The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 528

Chapter 528 Leave With Grace

There was no fancy sendoff after they finished breakfast, just a runner sent to the stables to get Thor hooked up to the wagon and staged for departure.

Thor was happy to help them with their work, even if they had done a lacklustre job of scrubbing his scales last night. They had at least scrubbed him down, but there was no enthusiasm and no extra attention to the itchy spots, even when he tried to point them out.

So, he was hooked up and ready when Karl arrived with the team, while the grooms pretended that they weren't intensely curious about the fact that his entire harness rig was made of silk rope.

Normally, the shoulder brace would be wooden, with hemp ropes attaching it to the cart, but Thor's harness was entirely silk, and included ties for a rider to be securely strapped in place.

Karl checked the cargo, and found that it appeared intact under the net as the others loaded themselves into the wagon.

Guards on the bipedal lizard mounts escorted them through the city streets, clearly not intending to let Karl stop and do business inside the city limits. That actually worked for everyone, as Karl had no intentions of staying in the area.

With a whole group of Overlords and seers here, Karl was looking forward to being out of their sphere of influence. The less likely they were to notice what he was doing, the safer he would be.

Nobody challenged them as they made their way out the gates and into the open farmland that surrounded the city, where the others began to relax a little. They weren't going to say anything to blow their cover, but at least that feeling of being suppressed was gone, and so was the feeling of being watched.

Inside the fortress, The Oracle, was sitting with a group of twenty Trouble Seers, staring at an image on the smooth surface of a pool of water in a silver pool.

"Are you sure that he's not going to be back, Oracle?" One of the seers whispered. "Yes, he is gone. I don't know what sort of threat he is, but my advice is that we don't follow his movements directly. If we interfere, it might encourage our soldiers to do something that triggers the danger.

I believe that the one known as Karl said it himself, and it is something that we should have been more mindful of in the past. It is possible for a prophecy to be self-fulfilling. The more people who know about the monster hidden inside that body, the more likely they are to start a chain of events that lead to their destruction." The Oracle sighed.

"Surely, the danger isn't that high? I sense threat from his position, but not higher than a military unit. We sensed nearly as much when those mages from the Wilds arrived." The Trouble Seer asked.

"That was thirty mages. This is one creature. I suspect that he isn't truly a Troll, but it is unlikely that he's a human either. It might be a doppelg?nger, or worse, an Echo."

The seers shuddered at the thought. Most of them had seen one of the Echoes when they looked into the distant past during their training. They were constructs created by the Gods to guide and shape societies, but they were terrifying on a level that no living being should be capable of.

Their mere existence was enough to put terror into the minds of those who could see the past.

"Should we not have one person observe him to make sure he really is leaving? He might be posing as a merchant, but that is no guarantee that he's not scouting for an invasion." One of the seers suggested.