The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 357

357 Regroup

That left only two more Golden Lions, and a frightened horde of monsters, who were now giving them as much space as possible, as Karl rolled to Thor's left flank and evaded another gout of fire breath, which burned even more of the unfortunate horde.

They were forced too close to the battle by the press of bodies, and they were suffering as badly from the Lions as they were from the humans.

The Great Golden Lions were forced to their hind legs as Ophelia joined Karl with a furious roar.

They were still larger than the raging Werebear, but not by enough that they could discount her raw strength.

Unfortunately for them, that opened their vulnerable bellies while they swatted away the Berserker's axes, and another one fell, gutted by Tessa's spear. That left only one, surrounded by Karl and Ophelia, fighting desperately for its life.

Karl got a solid hit on one shoulder as the Lion twisted out of the way, and its leg suffered a grievous wound from the axe, but then it was gone, leaping off into the crowd of monsters on three legs, and putting a half dozen bodies between it and the humans as it retreated.

The monsters were just letting it run, but they were closing on Karl and the others now that the threat of flame breath was gone.

"Back up to the line, fighting retreat." Karl shouted to be heard over the din of the battle.

They had done their jobs, and the flame breathing Commanders were out of commission, leaving only targets that the line could reasonably be expected to deal with.

Thor and Karl both needed a breather, as they had expended a lot of energy to keep [Refreshing Lightning] active, but the Golems and Fire Elementals were happy to cover for them as they backed away.

Karl swept the surrounding area with [Rend], creating a wide path for their retreat. That got them back to the line in under ten seconds, and gave the line a moment to regroup after they had passed by.

"Good work." Morgana congratulated them as they stopped between the warriors and the mages. Karl just nodded in reply as he focused on recovering energy, and Remi crawled up the Witch Doctor to get to her favourite viewpoint on Morgana's staff and set up new totems.

"Will the other Lion be back?" Morgana asked, while holding the radio microphone in her hand, ready to inform battlefield command of the outcome.

"Not any time soon. It has a broken leg and a mangled shoulder. I don't know how fast they heal, but it shouldn't be back today at the very least." Karl replied.

Morgana sent their report, and the group spread back to their positions, returning to their duties against the rapidly diminishing wave of monsters.

Why he couldn't cast it as far away as she could use her area spells was a mystery, but the Flamestorm spell naturally wanted to be centred on the caster, and just moving it out into the monsters was an effort, while Remi only had to be able to clearly see and visualize her target. _{frёeweɓηovel.coɱ}