The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 380

Chapter 380 Stage Two

[First Advancement Trial] Stage 1 Complete

[Stage 2 Begins In 10 Seconds]

"Seriously?" Karl muttered as he saw the notification.

But the notification seemed to be serious, as the world around them was changing, morphing into a large cavern, similar to the one where the Dark Elven City had been located, except that it was filled with glowing green pools of what Karl could only assume was toxic goo.

[This place does not look fun. Not even being green makes it look better.] Thor noted.

At first, there didn't seem to be any opponents here at all, they were just standing in a toxic field.

Then the monsters began to appear, walking up out of the glowing pools, a shambling wave of toxic sludge covered zombies.

Hawk immediately began pelting them with fireballs, while Remi brought up a [Blizzard] hoping to freeze them so they would stop advancing.

For a moment, it seemed like it was going to work, and the zombies ground to a halt before a new boss appeared in the centre of the largest puddle and began to cast spells, causing the downed zombies to regenerate while summoning more of them.

The boss didn't look all that impressive, just a sludge covered zombie woman in a black dress, but the shining black eyes weren't vacant, and everyone in the group could feel the power of its magic.

[Those pools will be an issue. Rae, can you send the Golems to deal with the boss? Either kill it or lure it out into the open where we can fight it properly.] Karl instructed.

Ice didn't seem to kill the zombies, they just froze for a bit and then started moving again. Setting them on fire was much more effective, whether it was fire or lightning that burned them.

Once their head was destroyed, they would die, Karl noticed, right before Rae came up with a zombie hunting strategy.

Firing small stones, half the size of their heads, caused the skulls to burst like melons, and killed the zombies reliably in a single shot.

They were weak, but it was beginning to look like they were endless, and they just kept coming out of the pools as the old bodies vanished.

The Golems reached the boss, lunging forward with their forelimbs, but the creature simply dove into a pool, and appeared from another.

For a split second, the Golems were confused, then they began to chase the boss around, hunting it relentlessly as it continued to run away.

For a while the game of whack a zombie seemed pointless, then one of the golem's limbs managed to catch on the zombie queen's dress and throw her away from the pools.

The panic was immediate, as the zombie forces turned to rush at the Golems, and the zombie queen tried to make it to another pool. _{freewёbnoνel.com}

Rae [Shadow Stepped] closer and surrounded the boss with a circular wall of stone, then repeatedly smashed the contents with a boulder from the top.

[Well, that's a bit messy.] Remi noted when she realized that the Spider was essentially mashing the zombie queen.

[Hawk, go light the remains on fire, just to be sure.] Karl added.

The tube was engulfed in an inferno as Hawk burned the remains, and the zombies lost their guiding force, returning to a shambling horde that was more interested in the living things at Karl's end of the instance than defending anything.

[First Advancement Trial] Stage 2 Complete

Karl sighed in relief as he realized that this instance had actually favoured his team. If he was a warrior who had to chase the boss through the toxic sludge, or a mage who had to dodge the Zombies, it would have been a nightmare. But being able to control the zombies while the Golems hunted the boss made it a relatively painless experience.

For some time, the instance didn't change, and Karl just waited. A bit of time to recover between fights seemed like the reasonable thing for a trial to provide, but it was unlikely to give him long.