Cara and Button were the perfect partners in cri because they were nearly the sa size, so Button fit everywhere that Cara wanted to go.
Most of her prank partners were significantly larger than she was, but Button could follow her down all the smaller tunnels.
Today’s mission was to sneak into the Dark Dragon egg nest, and rearrange all the lamps that the caretakers had left to help them find their way around. Karl could hear Cara’s plan in her mind, but there weren’t too many tunnels in the mountain, so at the very worst, tomorrow morning’s shift would be lost for about ten minutes before they found their way to the nest.
That wasn’t a prank that was really worth stopping, in his mind.
Most of them would make their way out by mory anyhow, even with the light locations changed.
Once dinner was done, Karl took Dana back to their room in the duplicate Guild House, and locked the door before activating the soundproofing spell.
They were going to need that.
They did find so ti to ditate and attempt to improve their power levels before morning, though.
With the upgraded power matrix, energy flowed into Karl at a truly astounding rate, fast enough that even Opal was impressed with his ability to restore the mana that he had used up while rearranging the focal points.
He didn’t want to waste any ti getting it perfect before the wedding, as he was reasonably sure that either soone was going to notice that they were back, or Matilda was going to co get them in the next day or two at the most.
Once that happened, everything was going to get hectic right until the day of the wedding.
But co to think of it, he didn’t even know who was on the guest list.
Or where they were holding the wedding.
Those sorts of minor details seed like things that he should be aware of, but none of the beasts were concerned about it. Rae’s attention hardly even flickered away from her design project when he ntioned it.
She had finished the requests for the Vampire Covens that she had t at the winter gala, and now she was on to making outfits for the wedding guests that she didn’t trust to dress themselves.
Which was basically everyone, as most of the ones she might trust to dress themselves were already planning to go in one of her outfits.
The only one that was interested in their return was Remi, as she wanted to harvest so of the plants in the Tiny World, and with Karl so far away, she had to wait. Her alchemists were doing wonderful things, though.
With everyone doing their best in the new work space, the Darklight Host had actually nearly managed to restock their Guild Store during the week that Karl was away.
There were still so things that were on backorder. But Sapphire had been spending every hour of the day either conducting experints to improve the classes of the Warriors, or making products with Runecrafting to fill the custom orders for Totem Rank items.
She had yet to make a Mythic Rank item for anyone but herself, and she had no intentions of doing it.
Having a trade skill was a wonderful thing, but she had no intentions of letting it interfere with her other studies.
Despite Karl’s intention to remain in bed with Dana all day, the return of Remi to the Tiny World was a trigger to let everyone else know that they were back from their mission, and before noon Matilda was waiting for them downstairs with a whole list of wedding related chores.
"Good, good. You got that settled well enough. The matter of the Dragon Hunters coming to this world, and how the Titans managed to sneak children from the Immortal Realm here, can be dealt with later.
The continent will slowly begin to regain access to the System, and that is what matters. Now, I will know what to look for if they try to put a new mana suppression barrier up." Matilda inford Karl as he ca down to get food.
Karl sighed. "There is a lot to unpack in that sentence. But you are right, we can deal with other continents’ problems later.
How are we going to arrange pickup for all the guests?"
Matilda smiled. "I have arranged portals for the ones on the Dragon Isles. So, that just leaves the ones that are not on the Dragon Isles.
That part will be just so much fun.
It wouldn’t be right for to go get them, the old Myth would get all cranky, and then I’d have to suffer his incessant complaining ssages.
Letting him have System Access back was a mistake.
For a follower of the God of Death to be annoyed with you is the worst thing in the world. They’re not even afraid of death, so you can’t properly threaten them to shut up."
Karl chuckled. "Well, with each of you in charge of a continental region, I suppose it is necessary that you keep in touch."
"Plus, he’s also properly aged. I believe that he will reach Immortality soon, he was a Myth at the end of the last resurgence. With the mana levels on the planet’s surface recovering, it should be possible for him to ascend without leaving soon." Matilda agreed.
Which ant that they would have forever to annoy each other.
"So, I will be going to pick everyone up from the Golden Dragon Nation? How many are on the guest list?" Karl asked.
"Not too many. The parents of the bride and groom, the King, Ahmad the Catman, Othello, Nacht, Misty, The Drake Rider Kenichi, Niall and Rae’s baby Rogue Sybil. Then so teachers. Tank, Morgana, the Mackenzie siblings, Dave, Jill, Daniel, Alice and Rita.
Fortunately, most of them can be found in just a few locations.
I think that we can have Dana go for both of your parents. That should panic people a little less. If we leave today, the Drake Rider will be in the Capital holding a eting about sothing, so we can grab him directly instead of going looking for him."
Why they needed to invite a foreign Overlord who Karl had t all of twice was a mystery. But if Matilda thought it was necessary, then there was surely so good reason behind it.
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