The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 1467

Chapter 1467: Hippo Herd

Karl flew west out of the city, gaining altitude so that he didn’t scare anything on the ground.

Not that there was much to see.

After the invasion, the number of monsters in the region had been so high that everyone who could retreat to the safety of a walled city had done so, and they weren’t particularly interested in hurrying back home to find out what the damages looked like.

Especially not when the damages were done by something multiple Ranks higher than themselves.

Most of the rural areas were worked by dragonkin here, and while they were strong by the standard of the Golden Dragon Nation, nowhere in the Dragon Isles would call them that with a straight face.

Royal Ranked adults were barely considered tolerable, after all.

Bral was over three hundred kilometres from Birad, and up in the hills, but apparently the hippos didn’t mind that they weren’t right on the river.

However, the further he flew, the more that Karl realized that the region was incredibly densely populated.

There were a dozen cities with tens of thousands of people in them, and one looked to be close to a hundred thousand as he flew over.

Surely, this region could have dealt with the hippos if they had wanted to.

Their combined population was more than the capital, and Karl could sense that there were dozens of Mythic Dragons in each of the cities.

But they hadn’t.

That was somewhat suspicious, as the people of Birad had been clear that the hippos were eating everything that grew in the region where they had arrived, so the locals should have done something to take care of the issue.

Bral should be the furthest west of this cluster of cities, according to the map, but it was not the change in population that told Karl he was in the right spot.

It was the lack of vegetation.

The hippos really had come through and eaten everything, pulling up plants by the roots in many spots and leaving little more than bare dirt.

However, they were no longer next to the city, and he didn’t see stragglers, so this must be some sort of herd animal, unlike the hippos that Karl knew from picture books.

Those were portrayed as solitary creatures.

Karl continued to fly high over the region, looking for the source of the damage, but only continued to see more stripped fields, barren former grasslands, and rocky hills.

From this altitude, all he could see was a wave of destruction spreading west from Bral, but no sign of what caused it.

No, there was an edge to the cloud of dust, and he could see trees to the northwest. So, that was where Karl flew next, looking for the actual hippos.

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