The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 492

Chapter 492 Not All Friendly

The next few groups of Trollish farmers and merchants were similarly eager to get any news that they could, but when Karl got to a group of Ogres using oxen to pull large carts, things began to take a turn for the worse.

At first, it was just the same sort of posturing as the last hostile merchant group. But these ones didn't look like successful merchants. They were filthier than usual, even for Ogres, and looked half starved.

When the wind shifted and blew from Karl's wagon to theirs, bringing the scent of humans to them, they snapped and began to charge.

"Rae, Golems." Karl called as he jumped down to meet the charge.

Both bodyguards joined him, as well as Dana's Golems. That should be enough to deal with the threat, and that was their plan to not blow their cover as merchants. However, that plan was entirely too boring for Cara, and the Void Badger was headed for combat before Karl could even tell her off.

"Meat!" The Ogres roared as they charged toward Karl's wagon, not even focused on him.

The other merchants nearby, groups that had been waiting for the signal that the danger had passed, began to scatter. They didn't want to be implicated in the fight between the Ogres and Karl's group. Karl took out his blade and hacked the first Ascended Rank Ogre clean in half, from the shoulder across the chest. But even as the two halves fell to the ground, the others didn't stop. They were fully focused on the smell of humans, and running blindly into the blades and forelimbs of the defenders.

The battle was over in under thirty seconds, nothing more than a flurry of steel and blood. In fact, the last one fighting was Cara, who had taken offence to the existence of their cart oxen.

"They're dead, you can stop now." Karl reminded her.

Cara paused and looked around. [So they are. I thought that we were going to fight?]

Karl patted the badger on the head after she landed on the Ogres' wagon. "Not a real fight, just defending the wagon against attack. You got too excited."

Cara sighed, then vanished into her space to get clean before coming back out to sit with the ladies in the wagon.

[Disappointing. One out of Ten, do not recommend.]

Rae did grab one of the oxen, though. Just in case it tasted good.

Karl got back on the wagon and started to move again, which startled the other merchants who could see him. His team only had a few members, the fight should not have been over that quickly, but his wagon was moving again, and nothing else was.

Just to be safe, the next one in line continued to make their detour well around the incident as Karl rolled past them.

The merchants who were parked behind them were unconcerned. Fights between groups of monsters were a common occurrence, and if you started a fight that you couldn't win, that was your own fault.