided the world was ready to see what they could do.

Seven of them were deep purple…

Those had come from Yino, removed from the ruin where the Brain waited long before Julius began his search that would eventually lead him there. They were components the Brain needed to operate, the “activators” Orion had mentioned before.

Each purple stone was needed.

And there were 4 additional cores that shone with distinct colors.

One completely white, emanating pure light that seemed to come from within rather than reflecting anything external. Warm. The kind of light that made you feel slightly safer just by existing nearby.

One black, absorbing light like a void. Not darkness, darkness was absence of light. This was the presence of something else, something that actively consumed illumination and converted it into whatever existed on the other side of its visible reality.

One blue, pulsing with rhythm recalling water’s flow. Not static but moving, cycling, the energy within it circulating continuously like current in a river that never reached the sea.

One red, shining with intensity of fire. Heat radiated from it in waves subtle enough to be comfortable at distance but unmistakable at close range.

Those 4 had come from Yano, obtained through sacrifices that had required the deaths of the Starweaver and some other 2 tamers provided by the Goldcrest.

Not metaphorical sacrifice…

Orion knew the names and understood exactly what each death had purchased.

They were pieces complementing the other 7 from Yino before corruption twisted them, Orion was missing 3 for a complete set that would provide control over fundamental aspects of how elemental mana manifested and propagated throughout the region.

But for now, Orion only needed to control the purples with help from the black and the white.

“With these,” he explained while the cores’ energy reflected across his face in shifting patterns of light and shadow, “we don’t just repel mutants. We can direct them. Control where they move and what they attack. They are weapons as much as defenses, with capability to convert the threat that paralyzes Yano into a tool we use for our own purposes.”

The revelation would change Seiya’s understanding of the power balance fundamentally.

This wasn’t simply survival against the biggest environmental threat for the city. This was manipulation… Weaponization. Taking the most dangerous element in the region, the mutant swarms that forced Yano to spread its military impossibly thin, and turning that element into a strategic asset.

If you could direct mutants, you could direct them away from your own territory and toward enemy positions. Could use them as an advance force, softening defenses before your own troops moved in.

It was the difference between being besieged and being the one controlling the siege.

Yano thought the mutants were a natural disaster. Unpredictable… Uncontrollable. Something to be endured and defended against.

Orion knew they were a weapon, his weapon. “That’s why I have no concern about Selphira coming to ‘rescue’ Victor,” Orion concluded, returning the cores to storage with movements that were practiced, precise, almost ceremonial.

Each stone placed in its specific container. The process took maybe 30 seconds but communicated care that bordered on reverence.

“She’ll bring a small group because that’s all she can bring without compromising Yano’s defense. And that small group will face not only our forces but also the environment we control in ways she won’t anticipate until it’s too late.”

A trap within a trap. Layers of planning converting every move Selphira made into advantage for Orion’s side regardless of how carefully she executed her next approach.

Selphira was experienced. One of the most dangerous individuals in the kingdom’s history.

But experience was only valuable when you understood the rules of engagement. And the rules had changed in ways she couldn’t possibly know about yet.