The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 427

Chapter 427 Anomaly Zone

While the emergency response team raced toward the Anomaly, those left behind at the dungeon began to worry that there might be more to the situation than they had been led to believe. There were too many Anomalies lately, and they were at war on every side, except for the border with the beastkin. The Giants had to know something more than they were saying, and the Magical Knights couldn't shake the feeling that they had missed a critical memo.

But in the helicopter, things were more relaxed, as everyone meditated and prepared for the upcoming mission.

"Five minutes to the edge of the Anomaly zone," the pilot informed them.

Karl stood and stretched, getting ready for whatever they found when they disembarked.

[Thor, be ready with the barriers.]

Eternal Lightning came up on everyone as Thor got his last few minutes of beauty sleep, and the other beasts followed Karl in stretching, so they didn't strain anything or have stiff muscles when it was time to come out.

[Descending through heavy cloud cover with extremely limited visibility.] The Pilot announced.

Karl moved to look out the window, keeping an eye out for anything that might have been missed by the helicopter's sensor suite.

There was nothing, just white. That didn't seem right. He should be able to see the ground through cloud cover, unless there was heavy rain beneath them, but these were white puffy clouds, not the dark storm clouds that would bring that sort of rain.

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Then the sound of rending steel shattered the drone of the helicopter blades, and Karl found himself flying through open air.

As he rotated, he could see the massive hole torn in the side of the helicopter, which was being violently molested by a pale white dragon that seemed to be made of clouds, not quite corporeal.

The others were beginning to bail out with hastily donned parachutes, and Karl noted with pleasure that all of them had their barriers active still.

With Eternal Lightning active, they should be fine. He was the only one likely to have a rough landing.

Karl felt the air around him suddenly condense, as if he were below water, then it was thin again, the sort of high altitude atmosphere that left the lungs struggling to breathe.

It had to be an Air Element Dragon. That was fine, once he figured out how to track it, he would be able to take it out.

Beneath him, the clouds were thinning, and Karl looked around for the others to make sure they hadn't pulled their parachutes too early.

But there was nobody nearby. Not even the crippled helicopter.

Then, the clouds parted beneath him, and Karl found himself plummeting towards a massive lake.

The only lake that large in the Golden Dragon Nation was Lake Chiptonrith, and that should be hundreds of kilometres away. Karl was reasonably confident in his pathfinding abilities, but moreover, the direct route to the Lithium mines took them away from the lake, not towards it.