The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1356 The Right Affinity

Karl’s attempts to ingratiate himself with the Elders were not going nearly as well as Cara’s attempts to make friends among the children.

After the “suspended atomic wedgie incident” as the kids were calling it, she had many admirers, and even Rue was getting more respect among her peers for being the new cool kid’s friend.

If she was good enough for Cara now that she had a class, then she wasn’t all bad.

No matter what her bully brothers said.

She wasn’t the only one that they picked on, just the easiest target. But they couldn’t do anything with Cara here. She might be their size in humanoid form, but the power differential was immense.

“Did you come with Karl as an assistant?” One of the girls, a Sand Dragon, asked.

Cara shrugged. “Yes, but also no. I help Karl, but that’s not the reason that I got to come along on this trip. I have an affinity for Void Magic, as does Princess Rue.

So, I can help teach her.

I was actually born a winged Void Badger, and evolved into a Chaos Badger as my understanding improved. So I’ve got many skills that can help her in the early stages of her training”

“That’s too cool. Everyone wants Void Magic, but almost nobody has an affinity for it.” The girl sighed.

Cara nodded. “You are an Earth and Fire Element mage, right?”

The girl shook her head. “No, wind and fire.”

“Oh, that is interesting. I totally thought that you would be earth element, as a Sand Dragon.”

The boy who had been sitting beside Cara at dinner gave her a look that had the girl immediately on the defensive.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Cara said that different magic tastes different.” He explained.

“Put your filthy face near me and I will claw it off.”

Princess Rue laughed. “She’s on to your tricks. You’ll never steal a kiss with that level of skill.”

“Hey! How did I become the one under attack here? I wasn’t trying to kiss anyone!”

The children were all laughing, while the staff supervising them watched quietly from along the walls. For once, the kids were not fighting, not playing power games relying on their family’s status, and not making ridiculous demands.

It was almost relaxing.

Once the after dinner socialization was finished and all the other kids were taken away by their parents, Cara brought Princess Rue back to their room with a promise that she would come to see some of the Noble dragons’ kids the next day.

The mission to make Rue well respected was off to a good start, Karl thought. One day with a bit of power, and already there were a few who were treating her like she wasn’t a pariah.

At the very least, they were likely setting her up on the path where she didn’t become an Immortal Rank nightmare for the whole nation.

But then, you never really knew. Perhaps making her a small group of friends and giving her some power was what caused her to rampage, not the awakening from rage that she was about to do when they arrived.

Fortunately, he didn’t know anything about history, or whether the nation actually deserved a good scourging, so Karl wasn’t too concerned about failure.

The pressure to win just wasn’t there.

“Mister Karl, can we train skills now? You’re not tired, are you?” Rue pleaded.

Karl winked at the sugar fuelled dragonkin. “Fear not, there is plenty of training coming tonight. First, you don’t know anything about combat or efficient mana use, so we’re starting from the basics.”

Then he activated [Illusionary Domain] and turned the spare bedroom into a large combat training facility with targets along one wall and training dummies moving back and forth.

“Now, have you found a sneaky chance to cast the spell yet?” He asked.

Rue shook her head. “I don’t know how dangerous it is, so I didn’t try.”

“In that case, go ahead and cast it on the dummies. Focus the energy in your body as you think of the skill and where you want it to target.”

Cara demonstrated with an Ascended Rank Void Blast, the same spell that Rue was going to be using.

“Oh, that’s what it does. That’s pretty awesome.”

A second later, a rather weak version exploded at the training dummy, but missed to the left as the dummy moved.

“Perhaps moving targets is too high of difficulty at the start. You can go for the stationary targets.”

The little dragonkin growled in frustration, and Cara quietly laughed. That was what she needed. A bit of motivation.

The next Void Blast exploded over the training dummy, and then two more.

The targeting wasn’t perfect, but she was at least hitting them, which was better than most beginner mages managed for weeks. She was a natural talent at this, and her power level was starting to come up as she practiced. But she was still using too much energy, and Karl could see that she was starting to get tired after only a few minutes of constant casting.

“Take a seat, relax and drink this. The body only holds so much mana, and you need to know what it feels like to deplete it. If you go too far, you’ll make yourself pass out.” Karl explained.

“Is that how mages fight? They just throw a couple spells then take a break?”

Rue asked.

Karl shook his head. “Magical stamina is the weak point of mages. It takes time

to learn, and until they do, warriors can defend until they’re tired then beat them up. So, we are going to work on your targeting, your spell power, and

your stamina all at once.

Once you have mastered hitting moving targets, I will create smarter targets

for you to fight.

Then, once you have mastered that, I will have you do it while flying.”

“Why while flying?” She asked.

“It simulates defensive spell use, a constant draw on your mana and focus while you fight. You need to stay mobile and keep your defensive abilities up while in

combat.

Then, once you can do all those things, we will see about teaching you some new spells, or even a skill to help you.

Do you have a goal? Something you want to do in life?” Karl suggested.

Princess Rue nodded eagerly, then frowned. “Is it bad if I say that I want vengeance? I want to end their arrogant bullying culture. Plenty of young dragons leave the city to live in the smaller towns simply because they were a

bit slow growing up.

It’s not just dragonkin like me, even the real dragons get the same horrible treatment if they’re like me.”

Cara wrapped an arm around her shoulders. “I think that we might be able to

help you with that. All you need is the right support and enough power to make

all the changes you could want.”

Karl sighed. They were definitely on the path of Chaos.