The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1298  Wendy Loves Magic

Wendy, the teen Oni Demon from the Runecrafting team, came over with a hug for Dana, who spun her in circles, laughing. ”You know, we should get a gift for you too. I know how you love new spells. Now, what sort of spell do you need?” Dana teased the diminutive Demoness.

”I want the flames too! Iʼm a Demon, a real demon. There is no reason that I canʼt have a cool new fireball.”

Karl shrugged and activated the skill again.

{Champion Karl Offers Knowledge} Skill [Dark Flame] will be transferred to the inquisitive sorceress Wendy.

Wendyʼs expression went blank, and Karl realized that she had been sent into the class change interface. She was only a Royal Rank Mage, and recently advanced, but it appeared that the new spell was enough to grant her a new class choice.

Sapphire watched carefully with her notepad at the ready. It might not be part of her planned experiments, but it was a skill triggered advancement, and it needed to be documented for their reports. If Dark Flame, a spell that a huge number of Demons would be compatible with, was an advanced class trigger, it needed to be prioritized right behind the Golem spells.

The sound of crashing behind him distracted Karl just in time to catch Mage Jones, who had sensed the change in his daughter and came running through a portal too fast to stop.

”Oop, there you go. Relax, she just got a new spell and it activated the class change menu. There is no danger to Wendy.” Karl explained as he caught the Oni Demon, who looked very human with his magical wig on.

The Mage shook his head. ”I think that it changed something. I can sense the imbalance in her power, turning away from pure arcane magic.”

Karl frowned. ”The new spell she requested is a form of Unholy Fire. Itʼs very suitable for Demons of all sorts, but more to the Wrath Demons than most others, as theyʼre already so fire friendly.”

Wendyʼs dad nodded. ”Then it shouldnʼt be harmful, I assume. But Oni Demons arenʼt innately Unholy aligned, weʼre a form of Magic Demon, so weʼre Arcane aligned. However, Wendy spends too much time with the blue dragons and Hugo, that Guild Master from Zilaz. Theyʼve all been teaching her random new spells every week, and I canʼt keep up with it anymore.”

Dana laughed and gave him a consoling pat on the back. ”Your little girl is growing up. But Wendy has an insatiable lust for knowledge that the dragons canʼt resist helping her with, and Hugo just wants someone to nerd out about spell theory with.”

The mage chuckled at Danaʼs description. That did sound an awful lot like his Wendy. She was incredibly good at making friends, when she got a chance to, but if you gave her a chance to discuss magic, she wouldnʼt stop.

Slowly, Wendyʼs eyes fluttered open, and Karl realized that she was finished with the screen, but immersed in her new skill options, and spending any saved skill points that she had.

She had Runecrafting as a trade skill, and making items could give her skill points, he knew. So, she might actually have quite a few of them saved with how hard she worked to show off her skills.

”Well, what did you decide on?” Karl asked once the young mage was finally finished with all her advancement related decisions.

”Well, it gave me a whole bunch of class options, but most of them are basic mage related ones. Now, that is fun, and I love new spells. But they were kind of similar to the spells I already know, you know?

So, I decided on one that was a little different. The class is called ʼDemonic Array Masterʼ, and it lets me use my Runecrafting to write spells in the air with Dark Flames to create spell circles.

Big flashy spells with long-lasting effects, like making magical items, but without the item.”

Wendy was clearly proud of her class choice as she took out a wand and wrote out a defensive ward in the air, surrounding herself with a black barrier.

”See? Itʼs even stronger than my usual barriers because I know so much about Runes, and I can just write out the effect I want.” She declared.

Her father nodded. ”Theyʼre a bit slow, but very impressive. At the Royal Rank, there shouldnʼt be many that can overcome your array.”

Of course, she didnʼt have to stay at the Royal Rank forever. Remi had potions that would help her advance once she was closer to the bottleneck. But she had already used one to get past Commander Rank, and she was still a growing girl. Even Remi didnʼt want to risk messing up her progress too much. It might make her grow too fast and stop being small and adorable.

That was not the part that her father was concerned about. Now that his research obsessed daughter could just write arrays in the air, wouldnʼt that encourage her to spend more time wandering off with that oversized mage instead of coming home for family dinners?

She was supposed to be living two minutes from his house, where she could come home for visits whenever he wanted, not on the other side of a Portal and halfway across a continent with a Mythic Mage backing her up.

How was he supposed to compete with that?

Though Karl didnʼt truly understand the manʼs dilemma, he could clearly see the concern in Mage Jonesʼ face.

”Why donʼt you invite Hugo over one day? Heʼs quite friendly, and Iʼm sure that heʼd love to meet his new friendʼs family.” Karl suggested.

Wendy clapped her hands excitedly. ”Oh, we can show him the new dishes that we have found. There are so many options now that we have Mythic Cooks in the kitchen, and not everyone likes the same stuff that the Demons and Dwarves do, so he might not have tried it yet.”

That sounded like a dangerous proposal to Karl. Who knew what sort of dishes the kitchen had cooked up when left unsupervised. Or worse, when supervised by Lotus.