Lotus circled the transford black dragon, and then grabbed Nachtia by the hand to drag her into the back yard. "Look at the altar that Karl made. Isn't it pretty?" She asked.
"It looks like you grew a tree totem, and then he enhanced it with runes? This is quite the piece of work. Just living near it will help you advance, and that's not to ntion the extra favour from the Gods that you will get for having a healing totem active in your house." Nachtia agreed.
"It's also good for the grass. So much softer on the feet than when we moved in. How long are you staying? Did you co to try the coffee?" Lotus inquired eagerly.
"Coffee? Dwarven Coffee is a harsh thing, but the Demons must make sothing different if you're so excited about it." Nachtia asked.
"Oh, it's so good. We will have to go to the boardwalk and see all the things. Why don't I take you on a tour of the city? We can grab Thor and Tessa and make it a full outing." "I take it that the one known as Thor is the Red Dragon Cleric's bonded knight?" Nachtia replied with a smile as she followed Lotus back to the front of the house.
"Sort of. Technically, he's one of Karl's bonded partners, and was a Lightning Cerro before he evolved to beco an Overlord. But they're together a lot." Lotus winked as she finished the sentence, and the black dragon smirked.
Whether he was soone else's bonded partner or not, it did sound like he was certain to beco the Red Dragon Cleric's knight.
Inside, everyone had gathered in the shop, which had no custors at the mont. "These are all my people." Lotus explained, then went around the group, introducing everyone to Nachtia.
When they got to Thor and Tessa, Nachtia smiled at the protective way that he was standing by her shoulder, then examined him more closely.
"So sort of behemoth? An Impenetrable Bulwark Behemoth, I believe. I have felt that skill before, but an Overlord and still so young. Not even three years old yet, but very soon. You have a bright future ahead of you, Mister Thor. Take good care of your cleric." She greeted him.
Thor smiled at her. "Have you t our Cara yet?"
Nachtia nodded, confused by the sudden change of topics, but Cara knew what he ant. [Turns out, all black dragons taste the sa.]
Karl rescued her before soone gave too many details. "The Winged Void Badger has a thing for dragons. She likes to bop them on the nose and tease them, so they'll chase her around."
Nachtia giggled softly, a noise that had a haunting echo, as if coming from another realm and not a small transford dragonkin body.
But the noise made Tessa laugh as well.
"It seems your god still approves of small, fearless things." She joked.
"Indeed. I wonder if she could convince Karl to tour the northern Island with ? There are so many out of control monster and beast zones that the God wants the black clerics to bring back into balance, but they're all Overlord and Totem Ranked, and finding Totem Ranked assistants is such a pain.
However, I did notice that Karl has so truly powerful skills that might level the battlefield." The black dragon cleric suggested.
The others looked concerned, but Karl considered that for a bit. If he could get even a few Totem Ranked beast kills, Rae would have more variety for her next advancent, and they would have food above their own Rank again. That had been a huge factor in their rapid advancent in the past. If they could keep eating food with complex and dense power in it, their bodies would more easily adapt to the next Rank when they reached the bottleneck, Karl theorized. It wasn't completely certain, but the evidence all pointed towards it working.
"I think that there should be a chance for us to do it. Just perhaps not right away. Unless I leave a few of my bonded partners here, I am still needed around the Guild House for the crafting at least a day or two every week.
Though, Davis could put them in the branch's Guild Bank and I would be able to do the Runecrafting wherever I was, if we weren't in danger."
Nachtia considered that. "You still have to be close enough to another branch to get access, though. Is there a branch of your Guild on the north island?"
Karl shrugged. "There was a thing, and I was assigned by the System to the Darklight Host Guild. So, I don't know if there are any other branches active. When I try to search for other Guild mbers or branches, I don't see anything."
She understood the issue right away. "A Legendary Guild. Unless they are granted entry by the Gods, there is no way for anyone but a branch manager to recruit mbers. So, it's quite likely that there are no more active branches right now, unless a mber from the last resurgence is still alive."
Karl nodded. "There is a bronze dragon, who was young at the ti. But he's on another continent entirely, and the Guild System hasn't awakened there."
Nachtia frowned. "Well, I might be able to check. I'm from Marres, on the north coast of the North Continent. Definitely too far for the Guild Bank function to work. If I use the Guild function to search for the Darklight Host near my ho location..."
She paused, and then her eyes went wide.
"Uh, you have Guild mbers on the North Island. In the nation of Cyhosasa there is a branch of the Darklight Host. But I'm not sure that you want to et them. There are only two listed mbers of the branch, and one of them is Supre Lady Matilda."
Karl shrugged. "I have no idea who that is."
Nachtia rolled her eyes. "A Hundred-thousand-year-old Supre Rank Chaos Dragon? Any clue now? Oh, right, you didn't grow up on this continent. You know how parents tell children horror stories before bed to make them behave? She's the one who created most of them, just for fun.
She's insane, unpredicable, definitely not safe. She doesn't even run the country, even though she existed before it was ford. She just hangs out in the capital, causing chaos every so often when she gets bored."
[...]
[Yes, Cara. We will go visit the dragon one day.]
The Black Dragon misinterpreted his hesitation and continued. "Don't worry about her attacking. She's not malicious in that way, and I'm sure she won't take offence to soone else being in the Guild."
Karl smiled and shook his head. "I was thinking that Cara might have found a new friend. She also enjoys causing chaos for personal amusent."
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