While Karl and Johann finished clearing bunkers and repairing tunnels, Dana
and the Mythic Black Dragon finished clearing out the frogs from the Beast God Temple.
{That skill of yours, Auto Parry, is absolutely brilliant.) The Black Dragon congratulated Dana as she took a quick break to have a drink.
"Thanks. Mages are underrated as lee combatants, but against these evil frogs, having blade skills really saves the day. But the fact that the Golems get it as well makes the most difference." Dana agreed.
{Would you consider staying on as a teacher here? The children are quite taken with you, and that fighting style would help them imnsely when they try to mimic beastkin to blend in with the other species.}
Dana laughed. "As much fun as that sounds, it simply wouldn't be practical. Being Soul Bonded to Karl ans that there is never a slow mont in our lives, and the power level difference is too large for to show them most of the requisite skills for my fighting style.
Many of them can't even be used below Royal or Overlord Rank.
However, I have given copies of the best ones to the Blue Dragons, so if you ask nicely, they should be able to send you copies for your students."
That wasn't the greatest concern. The skills would be obtained by those who needed them now that they were in the hands of the blue dragons. What mattered was that the children were going to cry when the 'pretty fox lady', as they were calling her, went away.
Even after all these years, it didn't get easier to listen to young beasts crying when a new friend went away on a work assignnt.
"Tian, Opal, leave so of the frogs for the temple residents, they're hungry too." Dana warned.
Tian gave Dana his best puppy eyes, and the Mythic Black Dragon began to laugh at her.
{He knows the true way of the beasts.} The dragon joked.
"That's not going to work on . Don't you see all these adorable pouting expressions? Even if we're just mixing in a bit of frog with the regular als for the young ones, they still worked hard to defend their ho today." Dana countered.
Tian relented, and motioned with a paw for the others to co out and start collecting the last of the frogs that hadn't made it to the Temple's defensive lines.
That gave everyone plenty of work to do, as most of the youngsters at the Temple didn't know how to transform yet, so they had to do all the dragging in beast form.
It was actually quite entertaining for Tian to see so many beasts his own size working together to drag frogs ten tis their size across the trampled ground to pile them for processing.
"Do you have a lot of frogs?" One of the young clerics asked Tian as he used Earth Manipulation to help them stack bodies.
Tian nodded happily, then yipped. Then he cleared his throat and tried again.
{This is our third set of frogs. We've been collecting lots of them for the restaurant.} He tried.
"You don't speak out loud much, do you? That's alright. I know that Divine Foxes can speak when they practice. But three invasions worth of frogs is a lot. Are you sure that people won't get sick of them?" The cleric replied.
Tian shook his head. {No, we will sell them to different people most of the ti. The Guild runs a stadium sized arena with restaurants and vendor stands.} That took a mont for the cleric to wrap his head around.
The Darklight Host Guild operated a fighting arena. That part was simple. But it was one that served Mythic Rank at as what? A concession snack? Were they expanded into the Immortal Realm?
Honestly, most of it would not go to the arena, but to the Tiny World, so that they could feed the baby dragons well when they started hatching.
Small ones needed lots of nutrition to grow up big and strong, and Button was eager to be a big sister.
Or to have underlings to play with.
Rae had given her a most wonderful underling today, a Rogue who was incredible at hide and seek. But once the dragon eggs hatched, they would have so many more people to play with.
While they were enjoying the aftermath of their battles, the other Myths who had gathered in Drodh for the "bounty event of the century" were rapidly stressing Tessa to her breaking point.
Thor and the others had stepped up to help her deal with the paperwork, but once the city of Drodh was cleared, the Myths completely stopped taking the situation seriously, and treated the whole thing as a chance to stock their respective Alliance's freezers.
The attackers weren't all frogs, but they were almost all wild beasts at the Mythic Rank, and that had proven to be the perfect opportunity for others to pick their options.
So, they didn't stay to finish the job, they popped in and out, switching when they heard of sothing else that might be tasty.
But worse than that, after the attack at the Golden Divine Academy had ended, Remi had sent back a bunch of Mythic Demons that Karl had recruited from sowhere, and they knew nothing about this world.
So, they wanted answers to everything, and they kept flirting with Thor.
The only upside to the whole thing was that if people weren't turning in the invading beasts for bounties, the Darklight Host didn't have to pay them. That was the deal, edible beasts for bounties.
They had taken so beastkin and Demons in, slaves who hadn't intended to end up here. Hopefully, that was where the group that Remi had just sent back
ca from as well.
But most of the bounties were for food.
"Take a break and I will handle the bounties for a while." Thor offered gently
when he noticed that Tessa was getting frustrated.
"No, I can finish out the bounties. We haven't seen a new portal opening update from Cara or Matilda in fifteen minutes, so the problem should be nearly handled for the day." She countered, watching a group of Mythic Warriors who were getting increasingly drunk every ti that they ca back looking for an update on new beasts to hunt.
"No new invasion locations in fifteen minutes. It looks like Matilda has things under control for a mont. Everyone, pick a portal and finish out the day. This might be your last chance for bounties and loot." Tessa shouted over the noise of the crowd.
That sent the drunks running for a portal, along with most of the others who
were taking a break between fights.
Finally, so peace and quiet.
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