The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1230: Crowded Beds

Karl woke up the next morning and gave Dana a hug, then realized that while she was fluffy, she was oddly lumpy.

[Is it morning?] A groggy Tian asked.

[Why are you sleeping on Dana’s chest?]

[It’s soft and warm. Like being back in the burrow with mother. I’m going back to sleep.]

Karl chuckled and left the little fox to his nap.

Dana was worn out this morning, but he didn’t need to actually get out of bed, he was just mentally formulating the method to make a training arena without physically building the arena.

He had discovered last night that portability would be the key.

Not all duels wanted to go to a formal training area, and there were already buildings for that.

But if he could make a form of illusionary Domain, with solid obstacles inside that could be hit by the contestants, it would be perfect. Just activate it, let the contestants step inside, and fight it out wherever they happened to be.

Karl was fairly sure that he knew how to coat the inside of the [Illusionary Domain] with solid surfaces, if he activated it with an object created through Runecrafting. But it would not be a small object, no matter how tiny his writing was.

The idea of the mountain, with its layered slices, was actually a practical one, but Karl was thinking of an obelisk, made with layers of stones, each enchanted, then attached by a base.

If he did it that way, he could make the object under two metres tall, and still have the needed spells. The domain, the solid interior from Earth Manipulation, the protective spells for the spectators and the arena itself, the opponents, and a referee. Having an illusion with some basic sentience would let the artifact adjust its own barrier levels and create requested opponents from the available golems.

He didn’t have an unlimited variety, but his Golem spell created beasts of most sorts, and he could create Dungeon Bosses that he knew.

That should be a popular feature for the raiding teams

Being able to bring a team in to practice, or try out new strategies in a setting where the monster would stop before actually killing you, was a huge thing.

But that also meant he needed to build a healing spell and recovery area.

If only there was a template for this.

He should have asked the other Darklight Host Guild Masters. One of them was almost guaranteed to know a suitable sort of skill.

Unfortunately, the idea had occurred to him too late, and now that they were on different planets again, he was unable to directly message them, though the additional branches still showed as active, but out of range in his System interface.

With them so far away, he had no way to contact them, and he didn’t have the skills to open an interplanetary portal between Guild Houses, even though the System would let him target the ones that were within range from Zilaz.

He had never been to the Cyhosasa Guild House, but in theory, he could open a portal to the location that Matilda had designated within the property.

After much consideration, the plinth model really did seem like the best option to create the arena. It was easy to layer, could be placed anywhere, and he could make it to be distinctively representative of the Darklight Host.

Half black and half white wouldn’t hurt anything when he enchanted it, and it wasn’t supposed to be a decorative piece, as most of the runes were hidden any way that you arranged it.

Karl mentally designed the entire plinth, all fifty layers of it, and then began to work on altering it so that it would be more practical, and easier to keep charged when the combatants damaged the protective spells on the arena.

The last thing that anyone needed was for the whole spell to collapse in the middle of a battle and dump the spectators on the ground.

Being an illusionary domain, it was larger inside than outside, so depending where the arena was set up, some of the guests might not land anywhere safe.

Cara saw many fun ways that could be abused, but Karl wasn’t going to let her deliberately use the collapse of the arena to dump guests into secure areas that might get them arrested.

It could be funny, but more than a little troublesome.

Bored, Cara came out to join them all in bed, snuggling up to the other side of Dana, then carefully sniffing her to see if she smelled pregnant.

There were wagers on when they would get baby Dana Mages, and she intended to win.

There was a chance that Thor might have this one, he had pretty good instincts, but with a bit of advance knowledge, Cara was sure that she could influence the odds in her favour.

[You know that I can hear your thoughts, right? And Remi, no making potions to induce labour just so that you can get the exact time and date that you have bet on.] Karl warned.

[He’s getting too good at this. I didn’t even let myself think of it while he was awake, and he still guessed.] Remi commended Karl’s ingenuity.

Dana opened one eye. “Is it normal for them to be plotting against us like that? Completely shameless.”

Karl laughed. “They forgot that you can hear them now, so they thought that you would be caught unawares when they started making plans to get you to have baby Dana Mages on their selected dates.

If I’m not wrong, they’ve already started to arrange date nights for us so that they can maximize the odds that conception occurs within the correct window for their wagers.”

Dana sighed. “At least one of them isn’t completely shameless.”

Rae snorted in amusement. [Opal isn’t innocent, she just wants to make a film about it. It doesn’t matter to her what dates the filming runs.]

The spider had a point. That was not an improvement.