The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1252: This Time With Dragons

Karl stopped when he entered the Dungeon and waited for everyone to come out.

Even Thor had joined them today, a rare change as of late, as he was quite enjoying his peaceful alone time with Tessa.

Soon, Karl would have to talk to the Cleric and the Behemoth about matters of marriage, or where their relationship was going. He might not be the most responsible leader in the world, but he wasn’t going to end up with a deadbeat father among his partners.

Thor snorted in amusement at the thought.

There was no way that he would abandon his hatchlings.

The dragons entered just before Rae summoned her Spectral Knights and Golems. From what Karl could see, the advancement to Mythic Rank hadn’t caused any major changes in her skills or constitution, but with her improved power level, it should still be a huge jump in her damage output.

“What difficulty do you want?” The War Cleric asked.

Rae gave him a look that made his blood run cold. Spiders might not have expressions in the traditional sense, but he was quite certain that she intended for there to be carnage.

Karl chuckled as Cara came out to stand on Rae’s head in solidarity.

“Well, that’s two votes for all the difficulty. Did you all eat a big breakfast? If we do that, then the last boss will be Immortal. But so will the best loot.”

The four blue dragons shared excited looks then nodded. “If you think that we can do it, then we will go with your plan.”

[DUNGEON LEVEL 6 ENGAGE!] Cara cheered.

{Invalid Team Member} The System informed her.

Cara glared at the message. It worked when she was messing with Deve. Why couldn’t she upgrade the maximum difficulty now?

Karl laughed and scratched her head.

“Level five is fine.” He began, but Rae glared at him.

No way was she missing out twice.

“Fine, Dungeon, maximum difficulty.” Karl agreed.

{Safety Limits Overridden At User Request. Difficulty Level Six chosen.}

The dragons stared at Karl in concern.

They had said difficult, but what sort of option did you have to pick to get a safety warning in a Dungeon? They all came with a risk of death.

Rae cheered as she charged forward, leading the Golems into combat, and leaving only the Bodyguards with Karl and the dragons.

Then, she began to test her new abilities, while Karl motioned for the dragons to wait.

“Give her ten seconds, it’s her first fight since her advancement. Give her the chance to see how her power is before we get involved.” He explained.

Rae pulled everything to the first enraged group, and then engaged [Blood Destruction]. The Totem Ranked apes exploded nearly instantly, then stood back up again as [Blood Golems] thanks to Rae’s [Queen of the Damned] ability.

They were cannon fodder against the enraged Mythic Rank apes, but she sent them forward to pick a fight with the other Totem Ranked apes.

Then, Karl and the others charged into combat, hurling ranged skills at the apes, while the War Cleric activated an upgraded version of [Consecrated Ground] around himself, exploiting the vulnerability to Holy Damage.

That caused a steady stream of healing to flow to the group, and Tian giggled happily as he studied the effect, attempting to learn how to replicate it.

It was just as good as he had hoped. But he hadn’t thought of [Consecrated Ground]. He could use that skill too, and it would share the healing to the whole group without shamelessly piggybacking off his sisters.

When the next batch of Totem Ranked apes were becoming severely injured, Rae [Shadow Stepped] away from combat and used [Blood Destruction] again to kill everything, and double the number of Blood Golems she had.

“That skill is broken.” The War Cleric laughed as he realized what Rae’s plan for the Dungeon was.

She now had fifty Blood Golems, and five of them were Mythic Ranked.

Then, the team cut down the first group, and charged into the second, while the Blood Golems used the Epic Golems as blockers to bypass them again, going for the last trash mobs between them and the boss.

“The difficulty rate is going up way too fast. How long do we even have to complete the dungeon?” The War Cleric asked, confusion in his glowing blue eyes.

Karl checked his interface.

“We’ve got twelve minutes left of fifteen.”

As Karl recalled, it had taken them longer than that the first time. The final boss was a nightmare to defeat. But the dungeon hadn’t mentioned a fail timer this time, so perhaps simply completing it got the reward and doing it in time got you a bonus?

That would be great for Rae’s Mythic Debut.

With Rae in combat, [Predation] was quickly adapting to give steadily increasing bonus damage along with [Rampage].

The extra damage from so many attacks was stacking to an incredible degree, and without all of Dana’s Golems here it was even more noticeable.

Even Thor’s attacks on the Mythic Apes were doing noticeable damage already.

The only issue was that it only lasted a minute, so when they got to the boss, most of the stacks would fall off.

[I’m going to send everything to charge the boss as soon as I clear those Totems.] Rae informed Karl.

“Drive the mobs backward! We’re taking them to the Boss platform, and we will finish them as we start the boss fight.” Karl relayed.

The Haint mentally nudged Karl as it fought. A merger would boost its damage output. It might look like a Treant, but it was actually a living weapon, and most of its combat ability came when it was wielded.

“I will join.” The War Cleric agreed.

“You stay here. I will tank the boss in Dragon form. Watch and you’ll see the trick to keeping it from hurling stone attacks at the group on top of the stone spike waves.” Karl explained.

With the Haint Claw merged, Karl activated [Avatar] at Immortal Rank using the Amulet of Destruction.

A flap of his wings was enough to fly over the fights and onto the boss platform to beat Rae’s Blood Golems to the fight. Three minutes in, and they were already at the first boss. Rae’s tactics really were effective.