The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 342

Chapter 342 Presents

The next morning, Karl woke to a surprise birthday present from the last person in the world that he thought would give him a gift.

The Hill Giants.

The attack alarms started to blare just before dawn, alerting all forces to come to the front lines. Karl was on morning shift, so they would have been headed there anyhow, but not for another two hours.

That must have been why the Hill Giants attacked now, when the predawn twilight made it hard to spot them, and when the night shift would be at their most inattentive, just before they had to look professional as the next shift woke up, and the morning light revealed them to the eyes of supervisors.

Karl and his team equipped their armour, and Karl called out the beasts to serve as mounts for the run across the distance between the camp and their assigned position.

They made it with plenty of time to spare, as the first arrivals of the attack were on the far flank, going after the artillery battery, and there were no Hill Giants in range of his position.

[Hawk, get some altitude and see what's holding up our side of the party.] Karl ordered.

Everyone was here, and the Golems were summoned, but there were no targets within a kilometre of this end of the position.

Hawk soared out over the lines and started to relay enemy positions back to Karl.

[We have more giants coming. They've got three forces. The one that is fighting, the one coming to reinforce those ones, then the one coming from the far right that should be headed to our side of the line after we send our reinforcements away.] He narrated.

Karl passed that information along to Morgana, who relayed it to the teachers in charge of strategy. The best that was likely to happen was that a few extra troops would be left at this end of the line, as the reinforcement of the side which was actively under attack would take priority.

But every little bit would count, and the third hit was intended to be against the weakest portion of the line, so they could breach the lines of warriors defending the much softer mages and devastate the human defences.

They all understood that their position was important, but watching the other end of the line fighting while they waited for the order to do something, even to adjust the lines and attack the flank, was beyond frustrating to the students on Karl's end. However, they were in for the biggest shock of the day. The Hill Giants had sent an actual strike force to them, and they were in for a much more serious fight than the other end. Morgana looked over at Karl. "Two Royal Rank leaders, fifty Commanders and a whole Company of Ascended Hill Giants. Did you do something personal to them?"

Karl chuckled, and the rest of his team looked at him like it was a very real possibility.

"Not that I can think of offhand. But we've got a whole line of Elites here, and we still outnumber them." Karl replied.

Ali, the swarthy warrior on Colonel Wilkes' half of the team, gave Karl a concerned look.

"You do understand that there are two Royal Rank Hill Giants there, right? What are we going to do against that? When they charge at the back of the line, we're not going to be able to break their Earth Magic barriers in time, we will be too busy dealing with the Commanders."

From behind the line, Tank came jogging over with a pair of other warrior class teachers.

"We will take care of the Royal Rank Hill Giants until you've handled the others." The oversized Berserker declared.

Karl shook his head. "I will come with you, and Hawk can help us from above. The others will stay with the line. Two on one is a more evenly balanced fight."

Tank shrugged, and prepared to move as the Hill Giant line charged at them.

"Shall we, gentlemen?" Karl asked, taking out his bow.

[On Karl's mark, begin the attack.] The section leader announced over the radio.

Karl buffed himself up and focused on the line. "Remember where the leaders are, it's going to become difficult to see them." Karl reminded the team.

[Chain Lightning] gave the arrows range, while [Blizzard] added the shredding ice damage and blocked the view of the attacking Giants.

[I'm feeling artsy today.] Rae replied, sounding somewhat distracted. _{freewebnoveℓ.com}