The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1040: How The Changes Work

The pixie tilted her head as if listening to something Karl couldnʼt hear, then bowed politely.

”Itʼs time for me to go home. Dinner is ready and mom will be mad if I come back smelling like the Mortal Realms. Have a good morning, Monster Man.”

Then the pixie was gone, back in the Fae Realm and flying off at hundreds of kilometres an hour.

Karl tried not to laugh at being named the Monster Man by the Fae, who likely didnʼt even know what his class was. Most likely, the tiny creature was going either by smell or appearance, and Karl spent all his days looking like a Cat Demon.

He really should start spending time as himself again, instead of remaining in this form. But it was so much more comfortable this way. The fur of the transformation was temperature regulating, and he didnʼt sunburn. So, he was always comfortable whether it was hot or cold.

Plus, Dana liked snuggling with his fur.

Karl finished making notes on the spell to access the Fae Realm, in case that was needed for a related spell later, and moved on to finish exploring the area.

As he returned to the front, the cleric was outside again, and in a much better mood.

”Did you come to a conclusion?” Karl asked.

The cleric nodded. ”My father is cousin to the King of Sholaha, and I was expected to spend my life in service to the crown. That is not what I wanted in life, so I became a Cleric.

But now that mortality is catching up to me, my thoughts on life have changed somewhat.

And while I was in contemplation, I saw souls moving south to the nation of Bomgon. I intend to follow them and learn the arts of the Necromancer, but not with the aim of raising the undead.

Instead, I aim to transform myself and, as you said, try to become undead. While holding on to the values that matter most to me.”

The Cleric had just started walking away from the temple when the scenery changed, and Karl found that he was standing with the rest of the group in an open field again, next to a perplexed Clan of Orcs.

Lotus looked around, then snapped her fingers in realization.

”I get it. I know how the changes work. Who here did something important just before the change?” She asked.

Everyone else shrugged. They were just relaxing after breakfast, and Ophelia was in the gym, in the middle of a set.

Karl raised his hand. ”I was talking to that cleric, and when he made up his mind to head south to Bomgon to try to find his own path to immortality, the world changed. Literally five steps after he left, we were gone.”

Lotus nodded. ”I think that I know how it works. There were many unresolved issues in the past of this region. Now, time fluctuates here. So, every time that an unresolved event ends, it changes again. This time it ended early, and I could feel the change focused on our location.

I think that weird cleric guy is actually going to become someone important during the years between resurgences. Well, either that or he does something different now that we talked to him and the issue was fixed.”

From Lotusʼ shoulder, Remi laughed. {If you just convinced the future Lord Bomgon or his mentor to become an undead, youʼre never going to live it down.}

His soul didnʼt look or feel like the Undead Lordʼs. But thousands of years and a change of species might have changed that. It was more likely, Karl thought, that he had just met the man who preceded the current Lord Bomgon.

Perhaps even his father.

The Orc Clanʼs Chieftain came over to them for answers, and Karl realized that they were back at the same spot where they had been before things changed. The Orcs camp was still here, and Orcs never left a mess behind when they moved on.

The Chieftain smiled at Tessa and Karl. ”Not as impressive as I was hoping for. There was no fighting at all.”

Karl smiled back. ”We canʼt win them all. But it was a good history lesson for everyone else. We learned a lot about the various gods. Did you gain any knowledge from the shrine to your Orcish God of Cunning?”

The Chieftain nodded. ”It gave me advice on how to search for the lost System Relics. Which seemed strange at the time, as there was one in the other room. But now that we have returned here, it seems like much better advice.”

Tessa gave him a curious look and the Orc elaborated.

”He said that the stones didnʼt remain in one spot after they were hidden away. They are in a pocket dimension, and we just need to find it so that we can claim it for the Clan. Once it is found and opened in our present time, it should stay open at the will of the Great Chieftain that finds it.”

That might not be as grand as the search for the scale fragment that the majority of the worldʼs Orcs were on. But searching for a set of System Stones would certainly make them one of the most powerful clans in the world if they actually found them.

Just being able to advance classes at will as their Clan advanced would be incredible.

Plus, they could trade the other Clans for access.

There were dreams of becoming the most prestigious Orc Clan in the Dragon Isles running through the Chiefʼs mind. Nobody was likely to find the scale piece in the immediate future, so there was a chance here to elevate his Clan for an entire generation or more.

Not only that, but if they could advance their classes, he would have the roughest, toughest Orcs anywhere, and they would make a whole generation of more powerful children. What more could a clan ask for?

Tessa could see that there was much more to the message, or to the Orcsʼ interpretation of it, but she let it slide. That was their own business, and they were already starting to pack up in preparation to move on to another location.