The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 242

Chapter 242 Three Hour Completion

Three hours later, Karl sat with his back against Thor in the ruins of the battlefield. The humans had won a Pyrrhic victory at best, and with the losses that they had suffered, if there had been any Fae left alive, it might have been counted as a loss.

The town that the humans and their allies were defending had been half razed, and most of the civilians were presumed dead, less than one in fifty of the original thousand or so warriors were still alive, and all of them were currently catching their breath.

The battlefield smouldered where Hawk had bombarded it with fireballs to prevent the trolls from regenerating, leaving acrid smoke hanging over the plains, which were now largely devoid of life.

After meditating for the last ten minutes to recover some strength, slowly spreading the energy from the focuses in the beast spaces to improve their quality before rebuilding the focus to improve everyone's strength, Karl opened his eyes and decided it was time to get back on his feet.

Karl looked out at the massive number of bodies, and slowly got to his feet, ready to go check them for loot and valuables. With that many, there had to be some good stuff there somewhere.

However, as soon as he got up to go check the nearby bodies, those familiar magical words appeared on the ground.

"Trial successfully completed. Time two hours forty-seven minutes." Tessa read.

Then they all waited to see what the next message would be. Would it send them to another round? It hadn't said failed, it did tell them that they were successful, despite the heavy casualties and the damage to the town behind them.

[Rewards Granted]

Everyone waited to see what they would get, but there was no sign of prize boxes, no additional notification, and then they were back in the plain room with the braziers again. That was when the prizes appeared. One small box in front of each of them.

There were three silver boxes, three gold boxes, two platinum boxes, and one that looked like it was made of pure ruby.

Prince Corbin looked at the boxes. "Well, I think that we can guess how they're supposed to be distributed. Now, you just need to pick one from your group."

The three Awakened Rank members all looked wistfully at the boxes with other colours on them. Dana certainly had experience with these reward boxes, and the better your rank, the better the box's contents.

However, there wasn't another mage in the Ascended group to plead with, and Alice was unlikely to give up her loot for an Awakened Rank box after spending three hours keeping up barriers and eventually being held upright by archers who ran out of arrows so that even when she was too exhausted to stand, she could stay within the protective circle around Thor and regain her stamina.

Dana and the two Awakened Spellblades went first, then traded boxes until they got one that they could open.

Both Spellblades got new swords in a similar style to the ones they were using, while Dana got an ornate wooden wand with golden patterns down it.

"Not bad, the wand is rechargeable and casts magic missile up to twenty times." Dana informed the group.

That wasn't too bad at all. It would save her a bunch of mana during fights that she could consume when they weren't in danger.

She already knew Magic Missile, so her proficiency with the spell would extend to the wand, allowing her to split the magic missile into multiple missiles, though the damage would drop. That would give her an advantage against weaker targets, and help with the rapid clearing abilities of the team.

Lotus handed out the next round of boxes, and surprisingly, none of the three needed to be exchanged.

Karl opened his reward box and found a beautiful crystal bow inside. Strangely, it had no string, but when he held it, he instantly understood the concept. If you made the motion to pull the nonexistent string, intending to fire it, the bow would create an arrow and fire. There was no mana cost, and no listed capacity of charges, it was just a magical bow.

However, he could attach skills to those magical arrows, and send them to a much more distant target. The range on Shred and Rend wasn't bad, but that was for the average battle. Anything beyond twenty metres, and they began to lose power. But attached to an arrow, they could fly two hundred metres, and they would still be fine.

"It looks like it's weapons day." Lotus laughed, waving a carved wooden staff around.