The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 290

Chapter 290 Chapter 290

Karl looked up the mountain. "There aren't many patrols, so let's keep going, with Remi's blizzard covering for us, it will be difficult to tell when we came through. Speed is our friend until we reach the caldera."

They kept moving, using the blowing snow as cover, both for their tracks, and to keep them from being noticed. It seemed to be working well enough, and they made it most of the way up the mountain without being intercepted again, but the closer they got to the top, the stronger the feeling that there was something seriously wrong grew.

[Rae, is there any sign that we're being tricked by an illusion?] Karl asked.

[No, it all looks good, not like that strange situation underground. This place just feels wrong, like something bad is about to happen to us, but I can't see anything that could cause us problems.] She insisted.

Then she paused. [Whatever is wrong, it is here.]

Remi stared out of her space at the same time. [Stop, there is something here.]

Karl signalled for everyone to pause. The beasts had senses they didn't, and a few moments to understand what they were sensing wouldn't hurt anything.

Karl closed his eyes, focusing on his mental space, the one he used for mediation, in hope that he would gain some understanding from the void.

As he focused on nothingness, he felt something staring back at him. The feeling made his skin crawl, as the sensation of attention grew.

They weren't joking, something was?really wrong with this place.

Then, the ground began to shake under their feet, and the Thermal Vision that Karl only paid minimal attention to during the day began to show him hot spots everywhere on the hillside, and even more potently above them.

"Oh shit. The volcano is about to erupt." He realized.

"U-turn, it's time to leave." Lotus announced, pointing back.

Ophelia was momentarily frozen, but when Thor began to turn around and run, she joined the group.

The first spout of hot gas vented only a few metres from their path as they ran, and the rumbling of the volcano got worse.

Thor and Tessa were glowing with golden Holy Light, which was unusual, as they would normally spread the effect to everyone. But, as most of the group was on Thor's back, it might be the best way to protect them from venting gas from below. Rae was doing a better job of dodging the vents, as she could see them coming, but Thor could feel the rumbling in the ground before they erupted, and he wove through the trees as he ran down the hill, struggling not to topple over forward.

Like a Warbear, with his build he was a bit top-heavy, and the steep slopes were hazardous for him when running downhill.

The top of the mountain exploded in a shower of rock and fire, firing high into the sky. That almost certainly spelled the end of one of the statues, but this time they weren't lucky enough to have recovered it.

A sense of power drew Karl's attention behind them, and what he found was the horror of every Frost Giant in the world.

There was a massive mottled red dragon bursting free of the volcano, flying easily among the explosion of magma and stone.

"Lotus, look back. What is that?" Karl shouted over the roar of the volcano.

She only looked for a split second, then shuddered and looked forward.

"That is a Magma Dragon, a form of Chromatic Dragon. But I don't think they're supposed to get that big. Even an Ancient Forest Dragon doesn't have a wingspan that large." She shouted back.

"Do you think it might be on our side? It looks pretty mad at the Frost Giants." Dana asked.