The First Legendary Beast Master

There was a pause as everyone tried to remember what they had been doing before they got sidetracked by a fluffy little fox.

A Totem Ranked fluffy little fox.

"Are we still going to hit some more of the spawns today?" Nachtia asked, bringing them all back on task.

"Right. More spawns. We got the first few out of the way without any issues, so we can look for more. Did you want to go back and let them know these are complete, then get official orders?

Or did you want to just hunt for some more targets and return in the evening?" Karl asked.

"We should let them know that this spot has been cleared, and that the anomaly collapsed, then gather more sheets.

That way there won't be any chance of overlap or confusion when we go to hunt more monsters.

Though, we could go back by wagon, and just kill anything that bothers us on the way." Nachtia offered.

That method sounded pretty good to most of the group.

Thor was concerned that someone would attack his wagon, but he had an alternative.

"Why don't we skip the wagon, and the ladies can ride my back? Nachtia and Hawk can scout, and Karl can walk along with us?" He offered.

"That's not bad. It would give them a chance to see us coming.

If they were spawned monsters, they would surely attack anyhow. If they were not, there is a good chance that they won't attack a group of our power level. That should help sort what needs to go from what belongs in the area." Nachtia agreed.

Everyone loaded up to travel, and Rae wandered off to do some scouting of her own. There were some strange creatures in the grasslands, and she was curious what they were.

Not because they were powerful, or worth killing. Just because she didn't have any mental records of most of the strange things she was seeing.

The Bloodbath Spider was not native to this island, so there was no memory of anything that she was finding stored in her genetic memories, which were normally the basis for all of her combat techniques.

There wasn't much to see on their first few kilometres towards the camp. But after an hour, it became clear that teleporting here had saved them many hours of issues.

"We're being charged?" Thor asked, confused.

Indeed, they were being attacked, he could see the whole horde of Satyrs running their way with weapons. But since when were Satyrs a hostile species? Sure, they were technically demons, but they were more like a herbivorous beastkin in personality.

These ones were frothing at the mouth and charging with improvised weapons.

[Could they be sick?] Rae asked, just as confused about their behaviour as Thor was.

[We could try cleansing them. My healing skill cleanses mental and physical diseases and curses.] Tian suggested.

[Come with me, and we will try.] Rae agreed.

The tiny fox exited his space to land on her back, and Rae rushed off to stand near the charging Satyrs while camouflaged.

They waited in the long grass for the Satyrs to approach, and Tian covered the whole group with a circle of bright golden light, but they just kept running, with no visible changes.

[Nope, they're broken.] The tiny fox sighed, then returned to his space and fell asleep.

Remi laughed. [Now we have two sleeping beauties. I guess we need a Totem Ranked Karl so that they have enough mana to actually supply themselves and do more than one thing per day.]

Tian opened one eye. [One day, when I'm big, I'll be able to cast countless spells. Mom told me so. But I'm still small, and my body doesn't hold much mana.]

Remi giggled. [Here, I have a book for you. It's an introduction for mages, but it teaches about mana control. I think it's important information you should have learned from your mother soon.]

Most of her mana use didn't come from inside her body anymore. She would wear herself out far too fast if she tried to cast [Apocalypse] that way.

Tian flipped open the book, then promptly fell asleep with his head on the pages.

Well, maybe he could learn by osmosis, Remi decided.

Lotus, unaware of what Rae and Tian had tried, also cast a cleansing spell on the advancing horde, with similar results.

Nothing.

But they were all Commander Rank and lower.

Thor sighed as he sent [Bulwark] in lightning form to form a wall in front of himself, then charged through them. It wasn't intended as an offensive spell, but the brute force of a charging Behemoth, coupled with the shock that the Lightning gave them, was enough to wipe out the entire group.

"Well, that was depressing. Let's keep going, I don't want to fight more of those." Lotus insisted.

Thor nodded in agreement. Fighting things that were usually friendly was not fun.

[There are more weird things ahead.] Hawk warned.

That was his code of the day for all species that he didn't have a good description or name for. So, it was likely one of the strange local species or Chimera that lived on the Northeast Island.

Tian looked out of his space as the commotion of everyone getting ready roused him.

[Those are Pigbears. They only come from the bad mana places.] He announced, then adjusted so he was properly on his pile of blankets and not sleeping on the book.

Karl wasn't sure how they were supposed to be a pig or a bear. Though they had a vaguely bear shaped body, and piglike tusks pointing upwards from their lower jaws. But their bodies were covered in patches of scales with fur tufts between them, and they had six legs.

These, they could happily eliminate.

They were also Overlord Ranked, and there were a few larger ones in the mix that Karl suspected might actually be Totem Ranked.

It was hard to tell with the monsters grouped together like that, but they were definitely a monster spawn group. They were even attacking the ruins of a wagon that had been abandoned years earlier.