The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 140

Chapter 140 Rae's Game

Rae sent out a maze of webs as she darted around the room, terrifying the students whose eyesight was good enough to keep track of her.

"That should do it. She built an obstacle course around your existing course, made of sticky spider silk. If they catch one strand, it will ring the bell in the middle of the room, and if they catch a bunch, they will just end up tangled." Karl explained, with a gesture toward the bell, which was now the focal point of dozens of strands of silk.

"How much light do you need to track movement?" The teacher asked.

"Zero. I can detect movement decently well even with absolutely no light, but in this room, and in their uniforms, it would be nearly impossible for me not to detect them unless they were truly invisible." Karl explained.

"Jeff, activate your stealth skill." The teacher instructed, and one of the boys seemed to simply vanish into the shadows.

Even thermal vision seemed to have a hard time finding him, so the skill was magical and not just a simple trick.

Karl nodded. "I should be able to track him, but not easily. Rae might do a bit better because she's got the superior senses."

"Alright, Jeff, you're up first through the obstacle course. Everyone in the class has a button, they press it when the student in question activates the button at an obstacle. If they get it right, it means they have seen through the skill. It's how we work on our stealth." The teacher explained.

The dark-haired boy began to creep through the obstacle course, focused on keeping his stealth skill active as he approached the first obstacle with a button. But his eyesight wasn't as good as Karl's and just before his hand reached the platform, a soft jingle echoed in the room as his leg bumped one of the web strands.

He had to resist the urge to cuss and give his position away, but the effort he was putting into his skill was giving Karl high hopes that his [Skill Master] technique would allow Rae to learn it by watching it fairly quickly.

With visible relief, Jeff made it past the first buzzer, then immediately turned and stepped without looking and found himself stuck immobile in the spider web. The boy cursed as he struggled to get free, and only got himself more stuck. That made his stealth skill fail, and now the whole class could clearly see his predicament.

"Alright, I will cut him free, and we will keep going. Remember, there are spider webs, and you have to watch for them, not just run the route by memory." The teacher admonished his stealth class.

The reason for the dimmed lights became obvious with the second student. His ability let him blend with the darkness, but not as well as the first, though his footsteps were rendered almost silent. Not enough that Rae had a problem following him, but enough that the other students would.

He was also agile, and doing a decent job of evading the spider webs as he made it to the first button, and then the second. Karl briefly wondered if any of these students knew their skill well enough that Rae might learn anything, but all he could do about it was to just watch and hope that something in Rae's mind clicked and let her understand the trick.

Learning something new was usually down to the quality of the instruction that you received, but the teacher wasn't showing off skills here, and honestly, the students weren't much better at hiding themselves than Rae already was with her ability to change her exterior coloration.

But even though the stealth training might not be as helpful as Karl had hoped, the Bloodbath Spider was having an incredible time making security traps out of her web for them to try to move through.

It was a great exercise in tactical and practical thinking for the young spider, and as she kept adjusting it to replace the strands that were broken as the students kept running into them in the dark, she was getting better at placing them in just the right spot that students would unwittingly step into ones that should be easily avoided.