The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 439

Chapter 439 Concerned Parties

Now that he was paying attention, Karl noticed that there were a lot of Darklight Host members among the crowd.

"Does the Darklight Host control this village, then?" Karl asked the Mayor as the parents and relatives of the children began to make plans for a grand dinner celebration.

"Not exactly. We're not large enough to have a control stone like the cities do. But they are the only Guild in the area. The Outreach Workers are everywhere, and this spot started as an overnight rest stop along the road for travellers hunting magical beasts, used to get a decent night's sleep.

Naturally, the Elves took it over as soon as they heard about it, and now it's more of an Elven village than a waypoint."

Karl nodded. "I suppose that makes sense with the rural location in the middle of the forest. Still, this place is pretty impressive to have survived so long in the deep woods with the level of threats that I'm hearing about all around you." _{freёwebnoѵel.com}

The mayor laughed. "We deliberately don't keep anyone who is too powerful in the village. That way we can deal with the minor threats that attack us, but our presence doesn't threaten the territory of the stronger monsters.

In most regions, they avoid the roads and villages, because of dangerous travellers, but here we don't get many visitors anymore.

The nations to our North and East are both in the middle of civil wars right now, and with that level of chaos, there is very little trade. Only those with the skills and resources to run military blockades enter there now, and that means not the sort that transport goods down the road."

"What about the other villages?" Karl asked.

"There used to be one every day's travel for a passenger carriage. Now they're at one and three days distance from us, headed northeast. The Civil war spilled a bit across the border at the start, and they hunted a fugitive into the village and wiped it out.

Now, the other outposts mostly do like we do. They just live off the land.

But if we get really desperate, there are edible plants in the stable instance where the children train. We will sometimes send them there to gather food."

Right, the Elves were all vegan.

A small hand tugged at the Mayor's pant leg, and he looked down with a smile.

"The Monster Man has wonderful purple tubers. Even better than the ones from the instance."

The Mayor looked confused, so Karl took one out, which made the Elf laugh. "Oh, you have a Rare Grade Violet Root plant. That explains why the kids all like you so much. What do those taste like to humans?"

Karl shrugged, "Slightly sweet potatoes, similar to a yam."

The Mayor nodded. "Our children don't normally eat any refined sugar, but these roots are often used to make spiced cakes. Well, not usually ones this good, the Common Grade ones from the instance, but they taste the same."

The only thing that came to Karl's mind when he said that was spicy mashed potatoes, but if they had a way to make that into a cake, he might have to get his hands on an Elven cookbook.

Lotus would love him forever if he found her an all vegan cookbook that could make mashed potatoes into cake.

Far away, Lotus sneezed as she sat in the hotel restaurant in Lithium Mine Town.

"Oh, someone is thinking about you." Dana laughed.

"It's our Karl. The Goddess says he's alive and playing with Elven children. Tiny, cuddly, adorable Elves." Lotus replied, sounding a bit like she was going to cry about being left out.

Dana briefly wondered if that was the reason that the Goddess had seen fit to grant her the vision. It would calm everyone else's mind, so they could continue their work. But it would also torture Lotus to know that there were apparently extra cuddly demihumans somewhere that she didn't get to play with.