The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 335

Chapter 335 Envy The Fort

Karl didn't miss the envious glances that the other students were casting at his fort when he came down with the others for dinner, or the gossip about the features that they had added inside, which sounded much more grand than the actual interior of the silk fort.

It was more of a suspended tent than the palace that they made it out to be, but compared to their rooms at the Academy, the canvas tents with fifty students packed inside were no luxury hotel.

The fort was much less crowded, and they actually had room to spread out when they were getting ready in the morning. The tents were so packed that you had to either take turns, or equip your armour while laying in bed if you had a bonded set.

Many of the others didn't have a bonded armour set, as it was prohibitively expensive for the average student, and not well worth the resources that they could have bought instead.

Their growth rate was normally the priority for all of the Golden Divine Academy students. Karl was just an exception to the rule, and from what the others could tell, his group was either enjoying the benefits, or they had all gained significant opportunities in the recent past.

"Do you think that they will be back tomorrow?" One of the students asked as Karl and the others were taking a seat at the table next to him with their trays.

"I guess. They're still close enough that the artillery is firing at them, so they must come back pretty often." The other student at his table replied.

"Oh, we can ask this teacher. Commander, do you think the Hill Giants will charge again tomorrow?" The boy asked.

It took Karl a moment to realize that they were talking about him. His back was turned, and he was in armour, so they hadn't realized he was a student.

Karl turned around with a smile. "Well, you got the Rank right. But I'm no teacher. However, I can say that the chances are they will launch at least a small attack every day, even if it's just to test our lines. The Giants are relatively smart. Smart enough to know that if we start to slack off, we will leave vulnerable spots in the defences that they can use to get to us."

"So, something like today will happen every day?" The boy asked.

"I take it you got here very recently? This was a smaller attack. It only lasted ten or fifteen minutes, and the enemy retreated with most of their force intact. That's just a probe to see how we're doing with our defences. I attacked forward into the lines to throw them off balance, so they didn't think that we were too predictable, and that was all it took to make them back off." Karl explained.

Tessa wagged a finger at him. "It's not nice to lie to people. You attacked into the lines because you thought it would be fun."

"Maybe a little because it was fun." Karl agreed.

The other students sitting around them chuckled, and a few of them discussed what they had seen when Karl and the warriors had charged into the lines.

That was drawing even more students into the discussion, those who had been on Karl's side of the line during the attack and had managed to see something through the [Blizzard] attack that Remi had been using to reduce visibility.

"I tell you, it was like a whole army rolled into the Giants, man. They just marched through the attack, cutting down everything like it didn't matter there were Commander Rank Giants there." One of them was telling his team.

"There is half the Academy here, how much difference could three more make?" One of the other students asked.

"Yeah, that's what I thought, and then suddenly there was a three-metre tall Werebear and a bunch of Giant Spiders, and that maul tossing around Hill Giants like they were dolls. I tell you man, Commander covers a huge range of power compared to Ascended." One of the others insisted.

That was actually true. Commander Rank went for a much wider range of power than Ascended because the bottleneck wasn't just a number but a qualitative change.