The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 181

Chapter 181 Back To Church

As he thought about what the protocol might be for changing locations now that his official mission was over, Karl realized that Colonel Valerie was still here somewhere, and he had her number in his phone.

He scrolled the handful of numbers in the phone's directory and sent her a simple text message.

[I have a request from the church to go to the Seminary Academy. Do I need to do any paperwork to let the school know where I am?]

His phone dinged a few seconds later with her reply.

[I will take care of it. Have them arrange for your transit back to the Academy when you are finished, or update the mission log if they're sending you out again.]

That was simpler than he had expected it to be, but then a second message came in.

[Sergeant Rita will join you for your time at the Seminary Academy.]

"Are you good to go now?" Doug asked as Karl read the second message from Colonel Valerie.

"It looks like it. They're sending my personal tutor from the Academy to join me during my time there, so I think they're expecting me to be gone for a while." Karl agreed.

"They're sending a Tutor? Not a Professor?" Doug asked.

"Yeah, I usually train under the guidance of Sergeant Rita, or a pair from the Bureau of Elite Development. All three are around somewhere most days, though the other duo sometimes have work to do." Karl explained.

Doug nodded and smiled. "It looks like we got to you too late, they've already found you a cute girlfriend who just needs to make the first move."

The twins laughed and Karl chuckled. "If it's about Sergeant Rita, she's got competition from the first years."

"Oh? Do tell." Bob asked.

Karl realized that they didn't know who he was talking about. "I forgot for a moment that she wasn't on the same helicopter on the way in. There is another fast-growing student, a Mage named Dana. She's already Awakened Rank, and has been on all the same missions I have, only we got separated onto different teams this time."

Bob smiled. "Well, at least you had the good sense to go for someone close to your growth rate instead of befriending the charity case. That always ends up messy when you get too far apart in power and end up on separate details with very different social status.

Or worse, they stop giving them details and the company you work for just hires them to be your shadow or bed warmer. More than one of the lowest performing Elites was hired as an 'assistant' for a much more powerful friend after they graduated."

Karl recalled that Bob had graduated at Awakened and had only made Ascended afterwards, so in his case the experience was likely reversed, where his crush surpassed him, and he was the one left behind by social pressures. He didn't seem like the type to take a demeaning or low paying job just to be close to someone.

It was a difficult thought for Karl. Would he end up forced apart from his friends because of his progress? He had once heard the mine foreman say that it was lonely at the top, regarding being an Elite or a company boss, but Karl had always just assumed he thought like that because he was a douchebag and nobody liked him.

Doug led them out of the building, and Karl saw a very familiar head of curly hair in the distance, pushing a cart of supplies around. He would know those curly locks anywhere, even if she wasn't wearing an Academy Uniform with the familiar black Awakened Rank badge on the coat.

"Speak of the devil, that is Dana, the mage I went on the mission with. I'm not sure what she's doing in camp here, but we can go say hello if we have a minute." Karl explained, while waving in her direction.

Dana spotted them and ran over with her cart to greet Karl with a big hug, which brought some stifled laughter from the mages and a whispered "aren't they adorable?" from Doug, that he probably wasn't meant to hear.