The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 291

Chapter 291 Chain of Disasters

As they ran, the radio communications made it clear that the erupting volcano was neither the only, nor the worst, disaster that the border region had undergone that afternoon.

Along the border, seven other locations had either exploded, collapsed, or undergone dramatic events involving Dragons. It was nearly impossible to piece it all together, but from what Karl could decipher, the location where the Frost Stone had exploded when they looted the statue had exploded again, only this time it had released a massive Frost Dragon, every bit as angry as the Magma Dragon at the volcano was.

It had rampaged through the front lines, uncaring of whether the target was a Giant or a Human, and then flown off into the Frost Giant nation surrounded by a storm that hid everything within fifty kilometres from observation.

Karl couldn't see any logic in the Frost Giants setting those dragons free, and from the number of incidents, it did seem likely that it was their intention to set the Dragons free. Either that, or they had been trying to steal the powers of sealed Dragons, and that was even more insane, as the other Dragons would see that as an insult to their entire species.

The humans might have successfully hid through such blunders, but the Frost Giants wouldn't be capable of finding a safe spot to hide and wait for the Dragons to calm down.

They didn't quite have to travel past the spot they had gotten the first statue from, but it was still nearly dark when they made it to the Dwarven Village on their "Fastest Travel" route.

The entrance was heavily snowed in, and they had to have the Spider Golems dig to uncover the entrance of its layer of hardened ash and snow before they could enter. Then, they piled it back over the entrance, and let Remi's Blizzard layer more snow on top to hide the fact that they were ever there.

They could hear the other team inside, the Mackenzie brothers laughing and joking, while the three other voices were much more nervously making remarks about the radio messages.

"Good evening lady and gentlemen. We have returned." Karl announced as they walked down the tunnel and into the village, forcing him to return his beasts to their space, as they could not cross the threshold between the tunnel and the cavern.

"Good to see you all intact. We thought for certain you were going to be blasted to the moon when that mountain erupted. How did you make it out in time?" Bob asked, curiosity clear in his pale eyes.

"We never made it to the top at all. The Magma Dragon broke free while we were climbing the slope, so we turned around and ran." Karl replied with a shrug.

"Good call. Doug here has been doing some research as a Nature Priest, and he has found an interesting fact about the dragons that were spotted today." Bob agreed, then gestured for his brother to explain.

"Not all the spots that we heard of incidents from were known to have a Dragon present, but the ones that did were the prisons of Dragons who had gone against the Gods or the Elders. They are the Rebels, who would kill without reason or mercy.

Now, it doesn't take a genius to realize that there aren't enough Frost Giants to take this border in any sort of reasonable timeframe. Their allies are the real threats here, and they might be the driving force behind the invasion.

All that Command can tell us is that the Frost Giants attacked first, and that the Giant Clans are working together, so I've made a few conjectures of my own.

First, The Frost Giants are idiots, but strong with Shamanistic Magic. They're using that to expand their borders. Second, they set up a bunch of locations of power on top of buried rebel Dragons, and the general assumption would be that they intended to set them loose against the human armies.

But that's not what I think. I think that they were set up. That they were told that these were places of power, and not that they contained insane ancient Dragons, who would kill their soldiers as readily as ours."

Doug paused to catch his breath, while everyone else absorbed the ideas that he had shared.