Chapter 296 Beast/Her Scent (cont.)

Tamamo-no-Mae half-wrapped an arm around his neck and said, "Sessyoin Araki, Beast III/R, is back."

"I see. So that means she failed," the young man called Master said calmly.

If Sessyoin Araki had successfully destroyed Beast II's vessel, this world should already have begun trembling at the revival of the Mother Goddess.

But nothing of the sort had happened, which meant she had returned empty-handed.

The young man did not seem surprised. "Where is Sessyoin now?"

"I drove her away." Tamamo-no-Mae spoke gently. "I dislike her. I don't want to share the same space with her, and I don't want her sharing the same space with Master either."

The young man did not react much to the fox's excessive possessiveness.

There was a phenomenon of mutual repulsion between Beasts. They detested the aura each other gave off. Though they were all Beasts, their relationship was practically one of irreconcilable enmity.

As for whether they hated every Beast other than themselves, or hated Beasts as a whole, that was hard to say.

"Sessyoin Araki's power cannot confront Tiamat, Beast II, head-on."

"Of course. Tiamat has always been the Beast with the greatest raw power," the young man said.

Tamamo-no-Mae, however, wore a disdainful expression. "A big idiot with more brawn than brains."

She possessed the greatest power, the toughest body, the Authority with the fastest rate of corruption, and was the undying Creator Mother Goddess.

Beyond that formidable true body, she also had terrifying potential for growth—her offspring were the strongest biological weapons, and as the Creator Mother Goddess, Tiamat's reproductive ability was horrifyingly powerful.

Tiamat herself was a complete "ecosystem," an "ark" capable of breaking past the limits of the stars through flesh alone.

Yet such a being lacked the "intellect" to properly wield her own power.

No, more precisely,