The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1068: Naga King?

The first of the Shaman Elders returned within a minute, pointing excitedly at a picture in a book that appeared to be an ancient book of Naga Fairytales.

{I found it. There was a Naga King. THE Naga King. He was a Legendary Rank hero from another world who saved the Naga race from the aggression of the Lizardfolk Warlord Sshithssal. Then he simply vanished.

I know it’s just a story, but it might be based on reality.

If there were a pure Royal Lineage, with both male and female Royals, then we really might have lost something important.} He blurted out before his body had even stopped swaying from the sudden stop.

Lotus nodded in satisfaction. She knew that her knowledge would be correct, even if she didn’t know the Naga that well.

[Remi, how are things going?] Karl asked.

[They’re doing some sort of ceremony to wake the Shaman Goddess so that I can be instated as a full Queen of the Naga.] Remi replied, distractedly.

Lotus pulled the edge of the book down so she could see it, then stole the ancient tome from the Shaman and turned it to face the group.

“Look, it’s that guy!”

She was right. That image was definitely of the Naga King in the Dungeon. Every detail was exact, so whoever had drawn it had seen him.

“I believe that the story was not quite what you expected. That drawing is exactly the same as the Naga King in the dungeon, right down to the markings on his head. So, I think that whoever wrote it had been there, and had made up the story afterward to explain what they had seen.”

{So, it’s real. It’s really real, and verified that a Naga King once existed.} The elder Shaman breathed quietly.

He was lost in thought, but the other Shamans waited for him, as they all had much to process before they said or did anything else.

Oddly, it was one of the servants who connected the dots first out of anyone.

{Master Solomon? If the young Queen was placed in a dungeon by the Gods, what will happen when the welcoming ceremony ends?} She whispered, but not quietly enough for Karl and the majority of the group to miss it.

The Shamans were immediately alarmed. How were they supposed to know that? What if the Goddess was upset that someone had brought her out? Worse, what if she sided with Queen Remi and turned on the Temple residents?

There was an ancient school of thought that the Dungeons were actually a preservation method, to remind people what the original members of the various cultures lived and looked like.

Had the other Shamans already informed her of the breeding program? Or had they wanted to wait until after she was initiated and the Goddess’ influence was stronger?

[The Shaman Goddess is really friendly. She says that there is a reverse scale to the Apocalypse spell, and Brother Hawk is going to hate it.] Remi cheered.

[So, their ritual worked?] Karl asked, while watching the Shamans silently conferring about the servant’s speculation.

[Yep, it worked well. It’s not done yet, though. She says I’m going to get a present.]

The Shaman Elders were looking nervous, and the Guild Leaders all gave Karl matching ‘This is about to get sketchy’ sorts of looks. But before anyone said anything, a surge of Divine power from the far side of the complex slammed into them.

The Naga prostrated themselves, and everyone under Totem Rank was forced to their knees, while Karl resisted the urge, but bowed under the pressure.

The Mythic Guild Members were showing the strain as well, but they were all seated, so their positions didn’t change much.

Then, the power was gone, and the distinct feeling of an advancement filled Remi’s space.

Sudden shouts of panic filled the temple complex, and then alarms began to blare while someone began to ring a gong, causing chaos in the room.

“What is happening?” Deve demanded as he leapt to his feet with sword and shield in his hand.

The elder Shaman flailed his hands wildly. {Please calm down. I don’t know what happened yet. That is the emergency alarm, but they are ringing the gongs for intruders on the loose inside the city, instead of the bell for invasion.

Our Temple Guards will protect this area, please rest assured that you are in no immediate danger.}

In her space, Remi downed one of her own diluted advancement potions in an attempt to stabilize her advancement and get a bit of extra power boost, then watched the situation from Karl’s point of view.

Follow new episodes on the ””.

It was only getting more intense outside, and then an explosion in one of the temples alerted Karl to the fact that this might not just be about Remi vanishing from the Temple.

That had been his first assumption, and the reaction of the Naga would have been somewhat justified. But it appeared that they really were having issues.

The sound of explosions became the sound of combat in the streets, and then guards were surrounding the building. They barricaded the doors, locking the Elder Shamans inside with Karl and his group.

Deve gave Karl a confused shrug. “Well, it looks like we’re not the threat they were so worried about.”

The elder Shaman turned to him. {What do you mean?}

“You’ve all been acting off all day, and we thought that you might be trying to abduct one of our allied Guild members. But that doesn’t seem to be the case.” The Druid explained.

The Naga looked embarrassed. {Well, I admit we intended to ask her to stay with us, but there was no violence in the plan. Do you have contact with her? Is the young Queen alright? Is she in danger?}

Karl smiled and shook his head. “When she advanced, she went home to consolidate her gains. She’s not in any danger.”

One of the Shaman Elders sighed, while the servants quietly laughed. The Elders had been talking all day about how they had such big plans to recruit the Queen to stay at the Temple, and she just went home when she got what she wanted. So fast that nobody could even try to stop her.

It was very much Regal behaviour. The opinions of lesser Naga were irrelevant when they contradicted her will.

Of course, they didn’t know that Karl meant a separate mental space right here. The assumption that everyone else, including the Guild Leaders, had made was that she had returned to Drodh.

After an advancement, it could take days before your power was stable enough to be fully active, and most people preferred to sleep off the change in their own bed if possible.

Which was exactly what Remi planned to do.

But on her altar, with the new statue of the Naga Shaman Goddess she had obtained to accompany the old lucky statue she had.