The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 1011

"Hawk, can you head up and go see what is around us?" Karl requested.

They were going to need some information, now that there was a good chance that even the terrain had changed.

[Things are the same, but not. There is still a hill in the same spot, but it's smaller. Then all the low areas are swamps, not desert. Oh, there are Remi people here, too.

In a village, I mean.

I don't see any wandering monsters, just some food. But some of the food has people watching it. I don't see farm houses, though.

Oh, if we go way to the northwest, I can see an anomaly. Maybe eighty kilometres?] Hawk narrated.

"Hawk says there is an anomaly in the distance, but there are Naga villages closer to us, and the low ground is now a swamp, while the high ground is grassland." Karl explained.

The others nodded, and Remi slid over to climb up Karl and stare in his face.

{We're going to visit the Naga, right? I haven't gotten to meet a whole village of my people yet.} She pleaded.

"It's only a few kilometres. I don't see why we can't go visit on our way."

Remi cheered as she launched herself off Karl and transformed back into her Naga form. Then she began changing her outfit and her jewellery, intending to look her best when she reached the village.

Suddenly, Cara paused, then began to clap. [Oh, this will be fun, I just know it.]

[Did your foresight show you something in the near future?] Karl asked.

[Yep, from today.] Cara agreed, but did not elaborate.

The ladies climbed onto Thor for the trip, while Cara nudged Karl's leg.

[Shrink me, so I can sit on your shoulder.] She demanded.

Unlike Remi, who had understood immediately how to use Thor's new skill, none of the others had gotten the hang of the ability so easily.

Karl made her the size of a house cat, and the badger happily settled on his shoulder for the jog.

It was only a few kilometres to the village, a trip that Karl and Thor could make in under ten minutes. But when they got to the edge of the swamp surrounding the village, Remi insisted on getting down to lead them in.

{Thor, please lower the barriers. They will think it's rude if we don't let the swamp touch us.} She explained.

Thor and Karl both lowered their defensive barriers, and then Remi summoned her bodyguards and led them through the swamp, with Rae at her side in spider form.

"The Naga are going to think that we're all lunatics." Nachtia chuckled as she looked over the odd procession.

Dana snorted with restrained laughter. "I would be more concerned that they might be right."