The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 1002

Karl watched as the last of the Gnolls fell before the might of Rae, and the group gathered to discuss their tactics.

What worked, what didn't work well, and what they thought that they could have changed to make their fight more efficient. It was not a bad fight by any means, but the ladies were getting used to working as a team and not relying on Karl to take care of whatever was most troublesome.

"I think that if we spread the Golems a bit further apart, we will end up with breaches in the line. It would be better to have them stay close and push a bit deeper, so that the Greater Golems can fight without exposing the flanks." Ophelia suggested.

Dana nodded. "That sounds like a plan. We make a pretty good wrecking ball, but we really could use two more golems to fill in the rear."

Tessa shrugged. "Getting surrounded isn't the goal anyhow. We just need to keep moving so that they can't get too many behind us. Thor does have a tail weapon, so the back isn't fully exposed when we're in a cluster like that.

But when Lotus is on the ground doing her thing, we will have to move Ophelia to the back again."

Tian was confused by the conversation. [Why are they making plans like we're not here?]

[Because we're two Ranks higher than they are. The things that we'll want to be fighting are too strong for them to deal with. And the things they want to fight to help them grow are too weak for us to interfere without making it pointless for them.] Karl explained.

[Oh, that makes sense. Even Sister Rae is too strong to be picking on these Gnolls.]

Rae turned a glare at the tiny fox. Did he just call her weak?

Tian didn't see what he said wrong, or understand why she was giving him evil looks, so he just dismissed his concerns. The fight was over, and now they could go see more stuff.

"Should we return to the camp and see what they have for us next? Or do you want to just inform them that we finished all four tasks, and we're going to wander for a little bit and see what we can find?" Karl asked the group.

That was a good question. Taking missions was kind of rigid and boring, in Nachtia's mind. The monsters that were overpopulated weren't just the ones that were directly threatening the towns and the military outposts, so it would be better if they just attacked whatever there was too much of.

The dragon shrugged. "I think we should explore and fight. Hopefully, we can find some of the larger excess monster spawn packs and start really thinning out the numbers."

Nobody else had a problem with it, so Karl opened a portal back to the camp.

"I will hold this open while I inform them of what we're up to. Just give me five minutes."

He didn't actually need that long, as there was a scout standing only ten metres from the portal's opening.

"Hey, guard. Can you pass these to the General? We finished these four missions today, and now we're going to head inland to look for more groups that aren't on the list." Karl called.