Karl woke up the next morning and gave Dana a hug, then realized that while she was fluffy, she was oddly lumpy.
[Is it morning?] A groggy Tian asked.
[Why are you sleeping on Dana’s chest?]
[It’s soft and warm. Like being back in the burrow with mother. I’m going back to sleep.]
Karl chuckled and left the little fox to his nap.
Dana was worn out this morning, but he didn’t need to actually get out of bed, he was just mentally formulating the method to make a training arena without physically building the arena.
He had discovered last night that portability would be the key.
Not all duels wanted to go to a formal training area, and there were already buildings for that.
But if he could make a form of illusionary Domain, with solid obstacles inside that could be hit by the contestants, it would be perfect. Just activate it, let the contestants step inside, and fight it out wherever they happened to be.
Karl was fairly sure that he knew how to coat the inside of the [Illusionary Domain] with solid surfaces, if he activated it with an object created through Runecrafting. But it would not be a small object, no matter how tiny his writing was.
The idea of the mountain, with its layered slices, was actually a practical one, but Karl was thinking of an obelisk, made with layers of stones, each enchanted, then attached by a base.
If he did it that way, he could make the object under two metres tall, and still have the needed spells. The domain, the solid interior from Earth Manipulation, the protective spells for the spectators and the arena itself, the opponents, and a referee. Having an illusion with some basic sentience would let the artifact adjust its own barrier levels and create requested opponents from the available golems.
He didn’t have an unlimited variety, but his Golem spell created beasts of most sorts, and he could create Dungeon Bosses that he knew.
That should be a popular feature for the raiding teams
Being able to bring a team in to practice, or try out new strategies in a setting where the monster would stop before actually killing you, was a huge thing.
But that also meant he needed to build a healing spell and recovery area.
If only there was a template for this.
He should have asked the other Darklight Host Guild Masters. One of them was almost guaranteed to know a suitable sort of skill.
Unfortunately, the idea had occurred to him too late, and now that they were on different planets again, he was unable to directly message them, though the additional branches still showed as active, but out of range in his System interface.
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