The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 355

355 Brace For Impact

"Pikes up. Brace for impact." The section Commander ordered.

The warriors brought up their pikes, and Thor brought up his barrier over his team, including Morgana and the group under Colonel Wilkes, who were his team by default, as they were right next to him, and attached to the same unit.

The larger beasts were closer, as the smaller carnivores had chosen to stay behind the hyper-aggressive giant lizards and beasts, who naturally treated them as food.

Tessa activated the Holy Blessing on the pikes, in time with the other battle Clerics along the line. The metal heads glowed with golden light, prepared to cut through the thick hides of the attackers, but the monsters didn't care.

"Ranged attackers, begin." Karl raised his bow and fired [Chain Lightning] into the front ranks. The lightning arced between the attackers, and dozens of the smaller beasts went up in flames as the Commander Rank ability hit their Awakened Rank bodies.

The Hill Giants didn't care what they sent this way, they just herded everything, so there were many strong beasts, but also a horde of weaker ones that would slowly wear down the more powerful defenders once they reached the human lines.

The first wave of attackers fell easily to the combined attacks of the defenders, and most of the weaker beasts were already severely injured from Remi's Thunderstorm.

The damage from the rain wasn't extreme, but it was a Commander Rank skill, and against Awakened Rank monsters, even half a minute of exposure was enough to nearly cripple them.

Then, they had to pass through the area attacks of the other mages, many of whom had the same idea that Remi did, and spread their attacks over the largest possible area so that they injured everything before it made it to the line.

The air in the distance crackled with lightning, fire swirled along the ground, and razor sharp gusts of compressed winds tore through fur and scales.

Thor bugled his challenge to the closest of the giant lizards, who raised his head to chomp down on the Cerro's back. But that was where Tessa was sitting, and as Thor charged forward, she brought up her spear and stabbed upward through the roof of the beast's mouth to impale its brain and send holy light bursting out of its skull.

The enormous predator fell, and Thor crushed the ribs of another with his armoured tail while Tessa lashed out with her spear, and the pike line pushed the other attackers away from them.

Karl continued to fire, switching to [Flaming Body] for more effect on the Commander Rank beasts, who were starting to pile up against the spears, running over the bodies of the fallen first ranks.