The First Legendary Beast Master

Karl sat back down, and Old Jared, the one eyed sailor, laughed.

"You should have seen his face. I think he might have wet himself when he realized he had run into you." The extremely drunk sailor laughed.

"I'm not that scary. I'm not even an Overlord." Karl reminded the sailor.

"Does that really matter, though? He's an Obsession Demon, and the tigers are known for their strength. You could likely rip his arms off and hurl the rest out the door from here."

The sailor was clearly on the verge of passing out from excessive drink, but Beth agreed, and even Ophelia was doing the mental calculation on whether you could throw someone out the door from here with the roof beams and the pillar in the way.

Beth smiled at Karl as she refilled his drink.

"Plus, you can teleport."

To someone with normal eyesight, it really might look like he had teleported out of his chair. But Karl was actually just very fast.

After a few minutes, the soldiers had dragged almost everyone out of the tavern, leaving only a few tables along the wall still drinking.

The Innkeeper sighed and put up a closed sign on the door, which was still miraculously intact. Then he brought out a pair of brooms, and got to work cleaning up the mess with Beth starting at the other side, so the rubble could be swept out the door in the middle.

Lotus got up, a bit drunk, but fairly stable on her feet, and began fixing the legs back to the tables.

She wasn't trying too hard to match them to the right table, and if she got the wrong one, she would just regrow the leg until the table was steady.

It was actually quite efficient, and she had the tables all back upright before the mess was even swept up off the floor. Then she started on the stools, fixing them as she did a very Bohemian dance around the room, waving her hands like she was dancing to a song only she could hear.

The bartender picked up one of the chairs and shook it, then nodded in satisfaction.

"If they're not up to standard, you can just fix them the normal way." Karl called from across the room.

"I'm more worried that she might have made them too durable. The chairs are supposed to break instead of the skull that they're smashed over." The Innkeeper explained. Discover hidden stories at empire

Ophelia winked at Karl. "You know, this place isn't half bad. I'm regretting this choice less by the minute."

Of course, the Berserker would approve of that plan. The only reason she didn't get involved was because she didn't know what it would take to get her back out of the brig, or county jail. Wherever it was that they took drunks after a fight in this city.

Once the bar was cleaned, and the rubble swept out the door, the Innkeeper changed the sign back to open.

"It's still early, might as well give them a few hours. Sorry, Beth. No going home early tonight."

A few minutes after they reopened, a ridiculously buxom woman with long pointy ears and a tail just like Beth's with the same heart shaped tip came running in, excited about something.

She grabbed the smaller woman and shook her while smiling.

"Is it true? You are the one who found a talisman for Ramona? I can hear her from my room. They didn't even close the windows, and it's totally working."

Beth gently freed herself from her excited friend's grasp.

"Yes, I found the spell, but it's a single use, not a long-term solution."

"Still, what sort of genius alchemist did you locate? Can we get more? Do they also do fertility charms?"

Lotus looked up. She did fertility charms. She did excellent fertility charms.

Dana sighed. "Why do I get the feeling that we're going to be getting into some sort of sketchy business venture?"

Karl shook his head. "No, I think that we will skip this one. At most, maybe we will let Lotus do a few Fertility charms."

The two demons came over, and Beth introduced her friend to them. "Sir Karl, this is midwife Musa. She runs a clinic in the Palace for Demons of the Royal Clans who have issues with fertility."

The older Succubus made a hurt look. "And again, she casually pretends she's not my daughter. But as a midwife, my job is to help brides with the little issues preventing an heir to the families from being born. I know how most species look at us, but in the name of medical science, I would appeal to your... never mind. I have money."

Tessa laughed and Dana poked Karl in the side.

The demon had gotten halfway through the sentence, then decided that Karl probably didn't have anything resembling a kind nature or a sense of empathy.

"Well, we do have a Nature Cleric with us, and she can do a Fertility charm, but we're not going to be in the city forever. However, for the right price, I think that I can provide you with a magical item that will help. It won't be available until morning, though."

The midwife nodded. "I can wait. In fact, I will come back at breakfast, if it will be ready by then."

Karl nodded. "I think that should be possible."

Really, all he had to do was to carve a stone with the effect he wanted, then have Lotus cast [Blessed Item] and her fertility charm on it to give it the Nature God's blessing.

But for safety, he would make sure that you could only use the item on yourself. The potential for misuse was simply too high otherwise.

Just then, Karl sensed that someone had attempted to enter their room. The spell warned him that someone was attempting to force the door, as it just gave him a hint of their presence.

"One moment, someone is attempting to force their way into my room. I should go deal with that before we do anything else."