The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 1039

The next morning, they went down to invite Mira to breakfast, and the Cleric was sitting on the front steps, staring at the sun and contemplating the clear morning sky.

"Stuck on a thought?" Karl asked, as he took a seat beside the cleric.

The man nodded. "Yeah, I've been searching for the key to immortality. You see, I've got an incurable curse on me, placed by a Demigod. Nothing in this world can break it but intervention by the Gods.

Only, the Lord of the Underworld told me that there was a way to avoid it and live forever."

Karl nodded. "A curse to die young, that can be avoided forever? I am likely going for the obvious here, but isn't that just a curse of Undeath?"

The cleric stared at Karl as if he had just dropped legendary lore on him out of nowhere.

"I don't think that you're wrong. But wouldn't I lose my humanity?"

Karl shrugged and gestured out at the Orcish tribe. "You might lose your humanity, but not being human doesn't mean that you can't be a decent person. The Orcs barely understand human sensibilities, but once you understand how Orcish culture works, you'll find that they're not a bad bunch, and they are living their best lives.

It's the same with the Dragons.

They have their own ways of doing things, and it has little to do with how humans do things.

I also know a few vampires, and while one is batshit crazy, the other one is a really sweet girl. She works at our guild house in the store."

The Cleric was lost in thought for a while, then stood up. "I will go speak to my God. Perhaps he can help me choose a path. Not many of the undead are suitable for an eternal existence, but if anyone knows how to achieve it, the God of the Underworld will.

Thank, you, Beast Man."

The Cleric returned to the shrines, while Karl stared out at the sky in his place, wondering what sort of chaos might come during the next few days. The changes had been short so far, so Karl didn't expect to be in this region for long.

But if they made the best of their time here, they might be able to head off some of the early issues in the region, or they might gain a greater understanding of the myriad Divine Beings who were worshipped by the various species of this planet.

Eventually, Karl got up and went for a short walk around the Temple, mirroring the path that Rae had taken earlier looking for trouble.

There, in the middle of a hedge maze in the backyard, he came across the most curious platform.

The fact that it was there wasn't surprising, he had been following a stone walkway through the maze, and there were many sitting areas, like the hedge maze at the Academy, which brought memories of his first few days with Dana.

Karl was so lost in the pleasant memories that he almost missed that this sitting area was not like the others. There were no benches, and there were actual magical runes written on the stone, not just the poetry and historical messages like the others.

"Is this a portal platform?" Karl wondered as he deciphered the runes.

He could tell that [Runemaster] was translating for him, as this was no language that he knew or had seen before. But it was no normal portal platform, the spell was much too complex.