The First Legendary Beast Master

Karl felt the excessive mana beginning to burn his body, but with [Void Body] and [Impenetrable Bulwark] active, it wasn’t enough to actually harm him yet.

The power was still growing, though. It didn’t make any sense to Karl, the power had to be coming from somewhere, but the enemy was dead. If the enemy was dead, and the spell made his mana go out of control, shouldn’t it just be a buff of his own regenerative abilities?

No, because there was a massive influx of soul power coming to him as well, so it was most likely stored somewhere else, or linked to another location.

Perhaps this could be an opportunity? The power had an indescribable sense of eternity to it, as if he couldn’t see the limits of it. What if the issue wasn’t that the energy was limitless, but that it was so much higher quality than his body that it simply felt like it?

Just a casual swat of an Overlord’s power could do something like this to a Common Ranked Elite. Could this be a curse or blessing of an Immortal or Supreme that was placed on the reaper? If that was the case, he could use this power to advance.

The problem was that Karl was not a beast himself, and the knowledge of how to integrate power with your body to advance was not part of his genetic memory. Cara and the butterfly were trying to explain it to him, but how did you explain a basic bodily function?

It was like telling someone how to move their fingers. The first step was to just do it, and if you didn’t know how, it was impossible to explain.

The Bomgon Lord felt the shift in the power as Karl tried to internalize it and smiled. Yes, that was precisely the way. Take it in and embrace the route to immortality as an undead.

But the more of the power that Karl channelled through his body, the more that the Bomgon Lord became concerned that this strange creature might know something that he didn’t.

He wasn’t dying.

If anything, his vitality was skyrocketing.

With the retreat of the Bomgon army, and the defeat of the undead in the city by the town guard, who had circled to the south side of the walls to avoid the oppression of Karl’s aura, the battle was officially over.

All that was left was for him to stop doing whatever he was doing.

The mana began to grow faster than Karl could adapt, and then more than his damage reduction could handle, to the point that his body was beginning to burn, then reform with [Void Body].

There was still one thing that he could try, though.

[Purgatory Flames], Hawk’s new fireball skill, used every bit of your available mana.

In theory, that should reset his mana levels to zero, and even if it didn’t deactivate the skill, it would at least buy him some time.

Karl began to form the spell, with the intent to hurl it at the village in the distance, where the Bomgon army had retreated. If they wanted to curse him with overloaded mana, they could have it back.

The energy condensed, and then suddenly Karl was standing in the void again, floating in space, the same as he had been during the battle with the vampire.

“Shit. Death and Void Magic make Chaos. But this was Soul and Ghost flame, I should have been fine.”

In the distance, a haunting chuckle began, coming closer by the second.

Supreme Lady Matilda appeared in front of him with a curious look on her massive draconic face.

{You show up here entirely too often for a mortal, do you know that? What did you do this time?} She asked.

“I was attacked by a reaper, and when he died, he cast some sort of spell that made my soul power and mana overload uncontrollably.” Karl offered.

Lady Matilda watched him for a moment as the effect began to grow again, and nodded her head.

{Interesting. You’re not supposed to kill the reapers, they belong to the death god. You should have banished it.}

“I will remember that for next time. Is there a way to stop this effect?”

Matilda stared at him for a few seconds, then nodded. {Just give it a minute or two, and it will wear off on its own. It’s not like the effect is permanent.}

Well, that was reassuring.

“Can you transfer me back when it ends? I’m quite sorry that I keep ending up wherever this is.”

Matilda sighed. {I suppose that I can. I will just call the entertainment factor enough payment for the spell.}

The power was growing even faster now than it had been at the start, as if purging the mana from him had not affected the spell’s progression at all, and had only emptied the excess from his body.

Again, he focused on using the power to strengthen his body, the way that Cara and butterfly were trying to explain to him. They were both doing the same, attempting to demonstrate to help Karl’s comprehension rate as they increased their own power.

Or, in the case of the butterfly, stabilized it.

The influx of power had done wonders for her stability and evolutionary state, as well as the mana level inside her space, which was exponentially denser than the mana in the spaces of the others, though it was close to the same quality.

{Skill Master 5 Activation} [Void Iron Body] ⇒ [Chaos Beast Constitution]

[Chaos Void Constitution] Epic Grade Chaos Element physique. Removes physical limitations on development. Enhanced compatibility with Chaos and Void Element magic.

Karl wasn’t certain what that meant, exactly. But he did know that the influx of mana and soul power no longer hurt, and it wasn’t triggering his damage reduction skills.

{Not bad. You managed to adapt to being overloaded. Now, you just need to learn to absorb all that excess energy, and you’ll be able to advance properly.} Lady Matilda congratulated Karl.

Cara came out of her space to examine him. He was still glowing with power, but it wasn’t destroying him anymore, so he should be safe to land on.

{Oh, the badger is back. Hello, tiny creature.}

Cara waved at the Chaos Dragon, then got busy inspecting Karl. There was something odd about him still, and it wasn’t just the excess power.