I still o do something about the seats on Overdrive. They really just aren’t that fortable. Perhaps I have something I could install onto Overdrive to do that. I o go over my colle at some point with that in mind. It’s not terrible when on the dirt roads, but off-roading with this thing, not fun. Needs both better suspension as.

  Guided by Laura, I made my way over to the forest road I cleared. Is it wrong to say I cleared it? Teically it was Slot Mae, but wouldn’t my summon be aension of me. How does that go? I think my summon’s aplishments are my aplishments, so… Yes. It’s my road. To my dungeohe dungeon is mine anyway. I’m the founder, so it’s mine.

  My precious. Okay, not to that level.

  On the way I passed by a few carriages carrying lumber. I guess they would be a part of the clearing operation. I think Brandon gave that job to the Baku pany. I also think there was a job offer for physical bor at the adventurer’s guild. I probably could have taken it and just used some summons for it, but I’ll leave it to people who he money more.

  After a bit more driving, I arrived at the edge of the forest. There were three carriages there, and people were loading lumber into them. I stopped a fair distance away from them, to avoid spreading fear, got out of Overdrive and unsummo. Some of them did notice Overdrive, but I guess the rumors about me have spread to the point where people would know about my meical carriage. Or would it be a golem carriage?

  “Hello, Sir Brian.” The one who seemed to be in charge came up to me and greeted me. “What brings you here?”

  He isn’t the an from our durip. He is someone else. Probably someone from Baku pany.

  “I’m just on my way to the dungeon.” I told him. “I hope I’m not getting in your way.”

  “Of course not. I thought you would be here for the process report. Sadly, we are behind schedule. The pany had to send away carriages to Sawyer city to transport the wyvern materials, so we ’t operate at full speed.” He told me.

  “Uandable. I probably should e and help with it, but I have things to do today.” I answered.

  “We would never dream of taking your time for something as simple as clearing lumber.” He told me.

  “Well it’s something that will be myself, so doing it wouldn’t be that strange.” I said to him. “Is there anything I o know or am I fio pass?”

  “No, you are fihe supervisor told me.

  “I’ll get on with it then.” I told him and began to walk.

  I walked past some workers on the way. They were clearing the branches off of the trees and carrying them out of the forest. So they are not getting carriages right o the lumber yet. I guess they haven’t gotten ah mage here yet. I don’t think I have one I summoher.

  (Master doesn’t have ah attribute spellcaster monsters.) Laura told me.

  (What about something else that could do it?) I asked.

  (No.) Laura told. Well, ’t be helped then.

  Thankfully most of them focused on the work so no oopped me to thank me or something.

  The trip is a lot easier when there are no trees on the way. It might not be a good path yet, but it’s much better than the rown forest it used to be. It took me only an hour to make it to the dungeon. On the way I ate one of the burritos I picked up. I still have like eight of them and I probably should eat all of them today. ive them to someone else.

  I made it to the dungeorand then realized something.

  “I should probably summon something to keep me safe in the dungeon.” I said out loud.

  (You could use Performance of Sword, or perhaps apply some of the sleeves to new monsters.) Laura told me.

  (Yeah, how many sleeves do I have in stock?) I asked.

  (Eight.)

  (So I could even make a toploader. Didn’t I have a spare Dark Magi? Let’s just put a toploader on it now that I lost the other one.)

  (Yes, Master. I’ll do that for you.) Laura told me.

  (Master, I found out something that you might want to know.) Laura interrupted me as I was going to take out Dark Magi.

  (What is it?) I asked.

  (I ’t pce a toploader onto Performance of Sword. I believe this is because it was summoned without one initially.)

  So the free sleeve es with a caveat that I ’t pce a toploader on top of it. Acceptable. o keep that in mind. But it doesn’t really matter at the moment. Had I learhat with some other monster, it might have been worse.

  (Laura, thank you for reending I perform that ritual summon. You taught me hings again.)

  (I’ll do my best for my Master.)

  Well, we’ve stalled enough.

  I opened my skill and pulled out my new Dark Magi. I guess losing one isn’t that bad since I had one in stock. And now I also summon Dark Sage. Well he did ask I let him rest, so I probably shouldn’t summon him for a few days. Or at least not today.

  With my DiaDhank active, I summoned my monster.

  “I summon Dark Magi.”

  Like the previous one, his card appeared vertically and he ope like a door, and stepped out.

  But he looked a little different. He was dressed in a redish robe, instead of the purple ohe previous Dark Magi had.

  “Master, you have called on me. What I do for you?” He asked. His voice was identical to the st one.

