The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 289

Chapter 289 Relic Hunting

Hawk went out extra early the next day, intending to make it to the next pass, so he could check the Frost Giants that had gathered near the next portion of the main defence lines. That was the most likely spot for there to be another of the relics, and he would happily help them steal it if it was going to make the cold go away.

Even if Karl gave to the snake again.

He was in luck, they weren't even hiding this one. Or, maybe they were, but not from above. It was just like the other one, a magical circle next to a big stone, but this one was in the caldera of a dormant volcano, and it didn't feel the same.

Instead of so much snow, it was bitterly cold, and the monsters around the magical circle were different. It was still Frost Giants, but not strong ones. They were making the Awakened groups, led by Ascended, and sending them back into the Frost Giant nation to regroup and mingle with more powerful groups that were coming back to the front-line groups as a combined force.

With his enhanced eyesight, and a lot of silent cursing at the effort needed to fly in the thin air, Hawk had managed to get high enough that he could see most of the process around that same Frost Giant city.

Quick math, which the Windspeed Hawks developed to help them guess where Earth Mouse holes would be relative to the last ones they had found, told him that there should be one more likely hiding spot on the far side of the first spot they had found a magic stone.

That was an almost equal distance, but it was too far for him to fly this morning.

So, he set a shallow dive that would build up speed as he went back to create the morning reports on the closest groups to the fort. There were still too many Frost Giants nearby, and it would take time to get to the volcano where the next stone was hidden.

Karl tapped his spoon against his canteen to get everyone's attention. "I have the preliminary scouting report from Hawk. He has found another Frost Stone location.

It's in a volcano that is a full day's travel from here, near the next major engagement. The distribution appears to be near the main access valleys to their territory, to better spread the effects.

If we can get the next one, and then find a third, we might be able to cause a whole section of the effect to collapse.

Normally, Hawk would be cursing the cold if he had to fly up that high to find a position, but he's not, which tells me that the effect isn't as strong as it was before. That's with just one spot inactive. We will hunt today, going in that direction, but we won't return to the camp tonight, we will leave that for the Mackenzie group.

If they're calling for a report from us, fake it and let them think we're still in the area and not on yet another battlefield. We will be back tomorrow, hopefully with good news."

Bob gave him a sloppy salute. "Good luck, Commander. We will cover for you today, and if you aren't back tomorrow night, we will go looking for you."

That was the best that they could offer. It might be that the aftermath would take out communications again, or Karl's group might not make it out as smoothly this time.

Both groups left together after breakfast, and Remi kept the snow active until they were out of the trees. It would make it harder to find their way back to the caves, but most of the Elites had good memories, and they didn't want anything else following their footprints back to their fort. It was too good of a spot to have it defiled by monsters or taken over by some random group who would smash all the relics for firewood and make a mess.

For the first few hours, they passed in front of the main lines, hunting the roaming groups of Giants which were still searching for shards of the Frost Stone.

The numbers of both the stone fragments and the Frost Giants searching for them were dropping dramatically with the efforts of the teams that the main group was sending out, and Karl managed to lead his team into the hills on the far side of the line before noon, after which he brought them up to a jog with Hawk leading them on a relatively trouble-free path toward their target.

The Frost Giants weren't interested in the actual hills, as a river ran along this portion of the border, leading to the lake where Karl and his team had crossed. The steep valley along the majority of the border would make it nearly impossible for a human attack force to cross, so only where there was a gap in the mountains passable enough for vehicles did they set up defences.

[Hawk, can you send a couple Rend attacks down to ground level on the hill? If they hit ground with no issues, we're good to go. If not, there is a barrier or an illusion.] Karl suggested. _{ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom}