The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 1369

Chapter 1369: Garden Races

The garden quickly devolved into chaos as the dragons spread out between the three challenges, and the sitting areas of the garden, where they could relax and sip on juice as they watched their friends compete.

The fact that the challenges were actually hard was a real change from their usual competitions. It wasn’t just brute strength that determined the victor, and they weren’t fighting each other, but competing to see who was the best without interfering with each other.

Mostly.

The obstacle course participants had quickly realized that they could use midair collisions to slow each other’s times, and the mages had learned to target each other’s skills, if they thought that the phoenix wouldn’t be able to intercept the spells.

By the time that lunch came around, and the very confused Palace Maids brought in the meals, everyone was dirty, exhausted, and either laughing or extremely bitter about a recent loss.

The kids had gained a new respect for Rue’s skills, as she had done well in the ranged targeting skills, and had managed to land a hit on one of the maids. Not even all of the warriors had managed that, so for a mage to have landed a strike without the maids beating her up was a great achievement.

It had really helped her reputation among her peers, and even those who weren’t here today would soon learn that she wasn’t quite the pushover that she had always been.

Rue thought that it was a bit unfortunate that none of her bully brothers were here to see her doing well, but she knew that they would have caused problems for everyone else, as they were older and liked to bully anyone who wasn’t as strong as them.

None of the kids in Rue’s age group liked them. But that was also true of nearly everyone else in the Palace.

They were generally a menace. Too high ranking as Princes for most to do anything to stop them, and too unlikely to have any future influence for those above them actually care about them unless they caused trouble for someone who actually mattered.

And that was bad news for the boys.

Because after today’s showing, and the favour that she was getting from Karl, Princess Rue was beginning to matter.

No longer was she the useless dragonkin Princess without a class. She had skills, she had shown growth potential, and her bloodline would lead to strong dragons with better affinity to nature magic.

Many of the Shadow Dragons valued the Royal connection, but the nature magic affiliated felt even more strongly about it because they could get that connection and not lose out on the nature affinity, thanks to her Elven mother.

With more than half dragon in their ancestry, most of the children would be born as full dragons, inheriting the dragon genes from both sides of the family. But the ones who became dragonkin would still be powerful.

Rue hadn’t considered any of that. What she was more concerned about was the fact that she might actually have friends. Real friends.

Everyone had a great time hanging out today, and they had talked and laughed for hours.

It was better than anything she had dared to hope for.

Now, they would all split off after lunch, going about the rest of their day, but it looked like Karl would let her keep playing here in the illusion for the afternoon, as Librarian Barry had been hiding in the corner taking notes all morning.

After over four hours, he would have quite the list of things to ask Karl, and that meant that the Illusionary Domain would remain the same for some time.

"What are you going to do this afternoon with your day off?" One of the girls asked Rue as she waited for everyone to finish eating.

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