The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 575

Chapter 575 Poke Them With A Stick

The mages weren't giving up as easily as Karl had expected. They had built a barrier around the portal that was withstanding the artillery barrage, and while Karl and Ophelia terrified them, the mages were not hesitating to engage with the monsters of the Newbon Army.

More of them were pouring through the portal by the second to establish the beach head outside the city.

[Thor, how are things going there? The faster the kids get finished, the faster they can be relocated to somewhere safe.] Karl asked.

[Most are inside right now. Tessa has the others calm, and they're waiting for the last few soldiers to come out.]

That was as good as they could hope for. As long as the defenders could keep the invading force away from the orb until the kids could finish and be extracted from the combat zone, it should all be fine.

They were mostly Awakened and Ascended Rank magical beasts or monsters. Most of them were only half grown, and they wouldn't have done more than the very basics of combat training so far.

Karl faced off with the mages who had come to challenge him and considered his options. Hellstorm wouldn't work, as he didn't have the control to keep the vortexes in midair.

Remi already had a [Thunderstorm] going, but the mages all had barriers, so it wasn't taking them out until they were already heavily injured. The question was what was the fastest way to achieve that.

Karl decided to start with the classic crowd control skill. [Chain Lightning]

The bolt came out ethereal blue from his left hand, and arced to ten more targets, shattering Commander Rank barriers and knocking mages out of the sky.

They didn't have a chance against the skill, and Karl simply continued to channel it, allowing the damage to stack and the lightning to function as a magical stun baton.

The leaders of the attack squad realized that within seconds and began erecting a barrier to block the lightning before it could hit and arc.

That let some of the mages get to their feet and make a shaky retreat back to the safety of the portal.

It wasn't like Karl had something in particular against these mages from one of the other human nations. But that didn't mean that he was going to give up an opportunity for his people without negotiation.

If they had sent someone powerful, the leaders would have sorted it out between them. The fact that they hadn't implied that they were either too weak of a faction for it, or they wanted it to be solved this way.

With their shield isolating them from Karl, the mages retreated. The same was happening on the other side of the battlefield, where they were facing Ophelia, and the battle was quickly turning into a rout.

Hawk and Dana were raining spells down on the barrier defending the portal, but it didn't appear to be faltering at all. There was most likely a powerhouse on the other side keeping it active, though it was only at the Royal Rank. If they couldn't exhaust the power behind that barrier, they would be unable to do any more than hold the battle to a stalemate.

[The kids are all done. Tessa is moving them to Rae's stone maze, and I will keep them all protected.]

[Excellent news. Thank you, Thor.]

While Thor prepared to protect the kids, Karl studied the barrier that was erected between them and the portal. He had enough power that he could shatter it with one strike of the maul, but it was definitely being fed power from the other side of the portal. If he broke it, he could get through, but it would be back up in under a second, and that would be troublesome for him. Trapped inside a barrier full of enemies, with a portal to their home base, was a terrible idea, even by his standard of bad ideas.

However, that didn't mean that he couldn't mess with them at least a little bit.

The first swing of the maul shattered a hole in the barrier, through which Karl hurled [Chain Lightning] into the startled mages. Off to his right, Cara was torturing the mages in a different way. _{freewёbn૦νeɭ.com}