The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 108

Chapter 108 Rewards

The quality of the reward was also directly linked to the quality of the package. Not that any of them were useless, or anything less than a priceless treasure, but there was definitely bias being shown in the rewarding process.

The items that came from the bronze wrapping paper were mostly trinkets and pieces of jewellery that would help with growth or strength. But the items from the Silver category were more practical.

They included mostly weapons, the mage's spellbook, and in one case a scroll that would let the user pick one new combat skill from a set list.

But Karl had gotten a rather incredible new class skill that would let him easily teach the beasts new skills, and Dana had gotten a new combination attack and defence spell that nobody had ever heard of before.

[Nullification Barrier] simply dispersed anything that touched it. It didn't matter if it was a magical attack, or a stick that the warriors swung, it simply lost all energy and stopped when it hit the barrier.

The offensive use of the spell, [Nullification Blade] surrounded a weapon, and would cut through anything that they could find with ease, even the other mages shields.

Nobody was willing to try with a magical item, for fear that it would be disenchanted, but the barrier appeared to be much stronger than the usual ones they trained with.

If it had come from a skill book, she would have been fabulously wealthy beyond her wildest dreams, but the golden chest simply taught her the skill the same as it had taught Karl. Both were what the Academy would call Tier Three skills. Not the basics, or the advanced versions of the basics, but something that was entirely new and on another power level.

They were incredibly rare, and often unique in the world, with only one Elite having ever learned them. But more than that, they had a growth rate that scaled proportionately to their advantage. If they were twice as deadly as normal skills at Awakened Rank, they would be twice as deadly as other spells when you were at Ascended and Commander Rank as well.

They were simply superior in all ways.

Karl's was mostly only relevant to himself, but it didn't specify that the animals had to be bonded to him, and that was something that he wanted to test.

"Druid, sorry I forgot your name. Do you have a bonded animal?" Karl asked.

"Not yet. Most druids get the ability, but I'm still at level three, according to the way that Druids see their progression, and I don't have that ability yet.

My healing got much better while I was here, though, and I learned to use an area heal spell while training on the stairs." The druid replied.

"What did you get from the box?" Karl asked.

"A staff. It vanishes when I want it to, and it applies its additional magic damage even when I am wild shaped." He explained.

"Oh, you're a transformation type Druid. Never mind. I was thinking about trying to teach a Druid's spirit animal a new trick when we get back to test out the reward I got." Karl explained.

That made the others curious. Karl had returned first, so none of them had seen what he had gotten, and so far, he hadn't spoken of it. But if it was a transferrable power, a skill that he could teach others, wouldn't that just be too powerful?

If he left to join the army, he could teach his whole unit that power, which the team assumed should be at the Ascended Rank, since the item type rewards everyone got were generally a Rank above themselves. The thought that it might be a Tier Three skill that would scale with his growth, and not simply a more powerful normal Skill, never crossed their minds.

"We have some time before we are ejected, so get some sleep after you eat. We will get up early to pack our gear before we are pushed out, and then we can finish the mission and find the other plants that we came here for." Karl decided.