Their presence seed to be drawing Overlords to them, and before the line was ready to move out, Niall had been joined by Tabitha, Overlord Joram the Ranger, and Overlord Drath, who ca to them from the Eastern Front, covered in blood and looking rough.
"Inquisitor, did you find anything?" Drath asked as he arrived.
"Nothing. There is no sign of the Relic. No residual energy, no trigger from my tracking skill. It's like it simply vanished.
The Archbishop is absolutely certain there was sothing in the box, but now it's gone without a trace. I'm sure we all have theories, but as far as hard evidence, I haven't found anything yet." Niall explained.
Tabitha stared silently at Niall for a few seconds, then pointed at him.
"Your class changed." She accused.
Instantly, Niall realized what that must look like to the others, who didn't know what had happened since he arrived. "That's an unrelated issue. Monarch Karl learned a new skill that helped trigger a class change." He offered.
Karl nodded in agreent, and the Overlords waited for a more detailed explanation.
"I got a skill intended to teach my beasts new skills that I already knew. However, it ca with a loophole. It's not limited to just my bonded beasts. If I can find a skill that is compatible with others, I can use it to teach them as well.
The only real restriction is that I know a limited number of skills, and many of the ones I know are intended for beasts, and not humans."
Overlord Joram looked confused, while Drath and Tabitha seed to understand better, as they had spent a while around Karl.
"For example, I wanted to teach Niall [Trollish Regeneration] because what would be funnier than a Rogue that self-heals? But it's incompatible." He explained.
"Ah, that makes sense. You gain all your skills from your beasts or books, right? You don't get the sa sort of skill tree that other classes do."
Karl shrugged. "Well, I do get a skill tree. But it's all utility skills, buffs and such. I could have picked a different path and learned a load of attack skills, but at the ti, this seed the better path."
"We need to get you into the Library and start teaching you new skills. Well, what ones you can. We have still only managed to turn a few dozen skills into actual skill books.
The requirents on knowledge of both the skill and Inscription is too limiting for the first book creation." Tabitha sighed.
"Do you know Inscription?" Karl asked.
Overlord Joram snorted in amusent, and she glared at him.
"No, I didn't pick Inscription as a trade."
Karl patted her kindly on the shoulder, and activated [Follow Little One]
{Skill Teaching Request} [Sharpness]
[Sharpness] Slashing, Stabbing and Disintegration type abilities increase in damage by 10 percent per Rank of the user. Tabitha's cheeks went bright red as she stared in shock at Karl, and Niall began to laugh.
"Oh, it must have given you the sa ssage that it gave ."
The Warrior cleared her throat and put on a stern expression.
"I don't know what you an." She replied calmly.
"He just taught you a skill, didn't he? Which one did he pick? It has to be sothing that is compatible with your skills as a warrior. I don't know what Karl has that would qualify that you don't already know, though." Niall explained.
"Sharpness. He taught a skill that increases the damage of slashing and stabbing attacks. Perfect for a Greatsword user." Tabitha inford him with a sigh.
Then she turned on Karl. "What is with that ssage anyhow? Since when am I an adorable kitten?"
Karl nearly choked on his tongue, and Niall had tears in his eyes.
"It called a Loyal Hatchling. I think it's System generated, and the skill is intended to be used on new pets." The Rogue laughed.
Karl looked at the skintight latex bodysuit she wore with armour plates over the vital areas and firmly decided that while Adorable wasn't quite the word he would have picked, he was going to take a page from Sybil's playbook and not say a single thing.
Unfortunately for Tabitha, Overlord Drath was not so restrained.
"Well, I think that you're adorable. Look how cute you blush when you get mad." He teased, winking at the embarrassed warrior.
The soldiers were ready to head back to the city, and Danni was waiting with the Command Group for Karl or soone to give them an order to move.
Karl turned her way, changing the topic from exceptionally curvaceous 'adorable kittens', and nodded to the Mage.
"Send out the orders. The North Side is secure, all troops can return to the city." Karl instructed.
"Thank you, Monarch. We will be off." Danni replied, but Karl stopped her before she could go.
"I'm in the Monarch apartnts, if you want to co by with the siblings. My whole group is staying there, and I'm sure they'd love to catch up."
Danni smiled. "Donni already sent an invitation from Dana to co visit you all. I will let you know when we have ti. We've both got regular guard shifts this week."
The rest of the team was making their way over, along with the Acolytes and Donnie Mackenzie. They were all in high spirits, though the young ones looked more than a little traumatized after their first ti seeing battle.
Karl was fairly certain that they hadn't actually taken part, as Awakened Rank had little chance of doing anything more useful than the common soldiers on the line, and they were even less trained than the Privates in the Church Army.
At best, they might get a bit of experience, but more likely they would just be in the way and get others injured as they tried.
Once they arrived, the young cadets all ca over to greet Karl, who took the ti to listen to their stories and the things that they had noticed about how the senior Elites fought during the battle.
He wasn't training them, that could wait for later. But it was clear that the little ones were fond of him, and after the next training session, that sentint was almost guaranteed to increase.
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