The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 70

Chapter 70 Big Hawk

It took half an hour before Hawk was settled, and the kitchen had already delivered a special order of monster meat for him to eat during the second dose by the time that the pain in Karl's body faded.

"Just keep your eyes closed. The food bowl is beside your hand, just move it into the space for Hawk. Your body has stabilized along with his, but there is one more dose of that to go." Colonel Valerie insisted.

[You ready to be a giant Hawk?] Karl laughed, while the bird trilled happily at the influx of Ascended Monster meat the kitchen had brought him. Not all of it was his preferred flavours, but at the moment Hawk didn't care what animals it had come from, as long as there was a lot of it, and it was all energy rich to make up for the energy that he was lacking.

It only took a few more minutes for the bird to demolish the food shipment and decide that he was ready for another round of the special treatments.

Karl nodded to signal that he was prepared to continue, and the pain spread through his body from the left side this time, overwhelming his mind, but the effect on Hawk wasn't as extreme. He didn't grow any more, but his body filled out with powerful muscle. Now he looked like a proper Hawk again, but larger.

He finished the meat bowl and flew up around the space in joy, then cried in despair as he realized that his nest was too small for his new body.

Karl worked to change the shape as quickly as he could under the circumstances, while Hawk made sure not to lose his precious new stone before he settled down into the tree. Satisfaction flowed from his mind as power flowed in from the stone in the nest, and then the space itself seemed to change.

It was growing, but it reached a plateau where Karl had expected the quality to improve. Only that wasn't what happened. The space seemed to split, and the growth went to a second space, separate and barren, the way that Hawk's had been when he first bonded with Karl.

[Do you think that spot is made for someone else? Like, we have improved the size of your resting spot enough that it's time to improve a home for a new friend?] Karl asked his feathered partner.

[I think so. I can't go into it, so it's not a separate bedroom for me.] Hawk replied, annoyed that not all the growth was going to his space. There was still room to fly, but he was much bigger now, so shouldn't the room to fly have expanded proportionately?

"What happened?" The warrior asked after a few minutes of Karl trying to stabilize both his mind and the new beast space.

"The mental space seems to have reached a plateau. The injection increased the size along with Hawk, but then it stopped, and split into a small second space. The quality didn't improve, I will have to do that myself with meditation, or more of the first set of pills, but this is a whole other space. I think that I might actually have the ability to add a second pet now." Karl explained.

Karl opened his eyes and noticed the smiles on the faces of the three Bureau of Elite Development workers. Their gamble had paid off, and if Karl could now add a second beast, his effective power would multiply.

The second thing that he noticed was that the table was empty, with two used multiple injectors and two empty shot glasses on it. He had assumed that he was two out of twelve injections into the process, but they had injected them six at a time, and the second shot was the second dose of everything.

"No wonder that hurt. It was like my body was on fire, but the second time faded much faster, and Hawk didn't have an explosive growth spurt, instead he filled out to proper Windspeed Hawk proportions, but over a metre tall, and with a wingspan that looks like a little over three metres." Karl explained.

Colonel Valerie gestured impatiently, and Karl called Hawk out to stand on the empty table behind him.

The mage whistled in appreciation, and Hawk preened, accidentally puncturing the steel desk with his claws.

"Well, the claws haven't gone translucent, so he's likely not at Ascended Rank yet, but he is a huge pretty boy." She cooed, then stood up to go pet Hawk's head.