The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1257: Know The Rules

Karl shook the lingering tingle of a powerful potion from his muscles, then prepared to explain the effect to the dragons.

“The potion gave me an extra twenty percent understanding to the Fundamental Rule of Mana Manipulation. But it also spread through my beast spaces, and gave me ten percent better understanding of the Fire and Divinity Rules, which I already had compatibility with.” He informed them.

That should keep the dragons happy.

“So, it also worked on your bonded partners? Then I wonder if it worked on your Dana Mage?” The War Cleric asked.

Rae transformed into a humanoid and began to laugh. “We’ve infected them all. Soon, the entire world will know that she’s your Dana Mage.”

The dragon frowned. That wasn’t how he had intended to phrase his response. In fact, he had never heard the Divine Fox girl described that way before. Was it possible that the Beast Master’s mental link to all things beast was subconsciously influencing the dragons around him?

That definitely needed study.

Especially when he had hundreds of dragon eggs in his separate space.

They had heard about it from the Red Dragons, who had gotten word from one of their Orphanage workers during the wedding. If his thoughts and values were influencing the dragons around him, what would happen if vulnerable minded young dragons were exposed to him?

It didn’t appear to harm the dragonkin clerics, or the Forest Dragon known as Button.

But that might be because the tiny dragon was a single-minded force of nature, and simply never considered anyone else when she made decisions.

So much to learn, and not enough researchers.

Which seemed rather ironic, given that there were already twenty of them at the Darklight Host Guild House in Drodh, working on ways to solve the imbalance between the base Warrior Class and other classes.

“You all look distracted. Did I not explain well?” Karl asked.

The dragons shook their heads in unison. “No, you described it well, but it led us down another train of thought, and we got caught up for a moment. We believe that we need to talk to Dana so that we can find out if it also affected her, and then we will ask our kin to gather some accessory details about how your affinity for beasts might be affecting the beasts who are not bonded with you.”

Karl nodded. “I can see how that would happen. Every time something new and unexpected happens, there is a lot of other knowledge that needs to be gathered.”

The dragons sighed in relief. They hadn’t been sure that he would truly understand their concerns about the complete set of knowledge that was necessary.

But if he was going to cooperate with the researchers, that would make everything easy.

They would message Sapphire now and have her put it on the list.

Karl was about to continue speaking, but the War Cleric held up his hand for him to wait.

“We have the full notes on the dungeon, on the difficulty selection, the warning, the extra boss, the rewards, the potion, the note is sent to Sapphire to study the side effects of Karl and his unique class, we have the notes on the relative increase in reward.

Alright, we can leave now.” He explained.

Ah, he wanted to double-check that they hadn’t forgotten anything, before it was no longer fresh in their minds.

Karl led the way out, and then laughed as the reporters counted on their fingers, only to come up with too many people to be in the instance. Rae, Remi and Cara were all still out of their spaces, which brought the count to eight, or seven for most of them, as they didn’t count Cara as a group member, but a bonded partner.

Slowly, they realized that Remi and Rae must be Karl’s bonded beasts, with Rae transformed into humanoid form.

Rae sighed as she realized she missed the opportunity to come out as a spider and scare the sense out of the reporters for a photo opportunity.

She would have to remember next time.

“How was it? Is the increased difficulty really repeatable?” A reporter shouted from behind the group of Myths that was guarding the area.

Karl waved at her, calling the Succubus over.

“The increased difficulty is repeatable, at least by my group. I don’t know how the others have done. But you need a specialized group to make the most of it.” He informed her, then returned his attention to the other Myths.

“We did the same setting as the first time, and the rewards were similar.” Karl offered, enough to let them know what had happened, without giving away anything too detailed while there were so many gossiping voices around.

“You’re the first ones out, but you also entered first. You made excellent time.” The Warrior at the gate informed them.

“None of the others are out yet?” Karl confirmed.

The Warrior shook his head.

The blue dragons smiled. That meant they could wait here for everyone else and ensure that they had a representative from every group to give them details firsthand.

Perfect timing.

The next group out was the one that Dana was leading, which was a bit of a surprise.

They hadn’t been the second to enter, they had been a much later group. Though, they only entered five minutes apart, just enough to be sure that the groups were not interfering with each other.

Or interrupting media photo sessions.

“We did a lower, but still improved, difficulty version. It went as smoothly as hoped. The rewards were good, I will help you with a report back at the Guild House.” Dana informed the curious dragons before they could ask.

Being linked to the beasts as a huge advantage in this situation. She had known what was coming for her as soon as they finished the dungeon and the restriction on outside mental connections faded.

Curious blue dragons were mostly harmless, and completely harmless when you weren’t trying to hold back knowledge from them. Dana’s mind equated them with a more responsible version of Lotus, which made Rae laugh.

But Cara thought that she might be on to something.