The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 192

Chapter 192 Found Her

The other group of soldiers didn't even notice they were coming until Karl was almost in the clearing with them. He had seen them through the trees over a minute earlier, but their scouting abilities were severely lacking, and the group looked exhausted.

[Rae, keep back, I don't want strangers attacking you. Hawk, you too. Or go scout out the other Ogres.] Karl warned.

[I will go scout the Ogres. These humans are weak too.] Hawk agreed.

Rae wanted to stay, but she knew it was best to stay out of sight, so she moved behind the column to make sure that nothing came up behind them.

Karl spotted a familiar curly head of hair, in an Academy mission uniform, and began to laugh.

[You mean Dana? Dana is Rae's human now?] Karl asked.

[She sleeps in Rae's bed, not yours. She's obviously Rae's human.]

Karl got the feeling that there was some level of slander in there, but he decided to let it slide as he raised his hand and stepped out into plain view of the other unit.

There were numerous Hobgoblins dead around them, and Karl saw why they were resting. With roughly even numbers, Awakened soldiers versus Awakened Rank Hobgoblins was a hard fight. They were tough, as well as much larger and stronger than the humans.

The group only had one Ascended Rank member, and he was wounded, with his arm in a sling.

Lotus spread a healing spell around the clearing, reviving the weary soldiers, and bringing a few smiles to the exhausted team.

Dana ran over and gave Karl a hug when she noticed he was at the front of the group, and Rita gave her a startled look, not expecting to have found her here.

"Are you stationed out of this forward operations base now? I heard that they were sending in reinforcements, but I didn't want to go back to the Academy yet, I've been making good progress on my magic out here." Dana asked Karl when she pulled back to look at him.

"Yeah, we are supposed to be operating out of here once the location is upgraded, but we're on an escort mission with Alice to help the military units in the area deal with the larger threats.

We found some more Ogres near you, so we came over to give your group a hand."

Karl's response caught the attention of the other group's team leader. "Did you say there are more Ogres nearby? We've been in nearly constant combat since this morning, and the lads are beat."

The Captain of the team with Karl nodded in understanding. "We can take care of it. The Hawk should be out there somewhere scouting, right? How is the strength of the group looking?"

Karl checked in with Hawk, who was circling back after having made a loop around the area to make certain there were no other imminent threats.

[It's just the Ogres nearby. Then we can go a little further along and find some Giants, or lots and lots of Goblins.]

That didn't sound promising. If there was a huge goblin infestation, it would be one of the priority targets for the region, before they became an even worse problem.

[Will the two units together be able to take out the Goblins?] Karl asked.

[I don't see why not. They have mages, and lots of swords. How many Goblins is each soldier worth? There shouldn't be more than fifteen for every soldier if the groups are together.] Hawk replied.