The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1363 Turn Up The Difficulty

”Now that youʼve shown us that you understand the basics of protecting the Prince from dangerous items, I will increase the difficulty a little. This time, use magic to cause a distraction, and then destroy the item. Void Blast will do the job, but if you have other ideas, you donʼt need to use magic.” Karl instructed.

The scene changed to a garden party, and Librarian Barry took a seat beside the Crown Prince.

”This magic is wonderful for education. To think, he can make entire scenarios with a thought, including the guests. It is so far beyond the basic training methods that we use for the kids that I canʼt wait to see what the challenge on tomorrowʼs day off looks like.” The Librarian whispered.

”Challenge?” Prince Lukas asked.

”I guess you werenʼt paying attention. The children are gathering for a ʼstudy sessionʼ tomorrow, with Princess Rue. You know how that always turns into a contest. But if Lord Karl is going to lead the session, It should be something like this, should it not?” The Librarian asked.

”Right, a fully illusionary training area, instead of the standard training grounds games. That does sound like it will be a lot of fun.” Lukas agreed.

Rue snapped her fingers and waved at Cara. ”Right, we have visitors tomorrow. What am I going to do? We usually plan these things weeks in advance so that we have enough entertainment ready for them. I havenʼt even thought of anything.

Iʼve never even hosted one before.”

Cara booped her on the nose. ”Relax. Itʼs a study session. I will have the Karl make us something fun to do, and I have the rewards ready for them.”

Then she frowned. She was going to grab snacks from the Alliance House, but they were thousands of years in the past right now, and she couldnʼt even access the Tiny World.

That really limited her options.

If she had taken up cooking like Hawk had, she might have had a chance to make some snacks of her own, but that sounded like too much work when she could just ask the Karl to make a construct that could bake.

Or, she might be able to share the skill.

No, it was one that Karl compounded for Hawk, not one that he had himself. She couldnʼt borrow it. She would have to work with what she had, or put him to work later, when they didnʼt have so many people watching them.

Karl gestured to the garden party. ”I will take care of the party planning. For now, you have a scenario to solve. Remember, you can use magic as a distraction, but the item needs to be destroyed without anyone realizing what youʼve done.”

Rue sighed, less eager to go back to training when there was a chance to make friends on her mind. But she giggled when she realized that all the people here were people she knew.

Karl had duplicated the guests at breakfast for this garden party, and now she just needed to know who had the target item.

”Will you have her work on different items later?” Prince Lukas asked.

Karl nodded. ”Indeed. Itʼs only day one of her training, so Iʼm going with simple to find threats. Itʼs the technique that matters most. We will work on intelligence gathering and identifying threats later.”

Librarian Barry shrugged. ”I can work with her on those topics as well. It is part of the advanced curriculum.”

Rue made her way through the crowd, more comfortable now that the faces were familiar ones.

”You are evil.” Prince Lukas whispered as he realized who had the item that Rue needed to discretely destroy.

”It keeps things interesting. Besides, if you make it too obvious, what is she going to learn?” Karl replied quietly as the Princess made polite small talk. Then she found the item, and it was on one of the girls who had always been nice to her.

Presumably, the target of the cursed item was going to be someone that she didnʼt like, but this was a training mission, and she had to destroy it anyhow. If she justified it as thinking that others were already suspecting her, it wouldnʼt seem as bad in her mind.

Yes, that was the way.

”Lovely party, isnʼt it?” Rue asked as she stepped beside her target.

”It really is. Do you think that Lady Cara will be here? Sheʼs so funny.” The girl asked.

”Hopefully. Oh, did you know, she taught me a trick with void magic today.” Rue replied.

Then she snapped her fingers and cast two spells in rapid succession. [Void Grab] and [Void Blast]. The Void Blast was targeted at the glass one of the boys who liked to bully her was carrying, and gentle enough that it only cracked the glass, so he had a half second of horror as the glass shattered and dumped sticky fruit punch all down his arm.

Rue put her best innocent look on while the boy turned to glare at her. But being in a crowd, it was impossible to pinpoint the source of the magic from a distance, and her friend was also laughing along.

Then, Rue focused hard to cast two simultaneous spells again.

[Void Blast] to destroy the item, and [Void Grab] to pull a fresh glass of punch

from a serverʼs tray.

”How utterly unfortunate. My apologies, I just learned the spell, and my targeting seems to be rather inaccurate. Please, accept a fresh glass in apology.” She offered.

The boy simply glared at her, then stomped away, and Karl ended the scenario. ”Spectacular work. I hadnʼt known that you had it in you. But it seems that once we get through the shy exterior, there is a skilled illusionist hiding underneath.” Prince Lukas nodded. ”If I hadnʼt known what was going on, I wouldnʼt have even noticed that you had taken and destroyed the item. The distraction was nearly perfect.

A bit more work on your timing and power levels, and youʼll be an expert.”