The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1267: The Relaxed Alliance

Now that he knew where they were going, Karl opened a portal to the entrance of the Alliance Compound, and left the reporters to their day.

“Success?” Azov greeted them from the front steps of the Darklight Host house within the compound.

“Success. Though not quite how we expected it. The dungeon wanted us to challenge the final boss, a Wrath Demon named Carnage, to a duel.” Karl agreed.

That made the old man laugh.

“Oh, that should be priceless. Not many are going to be able to complete that challenge, but as soon as someone does, it’s going to become the must-have accomplishment before the next round of challenges.

To think that it would just openly give you a title to show off. And ’Mythic Duellist’ at that. What greater sort of title could the System give you in a city where everyone values the Myths who have the power to fight for their Guild’s Dungeons?” Azov chortled.

“People don’t give the System nearly enough credit for its sense of humour.” Dana joked.

“How did it go for the rest of you? Can it be done by more than one member?” He asked.

Dana nodded. “I got the title as well, and the reward is exactly the same, not even adjusted for class or anything. But the next round failed, and that was the end of the challenge string.”

“So, teams can send multiple challengers in together, to all try to get the title. But the first one must win to give the others a chance? Interesting.”

Raj looked up from the paperwork he was doing with a smile. “It will cause no end of tensions between Guilds as well. It’s more cost-effective if you send four challengers with a healer.

However, if any of them fail, whoever was supposed to go after doesn’t get the chance.

Did you at least get regular dungeon loot from it?”

Karl nodded. “Yeah. Nothing special, but a few Mythic items at Rare Grade. About as good as you’d normally expect from the dungeon, but with one more item from the challenge.”

“So, one that will be popular, but not one that we will be rushing to do every week. Got it.”

Karl looked around at the mostly empty house, then at the Guild Leader. “Might I ask, what brings you here? Everyone else should have been rushing off to go do a harder difficulty dungeon again today, to build up their funding.”

Raj laughed. “My team was too impatient. The daily timer resets at midnight, so we went at one in the morning instead of going to bed last night. I just got out of bed and thought I would come over to pay my respects to the King.”

And to grab breakfast from the Mystic Cooking crew, Karl noted.

“How did that go?”

Raj smiled. “Five for five on Epic Grade items on difficulty two, and our Ranger got a new bow. The bias toward weapons is still just as strong as everyone thought it would be. But that’s probably for the best, since we’ve got so many Totems who still need weapons, and Lady Rae made most of them new armour already.”

“That’s a definite improvement, and all that you could really hope for from a Mythic Dungeon. Epic items every run on a daily access instance is perfect.” Karl agreed.

“And difficulty two is just enough to get the loot, without making the dungeon too much more difficult to clear. At that setting, we can just use our regular teams.”

That was the best-case scenario for them. Trying to reassemble all new mythic raiding teams specific to each dungeon, just so they could get slightly better loot than a lower setting, was far too difficult, and the rewards that were normally needed to recruit a new talent of greater skill than the ones that they had were insanely high.

That was why they had the Overlord and Totem Ranked teams in the first place. They were the minor league teams, building loyalty as they built their strength.

The three who had been with Karl laughed at the banter.

“Your Alliance really is quite carefree, isn’t it? In ours, it is rare that anyone even hosts a multiple Guild event, but the Nara Group just casually comes over for breakfast.” The Shaman joked.

“We can pretend it’s because the King and the Immortal Regent are here. But in truth, it’s for the food. We have a few chefs with a rare cooking skill in the Alliance, but they’re not enough to make all the best stuff for everyone.

Once you get used to their cooking, it is nearly impossible to go back to eating takeaway from the street vendors again.

At least not for every meal.” Karl laughed.

“You said that you have a lot to do today, what is it that you do as a trade skill? Or is it guild matters that need settling?” The Dwarven Warrior who had accompanied them on the dungeon run asked.

“Oh, I suppose it’s not common knowledge outside the Alliance. I am a Runemaster, I make equipment and accessories for the Alliance members. But I have only just advanced to Mythic Rank, so I have a rather large backlog of work.” Karl explained, then held up one of the Totem Ranked statues he had made, so the Dwarf would understand.

“That craftsmanship.” He muttered.

“Oh, the statue itself is made by our team in Drodh. This one in particular is by our Dwarven Master Sculptor. I only added the runes to turn it into a healing and fertility charm for one of the Alliance members.” He explained.

Raj gave him a suspicious look. Who needed the fertility charm, and why didn’t he hear about it? If it was the midwife, or the matchmaker, it was fine. But if someone was hoping to cause surprise pregnancies, he would make sure it was never delivered.

Karl saw the suspicion and laughed. “It’s for one of Hugo’s clerics. I’m sure that she won’t be using it for anything too shady.”

Probably.