The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 165

Chapter 165 Hawk Being Hawk

"There are ogres incoming. Everyone in position to defend from the direction of the web." Karl warned the group.

"Already? I wasn't expecting to find another group of monsters for hours. They have a habit of wandering out of your path as you search for them." Doug muttered.

Thor gave a soft laugh, well aware of what was going on, and the Cleric immediately became suspicious.

"They lured them to us, didn't they? It won't be Thor, he would have just made noise. So is it Rae or Hawk that got bored and wanted to fight more?" The cleric wondered.

Karl gave him a startled look, which made the others laugh.

"You will find that he's pretty good with all things nature, including both plants and animals." Bob informed him.

The stomping sound of ogres was accompanied by the shrieking of monkeys, and the sound of Hawk's screech as he taunted the giant monsters.

"What in the world is the bird doing? Did I just see him throw a tree monkey at an ogre?" Danni asked, pointing at Hawk as he flew overhead.

They were in a sparsely treed area, where Hawk could easily attack from overhead, and the group could defend themselves without anything getting in the way, but with enough growth around for the wood Golems to easily grab weapons.

"Most likely. It's one of his favourite tricks to taunt monsters. He actually learned it from the tree monkeys, but he uses them as projectiles, instead of throwing nuts and sticks at people." Karl explained as the ogres stormed into sight and Hawk settled into the branches of a tree behind them.

The enraged monsters almost looked grateful for a moment, like they were thinking that the Hawk had lured them here to kill the humans, but then it turned to hatred for the humans, and they pulled out their weapons to attack.

None of the blades looked all that special, but there was a ring on one of their fingers that Rae and Hawk both recognized as magic.

With only three targets, the flurry of spells that came from the human team was overwhelming, and the ogres stumbled to a stop even before Thor hit them with an earthquake and knocked them to the ground to be finished off.

"That was easier than expected." Bob sighed as he realized that the monsters weren't even going to make it to him this time.

"I think they're on the weaker side of Awakened. Is that normal? I thought that the ogres were supposed to be nearly Ascended." Karl asked.

Everyone turned to Doug for an answer, and he just shrugged. "It varies. There are strong and weak ones, but I don't know enough about them to tell them apart. But what is that magical ring? That might be a useful item for someone."

Danni walked over and used her dagger to cut the finger containing the ring off the Ogre, then slid the ring free and wiped it clean on a large leaf.

"There is some sort of inscription on it. Give me a moment and I think that I can translate it. It should be written in the ancient Arcane language." She explained.

It took her a few minutes to decipher the faded inscription, but when she did, she had to resist the urge to laugh.

"It is a magical item that is supposed to increase wisdom. Either it is broken, or he was in the running for the world's dumbest person to chase Hawk into a trap." She joked.

Bob shrugged. "It increases wisdom, not intelligence. He figured out that Hawk wanted him to follow easily enough. He just wasn't smart enough to realize that we were too strong for him to handle."

The mage slid the ring over her wrist like a bangle, and frowned as she didn't feel any discernible difference.

"Well, it might add up. Maybe it is a long-term thing that will help with your mana growth." Doug suggested.

Once the bodies were cleaned of anything valuable, Doug cast a spell that caused them to sink into the ground, letting the forest absorb them as nutrients instead of leaving the obvious and rotting corpses out to attract more monsters and stink up the area.