The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 292

Chapter 292 In The Mountain

[All units along the volcanic line, we are reforming one hundred kilometres from the border. When it is safe, make your way back toward the reformed line outside the burn zone. Units who are unable to retreat, sound off for attempted rescue.] The line General requested over the radio the next morning.

Karl looked over at Bob Mackenzie, who just shrugged.

"We're pretty much fine where we are, we're not going to be affected by the fires in here, the Dwarves planned for things like that. So, we might as well just wait it out, as we're already in front of the main lines." He suggested.

[Line Command, this is 95988, we are isolated in front of the lines, past the fire threat. We will shelter in place until the situation is resolved.] Karl informed them, right before Doug called in to inform them of the same thing.

If Command suspected that they were together, they didn't say anything, only confirming that they wanted the two teams to continue daily check-in protocol, so they could confirm that they were alive and well.

The other soldiers and Elites were quickly escaping from the area as the snow melted, and the forests began to burn under the hot ash, which seemed to be intensifying, instead of dissipating, as it should have after an eruption.

The Magma Dragon was still somewhere in the area and staking his claim on the region around the volcano, adapting it to more perfectly suit his personality and racial environment requirements.

He was a proud and ancient being, locked away for a millennium, and now that he was free, it was obvious to the two nature priests that the Dragon intended to make himself a new home right where he had been imprisoned.

"It would be nice if we could get communications from further away. Now that they're retreating, it's not going to be easy to even get the daily communications out to the lines. There is a channel for long distance, low-quality communications, but that won't let us hear any of the news from the other fronts, only get our signal through to the lines in Morse code." Bob explained.

The rest of the group gave him blank looks and he laughed.

"There is a translation on the radio, it's a series of long and short tones. It makes it easier to understand distant signals, and the Command Staff will have both an automatic decoder and an expert on hand to translate signals. It's only to be used for urgent messages, and you keep it brief.

Normally, what we would send would be something like our name and then all alive." He explained.

Not long after, the radio signals on the main channels started to get less frequent, as the teams that could be recovered were led to safety. The ash was clogging up the vehicles and making it hard to breathe, but a mage or cleric barrier made it relatively safe to keep moving, as long as you weren't too close to the volcano, where the Dragon's magic was already imbued into the ash, and causing it to burn through barriers.

Bob laughed as the radio finally had a moment of silence, with nobody attempting to transmit. "This might be the most relaxing mission I've been on in a while."

Tessa chuckled at the notion. "Only for the next few days. Things are going to get hectic again after the Frost Giants regroup and try to eliminate that Dragon from their border. They might even come back with the Frost Dragon."

Karl considered that for a moment. Their elements lined up, and the dragon had flown off into their territory, but that was no guarantee that they were on the same team. In fact, if they really had been trying to siphon power from the Dragons, they might have made a new enemy of the creature.

Karl took some time to work on rebuilding the energy focus in all the beast spaces, and noticed that Remi had made some interesting alterations to her swamp. There was a miniature swamp within the swamp, using sprigs of the various plants and small rocks, so she could slither through it like she was a giant snake, as tall as the trees.

Even if most of it was just making statues of herself out of clay and then decorating them to see if they would become magical. It seemed a bit silly, but it was making her happy, and the fact that there were dozens of little Remi statues around the platform now was highly entertaining to the other beasts. _{freewёbnoνel.com}