The Tiny World was actually beginning to feel like a Tribulation all the time lately.

The energy of a Tribulation took weeks or months to fade from a mountain range in the real world, and the Tiny World trapped the energy that was pulled into it. So now, with two advancing at once, Rue could actually taste the Divine Lightning in the air for the Tribulations.

The mortals hadn’t really realized it yet, and she didn’t think that the Immortals had either.

They could feel the lingering lightning energy in the air, but they weren’t far enough along the progression that they could feel the faintest traces of Divinity in the air.

Except maybe that Divine Lightning hatchling. She seemed far too happy to not be perfectly immersed in her element.

Technically, the Divine Lightning Dragons were actually a low Immortal species, and the Tribulation Dragons had a higher maximum potential than them, but when exposed to Divine energy, they had a faster growth rate through the Immortal Realms.

She had spent millennia studying the evolutionary pathways of dragons and the various adaptations that they had developed while she was trying to survive the first world she had landed on.

She also knew an immense amount about the vulnerabilities of other species, but she had put the most work into dragons. Not just because they were the core of many enemy forces, but because studying them helped her own growth.

Both in that world and this one, she was known as a brilliant strategist, and her experience was telling her that the little blue troublemaker was going to soar to the stars living here in the Tiny World with its nearly perfect growth environment.

She understood how the spell worked, though she didn’t know it herself.

But she had never seen one that was quite this well-adjusted to growth. It had to be a side effect of being made by a Beast Master, and then altered when he became a Pet Tamer. This was definitely Karl’s space, and she could feel the distinctive power of the Pet Sitter Class.

That class was not something that humans were supposed to get.

A fact that was confirmed when she saw the [Lesser Watchers]. They were a reduced version of the Divine Helpers that the World Dragon himself sent to oversee worlds. Normally, such a class and skill would only become available to one of the Ancients, a primordial species far older than humanity, or to the World Dragons themselves.

Though, she couldn’t guarantee that Karl was actually a human. He was using that form now, and that’s what people here saw him as. But what if he had done like she had, and evolved beyond his base species?

She accepted that she had been tricked by him as a child, and he wasn’t a Tengu. She could sense that it was a disguise when she saw it again. But his human form didn’t feel natural either.

More like it was a placeholder, designed to blend imperfectly with the population.

If he thought that he was actually passing as a human, he was sadly mistaken. She could see that he had been shaving daily, but his beard was already coming in by the end of the day, his eyes were void black with no sclera, and his fingernails were very clearly metallic.

If anything, it looked more like a monster pretending to be human, but without the awareness that Rae or Tian had about their forms being nonhuman.

Cara, on the other hand, seemed utterly uncaring that everyone knew she was a Chaos Badger.

She didn’t even try to hide it.

To Cara, that would take all the fun out of life. If people didn’t realize she was a badger, they would have no chance to prepare for life around a badger. And if they weren’t given the chance to prepare, it felt more like an ambush, and ambushes were for enemies, not casual background characters in her life.

Karl laughed as he watched Cara scheming to create a new Trial Tower during the advancement of Lotus and Ophelia.

But the lightning was taking time to form this time, with the two storms seeming to have halved the growth rate of the tribulation. It might be an issue with his Tiny World, so Karl increased the exposure of the Tiny World on the mortal world side, and then cracked it open a bit on the Immortal World side.

It was still linked to their apartment in the New Home compound, and nobody would break in there, so he felt safe enough as he let energy flow in from both sides.

That helped a little.

The three Supremes noticed immediately that there was a separate space mixing the energies of two different worlds to support a Tribulation, and the Clan Leader turned to Karl for an explanation.

"I think that perhaps it’s time we took a little tour of your Tiny World, isn’t it? That place clearly isn’t a normal separate space."

Karl laughed. "The more, the merrier. Besides, it’s only right that you get to see all the mortals I’ve tucked away until they advance. I will be asking to induct some of them into the Clan sooner or later.

Especially these two, and the Red Dragon Priestess who advanced recently.

They often travel together with me and Dana, so they will want to go on adventures in the Immortal World. However, there are a bunch of lizardfolk and Demons who are more comfortable staying hidden as they form their Immortal Spirits."

"Now, I’m truly curious. It’s like you’ve got a whole hidden Clan, just waiting for the right moment to enter the world."

When she put it that way, Karl couldn’t deny that she had a point.

With the freed slaves, he really did have an actual Clan of Immortals going at this point, but they lacked all the basics that Immortals would normally get from a Clan because they were utterly terrified of the outside world.