The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1231: Trust Your Sisters

Dana sighed and stroked Tian’s head. The little fox might be plotting to help her love life, but it did come from a pure mindset. He just wanted more baby foxes to play with, and he was pretty sure that Dana would be having at least partially fox offspring.

Baby Stonefur Divine Foxes would be best, but baby fox girls would be alright too. Brothers were competition, but little sisters were just there to be adored and pampered.

Cara told him so, and it must be true.

Dana was highly dubious about that logic, but Karl wasn’t concerned by the plotting. All the outcomes were good ones for him, since he wasn’t the one who would have to carry the pups, kittens or children to term, depending on what exactly they ended up with.

Dana was doing her best not to think about that part, and instead focused on the plans that Karl was making for a new arena construct.

She had learned the art from him, but this sort of Runecrafting was completely out of her element. Just understanding how the runes would work was not enough for a project like this one. You would also need to know all of the relevant spells, understand the concepts behind them, and how to merge them into one effect to stabilize them.

In short, she had no intentions of trying.

However, his process did give her some ideas on how to create new effects of her own that might enhance the armour and accessories that she was planning to make later.

Now that she understood how to put the Golem effect on an item, she was beginning to understand how to alter the runic sequence to specifically target bonuses to improve the Golem spell.

Adding specifically construct damage to an item would give a much larger bonus than a general damage bonus that applied to everything that a mage would cast.

Sure, it would hamper their overall abilities, but if you were primarily relying on Golems and summoned creatures to do your damage, you could easily double their abilities instead of giving everything that you did a thirty to forty percent bonus.

The generic bonuses were what Karl usually gave items, so they would be useful in any situation. But Mages usually relied on only a few core abilities, and the rest were support skills.

Lacking a bonus didn’t stop you from using them, but if she created items that only improved fire skills or added burning damage, someone like Hawk would gain massive bonuses.

Hawk was a big fan of that plan.

No need to work out other runic combinations, just add burning damage to everything and it would be fine. What skills did a mage actually need other than Fireball?

[I think that there is something wrong with that logic, my friend.] Thor reminded the bird.

Hawk frowned. [You might have a point. Fireball is good. But then there are flame tornados, there is flaming rain, there are flaming meteors. Limiting the bonus to just fireball is too extreme.]

Thor shrugged. [But when I stomp on things, I don’t want them to catch fire, it would burn my feet.]

Dana shook her head and decided that it was better just to ignore the banter of the beasts for the good of her mental health.

Karl laughed as Dana tried to adapt to all the extra voices in her head, including Cara’s whispered messages, which the Chaos Badger intended to be like intrusive thoughts, encouraging Dana to do fun things.

It wasn’t working very well, but given time, she thought that she might be able to break the Dana Mage’s defences down.

The only issue was that Dana could also hear her plans to wear down her resistance. Karl was much better about ignoring that part, but Dana was mentally calling her out all the time.

Cara decided that she needed to up her game, she had gotten sloppy.

While the plotting continued all morning, Karl and Dana saw no good reason that they should actually get out of bed until they were hungry. So, at noon Dana finally lifted Tian off her chest and placed the fox down on the bed beside her.

That was his signal to return to his space so that he could play and work on his holy magic. Playing with other people wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t as fun as napping on Dana when she was in foxkin form.

“Did you have a good morning?” Ophelia joked when the couple finally came downstairs.

“Not bad. Sleeping in is a nice change now and then. Where is your little troublemaker?” Karl replied.

“In the Tiny World with Button and the others. You left the portal open in the main room, so there are others visiting as well.” She explained.

Karl smirked, and the Berserker laughed. “What can I say, the ladies might not want to have men living with them, but they certainly don’t mind taking them home for an evening.

Let them have their fun, there will be plenty of hangovers to go around today, and all the healers will be busy if we drag the Guild Alliance Members back now.”

“Alright, I will keep the portal open, but I’m moving it to the basement so that it’s next to the portal to the Drodh Guild House, where the Gargoyles can keep an eye on who is coming in and out.

If I have to take off for some reason, the other Guild Masters won’t be happy if I take a few of their Raiding Team members with me by accident.” Karl joked.

“I don’t think that you will get far. They are all eager to see how you and Dana do in the Mythic Ranked Dungeons, and they don’t care if they’ve got to wait all day to talk to you.”

Dana sighed. “So much for lazy days. But a trip through the Mythic Dungeons should be both fun and profitable for us. At least the dungeons are exclusive enough that we won’t be going with a full group of newbies.”