The First Legendary Beast Master

Dana watched the countdown timer as she forced herself onto the fifth resting platform with every muscle in her body screaming in agony.

{5 Seconds until trial completion}

She had made it. The fifth platform was her goal, and while she desperately wanted to go one more step, just to be sure that it counted, her body would not allow that. Certainly, not within the next five seconds.

Perhaps one hand. Just a hand on the next step should be enough to ensure that the fifth point counted.

There was no reaction from the step when she put a hand on it, but Dana was satisfied as she lay on the five-hundredth step.

She had made it halfway up.

So, there was a chance she could get a class that was halfway up the range of Class Advancements.

The world around her faded to the familiar scene of the Class Advancement options, and Dana found herself looking at one single option.

{Mystic Blademaster} Rare Grade Trial Reward

Dana looked at the class, whose aesthetic appeared to be very similar to how the Murim Battlemage class made armour look when she wore it. That was a good start.

But when she looked at the skills, Dana was blown away.

[Auto Parry] Passive Skill. The Blademaster will parry all incoming attacks when equipped with a blade, within physical limitations.

[Blade Dance] Passive skill. The Blademaster's attack speed triples.

[Lady General] Blade wielding constructs under the Blademaster's control gain the effect of passive class skills.

Dana smiled at the described passive skills, and accepted the advancement so that she could see the Skill Tree.

The skills were all blade based, but all ranged magical attacks, other than one new shield skill that she could pick in the first rank of skills.

It was a bit of a shame that her Greater Golems couldn't benefit from the [Lady General] skill, as they didn't have opposable thumbs to hold blades. But two Golems with [Auto Parry] and [Blade Dance] would be a monstrous increase in her damage output.

Not only that, but they would be so much harder to destroy in a fight against physical enemies. There was no shortage of quality weapons with Karl and Ashbringer around, so they should be able to parry even the attacks of the Totem Ranked Ogres for a while.

Picking a new class really was the right choice.

However, if she could get Karl to teach her that undead summoning that Rae learned, she could have a whole army on her side. Well, if she could actually use it. They were undead, and she wasn't a necromancer, and certainly not a Shadow or Death Element specialist spell caster.

But there had to be something that she could do to increase her number of summoned supporters.

Dana realized that her [Epic Guard] was going to love the new skills. She was an agility type fighter, and this new class was perfect for her.

On the other sides of the temple, similar scenes were playing out, with equally enthusiastic responses.

Tessa looked at the heavily armoured knight image standing in front of her.

{Dragon Crusader} The Dragon Crusader is a chosen knight of the War God, blessed with holy magic and the physical skills to enforce the Red Dragon's will.

[Compliance] Creates an area of {Oppression} 10 metres per User Rank, and grants the Dragon Crusader the physique of a Red Dragon at their own Rank.

The skill tree had healing, buffing and combat skills, all more powerful than any that she already possessed.

[Holy Slash] was a particularly impressive one. 200% of weapon damage as holy damage, and functionally identical to the warrior's Slash skill, but with a much lower energy requirement.

With that, she could effectively fight from Thor's back in a crowd, instead of simply throwing spears at the enemies a few at a time.

Tessa used some available skill points to choose the skill and sighed in satisfaction. This was a good class, and she didn't truly lose her status as a Holy Warrior of the Red Dragon.

She briefly wondered how Thor would respond to her having a dragon's strength, but quickly realized that he would just be even happier that she was both powerful and scaled.

Thor was easy to please.

Ophelia had a few classes to choose from, but the final decision was an easy one.

{Ursine Avenger} was an oddball of a class, but somewhat in line with the previous berserker classes she had used. The skills were all combat and regeneration skills, as well as personal damage buffs.

But it had more of a group focus than before, with a taunt skill, and a damage transfer skill, to absorb a bit of what was done to other group members.

That wasn't really necessary in this Guild, but Ophelia could see how it would be a godlike ability for an average group to have the fast regenerating tank absorb damage done to weaker members.

It also included [Bestial Regeneration], a skill that Karl used to grant them, before he got a stronger version in [Trollish Regeneration] and then [Void Body].

While the others considered the combat implications, Lotus was thoroughly enjoying her advancement screen.

{Nature's Helper} was basically a more powerful Green Dragon Cleric. She got a more powerful area healing spell, mana reductions to her healing abilities, and one truly awesome ability.

[If Not Friend, Why Friend Shaped?] Negates hostility from wild beasts and magical creatures as long as the Caster does not instigate any hostile actions.

This was quite simply the best class ever.

There were some other skills, like an even more advanced food creation spell, better plant growth abilities, [Incubation] to protect pregnant beasts and fertilized eggs, but that all paled in comparison to a spell that let her hug all the fluffy things.

Though, when she thought about it, she used less mana and regenerated more now. She could do all sorts of extra things while she was in [Tree of Life] form, and not just focus on sending the healing birds to the most wounded.

That would be great. She could do something like grow vine beds under her branches, so the wounded had places to rest. She could be her own mobile triage centre.

Further down the Overlord Ranked temple, forgotten by Karl and Cara in the excitement of their completion, Nachtia smiled as she saw the new Class Advancement.

{Junior Reaper} Cleric Class. Black Dragon exclusive.

{Class Skill} [Reclamation] Increases all Death Element damage done by 50% and reduces healing received by the target of Death Element attacks by 50% for 10 minutes.

That would make it nearly impossible to resurrect her enemies, unless the effect was cleansed first. But it would also reduce their ability to fight back, while boosting her own damage.

An improvement in her Goddess' favour with no visible drawbacks.