The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 247

Chapter 247 Shaman Champion

?The Naga Shaman was hopelessly outmatched, Karl thought as he moved to surround the creature, letting Corbin take the front, while he and Thor took opposite sides. It was six Commander Rank attackers, including the Golems, and one Royal Rank mage against a single Commander Rank Shaman, but the creature didn't seem as concerned as Karl thought it should.

Instead, it surrounded itself with a vortex of water, forcing Karl and the beasts back, then created water tornados that moved erratically around the platform.

Hawk saw that the attacks were only about six metres tall, so he took off from Thor's back and began to bombard the Shaman inside, while the others hurled spells at its protective barrier while dodging the swirling water attacks.

The entire battle was chaos, with everyone running around, attacking the spirits when they got in the way, as the three Awakened Rank members couldn't control them all, and doing their best to land a hit on the Shaman.

The spell would fluctuate with every attack from Corbin, but it wasn't falling, and Karl was unable to tell how effective Hawk's fireball attacks were.

Darryl failed to notice an attack and was hurled most of the way across the platform before catching himself on one of Thor's horns to prevent being thrown down the cliff on the far side.

He wasn't seriously injured, but he was now surrounded by a water barrier that was slowing his actions, and threatened to leave him in the path of more vortexes.

Then one of Karl's strikes managed to cut a notch in the protective spell, leaving the Naga momentarily visible. The next attacks by Corbin and Alice did the same, and they were back in the fight as the barrier fell.

The Spider Golems were on the back of the Shaman the second the barrier fell, and Karl noticed that there was still a faint water barrier over the Naga, which had been whittled away by Hawk's dedicated efforts.

Having to go through those two barriers, one after another, would have sucked, and Hawk had saved them a lot of headache, with the Shaman now hurling offensive spells at them, both water and Ice Magic types.

It was definitely Commander Rank in maximum power, but it didn't seem to run out of mana, and it just wouldn't die.

Over the course of the next minute, the Shaman was hit dozens of times while its barrier was down, and while it was bleeding heavily, it was still fighting. They were doing damage, that was clear, and it wasn't healing unnaturally quickly, but it just wouldn't die.

It was beginning to slow down, and the spells were coming more infrequently, but Karl got the feeling that this was not the end, but the buildup to a larger attack. So, when the creature's mana surged, his first instinct was to order everyone back.

"Big attack coming." He called, unsure what it would look like.

The mana buildup turned into a surge of water, first spiking out, then rotating around the room in curved waves.

Karl began to move, avoiding the waves, which were pulling away from the Naga Shaman as they travelled.

He could see everyone going in, but Hawk and Rae were both thinking the same thing.

[Trap]

"Get clear of the waves, then back away. It's a trap." Karl called as the Naga sent out a shotgun blast of ice pellets around itself.

Karl tanked it with Flame Body, while Alice and the other Commanders absorbed it with their shields. The Awakened Rank fighters hit the ground to get under the attack, while Rae used her golems as a shield and Thor turned his head down so it didn't hit his eyes.

Then the Spider Golems were on the Shaman's back again, and Karl drove his blade deep into the creature's belly as Corbin leapt over him to go for the creature's throat.

The Naga Shaman fell into a slumped pile of coiled body, with its arms toward Corbin in one last desperate attempt to grab and strangle him.

"Well, that went as well as expected. Are there any injuries?" Karl asked as he realized the monster was truly dead, and wasn't reacting to the Golems continuing to stab it.

Rae eventually called them off, and Corbin tapped the body, making it vanish, and a small pile of items appear on the floor.