The First Legendary Beast Master

{Pet Sitter Karl offers Knowledge} Skill [Runecrafting] will be granted to… {Pet Sitter Karl offers Knowledge} Skill [Runic Alchemy] will be granted to…

Karl nodded in satisfaction as the last of the Pack members who wanted skills were taken care of.

“Alright, let’s go check out the house. I will put Runic wards on the property to defend in case of attack, and give it a nice Mana Battery to power the barriers. That buys some extra time if you’re attacked.

Don’t worry too much about safety, I spent a long time perfecting it on the other Guild House,” he explained.

“Alright, we will trust your process. Here is the house, what do you think of it as a Guild House? The Pack will likely stay here anyhow, as it’s so large. We like to share space until we find our mates.”

“Alright, I will assign this as a Guild Branch House.”

{Confirm formation of new Guild House? 0 other Darklight Host Guild Houses exist in this world.}

{Confirmed. Congratulations Branch Leader Karl. Leadership of Drodh Guild House transferred to member Sapphire}

{Legacy Bonus active} Guild Skill retained.

That was good news. The Guild would keep the bonus without having him as the branch leader. That was his biggest concern about starting a new branch.

{Please add amenities to activate Guild House benefits.}

Karl examined the house, and then the wall around it.

“I will start with the perimeter, and work my way inward. I have multiple skills for separate spaces, and this place feels like they took all the defensive wards with them when they left.”

That was what the pack thought, too.

Either there hadn’t been anything, or it was an item, and had left with them.

Karl made his way around the perimeter of the building, layering runes for defensive barriers every few steps, so even if a section of the wall was blown out, the other barrier sections would overlap.

When everything was active, an attacker would have to shatter fifty different barriers to get through to the property, and then they would have to deal with the actual defenders.

The next stage was the Gargoyles, which were the primary fighting force inside the Guild House compound. They could be sent out to defend the city, but that wasn’t their purpose, and they couldn’t go too far from their assigned station. Instead of going for wolves, which might have been taken the wrong way by the pack, Karl went with a more traditional Gryphon pattern Gargoyle force. Then, he realized that he could make far more of them than the ten that he had put at the Drodh branch house.

It would be pure overkill, but he could turn them into a small army of defenders.

Karl reworked the runes for the Gargoyles that he was making so that they could activate more defenders with stored mana, without the spell going inactive.

Ten of the gargoyles active in the compound would be enough to slow down attackers, but he set the spell so that ninety more could be instantly activated, or replace the ten active ones when they were damaged.

Then, he added a healing altar in the front yard, built into the front porch.

That was enough to get the System to react.

{Two Guild House Upgrades Detected}

{Basic Security System} detected

{Healing Altar} detected

{Guild House bonus applied} [Pacifism] Causes Holy Damage to hostile targets within the Home and calms their minds.

That was a bonus that the Drodh Guild House had as well.

Karl wasn’t sure how effective it would be in this world, especially as he was still at the Void Immortal Stage. That might not apply to the Guild House bonuses, though. And the Elders of the pack were already moving out to reinforce the barriers that he had written into the walls, bringing them up to the standards of an Ascended Elder.

That was going to make this place much more durable.

It might not be the same as having the Pack Leader personally reinforce them. But against anything less than a Supreme Ranked attacker, it should be more than enough.

“Alright, the outside is finished. Now to start on the inside.

I will upgrade the kitchen so that the pack has everything that they need. One of my skills should generate food in the pantry. However, I have no idea what it actually makes. I’m ashamed to say that it’s been some time since I cooked for myself.”

The Elders gave him a “Seriously?” sort of look, and Karl simply shrugged.

“I know too many dedicated Mystic Cooks. So, while I can teach the skill, I never have to actually use it.”

He stopped in the kitchen, and thought about the options. He could make many things with [Illusionary Domain], but just using [Pet Space] would give them a fully stocked space.

So, a bit of both would be perfect.

He took out a nature element stone from the recent dungeon loot and began carving in the runes for the kitchen upgrade. An [Illusionary Domain] to expand the space, giving them more storage, and some aspects of [Pet Space] to keep the pantry full, and add in the cooking implements, as it made better ones than [Illusionary Domain] with [Reality Warp] would.

“There we go. Large enough to cook for the whole pack, with enough storage to keep an appropriate level of snacks.”

One of the cooks opened the pantry door and laughed.

“Who taught you what the appropriate level of snacks was? Are they perhaps diabetic? Or a Green Dragon? Both?”

Karl laughed as he realized that while the whole space was dedicated to bulk ingredients, there were no fewer than ten different types of snacks, from mixed nuts to granola bars, corn chips and honey sesame wafers on the shelves.

“I have it on good authority that these are all essential ingredients for the actual snacks.”

“We will take your word for it. But what sort of snacks do you even keep stocked? We don’t really snack, we do full meals a couple of times a day, and

that’s usually it.”

Karl shrugged. “Cara goes through an excessive number of cupcakes. Other than that, the rest are mostly optional.”