Chapter 226 - Master Knight Monk (1/2)

Back At Avrion city, another meeting had been called between the elders to discuss a serious problem that they had yet to deal with.

”Has there been any more news on the mysterious beast that's rumoured to be around the City?” Sylvia asked.

Wilfred stood up to give a report.

”There have been no sightings of the beast itself but it has nearly completely emptied the hunting grounds, our knights have found that the nearby bug forest nest has been completely destroyed, meaning there are no longer beasts roaming inside,” Wilfred explained.

Sir K then stood up to add to the report.

”The only information we have had is that there has been more sighting of beasts bones in the swamp hunting ground. It seems like if we let it continue soon, the beasts in that area will all disappear as well.”

Although some people might take beasts disappearing as good news, this wasn't good news at all. Beast spawned from something called a beast nest. It was a powerful single beast core that was located in the hunting grounds somewhere.

Usually, a beast nest would be surrounded by 1000s of beasts, and were usually located underground or inside a mountain out of sight. It was nearly impossible for a human to be strong enough to locate and destroy one.

But the thing was humans had a use for Beast crystals. They powered nearly everything in today's society. If the beast nests were destroyed that meant they would no longer be able to hunt beasts and obtain their beast cores.

Now that one of the hunting grounds near Avrion had been completely wiped out, this would be a major hit on their finances and only just when things were starting to look up again.

”And what of the hill's near the mountain?” Slyvia asked.

”It seems like the beast has stayed away from there for now.” Wilfred said, ”Perhaps this is because it is in the Wyvern's territory.”

Slyvia breathed a sigh of relief. If the beast knew not to disturb the Wyvern that at least it meant it wasn't as strong as the Wyvern itself.

”We must send a scouting team to the swamps straight away.”

”I have already sent our best knights.” Sir K said.

Inside of the swamp Monk, Dan, Martha, Bader and Sloth were currently walking through the muddy water.

”Man this place stinks,” Dan complained. ”Did we really have to be the ones to go to this place?”

”Stop complaining.” Said Martha, ”The city needs us, besides you've done nothing but laze around while the city was being rebuilt, maybe you can make yourself useful this time.”

”Over there,” Monk said as he pointed at a pile of bones.

The group quickly moved through the swamp to discover the skeleton of a large snake.

”It's at least of the intermediate level,” Monk said as he examined it.

”It's just like the reports, the beast has been eaten clean and has not left anything behind,” Badger said.

Sloth gulped.

”Hey, are we really going to fight this thing?” Sloth asked.