The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 1358

Chapter 1358: Still Part Troll

The trip down to breakfast was a shorter one than yesterday’s flight to dinner. Only two staircases and a hallway brought them directly to one of the doors.

The moment that they entered, Cara and Rue were surrounded by young dragons who had questions for them, and had very clearly been directed by their parents to make friends with the Princess now that she was showing promise.

Soon, Karl would have to teach the young Princess about politics, or at least find out how much she understood.

Letting Cara teach her how to deal with annoying people was funny, but probably not the wisest of ideas. It would almost always end in some level of violence, and until Rue was more powerful than her opponents, that should be the last resort.

[You have ideas that are better than violence?] Cara asked.

[I’m working on it.]

The girls were dragged to a large table full of kids, and Karl found himself cornered by Librarian Barry and Crown Prince Lukas.

"Gentlemen, it’s a pleasure to see you this morning. Will you be joining me for breakfast?" He asked.

"I do believe that we will. The Librarian tells me that you have a most curious ability." Prince Lukas agreed.

Karl laughed. "Yes, you could call it that. Though, it’s more of a prank skill than anything. You see, it has rather extreme limitations. If this place wasn’t full of dragons, it would be nearly useless."

The Librarian looked like he wanted to take actual notes as Karl was speaking, but the Prince led them to a small table for four people in the corner of the room.

Then he called over an ancient dragon whose scent seemed entirely too familiar to Karl, but who he couldn’t quite place. It was very close to being someone that he should identify immediately, but it was just slightly different in a way that was confusing his senses.

His name plate said that his name was Dakkarian, but Karl didn’t recall seeing or hearing that one before.

"Mythic Lord Karl, it’s a pleasure to meet you. I am the current Avatar of the Black Dragon in this world. It’s a rare occasion to meet another Avatar, but I am told that the young Princess Rue has become the Void Avatar candidate for this generation.

That’s two in one day, a new record in my five millennia holding this title." He explained.

"So, it is more than just a class title? My understanding was that the class was more shamanistic in nature, but focused on the Void Element." Karl asked.

The Avatar of the Black Dragon smiled. "You could call it Shamanistic. Or perhaps we are a form of Cleric? Certainly, we can use the magic that is holy to our patron.

If my guess is right, you have an affinity for living things and creation magic?"

Karl nodded. "Good guess. My affinity for creating and summoning grows with every advancement, but my class started out focused on magical beasts. Like a ranger, but far more versatile."

"Better than the Bronze Avatar. He started with an Inscription class, and then spent centuries as a Lawyer before he was chosen."

"That sounds... very bronze dragon of him." Karl agreed.

"Is that why the Princess has an Eternal Lightning barrier? Just to see if anyone tries to break it?" Dakkarian asked.

"I thought about using [Disintegrate], but it doesn’t differentiate between hostile and friendly contact." Karl joked.

"I know that you didn’t actually plan to do that. I would have seen that level of death toll." The black dragon avatar reminded him.

"You’re supposed to play along. Look how horrified the next table looks."

The thought of an angry ball of Mythic Ranked [Disintegrate] loose in the castle on a mission to hug everyone who had ever wronged her was enough to give most of them the cold sweats.

Librarian Barry cleared his throat. "If I might interject, where did you learn the skill that you taught me yesterday? It seems tailor-made for blue dragons, but I’ve never heard of it before."

Karl frowned. "How can you not have heard of it? It’s the base racial skill of Lightning Cerro."

The Librarian stared back, too confused to speak. "That makes no sense. You can’t learn other species’ innate skills."

"Unless you’re an Avatar of the World Dragon." Dakkarian corrected.

Karl smiled. That was the perfect excuse. It covered anything and everything that he did. But also, what he didn’t do.