“Oh, done already? I was hoping to see more.”

  Someone had ehe room and watched over us while I ening packs with Alice. I erhaps a bit too focused on it, so I didn’t notice.

  “Why didn’t you say anything when you came in?” I asked the intruder.

  “And have you instantly hidden that skill of yours? No. I’d rather see more.” Paulina answered.

  Yes. The ohat intruded my pack opening time aulina, the you sister of Christina. Actually, when did she e in?

  (Laura, why didn’t you say anything?)

  (I didn’t think it was necessary. You already showed your status to her and you have been more than willing to show Pack Opeo others.) Laura said.

  (True, but you still could have said something. When did she even e in?)

  (Just after you ged sets to Legacy of Darkness.) Laura answered.

  (Oh, around mid-point of the opening.) I ged to Legacy at pack 13 of 21 packs.

  “But I have to say, I didn’t expect your unique skill to be a system skill.” Paulina ented.

  “... okay.” I don’t know how to react to that. Not that I even really know what a system skill is. Probably something that open a system window, but I’m not sure.

  “Do you mind if I ask some questions about it?” Paulina asked.

  “Don’t bother Brian.” Alice said.

  “That’s why I asked.” Paulina said.

  “But we were busy. Brian was about to use some cards on me.” Alice said.

  “Oh. So these are the cards, huh.” Paulina said. “Perhaps you could give me one? For research, you know.”

  “No. I’m the ohat does research with Brian.” Alice argued.

  Do you? I don’t recall any research we have made. Well, I guess there is the effectiveness of the installed Mystic Psma Zone. And perhaps the install of Book of Secret Arts onto Dark Magi Girl. Or perhaps the ritual and fusion summons I did with Alid Lua.

  “Well, if that is too much, could you at least show me how they work? I could just be an observer.” Paulina said.

  “Sure. I don’t mind.” I answered. Getting another point of view into this might be helpful after all.

  “Yes. Then show me. Please.” Paulina said.

  “... not here I won’t. Unless you want to expin to y sis why we blew up her study.” I said to Paulina. As fun as it would be, I’d rather not cause a giant mess. Not that I for sure would, but the possibility is always there.

  “This way.” Paulina said, as she was leading us along.

  After I agreed to let her observe our experiments, she said she would take us to her usual experiment pce.

  “Where are we going?” Alice asked.

  “To the training field. It’s just over there.” Paulina answered, pointing at an area with separate walls.

  “Oh. I didn’t think about this part. It’s already taken.” Paulina said as we reached the training grounds and saw a few people there.

  Jonathan, Angelina’s son, was iraining grounds, shooting fire spells at some targets. So he uses fire magiteresting that a child born in primarily earth magic using family, uses fire. Well, I guess Paulina should be able to use water magid earth magic, so having someone use fire isn’t that strange.

  “Lady Paulina, did you need something?” A maid that was watg over Jonathan’s training. She was right around 20, I’d say, so perhaps she is Jonathan’s personal maid or something.

  “We were going to use the training grounds, but it appears that it is taken, so we go somewhere else.” Paulina said.

  “No, that won’t be necessary. Jonathan’s css is almost over for the day, so if you wait a few mihe training grounds will be free to use.” The maid said.

  “I see. Then it will be better to just wait.” Paulina said. “It will take us loo get to another pce.”

  (Laura, I’ll need some sleeves and toploaders, so would you please take care of that.) I asked Laura.

  (Yes Master.) She simply responded.

  9x Misairuzame, 9x Mystical Moon, 7x Darkworld Thorns, 4x Fissure, 7x Dragon Treasure, 6x Rivalry of Warlords, 3x Amazoness Fighter, 6x Drooling Lizard, 6x Mysterious Guard, 5x Steel rotto #1, 6x Throwstone Unit, 5x Fairy Box, 5x Fushi No Tori, 5x Kelbek, 4x Lesser Dragon, 5x Ninjitsu Art of Decoy, 5x Spike Seadra, 4x Spiritual Energy Settle Mae, 5x The Spell Abs Life, 4x Burst Breath, 4x Chosen One, 3x tract with Exodia, 4x Enraged Muka Muka, 4x Exhausting Spell, 4x Life Abs Mae, 3x Metal Dragon, 3x Super Roboyarou, 4x The Shallow Grave, 4x Tornado Wall, 3x Archfiend's Oath, 3x Armored Starfish, 3x Big Wave Small Wave, 3x Cave Dragon, Curse of the Masked Beast

  150 cards to get rid of. That is a lot, but it's just enough to get a toploader for each of the six Level ups. Well, I wasn’t going to use all of them for the Level ups, as I had something else I wao try first.

