The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1348 Trolling Is Tradition

Everyone but one maid left with her, and Karl found himself nose to nose with a curious Librarian.

“You have questions, I assume?”

The dragon snorted, and lightning crackled at his nostrils. “Yes, you could say that I have questions. For one, how did you awaken the Princess? Did you nullify the curse that had been placed on her, or is it something else?”

Curse? Cara cast [Nullify] on the Princess, and felt mana start pouring into the young Princess’ body as the negative effect was dispelled.

This place had rather intense mana, stronger than even Zilaz. Given a bit of time, Rue would surely advance to an acceptable standard.

“Oh, now the curse is Nullified. I should have expected that with the Chaos Badger. Might I ask, how did she end up in that state? With her healing skills, the species should be immune to such lingering wounds.” The Librarian asked.

“She licked a Demigod.”

“Pretend I didn’t ask.”

Karl winked at the dragon. “I know that you secretly want to know, and that it’s going to bother you if I don’t tell you. But it’s really just as it sounds. We were in a fight and a Demigod of the Beast God Pantheon was called to intervene.

Naturally, she needed to know what it tasted like.”

The Librarian frowned at Cara, then slowly nodded. “I understand. I wish that I could say that I didn’t. But I do. Now I want to know what a Beast Pantheon Demigod tastes like.”

“It’s a hazard of the occupation. Once you find out that a thing exists, you need the details. However, as we’re the last ones here, I will give you one more tidbit of information.” Karl added.

{Champion Karl Offers Knowledge} Skill [Refreshing Lightning] will be transferred to the Curious Librarian Barry.

Librarian Barry stared at Karl for a full minute, while the maid waited silently for something to happen.

Then, he began to tilt.

Karl caught him and set the Librarian in a chair, while the maid began to panic.

“He’s fine. He merely forgot that he needed to do things like standing while he’s lost in thought.” Karl explained.

The maid nodded understandingly. “Oh, just blue dragon things, then. He’s infamous for falling asleep while reading at his desk. But you can never tell if he’s sleeping with his eyes open, or just thinking really hard until you see if he

answers.

If he’s asleep, asking him a question will wake him up.”

“We can let him sort out his thoughts. Why don’t you show us to the suite now, and the Librarian can come find us when he is ready?” Karl suggested.

The maid bowed to Karl, and then led them out, while Cara circled her feet, and Princess Rue hid behind Karl.

She knew that the Queen was not going to be happy about having to move her, but she couldn’t leave her in the same room without embarrassing herself in front of the foreign guest.

That would not put Karl on her list of favourite people, but at Mythic Rank, and a personal representative of Cyhosasa, as well as a Guild Member of the Supreme Lady’s Guild, there wasn’t much that anyone could do to him within the law unless he actually committed a crime.

Even then, there wasn’t much that they would do as the Supreme Lady of Cyhosasa was a psychopath who would laugh her way right through a major war, should anyone be crazy enough to start one with her.

Quietly, the maid led them down the hall and up two levels, to a seemingly abandoned wing of the castle.

The hallways were clean, but Karl could see the spots that were habitually missed by the staff when they cleaned, showing that nobody disturbed anything in this hall recently.

Even the epic battle scenes on the wall hangings still showed the faint curling of long-term storage, so they had just been placed within the last few minutes. But the common area was spotless when the maid led him into the suite, and there were two bedrooms, just enough for their purpose.

“At the back of the room is a rooftop training area, so you may work on spells that can’t safely be performed indoors.” The maid explained.

Karl smiled. “That shouldn’t be an issue. You see, I know the Illusionary Domain, and if my young charge here can break that, I might just lose years off my life in shock.”

The maid smiled. Karl had a point. There was zero chance that an Ascended Rank mage could do anything that would even make the illusion flicker. And if she couldn’t break the illusion, she couldn’t damage the room.

“If you need anything, my shift ends at dark.” She explained, then moved to stand just inside the door, hidden out of the way in a cleverly designed alcove. Obviously, they weren’t going to be left alone, but Karl wasn’t planning to do anything that would need to be hidden from the public.

At least not in the next few hours.

His goal here was to help the Princess regain her faith in people, and for that, he didn’t need to intensively train her on skills, he needed to get her to talk to

someone friendly.

That might have to wait until dinner, Karl decided.

The Princess was much more interested in playing with Cara, who was

exploring the suite than in talking to anyone.

Rue had new spells that she wanted to test, but she didn’t want to test them in front of staff if she could avoid it, just in case they didn’t work right.

The staff didn’t bully her, she hadn’t fallen that far in the Palace hierarchy, but they would laugh at her, just like they laughed at all their other young coworkers when things went wrong.

[Hey, there’s a cool statue in here. Can I keep it?] Cara asked as she examined

the bedroom.

[No pilfering their valuables. Leave the room the way that we found it, or it might mess up the timeline. Just focus on making friends with Princess Rue. Maybe try turning into a humanoid again.] Karl suggested.

That sounded interesting. Cara wondered if her new scars would transfer between forms, as they were created with the Fundamental Rule of Order, and

Divine energy.

Only one way to find out.

Cara used the [Humanoid Transformation] skill to shift into her favourite badger kin form, and then frowned when she realized that the scar made her

mouth, cheek and eyebrow all wonky in this shape.

The skin was too tight, and it made her face feel lopsided.

Three out of ten. Not as impressive as she had hoped.