The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1086: Lala’s Cool Skill

Ophelia put the girl down, but kept Lotus in her arms as the Cleric took out a rolled pancake and offered her a bite.

”Please, do come in. We will meet everyone over breakfast. But first, do we have any idea what skill everyone hoped to gain?” Karl asked.

”The cool one!” They all replied in unison.

Ophelia laughed as she munched on the pancake, then licked Lotus’ fingers clean.

”It looks like you’ve got your work cut out for you then, Monster Man. You’ve got the cool skill.” She joked.

”Better question, who has a class or skill that can create solid objects permanently?” Karl tried.

Again, all their hands went up.

Karl activated the nameplates in his System Interface and tried not to laugh.

Every single one was in a pale yellow colour, and when Karl inspected them, they were listed as ”Phantom Path Rogue”.

”What is the skill that creates something solid and permanent?” Karl asked.

The Bunny held out her hands and two items appeared.

A kitchen knife and a broom.

”Really?”

The girl nodded. ”It can be any sort of nonmagical tool. I can even make daggers and short swords or bows.”

Well, that wasn’t as terrible as Karl had feared.

Plus, it should have remarkable synergy with the skills of a Runemaster if the addition of the Runes didn’t cause problems with the created tools. But the fact that she had thought of household tools first told Karl that this group was not made up of people who should be sent into a Dungeon.

Deve led everyone inside, while Karl took count of the new applicants.

There were twelve in total, all Royal Ranked. They all had the same class, which was odd, as it was an uncommon subclass, but more importantly, they were all small for their species, and young.

None were full-grown adults, and most were dragonkin boys, but there were four bunny girls that the others seemed protective of.

Tessa had heard the chaos, and was already working on bringing out more breakfast for everyone. She kept food stored in her inventory, so most of it just needed heating for a short notice meal.

Even when it was for a dozen starving students.

”Alright, everyone, meet our new students. Everyone, introduce yourself.” Karl insisted.

And they all panicked.

Deve chuckled. ”Welcome to part one of the ’why they have issues in a Guild setting’ show. Every single one of them has major social anxiety.”

Karl smiled at them. ”That’s alright, I can actually see your names with the System Interface. Though there are some issues. I don’t know if some of these names are a joke of some sort, or if I don’t get the pronunciation.

There are four girls, all named variations of Lala, and eight boys named variations of Ahmed.”

The bunny girl who had been brave enough to peek around Deve nodded happily.

”Lala is the name of our Goddess, and Ahmed The Third is the current King of Sholaha. There are plenty of boys named after him because it’s supposed to bring good fortune and strength.” She explained.

”Alright. We will find individual nicknames for everyone as we go. But first, get a good breakfast because I’m going to introduce you all to Runecrafting and start your training while I renovate the work area.” Karl insisted.

Deve smiled as he took a seat at the table.

”You don’t mind if I hang around for that, do you? I’m intrigued both by your confidence that they can learn a trade skill, and by what you might do to your Villa.” He explained.

”Not at all. Normally, I would call it a Guild Secret. But as we’re in an Alliance, there’s no harm in you knowing, as long as you know not to spread it too far.” Karl agreed.

”Now I’m definitely not leaving. What could you possibly do that would shock me to the point that it would matter to other Guilds?” Deve asked.

Karl stood up and reached out to tousle the hair of all four bunnies, then activated [Follow Me, Little One].

{Beast Master Champion Karl Offers Knowledge} Skill [Runecrafting] will be transferred to the fluffy bunny Lala.

Deve gave Karl a confused look as the Bunnies leapt up and hugged him while crying but smiling.

”What did you do?” He asked.

”Taught them the basics of Runecrafting and gave them the trade skill. These are my bunnies now.” Karl replied, then stuck out his tongue at Lotus, who rolled her eyes at him.

Of course, the Karl would steal all the bunnies.

Then Karl moved on to the others, and taught the Dragonkin the Runecrafting skill, preparing them all for their first lessons of the day.

Deve sighed. ”If I had known it was that easy to learn a crafting skill, I would have done it ages ago. Just to have a little something on the side.”

Everyone in the room except Karl laughed at his mournful tone.

”It really isn’t that easy. I actually have a specific skill that lets me teach Guild Members a single skill that I know.” Karl explained, then belatedly sent Guild Invitations to the dozen recruits.

The shock on their faces doubled, as they were being invited as full members, and not just apprentices hanging around hoping for scraps.

”Are you that confident that you can make them into valuable crafters for the Guild, that you would take them as full members right away? It’s considered a great shame for full members who are forced out.” Deve asked.

Karl chuckled. ”I am confident in their skills’ growth. And if they’re slacking, I can set a bodyguard on them to keep them training. Or I can just assign them to the task of keeping Lotus from getting bored.

But their growth should be smooth enough as well. As long as they make it to Overlord in the next few years, they can do ninety percent of what the Guild needs.

And I know that we can make that possible with the appropriate application of Alchemy and mana overloads.”

Deve chuckled. There were likely more than a few workers rights laws abuses involved in his plan, but Karl was certainly confident it would work.