The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 998: Poke The Giant Totem

Remi stared up at the Giant in front of her. It had managed to sneak through the lines of Golems and fighters to make it to her and Lotus in the back lines. That alone was enough to be impressed with its ingenuity.

But in her usual form, Remi was much too small to be fighting the Giants head on.

Instead, she transformed into Spirit Snake form and struck out at the Giant, which rolled away, flailing with its blade to keep her bite away.

Remiʼs head darted forward as the Giant swung wildly, but too slow to stop the attack.

Half the creatureʼs body was in her mouth when Remi bit down, sinking her fangs deep into the Giant and flooding it with venom.

With its arms trapped to its side by her mouth, the Giant flailed wildly, and even tried coating itself in stone armour, but the skill failed to force Remiʼs fangs from its back, and it remained trapped.

A few seconds later, its frantic struggles ended, and Remi instinctively swallowed. Then she realized that with a full Giant in her Spirit Snake form, she wouldnʼt be able to transform back for a while, and she would be slow moving until she finished digesting.

Worse, Lotus was giving her a disgusted look.

And the little cleric was right. The Giant didnʼt even taste good.

4/10 Mediocre and inconvenient.

But she had an idea. If she shrunk, the food should shrink with her. Yes, that worked wonderfully, and now she was a small snake with a full belly, but she could move easily.

She didnʼt lose any strength when she shrunk, but both her body and the Giant lost weight. It was the perfect solution to a problem that she had created for herself, and it came with the added bonus of completely confusing the other Giants.

They couldnʼt find Remi in all the chaos, but even under the influence of the Monster Spawn, they hadnʼt forgotten that there was a venomous Spirit Snake here somewhere.

She couldnʼt have gone far. The aftermath of the battle between the two Totems had made it impossible for the Giants to retreat, and Remi had been at the back of the battle to begin with.

They just needed to find her.

Karl and the Totem Ranked Giant had no idea what was happening on the other side of the battlefield, they were too engrossed in their own battle.

This Totem was one of the strongest Karl had seen, and the durability of his species was incredible. Like Karl, he had Totem Ranked defensive barriers up, and the Earth Element was known for its durability.

Unlike Karl, he healed at a more normal rate.

So, the wounds were slowly building up on the Giant as they battled, and his energy was running low, while Karl regenerated stamina, and he was using less mana than he could regain.

Then Karl got a brilliant idea. Hawk had [Purgatory Flames]. An enormously powerful fireball that would burn all of his mana in one shot. He kind of wanted to see what happened if he used it, with the difference in their mana pool.

The Giantʼs expression changed as Karl smirked, and then the fireball was launched, burning easily through not only the creatureʼs barrier and body, but the weapon it had made as well.

Nothing was left of the Totem Ranked Giant but ash, as the spell exploded on impact.

The blast, on the other hand, was significantly larger than Karl had anticipated.

When Hawk used it, the ball was just fire, and if you werenʼt set aflame, you were generally alright. This time, the blast was like artillery exploding, and even from fifty metres away, Tessa was nearly thrown from Thorʼs back before [Eternal Lightning] caught her.

Mana flooded back into Karlʼs body, making his limbs tingle with the imbalance as they struggled to return to their default state.

But there was nothing left to fight, and the last of the Giants had been killed by the overflow of the final blast.

Tessa straightened her robes and glared at Karl. ”You could have warned us before you did that. What sort of insane power was that, anyhow? It nearly knocked me back to the Goddess, and weʼre in the same Guild.”

Karl shrugged. ”Itʼs [Purgatory Flames], a super fireball skill that Hawk has. I didnʼt think that there would be a blast like that, it had to be a result of the Hill Giantʼs Earth Magic collapsing. Is everyone alright?”

Tessa nodded, and Ophelia transformed back to give him a thumbs up.

{Well, thatʼs the first target of the day down. Should we head on to the next one?} Nachtia asked, still in dragon form.

Dana landed gently on her back. ”We might as well. The day is still early, and we have four targets on the list. The next one doesnʼt have a Totem Ranked leader, though.

Why donʼt we split up for efficiency? All of us can go to the next one on the list, and Karl can take his own.”

As she finished talking, Dana stuck her tongue out at Karl, then pulled her curls back into a rough ponytail, as they had already escaped the loose braid she wove that morning.

[Thatʼs not a bad idea. Their target is five kilometres northwest. Yours is fifteen to the north.] Hawk offered.

”Hawk has the target in sight. Follow him northwest, and youʼll find it. Then we can both meet at the fourth target for the day.” Karl suggested.

”Oh, not a bad idea. If things go smoothly, we should be done by lunch, and we can go together back to camp.” Ophelia agreed.

Remi giggled as she climbed up one of Danaʼs Golems for a better view in her reduced snake form.

{This should be fun. We can have a competition. And then we can make a wishlist of things to have for dinner.}

Everything was huge again in this form, and she had just remembered that she never did get to try all the sweets she wanted to when she learned to shrink.