Karl opened a portal back to the woodlands outside the Earth Element cave, so that he didn’t cause everyone to freak out by opening a portal into the Clan Compound or somewhere equally inadvisable.
But what he quickly realized was that they may have caused a minor disturbance again.
"You, who are you?" A Peak Immortal woman in transparent peach coloured robes demanded.
For two full seconds, Karl could not answer.
Who thought that outfit was suitable for wearing in public? Where was that person? He needed to thank them and shake their hand.
Then find out how to get Dana to wear it for him later.
"I am Karl, of the New Home Merchant Guild. Is there a problem here? I was going to rest the evening at the cave, perhaps collect some Earth Stones if there were any matured."
The woman frowned at him. That excuse seemed plausible enough, it was nearly dark now, and the cavern did have a few Earth Elemental stones matured.
"Have you heard nothing about the area today?"
Karl shrugged, "I haven’t been checking my System Messages. Was there something important going on here? I could go straight home, but there are supposed to be some more fire element resources in the area, and I was going to look for them tomorrow before heading back to the Clan."
"You’re travelling alone?"
"For the moment. It draws less attention than travelling in a larger group. It’s a trade-off, really. Either get more people to fight, or attract less attention. The second one is better for resource gathering if you’re capable of putting up a fight with most of the people you find who are not Elders of their Sect." Karl agreed.
The woman nodded. "Go back to your Clan. There has been an incident here. A separate space collapsed and destroyed a large portion of the cavern."
"Alright, not a problem. Elder?"
"Elder Su, of the Plum Blossom Pavillion."
"Elder Su, then. It’s been a pleasure to meet you. Perhaps we will see each other again under more hospitable circumstances."
The Elder laughed as Karl opened a portal back to the Clan.
She was not stupid, she knew what Karl was fishing for. The name of her Clan. But he was in for a rude awakening if he thought that he could transfer and get all the beauties he wanted. The Plum Blossom Pavillion allowed no males through their gates.
No matter how much he longed to make his way into the Sect, it would never happen.
But Karl was already gone, and he had the information that he wanted. The outfit he needed Rae to make for Dana was the uniform of the Plum Blossom Pavillion.
In his mind, Rae laughed. She would definitely make the outfit, but there was no way that he was going to convince the Dana Mage to wear that in public. In private, sure. But even by Karl’s standards, that outfit was incredibly daring to be wearing outside.
Plus, Rae knew that Karl wouldn’t actually want anyone else to see her in it.
That would be just for him.
I’ve been raiding the pantry since we arrived."
Lotus laughed. "I barely noticed. Everyone raids the pantry, that is what it’s there for. But the first bunch to Immortality are definitely going to be the Demons and Lizardfolk that we rescued from the invasion force.
Some of them are nearly complete with their studies now, and their power level is already at the peak of Mythic, so they’re just waiting on that final understanding of the Fundamental Rules."
"Won’t that be fun? We will have a full Immortal Raiding team.
Or, they can move to the New Home Clan and integrate into the Immortal World somewhere that isn’t going to suppress them like the octopus did.
It might not be the best place, though. New Home is almost all humans, and none of them are.
I will look for just the right place, in case they want to move out of the Tiny World, or do some exploring."
"Find them a dungeon to run, and they will be happy.
Bringing back in loot to help the Tiny World grow would give them a sense of purpose. Well, more purpose than healing, looking after eggs, and gardening.
You know, you’ve got to do all the things to be truly happy."
Karl laughed. That was a very Lotus notion. Though, Cara fully agreed. If there were fun things left that you didn’t know about, didn’t that mean that you had not yet reached peak happiness?

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