The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 985: Scorpino Spawn

The battlefield was quickly clearing under the effect of Remiʼs bombardment, and Karl could feel the massive amount of mana that she was drawing flowing from her space, as energy from the Mental Formation Karl had built circulated to help balance the drain.

The energy flow was still much higher than what Karl could cover, but she wouldnʼt need to keep it up for long.

However, compared to how things were before the White Dragon had shown him the trick to improving the single dragon scale focal point into an actual array, it wasnʼt nearly as lopsided. Karlʼs mana regeneration was actually getting closer to being able to keep up with the sort of destruction that Remi could cause in a large battle.

Karl was a bit distracted with the mana flow issues, and he nearly missed one of the undead insects flying his way. Instinctively, he responded when it was metres away, launching himself upward, and punching with his empty hand.

With a disturbingly wet crunching noise, the creature simply shattered under his fist, and Karl hastily extended [Ghostfire] out around him to keep the aftermath from infecting the nearby soldiers.

[10/10 Good hit.] Cara laughed as the viscera splattered far beyond Karlʼs hasty barrier, and the soldiers cursed.

[Haha, very funny. Remi, can you put some healing totems next to me?]

Remi created the Totems, which cleansed the soldiers with the first pulse, but they were still filthy, and shocked by the mess that Karl had managed to make with a single barehanded strike.

”What sort of skill was that?” The archery team leader asked.

”A passive combo that I have. [Shatter] and [Crushing Blows]. They add damage to barehanded strikes and blunt weapons. It might be a bit too effective.” Karl replied in an apologetic tone.

The Dwarf took off his helmet to rub his temples. ”I swear, cat demons are allergic to common sense.”

Karl shrugged. Maybe they were. But he wasnʼt a cat demon.

Across the battlefield, the back row of monsters began to explode, and the Dwarves turned to give Karl suspicious looks.

”Hey, that time it wasnʼt me. Besides, those ones arenʼt close enough to splash on anyone, so no harm done.” Karl argued.

Incorporeal at the back of the battle, Rae laughed hysterically. [Blood Destruction] worked beautifully on these things.

Karl continued to fire arrows into the insectoid undead, but as he advanced in front of the rest of the archers, he noticed that they were retreating from him in a semicircle.

Now, he did have damaging area effects available, but not at that distance.

[I think you managed to scare the insanity out of the undead.] Thor joked as he plowed through their ranks with [Bulwark] in a wedge in front of him.

That might be an overstatement, but the undead were definitely retreating from Karl.

They were also losing numbers fast, and the army was pushing forward as Remi pulled back the effects of [Apocalypse].

Heavily wounded, the undead insects were being quickly overwhelmed, forcing the area spells to end. But in only minutes, the swarm was surrounded and the last remnants of the threat were being herded into the encirclement by Thor and Tessa with [Bulwark].

”Boss, I think you should send a team into that anomaly to see what it is. Sometimes they begin to destabilize once the spawn is gone.” Karl reminded the archer groupʼs leader, who had come to fight near him.

”Already on it. Weʼve sent four dungeon teams that way.” He explained.

Above them, Hawk glowed with power as he prepared to finish the battle with [Purgatory Flames]. He was behind in the kill count again, but he could even those odds quickly at the end of the battle.

The massive fireball slammed into the hapless group of undead, who nearly all turned to ash the instant the spell hit them.

All that was left was a small ring of insects around the outside, where they were fighting the team and the Army, who he didnʼt want to hit with the spell.

[Still a few hundred short. You waited too long, brother.] Remi calculated.

[Close enough.] Hawk replied, satisfied that he had come close.

These things werenʼt even edible, he was only barely interested in them. Fighting inedible enemies was boring when they werenʼt a water element creature.

”Everyone advance. Surround the anomaly.” The army unitʼs leader, a Totem Ranked beastkin Warrior, ordered as the battle ended.

Karlʼs group hung back to let them do their thing, but the Totem motioned for Karl to join him.

”Overlord Karl, itʼs a pleasure to meet you. I am Axel, leader of the 11th Narazir Regiment. I have reports from the teams that we sent in that the anomaly is empty, everything has been pulled out already.

However, they found traces of Bomgon agents, including spell circles created by a Totem Ranked Necromancer. If youʼre going to keep travelling the wilderness, you need to be careful.” He warned.

Karl shook the manʼs hand. ”Well met, General Axel. After the recent incidents in Banar, it was already clear that the Bomgon Army had spies in the region, but a Totem Ranked Necromancer this far inland is a bad omen.

Is there anything else around here that might have drawn them?”

The General shook his head. ”Unless you head east back to the road and follow it, there are no towns through the middle of the nation until you get nearly to the coast. There are a few small villages and isolated farms, but nothing large and permanent enough to mark on a regular map.

If you keep going northwest, youʼll run into the Seventh Narazir. Theyʼre a larger Regiment than we are, with a couple of thousand Dwarven Cavalry among their ranks. But after that, there is a whole lot of nothing to see.

However, the land can be unpredictable.

The Desert ends in a few days walk, near where the men of the Seventh Regiment are stationed. Then youʼve got grassland and Swamp ahead, depending on how close you get to the rivers.”

Karl nodded. ”Alright. Weʼve come here on behalf of the Black Dragon, to deal with some of the excess monsters that are wandering the continent. I donʼt think the terrain matters much, as long as we can find them and thin the numbers some.”

General Axel smiled. ”In that case, you definitely want to go find the Seventh Regiment. Theyʼre doing the same thing, while we hunt for new spawns to keep the numbers down closer to the cities. If the Seventh doesnʼt need help, then the Tenth Narazir should be doing the same somewhere to our west.”