The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 60

Chapter 60 Orders From Above

The information turned out to not be all that bad. He had a few dozen items and protocols to memorize, but once he had seen them, they were mostly common-sense items, and they wouldn't be difficult to remember at all.

He wrote down the emergency call numbers and essential protocols for meeting Elites with high positions on a cue card, and took it down to have the supply room laminate it on his way to dinner, but other than that, there wasn't much that he couldn't remember on the first day.

"The top of the class has finally graced us with his presence. How does it feel to be the most elite of the first years?" One of the second year mages from his morning skills training joked when Karl entered the cafeteria. _{ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm}

"I'm not sure, you will have to ask Hawk." Karl joked as the worker passed him the daily special, a fried noodle dish with large chunks of monster meat in it.

"That's probably true, his skills are insane. I heard that they're going to move up your studies again, does that mean you're not going to get to practice with us in the mornings anymore?" The blonde boy asked.

"I don't think they are planning to take me out of that training so soon. I heard from Sergeant Rita that they will change my close combat training partners, but they were already preparing to do that. Part of my abilities seems to be faster learning speed, so I'm doing really well in the mixed martial arts class, but I still can't block magical attacks fast enough or in large enough numbers that the morning class needs to change."

Karl's reply made the other mages in the room laugh. If one Elite could block all the attacks from two dozen of them, did they really deserve to be assigned the same rank? Even if he could block half of them, it was already an unfair advantage at the same peak power level. But the nature of his skill, that the Rend could separate into multiple parts with a single cast, made it much easier to hit multiple targets, and the mages had to admit that both Karl and Hawk had impeccable aim.

Again that evening, when Karl went up to his room after dinner, the hallways echoed with the sound of students furiously practising, and he knew that Dana would be waiting for him to let her in. He didn't even have to wait after knocking on her door, she answered instantly, as if she had been standing right behind it, and had her school backpack at the ready, packed with her books and a change of uniform for the morning.

"I asked about a soundproofing measure for the room, but it's not cheap. We would need to take on at least one more mission at the same level as the last one to afford it." She apologized as she closed the door behind her.

Karl winced at the sound of echoing attacks from the neighbouring rooms. "It's still a good place to practise, and once the others calm down it shouldn't be too bad. I can see why all the senior students like to spend time outside, though. Even here in the hallways it's loud, so in their rooms it must be terrible."

On the far side of campus, in a meeting room facing a wall of security camera feeds, the school administrators watched the two young students walk into the second floor greenhouse room.