The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1235: What’s In A Name?

Tian thought about calling her Auntie Dana, but that made her sound old.

Definitely not good.

But Sisters shouldn’t do those sorts of things with the Karl.

Cara nodded in agreement. Mating with Karl would be weird, and she was adopted, not born in his space.

Remi considered the situation. Logically, Dana should be something like their adoptive mother, perhaps their stepmother. But that didn’t fit. She had read many books, and stepmothers were supposed to be evil and biased.

Maybe she could be a cousin?

Or, they could just call her big sister, since she had been adopted into the family like they had. Her position might be a bit different, but it was still a good name.

[Can you not discuss my love life when we’re about to start a Dungeon?] Dana pleaded.

[Oh, yeah! The Dana Mage hasn’t figured out how to mute everyone yet. Alright, we will discuss your title later. But how do we know when the baby Dana Mages are due?] Tian asked.

[Really? Now is not the time for that conversation, either.]

[Multitasking. It’s easy to chat and heal at the same time.] Tian complained.

Karl gave Dana’s mind a slight mental nudge, showing her how to move the thoughts of the others to the back of her mind, turning it in to subconscious chatter unless it was something urgent and aimed at her.

[Thank you.] She replied, then began to summon her Golems to get the fight started.

With her four humanoid Golems, and the pair of Dragon Hounds, they were already doing very well. Then, she added the pair of Epic Golems, in the form of Earth Elemental Lords, and Deve shook his head in dismay.

How was he supposed to lead a raid when there were four boss monsters in his front lines?

What was he even supposed to be doing up there?

Deve focused himself and gave his usual first instructions as he led the group forward.

”Follow me into the group, I will pull them with a ranged spell. Golems spread to my flanks, and stop them from encircling the group. Damage dealers, you know the routine. Five seconds for me to get all their attention, then join the fight.”

Karl did exactly that, and five seconds into the first fight he sent in his Golems, in the form of a pair each of Myceloid Kings, Lightning Cerro, and Dire Bears, backed up by a squad of spectral knights.

Between his team and Dana’s the outcome was inevitable.

Especially after the Myceloid Kings pinned two of the Demon Apes with their arms behind them for the others to massacre.

”It feels like we’re bullying them at this point.” The healer noted as the Demon Apes howled in pain.

Karl nodded. ”You’re right. We should probably use some area attacks, so it doesn’t feel as much like a mugging.”

The White Dragon simply stared at him for a moment, then shook his head in dismay.

How would that help? By reducing visibility so they didn’t have to see the mugging?

The first group fell, and Deve turned back to them, to pass a message in bear form.

{Change of plans. Just have that pair of thugs grab the Apes. They grapple better than I do.}

Karl smiled, and sent his Golems forward, then bombarded the area around the Apes with [Apocalypse], in case they had missed something.

No more Apes came out of the forest, but Deve waited for a few more seconds before he joined the fight.

There was no need for him to get beat up when those things were present.

Dana used a movement skill to step up into the air over Karl’s head and began an elegant sword dance that threw multiple attacks at the Apes every second, a fitting counterpart to Karl’s area of effect fire damage.

”Don’t let Annabelle know about that skill, she will never let your Dana sleep until she learns it. Giving her an Idol dress was a mistake.” The healer, Lars, quietly joked.

”You know, we can teach her the skill. It might even advance her class, since it’s an exclusive ability of the class that Dana has. Mystic Blademaster, it is called. It has a bunch of bonuses to Golem Damage, and blade use.

She’s actually a brilliant melee combatant.” Karl explained to the dragon.

”And she is back here, in the air, why?”

Karl shrugged. ”Because she can? Her skills have more than enough range for her to fight from that distance, and her primary melee bonuses are her incredible agility and [Auto Parry], but what is going to attack her with all those Golems around?”

Lars chuckled. He wouldn’t complain that nobody was getting hurt.

Whatever ability Karl was using on the Golems had them either taking no damage or healing as fast as they were being injured. So, he was just chatting with Karl as the Beast Master channelled a rain of fire and meteors onto the battle.

”You know, I just realized that you’re not going to be eligible to challenge for a Totem Ranked Dungeon this time around. It looks like our Alliance might be out in the cold again.” Lars realized.

Karl shrugged. ”Well, we’ve got a chance if one of the other ladies hits Totem Rank in time, or if one of the beasts doesn’t advance. I would wager that Thor could likely hold his own in a Totem Ranked challenge.”

”Not Rae?” Lars asked.

Karl shook his head. ”Rae certainly won’t wait that long. She’s already preparing for her own advancement. But Thor is quite attached to Tessa, and I suspect that his bloodline is going to give him some trouble.

Normally, an Impenetrable Bulwark Behemoth cannot advance past Overlord, but he already did. We might be able to help him advance again, or evolve into a form that is more compatible with higher Ranks. But both will likely take some time.”

Lars sighed. ”Well, you’ll be able to challenge for a Mythic Dungeon anyhow. We can always use another, if you’re a good enough combatant in the duel format at Mythic Rank.”