  Lighten the Load, to be specific.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]With it, I sacrifice a level 7 her monster for a pack token. [Reminder. Pack tokens and daily tokens are not the same thing.] And with Emblem, I could get a level 7 Buster Bder every day. That’s at least one more pack each day.

  As I stood at the edge of the training grounds, I activated the Lighten the Load I had thrown a sleeve and a toploader onto.

  A system windoeared before me.

  Please i a level 7 her monster card.Each card is worth 1 ‘Pack token’Up to four cards be ied with oivation

  Oh. So it has a limit of four per activation. Iing.

  Well, four more pack tokens will be good. But I will need four level 7 monsters for that.

  After a quick search through my colle, I pulled out 3 copies of Maju Garzett and one Buster Bder. I probably will never use the Maju Garzett, so I don’t . (and it is on in Dark Crisis and Dark Revetion Volume 1.) And as I said earlier, I get a new Buster every day. I should open more Magi’s Force so I have a sed copy of Emblem. And DR1 as it is also there.

  I ied the four level 7 monsters into the system s and the window ged.

  Gained 4 ‘Pack tokens’

  The window then vanished, and the only way of knowing that it ever even was there was the now grayed out Lighten the Load in my hand.

  “You just used one and didn’t even tell me.” Paulina said, as she realized what I just did.

  “... So what? It’s my skill so I use it when I want to.” I said.

  “Research. I ’t do it if you don’t give me a ce.” Paulina said.

  “I already do that with Laura.” I said.

  “Laura? Oh yes. I see.” Paulina said, seemingly recalling the short versation we had about the name of my system support. “But still, perhaps you could use another one for me?” She requested.

  Hmm. Should I? What would I use?

  (How about Good Goblin Housekeeping? You could use it to ge some pack tokens for some reprint tokens. And as the repris have more cards per pack, it might be worth it.) Laura said. [Sure. Get mad because of how I transted Good Goblin Housekeeping into the series. I just wa to do something fun that doesn’t step ooes of Pot of Greed or Jar of Greed.]

  (Oh. Not a bad idea. That way I get some DR1 packs.) I agreed with Laura’s suggestion.

  “Sure, I show you one.” I said as I pulled out the Good Goblin Housekeeping that Laura had thrown a sleeve and a toploader on. “Good Goblin Housekeeping.” I said to activate the card. After I did, a booklet with a pen appeared in my hand.

  “Did that thing just make a booklet?” Paulina asked.

  “Seems like it.” I answered, before opening the booklet.

  It only had one spread. On one side of the spread appeared my normal tokens and oher were my reprint tokens.

  [Daily Pack Tokens: 18][Daily Reprint Tokens: 3][Current Pack Tokens: 4][Current Reprint Tokens: 0] You transfer up to 5 tokens and 1 daily token per one use.

  … okay? So, do I just correct the numbers and close the book? Let’s try it.

  I took the pen that came with the booklet and got ready to adjust the books. Hmm. I should probably first erase the 4 and the 0, as I want to reverse them. I wonder if I just…

  I flipped the pen around and used the end cap like an eraser on a pencil. It seemed to work, as the 4 after the pack tokens and the 0 after the reprint tokens disappeared.

  Then I flipped the pen around and ged the numbers.

  [Daily Pack Tokens: 18][Daily Reprint Tokens: 3][Current Pack Tokens: 0][Current Reprint Tokens: 4] You transfer up to 5 tokens and 1 daily token per one use.

  So with that, I should be able to transform the normal tokens into reprint tokens.

  I was about to close the booklet when Laura said: (You might want to move a daily pack token into the daily reprint tokens as well. The reprint packs do have more cards per token, so they are more powerful that normal pack tokens.)

  (Oh. Good point. I’ll do that.) I agreed and adjusted the numbers one more time.

  [Daily Pack Tokens: 17][Daily Reprint Tokens: 4][Current Pack Tokens: 0][Current Reprint Tokens: 4] You transfer up to 5 tokens and 1 daily token per one use.

  I think that should do it. I closed the booklet and after I did, it disappeared from my hand, leaving the now grayed out Good Goblin Housekeeping in its pce.

  “... what did you do?” Paulina asked.

  “I used a card. Like you asked me to.” I said back.

  “But you did something with that booklet. Then you closed it and it disappeared. What happened?” Paulina asked.

  “It’s just managing my skill.” I answered. I don’t have to expin how the tokens work, so I won’t.

