The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1143: Just The Right Skill

He had been focusing on trade skills for so long that Karl had nearly forgotten the potential of the basic skills to other Elites.

Well, people. Since everyone here had a good chance at the system, not just the precious few.

Come to think of it, he didn’t really have many basic skills. The beasts each only had a few, and they were very specialized.

But he could try.

He had [Rend] and Rae had [Spear]. She didn’t use it often, but she had it.

The two combined fairly easily, and [Crosscut] skill formed in Karl’s mind.

That was still a warrior type skill, but a good one. What if he combined [Crosscut] with [Walk on Air]?

That made [Blade Dance], an Epic Grade skill.

Now, that might not give someone a new class, but it really did sound like it might awaken some sort of upgraded warrior at the lower Ranks. The more powerful you got, the less likely Karl thought that it would be that a new skill would improve your class.

After all, the Mythic Tanks had skills like [Limited Invulnerability] and it hadn’t done anything for them to get out of the Warrior Class lock.

Well, Deve was the only one who had that skill for certain, and he was a Druid, but the concept was the same.

Karl started to write out the [Blade Dance] skill as they waited for the Dryads to finish their work on the furniture, and found that it was remarkably short. For some reason, warrior skills were always the easiest ones to write. Rend was barely more than a pamphlet in skill book form.

Oh, that wasn’t a bad idea. Short books were best.

What if he combined [Gravity Slam] with [Chain Lightning]?

[Lightning Stomp] was a skill that Thor could get excited about, so Karl taught it to him right away, though he wasn’t sure that it was the sort of skill that would be far enough from a Warrior’s specialties to count.

Just seeing Thor happily stomping around his space with crackling lightning boots on his feet was worth the effort.

He already knew that you couldn’t just teach the warriors a wizard spell directly. They wouldn’t be compatible. But other physical skills should be a bit more versatile.

This was harder than he thought that it would be.

Mostly because he had no idea what skills would actually work to trigger a class advancement that wasn’t just ”Spicy Warrior”. But still, it was not a simple task.

[You could try teaching them Spicy Tornado. Maybe around themselves with a spinning blade? Warriors seem like they would enjoy Lotus’ spinning dances.] Hawk suggested.

[You’re probably not wrong. We can try that later, and see if they can use Flaming Vortex after a few tweaks.] Karl agreed.

Karl finished [Blade Dance], and Sapphire immediately took the book from him, then used a skill to open it so she could read it without risking using it.

”You know, even if you do use it, you can just make another copy. I was thinking that might make for an advanced Warrior Class. It’s intended to be used with a spear, so it might make something more noble than hack and slash.” Karl explained.

The Red Dragon Matron laughed. ”I like how you two are so in tune that Karl just starts making books while we wait, even though the plan to bring in warrior trainees isn’t finalized.”

Sapphire shrugged. ”It will happen. Now that we can teach them more skills easily, we should be able to change their futures.”

Karl nodded, and then thought of a new combination. If he combined [Rampage] with [Fireball] and [Iron Within], the body improvement skill that had started his adaptation away from mostly human, that should make a good skill.

[Elemental’s Wrath] Epic Grade Transformation Skill. Ignores 10% of each attack’s damage, adds 250 Percent Fire Damage to all attacks, causes [Berserk] increasing strength by 100 Percent.

[We need the Ophelia here.] Hawk noted.

A giant flaming, extra berserk bear would be hilarious.

[Ooh, teach it to Cara! I want to see a berserk Cara!] Remi cheered in Karl’s mind.

That was a scary thought.

”Did you have another idea?” Sapphire asked.

”There is a skill called Elemental’s Wrath, an Epic Grade Transformation skill. It’s a berserk state that adds damage reduction and fire damage. I’m not sure if it’s something I should make for the Warriors or not.”

Matron Blackclaw chuckled. ”You can make it for me if you want. A rampaging Red Dragon might be what it takes to make these kids behave for more than a day.”

{Champion Karl Offers Knowledge} Skill [Elemental’s Wrath] will be transferred to the strict Matron Blackclaw.

The red dragon began to laugh. ”Oh, yes, this is wonderful. Those little brats won’t stand a chance during combat training.”

Karl frowned. ”I am trusting you not to abuse this newfound ability.”

The Matron waved off his concern. ”I have been responsible for the military training for promising orphans in Drodh for many years. Rest assured that I won’t be using [Rampage] to beat children. Well, not young ones. You get my point.”

Sapphire snickered softly at the Matron’s excitement. ”That is what happens when you flip the switch within a Red Dragon. They go from patient orphanage Matron to battle crazed drill instructor in the blink of an eye.”

Karl nodded. ”I see that now. I will make another copy of the book later, to add to the Library, just in case we need to make more copies for future visitors.”

Sapphire smiled. ”I will call more of my sisters over to make duplicates for the Dragon Gods’ Library. They should be coming with the volunteers anyhow, but I will ensure that they send sisters with the Inscription skill, so they can copy the books.”

Lord Drodh was not going to be particularly happy with their training plan. But the Dungeon here was Royal Ranked, so they could test weaker trainees with a better chance of advancing. It was only logical to do the project here instead of in Zilaz.

Though, if it worked well, they could expand it to the Guild Alliance members, and start sorting out their imbalance.

That was nearly a thousand potential volunteers who were already familiar with the eccentricities of the Darklight Host, and eager to make a name for themselves among the Dungeon Teams.

Karl focused on the possibilities as he worked on finding another exceptional combination.

Not the chaos that a rampaging Cara could cause.

She was very happy with her new skill. If Karl didn’t want her to have it, he shouldn’t have learned it himself.

Shared skills worked both ways.