The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 216

Chapter 216 Luck Prevails

The High Priest stared evenly at the tiny Nature Cleric. "So are you denying that you were riding a Bloodbath Spider through the woods, or that you were operating as a team in combat?"

Lotus shook her head. "I do not. I just wanted to clarify that the situation did not involve a wild Bloodbath Spider, She belongs to Karl, and she's bonded to him with his class skills.

Also, I should probably mention, before one of the guards mentions it later, we did take a little outing to play in the trees earlier."

The High Priest John sighed and rolled his eyes. Priestesses like Lotus were the reason that half the clergy had grey hair and was balding from pulling it out in frustration, he was absolutely certain of it. However, that was just the way of the Nature God, and even if they tried to stop her, they would be going against the will of the Gods, and it probably wouldn't work.

At least not in the long term.

"Yes, I already heard. It caused quite the commotion among the civilians to see a monster in the Cathedral Forest." He replied, then let the other High Priest continue the meeting.

"While we can dismiss the experiences of Sister Lotus as a case of curiosity meeting the Nature Goddess' favour, that doesn't actually explain much about your group's most recent outing. For example, the total Commander Rank kills for the combat zone that your group just left, do you know what percentage of them were yours?" He asked.

Everyone shook their heads.

"One hundred percent. There were four other sightings, but in all cases, the groups were forced to flee. Every Commander Rank kill in the area is credited to yourselves and your attached military unit."

Alice nodded in understanding. There was no way that wouldn't look suspicious on the official records. The logs of the disciplinary matter would be filed separately, so they might not have put together the fact that there was only one group in the area that was capable of efficiently dealing with Commander Rank monsters, with the numbers that they were seeing in front of them.

"Did you know that there were fourteen other groups assigned to patrol duty that had three or more Ascended Rank fighters in them, none of which managed to score a single Commander Rank kill until after the Church Guard took over command of the operation?" He asked.

That implied that there had been at least one since then, and that couldn't have been an easy feat, even with the help of a Church Guard. The patrol groups there were definitely not the most combat minded of units, they were mostly only there due to minimum combat duration rules within the army.

They were desk jockeys by day.

The Lieutenant would probably get a perverse sense of pleasure out of the current situation, where the laziest of his counterparts were being forced to do their jobs by an uncompromising High Priest, and actually succeeding at the tasks that they had been too scared to do on their own.

Alice shook her head. "I wasn't aware that any of the groups had multiple Ascended Rank fighters in them. We were informed that we were the only group capable of taking on Commander Rank challenges, though there weren't supposed to be any there, according to the scout reports."

High Priest John waved that off, and a flash of golden light from his eyes showed that his internal emotions weren't as settled as his facial features. When Priests got emotional, their magic tended to flare up. "That matter has been taken care of. But it's the string of coincidences that have brought us to this point that are the real highlight here. I have a spell that checks for Divine Magic, essentially for luck. What we plan to do is check your group, and see what sort of bonds that magic might have formed, and if sending you all together in the future is likely to have similarly positive results."