The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1032: Contact The Guild

Karl pulled up the System interface and looked at the Guild interface.

{Guild Members Active} 999+

{Guild Rank} War Champion

{Full Guild Privileges Granted}

{Guild Branches In Range} 12

”What branch are you from? If theyʼre in range, I can send a message for you and hope that someone receives it.” Karl suggested.

All the others silently checked their interfaces at the same time. They were all Darklight Host members, but they hadnʼt thought to see if they could interact with the Guild in a while, since the only members were them plus Supreme Lady Matilda and the two under her branch, which now included Tiffani and one other.

[Weʼve been here before. This timeline. This is just before I met you for the first time.] Cara announced.

She had been watching random events in her Precognition spell mirror, and just happened to see their current activities, which came with a basic time reference.

It might be off by a few years or a decade, but it should be close.

[Well, this should be interesting. Everything really was shutting down at this point, and it would be a very long time before they came back online again.] Karl informed her.

[Yeah, Spicy Dragon agrees that itʼs going to be fun to have us here.]

[Wait, what?] Karl asked.

[Oh, I messaged her once I realized we found a fun place. We keep each other up to date on new developments.] Cara explained.

And, as they were thousands of years into the past, this would have been the first time that the two had spoken to each other. But apparently Supreme Lady Matilda had just rolled with the flow, and didnʼt question what Cara was talking about.

Or, she might have already foreseen this event, and wasnʼt shocked.

It was hard to tell with the Chaos Dragon.

Karl sent off a Guild Message, hoping that someone would reply. {I am at the 42nd Narazir Zone way station. There is only one Guild Member here, waiting for replacement members who are overdue. Does anyone know their status?}

There was a long pause, then a return message came to him.

{Who is this, and how did you reactivate the Guild Messaging function? Tell Mira to retreat to the Khizdila Guild House. The outposts have been abandoned, and the Guild functions are failing fast.

Narazir is completely lost, she is the last active member there as far as we can tell. But tell her to stay away from the Troll Armies. Theyʼre waging war to take Narazir as their own, and the Dwarves have retreated below ground.

World Dragon be with you, War Champion. This might be the last message I can send.}

The name on the message was corrupted, showing as incomprehensible symbols and there were multiple corrupted characters, but Karl managed to translate it well enough.

Well, hopefully.

If they meant somewhere other than Khizdila he might be sending Mira on an adventure in the wrong direction.

{This is War Champion Karl. Be safe, and keep trying with the System Functions. There are still many Guild Members who have no idea what is happening.}

After a minute, there was no reply, so Karl had no way to know if the message had even been received. But he had gotten enough information to at least relay to their guide.

”Mira, I got a message through. I donʼt know who sent the reply, but they said to go to Khizdila. Apparently the Trollish Armies are taking Narazir as a Trollish Nation, and the Dwarves have moved underground.

The Guild Functions are apparently failing fast, so theyʼre calling everyone to the Guild Houses. As far as they can tell, youʼre the last Guild Member in the region.”

Mira laughed. ”A thousand kilometres through the wilderness, while the Trolls are at war? Not only that, but Iʼll have to cross the East Wall, and that means the active war zone unless I go way out into the wilderness and stay away from the cities.

I think that if the System is collapsing that fast, it might be better if I just stay here. I might not be much of a Cleric, but I am a Cleric, and the farmers rely on the Darklight Host for emergencies.

If the Armies show up, the farmers should protect me.

Iʼve been here for five years now, and I know everyone. The trolls donʼt need much healing, but I help with childbirth and nature magic for the crops.”

If Cara was right, and this was the same time when he found her, the System was still going strong close to home. The Divine Beast Nation had no problem keeping Guild functions active, but that was halfway around the world.

So, it might not be long before the issues spread.

Karl considered sending a message to Orthos, the Bronze Dragon. But if it was before he became the War Champion of Bunga, that might just cause unnecessary confusion.

Orthos was on his list of {Friends} in the System interface, and showed as active, so the dragon was definitely alive and a member of the Guild. Karl wasnʼt sure when or how anyone got added to the Friends list, but there were a startling number of people on it.

City Lords, Generals, some Innkeepers and people they had gone to Dungeons with. Most were showing as inactive, but the members of his group and the two Ancient Dragons were all showing as available for messages.

Mira gestured further into the Temple. ”Now that weʼve sorted out my future plans, should we finish the tour, and go rescue the Black Dragon from the enthusiasm of a Green Dragon Cleric who just found a shrine to the Bunny God?”

Karl nodded. ”Yes, letʼs see the rest of the Temple. There is a lot of history hidden in here, and my team is making notes, so that none of it is forgotten if something should happen to the building during the unrest.”

Mira laughed and shook her head. ”I canʼt see the army caring about the building itself. If anything, the locals might tear it down to do home improvements once I am gone. The Old Gods arenʼt the Troll Gods. Or, most of them arenʼt. There are some shrines to the Troll Shaman Gods in here.”