The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1250: Rae Needs To

When they returned to the house for the evening, Karl and Dana relaxed on the sofas, while Rae immediately went to her space and began to prepare for her next advancement.

She might not have quite everything that she had wanted to prepare, but she had just enough of it that she was certain she would not miss out on any of the essential benefits to her advancement.

This latest run, and the extra understanding of the art of stabbing things that just wouldn’t die, had helped her reach the peak of Totem Rank abilities for a Blood Destruction Demonic Spider, and now she was ready to head for the Mythic Rank and begin her work on trying to slay the Immortals.

Nothing was more important in her mind than learning how to kill the things that were openly referred to as Immortal.

Now, she did understand that it meant functionally Immortal, in that they would live forever if not killed. But that didn’t matter.

The mere word “Immortal” was offensive.

Dana did her best not to laugh at the single-minded focus of the spider, who was currently mixing herself a bath with all the culinary flair of an executive chef, and the precision of an Alchemist.

Both arts should have called to her, Dana thought. But it was her overwhelming love of fashion that had won out in the end, and left her as a Tailor.

[I should have asked Nacht if he could get me a bit of blood from his Mythic Friend. I am missing a bit of strength with the darkness element.] Rae sighed.

[I can likely get a Totem Ranked black dragon over to donate if you need.] Karl suggested.

Rae considered it, then shook her head. [I will forego the darkness element in favour of more destructive energies this time. Less stealth, more stabbing.

Heavy Stealth.]

Dana frowned in confusion, then giggled as she understood. There was no failure of your stealth skills if there were no survivors to report it.

Rae mixed up the combination of Mythic and Immortal Rank bloods, then carefully heated them to her desired temperature before nodding happily and taking out a small vial from her hidden storage spot for annoyingly shiny rocks.

The perfect hiding spot, where nobody ever looked.

What she had was a bit of Immortal Ranked Treant sap, and it smelled suspiciously like the Fae realm.

How she had managed to get it without alerting anyone else was a mystery, but she definitely had it, and the mixture added a hint of woodsy overtone to the blend, like a deep forest after the rain.

If that forest had just seen a massacre. Because the smell of Mythic and Immortal Ape blood was strong.

Dana watched quietly as Rae first scrubbed herself perfectly clean, then transformed to her natural state and entered the bath, before shrinking herself to the smallest possible size with [Unobtrusive Behemoth].

She would have been smaller in humanoid form, but the risk of advancing in an unnatural form and losing a bit of favour from the Spider Goddess just seemed too high, even if it would let her run a greater volume of blood through her body, relative to her own.

Once she was settled in, Rae began scrubbing herself as she drank in the bloody mix, letting the power seep through her entire body.

To Dana, that was an oddly disturbing bath routine, especially the way that she simply absorbed the life force from the blood. But to Rae, it was no different to how she absorbed the life force from blood wine, except in much larger volumes.

She had seen the things that people did at the pleasure houses run by the Obsession Demons, and this wasn’t even on the scale of weird things to put in a bath.

Even the vampires liked a bit of blood in their bath.

Though, Mick was happier when she didn’t know what sort of creature it came from. She might be good with ape, Rae thought. They weren’t sentient. Unfortunately, it would make lousy blood wine, the flavour just wasn’t right.

Dana rolled her eyes as Rae sunk to the bottom of the bath and rolled on her back to blow bubbles up to the surface, enjoying the warmth.

She should get a circulation pump like they had in hot tubs.

This bath would be even better with bath jets and a massaging action to really work the old chitin loose.

Still, this wasn’t too bad, with all that Immortal Ape blood that she managed to source at the last minute. It was more than enough energy for a smooth advancement, and the apes didn’t have any weird abilities that were incompatible with her own skills.

They were a bit heavy on the earth magic, but with the bit of Fae blood she obtained, that twisted into something a bit more like nature magic, and that should help with her Golem spell and her earth walls when she needed to make hiding spots again.

The level of energy in the bath was draining quickly, almost too quickly, Rae decided.

She might have drawn too small of a bath.

Fortunately, she had reserves.

As the bath drained, Rae added a new collection of Mythic and Totem Ranked blood to the mix. Not as potent as the main bath had been, but a nice smooth finisher with just the right blend to relax her muscles as she surged into the Mythic Rank and the advanced blessing settled into her cells.

Late into the evening, she had drained every bit of vitality from the second bath, and Rae stepped out, then called her Spectral Knights into her space to buff her body to a high shine.

It was absolutely perfect, and the new [Mythic Blessing] made her feel invincible.

Rae laughed at Dana’s confusion when the mage saw that the spider hadn’t visibly changed at all, other than the fact that she had somehow managed to polish the layer of blood on her skin like it was body oil.

That was how Rae normally looked when she was clean, though. She let the shine fade for covert operations and daily use, instead of polishing herself like a good pair of boots.

[Did you gain any new abilities?] Dana asked curiously as Rae picked out a dress for the morning.

Rae shook her head. [No, I balanced everything to improve what I already had. Once I get to fight, I might advance a skill now that I’m a living Myth. But spiders are already awesome enough that we don’t need to evolve, we just choose to.]

Dana smiled at the smug spider. [Alright, excellent work. I will get a bit more sleep and see you when the sun is up.]

[I will go find my vampire. He promised me blood wine flavoured ice cream when I advanced.]

Someone should warn Nilla that he had been chosen as a favoured pet.

But he would find out soon enough on his own.