The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 584

Chapter 584 Temple Trial

Karl steered himself awkwardly toward the ledge, slowly getting the hang of manoeuvring in free-fall with his adapted armour.

He could likely achieve the same effect with a cloak or cape if he tied it to his ankles, so he wanted to remember this skill for later.

As they approached the cliff, Karl could see that there was a cave at the back, but he could also see that there was something alive in there.

"There's something in there. I can see the aura of its soul." Karl informed Nacht as he steadied himself on his feet and refreshed his armour so it would spawn a more practical design.

Then he dimmed the light of [Flaming Body] so that it didn't draw the attention of whatever he had seen.

"You have the Soul Sight as well? How did you manage that?" Nacht asked.

"It's a benefit of being bonded with Hawk, who has evolved into a Ghostfire Thunderbird. I gain the sensory specialties of my beasts, but most of them are duplicated, or inferior to a version I already have.

But I have thermal vision, echolocation and soul sight to work with, which ironically makes it even more disorienting to be high in the air in the dark."

Nacht nodded towards the entrance to the cave. "Shall we? If we're in a trial, standing around out here isn't going to do us any good. But we might have an advantage on some of the others, as we found something living the moment that we landed."

He had a point. He had forgotten that he should be seeing anything living, if there was something alive in the trial, but Karl hadn't seen anything else living beneath them, only the ground and the mountains.

Nacht moved toward the cavern entrance, shifting into human form so he would fit within the confined space. The ceiling was over five metres tall, but in his adult dragon form, he was still far too large to fit within the available space.

Karl also ended the [Brutality] skill and let himself shrink back to his normal size, which suddenly felt very short compared to the height that he had gotten used to on his travels through the Newbon Empire.

"So you're not an exceptionally tall human. You just keep a skill active all the time to be taller. That's an odd choice." Nacht noted.

"It also increases my strength by fifty percent. When there is heavy lifting or fighting to be done, it is much better to have it in effect, but if we're headed down into the tunnels, it pays to be a bit shorter than average."

Nacht laughed. His own human form was quite large, but Karl's was roughly one hundred eighty centimetres tall. Taller than most women, but not particularly tall for a man. However, he was broad and muscular.

The tunnel was gently sloping and carefully carved, not a natural formation in the stone. Karl used [Silent Movement] to reduce noise to the point that echolocation was only a faint image, and he was relying almost exclusively on thermal imaging to navigate the darkness. Nacht didn't appear to be suffering from the low lighting situation at all, so Karl took the lead and followed the winding passage down into the mountain.

As they descended, Karl picked out patterns on the walls, and motioned for Nacht to stop.