It didn’t take long before another group of reinforcements arrived, a team of Monarch Rank Elites led by a Warrior Class Overlord in a black latex bodysuit that looked more at home in an idol video than on the battlefield.
“Who is in charge here?” She demanded.
Karl rose from his seat to face her.
“I am responsible for this location at the moment. You can call me Karl.”
The Overlord nodded. “I am Tabitha, and this is my team. We will be taking over control of this Relic. Thank you for your dedication, you may continue about your assigned duties, if you were not assigned to remain here.”
It was a dispassionate response, not like she wanted him gone, but more like she didn’t care where he was, as she was only here to do a job.
“Understood, Overlord. We were headed east, so once I introduce your team to the other leaders here, I will take my group and be on my way again.
First, we have Librarian Gareth, from the Whiton Temple, he has come to study the effect of the Relic on the various candidates.
Then we have Colonel Lu, who is temporarily in charge of the Newbon Empire forces. He’s an excellent warrior, and easy to get along with. Especially if you have some knowledge of farming. In charge of the artillery regiment is Commander Jamison, and beside him is High Priest Dolores, who oversees the infantry.”
The red robed war priestess nodded a simple greeting to the Overlord, only sparing her a few seconds before she returned to rearranging her troops.
“There is no leader from the Divine Beast Nation here?” Overlord Tabitha asked.
Gareth chuckled, then gestured between himself and Karl. “We are serving as the representatives of the Divine Beast Nation today. They didn’t see fit to leave a military force here while they had no trainees present.”
“How could an Elite serve as leader for the Divine Beast Nation?” She asked, confused.
“He is a Beast Master. There are four Royal Rank Divine Beasts with him, and they represent the only divine beasts present. So, Prince Karl leads their force, while I am the impartial researcher.”
The Overlord shrugged, and Karl noticed how Dana blushed and Tessa looked a bit disgusted by the way that her tight-fitting latex suit shifted and pulled with the motion.
But he also noticed that it was an Overlord Rank defensive skill. Why it looked like that was a mystery, but why she didn’t wear anything over it was even more of a mystery, unless her skills gave her extreme agility, and she needed the flexible material with no impediment to her movement.
“In that case, you are dismissed, Prince Karl. The honourable Librarian can take over the duty of leadership until such time as the Divine Beasts see fit to send a replacement.”
Karl bowed to the Overlord and motioned for his team to join him. Five people would be too much to be comfortable on Hawk’s back, so Karl let Dana mount up while the clerics hopped on Thor’s back and Rae prepared her Golems for riders.
The other Elites looked intrigued by the process, and even more when Thor began to jog away with his passengers, while Hawk rocketed into the sky.
This time, he used his barrier to hold Dana in place, cradling her like an ergonomic chair with head support. That made riding much easier when he wanted to make extreme changes in direction.
Gareth sighed as he saw them running away. They weren’t actually afraid of the Overlord’s temper, they just wanted to go do fun things and not sit here being attacked while they sat at a huge glowing target.
He couldn’t blame them. Their plan to go explore an ancient temple sounded like way more fun than getting information about the same three basic class options over and over.
Very few of the volunteers got and advanced option, and Gareth had already realized that the advanced options were related to the skills that the applicant had. In fact, he even had a pretty reliable chart to tell whether a mage would get the Spellblade option or not.
The young ones got to choose classes, but the nations kept sending ones that were already undergoing training for a specialty, so they weren’t picking any of the fun options that they had described.
That had to change.
Gareth sent a message to the Bruse temple in the Divine Beast Nation. He needed fifty young beasts or beastkin who hadn’t started training yet so that he could encourage them to try the other classes and see what they all did.
They had a full listing of all of the promising children of the nation that had been brought to one of the temples for the traditional blessing of the newborns, and they had all of the school enrolment information for those who were in the right age group to be gaining system skills.
There had to be some good ones in there, and if he didn’t get to see them, it was a huge waste of the opportunity.
It only took a moment for Gareth to craft a message, and even less time for a positive response to the idea to be sent back.
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There was a misfit class at the school in Holney, specifically for beasts and beastkin who wanted to pursue paths that were not well suited to their species. If they could get an actual class for their ambitions, they would have an excellent chance to grow up as something more than wastrels.
Karl was almost to the horizon when the portal opened, and Hawk began to laugh.
A hundred juvenile beasts and beastkin had just arrived to use the Relic, which was fair by the rules of usage splitting. But the students that the newly arrived Elites were seeing were not what anyone expected.
There was a Forest Weasel dressed as a blacksmith, despite only weighing two kilos, a Dire Bear with shamanistic bead necklaces, a fox kin wearing leather pants and carrying twin battleaxes, and it only got more insane from there.
That idea spurred Colonel Lu to do the same thing. What if the key wasn’t to find the most qualified, but to find the oddballs and make them qualified?
So he called for another twenty from his nation, and they arrived within the next ten minutes, as the first group was getting organized at the Orb. They had sent all sorts of wild options from Newbon. There was an Orcish War Chief that wanted to be a mage, but could currently only cast fist. A succubus that had sworn vows of celibacy and only fed secondhand, and a Minotaur boy who desperately wanted to be a chef. That one the Colonel recognized as one of his neighbours. They must have taken him to the Fortress after the Colonel and the other Royal Rank defenders were called to duty.
“What is with all the misfits?” Overlord Tabitha demanded as she saw the new arrivals lining up and realized there was a pattern.
“It’s an idea that the Librarian had. What if the orb is best used by those who don’t want a conventional path? The ones who want to defy fate and become something more than what they were born for?
Humans can be anything, really. Because they’re not born with any real worth or skills. They’re not even strong enough for farming or mining until they train. But our people have innate paths that are easy for them. But this orb, it could be the key to unlocking more futures for our children. We will see when the first ones come out if they manage to accomplish that.” Colonel Lu explained.
“And you are expecting this to succeed?” Tabitha asked.
The Minotaur nodded. “Just wait. I am sure that at least some of the beasts will succeed, while the others will at least have a path they picked for themselves.”
The first one out was the Fox kin boy, who was now glowing with red energy and wearing black metal armour.
“I have found my new calling in life. I will be a Blood Knight.” He declared. Librarian Gareth smiled. “That is wonderful news, and not a rogue type at all. Just as you wished. Now, come tell me all about it, and you can go practice your new skills in the open area.”