The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1245: Send Terry

One of the other Guild Leaders, a massive Berserker whose name plate said “Grok”, smirked at Paul.

“Why don’t we just go all out? Get a self-healing tank, and then send me and one of the Rangers? They do great damage in the Ape dungeon.”

Most of the others laughed, but a few of them gave considerate looks like it might actually be a plausible idea to just send five damage dealers to do a Mythic Dungeon with the intention of setting a new kill speed record.

“Oh, send Terry. He’s a Blood Knight, and the self-healing is remarkable. The Beast Master has a barrier spell, and with the Golems, they should be fine. Worst-case scenario, they send someone out and replace them with a healer.”

Deve considered mentioning that Karl actually had a beast who could heal as well, but decided to keep his mouth shut in case they thought that they could do away with the tank entirely.

He did consider whether it would work. They had those Epic Golems, which appeared to be patterned after Dungeon Bosses. So, they should be able to take as much beating as any tank type class.

But he wouldn’t say anything that would make his own role sound redundant.

Especially not when it was something that all mages might be able to learn.

They were insufferable enough with just basic golems.

The Alliance members waited while the visitors argued among themselves about who would go on the next day’s dungeon run. It was a hotly contested point because none of them knew if it would be able to be done again.

If it only worked when you set a record, what would happen the next time? You couldn’t just keep finding better and faster teams when you’d already optimized your group that far.

So, there was a very real chance that only a few out of the twenty of them would manage to get the better rewards, and perhaps only once in a lifetime.

The final decision was to send Terry the Blood Knight, a Shaman named Mars, and a Ranger named James along with Karl and Dana, who were deemed to be the most likely keys to the win, as they could flood the dungeon with Golems to boost the damage output.

The theory was that if you had more than just one or two Golems, you could treat it as multiple groups in the same Dungeon, and speed run more efficiently.

That was how everyone would do it if they had ten people instead of five, just leapfrogging until they got to the boss.

“I don’t suppose that you have rooms at the house for everyone? I don’t think that anyone wants to head back to their Guilds tonight without answers.” Paul asked.

Deve chuckled. “There is an entire empty Alliance House in the compound still. It’s no trouble if you rest there, and we will send someone over to clean it and make breakfast for you all in the morning.”

Deve motioned to one of his Guild Members, and Karl saw them send one of the staff out to go clean the spare house.

They were left fully stocked, but as Karl had learned when they moved in, most of them hadn’t even been inspected by the other Guilds. They had just been left sitting empty until there were enough Alliance members to need them.

However, for a group of Mythic Guests, they couldn’t just stuff them in the smaller guest rooms at Deve’s house.

It wasn’t exactly a long walk, there was an empty house only two buildings over, and everything in the compound was under a minute away if you rushed.

“First thing in the morning works for you?” Terry, the Blood Knight, asked Dana as they prepared to head to their rooms for the evening.

Dana smirked. “I’m sure that we can make it work. You know how it is with newlyweds. If we don’t have a schedule, we might not get out of bed until noon.”

The Blood Knight chuckled. “If you’re smart like me, you marry a succubus, and then it’s that way every single day. But since I’m sleeping alone for the night, I’m sure that after breakfast should be fine.

But congratulations on your wedding. Who might the lucky gentleman be?”

Dana pointed at Karl, who bowed elaborately and kissed her hand, which made the others laugh.

“Oh, a power couple. Well then, at least I’m not tearing you apart, just making you get out of bed early.” Terry joked.

Dana laughed. “Well, that’s one way to look at it. Now, we will let everyone rest, and see you first thing tomorrow.”

That was Karl’s cue to start shaking hands and saying goodnight so that they could escape for a little while, before another argument broke out about the ’what if’ factors.

They were greeted at the door of the Alliance house by Button and Lotus, each holding a stack of cookies.

“You need to solve this for us. We’re taking votes on which one is the best.” Lotus explained.

Button nodded. “On my side, we have cranberry almond coconut peanut butter cookies. On her side, we have the clearly inferior chocolate chocolate chip cookies.”

Lotus stuck out her tongue at the little dragon, who just smirked at her while Karl took one of each cookie to taste.

Button gave Dana a suspicious look as she also selected one of each.

“I don’t know if we can trust your vote. You like Oatmeal Raisin cookies.”

That made Dana laugh. “And what is wrong with oatmeal raisin? Sometimes a nice chewy cookie is good.”

“Raisins. Raisins are what is wrong with oatmeal raisin cookies.” Button insisted.

Dana smirked and took a bite of each of the cookies, then gave the one Button had selected a curious look.

“There is so much going on in this cookie. Multiple textures, fruits, nuts, chewy crunchy. Not bad, though. But double chocolate chip is a classic. It’s hard to argue against a timeless cookie recipe.” Dana explained.

Lotus smirked, certain of her victory. Now, she just needed Karl on her side.

Karl called Cara and Tian out, and let them each take a bite of the two cookies, so he could get their votes. But that didn’t help at all. Cara wanted to smush them together, so she could get all the flavours in one, and Tian refused to try the chocolate cookie, insisting it didn’t smell edible.

Though, for him it might not be. Karl seemed to recall something about dogs not being able to eat chocolate, and wasn’t sure if that applied to foxes as well.