After a few seconds, Karl relented and smiled at the other Guild Masters.
"Give it another week or two, and I will have a Skill Book for Mystic Cooking ready to give to the Blue Dragons for their Libraries. Then, they can spread the knowledge far and wide." He suggested.
Letting the Blue Dragons be the ones to explain to the world that the skill had some random hidden restriction that Karl hadn’t come across yet would be much easier than telling hopeful chefs himself.
Let the Librarians spread the bad news when they found out what it was.
The room was quiet, except the clinking of cutlery, as everyone sampled the new dishes. And, when they finished the pasta, their mood was much better than it had been.
When they arrived, every one of the Guild Masters was irate, ready to demand that the Alliance turn over the secret and share the wealth. But now, they were much more willing to accept that it wasn’t a deliberate conspiracy to hoard wealth and keep the rest of the city struggling.
They weren’t exactly wrong.
Karl had every intention of keeping the good stuff for himself. But the big bosses agreed with his strategy to keep most of the benefits in house so that he didn’t completely upset the markets.
Paul drummed his fingers on the table, and then smiled at Deve. "Why don’t you lend us a member for the day tomorrow? Perhaps it’s related to their particular Class? You went with four Rare Classes, right?"
Deve looked at the others. Paul had a point. He was an advanced form of Druid. Karl and Dana were both very rare classes, and Lars was now an Archpriest, which was considered a Rare Class.
Only Abel still had a normal class, and that wouldn’t last long. He was just waiting his turn for Sapphire to get him a Crusader Class upgrade.
She wouldn’t do it before she finished with her experimental groups at the lower ranks.
Karl nodded at Deve. "I will go along with another group if they need. No harm in an extra run or two for the week so we can test ways to activate more rewards. The chances might be low when we’re doing Mythic Dungeons, but it’s worth trying."
Paul frowned. "Why do you say that?"
"Well, what are the odds that we can break records for multiple dungeons or beat the same one that we just set? Finding a more efficient group for any given dungeon than anyone else has ever tried before is no small feat.
Even if both me and Dana join to bolster the group with Golems, there is no guarantee that will add up to more damage than any other group has managed with a well tailored group." Karl explained.
The Guild Masters frowned. He had a point. If it was that easy to set records, surely someone would have noticed and started to try speed running every Dungeon they could buy access to.
Or, it might be that every dungeon had a specific trigger to activate its difficulty settings, and they had just gotten lucky while stumbling on two of them.
That was less likely, but some people just had too much luck.
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