The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1229: Everyone’s Invited

”The mana here is nice. Did you cast some sort of protective spell on the house?” Lyric asked as she watched Lotus and Button vanish into the kitchen.

”More than one. But part of the mana here is that it’s next to the lake, which puts off a huge amount of elemental mana that mingles with the leaking mana from the dungeons.” Karl explained.

Lyric nodded. ”I have no idea what that means, but I like it.”

Explaining to the Elf that the area around a Dungeon always had higher concentrations of mana, and that with so many Mythic Ranked Dungeons in the area, Zilaz was a virtual heaven for mana users, could be done later.

”For now, don’t worry about it. Let’s party and celebrate a pair of Mythic advancements. I’m sure that the rest of the Alliance will be glad to hear it, even if just because Dana has three different types of Golems.” Karl joked.

Raj snapped his fingers. ”That’s right! I heard that you knew a new Golem spell. Do the blue dragons know yet?”

Dana laughed and pointed at Sapphire, who was smirking at them.

The Librarian had already pleaded for Dana to make skill books for all the special skills and class skills that she knew so that they could advance more mages into battle mage related tracks.

Dana might focus more on her Golems and ranged combat, but her class was actually exceptionally melee capable.

You could call it a side effect of being surrounded by good friends that she never needed to go forward to hold the line, and that nothing ever got through to attack the healers in the back with her.

But the end result was the same. The golems used her blade skills more than she did.

”You have a point. Not only did they make Mythic, but they’re newlyweds. Did you have plans for a honeymoon vacation?” Hugo asked.

Karl shrugged at the big mage. ”Well, we tried a vacation while we were on a mission for Matilda, but that turned out to be more work than vacation. So, perhaps we will lounge around the house for a bit. Perhaps spend time in the Tiny World, so there are fewer distractions.

Now that I’m at the Mythic Rank, I can likely expand that Tiny World even more again, giving us more room to roam. But I’m not in a hurry to do that yet.

A whole week without getting out of bed except to eat sounds good to me.”

Hugo nodded. ”And then when you get out, you’ll have a whole load of equipment requests to catch up on, and demands that you make another trial tower.

Word of the one that you made for the Golden Dragon Nation is spreading fast, and everyone wants one.”

Karl frowned. ”How would they even learn about it here?”

None of the people from the Dragon Isles had been present when he made the tower.

”Did you think that the Church was isolated? Dragons love nothing more than gossip. Every cleric from the Dragon Church knew that you were getting married, they all know that you’re Mythic now, and that you made a sort of repeatable trial tower for the Golden Dragon Nation with golems and illusions to fight.” Hugo explained, and all the clerics put on their best innocent faces.

Even Sapphire shrugged, as if to say that it wasn’t her fault, just something inevitable.

Karl sighed. ”Then I suppose I should think of a place to put a new one.”

Sapphire waved her hand dismissively. ”No need for that. Let them argue, and someone will come tell you the decision eventually. The Dragon Gods and Beast Gods adherents are having a discussion about it now.

The Dragons already have one, but it’s at Totem Rank. So, the Beast Gods want one as well. The answer will most likely be that they want it in Gathuzan or Nerud.

Gathuzan is Divine Beast territory, and Nerud is mostly under the Spider Goddess, but the other Beast Gods are also worshipped there.”

Karl nodded. ”Well, I don’t really see an issue with it. I’m sure that they can find some appropriate method of payment.”

Nacht snorted as he stifled laughter, and Karl shared a smile with him.

It wasn’t hard to guess what the old dragon was thinking. Now that Karl had a whole space full of baby dragons, he didn’t need to go looking for them anymore. But the most likely price for a priceless treasure was to offer him a cub from one of the Divine Beast Royal Lineages.

Unlike the dragons, who were guided by their patron, and would eventually grow up well on their own, the Divine Beasts usually needed guidance to stay on track and reach their potential.

Karl was an excellent choice for that mission, as he already had so many other wildly successful beasts in his care.

Just based on his track record, they would treat him well.

Drinks were brought out by the house staff, and someone called in the bards to play for the evening. A regular band was an option, but the actual bards could use their magic to refresh and revitalize the party goers, keeping the event going longer, and keeping anyone from getting excessively drunk and causing a scene.

Well, too big of a scene because there was bound to be one with so many big egos in one room, even when they were all friends.

The drunker they got, the more that they needed a reason to compete over something, and more than one challenge had to be moved to the roof of the compound, which had been reinforced with protective barriers for just this sort of thing.

But that gave Karl a great idea to meditate on when he took Dana to bed.

Instead of a full-fledged trial tower, Zilaz would likely do better with an arena, where you could enter to fight a challenge against either a real person or an artificial challenger.

With spectators and betting.

Because Zilaz.