The First Legendary Beast Master

Karl wasn’t sure what Cara meant by ’they leave the loot’ when she had apparently used an area disintegration effect on the boars. Logically, there would be nothing left of them at all.

But when Karl looked over the grass in front of him, he found that there were actually treasures left over.

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There were hundreds of gems, small items and bits of precious metals on the ground where the boars had been.

"What is all that?" Karl wondered out loud.

A squeaky voice behind them made a hopeful noise, then the Demon cleared his throat and began to talk.

"The Stone Crushers refine rocks and metals to precious materials in their stomachs. That makes them excellent hunting targets. You know, if you can actually kill them.

My team brought two Overlord Rank Warriors with us, but the intel was wrong. They said a small pack, and there are thousands of them here. We were overrun."

Hawk used a claw to open one of the boars in his space, and sure enough there were rough gems and metals, many of them strange alloys, as they weren’t finished converting yet.

The beasts started throwing anything that looked like good stuff into their spaces to be sorted later, or given to Ashbringer. He seemed like the sort of guy who would appreciate a small mountain of assorted ore.

Karl leaned down and picked up a pale blue ore lump at his feet, only slightly larger than a marble.

"Well, it’s better than nothing. But Cara, be nice to Brother Hawk and don’t disintegrate all his snacks."

Snacks that Hawk was now reconsidering. He didn’t know that they were full of stones when he was swallowing them whole.

Rae looked at Cara with new appreciation. Everyone knew that she got one advanced skill when she reached a new Rank, but that new version of [Disintegrate] was far too good.

Fortunately for Hawk’s boar pile, Cara restrained herself with her next round of attacks, using [Void Blast] to blow up the heads, which weren’t all that tasty anyhow.

Karl had almost forgotten about the Demon behind him when he noticed that the adventurer was picking up the loose ore and partially formed gems that the beasts had passed over when they cleaned the battlefield behind them.

If it didn’t all match, or give off a powerful magical feeling, they just ignored it. But their guest had just lost his whole team and their gear, and he wasn’t ashamed to load up his inventory with ore to try to at least make up for his monetary losses.

Karl switched his attacks to use [Void Blast] layered over [Rend], and found that it cut through the defensive barriers of the boars with much less effort. That skill really was ridiculously powerful, and there wasn’t any elemental resistance to it the way that Earth Barriers were strong against fire and lightning.

The boars didn’t understand what had happened to the rest of the pack, as they had simply vanished.

So, they charged at Karl again as soon as they had recovered. Only to be met with arcs of energy that tore through their barriers, and an advancing swamp that mired their legs and corroded their skin.

The matching bracers on all the ladies, well, all of them whose gear was visible in their combat form, were glowing with power as they drew mana to continue the assault.

That {Bracer of Fated Encounters} was putting in work, with both Dana and Tessa alternating casts between their own mana and the bracers, so that both would have time regenerate between uses.

It was a brilliant idea.

Not one that Karl actually needed. With the mana regeneration he got shared from the team, he struggled to even use as much as he recovered. The limiting factor was his stamina, not his mana.

Even now that they were beginning to close the trap around the herd of Pygmy Stone Crushers, his mana was still nearly full.

Maybe he should start going a bit harder and not just herding the beasts into a tighter cluster.

No, it was a good working experience for the Golems and the Bodyguards. They were creating a moving wall of attacks, pushing the Stone Crushers back toward the flames.

Except for the Greater Golem, who was running ahead, happily shaking them by their necks and tossing them in the air for Cara to vaporize the skull.

For a giant Dragon Hound, it was quite reminiscent of a young Thor. More interested in playing than anything else. Now, Thor was the responsible one, holding position with Tessa.

[There are more people coming. I think we caused a scene.] Hawk informed them from his artillery position in the sky.

[Remi, you can let the storm end once the current coverage area is clear.] Karl decided.

[That’s almost all of them. Are we leaving something for the locals?] She asked.

[As long as it’s the local guard and not some poachers. If they’re trying to cause trouble, we will just reset the trap with them inside as well.]

Rae chuckled, and activated [Night Haunter] to become incorporeal. If these new arrivals wanted to play, she would happily play with them.

Karl waited patiently as the newcomers advanced, and found that it was not a group of locals, or town guards from Qidrekh. It was a unit from the First Leg Regiment, fifty Overlords strong.

"Gentlemen, we weren’t expecting to see you here. Did you need supplies?" Karl called, with a gesture toward the rest of the Stone Crushers.

"How are your casualties? We have a shaman who can resurrect." The flag bearer of the unit called back.

"Zero casualties on our team, but we have a survivor of another group with us, and they were overrun."

The unit came to a stop in front of Karl, and the man hopped down from his two legged mount. It almost looked like the ones they used in Newbon, but somehow more demonic and serpentine.

"A member of their team found us as well. He asked that we rescue his friends. You said that you have one?"

Karl gestured to the Demon behind him, who was trying to hide behind Lotus.

A pointless effort. He would have done better trying to hide behind Dana, but they were both smaller than he was.

Dana pushed him forward, and the Flag Bearer laughed.

"Oh, isn’t this a prize. The survivor is a deserter?"

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