The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 257

Chapter 257 Learn When To Say No

The words that Prince Corbin had spoken to Karl while they were on night watch suddenly came back to his mind. 'If you don't learn to say no, they will keep sending you on nearly suicidal missions until one actually is.' That advice seemed to fit this situation very well, and the pressure to please so many important people and go along with their requests was strong.

"I am going to need some more details about this mission and the situation in the area before I can agree to go anywhere. The last I saw, that entire region was unfit for human habitation, and that was before the Frost Giants showed up." He replied.

One of the ministers gave him a disgusted look. "Refusing your first mission as a Commander doesn't portray your character in a very good light. Cowardly, some might call it."

Karl rolled his eyes at the man, who was no Elite, just a pencil pusher. "And what words do they use for a Commander who takes his team into a war zone without a clue or a care in the world?"

The Minister stammered for a second before Karl continued.

"A martyr, that's what they call them. Because they wind up dead. Now, who has the details, or am I headed to the Church's mission board to occupy my time?"

For a second, he thought that he saw respect on Colonel Valerie's stern face, but when she motioned for someone to bring forward the map, that was long gone and her standard working glower was back in place.

The official who brought forward the map rolled it out on the table between Karl and the High Priestesses, and Karl immediately noticed that there was almost no detail on it.

"This is the most recent official map." The man insisted.

"With no troop deployments or enemy combatant numbers?" Karl asked.

Tessa looked over at the map and shook her head before turning to her order's High Priestess.

"Do we have numbers for this? If they're not cooperating, it might be better to go through you." The War Cleric asked.

"We were speaking to the Commander." The official informed her in a dry tone.

Karl shrugged. "And we operate as a team. Now, are you going to quit messing around, or are we going to have to decline your request? If you want us to deploy, you're going to have to share enough intel for us to make a proper combat assessment."

Colonel Valerie raised her hand to stop any more arguments, and took out a small box from her pocket.

Inside were two sets of rocks, one in light blue and one in green. First, she set out about a hundred blue stones near the border. Then she began setting out green stones of various shapes and sizes.

"This is the current deployment situation, as of my last meeting. The stone sizes are the maximum detected rank within the enemy formations, each stone represents roughly a hundred Frost Giants.

The round green stones are Elite teams, the diamonds are Military Elite Companies, and the squares are conventional artillery batteries."

Karl looked over the map and did some basic math.

They were screwed.

There were more stones measuring Frost Giants by the hundred than Commander Rank led teams in the area, and Karl wasn't certain how useful artillery was going to be. It was great against Common Grade and Awakened Threats, but There were Royal Rank Giants in the Frost Giant nation, and they were Commanders when fully grown.

"The teams that are already there. Are they being sent ten or twenty at a time?" Tessa asked.

Valerie remained silent for a few seconds while the Cleric waited.

"Then Prince Corbin?" Karl asked, digging for deployment information, as there were no larger stones along this border. _{freёwebnoѵel.com}