The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1850: Bites The Hand

Sensing the attention of the Divine Dragon on her, the Haint Claw looked up from where she had been planting saplings cut from her own branches.

In this environment, they should grow up into Haint Treants, not bonded weapons, but proper living plant monsters with very similar skills to what she had. That would be perfect, as the living weapons were considered an inferior form of the Haint Treants, created from a cutting and bound to the System.

The Avatar didn’t seem to have any intentions of stopping her, so she ignored his intentions and went back to her work, while the druids used their magic to help the saplings take root in the fertile soil.

Once they had a full grove of Haint Treants, nobody would dare threaten the Tiny World again, she assumed. With a skill set that included Soul Steal, Force Slam and Ghostfire, they were a terrifying force to engage.

Especially when they were the forest that you were fighting in.

The Avatar collected Igor from the blanket where Karl had done the advancement, and opened a small portal home.

"Nisha, I have found you a weapon for your test of skill. Bond with Igor and help him advance to Legendary Rank, and you will understand what you need to about the nature of Dark Fire."

The teenage Black Dragon stared at the sword for a moment, before Igor flew over and poked her finger, testing her to see if she was worth bonding with.

But she was a dragon born in the Divine Realm. Her essence was incredibly powerful.

There was nothing to complain about.

"Hey, what are you doing, trying to bite me at first meeting. Plus, you burned my finger."

Igor remained unrepentant, and did not answer her, even mentally.

"I see that this will not be an easy mission. I understand, Avatar. I will succeed in this task."

Then the Avatar closed the portal and smiled at Karl.

"She’s a Fire Mage, but she’s been having some issues with the difference between the Fundamental Rule of Fire and the Divine Law of Fire. Fire with free will should help her with that difference, as one is simply a progression of the other, and it’s not necessary to master a Divine Law unless you’re trying to improve your combat power."

He seemed to realize that he had said more than he really should have, regarding the Divine Realm. But it was too late to take it back.

"There are better versions of the Fundamental Rule? Why don’t I know those? Is there a book? You have to know them, right? You’re a Divine Realm Avatar, so you definitely do. Could you please teach me?" Yewan asked, rattling off questions.

The Avatar patted the little dragon on the head. "It’s too early for that, little one. You have to already be Divine to master the Divine Laws. You can’t grasp them without fully understanding Divine Power, which you can’t do until you can use it. So, keep working on things in stages, and you’ll make it there eventually."

Yewan sighed. That was what everyone told him. Do things slow, you’re not ready for that yet, focus on the task at hand. But he had questions.

If he hung around the Avatar long enough, he was bound to let things slip. He didn’t know what the Matron and Nachtia were trying to keep from Yewan, as so much of it was casual knowledge where he came from.

So, it was just a matter of asking the right questions to get all the answers that he could before the powerful dragon left.

He didn’t know how long the Avatar would be here. Usually, they left in a day or two, but even that was plenty of time for him to ask questions if he skipped his afternoon naps. Yes, that would give him at least two more uninterrupted hours to ask questions.

The Avatar saw the little dragon’s mental calculations, and already knew what Yewan was planning. But he also knew that the more questions he asked, the more he would wear himself out trying to understand the answers.

And with a tired mind, the naps would become inevitable, and eventually, he would get too mentally exhausted to keep going.

Karl sorted through the Peerless Grade pile, and selected four warrior targeted items, plus one healer and one caster focused item, then added them to the shelf in the Guild Store.

"Avatar, my apologies, I must go tend the store.

Please enjoy the hospitality of the Darklight Host. They will take care of your every need while I am away, and I am certain that your concerns will be settled by the end of the month."

Karl didn’t see the look on the Avatar’s face as he left, but the look of pure dismay made Dana laugh.

The Avatar knew that he would be stuck here for at least a few days, but a whole month? Karl was just angling to have him passively donate Divine Energy to the Tiny World for as long as possible.

Perhaps if he just took the little dragon with him, that would solve the Death God’s concerns?

But if that was the solution, the God would have almost certainly told him to go collect Yewan, not to observe Karl and ensure that he was not actively trying to pull Lotus’s bonded dragon into his sphere of influence.

The interactions between the Gods were always more nuanced than they explained to others, but even the Avatar couldn’t quite grasp the extent of the concern underlying this situation.

Chances were that the incident that triggered the reaction simply hadn’t happened yet in the Immortal Realm, but had been seen in the Divine Realm, where time flowed differently.

So, Karl and Yewan, plus the other members of the Darklight Host, had no idea what they had done to get the Death God all riled up. And because they had no idea what they’d done, he couldn’t ask the Gods to tell him because if he knew, and it hadn’t happened yet, there was a chance that he would accidentally cause it to happen by trying to stop it from happening.

Which was one of the many reasons that Seekers of the various Dragon Gods rarely asked questions and simply executed orders when they got a mission.

It was better to take it on faith that things needed to be done than to delve too deeply into why.