Carl's Doomsday Scenario

Carl and Donut enter a hallway on the third floor with a dark sky overhead. The sky is an illusion cast over the ceiling. They approach the training guildhall where Mordecai greets them. As before, Mordecai has changed races and is now an incubus with gray skin and horns. Inside the guildhall, Carl and Donut can now choose their race and class. Donut chooses to stay a cat. Her class options include common things like Bard and Barbarian and Earth-based options such as Artist Alley Mogul and Former Child Actor. Mordecai suggests she choose Artist Alley Mogul, but Donut chooses Former Child Actor instead, angering him.

A flashback to Carl and Donut’s conversation with Odette in the previous book’s epilogue reveals that Odette recommended this choice because it includes a special Manager benefit. This benefit requires that Mordecai now become Donut’s exclusive manager: He will go with them wherever they travel in the dungeons, is exempt from non-disclosure rules that control guildmasters, and may help in small ways, though he cannot join combat.

Mordecai will hate this, so Odette recommended making it look like Donut did not know about the benefit.