The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 910: Excess Energy

Karl gave the demon an amused smile. ”Oh, I am already on it. They might have created twenty portals, but we have a Cara.”

Cara looked up from beating a skeletonʼs face in with its own shield when she sensed her name being mentioned.

[Is it time to close the portals now?] She asked.

[Yeah, thereʼs nothing there. Not even loot.]

Those were magic words, and the first three portals were closed within a second of each other. That served as a signal to the mages of the two units, and they began taking down the rest of the portals, while Karl [Nullified] the two closest to himself, then resummoned the Lamia pair, so they didnʼt accidentally bring a curse back with them.

He might not know what a Totem Ranked Necromancer was capable of, but a lingering curse didnʼt seem unrealistic. In fact, he wouldnʼt be surprised if they spent weeks cleaning the lingering curses and unholy magic from this battlefield, even with Delilah, Tessa and Lotus working together.

{Leave one portal. It is feeding the Undead. If we close them all, we leave a reserve of power for the Necromancers to draw on.} Delilah shouted as Cara was about to close the last of the portals.

The Void Badger was starting to like this dragon. She knew what was important. You didnʼt just defeat the enemy, you had to remember to troll them and extract maximum amusement value before you finished them.

Delilah would have been somewhat horrified to know that was how the Badger thought of her. The decision that she made was purely strategic, with the larger nationwide war in mind. The psychological effect of having drained their reserve of mana wasnʼt even a consideration when the act was already a strategic necessity.

Now that there was only one portal open, Karl could clearly feel the flow of power from it to the undead army, as well as to the area over the battlefield, where it lingered like a miasma, except for four distinct areas.

Over the village, where Lotus was set up as a healing tree to provide treatment for the injured.

Over Thor and Tessa, who were wielding Holy Magic like a rampaging force of divine justice.

Under Priestess Delilah as she passed above the battlefield.

And finally, around Karl, who still had [Consecrated Ground] active.

But the way that they power was building, if they didnʼt spread this effect, there could be real issues as it began to corrupt the soldiers.

There might be something that they could do, Karl thought.

{Hey Tessa, take Thor and your group to the last portal. Your Holy Magic auras and spells should help cleanse the miasma that is coming in with the Unholy Power. Even just keeping [Consecrated Ground] cast over the portal area should be fine.} Karl messaged the War Cleric.

They were the closest to the final location, other than Cara, who wasnʼt capable of casting the spell that they needed this time.

Standing on Thorʼs back, Tessa didnʼt bother trying to move her group, which currently included both Tessa and Dana.

Instead, she began drawing a huge magical circle in the sky of glowing red power. Her new spear was shining golden with Holy Light, and then Tessa pointed at the portal, and the whole spell moved over to centre on the portal.

Glowing golden light covered the area, and the flow of Unholy Power began to mellow as the miasma dissipated.

Karl couldnʼt be sure what sort of purification spell had been cast over the portal, but it clearly hadnʼt stopped the flow of power. It only removed the curse from it, which was perfect.

Not in the minds of most of the soldiers, who had realized that the mana was empowering the Skeleton Knights to keep them at Overlord Rank. But in the larger strategic sense, it was a victory.

Karl used [Gravity Slam] to knock down a section of the Skeletal Knights, then bulldozed them with [Bulwark], copying Thorʼs tactics to push them into a tighter formation, where more would be hit with every spell, and fewer soldiers would be needed to contain the now separated section of the undead Horde.

The wall only lasted a few seconds before the undead hacked it apart, but that was long enough to rearrange them for the soldiers.

Overhead, Hawk was glowing with an immense amount of ghostly green flame, a second sun in the sky, too bright to look at as he prepared.

For something.

[What are you planning, buddy?] Karl asked, as Hawkʼs thoughts were silent in his mind.

If they had to wrestle an undead Thunderbird to the ground and cleanse, then resurrect him, Karl would not be happy.

But Hawkʼs link to Karl was perfectly intact, whatever he was doing.

A massive fireball launched from the sky, causing the demons to cuss and run from the target zone, while the undead froze in place, staring up at their impending doom.

{Skill Master 5 Activation} [Fireball] has evolved to the Epic Grade skill [Purgatory Flames]

[Purgatory Flames] launches a maximum 20m x User Rank fireball at the target. Damage is dependant upon the userʼs current mana pool. Depletes all remaining mana on use. Deals double damage to spiritual beings, undead and water element beings.

All the bonded partners saw the message, and Remi had some serious questions.

[How exactly does purgatory flame relate to extra damage against water element? Itʼs a soul-based attack that purges undead.] She asked, while Hawk preened in pride.

[Thatʼs why itʼs Epic.] He insisted.

[Thatʼs not how logic works. Karl, Hawk is picking on me again.] Remi pouted.

Karl laughed to himself at their bickering. [Did you not just learn a skill that creates a raging river anywhere you happen to be standing? I think a Ghostfire fireball that targets water is only fair.]

Purely out of spite, Remi created a [Naga Swamp] under the nearest group of skeletons, who promptly sank in the mud, except for the first rank, which was fighting the Demons.