  “Hello. I’m heading to my dungeon and I need you to take care of the monsters on the way to the core.” I told him.

  “Simple.” He responded.

  Thewo of us made our way inside.

  But we didn’t get far when we ran into something ued. A group of adventurers was in the first room of the dungeon. They were taking down the skeletons that now lived here. When they had cleared out the room, I spoke to them.

  “...so… why are you here?” I asked.

  “Are you Brian?” One of them asked.

  “I am, but why are you here?”

  They weren’t that old. I would guess aroueen. There were four of them.

  “We came to check out the dungeon.” They answered.

  “You know it’s not officially opened yet.” I told them.

  “But we get dungeon cards and dungeon points already.” They argued. “Getting a head start help us get profits.”

  “Well, it doesn’t really matter to me. Just be careful.” I told them. “Also make sure you don’t go past the sixth room. The seventh one has a strong monster in it.”

  I think they might be able to hahe basic skeletons and imps that now live here, but taking on the bone dinht be too much for them.

  “We won’t. Thank you.” They said. “But could we e with you?”

  “No, just stay here. I’ll leave the monsters in the sed and third room for you guys to hunt.” I told them and made my way forward.

  “Dark Magi, are you the same Dark Magi as the one I summoned earlier or a different one?” I asked my summon. This had bothered me since he appeared, as he looks like the one Ara used in the anime, with a red robe and a darker skin tone.

  “I apologize, Master, but I don’t uand your question.” He responded.

  “Well I had a Dark Magi I summoned with a different card before you, but he looked pletely different from you.” I told him. “Well mostly it was his robe. It urple whereas yours is red.”

  “... I believe he is also me. But a different me.” My summon answered.

  “Okay… That doesn’t expin anything.” I told him. “Were you a servant of Pharaoh Atem?” I asked him about the history in the Yugioh anime, and with Dark Magi Girl taking on the name Mana, it’s possible that he is the Dark Magi that was in the ahe ohat was a fusion of a Sacred Guardian and a monster spirit.

  “Yes, I was. Until the passing of my previous Master in the ceremonial duel. Now, you are my Master.” He told me.

  …Okay, so he did work with Atem. But how does that make sense?

  “Who did Pharaoh Atem fight against?” I had to firm this.

  “He fought against the Destru light Beast and its servants. With the power of the Gentle Darkness he triumphed.” Dark Magi told his story.

  Destru light? Like the light of destru? And didn’t the gentle darkness have something to do with Jaden? Did they s adversaries in the world of this Dark Magi? Or is the timeline in that world even more messed up?

  “I see…” I responded. “Thank you for telling me.”

  “Master seems fused. Was there something strange about my story?” He asked.

  “Well yes. It’s just not the story I know. Iory I know the Pharaoh fought against Zorc the Dark One. A being powered by darkness. And he won with the help of a Light God. It’s just different.” I told him.

  “I don’t see how light could ever be an ally. All that it touches just turns into sand.” Dark Magi told me.

  “That is how you see it, but someone else would ask the same about darkness. Darkness just es everything. But that doesn’t matter. Let’s just get a move on.” I told my summon.

  With Dark Magi, avoiding monsters was simple. Well we didn’t really avoid them. More like Dark Magi held them down and we just walked past.

  (Laura, is it just me or are these roer than they were previously?)

  (They are rger. The dungeon is growing rger. We used a powerful core for it, so the dungeon is growing as a result.)

  (But wasn’t the rogue core just as rge?)

  (The dungeon must have beeremely young when Master came and elimi.)

  So I killed a baby dungeon and then made it my own? That sounds cruel, but I guess dungeon life is. And she (or he) seems to be doing fine now. I guess it's more like I took in a wild dungeon and now I’m taking care of it.

  I quickly made my way through the dungeon with Dark Magi eliminating all of the monsters on the way. Well we did leave all that didn’t try attag, but I still got a ton of Geion points from all the skeletons and imps. Nice.

  Even the skeleton dino was no problem for Dark Magi, so we just blew straight through it.

  We made it to the st tuhat led to the core room. It was blocked by a wall that slid to the side as I approached it.

  (I made the wall move to the side, Master. It’s there to make sure no oher than Master make it to the core room.) Laura told me.

  (That’s nice. Useful features for the win.)

  Now, I’ll just make the items I want. First, I’ll get myself one of those magic fsks. Then the pendant to act as a base for the gift. And if I have points left over, a maginy pack to sell to the owner of that oore. I could also just make a fanny pad take the fsk irade from him, but I always find a use for two magic fsks. One for water and the other for, well other liquids. Definitely not alcohol. I wouldn’t do it. I’m not an alcoholic.

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