The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 258

Chapter 258 And When To Say Maybe

Tessa cleared her throat. "The real question is what sucker are we going to take to their death with us?"

Lotus giggled. "As much as I appreciate your optimism, I don't think that any of the mages would actually agree to go with us. Even the tank type warriors wouldn't fall for that, and we can only pick from the Ascended Ranks, so we can't recruit an experienced Commander from the Mercenary groups.

That rules out calling for any powerful old friends or connections."

Karl had considered that for a moment as well, but Bob Mackenzie would be too powerful to be pulled into their team, and if Karl's guess was right, the entire family would be out somewhere already.

"Then who can we even get?" Dana asked.

Karl smiled. He knew just who to ask.

"I think I know who we can get. Thor learned Earthquake from the Berserker Class. I bet that we can get one of their Ascended Rank members to come along with the promise of battle and rewards. The Berserkers don't get out much during class because they're a bit wild in combat, and teams with no healers can have issues.

But we have all the healing that we could need, and Thor's [Refreshing Lightning] spread over everyone, so we don't have to worry too much about them taking damage, unless we find an overstrength enemy."

Lotus looked pensive. "How are your credits looking? You've got a beast of a weapon, and you can coat it in attack spells all the time. But not everyone can do that. We might need to equip a new member before we head out."

"I don't know exactly now that we're back from this mission and those rewards will be processing, but buying armour didn't change the first two digits on the balance, so we should be good for me to get someone Ascended Armour and a weapon if they don't have a good one." Karl agreed.

Tessa frowned. "Alright, we will go talk to the Berserkers. Does that mean we're going to agree to this idiocy?"

"I have an idea. There is a spot in the mountains, not too close to where we were earlier, but not in the most populated passes. I don't want to go into an abandoned area, that just seems like idiocy, but if we go somewhere near the edge of a secondary pass, we can aim for their scouting teams.

They should be smaller and weaker, as they will need to be agile and able to make it through the mountains. Giants shouldn't be good at that when they're excessively large. There are obvious clusters to their strength on the map, and as long as we avoid that, we can do a lot of damage and help everyone upgrade their gear and skills before anyone tries to change our mission." Karl offered.

Lotus raised her hand. "It's all well and good to say we're bringing a Berserker, but I'm not travelling with some creepy guy who thinks that sweat is a form of shower."

Dana smirked, knowing that described a lot of the Berserkers, and Tessa nodded her agreement with Lotus' sentiment.

"Then I will leave it to you ladies to find our fifth member, while I deal with the details of the deployment. If you need to bribe them, let them know I will find them armour and a new weapon." Karl agreed.

Before going back down, he spent a moment mentally preparing himself for the influx of questions and pressures to go to the very worst of the combat zones to add bodies to the main lines.

The group had gotten even larger when he got back down, and there were two groups of senior class students added to the chaos, all Ascended Rank with a Commander from the Bureau of Elite Development leading them. Namely, Jodi and Josh, two of the team members who had gone with Karl to go looking for his second pet.

"Jodi, Josh. Good to see you two gentlemen again." Karl greeted them as he entered the room.

Jodi smiled back. "You've gotten all fancy on us. Tell me, how is that bloodbath spider doing?"

"Rae? She's doing wonderful. Commander Rank already, and she made good friends with a nature priestess so they can play in the woods together. Thor, the Lightning Cerro is also doing well, and Hawk is making the best of the evolutionary resources we have found." Karl informed them.

"Where are they sending you?" Josh asked, concern obvious in the blue eyes that looked much too old for his youthful face.