The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1497 Hard To Catch

Karl laughed as the two combatants clashed over and over, with the Demon trying to catch Cara so that she would stop escaping from his axe strikes.

He couldnʼt understand how she kept managing it.

Part of it was that Cara was activating [Haste] from Karlʼs repertoire of Class Skills. But most of it was just that the badger knew how to [Teleport] but only used it a few centimetres at a time, so everyone though that she was simply dodging attacks.

[Itʼs really hard to make him bleed.] Cara complained.

[Heʼs a Wrath Demon. Of course, itʼs difficult to make him bleed. You should have targeted his upper arm, where thereʼs no armour. You could have landed a solid hit.]

The two went at it for a while, with the Combat Instructor holding back his power level a little to test Caraʼs skills and not just her pure power level. Heʼd already caught on to her tricks, and he was adjusting his attacks for the most likely directions that she would evade, which was causing Cara to take more hits, though she had managed to land a few of her own.

Then, a slight shift in weight as the Demon feinted to the right tricked Cara, and she moved to parry the attack, only to be caught in a massive hand.

Her arms were pinned at her side, and she wriggled furiously, then licked his hand, which made the Combat Instructor laugh.

”Fine, you win.” She admitted.

”You are a most excellent opponent. If I hadnʼt spent centuries training students, you likely would have managed to frustrate me to death.”

”Cara.”

”Amaldor.”

The crowd cheered and jeered as they settled their wagers, and a few more children came out to see what was going on. They had heard from others that there was a girl challenging the Combat Instructor, and they wanted to know who was that brave.

But they didnʼt know this one. She was clearly a young Immortal, years from adulthood. But she was new, and her power level was much higher than any of theirs.

[Here we go, Cara is going to cause chaos with the school children.] Remi laughed as the kids waited nearby for the Instructor to be finished talking to Cara.

Jin, the Divine Fire Dragon who was the head of Security Force training, came over to pat Amaldor on the shoulder.

”Well, friend. It looks like weʼve both met a new conundrum.”

Amaldor nodded. ”Conundrum indeed. Sheʼs certainly of the age to be with the other students. But I wouldnʼt dare ask the teachers to deal with that. On the other hand, it might be against Clan rules to allow a child to remain uneducated within the Clan compound.”

”And while sheʼs here, the Security Force will have to be extra alert for pranks, traps and surprise events.” Jin agreed.

Hawk transformed into a Demon Crow, using [Unholy Beast Transformation], which allowed him to sit on Karlʼs shoulder to watch the show in person, instead of from his space.

”Thereʼs another one? Where are the Immortal Beasts coming from?” Jin complained.

”Sorry, theyʼre my bonded partners. Jin, meet Hawk, the Dark Flame Phoenix. His full form was inconvenient for spectating, so he reduced it with a transformation.”

”Will there be more?”

Karl smiled. ”Oh, there are more. Theyʼre just adjusting to the new environment at the moment and not ready to socialize. Some of them arenʼt a major concern for others, but I will ask the predatory ones to behave.”

That also wasnʼt horribly comforting.

”Alright, as a resident of the Clan, I will trust your judgment, and ask that you take responsibility for keeping your beasts under control.

If thatʼs even possible.”

Jin stared pointedly at Cara, who laughed and brought out a cupcake for him.

”Uh, thanks? Is it custom where you come from to have dessert after breakfast?”

Cara just laughed. ”No, I simply like cupcakes.”

Jin juggled the cupcake in his hand for a second as the temperature balanced, and Nyan frowned. She had nearly panicked when Cara handed her those

strange snacks, but the Dragon figured it out right away.

What she didnʼt know was that the trick of freezing the top was actually common with Green Dragons, who got impatient for their dessert to be ready. So, he had experienced it many times before.

They also liked making them with hot liquid chocolate in the middle and ice cream on top.

Keeping them in your Inventory kept them in the same state you received them, so you still had to let them cool before eating if you didnʼt want to use a

plate and cutlery.

”Can you show me that escape technique?” One of the boys asked Cara,

ignoring the look that Amaldor was giving him.

”Oh, sure. The basics are actually very simple. Do you have a training weapon? I

have a good stick I can use as a sword to demonstrate.”

Cara took out a police baton, and the student gave her a strange look. That was a Mythic Rank stun baton. In what world did it count as ʼa good stick for demonstrations”?

Amaldor smiled. Perhaps her brand of chaos might make his life easier. The kids would learn fast if she started to shock them when they failed. The headmaster wouldnʼt let him do that.

”Alright, you attack me and I will show you the skill a bit slower than I did against the big boss, and then you can try.” Cara explained.

The boy nodded eagerly, and took a swing at her with a blunted training sword.

Cara swayed, lifted one foot to step in the air, and then kicked the other to the side, in what looked like a graceful ballet dance, if her hands werenʼt remaining in a combat ready stance.

She had shifted nearly a metre to the side, but she was using the ability of an

Immortal to fly to move her body. The movement of her legs was only to get her body out of the way of the blade, it wasnʼt part of the movement skill.

It also wasnʼt how she had done it during the last fight at all, she was tricking the boy into dancing in combat.