The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 73

Chapter 73 Annoyed Rita

Sergeant Rita led Karl to the morning training, where there was a new face waiting for them. Alice, the mage who had been in the room for Karl's treatments yesterday, was sitting in a chair by the door, and waved happily as Karl walked in.

Rita frowned as she realized who the woman was, then turned away, as if by ignoring her, the woman would go away. But Alice didn't make any move to get up, she just sat by the door as Karl took his position and called Hawk out. _{ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom}

"Goddess, what did you do to Hawk? He looks like he wants to eat us." One of the mages gasped.

"It's not a big deal, a treatment just made him grow to a giant size. He's only a little stronger than he was." Karl replied.

While that was reassuring, the fact that there was a giant monster in the sky above them was enough to intimidate all the students at least a little bit. It was an instinctive reaction to a large flying predator that could possibly carry away a full-grown person.

It wasn't likely, his actual body was only a little over a metre long, but with the wide wings and long tail feathers, he looked much more imposing in flight.

Their first few spells were a bit hesitant, but once they realized that Hawk was blocking them the same as always, they began to get back into the swing of things, and worked to overcome his increased number of attacks, which were travelling at a higher speed today than they remembered.

The mental improvements that both Karl and Hawk had gained were helping with both the targeting speed and the ability to rapidly form and send the Rend attacks at the target.

Karl heard Rita's voice as she talked to Alice and split a bit of his attention from the attacks.

"Don't you think this is a bit too easy? I mean, they're not even attacking the defenders, just the targets near them." Alice was asking.

"It is the safest way. We can't afford the sort of fatal incident that happened a few years ago. Even if you put a barrier on them, there is still too much of a risk." Rita replied.

"They're not going to break my barrier, and it would be better for the two of them if they had to actually avoid and block attacks, instead of this bodyguard scenario where the attackers are only concerned with the target behind them." Alice replied.

"Are you the tutor, or am I?"

Rita was definitely mad now, and Karl was tempted to continue listening as they lowered their voices to argue, but that would take too much of his attention from the task at hand.

The class paused at the half hour mark for their usual five-minute breather, and Karl grabbed a water bottle for himself and Hawk, squeezing it to spray water into the open mouth of the oversized bird, since he couldn't easily drink out of a bowl without making a mess.