Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons

Julius extracted Min from his Wolverine first. Then began the methodical work of liberating Ren's other unconscious friends from the dimensional space while Ren prepared to heal their elemental water "expert".

One by one, the other bodies emerged from the Wolverine's internal storage: Taro, Liu, followed by Zhao, Mako, and Shizu.

Ren observed his friends with resolution and also deep affection. Each face carried the memory of shared struggles, of trust given and received.

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Ren knelt beside Min's unconscious body, carefully holding the potion Julius had entrusted to him. The liquid glowed with internal light, radiating a sensation of pure vitality.

"This should work," he murmured while opening Min's mouth and pouring the contents with the care of someone who understood that wasting even a drop could mean the difference between the plan working or failing.

Immediately, a brilliant and pure energy enveloped Min's body, making him glow as if he had been touched by divine light. The small wounds from battle closed with visible speed, bruises faded like time-lapse photography in reverse, and his breathing became deep and stable with the rhythm of perfect health.

But he remained unconscious.

Julius approached with a concerned expression.

"Wasn't the potion enough to heal the battle damage? Did he really use the fusion too much and the damage is deeper than the potion can heal?"

"Uh, well, Min did try hard but I think it's more about..."

A deep, resonant snore broke the tension in a completely anticlimactic way.

Julius blinked in disbelief while Ren sighed deeply with a familiar exasperation that spoke to the years of friendship and countless similar situations.

"Min," Ren gave him a gentle slap on the cheek.

Min opened his eyes for barely a moment, mumbled the classic "five more minutes", and immediately went back to sleep with the efficiency of someone who had perfected the art of avoiding inconvenient consciousness.

"He's always been like this!" Ren complained, gesturing toward his friend with frustration that was slightly comedic for Julius to witness. "Like a sleepy baby! I mean… not sleeping during most of the night journey had already been a miracle, though his serpent dragged him a good part of the way..."

Julius scratched his head, smiling despite the situation. Sometimes it was hard to remember Ren's real age when he behaved with such maturity, but through his friends, the common things among young people became evident.

Ren moved closer to Min and gently pinched his nose to block it. Min seemed to react with annoyance, tightening his eyes, but Ren finished by dramatically whispering in his ear: "Min, we're sinking, everyone's drowning! There are girls in the water who need help from the world's coolest water expert!"

The effect was instantaneous and spectacular.

Min literally "jumped to the rescue," incorporating himself with a leap and eyes completely open and alert, his entire body language transforming from sleepy teenager to heroic rescuer in the span of a heartbeat.

"Where?! How many?! Do they need me to pull them out and give them the 'kiss of life'?!" he shouted while frantically "swimming" through the air searching for victims, his movements so earnest that Julius had to cover his mouth to avoid laughing.

"Right here," Ren pointed toward the unconscious bodies of his other friends, his voice taking on the patient tone of someone who had learned to manage his friend's enthusiasm. "I need you to heal them and give them energy, but not in a normal way."

Min saw the girl guards first, but recognized them as the "boring ones", so he blinked several times, gradually processing that there wasn't a real drowning emergency... or even water nearby.

The realization dawned slowly across his features, followed by the sheepish expression of someone who had been caught in an embarrassing moment of gullibility.

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"I need you to cycle the healing power that you now have in your system thanks to the potion I gave you," Ren continued, his tone becoming more serious and technical as he shifted into instruction mode. "It's a specific process of mana distribution."

Ren began teaching him the process, but immediately realized that his directions were less complete than they used to be when he had his fungus providing detailed information. The absence of his companion's vast knowledge base created gaps that he hadn't anticipated, like trying to recite a complex recipe from memory only to discover that crucial steps had been forgotten.

Much was still in his memory, preserved through repetition, but there were small holes in his knowledge that made the instructions somewhat confusing in certain steps. The frustration of incomplete understanding was again a reminder of what he had lost.

Min frowned, trying to follow the partial explanations with the concentration of someone who understood that lives depended on his comprehension. Yet…

"I don't completely understand the flow pattern you're describing. There are like... assumptions and jumps in your explanation. It seems like the absence of your little centi... I mean, the absence of your main beast does affect you. I had assumed you were some kind of library with a human body, but now I feel more empathetic..."

The comment carried genuine concern beneath Min's characteristic irreverence, showing how even his jokes came from a place of caring.

Julius approached to offer encouragement.

"Try it slowly. Your instinct as a tamer can fill the gaps missing in Ren's information."

"Yes, actually use the complete fusion already. I know you used it a lot today, but I'll take care of helping you with the side effects," Ren added.

"I don't love how that sounds and your current self doesn't give me as much confidence, but I suppose it's necessary," Min replied with characteristic honesty as he completely fused with his Bearded Serpent.

Immediately his expression changed, taking on the focused intensity that came with full bestial integration. The instincts of the beast began indeed filling the knowledge spaces missing in Ren's instructions, providing an intuitive understanding of using the element to amplify the potion's residual effect.

"Ah! Now I understand what's missing," Min exclaimed, extending his hands toward Taro first with movements that flowed like water itself.

During the following minutes, Min worked methodically on each of his companions. His mana carried the flowing grace of his serpent.

Liu woke with a start, his eyes immediately alert and scanning for threats. Taro sat up slowly but with his movements showing none of the exhaustion that had plagued him before unconsciousness.

Gradually, Zhao, Mako, and Shizu also returned to consciousness, each awakening carrying the disorientation of those who had been pulled back from the edge of exhaustion into sudden vitality.