The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 403

Chapter 403 Breakfast Of Champions

Lotus returned only a few seconds later with a large carton of liquid eggs. That was a true luxury in the field, as they had to be kept refrigerated or frozen, so they weren't sent to army units. Instead, you got powdered eggs, which were later rehydrated, and not nearly as good.

"Oh, Lotus found the good stuff. I'm sure that the government officials will miss that, but it's going to make for a great breakfast." Doug laughed as he started to cast nature magic to produce fresh ingredients.

Tessa brought in two large, flat rocks that were placed on a small metal table and gestured at Karl.

[Hawk, you're up. Just a bit of Flaming Body on the stones to get the breakfast started.] Hawk rolled his eyes. He did this nearly every morning, he didn't need instructions from Karl on how to prepare a stone to make breakfast. Having it up on a platform like that was different, though. Normally, they set it between two branches and he only heated the middle.

The tabletop was stainless steel, and Tessa knew that while it wasn't perfect, it wouldn't be injured by the heat from the stone. But the only folding chairs that anyone had brought were plastic, so they weren't an option, and she didn't feel like going to get branches for a stand or having the nature clerics grow some.

Hawk heated their griddle stone, and the clerics got to work, while the rest of the team relaxed for a few minutes. Hawk even volunteered some of his precious stash of meats, though Karl noted that they were some of the last Awakened Rank stockpile, which didn't keep up with his nutritional needs anymore. They were a great help when he was young, but now they were essentially junk food. That was one of the drawbacks of a carnivorous beast, they needed meat to survive, and powerful monsters generally weren't a sustainable resource.

As they moved up the ranks, finding large amounts of food for growing high rank beasts would become increasingly difficult no matter what, but keeping the meat eaters fed would be much more difficult if they were the size of Thor.

The space made up much of their needs, but not all, and they needed the intake to help their growth.

That would be a consideration for Karl in the future. If he could find omnivorous monsters, it would make his life easier. Or perhaps he could find something esoteric, like a monster that ate rocks or something. No, that could be a pain as well, as finding magical resources was even more limited than monsters.

While Karl was distracted by his thoughts, Colonel Valerie came in with the heads of the other two teams who had come to secure and study the Anomaly.

A man in a suit that looked extremely out of place in a room with cloth walls and a grass floor started the meeting. "Good morning, Team Two. It is good to see you all up and cooking so early. We have a lot to do today, but the primary goal for now is to test the difficulty of the trial, and to check the nature of its rules.

Many of these trials have an entry limit, either a number of teams at once, or on the size of the teams, or the time between entries for specific people.

Those all need to be tested and catalogued, but the first on the list is team size. The most common limits are five, ten or twenty people, however twenty - person dungeons normally have a very distinctive entrance.

So, we will start you with a ten-person team, eight of which will be Elites, and two of whom will be researchers from the agencies."

Karl considered that for a moment. "Is it a matter of trust for the results, or a matter of specialized knowledge for the recording?" Karl asked.

"Specialized knowledge and recording equipment, I'm afraid." The man sighed, then smoothed his freshly ironed coat in a nervous gesture.

"That's alright, Now that I know that, we can arrange the members in a proper order to enter. If it splits the team in half, we should still be able to make two groups who can efficiently collect the data that you need." Karl explained.

"Oh, how is that?"