The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 809  Misinformation Causes Delays

The four teachers signed the document, then Karl put his signature on the pages, and the paper altered, removing the struck clauses, and adding his own in the same writing as the magical contract took effect.

Nalek patted them on the shoulder, then turned to the door. ”I will open a portal to bring you back two days before classes start. Now, I will let you all get to work.”

Karl examined the mages, who were all Monarchs. ”The Academy really went all out this time. I will admit that youʼre a bit old to be proper apprentices, and youʼve already spent a lot of time researching your chosen subject. Or at least, I hope that you have.” Karl began.

Derek laughed quietly, and Dala glared at Karl. ”I honestly donʼt know how much they expect you to be able to teach me.”

Karl focused on Remiʼs [Alchemy] skill and [Runecrafting], merging them to create a [Runic Alchemy] skill.

Then he transferred the [Apprentice Runic Alchemy] skill to the two half Elves.

They were shocked into silence, so Karl took the opportunity to transfer [Apprentice Runesmithing] to the other two. If everyone was shocked silent at once, he shouldnʼt have to repeat himself.

”Remind me again why I thought it was a good idea to agree to this?” Karl whispered to Dana, who laughed at him.

”I have no idea. Maybe you thought they would send you cute young apprentices?”

Remi nodded in agreement. {Cute apprentices are best.}

”Alright, now that you have the basic skills, we can get started on your training. Lady Remi will be teaching the Runic Alchemy introduction. Please let me know if you have issues with the System translation of her lessons, as she only speaks Serpent. I will take care of the Runesmithing lessons for the day, as Overlord Ashbringer has created a wealth of blades for them to learn the basics on. The dungeon trash is good to Royal Rank, so not to the maximum of your powers. But we can ease you into that as you learn the principles.”

A huge portion of what Karl knew about enchanting weapons actually came from the Dwarven Runecrafting book, and not the skill. So, while Runesmithing would teach them the language, and how the skill worked, the intricacies of compound Runes were not included.

As researchers, they should understand some of that already. They would have seen it on relics.

Ashbringer brought a whole bundle of weapons up to the second floor, and Karl created a floor to ceiling chalkboard with [Earth Barrier]. ”Alright, we will start with the six most common runic strings that are used, and then we will start on the lesson of compounding.” Karl began.

Moira sighed, and took out a piece of chalk.

She wrote a set of runes on the board while Karl watched.

”See, I know all this.” She insisted.

”You got the stroke order wrong here, here, here, here and here. These two runes are missing a stroke, and this one is at the wrong angle. It means a powerful erection, not a powerful skill.

Now, while that is a fun rune, itʼs not what weʼre hoping for in a weapon.” Karl explained.

Moira stared at him in shock, and Karl gestured to a blade. ”If you think Iʼm lying, go ahead and try. But if you mess it up, you have to help Ashbringer hammer the incorrect inscriptions back out of the blade. That too is part of the art of Runesmithing.”

The proud instructor began the work, doing them exactly as she had written them on the board, while Mash watched over her shoulder.

Moira smiled smugly as she inserted power into the runes, then gasped in horror as she realized there was an ever-growing bulge in the pants of the man beside her.

Karl smirked as he began to speak. ”Wonderful. You now have a sharp-edged reproductive assistant toy. If you had gotten the runes a bit more correct, it would have a range longer than contact. Mash, if you could move back a step, the effect should fade.

Now, are you ready to listen to me and to the knowledge of the language that the skill inserted into your brain? You should know how to do this correctly, just think about the skill.”

Mash came forward and paused for a moment with a look of intense concentration on his face. Then he wrote the basic runes on the board, very nearly correct.

”Close. Only a few errors here and here. Practice those on the board, and then we can move on to compounding them together with basic modifiers for distance, strength and duration.

Once you have mastered that, we will start on the effects of varying engraving depths on the outcome.” Loros and Wendy tried their hardest not to laugh as they worked. They had known nothing coming in, so they didnʼt have to unlearn decades of bad habits and incorrect knowledge to understand what Karl was teaching them.

Compared to that, these newbies were going to have a very hard time.

Meanwhile, in the illusionary city, where Remi had taken her students to work, things were going much more smoothly. They werenʼt trying to unlearn bad habits, they were treating the art as new Alchemy recipes that used Runes as an ingredient. It had only taken Remi one demonstration potion for Dala to understand her skill, and now the Alchemy teacher was fully engrossed in the lessons on adding runes to a simplified potion mixture to make functional replacements for missing ingredients.

The advantage of the city was that there was no sun. It was always the same twilight, no matter the hour of the day. So, the students would never notice when night came, and she could simply work them until they dropped.

If potions filled every bit of their brain, they should begin to learn at something resembling a reasonable pace. She just had to keep them from distractions.

It was a brilliant plan.

Well, almost brilliant, Remi realized once she started to get hungry. She would still have to take breaks to let them eat, and that would give them back their sense of time.