All Chapters of Beast Taming: Start With A Dragon Legion: Chapter 31
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Chapter 31: Claimed Treasure
Tobin’s smile spread slowly.He stepped through the broken opening with Lyle and Cassa behind him, all three dirty and scratched from the bat fight.Dust clung to their robes, blood stained Lyle’s sleeve, and Cassa had a shallow cut across his cheek that had already stopped bleeding. Their eyes moved across the hidden cavern, taking in the glowing ore veins that ran thick across the walls, the pale crystals hanging from the ceiling like frozen rain, and the rich mana light that filled the entire space with warmth.Tobin looked around slowly, letting the silence stretch while his smile widened.“Looks like we found something really good after all.”Knox immediately caught the we and his mood darkened. His fingers tightened near his bent knife while his jaw clenched hard enough to ache.Serena’s voice went cold. “Knox and his summon found the cavern.”Tobin turned toward her and smiled politely, like she had just made a reasonable point he was considering. “We are one registered missio
Chapter 32: Burrowclaw Lizard
The scraping sound moved across the ceiling above them.Everyone stood frozen for a second, their eyes tracking the sound while their bodies refused to move.Then the stone shifted.A massive Burrowclaw Lizard crawled out from the uneven rock overhead, its body almost blending into the cavern wall until it moved. It was longer than a carriage, low and armored, with stone-grey scales that caught the mana light in dull flashes. Jagged mineral plates ran along its spine like broken blades, and hooked claws sunk deep into the ceiling stone with enough force to crack the surface.Its amber eyes fixed on the cracked Prism Ore in Cassa’s hand.Then it dropped.The Burrowclaw fell like a slab of stone coming alive, heavy and fast.Cassa barely threw himself backward before its claws hit the ground where he had stood. The impact cracked the cavern floor with a sharp sound that echoed off the walls, and broken stone skidded across the Prism Ore section, damaging more crystals.Serena reacted f
Chapter 33: The Burrowclaw’s Feeding Ground
The Burrowclaw blocked the broken entrance, its amber eyes fixed on the group while its claws scraped slowly against the stone floor.They were still alive, but the situation had turned worse because the only clear way out was now controlled by the strongest beast in the cavern.Serena kept a thin layer of illusion-light moving around the group, not enough to create full false bodies, but enough to blur their exact positions and buy a few seconds if the Burrowclaw lunged. Her Light Spirit Fox stayed close to her leg, its glow dimmer than before and its three tails flickering weakly.Knox noticed that Serena was still calm on the outside, but her control had tightened too much. Her jaw was set, her breathing measured, and her fingers stayed perfectly still near her belt. That meant she was burning through mana faster than she wanted to admit.Tobin held his spear low with his Hooktail Lizard guarding the front angle, its tail curved and ready. Lyle kept his Ironhorn Bullhound beside hi
Chapter 34: Kill It Or Die Here
The Burrowclaw blocked the only passage wide enough to leave through.The smaller cracks in the walls were useless, too narrow for anything larger than a bat. The chamber felt too wide in the worst way because there was too much space for the beast to move and not enough safe space for them to stand.Nobody spoke for a few seconds.The silence was heavier than panic. The bones, claw marks, and old blood smell made everyone understand the same truth.The Hollowvein mission had never been as simple as the academy board made it look.This was not just a Class C resource survey anymore.A hidden Prism Ore cavern, unstable crystal veins, and a massive Burrowclaw Lizard guarding its feeding ground meant the difficulty had already gone beyond what they prepared for.Knox felt that realization settle over everyone like weight pressing down on their shoulders.Lyle and Cassa lost the last of their confidence. Their faces were pale, and their hands shook slightly when they gripped their weapons
Chapter 35: Six Seconds
Knox did not waste time explaining his full plan.He only looked at Cassa and said, “One thin ash burst when Serena moves. Just one. And control it.”His intent was clear.Cassa’s hand tightened on his weapon, and he nodded once. His Ashspine Jackal’s embers flickered slightly brighter.Knox spotted a straight knife lying near the wall, half-hidden under dust and broken shell fragments. He crossed to it quickly and picked it up. The borrowed knife was not special, but it was sharp enough if he could reach a soft point.He tested the weight once, then stepped forward.Serena gathered her mana.Her Light Spirit Fox was barely glowing, its form thin and translucent, but she pulled the light close instead of spreading it through the chamber. The glow concentrated around her body, tight and controlled.The Burrowclaw watched her because it already knew she was the one bending its kills away.Its amber eyes tracked her movement, patient and certain.The Burrowclaw moved.It climbed along th
