The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 299

Chapter 299 They Ran Away

What Hawk found in the Frost Giant city was not at all what anyone had been expecting. The city itself was nearly demolished, with a large breach in the wall that faced the Ash Wastes near the volcano.

He was not the first one there, the Elementals had beat him to it, and from the look of it, they had either taken the city or done enough damage to make the civilian population retreat. There was still a sizeable military contingent nearby, so the Elementals might not have won the battle, but the city was demolished anyhow.

That began a search for the summoning spot. If he could find that, they could smash it and stop the reinforcements entirely. There was nobody on this team who wanted to leave more than Hawk did, and that included Remi, who couldn't survive the cold for long in her current state.

The logical place for him to start was where the remaining Giants were. If they were still being summoned, the stones had to be there.

But there was no big stone, no Giants standing in a circle to cast a ritual spell, just a bunch of weak Frost Giants standing in rows.

[Hey, these Frost Giants are strange. They're not identical to each other.] Hawk informed Karl.

[Of course they're not. There is a whole city full of them. How is the military situation there?] Karl replied.

[The city is empty and most of the buildings are smashed and burned. All that is left are a few Awakened and Ascended Giants standing around outside, but they're the ones who aren't identical.] Hawk explained.

[Do you see the path where the other Frost Giants left? They must have sent the ones who can't fight, the very young and the elderly, out of the city when things got bad.] Karl asked.

[Yes, back further into their lands. Lots of them went that way, too many to tell by footprints.]

[And they're gone over the horizon already, even from your altitude?] Karl confirmed.

[Long gone. Not even traces left, except the stomping that broke all the little bushes and flattened the snow.]

[That is excellent news. If we can find where they were summoning from, we might be able to gain another statue.]

Hawk snorted in annoyance. [I am looking. It's not by the soldiers, and it's not in the fields near the city, but there aren't any more Frost Giants.]

[Well, there is a chance they took it with them when they left. But we will head there tomorrow and clear the area if there is a small enough group left for us to fight.]

[That sounds good. There can't be more than three hundred left, but they're almost all Awakened, and they don't even have the good weapons with them.] Hawk agreed.

Now, Karl just needed to sell the idea to the others, who would naturally be very wary of approaching a Frost Giant city, even if it looked abandoned.

They might not have taken their slave species, who would have been ordered to defend what was left, and whatever took the city would not be happy to see random humans either, so no matter what they ran into, it was likely to end badly for them.

Karl didn't realize that everyone was watching him so intently until he turned to talk to them, with the intent to sell them the plan to go check the Frost Giant city.

"Well, out with it. I can tell that it's a bad plan already, but we might need to do it." Bob insisted.

"The Frost Giants have abandoned their city after it was attacked and mostly razed to the ground. That is why the number of attackers dropped today, they were too busy fighting to send anyone to the front lines.

However, there is still an Awakened Rank garrison of Giants there, plus any slave species or possible attackers who might still be in the city.