The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 236

Chapter 236 Enchanted Caverns

The rest of the group came to join him in the main room, and were briefly startled when the doorway appeared to be gone. Like Karl had, Alice stepped back through and found that she had no resistance, it was just an illusion, and touching the other side had broken it.

The real question was whether the one who made it was trying to keep something out, or to keep something in. It hid the only way out of the tunnel complex, so it could be either.

"Should we see what set a fire in the room on this level, or should we see what's below us first?" Alice asked Corbin and Larry, conferring between the three strongest fighters to see what they felt was safest.

"Go with what we know could be a threat first. The room with fire." Corbin suggested.

Nobody else had an objection to that, and they wouldn't want to leave it unchecked when they went down, in case the tunnels were a dead end and whatever was in there either blocked them or did something like vent poisonous gas down them.

Karl moved to lead the way, but Corbin stopped him.

"If we're going into an unknown room, I should go first. I might be a Spellblade, but I'm also a Royal Rank Mage, and my barriers are much stronger than yours are." He whispered.

So, Karl and Rae moved to the second and third position, ready to flank Corbin once the door was open, and the others followed them down the narrow corridor to the decrepit wooden door.

The coarse yellow sandstone had been crudely hacked at to create the doorway, and the fitment was terrible, suggesting that whoever made it was no skilled craftsman, but when Karl peeked through the gaps, he didn't see anyone inside, only a few flaming braziers near the walls.

He shrugged at Corbin, indicating that he couldn't see anything, and the Prince kicked the door open, rushing inside with Karl right behind him.

Only to find that the room was empty. _{freēwēbnovel.com}

Five metres on each side, with two braziers lit, and one door on the far side.

The others followed them inside as Karl scanned the room for hidden traps, and the moment that Larry entered and everyone was inside, the door slammed shut and a set of runes appeared on the wall.

"Shit, we triggered a magical trap. How did I not notice that?" Corbin muttered, trying desperately to decipher the writing.

[Trial begins in ten seconds.] He read out loud.

Then, in front of Karl's watchful gaze, half the group disappeared.

He was left with Rae, Tessa and Lotus. Everyone else had vanished.

"Ascended." Lotus informed them, pointing at the wall.

"It says Ascended. The trap split us up by Rank."

That should mean that Dana was with Darryl and Rose, while Alice was with Larry, but Corbin might be trapped alone in a trial.

The room wasn't comfortably large enough for Thor or Hawk to be called out, even Rae was enough to make it a bit cramped in here, so the Awakened Group, with Dana's two Golems, would be similarly crowded.

Then, the room surged with magic, and a whole battlefield appeared around them, an open, snow-covered field, with the bodies of slain soldiers and Yeti Warriors scattered all around them. One last group was approaching, and Karl hesitantly called out Thor and Hawk, unsure how the magic worked.

Hawk soared into the sky, confirming that inside this trial, there was actual room to fight.

[Tribesmen, embrace the curse of the beast. Drive these interlopers from our lands and return the eternal snow.] The leader of the group, a massive warrior with a scar that ran from the left side of his chest to his right hip, was shouting.

That was new. The Yeti couldn't speak.

Once his encouragement was over, the warriors surged with power, and Thor activated [Circle of Protection] as he prepared to meet their charge.

Tessa climbed onto his back, while Lotus moved to stand behind Karl and Rae summoned her Golems.