The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 767

Karl’s group went home before midnight as the buildings were getting close to complete. The locals could celebrate and fight about their new homes without their presence.

They returned to the Inn for the evening, then made their way to the new house right after breakfast.

The first thing that Karl noticed when they got close was the dilapidated condition of the building. But a split second later, the recognition that the building was not empty slowed his approach.

That could be problematic.

If a group of homeless demons had made the abandoned building their home, he would ruin his hard-earned good reputation to just throw them on the streets. But if it was a criminal organization using this building as their base, it would be even more problematic.

Perhaps this gift wasn’t all that it seemed to be.

Karl walked up to the simple stone wall around the courtyard, barely shoulder-high and more of a boundary marker than a serious deterrent. Then he waited a moment to see what the response from the people inside would be.

They didn’t seem to notice he was there, but Karl could clearly see with Soul Sight that they were all smaller, and mostly in the Awakened Realm.

So, most likely it was children playing. After all, if you couldn’t make it to Ascended Rank as an adult, you would be chased out of the city to the outlying regions or the Black Shade slums.

Karl led the team into the courtyard, and finally the occupants noticed them.

But now that he had a clear view through the open door, Karl could tell what they were doing as well.

It was some sort of martial arts class, with tattered uniforms that didn’t fit quite right, and one small but elderly Ascended Rank female trainer.

"Good morning, ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Karl." He greeted them.

A number of the kids nodded happily.

"We know you, you beat up the Undead Knight Champion." A young boy insisted.

"That’s right. And as a reward, the City Governor transferred me the ownership of this building and its courtyard. It looks like you’ve been training hard to become Guardsmen. Or were you hoping to become ship’s guards?" Karl asked.

The boy raised his fists and shadow-boxed the open air for a second as a demonstration of childish might.

"I’m going to be the next Arena Champion in Lared." He announced, determined in his path to greatness.

Lared was the capital of the nation to the south, and a major trading partner of Drodh, just across the border.

One of the girls laughed at his ambition. "But aren’t all the Arena Champions Overlords? Your mom is a Satyr."

"But my dad could be powerful." The boy insisted.

"A silver? The fee is three silvers an entry." Teacher Jo replied, clearly confused.

"Odd. They only charged us one each at the Forest Gate, and that was the price they quoted to get back in from the Black Shade, though they didn’t charge us."

The elderly violet skinned Demoness laughed, which made lightning crackle between the curved ram horns on her head and her hair stand on end.

She smoothed it back down in annoyance and shook her head in dismay.

"It depends on who is entering. A War Champion at the Monarch Rank and his friends? It might be a Silver. If you were an Overlord, they would likely waive it entirely. For children and Ascended workers, it’s three silvers. For Awakened adults, it’s five silver for a visitor’s day pass with a tracking spell on it." She explained.

That explained why the city was so crowded when there was a suburban area outside the walls. It wasn’t danger, it was economics. By Karl’s math, two or three silver was a day’s wages for most workers. They simply couldn’t go back and forth every day.

Karl looked at Dana, who just shrugged. She didn’t care about this place one way or another. Sure, they owned it. But this was the first time they had seen it. If Karl wanted to sell it, they would take the loss and consider it a goodwill gift.

Remi had a better idea.

[The whole place is full of tiny workers, right? Why don’t we make them our tiny workers? We can use the main floor as a shop for Runic items and potions. Then people can come to us to buy them, and we don’t need to pay someone to sell them.

Well, other than the workers. But workers are cheaper than Runic Rings.] _{freёwebnovel.com}