Unlike Opal, Rae had immediately grasped the issue.
Karl was a Beast Master, favoured of the World Dragon, friend to beasts.
So, it was only natural that he would have an easy time creating Werebears, Bunnies, and other fluffy or scaly beasts. But Dragons had their own gods and their own aspects.
So, making Dragonkin was more difficult.
On the other hand, making Dark Elves was easy because he was bonded to Rae, and that granted some level of favour from the Spider Goddess.
If they wanted the servants of the Spider Goddess to help make her wealthy and drape the world in her silk, Rae knew that the Goddess would not disapprove. Not like those snobby Dragon Gods, who viewed their people as above such menial things as being a store clerk.
Now that Opal understood, she altered a few more of her illusions to see what worked and what gave her trouble.
Some demons were easy. Obsession Demons of all sorts, and Wrath Demons of the winged variety. Others were not. Plague Demons and Magic Demons were both a pain to even visualize.
Dwarves, Dryads and other Fae were possible, but not particularly easy.
So, it was all about affinity when you were using magical items to create illusions, and not just creating them out of light and magic. That was valuable information, and reminded Opal that some of these spells would have to be made by herself in the future, unless she wanted to go through all this headache again.
She did appreciate all the hard work that Karl had put in, and she wasn’t capable of making some of these spells. But once she advanced, Opal was reasonably certain that she would figure them out.
Already her understanding of the Illusionary Domain had expanded so much, just from a single building.
And, they weren’t even finished yet.
They still had the hotel in the upper boxes to go, and then the final details to be done on the arena plinth so that they could make sure that the protective inscription that would eject critically wounded from the arena floor and put them in the infirmary was functional.
Karl had some doubts that Opal’s decision to make all the housekeeping staff for the hotel Succubi and Incubi was a great idea, but the butterfly was adamant that was how it was supposed to work.
Staff was staff, Karl supposed. If they got the job done, he could overlook whatever sort of strange reading material Opal’s sisters had been giving her that led to such a conclusion.
Little did Karl know, most of the cleaning staff in any hotel were Succubi.
Business travellers tended to be alone and lonely, and that was a prime feeding opportunity for the species, with built-in variety. Few stayed at a hotel for more than a few days in a row, after all.
[I wonder if Randomize will let them fight things that we’ve never seen before?] Opal pondered as she finished the work on the building and prepared to place the stones with the arena’s final enchantments.
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