The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1271  Opal’s Grand Vision

The planning phase didn’t take long. By the time that they had finished eating, a basic design was finished, and Opal was already working on interior design plans for the shops.

It would be glorious. Absolutely magnificent. And it would take Karl forever to finish the runes for everything that she wanted to add. Just the thought of trying to keep up with everything that the butterfly wanted to include in the restaurants was giving him a headache.

How did she actually expect him to give an illusionary cook the Mythic Cooking spell? Were they just going to make the entire building a massive runic artifact?

Transferring the skill to a living cook would be so much easier. He could even do it for three of them, so they had one for each shift and a backup. But Opal was insistent that they should have an entirely construct based service team.

Her idea of using Dark Elven Priestesses, in their gossamer spiderweb dresses, as the service staff at the fancy restaurant did seem like fun, though. Even Rae was on board with that.

And not just because the Priestesses would sacrifice troublemakers to the Spider Goddess.

Karl was reasonably sure that the other Guild Masters would be as well. Not that they were likely to object to any of his staffing ideas, as long as the staff had the skills.

After some consideration, Karl realized that he could actually do most of what Opal wanted. They had Immortal Rank elemental gems that were of both the illusion and the nature or earth affinity. So, he could inscribe them with the [Gargoyle] spell, and then use Illusions to make them look however he wanted. However, that would not work for the cooks. They would need to be a form of Epic Golem so that he could activate them with skills. The Gargoyle spell didn’t allow that, and while the Gargoyles could learn to cook, they couldn’t learn Mystic Cooking.

Karl zoned out while everyone else discussed how to make the actual building. Tian was on the table helping them draw plans, as he wanted to help build the physical structure. But Remi and Rae were also out, giving suggestions on designs, while Opal’s illusionary representative, who looked suspiciously like Button with rainbow hair today, argued against all changes to her vision on the interior design.

“Is this how it usually goes in your Guild?” Hugo asked Dana as he watched the chaos play out in real time.

“This is nothing. Speaking out loud is much slower than mental communication. Usually, it’s this, but at five times the speed, with even the uninvolved ones throwing their opinions into the mix.

But the process remains the same. Everyone will argue to get their favourite parts included, until everyone is happy enough with the end result that it’s not worth fighting over.

See, even the Immortal Regent and the King are in on it.” Dana explained.

They were enthusiastic too. The Immortal Regent wanted what he called a ‘traditional soda shop’ as the ice cream parlour’s decor. The problem was that the shop design he wanted hadn’t been around for thousands of years, and only Cara and the Regent knew what it looked like. However, Cara wanted the ice cream shop to be an animal café, but filled with Vorpal bunnies, the vampiric magical beasts that could kill with a single bite.

So, nobody was taking her explanations seriously.

Fortunately, the process was not going to end any time soon, and Karl was already making progress on the combined runic artifact to create Epic Golems that had an extra skill so that they could work as cooks.

The combination of Gargoyles and illusions, so that they could have Dark Elven Priestesses doing all the serving in the fancy restaurant, was an easy one, and Karl was ready to start making that the moment he was done here.

He would need more than one of them so that he could make staff at all the shops. Assuming that they weren’t just going to hire staff. But while they could make countless gargoyles appear to be whatever they wanted, they would have to make the Epic Golem specialists one at a time.

Opal was making life difficult, but her insistence that it was possible had convinced everyone else that it was the best idea. Then, they would hire school kids as interns and seasonal workers to fill the rest of the roster.

They would never be completely out of staff, and the changing faces would make things seem a bit more normal to customers, as well as giving job opportunities to the younger members of the Alliance.

Opal’s interpretation of Remi’s romance books said that working at a shop was a good way for girls to meet a mate. The wealthy adventurer would come in one day, see that she was actually the perfect hidden beauty, and sweep her off her feet.

Cara’s interpretation was more practical. Once he was involved with one of their staff members, it would be the perfect time to poach him for the Alliance.

After all, if his wife were here, surely he wouldn’t be too firmly against joining. Especially if he was a nomad who was paying for access to dungeons.

They might have mostly full Mythic teams now, but they didn’t have enough spare people, and there was no team to go with Karl and the Dana Mage. Assuming that they needed one. Cara was not convinced that they did. They just needed one more of the siblings to advance, and they would be fine.

Perhaps Tian. Then they would have a Mythic Healer, and that appeared to be a non-optional part of group composition.

Tian tried not to laugh as her thoughts got him sidetracked. He was already at the bottleneck, but his tiny body was holding him back. He would ask Karl to make him large later, as he had no affinity for Thor’s [Behemoth] skill. That might be enough that he would be able to advance.

[Even with your size tripled, you’d still be smaller than me.] Cara joked.

[But you were big enough to advance without problems.] Tian noted.

The fluff ball might be right, Cara thought. Mythic Rank was no big deal when you had a strong enough base.