The Golden Core Divine Refinement was not a fast process, it continued for nearly five minutes as the guests and Fae staff of the Resort continued to add mana to the staff.

Then, the Mythic Bottleneck completely vanished, and Karl felt himself advancing as if it had never existed.

The quality of his physique had been refined to such a degree that even advancing to the Mythic Rank no longer held any restrictions for him, the change was as easy as breathing.

It felt like the world had suddenly become lighter, or his strength had increased to an incredible degree, so that all considerations of physical limits no longer mattered.

It was a heady feeling, and Karl saw the smile on Dana’s fingers as she advanced, and the effect of the refinement faded.

“Congratulations, Karl and Dana. You have completed the Golden Core Divine Refinement, a secret technique of the Darklight Host Guild. Now, eternity really is within your reach.” Axiom announced.

The crowd was in awe.

What sort of insane Guild wedding gift was that? A gift of smooth progression to Immortality? The wedding had brought Dana from the Overlord to the Mythic Rank in a matter of minutes, which was insane enough on its own.

But the foreign Guild Master had suggested that was not the extent of their gift and blessing.

It had sounded more like a side effect of the gift.

Dana’s makeup was smudged by tears of joy, and Cara mentally sighed.

[See, this is why I wanted to do it in Fox form. The happy tears just ruin makeup.] She complained.

That made Dana smile and pat the transformed badger on the head.

“It is going to take some time to get used to having all these extra thoughts in my head.” She whispered.

“I will teach you how to ignore them if you want. But it’s more fun to listen in on their squabbles and daily life.” Karl agreed.

Matilda pulled them both into a hug, and then whispered in Karl’s ear.

“What do you think of my present? It wouldn’t have worked right if we weren’t in the Fae realm, where it’s possible to achieve Divinity directly from mortality. Now, you’re bound to your bride just as surely as your beasts.”

Karl smiled at the Chaos Dragon. “But we still don’t have a Dana Space.”

That made both Dana and Matilda chuckle. “Just give it time. One more separate space spell, and you can make one dedicated just to your Dana.”

Karl shook his head. “Instead, I will help her gain Immortality and teach her [Tiny World], so that not only can I give her forever, I can give her the world as well.”

Cara giggled and mentally congratulated him. [Ten out of ten, best sappy line so far.]

Dana didn’t have time to reprimand the errant badger, as there were guests coming up to give their congratulations and hand over gifts. That gave Cara time to escape, but Karl knew that she would be back, as she had her own present ready to give to Dana.

All of the beasts had prepared something. Rae made the wedding dress, which was impressive on its own, and that had started a competition among the beasts.

Opal was preparing a replay montage of all the touching moments of their relationship, but Tessa had stopped her when the butterfly wanted to give a demonstration this morning.

The parts that Opal found most interesting were not suitable to be displayed to the public.

So, she was making a recording of everything instead. One that Dana could replay at will, and watch from any angle, including from her own point of view.

That should be a good present, Opal decided.

Thor had consulted with Tessa, and they had decided to go for a much more practical route. They had chosen to go out and get the couple a rare tome on Cultivating Mental Power, which was rumoured to have come from a different world.

Both the bride and the groom could use it if it were real. So, by Tessa’s determination, it was a solid wedding gift.

This wedding in particular was a tricky one, as the usual gifts of jewellery for the bride would never do. Karl could make better than what they could offer, and it was simply tactless to gift a craftsman the things that he made for himself.

So, instead the gifts were mostly in the form of rare items. Rare materials and rare books especially.

Karl wasn’t sure who was going to be more pleased with this wedding. Dana or Sapphire.

They certainly had a lot of magical tomes.

As the gift giving wound down, Hawk returned to perch on the edge of the platform with a smug sense of superiority in his mind. He had found the perfect gift.

While they were in Zilaz, he had flown out over the lake and found the most wonderful Mythic Ranked fish. It had taken some work to defeat the accursed thing, but he had, and now it was a special dinner for the Dana Mage’s induction ceremony.

Hawk wasn’t exactly clear on what the purpose of a wedding was, but as far as he could discern, it was like the party that they threw for a new member of the beasts, except that she didn’t get a dedicated Dana Space.

That was a shame. He really liked his space.

The food was brought out, while the band started to set up for the party afterward.

They were going to need as much energy as they could get for the festivities, as everyone intended to make the very most of their vacation and dance until the sun came up, then return to the spa for a rest day.

Not all of them could stay for an extended vacation, so many of them were headed home after only a single day of fun.

That was somewhat expected, but now that they were at the resort, it seemed like a real shame.