The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 970

While everyone else worked themselves to the bone, Cara floated in a pool full of chaos energy, watching them in a mirror made of pure energy.

As far as rewards went, this one was pretty good.

The energy was soaking into her body and doing something, but more importantly, she didn't have to do all that. It looked painful.

Look at Karl, he was literally on fire and coated in ice at the same time, while being electrocuted. They could miss her with that nonsense.

Cara cupped her palms and drank a bit of the chaos pool, then sighed in relief at the cooling sensation. She really did make the best choice.

Karl's mind had nearly gone blank as he stepped onto the one hundredth step of the temple, and suddenly, everything stopped.

Was this a safe spot? A moment to recover before going on again? A test of willpower to see if he would voluntarily continue, now that he knew what was coming?

Karl shook the lingering electricity from the fur of his beast form, and then checked himself for lingering damage that might still be healing. It looked like it was all repaired now, so he stepped forward again and realized just how devious this rest stop was.

The effect still doubled on the next step from what it had been, but now, he had been given time to get used to not being under the effect.

However, with the innate healing of his body, Karl was doing much better than the others. Tessa and Lotus had made it to the thirtieth step, while Dana was at the sixty-first step, but she had to stop and rest every step so that her body could adjust.

Karl trudged onward, hardly pausing at every step. He knew from experience that it was impossible to skip a step, even if you were large enough to make it possible, so he simply kept a slow pace and focused on the feeling of his body being refined.

It proved to be a good way to block out the feeling of how the refinement was being accomplished.

Karl wasn't the only thing being refined, Hawk noticed. That cracked dragon scale was slowly turning into a real treasure. If Karl made it to the one thousandth step, it might actually be shiny again, and Hawk could give it a place of honour in his nest.

It was also getting shiny faster with every step. This really was a good spot, even if Hawk couldn't come out himself. Who knew that it would give him free treasure?

In the Totem Ranked space, the decisions had been very similar to what the ladies had been faced with. With an advancement at difficulty eleven, it hadn't even been an option for most of them. But every one of the Dwarves who entered had a base class, and had never had a chance to advance it before.

So, they had eagerly taken the opportunity, with only one mage choosing to take Karl's route and try to optimize his status, hoping that he would get an Epic Grade Physique out of the deal. He was already an older man, so it would do him a lot more good than a new class right as he was getting ready to retire.

Time was hard to judge inside the trial, as the sun wasn't moving in the sky. It could have been hours, it could have been minutes, or they could have lost an entire day already. With the trial itself filling everyone's minds, the passage of time was the last thing on most of their minds, except for Dana, who was focused on making as much progress as she could.