The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 317

Chapter 317 Morning Visitors

Karl smiled at the old hippie. "Of course, I will come with you. I've had plenty of sleep, and if I don't go visit, then we will have to guard against marauding Nature Priests all night anyhow. Sitting still indoors isn't in their nature, and from what I know, she wasn't injured."

The white robed doctor did that pinching the bridge of his nose thing again, and Karl knew that they were stressing him out only minutes after his shift had started.

Karl patted him on the shoulder. "I recommend that you just go with the flow. It's the nature of things. The harder you fight against it, the more problems you will cause for yourself, and it's not like anything you could do would prevent it if we were actually determined to make it happen.

That's one thing that the Nature Priests have right. You need to embrace nature, and accept that rigid rules aren't always the right answer for every patient. Just let the nature priests cuddle the monsters, and they will be happy again. It's better than any medication you can give them."

The old hippie snorted in laughter as he nodded in agreement. "This one is practically custom-made for followers of the Green Dragon. Do you know how many of our people have been mauled or killed trying to pet the unpettable? Now, he shows up with dangerous monsters that will actually accept their affection, you can't just tell them 'no' all of a sudden."

That was a real danger to the Nature Priests' lives. Their brains had a hard time accepting that not all friend shaped things were friends.

The white robed doctor waved Karl out of the room, and he followed the old hippie into a large empty room that he thought might be an empty storage room. Lotus and Doug were already there, along with a half dozen other green robed clerics, all sitting around telling jokes.

"Karl, you're already awake. Good timing. I just realized that we haven't actually gotten to properly meet Remi yet, even though I saw her on the battlefield." Lotus announced.

"Of course. Remi, how about you come out and say hello?"

Remi came out of her space to coil in Karl's sling, and then poked her head out to take stock of the room before she decided if she was going to actually come out in the open.

The old hippie that had led Karl here burst into laughter, shaking his head in dismay.

"It's a good thing that I led you here. Can you imagine the white robes reaction if they met her? Remi, wasn't it? They get panicked enough when we bring in cats and Earth Mice for comfort, but a venomous Spirit Beast? We might need the crash cart for them instead of the patients."

Remi giggled in Karl's mind as she heard him ramble, but the little snake recognized that he was looking at her with adoration, while Lotus had come up in front of them with a pleading look and her hands out.

The little snake slithered out of the sling and wrapped herself around Lotus' arm to take a better look around the room.

She was bigger than Karl remembered, well over a metre long now, and beginning to get properly snake thick, not pencil thin as she had been when she was born. But, if she stayed as a Spirit Snake, she would be twenty metres long fully grown, and if she evolved into a Naga, she would be at least human sized in the torso.

Karl thought that if she was going to evolve, there should have been some signs of it by now, but Remi was happy as a snake, even if her totems were of a four armed Naga Shaman.

While Lotus was leading her around the room, introducing Remi to all her new friends, more people came in to join them. Ophelia was escorted by another Nature Priest, and a nurse escorted a delicate featured teen girl with a mass of bouncing blonde curls into the room. She looked to be about thirteen or fourteen, possibly a freshman at the Academy, if she was an Elite, but Karl didn't recognize her.

"That's them. I tell you, I'm not crazy. Karl, tell this crazy woman that I am Tori." The dainty girl demanded.

Everyone went silent as they turned to look at her.

[She still smells like Tori.] Thor agreed.

[Yup. It's a tiny Tori.] Hawk added.

[Can I keep her?] Rae asked, thinking how much fun it would be to run around with an even tinier human on her back.

Lotus and Dana were only a minor burden for the extra firepower they provided. But the new Tori was two thirds their size and just as Stabby. Or, she had been. Rae recalled the clerics saying that she might not be an Elite anymore.

"Yeah, that's Tori. She was ritual resurrected. The beasts confirmed it, she still smells like herself." Karl agreed.