The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 326

326 Let Off Some Steam

Once the Monk began to sweat and look a bit winded, Karl backed off and smiled at him.

The Monk nodded. "That was good exercise, I needed that after two months here. The new limbs are still a bit sluggish."

They left the ring, and more groups moved in, Awakened Elites, who went four teams to the ring, as they weren't moving nearly as far as the Commanders had.

The new doctors all seemed to be in shock, even now that the fights were on a closer to human scale. They had been so overwhelmed by what they had seen at the start, which they could see was a game between friends, with no harm done despite the brutality of the event, that they still hadn't managed to get themselves under control. One of the younger doctors was sitting with her head against her knees, working to control her breathing. She didn't look alright, so Karl went over to check on her, snagging a couple of bottles of water off the table by the ring on his way. "Here, sip slowly, it helps." Karl informed her as he sat down in the grass beside the young doctor.

She numbly sipped the water as she stared at the Elites sparring.

"Do you know why I became a psychologist? An Awakened Rank Giant Wolf Spider took residence in my hometown while I was in the city at school. It killed half the population, and the ones the army recovered from the cocoons were never the same." She whispered.

"Sorry, I didn't mean it as a personal thing to anyone. The spider Golems are just renewable, so I could show everyone an actual fight without injury." Karl replied.

She nodded slowly, her heart still pounding so hard that Karl could hear it.

"I know that. It was just so... so..."

Karl patted her back. "I know, and so does everyone else here. Every Elite in this hospital has seen that level of battle and much worse. Most of us have been sent on those rescue missions to invaded villages. But look how much fun everyone is having now. That was the goal of coming here, right? To get everyone's mind back into a good place."

The doctor smiled at Karl as she got to her feet. "That's right. Thank you for reminding me. But I should give you some advice as well. If you're going to spar in a hassock, put pants on first."

Karl laughed. "I am wearing shorts underneath. I've been yelled at for that before, so I changed before we came out."

A few of the other doctors laughed, especially the nature priests.

As the doctors from the University began to see the camaraderie between the Elites,

they began to relax and look at them differently. Not as a problem to be solved, but as people who shared something that the rest of the world couldn't really understand. And so, the morning meetings were changed to morning outdoor activities, at least on the days with good weather. Wheelchair basketball, sparring, any sort of game the Elites came up with was incorporated into their recovery regimen.

Many of the doctors had pushed for this from the start of the Elite program, but it was considered unconventional, or too risky for the wounded, even when they were confined to a basketball court, where they could easily be kept within the range of an area healing spell for treatment while they exercised.

So that was how Karl's next week went, with exercise in the morning to bring his arm back up to his standards, and lessons with Morgana all afternoon to catch up on the schooling that he should have been taking during the first and second year, before he was sent out into the world.

Karl didn't even know that some of those historical eras had happened, much less that they had their own architectural style that was likely to contain magical relics. It was enough new information that even Thor's prodigious memory was struggling to