Fifteen minutes later, Misty and Rain, the Dryad furniture makers, were at the entrance to the upgraded workspace, staring at the area in wonder.
"This is incredible. So much space. Greetings, Guild Leader Karl, Priestesses. What did you need us for today? Please say that it’s a full decoration of all these buildings. Business has been slow lately.
Everyone spent their money exporting items for the Bomgon war, and most of them haven’t returned yet, so there’s nobody ordering anything." The elder Dryad explained.
Karl smiled at the excited Dryad. "Not all of them. So of the new residents have their own furniture.
First, we need you to do the orphanage building for as many as you consider reasonable to house inside. If you can make the top floor double dorms, two beds in each of the large bedrooms, one on either wall, the others can be much higher density.
Then, single rooms for how many? Priestess?"
"Just . We’re short on clergy, but the older children help out, and we pay them until they go off to find their own work. It helps get them ready for the world." She replied.
"Alright, a suite for the matron on the main floor, I think. Then suites for the older kids at the top, so they pass by all the younger kids and their supervisors on the way down. We will let Matron Blackclaw sort the sleeping arrangents, but we will need plenty of beds, work benches for school work in the common areas, what else?"
"A nursery. Many will drop off newborns at the Orphanages. Then a convalescent room for the Red Dragons. It is customary that they give birth at an Orphanage, as the Church raises all of our children." The Red Dragon Priestess added.
Misty smiled. "Don’t worry, Matron. This will be the greatest Orphanage that you’ve ever had the pleasure of managing. Will this be the teacher?"
Sapphire shook her head. "I am one of the new crafters for the Guild. I will call on one of my brothers to teach here. A strong male influence helps balance the attitudes of the children and keeps them from acting out."
"If you have trouble recruiting one, tell them that we will provide them with access to the Guild Library. It’s not the biggest they’ll ever see, but it’s better than two shelves in their room." Karl offered.
"That should be enough. Our God approves of spreading knowledge, so teachers aren’t too hard to find." Sapphire agreed.
Misty looked over the small town in the cave. "How many of these rooms are in use?"
"About three dozen. Talk to the craftsn, and they can tell you what they need and what unit they’re in. It’s all on the Guild’s tab." Karl explained.
The two Dryads took off. Misty headed for the orphanage, while Rain went to the sculptors’ area to take orders for the upgrading of the houses. Her mother would have her hands full with the big project, but the Dwarves were usually pretty spartan in their requests, so it would mostly be beds that they wanted.
Dwarves even preferred stone or tal couches with cushions on them, instead of wooden.
If there were Demons, it might be more work for her as a Dryad, but she saw a lot of short people.
With that handled, Karl was free to begin the essential tests of his own new skill. First, to see which spells the skill would actually affect.
The Golems ca out as four summons. But the Bodyguards were still only two, and it didn’t clone the Epic Guard or the Haint either.
That was sowhat limited, but it should give Dana both her Golem and Greater Golem summons at four each.
That was no insignificant force.
In his mind, Rae celebrated. She had just realized that the spell gave her an infinite golem glitch.
If she made enemies explode with [Blood Destruction], she could awaken them with [Queen of the Damned] and use them as Blood Golems. But the spell should double the number, which would leave her with twice as many Golems as enemies.
All she had to do was keep finding more targets, and she could double the world’s population entirely with Blood Golems.
Until they started to rot and sll bad.
That would be a problem.
A problem that she could sort out when the ti ca. It was just a sha that she couldn’t teach the Golems or the Blood Golems how to make clothing. They were utterly useless that way.
The Spectral Knights would try if she ordered them to, but they had no sense of art or delicacy. Lousy as tailors.
Better to have them collect materials.
With the testing done, Karl dismissed the extra summons, and then led the Priestesses to the tavern so that he could write out the [Golem Duplication] skill.
With so luck, he could get that to advance by a Tier, and turn it into Summon Duplication, or sothing similar. But the Skill Master ability hadn’t activated in a while, and Karl was beginning to suspect that either he had lost favour from it, or it was stuck waiting for a skill that couldn’t be advanced yet.
That had happened before, multiple upgrades all at once when a skill advanced. At least, Karl was fairly sure it had been the case with Skill Master itself when he advanced it through the skill tree and then imdiately got another advancent.
The first copy, Karl handed to Sapphire, who simply stared at the skill book in wonder.
"This really is a most wonderful skill. I wonder if I can use these skill books to teach advanced classes? What if I taught Lay on Hands to a Warrior? Would they beco eligible to beco a Paladin? Or if I taught them [Sense Truth] would they beco a Crusader?" She pondered.
"Try it right before they go into a Dungeon. Most Class advancents beco available the next ti you enter a System Linked instance or Trial." Karl suggested.
The Blue dragon sighed wistfully. "With this, we might singlehandedly break the Warrior imbalance and bring the thirst for knowledge back to the world. Teach them that there is more to life than Cleave and Guard."
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