The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 240

Chapter 240 Do We Move On?

From their description, it didn't sound like they had gotten any sort of reward. Karl suspected that the Awakened Rank group had gotten something, as they had at least finished the first two waves, though they nearly died on the third. That was nearly as good as his team had managed, and they got new skills.

It was impossible to tell how Prince Corbin had done, as he was in no shape for questions, but the rewards that Karl's group had gotten seemed pretty impressive.

"What do we do now? We finished the challenge in the room, but do we dare to keep going?" Karl asked.

Prince Corbin laughed. "Finished? Oh no, that wasn't what finished looks like, at least not from my side. I suspect that was intended to be a group battle."

"Well, technically we lost as well, but it's over now and we're out. Three people was barely enough to get through, but I think that five at the same Rank would have been better." Karl agreed.

"Even with the beasts?" Dana asked, leaning against Rae, who still hadn't retreated to her space.

"At first, it was alright, but as the numbers increased, and then the power, it was rough, even with them. Maybe it keeps going until you lose?" Karl suggested.

Alice gave him a curious look. "Well, let's hope that we don't have to find out. There is a second door to this room, and if we're going to explore the caverns, we will have to move along once we're all healed and rested. If not, we will have to report it and give up any chance at the hidden loot, so they can send in matched teams to face this sort of trap."

The Awakened group and Prince Corbin both sighed, suggesting that they had indeed gotten something out of their time.

Corbin got to his feet, signalling for the others to get up now that they were healed.

"Alright, we should get a move on. We need to search more than one room of the cavern complex per day if we're ever going to get through it. Leave all the doors open after we pass through, and I will mark the walls so that we don't get lost on the way back.

When it gets later in the day, we will return to the area near the cave mouth for safety." He explained.

How safe that would be was questionable, as they had been chased in here by monsters to begin with, but after the challenge that they found in the first room they entered, there was no guarantee that they wouldn't have a harder time trying to navigate the complex than they had outside.

Corbin opened the next door, and Karl took up the back of the column with Rae. She was Commander Rank now, and while Thor and Hawk had both retreated to their spaces, Thor had kept the [Refreshing Lightning] active around her, which he had now spread to the rest of the group.

The mages had created a light to float above the group, giving them enough light to see by, and Corbin was moving one along in front of them, which Karl still thought was a terrible idea for the man on point, but only a dozen metres down the hallway, they found doors on both sides again, though without any light behind them.

The Royal Rank Spellblade motioned left, and Karl noticed that there was a large chunk of his blonde beard missing where his face had been freshly healed. The Cleric magic looked like it had prevented scarring, but it didn't regrow the hair that had been removed by whatever had hit his face.

He breached the door with a gust of wind magic, and stormed inside, while Karl waited at the back of the pack to see what happened.

"Clear." He called out, just loud enough for the group to hear him.

Alice breached the one on the right, also finding it empty. It was better than finding out that every room in this place was a trap, but everyone had been hoping for some sort of treasures to be left behind in these caverns.

[There's something ahead. I can see the temperature change in the next room, it doesn't match this hall.] Rae warned, catching on to clues that Karl would have missed.