The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1324 No New Portals

While Karl and Johann finished clearing bunkers and repairing tunnels, Dana

and the Mythic Black Dragon finished clearing out the frogs from the Beast God Temple.

{That skill of yours, Auto Parry, is absolutely brilliant.) The Black Dragon congratulated Dana as she took a quick break to have a drink.

”Thanks. Mages are underrated as melee combatants, but against these evil frogs, having blade skills really saves the day. But the fact that the Golems get it as well makes the most difference.” Dana agreed.

{Would you consider staying on as a teacher here? The children are quite taken with you, and that fighting style would help them immensely when they try to mimic beastkin to blend in with the other species.}

Dana laughed. ”As much fun as that sounds, it simply wouldnʼt be practical. Being Soul Bonded to Karl means that there is never a slow moment in our lives, and the power level difference is too large for me to show them most of the requisite skills for my fighting style.

Many of them canʼt even be used below Royal or Overlord Rank.

However, I have given copies of the best ones to the Blue Dragons, so if you ask nicely, they should be able to send you copies for your students.”

That wasnʼt the greatest concern. The skills would be obtained by those who needed them now that they were in the hands of the blue dragons. What mattered was that the children were going to cry when the ʼpretty fox ladyʼ, as they were calling her, went away.

Even after all these years, it didnʼt get easier to listen to young beasts crying when a new friend went away on a work assignment.

”Tian, Opal, leave some of the frogs for the temple residents, theyʼre hungry too.” Dana warned.

Tian gave Dana his best puppy eyes, and the Mythic Black Dragon began to laugh at her.

{He knows the true way of the beasts.} The dragon joked.

”Thatʼs not going to work on me. Donʼt you see all these adorable pouting expressions? Even if weʼre just mixing in a bit of frog with the regular meals for the young ones, they still worked hard to defend their home today.” Dana countered.

Tian relented, and motioned with a paw for the others to come out and start collecting the last of the frogs that hadnʼt made it to the Templeʼs defensive lines.

That gave everyone plenty of work to do, as most of the youngsters at the Temple didnʼt know how to transform yet, so they had to do all the dragging in beast form.

It was actually quite entertaining for Tian to see so many beasts his own size working together to drag frogs ten times their size across the trampled ground to pile them for processing.

”Do you have a lot of frogs?” One of the young clerics asked Tian as he used Earth Manipulation to help them stack bodies.

Tian nodded happily, then yipped. Then he cleared his throat and tried again.

{This is our third set of frogs. Weʼve been collecting lots of them for the restaurant.} He tried.

”You donʼt speak out loud much, do you? Thatʼs alright. I know that Divine Foxes can speak when they practice. But three invasions worth of frogs is a lot. Are you sure that people wonʼt get sick of them?” The cleric replied.

Tian shook his head. {No, we will sell them to different people most of the time. The Guild runs a stadium sized arena with restaurants and vendor stands.} That took a moment for the cleric to wrap his head around.

The Darklight Host Guild operated a fighting arena. That part was simple. But it was one that served Mythic Rank meat as what? A concession snack? Were they expanded into the Immortal Realm?

Honestly, most of it would not go to the arena, but to the Tiny World, so that they could feed the baby dragons well when they started hatching.

Small ones needed lots of nutrition to grow up big and strong, and Button was eager to be a big sister.

Or to have underlings to play with.

Rae had given her a most wonderful underling today, a Rogue who was incredible at hide and seek. But once the dragon eggs hatched, they would have so many more people to play with.

While they were enjoying the aftermath of their battles, the other Myths who had gathered in Drodh for the ”bounty event of the century” were rapidly stressing Tessa to her breaking point.

Thor and the others had stepped up to help her deal with the paperwork, but once the city of Drodh was cleared, the Myths completely stopped taking the situation seriously, and treated the whole thing as a chance to stock their respective Allianceʼs freezers.

The attackers werenʼt all frogs, but they were almost all wild beasts at the Mythic Rank, and that had proven to be the perfect opportunity for others to pick their options.

So, they didnʼt stay to finish the job, they popped in and out, switching when they heard of something else that might be tasty.

But worse than that, after the attack at the Golden Divine Academy had ended, Remi had sent back a bunch of Mythic Demons that Karl had recruited from somewhere, and they knew nothing about this world.

So, they wanted answers to everything, and they kept flirting with Thor.

The only upside to the whole thing was that if people werenʼt turning in the invading beasts for bounties, the Darklight Host didnʼt have to pay them. That was the deal, edible beasts for bounties.

They had taken some beastkin and Demons in, slaves who hadnʼt intended to end up here. Hopefully, that was where the group that Remi had just sent back

came from as well.

But most of the bounties were for food.

”Take a break and I will handle the bounties for a while.” Thor offered gently

when he noticed that Tessa was getting frustrated.

”No, I can finish out the bounties. We havenʼt seen a new portal opening update from Cara or Matilda in fifteen minutes, so the problem should be nearly handled for the day.” She countered, watching a group of Mythic Warriors who were getting increasingly drunk every time that they came back looking for an update on new beasts to hunt.

”No new invasion locations in fifteen minutes. It looks like Matilda has things under control for a moment. Everyone, pick a portal and finish out the day. This might be your last chance for bounties and loot.” Tessa shouted over the noise of the crowd.

That sent the drunks running for a portal, along with most of the others who

were taking a break between fights.

Finally, some peace and quiet.