The First Legendary Beast Master - Chapter 987

Chapter 987: Baby Rogue
Rae stepped through onto the balcony of her old room and found that her hammock was still hanging there. Recently used, but empty. The plants were all in great shape, showing that someone was taking proper care of them, and there were schoolbooks on the table in the Gazebo.

It all smelled like her baby Rogue, so Rae activated [Night Haunter] and stepped through the wall of the room to see who was in the bed.

Sure enough, the little one was sleeping soundly, splayed out across the bed on a diagonal, and laying on top of her blankets.

Rae switched to humanoid form and deactivated [Night Haunter], then carefully laid out the armour she had made for Sybil on the bed. That clueless little Rogue was still sleeping, and Rae sighed.

She really had been slacking. There was no sense of danger at all.

In a moment of brilliance, Rae decided that she would teach her baby Rogue a lesson in practical jokes.

Piece by piece, she fit the armour on the sleeping Rogue, careful not to wake her up. When only the boots were left to go on, Rae stopped and took out some silk string. A quick slip knot tied the Rogue to the bed, and Hawk helpfully donated a feather to her cause.

The moment that the feather touched her foot, Sybil was awake and going for her daggers. But she was already tied, and unable to escape the tickling.

“Gah, no! Please not the feet!” She pleaded, as Rae laughed quietly.

“Didn’t I tell you that I would be checking up on you? Look at this, so deeply asleep that you didn’t even notice that I got you dressed.” Rae scolded Sybil, trying not to let her get used to the sensation.

[Shadow Step] briefly got Sybil free of her restraints, but Rae caught her in midair and fit the boots to her feet.

“Alright. Now, here are a pair of daggers, keep them safe. Your progress looks pretty good, not quite as fast as I had hoped, but not terrible. So, we’re going to do an exercise, and then we’re going to play a game.” Rae instructed.

Sybil didn’t quite understand what she meant until Rae put a hand on both of Sybil’s shoulders and flooded her with mana at Commander Rank quality. The Rogue squealed in pain as the mana in her body was forced out, and she tried to attack, but nothing a low Ascended Rank Rogue could do would injure Rae in the slightest.

The process went on for what felt like an eternity, but was actually only about five minutes, then Rae nodded in satisfaction.

“There, now your body knows what it feels like to be a Commander. Even if it doesn’t stick with that when you burn this batch off, you shouldn’t have any bottleneck to advancement.

Now for the fun part. Run away. I will give you a treat for every minute you can keep me from catching you.”

Sybil leapt through the bathroom door and [Shadow Stepped] into the gymnasium, while Rae activated [Night Haunter] and followed along.

She created a Golem to let Sybil know that she was there, and the Rogue vanished again, with the spider in hot pursuit.

The Golem was dismissed as they played their game, but the skill had alerted a number of the teachers whose rooms were near the indoor training areas, and they were now on high alert against invaders.

Sybil ran, teleported, even used a glider that she had acquired for just this sort of situation to try to outrun her mentor, but every time that she thought she had escaped, Rae would let a bit of her aura slip, and send her fleeing again.

Mindful of the time that Karl was keeping a portal open for her, Rae only chased Sybil for about five minutes before catching her halfway through a [Shadow Step] and bringing them back to the Rogue’s bedroom.

“Not bad, you have been training your skills. Just not your situational awareness. Ask the teachers to show you the trick to being alerted the moment that something moves near you in your sleep.” Rae ordered.

“So, you’re not mad at me for being slow? When will you come back full-time?” Sybil asked hopefully, and Rae patted her head.

“I will be a Totem soon, and there is no good food there for me here anymore. Well, not enough of it. So, I will stay here, but I will be sure to check up on you more often now that I have an easy way to get back to you.

I expect you to make use of today’s bonus and make it to Commander Rank by the end of the semester.” Rae instructed with a stern tone.

Sybil giggled. The new Semester had just started, she would be able to make Commander right away, and then when her mentor came back, she would be ready for anything.

Rae nodded in satisfaction, and then used [Shadow Step] to move through the portal and back into the carriage.

“I appreciate your patience. We can head out now.”

Karl closed the portal, and Thor started heading to Hawk’s next waypoint, while Sybil stared at her new gear in wonder.

She hadn’t had time to inspect it before, but this was all master crafted leather, made by Rae, and Epic Grade at the Overlord Rank.

But so were the daggers.

They were beautiful, dull black with a poison effect on them, though entirely made by Ashbringer, and not as powerful as the set that Karl had upgraded and Rae had kept after they taunted the item collection person in Drodh with them.

Fully Overlord ranked gear, and she was about to make Commander Rank. Sybil was still in shock at how suddenly things had changed after Rae showed up again. But if she could do all that in one day, couldn’t she have done that for her weeks or months ago?

Maybe she would have broken all the records for progression, and not just the ones to Ascended Rank.

But Rae would be a Totem soon, so Sybil was convinced that she might be able to make her a Royal if she was a strong enough Commander the next time the spider arrived.

She was going to have to work harder.