The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1175: Welcome Home Orthos

When they walked out of the house with one more person, the City Guard was completely baffled. Had there been someone living in there this whole time?

But, the house was beginning to repair itself, and magical blades were trimming the yard and moving the mulch to a compost pile. If this new person had lived here the entire time, he would have done that more than once in the last thousand years, right?

Karl nodded at the guard. ”We need to go back to the gate for a moment. Our new arrival needs to activate the City Stones.”

”Oh, certainly. It’s not far. Please follow me.”

It was easier not to argue with Karl, and it was city policy that everyone checked in by touching the stones.

Cara nearly tripped Orthos a dozen times as she ran in circles around the group, becoming increasingly excited with every step.

Why did the stone have to be so far from the house? This was going to be glorious.

Orthos didn’t understand her enthusiasm. If he activated the City Stones, he would bring order to the city, not Chaos.

The Guard led them to the gates, and Orthos sighed as he saw the damaged and worn state of the City Stone.

{Welcome, City Lord Orthos}

{City Functions Now Online}

{Ending Hibernation Mode}

{All functions Operational}

The heavily worn plinth regrew a top platform, covered in gems and writing, and Orthos nodded happily.

”Ah, that is better. Now, Lord Karl, could you spare me just a bit of mana to bring essential services online?” Orthos asked.

Karl nodded, and placed a hand on the Bronze Dragon’s shoulder to pass mana directly to him.

Orthos radiated power as he began to work, and a barrier formed over the whole city. Then, it began sending pillars of light toward the ground all over Bunga as the mana draw reached the maximum constant mana flow for an Overlord Ranked Dragon.

At the end of the road in front of them, right in the middle of the city, the ruins of the city hall began to rebuild themselves, and Karl saw Golems, or perhaps Gargoyles, in police uniforms appearing all over the concourse.

[Don’t forget to match the new fashion sensibility. They only wear and use things that were living, no metal.] Karl reminded the dragon with a System message.

Orthos nodded, and the guards changed from polished brass buttons on military coats, to burly Dragonkin warriors in leather pants, with scales and tattoos on bare chests.

Dana gave the dragon a curious look and he shrugged. ”They’re still impressive, right? If I can’t have the cool ones, I will at least make the ones the ladies like.”

He wasn’t joking. He had made hundreds of Overlord Ranked security guard Gargoyles, with magical stone battleaxes, and the ladies of Bunga were already ogling them as they introduced themselves and handed out flyers with basic city rules on them.

”Do you think that we should wait here for the Clan Chief? Or should we go to him?” Karl asked the stunned security guards as Orthos continued to work.

”I, uh, I’m not sure? I think if we wait here, the Clan Chief will come to us. There is no way that he can miss that giant stone building appearing in the park, especially since it’s in his back garden.

But I will send someone to tell him what is going on.

What else is he planning to do?” The Guard replied.

Orthos shrugged. ”I remade the City Guard, I made new sanitation wagons, and I refreshed the self repair charm on the city walls after I rebuilt the city hall. Other than that, I left things as they were.

The guards aren’t setting any new rules right now, just handing out flyers with information about what rules they will enforce.”

The guards winced. That was definitely not going to make the Clan Chief happy. His enforcers set the rules based on their mood, and most of them were not Overlords.

The runner from the guard station at the wall didn’t have to make it all the way to the centre of the city. The Clan Chief was already coming their way in full battle armour with a retinue of guards.

”Looks like you’re about to gain new responsibilities.” Karl joked with Orthos.

”Old ones, really. But as a Bronze Dragon, I can’t just let them continue going on like savages.” He sighed.

Then, his aura pulsed with power, and Karl realized that the dragon was advancing.

He had been Overlord for a long time, bottlenecked by the restricted energy levels of the other continent. But here, that wasn’t a problem, and he had just done something that greatly pleased his God.

”Guard, explain.” The Clan Chief shouted as he reached the gates.

”Sir, the Dragons of the Darklight Host have returned, and they activated the plinth. This is former City Lord Karl, and City Lord Orthos.” The guard informed him.

”What is he doing to my city?” The Clan Chief demanded.

Orthos sighed in relief as he finished all of what he considered the basic work around the city.

”I brought back the necessities of a basic and functional society. How did you manage to let the city degrade so far that not even the running water was functional anymore? No, forget that. How did you let things get so bad that people were dumping their household waste in the gutters?

That’s just uncivilized.

So, I fixed the basic services, and over the next week the city will undergo a thorough cleansing.

I do have a few things to take care of, but I am not sure that you can be trusted to not screw it all up in my absence.” Orthos explained.

The worst part was that he didn’t even see it as an insult, just basic questions and a statement of fact. The Beast God Temples were full of what the people here would consider wild animals, and they were still more sanitary than the people of the Bunga Clan.