The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1687 Yewan Knew

The newly arrived pair of Immortals smiled, and one of them took out a flag to plant in the ground, though it wasnʼt a proper [War Banner].

”{Oh, I get it now. This is why I was getting the tingles.}” Yewan realized.

Some people were definitely going to die today.

Karl ordered the Undead to turn outward, smashing their way through the barrier and out into the larger battle between the Gralpedrin Templars and the New Home Merchant Clan.

The Clan members didnʼt seem to realize that a Guild war had been declared, but the moment that the barrier fell, [Eternal Lightning] and Karlʼs full suite of buffs, including [Rampage] and [Limited Invulnerability] spread over the entire fighting force.

That confused quite a few of them, who had been on the losing side of the fight only moments ago.

But now, their skills did massive amounts of damage, and strikes that used to seriously injure them barely left a scratch. It was an absolute advantage in such a large-scale battle.

Then, the rest of the beasts and the Elders from the Tiny World arrived behind Karl.

”We should let you go out alone more often.” Rae greeted him.

Dana sighed. ”What happened? And who is this?”

”They tried to steal my baby dragon.”

She turned to Yewan, and the little dragon shrugged.

He didnʼt know why, either. Surely, they didnʼt think that they had more to offer than the Karl did, did they? That was just silly talk, unbecoming of someone of their power.

The Immortal spun his sword, and Karl moved away from the group to take up the challenge, though it wasnʼt official.

At least, not yet.

”You think that you can hold up against an Elder Immortal, whelp? I will shut down your arrogance right now.”

Claws met steel as the two clashed, and the Elder retreated, his arm bleeding. Wisps of soul energy were being drawn from him to the Haint Claw as Karl circled, looking for an opening.

”Damnable Demons, always using some sort of prohibited weapons.”

Cara frowned as her attempt to [Nullify] the manʼs next attack failed, and the Elderʼs speed multiplied, letting him attack ten times faster than he had been moving before. Even Oathbreaker was impressed with that skill, and Karl was completely outmatched by the speed.

However, Karl did not have to rely on speed.

[Chaos Blast] exploded outward from his body, torn open by the Elderʼs blade, but searing his skin in return.

Every attack caused an increasing stream of soul to be siphoned from the attacker, while Karl desperately tried to fend off enough of the attack skills that he didnʼt take any major damage.

The battle would change quickly, and Rae was already fighting elsewhere, raising an army of [Blood Golems] from the corpses she created using [Blood Destruction]. Every death in the enemy army was another fighter for their side, and [Rampage] was continually stacking up damage buffs for the entire Clan. As he siphoned the soul energy from the Immortal, a faint realization formed in Karlʼs mind.

He knew what a Void Immortal should be now, and the difference between that and an Ascended Immortal. He still had a long way to go before he could make the transition, but he no longer had any doubt that he would be able to ascend the moment that he had fully transformed his Immortal Spirit.

A fine gift from an unexpected opponent.

The air shook as the sky was torn apart by mighty skills, greater even than the [Apocalypse] hellfire that Hawk had conjured. The stalls of the market were shattered, and the boats in the harbour either damaged or sunk by the force. The Clan Leaders had joined the battle.

With a pair of Supreme Ranked combatants fighting overhead, suddenly the death toll on the surface looked somewhat benign. If the wards on the Clan didnʼt hold, everything here would be destroyed in only a few strikes.

Noncombatants and children were running for shelter, trying to get underground to the shelters before something happened to the buildings that they were in. But everyone else who could fight was in the streets, even some of the kids who were Immortal in power level but not finished school yet. A true war had come to the Clan Compound, and that only had one outcome.

You either won, or your Clan ceased to exist.

Behind Karl, Danaʼs army of Golems was holding a beachhead in the battlefield, where the wounded could come to recover, as Tian and Leo had area healing abilities active.

Karl lashed out with [Chaos Vortex], and a crater formed in the Elderʼs chest, before slowly healing over.

His speed increase was fading as the soul siphon exhausted him, and he couldnʼt parry all of Karlʼs attacks anymore. First, it was the Chaos Vortex, then a Claw caught him across the chest.

This was wrong, all wrong.

He could tell that Karl was still in the early Void Immortal stage, while he was very nearly a Peak Immortal.

But he was being outmatched, and he couldnʼt understand why.

The New Home Merchant Clan had no such power. If they had the power to buff combatants to this level, the entire continent would have known. So, what

had gone wrong?

All over the battlefield, more combatants were arriving.

The members of the Gralpedrin Templars had all seen the notice that they were

at war, and their compound in the city of Gralpedrin, thousands of kilometres

away, was emptying as well.

Though the battle was at the New Home Clanʼs territory, if the Templars lost the battle, New Home would come to wipe out the remnants of the Templars

and loot their city.

That was just how it was with wars in the Immortal World.

Unnoticed by either side, a blockade of anti portal spells and Immortals had formed halfway between New Home and Condim, exempting only the portals opened from Gralpedrin.

The Almeixei Sect had intervened, and declared that the War would not draw anyoneʼs allies into the fray.

They were ostensibly allied with both sides, and had no idea what had started the battle. But if the entire region mobilized, they would be forced to pick a side in this battle that they didnʼt wish to see started in the first place.

And that meant losing members that they didnʼt need to lose. While the blockade caused many protests from the other allies, they were halfhearted. The Templars had gone to attack New Home, for whatever reason. Other than to uphold their contracts as allied forces, it didnʼt involve the other Sects and Clans.