The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 354

354 The Giants' Search

The search proved fruitless both for Hawk and the Hill Giants, as they returned every day for the next week, stopping before they could get in range of the artillery, and searching different sections of the line every day.

One day, while sitting on the line, watching the empty horizon, Tessa looked down at Karl from her spot on Thor's back. "Do you think that it's actually possible to interrogate a Hill Giant? I really want to know what in the world they've been looking for this past week. There has hardly even been an attack, they're so busy looking for whatever they're looking for." She asked.

The teacher closest to them burst into laughter. "Well, they are capable of speaking human common, but the odds of getting them to talk are pretty low. Hill Giants don't feel pain the same way a human does, so you can't really torture them for information, even if you have a way to restrain them."

Karl sighed. "Well, that is unfortunate. I really do want to know what is driving them to search this whole area like that. But if they're doing it just to troll us and drive us insane, I'm not certain that I could take the truth."

Tessa chuckled. "I don't think that Hill Giants would do that, but I can definitely see you doing it just to mess with them."

She had a point. They could all see Karl doing it if he got bored, and the nature priests would help him.

It was two more days of waiting before they would find out what the Hill Giants had actually been up to.

Karl was sitting in a history lesson with Morgana when the attack alarm blared, along with a secondary tone that indicated this was an urgent incoming attack. If they had failed to detect it at the usual distance, that would be extremely odd, given that they hadn't been distracted by anything, so that more likely meant that they were already charging, and would be here sooner than anticipated.

Karl switched from his more comfortable uniform suit to his armour as he rose from his chair, and the mages in the class began to scatter to their various assigned locations.

Karl let Hawk loose as soon as they were out of the classroom, and immediately, excited chatter filled his mind. [It's a buffet! A mobile buffet coming our way. There are huge mice, and angry Thors and meat with horns, and even pigs.] [Angry Thor? There are Lightning Cerro in the stampede?] Karl asked.

[No, scaly, but on two legs and angry, they keep attacking things that get near them.] _{frёewebnoѵēl.com}

When Karl arrived at his spot on the flank, the true terror of the advance became clear.

The Hill Giants pretending to search the area yesterday had dropped bait bags all over the place, and the monsters were racing from one to another, trying to get to them. But once they were close enough, they would smell the humans, and that would be the final bait bag of the lure that had caused the monsters to stampede.

How they had managed to wrangle so many into one place was a mystery, but it most likely involved a lot of work, given how few Giants they had seen recently.

There were thousands of monsters, perhaps tens of thousands. As far as Hawk could see, there were monsters on the horizon, charging toward the human lines.

It wouldn't just be the Academy portion that was hit today, but everyone within fifty kilometres of them. Compared to this influx, every one of the previous attacks looked like child's play. But worse than that, once they were done with the monsters and exhausted, they were very likely to see a full offensive from the Hill Giants.