The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1078: Theatre Setup

Tian was currently upstairs with Opal’s illusions, making theatre seating and a stage.

Tian made the chair frames, Opal made the cushions.

It could have all been illusionary, but they had decided that it was better if the chairs themselves were real so that they could be more easily rearranged later. Opal would be concentrating on the show, so if she made the room as one large illusion, then it would cause extra work and mana drain on her when people changed the furniture positions.

But if she just linked independent illusions to the chairs, it didn’t matter if people messed with them. At worst, someone might break the spell on their own chair.

Rae used [Shadow Step] to go join them, and offered up piles of cushions, instead of using illusions. She had made thousands of them, testing theories, and she could spin up a hundred chair cushions in minutes.

That left Opal free to focus on the stage that Tian had set up, while the fox and spider arranged chairs on large platforms so that each row was slightly higher than the one in front, like a proper theatre.

They couldn’t have any bad seats for the show, after all.

Tian did make the whole structure slide back together, so it could be placed against the wall. Then he didn’t have to make it twice, and they could just store the chairs in someone’s space until they were ready to use them again. Or put them in a row in front, but that didn’t look as good.

Karl worked as fast as he could to make the mages matching Robes, all to the same Totem Rank, Epic Grade standard as the demo set.

It would be strange to have so many people in armour with the exact same stats, but there really wasn’t anything else that the mages needed, other than even better armour with a spell effect attached. That would take much longer, and Karl would charge a fortune for it. So, nobody had pushed the matter.

Besides, they didn’t want to annoy their bosses by paying to buy up armour as good as what the new Guild had made for the Mythic Rank mages.

A few could afford to. But they had heard that the Runemaster also made excellent weapons and accessories, so they could just come back and place a custom order with him later. That would let them have just what they needed for their own specialties.

Word spread fast through the Alliance about the actual state of the Darklight Host.

There weren’t many of them, but they weren’t to be trifled with.

Their Guild Leader had some sort of crazy support class, and the Runemaster trade skill. The fact that he could simply add a skill that he knew as a usable skill on a piece of equipment was enough to nearly make the Alliance members vomit blood in envy.

Over half of them were still stuck with the basic warrior class, and Skill Book drops rarely happened in any of the Dungeons they had access to. Plus, the Librarians only had a handful of useful skills for them, and they all had them, unless they were very young.

There were rumours that one of the Mythic Dungeons dropped skill books, but if it was true, nobody was putting them up for sale, or giving them to the blue dragons to be duplicated.

Of course, it was possible that the items bonded to the person who got them and simply couldn’t be given away.

Karl had finished with the mage outfits and was started on the first few of the leather armour sets that Rae had provided for the Rogues when the Alliance members began to return for the show.

{Are the preparations ready? Opal’s butler just led the first guests inside.} Karl asked with a Guild message.

{All good. There are food and drinks, as well as illusionary servers. The show is ready, the chairs are ready, and everyone is set to welcome them and meet new people. Except Cara. Cara is napping.} Tian replied.

That could be either good or bad.

Either she wasn’t interested in meeting all these strangers at the same time, or she felt that she needed some extra energy for whatever she had planned for later.

With the Chaos Badger sleeping, it was impossible to tell by her thoughts.

“Welcome, welcome. Mages, please come get your robes and dresses, I have them all prepared. If there are any Rogue type classes, or agility fighters who prefer light leather armour, I have a few samples on hand for you to look at. Warriors, we will have some armour samples for you tomorrow afternoon.” Karl declared as more guests began to pour in the large wooden double doors.

“How does this count as protection?” One of the rogues asked, looking at a piece that was little more than a leather bra with transparent silk and a few straps to hold weapons and gear between it and the tight-fitting pants.

“It’s Totem Ranked Spider Silk, no easier to cut through than the leather. Not great against bludgeoning attacks, but the suit has excellent damage reduction.” Karl explained.

One of the warriors chuckled as he looked at the armour. “I’ve seen this style before. It’s incredibly popular with the Obsession Demons. They’re twice as agile as the average dragonkin or beastkin, and this style lets them keep all their weapons handy without slowing them down.

It doesn’t matter how bad your armour is against clubs when nobody can hit you.”

Rae came to join them and nodded happily.

“If someone his beating the rogues with a club, the warriors have already failed at their task. It’s more important that the damage dealers are unrestricted in their killing than it is for them to waste potential bonus points on defence.

I already compromised on the design by having the runes for damage reduction added, instead of a bonus to edged weapon damage, which could have been an extra fifteen percent of base damage, on top of the other damage bonuses.” She explained.

“You are the Leatherworker?” The warrior asked, only slightly disturbed by the aura of this strange humanoid monster.

Rae nodded. “I am also the one who spun the silk. All of these are my precious masterpieces.”

That brought the mages over to thank her for her hard work. Everyone had changed into their new outfits to show off their purchases to their teammates. With Rae’s fashion sense, that didn’t make the event seem any less flashy, especially once the mages started storing mana in their new robes, which made the runes and sparkling threads shine in the dim light until the mages figured out how to hide the effect.