The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1095: Wendy’s Delivery

Wendy arrived just after Karl finished with the first suit of armour, and Karl got a flood of messages.

[I’m here.]

[Oh, there’s Gryphon puppies!]

[Does Lotus know?]

[Where are you?]

[How do I get out of here?]

Karl laughed, and Hugo gave him a strange look.

”The shopper is here with the first batch of delivery orders.” Karl explained.

The massive mage smiled at what they were likely to be experiencing in the maze right now.

”What sort of shopper did they send?” He asked instead.

”A teenage Demoness. She’s a Commander Rank Mage, and always eager to see new spells and places. I promised her dad I would keep her safe, but I can’t see anyone here attacking her while she’s making deliveries.” Karl explained.

Hugo shook his head. ”It would flag them within their Guild for attacking an Alliance member. Nobody would risk being expelled to steal someone else’s shopping.”

Karl went to the maze to meet Wendy, who was wrapped around a Gargoyle, nuzzling its face.

”Ah, you made it. Welcome. I’ve got a map of the delivery locations for you. Did you separate everything by individual orders?” Karl asked.

Wendy nodded, but didn’t look up. ”Yeah, they’re all in paper bags, except a few big ones that are in boxes. I put names on them, I just need to know where they go.”

Karl passed her the map of the various Guild Manors within the complex, and Wendy smiled. There was only one house per Guild, for the most part. So, she could just drop off an entire pile of shopping with their staff, but still get to meet new people.

Then she realized Hugo was standing beside Karl.

”Hello, Guild Master Hugo. Oh, you’re a Mage. Totally didn’t expect that.”

Hugo chuckled at her candid response.

”I get that a lot. I don’t have the traditional mage build, but I have excellent compatibility with new magic.”

Wendy smiled. ”New spells are the greatest thing ever. Do you have cuddly golems? Dana has the cuddly golems.”

Hugo looked confused, so Karl explained. ”Her Greater Golem spell summons a pair of Dragon Hounds.”

Hugo nodded. ”I don’t actually have the Greater Golem spell. I will have to get your Dana to try to explain it to me one day. Do you have Golems as well? I suspect that you will be quite the powerful mage when you grow up.”

Wendy nodded eagerly, and then called the pair of juvenile Cerro patterned golems.

”Oh, defensive Golems. Great choice. So many mages focus entirely on offensive skills, but the world is overrun with Warriors, and they’re almost all attackers. Nobody wants to be the one taking the damage.” Hugo joked.

It was a lot of trust to put in other people. Not just the healers, that they wouldn’t let you die when the monsters got past your defences. But also in the damage dealers, that they wouldn’t slack and leave you in a bad spot. When they weren’t taking the damage, and they weren’t going to be blamed for the lack of healing, many didn’t feel the urge to put real effort into the battles, and would just coast along doing just enough to not get yelled at.

So, if the mages could back the tanks up with some defensive Golems, it took a lot of pressure off, and made it much more obvious when the problem was the lack of damage.

When the tank wasn’t having problems holding the group, and all the monsters were occupied, it was hard to argue that the time taken to kill it was anything but the responsibility of the damage dealers.

When the Tank was doing his best to keep everything attacking him, they could say that they had to do what they were doing to not bring the monsters to them.

”How about I show Miss Wendy around, and then I will come back to see how the armour is coming?” Hugo suggested.

Karl nodded. ”I will do my best to have at least one more finished by the time that you two get back. You might as well bring Raj and someone else if you happen to see them on your route.

Thank you for looking after my Guild Member.”

Hugo nodded. Wendy was definitely going to talk his ear off, but the young mage’s enthusiasm was refreshing. Everyone who came here to attempt to join a Guild for the dungeons was at least a little jaded by life.

But she lived in a crafting warehouse and what sounded like a magical library. How exactly did a Library in the Guild house have a whole city outside the window? It had to be an application of the [Illusionary Domain] spell.

But that explained why Karl was so confident about the security of the portal.

When you broke an Illusionary spell, you tended to end up in the equivalent location in real space. So, if you were in a city that was below a tower in the Illusionary Domain, you would end up buried in the ground somewhere near the Guild House.

That could very well be instantly fatal.

Walking with Wendy was a new experience for Hugo. Everyone was somewhat intimidated by his power and position, but Wendy had no filter, and she greeted every mage that they passed, and even asked them random questions about magic.

”You really do love magic, don’t you?” Hugo asked.

Wendy bobbed her head repeatedly in agreement. ”Very much so. I’ve learned my whole skill tree already, and nine new spells from books or from Karl. If I keep up this pace, I should be able to get to a hundred by the time I reach my eighteenth birthday.”

”Is there a reason for wanting a hundred spells?”

Wendy shrugged. ”Not really. But it’s a nice round number, isn’t it? A hundred spells just sounds pleasant to say. Oh, I see the first house. Are they all inside this big building?”

Hugo nodded. ”Yes. It’s safer to have the whole alliance stationed inside this one house, though most of the Alliance’s Guild Members live elsewhere or have bases in other cities.

What did they order?”

”A bit of everything. Towels, toothbrushes, our specialty soaps, alarm clocks. Just general household stuff. The orders of big stuff will have to be filled later. The shoppers didn’t have room for them.

But most of the Guilds only ordered daily necessities.” She explained.

Wendy knocked on the door and Guild Master Raj answered, having sensed Hugo outside.

Then, he was nearly buried in paper bags.

”Sir, your delivery is here. That’s everything that your members put on the list.” Wendy announced proudly.

Hugo chuckled. ”You need to wait and ask him where to leave the bags. Nobody wants all their shopping set blocking the front door.”