The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 254

Chapter 254 Rita

Once dinner was done, Karl took Dana back up to his room to relax, away from all the excitement of the Academy on exam day. Rae came out as soon as they opened the door, and went to improve her living space using the new design ideas she had gotten since they left, including the forts they had been sleeping in.

She had the space, and she could attach them to the whole wall of the building, since she didn't care about anyone else's windows.

Unfortunately for her, Karl caught that line of thought and stopped her before she could web up the entire side of the Academy to make herself a mansion.

She did upgrade their hammocks, and check on the plants she had been waiting for. Some of them had been picked by whoever was watering the trees, but there was a lot of ripe fruit here for her to stuff in her space for later.

That gave Rae a great idea.

Hawk threw Remi into the space, and they got to keep her.

Rae walked over to Dana, picked her up and then vanished into her space, leaving Dana behind to drop back to the ground. Three times in a row, she tried before giving up and complaining to Karl.

[If Thor gets to pick a Naga Egg, why can't I pick a Dana?]

Karl and Thor both laughed, while Hawk rolled his eyes.

Thor mumbled a response, half asleep in his pond. [Karl is a beast master, not a Dana Master. If you find a way to turn Dana into a puppy or a kitten, then you could probably keep her.] _{ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm}

Karl really wished they would stop giving each other strange ideas. Remi was already wondering if Shaman magic could shape-shift people so they could invite friends over to show off their homes, and Rae was making plans to find a way to turn Dana into a tiger.

[Don't you think you should ask her before turning her into a tiger?] Karl teased Rae, disrupting her train of thought.

[It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission. I read that in the ethics textbook.]

While he was fairly certain that Rae had misinterpreted something in that textbook, Karl left them to their own devices and pulled Dana down into the newly expanded hammock.

"It's good to be home. We can finally get some real rest, and maybe we might even sleep in." He whispered to the mage in his arms.

Dana just laughed. "Did you forget that Sergeant Rita and Jill are both here at the Academy? We're guaranteed to be pulled out of bed at the crack of dawn."

With all the stress of the long trip, they both drifted off to sleep early that night, still sharing a hammock. That was where they were found when Sergeant Rita and Jill came looking for their students the next morning.

Karl woke up to the sound of careful footsteps on the balcony.

"Agent Jill, good morning." He whispered.

"You have good hearing. I was coming to wake you up, but I didn't want to wake Rae." Jill quietly replied.

"She already knows you're here. Don't worry, she's not going to tie you up today." Karl joked.

Not that she hadn't considered it.

Karl equipped his new uniform as he swung himself out of the hammock, waking Dana up when she suddenly found her arms empty. Rita shook Karl's hand when he reached her, and her usually stern look turned to a big smile.

"Well, it looks like you've outgrown my tutelage. I remember when we first met, Hawk said that one day he was going to be more powerful than I am, and what do you know, it hasn't even been half a year, and he's already there." She informed him with a mixture of sadness and pride in her expression.

"I take it that you're being reassigned now that I've advanced?" Karl asked.

Rita nodded and gestured to her uniform. "They've made me a warrant officer, and I'm being reassigned to the Ministry of Education as a liaison officer. I will be tasked with helping rare classes and special cases make their early benchmarks, in the hopes that I can replicate your success."

"How much time do we have, or have you already been reassigned?" Karl asked.