The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 858

Karl sent a message to the Guild, letting them know that he was going to travel for a few days to check on some potential new hires, and received immediate indignation in return.

Neither Dana nor Lotus was happy that he was going on a road trip without them, but they both had tasks left in the city. Even Thor and Rae were going to be remaining behind, in case Karl was slow to return.

The only ones who would be coming with Karl on this trip were Hawk and Cara, as well as the reclusive Little Butterfly, whose trauma regarding the outside world left it unwilling to go outside its space.

No matter how curious it was about the world.

After all, it could create illusions to interact with the world, and the illusionary Library would be fine, even if it were thousands of kilometres away. It had designed the space to fuel itself, so it wouldn’t run out of mana, as long as it wasn’t heavily damaged.

"Are we all going? Or just one?" Karl asked.

Rain vanished back into her workshop, and the older Dryad smiled at Karl. "It’s just us today. She is in the middle of a project, it would take more than curiosity to drag her away."

Hawk exited his space to circle above them, and Karl picked up the petite Dryad before leaping into the sky to board the giant bird.

He sat with her between his legs, securely in place, as she belatedly realized that she was actually terrified of heights.

"Don’t worry, the protective magic won’t let you fall. It will be a longer flight, though. Likely five hours as we follow the river to the end and search for the right city. But we will fly high enough that we don’t have to fear being attacked from the ground." Karl consoled her.

"And what about flying beasts?" She asked.

"Unless they are Totem Ranked, they won’t bother Hawk as he flies past. If it makes you more comfortable, I can make us invisible." Karl offered.

The terrified Dryad nodded, and Little Butterfly extended her Totem Rank [Invisibility] over the group. Now, there wasn’t much that would be able to detect them during a rapid, high altitude flight.

Indeed, while they were perfectly safe, the Dryad refused to detach herself from Karl to even turn and face forward. Though, after the first hour, looking out over the skyline didn’t seem so bad.

They were so far from the ground that falling wasn’t an immediate threat. She couldn’t even see the small details of the ground from here, and for a large part of the flight they were above misty swamplands, until the sun burned the morning fog away.

They passed over the main force of the Leg Regiment, which was engaged in a massive battle with undead, and then a number of smaller battles either between local beasts and monsters, or between two villages’ militia forces. _{ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm}

Karl didn’t hear anything about a full-blown civil war going on, so these issues must be fairly common, or considered to be isolated. Or at least restricted to the two villages’ personal grudges. But it did give him a lot of insight about how unstable the rural regions actually were.

But as they flew, the nature of the region began to change. The land grew more arid, and the small villages gave way to larger farming communities along the river, and finally a massive city made entirely of log buildings.