The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 381

Chapter 381 Epic Team Challenge

"Who picked Epic?" The leader of the Knights asked.

Dana gestured toward Karl. "Isn't it obvious? Karl did the Epic version of the first two trials, now we all get to do the Epic version of the team trial." "In my defence, I didn't know that there was going to be a team event at the end." Karl responded. It was too late to change anything about it now, even though they were going to have to face extra enemies at Epic difficulty because he had let the intrusive thoughts win and Lotus spent an hour just playing with the boxes.

Across the arena from them, a four-armed Giant with shining Golden armour over black robes appeared. The monstrous creature stood nearly ten metres tall, and Karl wondered how exactly they were expected to deal real damage to that.

Its lower legs were heavily armoured, and that was all that they could conveniently reach, while the rest of it was not showing any bare skin at all. Even its face was covered by a golden helmet.

"It looks like a mage special to me." Tessa noted. There were soft joints, where the armour appeared to be leather, but none of those were in easy reach of the team, except for the mages, who had better ranged combat abilities.

"So this is what a modified difficulty Epic boss looks like." Lotus announced, enthralled with the appearance of a creature that she had never seen before.

"Now, we just need to find a way to defeat it because the fight is starting." Karl reminded her as the timer ran out.

When the timer ended, the Giant began to move, and the group scattered. Bob and Ophelia were headed forward, looking for an opening they could reach, while the Magic Knights were stepping through the sky to hurl blade attacks at the massive target.

Rae created a web to pull herself up into the bleachers, away from the main fight, and then hurled a boulder the size of a medicine ball at the four-armed Giant. The impact left a deep dent in the golden armour, and Karl smiled as he realized that while it was a deadly opponent, it was still Commander Rank.

It also wasn't double-jointed, and when the Spider Golems got on its back, it had to sweep up with a club to knock them free, which wasn't nearly as deadly for them as the fast purple demon had been.

[Rae, make a web net all around the arena for the Knights and Golems to fight from.] Karl instructed as he realized what the most effective tactic was likely to be. _{freewebnøvel.com}

If they couldn't reach from the ground, they wouldn't fight from the ground.

Rae worked fast, and made a loose net all around the arena out of super stretchy Royal Rank silk rope.

The fighters could land on that, grab it with a free hand, and then use it as a springboard to jump at the Giant when they saw an opening. Bob had superhuman strength, the same as Karl, and the Knights could walk on air, so it was an easy way for them to rest between attacks, and blows from the Titan's clubs wouldn't easily ruin it.

Karl tested the theory by taking a run toward the wall and jumping up on a completed section, then leaping off as he rebounded.

It launched him toward the Giant's lower-right arm, which was hastily withdrawn to let Karl's blade crash into an enormous club.

The [Chain Lightning] still spread through the creature's body as Karl fell to the ground, thrown well clear of the stomping feet by the impact.

Not exactly optimal for Karl, who had plenty of his own ranged attacks, but good enough that everyone else saw what he was going for without having to announce it out loud.

Once they all knew, Karl switched back to his bow and began aiming for the vulnerable joints.