The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 76

Chapter 76 Hold Position

"Good morning, Colonel. We are ready to go." Karl greeted her at the door, then winced as she patted him on the shoulder in greeting.

Dana was awake, but in a daze, not in any shape to be vocal, so Karl was doing the speaking for the both of them. Colonel Valerie seemed to recognize that, and she didn't push for more speech out of them as she led them to the car and back to the same training warehouse from a week ago. _{freёweɓnovel.com}

The teams all smiled as they saw the two bedraggled students stumble in, leaning on each other to remain upright. Karl, because he could barely walk, and Dana because she was half asleep.

"Well, they made it through hell week, but I'm not sure if they're in any shape to make it through one more day of training to make it to the day off." One of the mages laughed.

Alice, the dark-haired mage that watched Karl's training every day, smirked at him and gestured toward the pair.

"Try them, I think you will find that they're in better shape than they look." She suggested.

The teams moved closer to begin an attack routine, and the two students responded in unison. Dana summoned a Golem and Karl called Hawk out, letting the giant bird fly freely around the warehouse.

Colonel Valerie gave a rueful chuckle, and the team members backed away with a smile.

"Well, that might not be the ingrained response we were hoping for, but it works, I guess." One of the warriors agreed.

"I can still fight, just not as energetically as usual, unless you've got some painkillers. I swear that my bruises have bruises right now." Karl replied.

"Good thing that you can fight a ranged battle, then. Should we wake Dana up and get this started?" The man asked.

Dana didn't open her eyes as she answered. "I'm awake. What's our first activity?"

"This week is not as bad as last week. We want to see how the two of you work together to defend a spot in the middle of the warehouse against multiple attackers. But we will have to call Hawk back because there isn't enough terrain set up to sneak up with him hanging out in the rafters." One of the warriors explained as he began to equip a set of training armour.

The helmet had a face shield, and a neck protector, giving the attacking team full coverage as well as the shielding from their mages, so they shouldn't get hurt no matter what Karl and Dana did to them, but in the eyes of the attacking team, there wasn't much they were likely to do in that state.

This was an essential part of the first week's training, learning to function on limited sleep and while exhausted. It wasn't as severe as the military put the regular soldiers through, at least not in the physical sense, but the students were also younger, and the mental exhaustion was undoubtedly just as great.