The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1147: Better Tanks

The Overlord Ranked Tanks were getting used to various people running toward the Darklight Host Manor, so it was no real shock when it was their turn to be called for by the Guild Masters.

”Ah, welcome everyone. How are we going to do this?” Guild Master Hugo greeted them as the Tanks entered.

Sapphire frowned at the number of warriors in the room. She was not writing that many books.

Not happening.

”I am going to teach Karl a new skill, and then he will use his affinity for beast and dragonkin to transfer it to all of you.” She decided.

Thor laughed as he came out to watch the show, and Karl took the opportunity to tease him.

[Done pouting about your Tessa being gone for the wedding planning?]

[I wasn’t pouting. It’s just not as fun when she’s not here.]

Then Thor spoke out loud. ”I will create a consecrated area that should make the spell transfer more effective.”

[Consecration] certainly wouldn’t hurt anything, Karl assumed.

Sapphire gave him the [Lay On Hands] book, and Karl opened the cover, learning the spell, while Tian snorted in derision.

[Such an inferior healing spell] He complained.

[It’s an introductory spell for warriors.] Karl reminded him.

That made sense to the little fox. Warriors tended to be brutish and dumb, but dangerous.

Thor activated the circle of holy magic around Karl, and motioned for the nearest warrior to come forward.

”One at a time, and Karl will teach as many of you the skill as possible.” Thor instructed.

The first of the tanks stepped forward in to the circle of holy light, and Karl extended his finger, while speaking in Ancient Dwarven.

{Poke!}

{Champion Karl offers Knowledge}

The Warrior looked stunned as he stepped back, and another man took his spot.

But it was more than just stunned, he was in the Class upgrade menu, as the application of the [Lay On Hands] skill had immediately triggered the option to advance to Paladin, and the System had been waiting multiple Ranks for him to get a skill that would unlock a class option.

Unlike Karl’s group, who went into the dungeon or Trial the moment that they suspected that they would be able to advance, these Warriors had been through the Dungeon hundreds of times after they became eligible.

They just didn’t have the qualifications to unlock any of the other classes.

Hugo realized what was going on the moment that the second man’s gaze went vacant, and arranged for the others to move them to a safe sitting spot while they explored the class options.

”Oh, this is wonderful. So many not warriors.” Sapphire sighed with a wistful expression.

Hugo chuckled. ”Are we doing all the warriors? Because I have a few mages who wouldn’t mind a chance to leave the basic class.”

Karl shrugged. ”It’s more likely to work with the lower level members. Most of the Totems and Myths should already have other skills that should have activated the option. But, if there are still some stuck in base classes, I can at least try.”

Hugo shook his head. ”I meant the Overlord Ranked Mages. The rest can work it out on their own, we recruited them for their skills.”

”If that’s the case, then I don’t see an issue with doing some of them later, when I have an appropriate skill picked to try to trigger an advancement. Mages are a bit more tricky, as there are so many ways that they can go.

But I only know a few options for Warriors. Either Paladin, Crusader, Berserker, or possibly Blood Knight. But I’m not sure that the skill I have in mind will trigger that last one.”

Hugo looked intrigued, but not nearly as excited as Sapphire.

”What do you think will trigger Blood Knight? Life Steal? That might do if you have an advanced version.” She suggested.

”I have Life Steal and Essence Transfer. Which is basically an advanced Life Steal. One of the two should be able to trigger the class, I think.” Karl agreed.

”What would you use to trigger Crusaders?” Hugo asked.

”Holy Blast.”

The Mage smiled. ”Yeah, that makes sense. If there is any spell that would create a Crusader from a warrior, that’s the one.”

Karl motioned for more of the Tanks to come forward so that they could finish their work for the evening. The success rate had been one hundred percent so far, and that was a wonderful sign for the experiments that Sapphire was hoping to run.

An hour later, they had a full team of Paladins, with no more standard warriors among the Tanks for the Overlord Ranked teams.

”You know, we’re going to ask you to at least try for the Totem Ranked Tanks, right? Perhaps not all Paladins, but there are still entry class Warriors among them.”

Karl shrugged. ”No harm in trying. If you want to bring them by, I can try now. Or I can get started on the gifts for our new Paladins.”

The Warriors had completely forgotten about that.

The class alone was a huge gift for them, so a free bit of gear was just an extra bonus, far beyond what they would have expected.

”Alright, bring the Totems over and let’s make them all not warriors. That should improve the next run’s results.

I don’t know what we’re going to do about the whole advanced Dungeon situation, though. If we improve the gear for all the Overlords, that will solve it easily enough, but it might be necessary to start giving out some improved skills to the damage dealers as well.

If the tanks are improved and still taking too much damage for the healers to work with, it’s either a gear issue, or the damage dealers slacking. But a couple of long duration damage skills, like Golems, can help make up for some of both of those issues.”

Sapphire nodded. ”All Mages should be Golem Mages at this point. There is no good reason for them not to be.”

Hugo gave her a confused look. ”You mean other than the fact that the local branch of the Church only sells five Golem Skill books a year?”

Sapphire shrugged. ”They’re a lot of work, and we don’t like doing it.”

Hugo chuckled. ”And now I have the real reason. But you have a point.

Not all Inscriptionists are in the Church Library, so someone should have managed to make a business of selling Golem Skill books by now.

They’re just hoarding them to drive the price up.”

”Drive the price up, you say?” Karl asked.

”I should have kept my mouth shut. But yes, The Golem Skill Book goes for as much as a Totem Ranked armour suit.”

Karl smiled. ”Well, I think that I can likely do it for a bit less than that. Guild Alliance special pricing. However, they have to bring snacks.”

They were getting desperately short on kitchen staff with all the new additions.