The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 161

Chapter 161 Morning Watch

One of the twin mages woke Karl up a few hours before dawn to begin his watch, Gently shaking the net beside his head to get him motivated.

Karl smiled at her and whispered. "Did you learn that from Rae? She gets upset when people shake the whole net instead of just a small bit near the head to wake people up."

Danni smirked. "She woke me up that way. She's down below somewhere again, but she will likely come back up when she has caught whatever appeared in her net.

We haven't seen any action so far, but the new wave of monsters should be here by morning, so keep your eyes peeled.

Nobody really knows when they will show up, and it doesn't seem to be a set time, but we do know that there are new ones daily.

I'm going to get a bit more sleep, wake me up for breakfast."

Karl sat in silence and looked out over the hills and forests, letting time pass by as he scanned for signs of movement and life in the predawn darkness.

With Hawk's low light vision, and Rae's thermal vision capabilities, the movement in the forests was easy enough to track, though the canopy of leaves blocked both in many areas.

However, it was not enough that Karl didn't notice when there were suddenly hundreds of new heat signatures in the area.

They didn't come from one spot, like they were coming from a cave, they just appeared all over the forest, all at once. Some even appeared right next to Rae's webs, and walked right into them before they realized they were in danger.

Her sense of victory as the prey flailed and shouted for someone to come save them filled Karl's mind, but the noise also woke everyone else up.

"The monsters just appeared everywhere. They're not coming from a cave or a set location, I saw them just appear all over the forest." Karl explained.

"What do you mean? How many can you see?" Bob asked.

"With the gifts of low light and thermal vision I gained from Hawk and Rae, I can clearly see for nearly two kilometres. There are hundreds of goblin sized creatures, a few dozen larger ones that I can see, and that's just what isn't hidden under the trees.

I can't see through solid objects, so I know I'm missing most of them, but Rae is going wild killing the ones that are in her webs down below. That would be the noise that woke you up." Karl explained.

Doug sighed. "And that means that we are about to have a lot of unwanted company, drawn here by the noise. Fortunately, it is still dark, and their eyesight isn't any better than mine, so they're not going to find us in the trees, but we need to make sure that Rae doesn't get ambushed."

Karl nodded. "It's still dark, but it should start getting light soon, when we can go down and start cleaning up the ones trapped in the webs. Do you want me and Hawk to go start silencing them now? Three of us in the dark will be faster than just Rae, and we can all see what we're doing."

Doug and Bob both shook their heads. "No, either we all go or we all stay. Safety protocol says don't send group members alone. Attack what you can without going so far from the group that we can't see you."

Karl thought for a second, then nodded. "Alright, I will head down a few branches using the ladder, as I can't attack through the fort without damaging it. But once I'm there, I can hit a lot of the nearby webs, and you'll be able to see me.

Hawk, you go help Rae. Make sure she gets rid of the loud ones first and doesn't make them sing for her. We will hunt them all day long, there is no more need to bait in prey."

[I got a good thing. There is a tasty scaly biped here with snappy jaws and a shiny poking stick.] Rae informed Karl.

That made very little sense, but Karl congratulated her on her find, and asked her to bring back the shiny poking stick when she had a chance.