The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 834

Flying straight towards the goal, Hawk spotted the herd only twenty minutes into his flight. But they weren’t alone. Some impertinent Demons were already there.

Stealing his boar meat.

[It’s only yours if you got there first and killed it. Let them have their hunt, there is plenty left for us.] Karl reminded the easily distracted bird.

Hawk circled to the ground at the eastern edge of the herd, and let everyone down as all of the summons were brought out.

But he wasn’t the first to act. That was Rae.

Suddenly, one of the boars began to spasm and twitch, then it suddenly exploded, wounding the nearby beasts and covering an area dozens of metres across in a deluge of blood.

"Really?" Karl asked as the proud spider went over to inspect her kill.

[I like it. I never got to do that before.] Rae replied, then got busy with her golems, butchering one of the wounded boars.

"Well, it looks like we’re starting now. Remi, they’re heavy. If you want to try out your new [Naga Swamp] spell, this is a good time for it." Karl instructed.

The boars were on alert now, and they immediately covered themselves in a thick earthen shield, then began firing Overlord Rank stone spikes at the group of invaders.

Surprisingly, the boars were not so large. Karl had forgotten that they were designated as "Pygmy" Stone Crushers, and they were only a metre and a half tall.

Hawk didn’t mind. He grabbed one in his beak and roasted it with his flames until it stopped wriggling, then gulped it down in a single bite.

[Pork flavoured big mice. This isn’t half bad.]

Tessa mounted Thor, and Ophelia raged, expanding to the full extent of her Dire Bear form, towering over everyone else, and some of the smaller trees.

Karl moved forward with the Bodyguards by his shoulder, while the Epic Guard remained back with Dana and Lotus, protecting the healer.

Meteors were falling from the sky as a flaming storm began to form, along with dozens of [Hellstorm] tornadoes as Remi activated [Apocalypse]. Hawk wouldn’t mind if the meat was a bit pre-roasted, and this was the fastest way to deal with the pack of boars, who were already beginning to panic at the presence of Rae, with her new [Demonic Oppression] aura.

They were Overlords, but they were also a prey species, and their instincts were screaming at them that they were under attack by a predator of the most dangerous sort.

If they couldn’t win, they would have to run.

So, Remi put fire behind them, while Rae put stone walls to their sides. Now that they were unable to run, they would naturally choose to fight. When driven into a corner, even the most timid animal will fight, and the Stone Crushers were not timid animals.

Karl hacked them apart as they charged towards the only open side, and noticed that while the Overlord Rank Soul energy was coming into the Haint Claw, it was nowhere near as intense or dense as the Life Energy that was going to the blade of champions.

That was the opposite of when they were fighting intelligent beings, and vastly different from when they were fighting the undead, who had no life energy, but strong soul energy.

The curious change in the flows of energy into his body kept Karl occupied as he tried not to focus on the continual gore of a battle against angry boars with extremely durable Earth Armour hides.