The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1364 Creative Truth

Time passed quickly with Karl creating new scenarios for them to replay, and before anyone knew it, the servants were delivering lunch to the room, while looking completely baffled at the fact that they were plunged into a dark dungeon that didnʼt belong anywhere within this Palace, much less on the upper levels.

”Your Highness? Do you... need rescue?” The maid asked hesitantly.

Prince Lukas laughed and unlocked the cell door with a simple spell.

”You can deliver the food in here. It will give Princess Rue extra motivation to finish her training.” He replied.

”The scene is an illusion I have created for her training. Princess Rue is currently working on a stealth exercise.” Karl added.

Sneaking around the Palace was a time-honoured tradition, done by both Royals and Servants alike. So, the staff simply left the meal and departed, ready to spread the gossip of the elaborate training setup that the Avatar of the World Dragon had created.

The Shadow Dragons werenʼt masters of illusion, so the sight of a whole

Illusionary Domain just for training a young Princess was a luxury that very few of them would ever get to experience in person.

Unaware that there was food waiting for her to finish her exercise, Princess Rue silently moved through the corridors of the dungeon simulation, avoiding the guards on her way to the cell where the others were waiting.

Once she was here without being detected, the mission was complete, so she would know that there was lunch waiting.

But until then, it was just the frustration of being repeatedly forced to restart because one of the guards had noticed her.

Finally, she made it around the final corner, and saw the covered dishes waiting in the cell with the spectators, including Cara, who was snacking on grapes and smirking at her.

”So hungry.” She whispered, eyeing the food.

But the job wasnʼt finished until she got in the door, and Rue managed it just in time, before a guard came around the corner.

”Good work. Youʼve learned to sneak past guards, an essential skill for all Royals.

Honestly, Iʼm surprised that you hadnʼt mastered it yet. Karl greeted her.

”But you get in trouble if you get caught sneaking past the guards.” Rue complained.

”Thatʼs the point of learning not to get caught.” Prince Lukas laughed. ”Sheʼs too wholesome to live.” Cara agreed.

”You pick on me now, but I swear, Iʼll learn all the tricks and become unstoppable.” Rue insisted.

”Thatʼs the whole point of the training. Now, drink this, and eat your lunch.” Cara insisted.

Before Rue could respond, Cara poured a growth potion down her throat, and then silenced her complaints with one of the Royal Rank plums she had stored for her own snacks.

She didnʼt want to overdo it, and cause Rueʼs body to misunderstand the nature of power at every Rank, after all.

Immediately, Rueʼs rank soared. The combination of the Mana Attunement potion that she had taken earlier, and the growth potion that Cara fed her now, plus the bonus mana from a high-level fruit, caused her internal energy to spike, and she pushed right past the Commander Rank bottleneck and kept going.

Librarian Barry smiled. ”Well, that looks like itʼs much more pleasant than the forcible mana overload that is usually used to break bottlenecks.”

”Right? Just a mouthful of mana rich fruit and away you go!” Cara joked.

The actual process was the same as what they had learned to do in the Dragon Isles. They were still overloading her body with mana of a suitable rank. It was just the method that changed. Forcing mana in from the outside, or forcing your body to take more mana than it could accept, were painful processes. But your body naturally ignored most pains from digestion.

”What sort of terrifyingly effective magic is that?” Librarian Barry asked.

”Chaos Element magic. Itʼs related to the [Mana Suppression] spell, but works in the opposite direction” Karl explained.

Cara smirked, as she knew that he was lying, but telling the blue dragon that it was an Alchemy Recipe that someone could replicate, and not a spell that very few could ever hope to use would only cause more trouble, and possibly mess up the timeline.

”Thatʼs a shame. If we could have someone learn it, we would be so far ahead of where we are now. Just getting the children off to a good start with an advancement would help build their confidence.” Lukas replied with a sigh.

Librarian Barry rolled his eyes. ”Forget that, can you imagine how happy everyone would be to have that in the Libraries?”

Karl could definitely imagine that. And it was why he wasnʼt volunteering to give it to them. By the time that the next resurgence rolled around, there were only a few dozen viable spell books in the blue dragon Libraries.

What had happened in the meantime, he didnʼt know. But it was most likely down to transcription errors after the System faded, and there was no way to verify if they had gotten it perfect.

Without the Inscriptionist skill, it was just someone copying a book, and the magical meaning behind it was lost.

So, it might be possible to study the books and still learn the skill, but it wasnʼt a skill book in the true sense of the word. Even with the best efforts of the blue dragons, and their innate magic, you couldnʼt expect a written tome to last more than a thousand years, and it was at least five times that long between resurgences.

Even the calendar was mostly lost to time during the low tide of the ley lines.

”We might not be able to give you this skill, but Iʼm sure that we can work out something for you to teach to the others before we go. Weʼre not going to be here forever, so someone will have to take up the teaching position once weʼve returned home.” Karl suggested.

Barry smiled. ”I knew that the Emissary of the Chaos Dragon would be a reasonable man when it mattered most.”

Lukas didnʼt look convinced that this was the important time to be reasonable.

Karl was clearly hiding much more regarding both his mission and his skills. But the Librarian was happy, and that was an improvement over him yelling at everyone who made noise in the Library.