Special Mounts

"Everyone, stop eating!" Jilan emerged from the darkness and addressed the group gathered around the fire, "It's time for us to set off!"

"Hey, are we leaving already?" Mina Ashido looked at the piece of meat in her hand with great reluctance, then took a bite, her face instantly swelling up. She threw the skewer into a trash bag and helped tidy up the fire. Of course, the trash bag was also made by Momo Yaoyorozu.

Tenya Iida cleaned up the leftovers, he reminded the people around him, "A fire on the mountain can lead to a police station down below. Don't be careless; make sure the fire is completely extinguished!"

Denki Kaminari didn't join the group. Instead, he put his arm around Jilan's neck and asked curiously, "By the way, Jilan, what were you doing just now?"

Jilan had Koji Koda release crows to scout the area, partly to check road conditions and partly to locate Bakugo, in case he passed out on the way before reaching the base. As for encountering Mr. Aizawa on the way and accidentally bringing him back, Jilan hadn't expected that.

Shota Aizawa seemed to not want anyone to know that he had been there, and instructed Jilan not to say anything. He wanted to observe in secret how Jilan and the others planned to reach the base.

Jilan turned Kaminari's car and said irritably, "Do I need to tell you I need to pee? Enough of that. Are you all ready over there? We're about to leave."

Denki Kaminari assured them, "Don't worry, we've been prepared to leave at any time!"

"We're all cleaned up too!" Mina Ashido shouted in response. Beside her, Iida was still squatting on the ground, picking up the scraps bit by bit.

Just then, a five-meter-tall magical beast emerged from the forest on the other side of the river, crossed the stream, and pounced towards the group!

At this critical moment, not a single person standing on the riverbank moved. Even the most timid Minoru Mineta stood still, staring blankly at the monster that was rushing towards them.

"Don't these guys have any sense of danger?!" Aizawa cursed under his breath, hiding in the shadows. He was about to go out and kill the monster when he suddenly saw a figure standing above the monster's head and immediately stopped.

That's Ochaco Uraraka.

"Quirk Discharge!"

Uraraka loosened her crossed hands, and the magical beast that had just leaped across the stream landed heavily, stopping in front of everyone. Just as it stretched out its hand to attack Jilan, who was standing in front of it, the magical beast stopped moving again.

Yaoyorozu emerged from above the monster, smiling and waving at the crowd, "Everyone, come on up!"

At the same time, two magical beasts leaped out of the forest, one of whom was Shoto Todoroki and the other was Izuku Midoriya.

This is the mode of transportation prepared by the students of Class A: the Earth Beast.

The American Shorthair's Quirk is "Earth Flow," which means it has the ability to manipulate clods of earth. Even if it can turn clods of earth into magical beasts to attack others, it still requires its own control. Remotely controlling several magical beasts to attack others from several kilometers away is incredibly powerful. If the American Shorthair had that kind of strength, it would have been number one long ago.

Therefore, Jilan guessed that she must have used some kind of device to make these Earth Beast able to attack automatically instead of being remotely controlled, and this device must be hidden somewhere on the monsters' bodies.

Since Warcraft is automatic, why can't we make ourselves controllable?

Jilan told Shoto Todoroki, Midoriya, and the others about his idea, and they all agreed that it was feasible. They then walked towards an inactive monster, not attacking it, but testing how to activate it and how to stop it.

After testing, Jilan discovered the characteristics of the monster: once someone enters its ten-meter range, the monster is activated and chases after that enemy. It will only stop chasing when the enemy is more than ten meters away and out of its line of sight.

Having learned about the monster's characteristics, Jilan used a trap to lure it into a deep pit, dismantling it from various parts until she finally discovered the control chip in its spine.

Yaoyorozu disassembled the chip and used a miniature computer Quirk created to alter the program written into it, switching the monster's attack mode to a pathfinding mode to locate the address of the person supplying the monster with magic power. Yaoyorozu then repeated this process, modifying the chips of two more monsters and writing tracking programs into them.

It was precisely because everyone found this method that they were able to leisurely stay here and barbecue. By utilizing the speed of the magical beasts, they could significantly shorten the time it took to reach the stronghold.

However, Jilan had no way of telling Shota Aizawa this.

The girls squeezed onto one of the three magical beasts, while the boys squeezed onto the other two. With Jilan's shout of "Go!", the three magical beasts ran through the forest in order. They seemed to have an automatic recognition system, able to automatically avoid obstacles and recognize themselves. Even when they passed by the Earth Beast that had never been activated, those magical beasts were not activated.

In less than twenty minutes, just seventeen minutes, the group had already rushed to the stronghold and could see the large wooden house in their sight.

At this moment, the American Shorthair was still sitting on the lounge chair in front of the cabin. Looking at her tactical goggles, which displayed the location of the magical beasts, she muttered softly, "Strange, how come three magical sources suddenly started running this way..."

Before the words were even finished, the rumbling of monsters approached the cabin. The American Shorthair straightened up and looked towards the source of the sound. Suddenly, she jumped up like a cat with its fur standing on end. "W-what's going on! Why are three of them running this way?!"

Instinctively, the American Shorthair raised a mud wall in front of itself and ran towards the wooden house, bumping right into the Mandalay that had come out after hearing the noise.

She grabbed the Mandalay's body in a panic and said, "Mandalay, something's wrong! Those monsters seem to have gone out of control!"

As Jilan and others guessed, she could create Earth Beast using her Quirk. Each time she created Earth Beast, it would consume most of her stamina, but she could keep these monsters alive for several days until the magic she imbued in the earth expired.

The magical beasts she deployed in the forest were the culmination of two or three months of work. She implanted identification chips into their bodies, so once they detected an enemy, they would immediately begin to attack. Most importantly, these magical beasts didn't distinguish between friend and foe; once activated, they would continue attacking until there were no enemies within their sensing range or they were killed by an enemy.

The tactical goggles on her face are part of the support equipment that works in conjunction with the identification chip.

Mandalay and American Shorthair were members of the same team, so they naturally knew the strengths and weaknesses of the Earth Beast she created. Hearing her say this, Mandalay also became serious, but immediately she received a sensor message from Aizawa.

"My students should be arriving soon; they're using magical beasts made by American Shorthair as transportation."

Mandalay relayed the news to American Shorthair, who breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately jumped up. "That's my ultimate move! How could someone else control it?!"

Jilan jumped off the monster and heard the American Shorthair meowing. He casually replied, "Isn't a finishing move something that gets countered?"