The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 136

Chapter 136 Home Stretch

Thor happily trotted along the route that Hawk was giving him, avoiding the puddles, likely soft spots and anywhere else that the Hawk thought looked sketchy.

But the Cerro leading a bus was gathering a fair bit of attention from the residents of the grasslands they were passing by.

Most of it came from the semi domesticated buffalo beasts, which were a primary source of monster meat for the Elites and raised by the ranchers in the area, while the rest came from the small animals who felt the vibrations in the ground from the odd combination.

Their first thought was that the Cerro had stolen a bus.

They were pack animals, and left alone, as the other monsters thought this one had been after the flood, they would try to return to their pack as soon as possible. The bus was large and shiny, just like his scales, so the local wildlife thought at first that the Lightning Cerro had just adopted the mechanical contraption as part of its new pack.

Then they noticed that it was full of people who felt like power. The Cerro wasn't alone and vulnerable, it had taken a pack of magic using humans, and it was leading them across the hills.

They were carefully making their way around a wetland area, where long reeds grew up out of the mud, when Hawk suddenly dove into the long grasses, and came back up with something long in its claws.

[Haha, I got another one. Oh, this is going to be so tasty.] He cheered as he contemplated the snake caught in his claws.

To a normal Windspeed Hawk, this was not a target it could hunt, the snake was much too large. But at his current size, the three-metre-long python was no match for him. It had an ability to harden its scales as armour, but it was still a Common Grade monster, and no match for Rend at the level that Hawk could use it.

[Toss it in the space for later. No playing with your food when you're scouting.] Karl reprimanded his partner.

[Fine, fine. But I'm not stopping.] Hawk pouted, before decapitating the beast and throwing the body at the bus, where it vanished a few metres from the window, pulled into the beast space.

"Care to explain what that was all about?" Dana asked carefully as she watched Karl staring out the window before Hawk threw a snake at him.

"Hawk is pouting because I told him not to play with his food." Karl replied.

Dana smiled and shook her head. "Is this his teenage rebellious phase?"

The other students hid their smiles at the thought. Hawk had always been an independent sort of beast, but they had never thought of it as a teenager rebelling against its parent's control.

Hawk was back to patrolling the area to keep the bus from getting bogged down, and though there were some soft spots where Thor was definitely helping pull them through, they hadn't had to stop once yet, and the map said that they should be getting close to the road.

[There are enemies on the horizon.] Hawk warned them just after lunch.

"Hawk says there is danger on the horizon. It's still too far for even his eyes to make out the small details, but I trust his judgment." Karl informed the bus.

He leaned out the window to see what the Hawk had found, and the sight of large wings in a V formation caught his attention. It looked like Drakes again, and they were a little closer now, enough that he could see the riders on their backs.

They weren't heading for the bus, they were flying toward the Holy Relic and the region where his group had been gathering that day.

He pulled out the Academy issued phone, and checked the list of emergency numbers, then recalled that he already knew the one that he wanted.

He dialed 777 and waited for it to ring through.

"Speak." The voice informed him.

"This is Awakened Karl, 95988. Full flight of Drake Riders spotted headed toward the newest Holy Relic from the south. The distance is roughly sixty kilometres." Karl replied.

"So, do you think that they're drawn to the location by the Dragon Magic?" One of the mages asked. _{fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓}