The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 546

Chapter 546 The Whole Gang Is Here

The Oracle sighed as he waited for Karl to stop being distracted. It was clear that he was mentally communicating with someone, but the way that he looked around made the Oracle certain that it was the bird.

He turned to see what Karl was looking at, then realized it was likely out of sight to him.

"You know, out of all of this, I can't believe that I got dad joked by a teenager." The Oracle began.

Karl smiled, and the old man shook his head and continued. "Not that kind of Troll, indeed. You have no idea the sort of chaos that your presence has caused, even if you aren't somehow responsible for these incidents. There is a theory that your presence when the Dungeon formed might be causing these incidents to follow you and whoever else was there on the first day.

But more than that, the mere fact that you managed to make it almost all the way across the country without being detected, while travelling with an entire wagon full of Elites and clerics, is like a cock slap to the face of the council."

Karl chuckled. "Well, that's... graphic. I will say this much, though. We're not here to cause trouble or spy for anyone. I did consider that the incidents might be following me, but only the last two, the undead and this one, have been even remotely close to centred on my position.

The first ones that we encountered near Oakhamping put us on the very north edge, and one of them didn't even spawn with us in its radius, we travelled into it during the day."

The Oracle frowned, then made a note. "The Council isn't sure what to do with you. One thing is for certain, we're not going to allow you to die in our territory if there is any chance that these incidents are focused on you."

"Oh? I had thought that would be the go-to option."

The old troll shook his head. "No, eliminating the target doesn't stop the effect of an anomaly, it simply fixes the position of the anomaly. If something happened and one of your members died here today, it is possible that we would have a Giant Boar and Cyclops spawn at this location every morning, forever."

"See, that is valuable information to have. Do you know what the plan might be? Because I am considering making a run for it." Karl informed him, letting a bit of his curiosity leak into his voice.

"Well, my guess is that Morrisa is going to suggest taking you somewhere to strangle you to death for making fun of her.

But my visions say that it's more likely they will decide to send you back to the humans and make you stay there, or to the Mountain Giant border, where any more anomalies would be their problem.

There has been no decision, and I have seen both possibilities." The Oracle explained.

Karl sighed as he scanned the horizon for threats. "That's not highly encouraging. I'm not sure what I should choose. It's encouraging that they don't intend to kill me or my friends, but I also have no intentions of being locked in jail."

The Oracle gave him a faint smile. "Honestly, I'm not even sure how we would keep you in prison. Even with the suppression field on the Fortress, we couldn't stop you from setting a Royal Rank Bloodbath Spider loose in the hallway behind the guards. Blocking magic and skills is all well and good until half a tonne of razor-limbed arachnid is loose in the locker room."

[Oh, that's a great idea. Attacking them when they're naked on a slippery surface. It will be chaos even before the blood flows.]

"Having the ability to see the future sounds like it's not a whole lot of fun." Karl noted.

"You have no idea. Oracles of all sorts very rarely see anything but tragedy. Even if I want to look for good news, I have to look for the absence of bad instead. Only then can I see things going right."

"What a crap skill set. No offence."