Chapter 36: Instructor’s Duty
The mission hall was quiet at this hour.Crane walked past its entrance with her notepad under one arm, her day’s duties already finished. She was not heading anywhere specific, just cutting through the east corridor toward the instructor’s wing. The academy at this time of evening had a particular kind of stillness that she preferred over the noise of peak hours.Her thoughts were not still.They kept circling back to Knox Aston.No.Knox Morales.That correction still irritated her. Not because the name change was wrong — the boy had every right to drop a family that dropped him first — but because she noticed it at all. She had been making that correction in her own head for days now, and it annoyed her that it had not stopped feeling strange.Her thoughts moved to the Tobin match.Knox standing inside the arena with his mana near empty, Tobin’s merged form already on top of him. Most students in that position would have yielded at that point but Knox himself had not yielded, or b
Chapter 37: Manual Review
The tunnel was falling apart behind them. Dust kept spilling from the ceiling in thin streams, and the Prism Ore glow along the walls flickered in broken pulses, bright then dim then bright again. Every few steps the ground shifted under their feet, small movements that warned of bigger ones coming. Nobody had the strength left to argue about direction or pace. The only reason they were still moving was that the people who hated each other inside the academy were forced to keep each other alive out here. Lyle had one arm under Knox, taking most of his weight. Knox could feel the reluctance in the way Lyle held him, but Knox could barely walk, so the reluctance did not matter. Cassa half-carried Tobin a few steps ahead, because Tobin’s legs kept folding under him without warning. Serena stayed at the back with her Light Spirit Fox reduced to a faint outline of light, guiding the group forward whenever the tunnel went dark enough to lose the path. Ignis trailed close to Knox’s leg
Chapter 38: Bandaged Hand
Knox left the infirmary after a full week.He had not planned to stay that long. But Crane and the nurse had decided it for him, and between the two of them there had been no room to argue. The nurse’s name was Martha, and she had spent the week treating Knox with the particular bluntness of someone who had patched up too many reckless students to be impressed by another one.His mana had recovered. His side no longer bled, the wound there closed and stiff but holding. Ignis could walk properly again, his scratched flanks scabbed over. The only part of Knox that had not come back right was his right wrist.Martha unwound the old bandage and checked it one last time before he left. She turned his hand over slowly, pressed along the channels with two fingers, and frowned.“This doesn’t add up,” she said.Knox watched her work. “It’s just strain.”“It’s mana-channel strain, tendon inflammation, and internal bruising. All in the same hand.” She pressed again, and Knox kept his face stil
Chapter 39: Fairness
The Mission Hall Review Chamber was already set before Knox and Serena reached it.The frozen Hollowvein file glowed on the central review screen, large enough for the whole room to read.Frozen Contribution File Reopened.Resource Share Frozen.Manual Review Pending.Tobin, Lyle, and Cassa sat on one side of the chamber. Tobin’s head was bowed slightly, but his eyes were clear and cold when he lifted them toward the door. Lyle sat beside him with his shoulders squared, holding a confidence that did not quite reach his face. Cassa kept his hands folded in his lap and his gaze low.Professor Crane stood near the screen. Her posture was still, her expression giving nothing away.Marrec Vale waited by the review table, calm and polished, the brass ring resting on his folded hands.And Darius Vorden was already seated.That was the first thing Knox noticed.Darius. Not summoned as a participant or a part of the mission at all. Seated at the table like he belonged there, with a clear line
Chapter 40: Open the Logs
The Mission Director stood in the doorway, and the room rearranged itself around him. The Deputy Mission Director went quiet. Marrec’s hand stilled over the unfinished wording on his slate, his brass ring catching the light. Darius turned toward the door and rose halfway from his seat. “Director.” The Mission Director acknowledged him with a brief nod and nothing more. His attention was already on the frozen Hollowvein screen. Crane’s posture eased by the smallest amount. She hid it almost at once, but Knox caught it through the haze of his own anger and. He frowned. The Director stepped fully into the chamber. He moved without hurry, which somehow made everyone else feel rushed. “Why was a contribution frame being drafted,” he said, “before the preserved logs were opened?” The Deputy tried to hold his ground. “The review was establishing a balanced preliminary frame, Director. The students were injured. Memory is unreliable after a mission like this, and we wanted a stable st