The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1093: Always Time To Snack

Lotus brought out a tray of small sandwiches and placed it on the table.

”If we’ve got a few hours before the run, we have time for a snack. Come, sit down, and let’s talk about the Dungeon.” She insisted.

Hugo motioned to Karl, suggesting that they should leave.

Karl nodded and gestured to the new crafters. ”Let’s bring you down to the basement and get you working in your proper shops. Guild Master, would you like to join us? I will be spending some time working while the others head off to test their skills.”

”Of course. It’s always interesting to watch a master in action, even if I don’t know exactly what you are doing.” Hugo agreed.

When they got downstairs, the Gargoyles greeted them happily, bumping up against the new arrivals for attention, and Karl realized that their personality certainly wasn’t set by the spell, as the group at the Guild House were very silent and serious, sitting on the walls watching for intruders.

These ones were happy to meet people, as long as someone from the Guild was with them.

”This is our workspace?” One of the new arrivals asked in wonder.

”Actually, this is the landing area. There is a portal to the Drodh Guild House over there, and this area is security before you pass through to the work areas or the Villa. If you exit the maze, you will be in the actual room.” Karl explained.

”What a fascinating use of the Illusionary Domain spell. What happens if someone breaks the domain?” Hugo asked.

”Then they get to deal with the defensive barriers and a dozen enraged Gargoyles. The other end is a single target platform to our Guild House, so I’m not expecting too much trouble through this portal.” Karl agreed.

Hugo smiled. ”It would be quite the convenience for the Warriors, though. The ability to go all the way to Drodh in a single jump.”

”The great disadvantages to being a warrior, you’re at the mercy of the Mages to get around more quickly. But as I can use the Portal spell, it’s more about the amount of the world that I have seen than the actual distance.” Karl agreed.

Hugo shook his head in response to Karl’s comment. ”No, I meant that the Naraleddum Lake Region is notoriously hard to travel in and out of with magic, due to the instability from the Dungeon Portals. Most mages have to go to Sholaha City first to get far enough away to use a longer range spell.

Well, that or go to Khizdila in Nulnalgat. But that attracts too much attention when it’s a Mythic group going somewhere.

So, we usually send assistants when we need something, and that is a gigantic headache. But with your people in the Alliance, we can likely request someone as a personal shopper, to deliver to your house here for our people to pick up.

Even if there is a substantial delivery fee, it will most likely be cheaper than getting it locally for anything under Overlord Ranked, and who needs to do that much expensive shopping?”

Karl nodded. ”I get it now. Because of the fees, everything is balanced around the income from Totem and Mythic Dungeons. So, even the most common of items are expensive.”

Hugo nodded. ”If we pick them up in Sholaha, we can save a bit. But who has time to search out a powerful mage to go get toiletries and new socks? Plus, you need to be good friends to convince someone to go shopping for socks with you.”

Karl laughed. ”We’ve got staff at the Guild House, and I can hire one or two more so that they can do all the shopping you need. It might make the front room look a bit like a general store, but I would prefer to only send Guild Members through that portal, as it leads to a secure location, and the guards there wouldn’t react well to strangers.”

Hugo shrugged. ”That’s fine by me. If they don’t live here, they don’t have to be paid the full local rate, either. It will make delivery cheaper. I can give you a map of the compound, so they can do door to door deliveries as well. I’m sure that our Alliance members probably tip better than Drodh Food Delivery workers usually get.”

Karl sent a brief message to Caretaker Jo, informing her of the situation, and the Demoness was quick to respond that she could add it to the morning routine.

[Hire two more shoppers. Mara is too small to do all the deliveries, even with a cart. There are a thousand Guild members here who need random stuff. You can let her deliver it to the house here if you want.]

Mara, the small gecko lizardfolk girl they had taken in as the caretaker’s apprentice, was under a metre and a half tall, and not yet ten years old. While she had the enthusiasm, she was not well suited to carrying supplies up the stairs.

It was a moment before Jo replied. [The Kitchen staff have someone in mind to be our full-time errand runner. They have a Class, so they can put the items in inventory, and then Wendy has volunteered to do the deliveries.

She’s quite excited to see the new location, and all the people who have been on the road.]

Wendy was a Commander Rank member of the Runecrafting team, so she was actually quite busy. But she was also very fond of seeing new things and learning new magic. Both of which were common here.

The assistants had mostly finished exploring the garden, and were headed out the sides of the hedge maze, while Hugo waited for Karl to finish his silent conversation.

”I’ve got it all sorted. They’ll hire two shoppers, and then my apprentice will bring the goods here to make the deliveries.”

”You have an apprentice? Not just Guild Crafters, like these ones?”

Karl smiled. ”Well, I am a bit neglectful. But there are a few who are closer than others. One of the sculptors and one of the Runecrafting apprentices. You’ll see when she arrives.

Do you have an initial shopping list?”

Hugo looked sheepish as he held out the paper. As he had said, it was a bit embarrassing to ask a powerful mage to go shopping for necessities.