The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1272  Tian Needs Assistance

”I will retire to my workshop for a bit, so I can prepare the more intricate parts of the core spells for the new building. Please, enjoy yourselves, and I will see you at dinner.” Karl informed the group.

Tian briefly considered following him, so Karl could help him advance. But if he left, who knew what design choices would be approved?

That was how Karl found himself sitting in a hammock at the beach, carving runes into elemental stones, while Button napped on him in dragon form.

He wasnʼt moving, and that made him fair game.

The slight motion of the hammock as Karl worked made it sway like a tree branch, perfect for a Forest Dragon to sleep.

He had already finished three stones for the shops in the new arena. Everything other than the Alliance trade house. That would have to be manned by Alliance members so that they could add and remove items from the storeʼs inventory.

He briefly considered moving on to the hard part, but decided on finishing the plinth first. He could adapt it to make the core for the arena, with [Randomize] to choose the challengers and a full suite of Golem spells to create them. Then an application of [Chaotic Zone] to turn the whole thing into a form of instance, so the illusion wouldnʼt collapse when damaged. That would have to be isolated to the arena area so that it didnʼt interfere with the food shops. Who knew what it would do to a baking recipe.

Probably nothing good.

Once the arena plinth was finished, and all its layers assembled, Karl put a bottom cap on it, and mentally checked in on the others, to see how the planning was going.

They had a final design made, intended to look like a colosseum, with plinths surrounding a stadium shaped upper bowl. Under normal circumstances, that would be the actual arena. But in this case, it was less than a quarter of the size of the actual arena, and the design was actually a careful deception to make audience members not realize that they were in an illusion.

Only those with good spatial awareness would easily realize that the dimensions were impossible.

However, there had been alterations made to the plan. There would be far more vendor stall styled shops within the arena area itself, mobile vendors selling snacks in the stands, and a small hotel to be created with a separate illusionary domain within the upper boxes of the stadium.

In all, there would be hundreds of thousands of runes worth of work for him to do.

If Karl hadnʼt mastered [Earth manipulation] to such a high degree, thanks to Tianʼs affinity, he would have had to write them all by hand, and it would have taken months. However, as the building was designed, he could cover everything with runes once they were past the outer pillars.

That would barely be enough space for him to create everything that they wanted.

Even better, none of the guests under Immortal Rank would be able to see through the illusions to find the Rune work hidden underneath. The more mystery that he could keep around the construction technique, the better.

[Donʼt be so down about the work. Itʼs going to be spectacular once weʼre finished.] Tian consoled him.

From the hot springs in the Tiny World, Thor nodded eagerly. [They planned all the good stuff. Look, they even found a way to use Opalʼs illusions to create all the staff that doesnʼt need to be powerful.]

That was still a lot of work for Karl, but it would save some, as the illusionary staff that couldnʼt take major damage could be activated as part of the illusionary domain spell and replaced as needed they were damaged, or when events called for a change of decor and uniforms.

By the time that Karl had finished with the separate spells for the arena, a full night had passed, and Button was awake again, ready for breakfast after an extremely extended nap that had taken a whole afternoon and evening.

”Itʼs bright again? Oh, the sun is in the breakfast spot. They should be cooking soon.” She realized.

Karl smiled at the confused little dragon. ”One day, theyʼre going to change the schedule, and youʼll be so confused.”

Button nodded in agreement. ”Every time there is a special event, they mess up all the meal times. Itʼs so annoying, but they make special foods to compensate.”

Lyric came to collect Button for breakfast, but the dragon simply flew away on her, headed for the lake.

That was the Button equivalent of bath time, which meant that she had high hopes for today. If she wasnʼt hoping to interact with people, she wouldnʼt have gone for a bath first thing in the morning.

While the young Elf was trying to convince Button to stop splashing in the lake and come out to eat, Tian came to visit Karl in the hammock.

[I require assistance. Weʼre about to start on the construction of the arena, but my body is too small to advance to Mythic Rank.] He insisted.

Karl frowned. ”Is that even something that I can fix?”

Tian shrugged. [Just make me bigger. That is probably enough.]

Karl smiled as he used [Behemoth] to turn Tian into a larger Stonefur Divine Fox. He still had the distinctly rounded features of a pup, but now he was the size of a medium dog, and filled with confidence.

[Yes, this should be just what I need.] He decided, then began to channel energy from his space through his enhanced body.

Now that it could hold more, he was able to push more of the old mana out, and the circulation of Mythic Rank mana started to remake his body at a steady pace, filling him with power until he began to emit pure white light.

His chubby features became a bit more slender, forcibly evolving to the form of an adolescent Divine Fox, and his fur glowed brighter as his power level advanced.

Then, as suddenly as it started, the evolution was over, and Tian let the [Behemoth] spell fade so he could inspect his new form.

He was roughly the size of a house cat, at about three kilos in weight. Not bad at all.

He was still adorable.

And now he was ready to start the work of building their arena.