The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 458

Chapter 458 Teaching Skills

The Clerics went inside while Karl taught the children, leaving only a few junior Priestesses with him, as they were instinctively drawn to Thor, who was currently napping in the sun.

So, when Karl went from hands-on training the young beasts to writing, nobody in charge noticed.

[This will be great. I'm sure I can use Rend.] Cara was laughing as Karl finished the second copy of the book.

He had been careful to make sure the kids were not paying attention as he worked, and they had thought he was just doing paperwork, so they hadn't realized that he was doing anything special.

Karl passed the book into her space, and the book vanished as soon as the Void Badger touched it.

"Alright, does everyone understand the rules to the Thor challenge? You have to extend your barrier in front of yourself and charge at your training partner. Whoever's shield fails first loses. Then the winners challenge each other. The last one standing gets this Skill Book." Karl explained.

This was likely a terrible idea, giving new skills to citizens of a hostile nation. But they were baby clerics in training, and they were all beasts or beastkin with claws. They should be able to use Rend, or they could trade it with the others for something they needed.

Most beasts couldn't innately use it, as they didn't hunt like Hawk did. Instead, they would have [Claw] or [Shred], sometimes [Slash].

The Priestesses looked up when they heard the first collision, but the kids looked like they were playing, so they went back to sunning themselves with Thor.

The Acolytes were really invested in the game, running full speed at each other, not caring that most of the effect was going to be from the two shields interacting with each other. If they could hit hard enough that their target lost their footing, they would also lose focus on the barrier, and most of them had only just learned to expand it, so they would lose.

After a few minutes, the noise drew the elder clerics back outside. They paused for a moment as they saw what looked like the kids roughhousing, but the organization showed that it was some sort of unorthodox training exercise.

There were only four left. The young Gryphon, a half dragon, the Fire Basilisk and a Felian who had learned an earth shield skill.

They were all under six years old, and all Awakened, so the contest was a hard fought one, but they were all exhausted, and they were barely stumbling towards each other when the High Priests came back out.

They weren't known to push themselves this hard in training without a reason, so the Elders stopped to watch as the Felian lost to the Gryphon, and the half dragon continually clashed with the Fire Basilisk until he actually passed out from exhaustion.

Once they were out, Remi doused them with a healing splash and Thor put Eternal Lightning over them to help recover their energy, but the latest few defeated acolytes would still be in no shape to watch the finals.

Half Dragon and Gryphon squared off and flapped their wings, crashing barriers together at a remarkable speed that made the clerics flinch.

Someone could be seriously injured with this game, and they would have to ban it before the kids tried it unsupervised and someone broke their neck.

Four times they collided and flew apart, then on the fifth, they collided with a shattering of shields, and crashed shoulders together.

"That's a draw. Congratulations to our two winners. Now, I only have one book for you, but I think that I can come up with another prize."

[Give them a stone.] Thor suggested. He was very pleased with the game, enough that he was willing to part with one of his precious Holy Stones. _{freeweɓnovel.cøm}

"Alright, I have two rewards. Do you know the game of rock, paper, scissors?" Karl asked.

The two laughed, and the half dragon stood up straighter, smirking at the Gryphon, who was sitting on its haunches, so its clawed front feet were free to play the game.

"1, 2, 3, GO"

"1, 2, 3, GO Ha, I win. Scissors beat paper." The Half Dragon cheered.