  “... does that mean that you used one of those ‘cards’ to influehe system?” Paulina asked carefully.

  “Not really. It only has an influeny skill.” I answered.

  “But that skill is a system skill, right?” She asked.

  “Yeah, I don’t know what a ‘system skill’ is. As in what is the differeween a system skill and a normal skill.” I said.

  “A system skill open a system window.” Paulina said.

  I thought that might be the case, but I wasn’t pletely sure, so thanks for the firmation.

  “Then I guess my skill is a system skill. But that doesn’t mean I influehe system with it.” I said. Well, I guess in a way I . At least on an individual level. Installing a card into a person will influehe system inside of that person. I think. Or at least it raise their status and the status is a part of the system. I still don’t think it has an effe the wider system as a whole, but individually yes.

  “Ah. I think I got it. So you use these cards to influence your own system skill. I see, I see.” Paulina said. I holy expected her to pull out a notebook and write it down, like Alice often does.

  Now, since I have four more reprint tokens, let’s quickly pull them open. And I think DR1 is ba the menu. For more copies of Emblem oroyer. And perhaps an X-Head on.

  SpoilerDR1 1

  Amazoness Archers, Ray of Hope, Physical Double, Different Dimension Capsule, Frontline Base, Dark Designator, Byser Shock, Magical Mert, Great Phantom Thief, Guardian Baou, Archfiend Soldier, Great Maju Garzett

  [colpse]

  Both a super rare and an ultra rare in one paot bad. Sadly, her of them is that good. Well, Amazoness Archers would be good for Christina and I guess, if I ever need a torture device, Byser Shock will be great.

  SpoilerDR1 2

  Final Attack Orders, The Spell Abs Life, Ojama Trio, Royal Tribute, Banner of Ce, Royal Tribute, Newdoria, Little-Winguard, Neko Mane King, Royal Magical Library, Archfiend Soldier, Burni

  [colpse]

  Nothing crazy here. I guess I should at some point experiment with Royal Magical Library, but not now. It wait for a better day.

  (I do have an idea we could try regarding that.) Laura offered.

  (Sure. Please remind me of that ter.) I said back.

  Two more to go.

  SpoilerDR1 3

  Disturbarategy, Secret Barrel, Rite of Spirit, Diffusion Wave-Motion, Tribute Doll, Jar Robber, Decayed ander, Gravekeeper's Assaint, Gravekeeper's Watcher, Little-Winguard, Cat's Ear Tribe

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  [colpse]

  Why does this paly have 11 cards? Shouldn’t it be 12? Is my skill ag up?

  Well, at least I got an Ultra rare. It somewhat makes up for my missing card. Even if Diffusion Wave-Motion is not treated as a fusion card. And isn’t that necessary for me. I guess it might see py at some point, but I somewhat doubt that.

  Last pack. At least give me 12 cards.

  SpoilerDR1 4

  Rope of Life, Curse of Aging, Miracle Rest, Big Bang Shot, Indest Ordeal, Cestus of Dag, Metallizing Parasite - Lunatite, Shadowknight Archfiend, Dark Cat with White Tail, Metallizing Parasite - Lunatite, Maju Garzett, Guardian Elma

  [colpse]

  Double Lunatite, Rope of Life and Big Bang Shot. Also Maju Garzett to make up for the three that I sacrificed for the Lighten the Load.

  Curse of Aging also sounds dangerous as anything. I just casually age someone up to make them weaker. Uhey happen to be a Dark Magi, who would instead will just gain knowledge and bee a Dark Sage.

  I guess not bad. I really o make some Lunatite armor for us. I have like seven of them, so I should be able to make at least a jacket for everyone. And perhaps some more stuff for myself.

  “Mr. Brian. Did you e here to summon that ore?” Jonathan asked, after he ended his practice.

  “Didn’t your mother say no to that?” I asked.

  “Well she did, but she doesn’t o know.” Jonathan said. “Would you please summon an ore to fight?”

  “... I think going against your mother like that is not a good idea.” I said to Jonathan. “But as she only banned fighting an orething else should be fine, right?”

  “Yes. Would you, please?” Jonathan asked.

  Now, what to summon? I looked through my colle. sidering his skills, I shouldn’t summon a level 1 monster, as that will probably be too much of a joke. But a level 4 like Giant Orc is too much.

  Oh. This will do. A level two fiend with 700 attad defense. I would actually use an Ojama, but I’ve sacrificed all of them, except for the Ojama Trio that I just got.

  “Winged Minion.” I said to summon my monster.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]

  nro_8