The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1306  Giant Calamari

All of the Mythic members of the Alliance arrived in the next minute, securing the Guild House and the three block area around it. That gave the arrivals from the Arena room to gather and stage, in case they didnʼt have a healer in their group. They hadnʼt come with a raiding team, they had come from the arena, and many of them were transients, who joined other groups to fight, and simply wanted the bounty to keep their bills paid.

That was fine by the Nara Group. They would gladly take another ten or twenty warriors per group and go out in large teams to clear entire blocks at a time with a single healer.

Instead of fighting directly, as Dana was doing, Karl was using [Earth Manipulation] to make healing totem statues that Tian was passing out in exchange for an IOU token. The warriors were happy to accept the exchange, as they would just turn in corpses to cover the bill.

Some certainly planned to run away without paying, but that would also mean that they didnʼt get paid for their work here, and there was a chance that the statues could be tracked.

What most didnʼt realize was that their IOU token could also track them down.

But the healing totem statues werenʼt personal, they were an area effect, and healed everything that was identified as an ally. As long as the warriors recognized that someone was not one of the invading monsters, the statues would heal them as well.

So, when they spread through the city, it created a massive net of healing effects.

The warriors, the wounded locals, even other teams. They were all pulsed with healing energy.

Karl expected the amount of mana being used by the statues to cause some sort of imbalance in the city, but the open portals that the invaders had come through were emitting energy that was much more intense.

Mana so thick that it was condensing on the windows of houses close to the portals was flooding Drodh, and Karl could feel hundreds of people breaking through bottlenecks all over the Stone Chapel district and the Frostfire Gate region outside the walls.

Not that it would help most of them during this fight, as they were breaking through the Commander and Royal Ranked bottlenecks. But if they survived the day, it would be a large change in their social status.

Overhead, a massive distortion was forming around the battle between Matilda and the Octopus. It looked like they were both trying to pull the other into another realm, but the effects were countering each other.

It felt like the world was breaking around their battles, but nobody had time to worry about it.

There were so many invaders that many had stopped trying to collect the bodies and had started simply throwing them in piles when they cleared a group.

Nobody was fighting alone, it was too dangerous to risk being surrounded or tripped by the frog creatures.

[Karl, we need fewer statues and more stabbing.] Cara complained as she failed yet again to tear through the Immortal Ranked octopus thing.

They should have enough statues to create a healing net over the district now, so Karl flew up over the Guild House, then upgraded the Gargoyles defending the property from Overlord to Mythic Rank.

It might be overkill for Drodh on a normal day, but today it was necessary to keep the house safe.

Then he used the Amulet of Destruction to increase [Avatar] to the Immortal Rank. The first level of the Immortal Rank, that was. Karl could sense that there was more than one stage to the Rank, but they werenʼt split by separate blessings, just some sort of understanding or power. The giant calamari, as Cara called their opponent, felt like it was one sub rank above Karl. Difficult, but not impossible, for him to fight with an Immortal Rank transformation and Epic Constitution.

The lack of Immortal Ranked skills would be a downside to fighting the octopus creature, but Karl noticed that Cara actually had an effective attack. [Void Blast] wasnʼt at the Immortal Rank, but the creatureʼs resistance against the spell was so low that the damage reduction was hardly noticeable.

Hawk broke off for a moment to roast a group of frogs that were attacking locals on the ground. [Dark Fire] caused the creatures to wither in a matter of seconds, and Hawk mocked them as he tossed the bodies in his space.

[Tomorrow I will have an entire mountain of frog legs in every flavour imaginable.] The bird insisted.

[Youʼre not wrong. There are so many of them out there already, and more are coming through the portals.] Cara agreed.

Beneath them, Karl felt their surroundings twist as an [Illusionary Domain] was formed, and then elevated to Mythic Rank as Opalʼs power soared.

[I was in the middle of something! How dare you interrupt?] Opalʼs mental voice echoed through the area, just before a glowing Elfin figure with the same gossamer wings as Opalʼs appeared in front of the Guild House.

It was an illusion, but enhanced with an incredibly potent barrier of some sort that made it look real even to Karl.

{New Shared Skill Gained} Reality Warp

{Reality Warp} Epic Grade Mythic Rank Illusion spell. Illusions within an [Illusionary Domain] become solid, dealing mental and physical damage to targets.

For a moment, Dana prepared to celebrate their incoming reinforcements, then the source of Opalʼs rage flickered through her mind for a moment before the butterfly stuffed it away.

”Iʼve changed my mind. Iʼm not celebrating the groupʼs resident busybody having a meltdown over her observation of Lotus and Opheliaʼs date night being interrupted.” She muttered.

Opal didnʼt care that Dana was not impressed. She would show these obnoxious frogs what upset really looked like. The Ophelia and Lotus show was her favourite daytime entertainment, and they had completely ruined todayʼs episode with some nonsensical security lockdown. There wasnʼt even any kissing before she was pulled away.

Karl laughed as Opalʼs frustrations reached him. Dana could sort out Opalʼs habit of sneakily observing everything. The butterfly wouldnʼt listen to him without ordering her, and Cara would help her find ways out of even the best worded orders.