The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 916: But Did You Die?

Commander Ligo joined the conversation. ”So, just to be certain. There is no chance that Cyhosasa is working with Bomgon, correct?”

Karl nodded. ”That is correct. It was personal between the dragon and the vampire. There was no indication of alliance, military or otherwise, between the two nations. But how did the other fights go?”

The Demon shrugged. ”The extra damage reduction your team granted us made all the difference.

My apologies for not coming to your aid, but Void and Death together create Chaos, and the energy around your fight made it unsafe for anyone else to attempt to use skills or approach the area.

But more importantly, in all that mess, were you bitten? Vampire toxin isnʼt always recognized as a negative state by healing spells and regeneration.”

Karl thought back through the battle. ”No, I donʼt believe that I was bitten. Clawed quite a bit, hit with every offensive skill that she could think of. But not bitten.”

”That is excellent news. It saves us an extra step in the post fight quarantine and monitoring stage. If there was any risk of high-ranking vampire bites, someone would have to monitor you all night, in case you died and returned as an Overlord Ranked Vampire.

That would be bad.” Commander Ligo explained.

”Oh?” Dana asked.

”Imagine him, with all his skills. But faster, and driven mad by bloodlust. It takes newly turned vampires months or even years before most of them are sane enough that they can be released from captivity for more than suicide missions.

Even the Bomgon armies only use new vampires as shock troops, and thatʼs a massive waste, as theyʼre so powerful once they sober up from the bloodlust.” The Demon explained.

Dana chuckled. ”I canʼt imagine Mick, our Vampiric shop clerk, as a bloodthirsty monster.”

That made the big demon chuckle. ”It only happens to turned vampires, not trueborn living vampires, children born with the virus from infected parents. Is she still alive, or is she once dead already?”

”Still alive. Kind of? Vampires are a bit odd.” Dana hesitantly answered.

”If there is doubt, sheʼs alive. But their hearts beat very slowly, and theyʼre primarily sustained by blood and magic. They get extra creepy when theyʼre dead. More powerful, but definitely creepier.”

Karl chuckled at the thought of Mick being called creepy. Maybe there was someone who saw her that way, but he just couldnʼt. Not when Rae had her dressed in a frilly ruffled Lolita dress and carrying a parasol at work.

Thor agreed with Commander Ligo. That crazy naked woman was way creepier than any other vampire he had seen.

But now that the battle was over, the hard part could begin. There was a load of cleanup to be done, and the majority of the farmland around the village was completely obliterated. Even with all the powerful creatures they had here, there would be no salvaging most of the crops.

”I will join the Thunderbird, and we will scorch this region clear of all signs of the undead, then, if the dancing tree likes to fly, I will take her up to restore the soil while Priestess Tessa makes potatoes for them to plant.

They will grow well enough in this soil, and they can grow year round here, so the farmers donʼt starve.” Priestess Delilah insisted.

”Oh, she loves to fly. Iʼm sure that she will be overjoyed to help you.” Tessa agreed.

The red dragon smiled gently. It was a given that the Green Dragon Priestess would be on board with a flight on the back of a Totem Ranked Red Dragon.

Fortunately, most of the battle had been skeletons, so there wasnʼt much toxic blood to deal with, and only the portions where the zombies had been engaged needed to be intensively purged, while Thor and Karl were tasked with using [Bulwark] to make piles out of the skeleton bones.

Those would be burned to ash to reduce the amount of undead corruption that could be spread by their presence.

Rae and Remi had already stolen a lot of the hand bones for making arts and crafts, as well as some rare potions, but the rest could be burned. Nobody needed huge undead leg bones anyhow.

Within an hour, the battlefield was cleaned, and Lotus was ready for her flight. Delilah came prepared, and she even had a custom saddle made, with an adjustable belt to hold the rider on during hard manoeuvring. It might have been even more fancy than the ones that Rae made.

They made slow and lazy circles in the sky as Lotus rained nature magic down on the region, bringing life back to the scorched and barren ground. But Lotus was better at nature magic than the Red Dragon had been expecting, and she caused the potato plants to appear and sprout all through the fields before she was finished.

As an added benefit, that also took Lotus much longer than just seeding the fields. A whole extra hour in the sky, riding on a dragon.

Entire fields would be ready to start harvesting in a few months, about the time that the villagers would be running out of the supplies that Tessa had left for them today.

It would change the stews for a while, but at least they would still have plenty to eat.

Tessa spent most of that time working with Thor on rebuilding the damaged road sections, as [Bulwark] had proven to be such an effective earth moving tool when attached to a behemoth.

Thor could push massive piles of dirt and gravel with ease, and a little work to build up the road above the level of the fields would make it much less muddy than before. Everything drained to the dry moat around the village anyhow.

Chief Snakebite came out to greet Karl when he approached the village after finishing the cleanup.

”Excellent work, Overlord. We have a long house for your people, so you can sleep. I remember that youʼve been up since yesterday already.”

Karl patted him on the shoulder. ”Thank you. Iʼm sure everyone will be grateful for the rest. If you talk to one of the Battalion Leaders, theyʼll let you know what their night watch practice is.

But first, I think we should probably eat. If I tell the ladies to go to bed hungry, I will be sleeping in a pig barn.”