Once the reports were finished, the Spellblade Clan gathered them and put them into a folder to turn over to the regional Command Group.
"Alright, that is done. What time do you have to be on the line?" The head of the Spellblades asked.
"We're on our day off today. We just decided to come relax around the others, so we didn't have as far to go if there was an alarm. Our sleeping spot is outside the main camp by a few dozen metres." Karl explained.
The Spellblade nodded, and Karl heard his armour shift under his robes. "Did you have any connection to the Divine Beast Nation? I wouldn't be shocked if they had taken some interest in an Elite with your particular skills." He asked.
Karl shook his head. "I've never been out that way. Two of my beasts came from down south in the Wilds, though." "Now that is interesting. What made you choose to go south for beasts, instead of trying to appeal to the Divine Beast Nation for fast power? They might have been able to get you a cub of a powerful Divine Beast."
Karl shook his head. "Bonding a beast above my Rank won't work well. If I had gone there at the start, and gotten a beast like Remi, who was born Ascended when I was Common Grade, it might have killed us both. One Rank ahead of my own growth should be fine at this point, but two or three Ranks would be suicide. If I went there now, and they were to present a beast that is born Royal or Monarch Rank, I might be alright for a bit, but I don't know if I could adapt fast enough for their growth rate.
But more importantly, I would owe the Divine Beasts a favour. The Bureau of Elite Development took me south, and I believe that we've mostly squared up on debts these days."
The Spellblade almost choked when Karl finished speaking. "A beast born at the Royal Rank? If that's your goal, you must be expecting your class to carry you to the peak of Overlord along with them. But even most of the great Dragons aren't born above Commander Rank, they grow into their power over an extended time." The mage laughed.
Karl shrugged. "A man can dream.
But if you don't mind, I have a question for you as well. When did you get here? I don't recall there being any Spellblades in the Academy Camp during the days before the battle."
The red robed leader chuckled. "And officially, we weren't here at all. We arrived during the fight, after Military Intelligence gave us the location of our targets. We didn't know that they had been forcibly advanced, though. That was an unpleasant surprise.
But all is well that ends well. They were eliminated, and by tomorrow we will be off on another mission."
"So, Military Intelligence knew that they were here?" Morgana asked quietly.
"For nearly two hours. They were sighted by a spy drone at high altitude.
If they had been a bit more discrete, we would have only suspected, but they didn't even bother to take off the Church's defensive warded tabards, so the drone spotted them right away.
Bunch of idiots."
Karl looked down at the stack of papers. "Wait, shouldn't we edit those? Because if that was ten Royal Rank Hill Giant Clerics, they would probably still be beating our faces for sport. Ten forcibly advanced humans doesn't really measure up to the same number of well-trained Hill Giants."
The Spellblade shook his head. "No, it's important that the number be correct because they are looking for it for verification of mission completion. That's how they will know that we actually eliminated them all. freewēbnoveℓ.com
And I do hope that was all of them because if they had time to stabilize and learn some of the special combat techniques of the Titan Gods, they would have been much more difficult to fight."
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