The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 263

Chapter 263 Taunt The Giants

The next morning's scouting report revealed that the Frost Giants had caught on to the problem much faster than Karl had been expecting them to. They were not known for being particularly bright, but this morning there were no fewer than twenty teams in the area, and it appeared that they were doing a methodical search for the missing teams.

From Hawk's report, they had spread out along a ridgeline very early in the morning, and they were moving south through the valley and past the cave now.

If the team moved out in twenty minutes, they would be attacking the Giants from behind, and they could kill multiple groups quickly before retreating.

That seemed like a good plan to Karl. If they picked one of the stronger groups to eliminate as a group, Rae could use her Golems to take out a weak group nearby, starting with their Ascended leader, which would leave the Awakened Giant trainees helpless.

[I can play too.] Hawk suggested.

[True, but you're our scout. I don't want them associating you with the missing Giants. Can you do it cleanly enough?] Karl asked.

[No problem. I will wait for them to get close enough to you that I can throw the bodies in my space. We're going to need to do something about all the excess Frost Giants, before they start getting in the way.] Hawk reminded him.

[Oh, don't worry about that. I have just the plan to get rid of them, which will ensure the Giants are in chaos when the main line decides to advance.]

Karl led the group out of the cave toward the closest powerful group, which was flanked by two weaker groups.

The patrol line went on like that all the way across the valley they were working in. One group with a commander leading it, and then two groups of Ascended and Awakened. That should realistically give the Commander and his smaller group time to react to any attacks on the weaker groups, but with Karl's divide and conquer strategy, it was about to become a feeding program for the beasts.

Remi was already overjoyed by the amount of Commander Rank food that she could gorge herself with as she waited for her body to grow up to fighting size, where she could crush and swallow her prey whole.

That was an odd bit of logic for a venomous snake, but that was how she preferred to eat, even after biting them. Biting was actually a last resort for the Spirit Snake, as she insisted that it made the food taste funny, but if she was threatened and her magic wasn't doing enough, she had no problem getting physical.

But for the most part, she didn't come out of her hiding space, and just poked her head out to cast Blizzard after fights.

[Remi, how long can your blizzard spell last?] Karl asked.

[About five minutes if I need it to, then I will cast it again.] She replied.

[In that case, cast it at the start of the fight, and just let it continue as we move away. Keep it centred on the group, and it will hide both the fight and our footprints, so the other groups can't find us as easily.]

[Got it boss.]

The next group was just coming into sight when Karl caught a change in Rae's thoughts.

[Tremble before the coming darkness.]

She was laughing at her hapless targets.

"Rae found her group. Let's get to work. Remi, you're up. Keep us hidden." Karl instructed.

He charged forward with Thor, and the roar of the Frost Giants who were being damaged by a snowstorm out of nowhere echoed through the valley. That might not have been his best call, but they were already damaged when he made it to combat, and Dana's twin Golems had no problem holding off the two Ascended Frost Giants while Karl fired arrows into the Commander's chest and Thor prevented it from going after any of the other group members.

Ophelia had no problem assisting the Golems with one of the Frost Giants, and even Tessa had dismounted and come forward into melee range, attacking with her mace while Dana cast [Magic Missiles] and Karl's [Chain Lightning] slowed the giants.