The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 269

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?Tessa's eyes were glowing red as she buffed the group with Holy magic, adding damage to all their attacks, even Karl's lightning and the Golems' blades.

With the Golems in place, Karl didn't have to switch back to his sword, but it was still transferring energy to the group from its spot on Ophelia's back while she used her twin axes to block and attack at the same time.

The Giants were beginning to reform their lines, and Karl was considering giving the order to retreat as they worked together for a group spell. His [Stun] couldn't deal with that many of them, and he wasn't certain what they were casting.

He fired as fast as he could, targeting different areas of the group, but at the last second, a surge of golden Holy Energy surrounded them all, and the power radiating off Thor surged. The Lightning Cerro had made it to the Commander Rank, and with it, his Circle of Protection and Refreshing Lightning Barrier had improved a Rank.

Karl noticed that the golden streaks on Thor's scales were becoming more pronounced, and now his horns were beginning to turn golden from their natural ivory.

"Looking fancy, buddy." Karl laughed as a barrage of Icicles slammed into the hastily erected barrier Dana had placed in front of them, and then shattered against the barriers on their bodies.

None of them took more than minor wounds, and these icicles weren't as insidious as the attacks of the Yeti Clans, as they weren't trying to freeze them now that the damage was done.

Tessa shouted in victory as the Giants roared in frustration, but the battle was far from over. Karl's group was still vastly outnumbered, and most of what was left was the Commander Rank and the stronger Ascended Rank Frost Giants, who hadn't been annihilated by Chain Lightning or Hawk's fireballs.

The water hating bird was going insane overhead, launching fireballs as fast as he could, three at a time, into their ranks. They had ice barriers erected over themselves, but the fireballs weren't weak, and the barriers were having a difficult time keeping up with the incoming damage.

Karl wasn't ready to rest yet. Even with the barrier refreshing them, Thor would run out of mana eventually, and they had to have the Frost Giants dead before then.

Tessa was fully focused on offensive buffs, and was mostly out of combat and not attracting attention, while Lotus was focused on keeping Thor and Rae at full efficiency.

That meant Ophelia had the worst of it, with Dana not far behind, though the clerics were keeping them both fully healed, and they weren't showing any visible injuries, despite the splatters of red blood on Ophelia's armour.

The enraged Berserker knocked both of a Frost Giant's arms wide, and Karl put an arrow into its forehead, shocking all the enemies gathered behind it with [Chain Lightning].

The Berserker laughed as she charged into the body and tossed it backwards to get at more targets. But Karl noticed that she carefully stopped before she got out of range of Thor's Circle of Protection.

The Giants had no problem coming to her, and now that the group was getting surrounded again, it was getting easier to shock large groups, slowing them to the point that they were barely effective fighters against the speed of the Spider Golems.

Stun was an option, but as it only affected a single target, it was less effective in a group fight, where slowing everything made life easier for the offence than stunning one target.

While they focused on herding and eliminating the Frost Giants, Hawk had set fire to all the wooden siege weapons that the Frost Giants had constructed, and the orange glow was giving the blowing snow a hazy look, like streetlights on a foggy morning. At the very least, that would make it safer to retreat if it became necessary.

Lotus whistled to get his attention, and pointed toward her staff. "I need time to recharge."

That meant no more water funnels, but the number of enemies was dropping rapidly.

Karl realized that something had changed, and the enemies were dying much faster than they should have been, given the group composition. Commander on Commander, it generally took five or six solid hits per enemy to disable your target, but the back ranks were nearly completely gone.

He knew he had missed something, but not what, until the last of the Frost Giants turned and ran back into the hills with Hawk in hot pursuit. His fireballs were burning straight through their armour and into their bodies, causing massive damage even to Commander Rank giants.