The First Legendary Beast Master

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Now that the rush of a large custom order was finished, Karl got to work on the items for the city's purchasing agent, and started to plan what he should do with his [Tiny World] spell.

There were so many options, and it could be used for dozens of different purposes, but each of them would require that he set up the interior in an entirely different way.

The best option seemed to be a hybrid living space. While he could enter it, that didn't seem like the most productive way to use the space when he was already advancing faster than everyone else.

With everyone but Thor at Overlord Rank, Karl was already moving steadily up through the power growth range, and the rest of the team had just reached Monarch.

So, the best thing that he could do was to create a training and living area, with water, trees and a large open area for training, plus a house.

Most of that would be real, but Karl fully intended to use [Illusionary Domain] to build the house. Bringing someone other than Jones, who was still sleeping off his advancement, to build a house in a separate space would raise far too many questions.

Not only that, but if the space collapsed, it would also dump the house out into the open wherever they were, and that would be incredibly awkward. Not to mention the damage that it would cause.

He needed something that would help them grow. Something like the beast spaces, which pushed his bonded partners forward. They already had a spell like that on the house, so he could do something similar to the [Tiny World], along with runes for potential increases and growth rate, like he had done on the bracers.

But that really seemed like something that should wait until he reached Totem Rank, as it would be such a large difference in power.

However, the basic space could be created right away, and the team was eager to help.

They all had their own ideas on what they wanted in the space, they just needed the room and the opportunity.

Karl thought of the instances he had been in before. They were basically the same as the [Tiny World], but some of them had extended for multiple kilometres.

Karl didn't know what the limits were to his spell, as nothing was listed. So, he could only hope that it was going to be large enough for his needs, at least as large as the Beast Spaces.

The plans for this shipment were simple, so Karl did them first, and then set the collection of weapons to the side for Davis to collect.

That left him free to focus on the new space.

[It's just like forming a new Beast Space, right?] Hawk pondered, not sure why this seemed to be such a big deal.

Now that the beast spaces were at Overlord Ranked, they were dozens of kilometres across, with plentiful plant life, their own climate and everything.

Karl used that optimism, and began to build the outer boundary of the [Tiny World], expanding it as he went so that he could check the limits of what the spell could maintain.

Inside, the world was just simple flat ground, with bare dirt for now. But the process of creating the space was even simpler than Karl had imagined.

He just added more mana to the spell, using all that he could channel, plus his internal reserves, and the space smoothly increased in size, slowing as the volume per metre of expansion increased.

The first few kilometres in diameter went rather quickly. But the space was spherical, and couldn't be made any other shape, as far as Karl could tell. He had tried to shape it like a puck, round and flat, but that hadn't worked at all.

The sphere simply refused to change.

Once it got to ten kilometres in Diameter, every bit of extra distance required immense amounts of power. So, Karl changed his focus from expanding to reshaping the space.

He inserted a large lake off on one side, a swampy area, a hilly region which could become a forest, flatlands where they could train, or set up stone pillars if Thor was expounding upon the joys of smashing posts, and even a small mountain, with steep cliffs and one gently sloping side to walk back down.

Then Karl added kilometres of tunnels starting at a cave entrance, to form a whole underground city.

Now, all it needed was life.

The [Tiny World] spell didn't allow the formation of trees and grass the way that the Beast Spaces had, but Karl continued to keep the spell active as everyone pitched in and added some spare materials.

Once they were inside, things changed drastically. Karl felt that he could cause the plants to grow with his will and added mana, cloning themselves to spread over the space.

The new ones were not real plants, more like a magical illusion with the potential to be plants, or a guideline for where the plants would be able to grow in the future.

Even the lake got some water plants in the shallows.

It would take time before all of that was grown in with real plants, but the visual effect would be there, the same as it was in the Trial Instances.

Then, Little Butterfly added the illusion of the Guild house, with its stone walled courtyard, and Karl felt it become an integral part of the space, no longer a separate spell.

That was wonderful news.

All it took was enough imagination, and he could create all sorts of nonliving things in the space. He just needed to know how.

The dozen plants wouldn't do much to keep a group of people alive inside, but he could always keep the space open a little, as Jones had informed him. He would just have to be careful of intruders.

The living plants that he had used as examples could be removed now, but Karl chose to keep them inside. The donors didn't need them, they had many more in their own spaces, and a bit of real plant life made this space feel more vibrant.

The fake plants didn't have a scent, so the whole space smelled sterile, like the house after Caretaker Jo went through with her cleaning magic.

But it was now complete, and he had a fully functional home away from home.