Chapter 93 Ambush Practice

Chapter 93 Ambush Practice

The team came at Karl again, spread out and sneaking up on him through the dorm building, with one even leaping out of the window.

[Now.] Karl ordered the beasts, sending them into the battlefield.

Hawk moved to intercept the flying target, while Rae spit out a large mass of web to trip another, and Thor went with his signature charge, throwing another man high into the air with a flick of his thick neck. Updated from n0velb(i)n.c(o)/m

The three of them crashed to the ground at the same second, and Rita blew her whistle.

"Karl, how did you know that they were coming?" She demanded.

"A side effect of bonding Hawk. I have fantastic peripheral vision, and I can focus on any spot I can see without moving my head. I had all three of them located before they attacked." Karl explained.

"Then was it necessary to throw me again?" One of the men wheezed, climbing to his knees.

Thor had gotten the same target twice in a row. Although he didn't spear the man between the legs this time, the two upper horns made for an excellent tossing platform, and he had peaked well over five metres in the air.

"He didn't injure you this time. I mean, with the hit. The sudden stop at the end looks like it wasn't much fun." Karl amended.

"Are they aware of what is happening around you before you call them out?" One of the men asked.

"Probably more than I am. I don't know how much they can actually see, but they do have a solid awareness of their surroundings." Karl explained.

[This is not a democracy, majority rules don't win here.] Karl informed them in his best stern tone.

Rae had already found Hawk's weak point. As soon as she mentioned food, the Windspeed Hawk would be on board with whatever she wanted to do, and Thor would go along simply because that's where everyone else was going.

"You look like you're having an intense discussion." Alice noted as Karl talked to the beasts.

"They all want to go outside to train. I don't necessarily disagree with them, as our training options are limited here, but it is safe here, and safety in numbers is a good thing." Karl replied.

Thor bobbed his head happily as he heard those reassuring words from the boss, and the instructors did their best not to laugh. They had been brutally bested by the Lightning Cerro twice in as many hours. But still, it didn't feel like the creature was a threat, he was just too friendly.

"Let us discuss that for a few minutes. There are groups of students looking to go outside on missions, and we might allow you to lead one of them, as long as there is a second Awakened Rank or higher member, as you are still a first year student and untested in the field." Alice explained, earning herself a glare from Rita.

Daniel wisely sat at the back of the field, as he had been doing all day, and avoided drawing attention to himself as the two argued over the appropriate course of action. The student training missions were normally not dangerous, certainly no worse than the Goblin Tribe had been, and Karl was much stronger now than he had been even that recently.

With the addition of the two new pets, he alone would rampage through a Goblin Tribe. Nothing that they could do would significantly injure a Lightning Cerro unless they managed to swarm it and pin it down. That seemed unlikely with Hawk and Rae both in the fight, even if you didn't count Karl himself as a combat asset, as he would be mostly watching out for the other students.

The outcome seemed inevitable, and after twenty minutes of discussion and a few tersely worded phone calls, the ladies returned with a smile on both of their faces.

"You will be allowed to lead an away mission. Student Dana will be going with you, along with eight of the Common Grade first years. It is a herbal resource gathering mission in a lightly monitored area, and there will be emergency assistance available on a ten-minute helicopter ride, should you activate the emergency beacons." Sergeant Rita informed Karl.

"Understood, Sergeant. Thank you for this opportunity." Karl replied as seriously as he could while trying to ignore the excitement of his beasts.

They were finally getting to somewhere that there might be mice, and Hawk was overjoyed at the prospect.