The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1313 Not Going Alone

Once Karl had the whole group freed, he found that they were unwilling to go anywhere alone. The thought of being alone among strangers terrified them, and they couldnʼt speak to the locals.

But they were also Mythic Ranked, which made them stand out without the ability to defend themselves.

Something about the Immortal Realm must force their bodies to advance because they were obviously not trained. But Karl wasnʼt sure how to ask. Remi, on the other hand, had no issues asking personal questions.

{I am an Alchemist, and I would really like to know how you got so strong without any magic or physical training. Can I examine you?} She asked.

The old woman laughed, and took a small vial from the pocket of her tattered dress.

{This is the reason that weʼre all strong, but helpless. Itʼs a potion to attune our bodies to the Immortal Realm, so mana poisoning doesnʼt kill us. Weʼre not actually strong, we just feel like it because we have adapted to being in a mana rich world.}

Remi silently cheered as she examined the potion.

(Oh, I think that I can recreate this. This is a good thing. Here, let me buy it from you.

Karl, pay the lady.}

Karl smirked and patted Remi on the head as the Naga got engrossed in analyzing the potion. He knew just how to pay the lizardfolk woman.

{Champion Karl Offers Knowledge} Skill [Healing Totem] will be transferred to the indomitable Elder SSSSSSsasha.

The Elder looked confused, then her eyes went vacant as she entered the Class Change menu.

”Ah, just as I had hoped. Let me explain for the others. This world has a System, designed by the World Dragon, that allows his followers and most of the other people of the world to more easily learn magic and defensive skills.

What I did was to teach the Elder a healing spell, suitable to Shamans.

She seemed like the sort that would be suitable for Shamanistic Magic, and it appears that the System agreed. So, when she comes back, she will have some basic magic, and she will be able to defend herself, as well as understand the people of this world more easily.” Karl explained.

Remi repeated his words in Serpent because the others clearly didnʼt know half the words he used. But once they did understand, the level of excitement had them vibrating and hugging each other.

{So, you can make arena gladiators with a skill? That is remarkable. The Gladiators have it so much easier than the rest of us. Could you please do it for the rest of us? I donʼt mind if itʼs just sandpit warriors. Your world is incredible, and we will fight to defend it when Oobleck comes back.}

Karl smiled. ”He wouldnʼt happen to be a large Octopus, would he?”

The Lizards all nodded. {He was fighting earlier, against a big gold dragon.} From the Chaos Plane, Cara grumbled in discontent. [The food that escaped.] She really wanted to find out what that thing would taste like battered and fried. It was pretty good raw.

Hawk concurred.

”We will see about getting you all combat skills later. First, you need to follow me back to my Guild House, so that nobody mistakes you for part of the

invasion force.” Karl explained.

{Anything that you need to prove our innocence, we will do it. Search us, torture us, send in the mind flayers for interrogation. We can prove weʼre not here to harm anyone.} The lizardfolk woman insisted.

From behind Karl, a deep voice laughed.

”Oh, you found some too, did you? I found some Obsession demons in the same situation, but theyʼve got slave collars on. Are they part of the bounty?” A warrior asked.

Karl shrugged. ”Bring them in alive and Iʼll count it. Theyʼre not technically part of the invading force, and theyʼre not food like the frogs, but we will count them as rescues for credit.”

”Good enough for me. I thought it was weird that they were showing as Mythic auras, but didnʼt possess any of the physical strength that should come with the Rank. I was going to bring them back to your Guild House, where all the politicians and Dragon Clerics are, but now that I know I can get a reward for them, Iʼll give them to you and go look for more.”

That made Karl laugh. ”I will keep notes of how many make it to me. Remi, please escort the ladies to us, and we will keep searching for survivors.” Remi was happy to keep the curious new people company, and everyone in town knew who she was.

Mostly because she had ʼdiscretelyʼ been paying people to do product testing for her once she had a working sample.

You never knew if it was going to work properly on every species, so the less fortunate of Drodh all knew that when Remi came by, there was a chance she would give you gold to test a new product.

And if you were lucky, you might get gold plus a useful benefit that lasted more

than a day or two.

Like her hair regrowth serum, version two.

That version was targeted, so you could only regrow the hair that you wanted to get back, and not every hair that your body could possibly grow.

A minor improvement.

Karl moved toward the most recently rebuilt square, the apartment blocks that he had helped to rebuild, and tried not to fear the worst. They were among the most densely populated areas of the Redwood Sprawl, so there could be the highest rates of casualties there as well if the buildings had collapsed.

His hopes were not high, but when Karl climbed over a pile of rubble that had been a large commercial building, he found the square in shambles, with pieces of frog corpses everywhere, but the buildings completely intact.

Going by the blood spray, Rae had come through here before the damage had

really spread.

The apartment buildings still stood, and as Karl moved into the ruined market with his procession of rescues, cautious heads began to poke out of windows and doors, hoping for good news.