The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 869: Why Not Bring Them?

Ashbringer sighed. ”I have a noncombat type class. Bringing me into the Dungeon would only be dead weight. However, bringing Karl is as good as a half dozen Overlords on his own. He can bring his bonded beasts with him as a single person count.”

The Dwarves looked impressed at that one.

”Thatʼs even better than the Golem mages, who can summon extra fighters.” One of them noted.

”I can do that as well. Golems, bodyguards which can use skills, plus the beasts, with their carefully curated selection of abilities.” Karl explained.

”That is just incredibly overpowered. If you brought a few healers and tank type classes, you could likely do the dungeon with only half the usual number of Overlords. But itʼs still best to bring all ten.

The dungeon is a unique one, in the way that it rewards its entrants.

There is no loot on the creatures at all. When you finish the run, everyone is rewarded for their participation, and there is a cap. We tried sending a Totem Ranked Golem mage through with just his four constructs, and he didnʼt get any more than a single individual did when we sent three of them together.”

Karl nodded in understanding. ”So there are rewards for doing better, but the rewards for carrying an under levelled or non-contributing group are capped.

You know, taking the young Demons through the Dungeon here really helps them grow. I wonder if I could bring a half group of Overlords and then pad the numbers with weaker Guild Members?

As long as theyʼre doing something, they should get some reward.”

The old Dwarf laughed. ”You mean, if theyʼre not ensnared by the spiders and eaten, right? You still need a body to resurrect them.”

Karl shrugged. ”I have an Overlord Ranked group barrier skill. As long as they donʼt draw too much attention, they shouldnʼt be targeted.

But I get your point. It might be too much risk to take a Commander Rank Demoness through the dungeon.

Especially when there is no loot for them to pick up for us.”

The Dwarf chuckled. ”Yes, itʼs a bit odd not to need a pack mule for a Dungeon of this size.

We have other instances nearby as well, but theyʼre all of the more conventional sort, and the groups bring a few miners with them to collect ores until the timer is almost up.

If you stay in too long, you lose everything that you collected, and youʼre ejected.”

Karl didnʼt know that. But he had never tried to sleep in a Dungeon, or anything of that nature. The trial instances did have a time limit on them, though. So it made sense that there would be a limit on the Dungeons, and perhaps a much shorter one, as they would let you in more frequently.

If you could go all the time, there wasnʼt really a reason why the Dungeon should let you just live in it rent-free.

Then the old man gestured to the Governor. ”We still have a dayʼs worth of negotiations to finish here. I will come get you tomorrow morning once weʼre finished.”

Karl bowed and prepared to head for the door, ignoring the pleading look that the Governor was giving him.

He was much better at dealing with the dwarves than Governor Shin was. They loved to pick on him, and he simply could not understand their sense of humour. Even worse, they ordered the most awful food.

Governor Shin couldnʼt stand the taste of Ale to begin with, but the Dwarves would boil meat and potatoes in it as a form of seasoning.

Just the smell of it was enough to make formal events torture. Now, if they would agree to have the meat braised in wine... that would be different.

Karl and Ashbringer returned to the Guild House in high spirits. They had obtained a whole list of rare materials from the Dwarves, and now they were going to get access to the Dungeon, full of Overlord Ranked steel and other materials for crafting.

Karl could loot the place dry every other day for all that Ashbringer cared. The more materials the merrier, and he could turn it all into item blanks and refined bars for the sculptors to work with.

[Rae, how is Thorʼs run through the dungeon going? We finished with the Governorʼs office, and we arranged to leave tomorrow morning to go to an Overlord Ranked Dungeon.] Karl asked.

[Overlord Ranked Consecrated Ground is broken. Or maybe itʼs the change to [Eternal Lightning]? The Ogres are half dead even before anyone hits them.] Rae replied with glee.

She was running a tutorial on the proper way to restrain Ogres with [Entangling Vines], which was essentially turning the Ogres into smashing posts for Thor, and lance targets for Tessa and her spear.

It couldnʼt really be called a fight when they were held in place with their hands restrained, but Thor was having a lot of fun in the Dungeon today.

Karl laughed at the series of mental images Rae was sending to him. Even though his feet werenʼt round and stompy anymore, he was still just as happily prancing around after tearing the Ogres apart.

Karl wasnʼt sure if that was the appropriate way to flirt with a War Priestess, but it seemed to be working fairly well on Tessa. She appeared to be having just as much fun as Thor was, and they were nearly done the Dungeon already.

Thor had also learned a great new trick. [Blockade] didnʼt have to be a stationary skill. He could target the location on himself and use it like a plow or a battering ram.

The only trick that he was still trying to master was using [Behemoth] on other targets.

But there was a minor issue. [Unobtrusive Behemoth] reduced size by up to ten times. [Behemoth] increased volume by ten times, which was closer to a doubled length and height.

Even if he could use it on Tessa, their base sizes were so different that he still couldnʼt be max size in combat without turning her into an assistant.

In short, Tessa needed ranged Holy Damage. Maybe a bow. That way she could shoot at things from the back of a Giant Thor and not have to strain herself reaching with a spear.