The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1079: Friends And Allies

The Rogues joined Karl and Rae, looking at the options, which went from simple and outdoorsy, more suited to Rangers, through cloth outfits with leather reinforced vital points, which were great for martial artists or battle mages, like Dana. Then there was the selection of sexy leather, which Rae had deliberately made better than any of the other options, so that more people would buy it.

Karl knew better than to argue with her, and he had even prepared a few sets with additional skills on them, in case someone from the Mythic Teams wanted to upgrade right now.

The thing was, he didn’t know if there was a female Rogue on the Mythic Team.

Unfortunately for Rae’s big dreams, there were not. There were Rogues, but all small, nimble men. Not all suited to her fashionable outfits.

But they knew people who were, and who would be willing to pay full retail.

Karl had been setting the prices randomly, so while the Alliance was supposed to get a discount, he didn’t actually have a base price. He would just have to charge more to non alliance members.

Deve nodded as he entered. “You don’t mind if we call a few other Guild Leaders over, do you? It’s good for the Alliance to maintain relations, and they can bring the members who will want Lady Rae’s fashion.”

Karl nodded. “Alright, one of these sets has [Sharpness] and [Shatter] on it, for pure damage output. The other has [Perfect Camouflage] and [Life Steal], with maximum bonus poison damage, so the wearer will passively keep healing if a stealth strike goes wrong.

I thought about giving it [Invisibility] or [Night Haunter], but the number of Rogues who could actually use those skills is limited, and there would be no point in having them wear armour with them on it.”

Deve sent out a few messages, presumably to send a runner to escort the other Guild Leaders to their fortress, and then took a moment to admire the outfits.

“Do you have a skill that could completely hide someone’s true appearance? We have a few intelligence officers who can fake their name in the System display, but a simple disguise spell can only change so much.” He asked.

Karl nodded. “I can make a trinket with [Humanoid Transformation] or [Beast Form]. Either should turn them into an entirely different looking person.”

“How different are we talking? Is it detectable?” Deve asked.

“What is my true form?” Karl asked.

The Druid blinked and stared at him. “Isn’t this your true form? Surely, it’s not the dragon form. That was an Avatar type holy magic spell.”

Karl smiled and shook his head. “This is the [Beast Form] spell. I’m more comfortable this way.”

Deve smiled. “That is magnificent. Even if it does make them furry, there are enough beastkin with heavy beast blood that nobody would question it. However, I don’t know if Humanoid Transformation will work for them, as they’re all Dragonkin and already humanoids.”

Karl shrugged. “I haven’t tried on humanoids. I think it does, though. If my memory serves, the larger Troll species and Giants used it to fit into smaller spaces.”

Dana walked over and ran her claws gently up Karl’s back under his shirt in greeting.

He smiled and leaned down to kiss her forehead.

“There are some problems with the transformation spell, though. Sometimes, they make you too adorable.” Karl joked.

Dana rolled her eyes at him, but the Alliance members all nodded in understanding. [Fox Charm] was a subtle but powerful skill, and only Deve could tell that the attraction was partly from the passive skill and not just the adorable fox girl.

“I take it that you are not a beastkin, then?” Deve asked.

Dana shook her head. “Human, actually. Pure human. I just fit in better in this form.”

One of the Totem Ranked female Rogues gave her a thumbs up. “I approve.”

Dana smiled at her, then realized that the girl had pointed dragon ears with tufts of fur at the end. She had never seen a dragon with fur before, but she had read about the Winter Dragons, a form of Ice Element Drake that lived in the mountains.

So, this woman likely shared the blood of the dragons that the Winter Dragons had descended from.

“Humans smell funny anyhow.” One of the men agreed.

The dragonkin Rogue with the tufted ears snorted in amusement. “You say that as if you don’t smell like an unwashed Ogre half the time. This is the first time you’ve smelled like soap in months.”

“I bathe when I get dirty.” The man grumbled, then dropped the topic.

“We can make charms to entirely hide scent as well. I just don’t put it on the armour, as so many stealth sorts already have a solution or skill for it.” Karl offered.

It was a simple effect, and it was already included on many of the cleaning rings that the apprentices made. Only, it was normally used on the room you were cleaning, not yourself.

“Their store sells all sorts of useful things for that purpose. I see that they also have scented soaps.” One of the Rogues noted.

Karl quickly checked the Guild Store.

Indeed, they did have scented soaps, and they were medicinal.

Each of the bars had a slightly different scent, but the most popular one seemed to be the floral-scented one that granted an 8 hour [Self Cleaning] effect, that would make most dirt and debris fall off the skin without sticking.

There was clean, and then there was magically clean.

[It was a potion, but the apprentices thought that it would be better if they weakened it into a bar of soap, so you got the effect with every washing. They sell a case a day to the locals in Drodh now.] Remi informed Karl proudly.

Her apprentices were learning to make the best of mistakes and turn them into new products. Not many Alchemists had that level of innovation.