The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1197: Sure, You Can Enter

Karl simply waited as the Giants approached. If they were going to attack, he would jump back in the separate space to buy time to teleport away. If things went the way that he thought that they should, now that the space had reformed with Cara’s changes, he should be put in a separate instance.

A massive Titan with six arms, the first Karl had ever seen like him, held up his hand to stop the others as he approached to just under a kilometre from Karl.

Out of comfortable attack range, but close enough that sensitive ears would hear each other.

”Demon. Do you know what happened to the Suppression Artifact?” He asked, in what Karl assumed was the Giants’ version of a polite tone.

Karl nodded. ”It failed. The artifact is still in there, but inactive. I cleansed the killing curse from the area to explore, but as you can see, it is a Trial instance. No matter what I do, it will just reset in a day.”

The big giant frowned.

The Demon had a point. Even if they reactivated the artifact, whatever idiot had lost it in a Trial Instance had doomed it to a slow death as the effect aged.

”What did you find inside?” The Titan asked.

”It’s the site of a failed attempt to reach the Immortal Rank. Perhaps they thought that the space would protect them from Tribulation Lightning, but it did not. That was the cause of the Undead Energy that was killing everyone who got nearby.

The body was that of a four-armed member of the Titan Clan, but I couldn’t tell when they might have entered. Some time since the last resurgence, obviously. But other than that, I was unable to tell.”

[You did leave the corpse there, right?] Karl asked Cara.

[All of them. I don’t need old cloth and bones. I only took the good stuff and replaced it.]

The Giant was silent for an entire minute as he considered Karl’s answer.

”Where did you come here from?” He finally asked.

”Cyhosasa. The Supreme Lady asked me to look into the issue.” Karl explained.

The Titan growled, an annoyed noise, not a threat.

”Then you should be free to leave now that your work is done.”

Karl nodded. ”I will return to the west, and leave your armies to explore the anomaly. It should be relatively safe. You’re all powerful sorts, after all.”

[Cara, do you sense anything like another world in their scents or auras?]

[Nope, they’re all from near here. I can smell the spell from inside the space on them. But that big Titan, I think that he’s originally from somewhere else. Or his parents were?

He’s too powerful to belong to the same Clan as the others. Like Big Sister Matilda, his species is meant to be Immortal.] Cara replied.

That was valuable information, for certain.

Karl examined the Titan’s aura for a little longer while the leader conferred with his people. Once he was sure that he had it memorized, he turned and opened a portal to the Glatt region, as there were no more refugees there.

Even if the Titans followed him, they would end up in the middle of nowhere.

Once he stepped through the portal, Karl opened another portal, this time to the sky above Zilaz. Titans likely couldn’t fly, and the residents of Zilaz could take care of themselves if the Giants were crazy enough to try to launch an invasion.

A short flight brought him to the Alliance house, where Karl returned to the Tiny World.

He still had vacation days to take before anyone realized that he was finished with his other work.

However, the Titan Clan was left utterly baffled.

The Suppression effect had not faded that much, even though it was no longer actively increasing. Karl had set it to one percent of maximum output, but the effect was more like stacked layers than a variable barrier.

Every hour of every day, it put out a little more, and some older layers naturally dissipated.

So, while the effect had faded by a marginal amount, and the intensity no longer tried to kill anything that approached, there was still a massive amount of mana suppression in the region.

They had needed an entire ritual and a Portal Stone array to get the armies here.

But the Demon had simply opened a portal with a wave of his hand and walked away.

They would blame the Chaos Dragon for that. When Chaos got involved, common sense no longer applied.

There was no way for them to know that Karl was simply able to spend hundreds of times the normal amount of mana to activate the spell.

”Immortal Lord, what do we do now?” The Commander at the Titan’s right side asked.

”Send in a team and see what is inside that Trial. If we can get answers, we might find the secret to true Immortality. The Demon said that the last one to enter failed, but that might not be entirely true. You can never take the words of a Cat Demon at face value.”

The Commander motioned for a team to move forward, and the first Giant proudly stomped through the portal, sword in hand.

Then came flying back out.

”Damnation. The Demon lured a massive Dire Bear to the entrance when he left. Totem Rank.” He explained.

The other Titans chuckled at his misfortune.

He might be a Mythic-Ranked Giant, but he had just been forcibly hurled from the trial instance by the first guardian standing at the door.

The next time, they entered in a group of three, and realized that there was not just one, but two massive bears standing guard by the entrance.

”Whoever set this trial was a cruel bastard.” The team leader complained as he sent a System Message to call the rest of his team inside.

”Perhaps they didn’t know that Skills were going to be suppressed here? If we could freely use skills within this nightmare zone, it wouldn’t be a problem to beat down a pair of Totem Ranked bears, no matter how fast they heal.” His companion suggested.

”What I want to know is how that Demon dealt with this. He must have stealth abilities of some sort.” The Team Leader agreed.

The door guardians fell, and the Giants got their first good look at the instance.

It was massive, hundreds of kilometres across.

They were going to need more people.