The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 941

Chapter 941 Over the Ridge

Once they left the restaurant, Dana nudged Karl and gave a deliberate look at the crowd near the outer ledges. They couldn't open the Tiny World there and risk

someone thinking it was a portal.

Common courtesy was to allow people travelling to the same area when you happened to open a portal to pass through, and it would be awkward to explain that it was actually a separate space, capable of supporting life.

That was not a common sort of skill, and there were still enough powerful people around that Karl couldn't rule out one of them trying to kidnap him to force him to teach them the way of making the [Tiny World].

He hadn't been too concerned about it with the Dragons, as they only had to ask the Blue Dragons at the Libraries if they wanted to know the answer. But others would not have that same level of access to information that an Ancient Dragon of the Dragon Church had.

Karl turned them down a narrow alleyway, and opened the Tiny World across an archway, so they could walk through without looking suspicious.

Once everyone was inside, Karl closed the portal and kept walking down the alley, as naturally as possible.

If someone had been watching, it would be a mystery where the others went. Unless they thought there was a hidden entrance to something in that alley. But if there wasn't, it would just look like an outsider taking a shortcut to get to the light of the mountain's surface.

Karl made his way through the side streets and to the outer ledges, where the crowds were even heavier. That could be a bit of an issue for departure, but Hawk had a plan. He simply appeared a hundred metres from the mountain in the open air, and circled, while Karl used [Swims Through Air] to walk over to him and take a seat.

"Oi, now that's just cheating" Karl heard one of the dwarves complaining as he walked off the ledge.

"Looks like fun, though. Can you imagine the look on my wife's face if I just walked off the ledge and didn't fall?"

"Aye, pure disappointment."

Karl missed the rest of the conversation as Hawk turned west and gained speed.

The warning that the server had given them the previous evening became relevant instantly. In front of them, only a few kilometres to the west, was a spine-like ridge of mountains that extended to the ocean, and then off past the horizon.

[Hawk, go south along the shore line, and follow it until we're past the mountains. Then we can come back northwest to the course we had planned.] Karl instructed.

It would be a few hundred kilometres of extra distance to cover if they simply went around the mountain range's southern edge, but Hawk was fast, and they could still make their destination by dark.