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 mont 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 so 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.
"Gentlen, it's a pleasure to see you this morning. Will you be joining for breakfast?" He asked.
"I do believe that we will. The Librarian tells 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 extre 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 seed entirely too familiar to Karl, but who he couldn't quite place. It was very close to being soone that he should identify imdiately, but it was just slightly different in a way that was confusing his senses.
His na plate said that his na was Dakkarian, but Karl didn't recall seeing or hearing that one before.
"Mythic Lord Karl, it's a pleasure to et you. I am the current Avatar of the Black Dragon in this world. It's a rare occasion to et another Avatar, but I am told that the young Princess Rue has beco 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 Elent." 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 advancent, 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.
The Crown Prince chuckled. "That it was. However, I'm more interested in your skills. Do you really think that you can get Rue up to a standard that will make her a respectable Royal?"
"I really don't see that being an issue. Give a couple of weeks and I will make a Royal Rank mage out of her and max out her mana affinity growth rate.
I won't stick around forever, but I might stay until her class advances, just to see what happens if I teach her so interesting new skills." Karl suggested.
Prince Lukas sighed. "That is what I was afraid you'd say."
Karl turned to Dakkarian. "That's why you're here, isn't it? Every ti that I have a fun idea, Black Dragons start appearing like dungeon mobs spawning on a wave tir."
The Crown Prince frowned. "What sort of shenanigans do you get up to that attract multiple black dragons?"
The black dragon Avatar smiled. "It's inevitable. World Dragons are innately attuned to life and chaos, while we are attuned to death and order. Where they are, we must be."
Karl nodded. "He has a point. Even though this trip isn't intended to cause a single casualty, there is still a rather significant chance that soone will start doing dumb stuff nearby. I'm practically a magnet for it."
The Crown Prince looked toward the door that the King had co through last night.
"It's best we don't speak of that. Soone might take it the wrong way. But that might change soon. I hear that Father is not happy with the Queen today." He
whispered.
Karl shrugged. "I would be annoyed, but it's all in the past. I will just keep the protective spells on my young charge, and it's unlikely that anyone will manage to harm her."
"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 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.
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