The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1017: But What If We Did?

The evening passed quietly for everyone, as Rae worked to recover from her bath, and harden her new shell.

The visual changes were subtle, just a bit more shine to her chitin. But the composition was completely different, with the innate blessing of the Totem Ranked beasts imbued into every cell. That explained to her why the effect couldnʼt be dispelled.

The divine blessing became part of you, not an effect that was placed upon you. So, it couldnʼt be removed from you any more than another body part.

Tian was confused by the concept. He was born this way, so he had never considered that others could just adapt and gain the innate blessings of the Stonefur Divine Fox species.

The Karl had done it, but he was a strange creature to begin with, and Rae was a spider. Tian thought that he understood how spiders worked. At least until he saw Rae advance.

They used to have one that guarded the door to the den, while his mother lured prey for it to eat.

But now they had another Totem Ranked group member, and a powerful one. Rae was a bit of a scary sister, but she was an excellent fighter, and she had her golems to help her. Totem Ranked Golem creatures were overpowered.

Then Tian turned his attention to the Dana Mage.

She also had Golems. There should be some way to make her more powerful as well so that she could make stronger Golems. She was what they called a Monarch, but it wasnʼt that far from Overlord. If she became an Overlord, her Golems would be strong enough to guard the door to the den, like his motherʼs spider had.

Tian gently brushed his tail with a comb made of earth magic as he pondered that dilemma.

If only his mother were here, she would know how to do it.

No, he couldnʼt get lost in reminiscing about things that were no longer possible. He would have to come up with the answer himself.

[Why are you trying to buff our Dana Mage?] Hawk asked curiously.

[To watch the door of the den, of course.] Tian explained.

Hawk thought about the possibilities.

[Maybe we arenʼt feeding her well enough? Humans are strange, you have to feed them very specific diets because they canʼt digest all the good stuff directly. I think Sister Remi was working on something.] Hawk suggested.

Tianʼs ears perked up. [Oh, that gives me a good idea. Rae upgrades her bloodline when she has a bath. I have a divine bloodline. So, if we get Remi to make a potion with some of my fur, and then soak the Dana Mage in it, shouldnʼt she advance?]

Hawk paused. Would that work?

[We are going to have to ask Sister Remi when she wakes up.]

Rae watched her two idiot brothers making plans, and shook her head.

[Evolving like I do has side effects. Arenʼt you worried about what it will turn the Dana Mage into?]

Tian fluffed up happily. [If itʼs made with Fox fur, wouldnʼt she just get cuter?]

Rae mentally frowned. It was scary that the little fur ball made sense. Dana would be cute with fox ears.

So, when Remi woke up in the morning, they began to plot.

Remi knew the process to force an advancement when you were at the bottleneck. Dana wasnʼt even close to that point, but the concept was the same. You could flood them with improved mana quality and force the body to adapt.

Then you needed to heal it to seal that gain in.

But that would be pointless if their body could only make a tiny advancement at a time, like breaking a bottleneck. So they would need a catalyst.

That was where Tianʼs fur came in.

If she added a Divine Lineage beastʼs fur to the mix, it might make the imbiber a bit more Fox, but the potion should also give her a bit of the little brotherʼs ability to store increasingly large amounts of mana.

Out of all of them, Tian was already the most powerful magic user, though his tiny body hardly held any mana at all, and he was still learning to use ambient mana from the book that Remi had given him.

But Dana already knew that trick.

So, with some work in her lab, Remi was certain that she could come up with something that was both safe and effective, but it would have to be tailored to the user.

Cara helpfully snipped a bit of Danaʼs hair with her claw as she lay in the hammock with Dana in between her and Karl. That should match with Tianʼs fur to make the potion. But they had limited time to plan.

Soon, Karl would be up, and he would definitely reprimand them for wanting to experiment on his Dana Mage.

If they didnʼt want to get lectured, they needed to work fast.

Fortunately for them, Thor was still sleeping. He was terrible at keeping secrets and Remi knew that he had a whole moral system that seemed designed to take all the fun out of experiments.

So, she started on the potion right away, using the past experiments that she had done with various forms of mana recovery potions, as well as healing, stamina and recovery potions.

Remi knew what almost all the ingredients she had available did, though there were possibly additional uses for some of them that she hadnʼt found useful yet.

So, it was with great confidence that she produced a glowing silver potion an hour later. It sparkled with embedded runes and the holy magic leaking from the sample of Tianʼs fur that had been dissolved into it. But the fancy appearance shouldnʼt hurt anything.

Now, she just needed a good way to get Dana to drink it without making anyone suspicious. If they tipped off the others, and it didnʼt work, they might not let her have another chance to upgrade the Dana Mage.