Ascension Of The Weakeat Tamer

First Fight 1

Rex could feel the blazing heat of danger right behind him and his instincts forced him to turn.

His eyes locked straight into the hypnotic stare of the snake beast.

He tried to move, to step away, but his whole body felt glued to the ground. For a few seconds, his life flashed before his eyes. He remembered everything, all the beatings, the insults his parents had received and the laughter that echoed through the ceremony halls.

For the first time in his life, he had felt hope escape into his soul, but only for a moment. 

It seemed like this was how everything was going to end.

Then something snapped.

The snake's body yanked off the way like it had been yanked by an invisible force and just like that, Rex could move again.

He stumbled back, his heart pounding against his ribs cage. 

He clutched his chest, breathing hard, and finally, Rex looked at what had saved him.

There it was—Lung in his full form, standing between him and the snake, scales gleaming like rubies. It shimmered with pride like saving its master's life was something obvious. Required. Nothing special.

Then it growled and spat at Rex

 'Like don't get it twisted, I didn't do it for free' before turning toward Annoid's beast with a deeper, colder growl.

Annoid was stunned, still trying to process what just happened in his raging mind.

For a beast to push his Gold-class snake out of the way like it was nothing, it had to be on par with Ruby class at minimum. That wasn't just rare—that was bordering on impossible.

He tried to wrap his head around it. The scenes replayed in his mind.

"Could it be?" The thoughts tried to cross his mind. 

But he was certain. 

Everyone had seen it. How the pathetic earthworm had appeared during the Awakening. Even if Rex had somehow faked that, there was no way the truth changed. It had been, in front of everyone, a useless earthworm.

"Seems you have some secrets," Annoid hissed, his voice shaking slightly. "Too bad they're going to end now!"

"Your tricks could never frighten me Trash, you are a worthless nobody and everything else that takes after you can only be the same, worthless. "

Lung growled angrily, like he could hear Annoid. 

He pointed ahead. "Jim, show them what we're made of. Show them the border between pathetic and actual importance. "

The snake slithered across the floor, moving at such speed it was barely visible, the hall instantly engulfed but its death instincts. 

Even Rex felt fear for his beast for a moment. That thing was fast, venomous and deadly. 

But the Lung Dragon didn't move from where it stood. It just watched, lazily, like all this was child's play.

A smile cut across Annoid's lips as his snake lunged high into the air and dove at the Lung Dragon with deadly precision.

"This isn't even a fair fight," he whispered under his breath.

The snake's jaws opened wide, venom dripping from its fangs.

Then it just stopped.

It froze mid-strike and dropped to the ground like a rock, its body completely unmoving.

Rex blinked. 

His dragon had used the exact same skill the snake had used against him earlier.

Only this time, there wasn't even the slightest hint of struggle. Instead, the snake shook like it was standing in front of something it wasn't worthy to breathe near. Like it was in the presence of ancient royalty.

"Devour yourself."