Chapter 457 - Tamers War - Return
It wasn’t a cross, it was... someone carrying an injured person on their shoulders?
Julius made an unintelligible sound of confusion and surprise, the kind of noise that escaped when the mind struggled to process something completely unexpected.
It was the unmistakable mana of his father.
The energy signature was impossible to mistake... But feeling it here, now, in this desperate moment, seemed like wishful thinking made manifest.
Dragarion emerged completely, carrying Zhao with the casual walk of someone who had never experienced the need to make haste before.
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But there was something strange that Ren recognized immediately thanks to Mooshito’s analysis.
The professor had an extreme case of mana poisoning; not only were the energy lines in his body visibly damaged, but he also showed severe signs of medicine toxicity.
The damage was extensive and systematic, the kind that accumulated over months of exposure beyond what any normal tamer could safely endure. Ren could see how Zhao’s mana channels had been stretched beyond their natural limits, creating micro-fractures that would take careful healing to repair.
Ren managed, just by looking at him, to realize that Zhao had been taking a dangerously elevated amount of anti-mana poisoning medicine for a long time. Surely due to finding himself in a concentration ring too high for him, even being a double tamer.
The irony was bitter... a teacher who had spent years warning students about the dangers of mana overexposure, like he did in his first expedition, had been forced to endure exactly that fate in service to his kingdom...
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Ravenspire’s Gold ranks fled in terror upon realizing who they were really dealing with.