“What else are you going to summon, Brian?” Lua asked.

  “Not much. Two more ritual monsters and one fusion, I think.” I told her.

  “You know I don’t know what these ‘ritual’ or ‘fusion’ monsters are.” Lua said.

  “... Yeah, of course you wouldn’t. Rituals are the blue ones. Like that dragon rider. Performance of Sword is also a ritual monster, if you remember her.” I expined.

  “The dy with the arm bdes? Yes. I remember her.” Lua said.

  “Yes, her. And fusion monsters are made of multiple other monsters. They have purple cards. The swordswoman with light wings I used against the thunder sprites would be an example of a fusion monster.” I told her.

  “I see. Thank you for the expnation.” Lua said.

  “Brian. I summon one of these fusion or ritual monsters?” Alice asked.

  Again, she wants something. I guess I could let her, but I’m not sure it will t for my challenge.

  “Let me summon what I want first, and then I’ll check if I have something good for you to summon.” I answered. That way, I could just say ‘not today’ if I don’t have anything.

  “I activate Hamburger Recipe. I tribute a Hungry Burger so I ritual summon Hungry Burger.” I said to perform the ritual summon. It feels a little strao tribute a copy of the card you are summoning, but it works.

  After the ritual was pleted, a giant burger appeared from it.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]“Holy burger.” I let out.

  That thing is huge. It’s almost a meter tall and even rger in diameter.

  “Brian. I didn’t know your cards could make food.” Aliented.

  “That is not food. It’s a monster.” I said just before Hungry Burger opes massive maw. Does it t as a maw?

  Then the burger began jumping around. Thankfully, we are in an area with not a lot of people, so no one has to run away from the giant jumping burger.

  Thanks Hungry Burger, but holy, I’ll never summon you again. Unless I figure out a way to press you down a you. Cause you do look like a detly tasty burger.

  “I thought you said you won’t summon any more nightmare fuel.” Lua ented.

  “When the vampire is scared of a moving burger. Ironic.” I ented.

  “I’m not a vampire. I’m a dhampir.” Lua said back.

  “I know, I know. It was a joke.” I tried to redeem my terrible joke.

  “I should demand blood as pensation for something like that.” Lua said.

  “Fine. Just don’t take much.” I gave permission.

  “... I will. Later.” So she decided to hold onto that favor.

  For Crab Turtle, my tributes were a little more unique. I needed 8 levels worth of tributes, but I don’t have many monsters of high level that I’m willing to throw away. So instead, I went with extra copies of some fusion monsters I will likely never use. And they are from LoBY so I’ll get extra copies anyway. I’m cheating the system. I use fusion monsters as tribute for ritual monsters. No Nekroz Kaleidoscope required.

  “I activate Turtle Oath. I tribute Fme Ghost and Flower Wolf to ritual summon Crab Turtle.”

  After the ritual was pleted, a 2,5 meter tall crab monster rose from the card.

  … yeah. NO! Go away already. I don’t want to look at you any longer.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]

  “Brian.” Lua said to me in an angry tone. “We talked about the nightmare fuel already. Twice!”

  “I know, I know. I swear that was the st one for today.” I told her. After all, I had now reached 5 uual summons.

  “Then why did you even summon it?” Lua asked. “Just to unsummon it right after.”

  “I expihat already. To improve my skill.” And you know, to get one of the stro warrior-type monsters ever printed.

  I opehe challenge menu and checked out my ritual challenge.

  Summon uual MonstersUual Monsters summoned: 5Performance of Sword, Relinquished, Padin of White Dragon, Hungry Burger, Crab Turtle Reward is given at 5 uual Monsters Reward: Bck Luster Soldier + Bck Luster Ritual[Cim Reward]A cim reward button appeared and I pressed it.

  1 Bck Luster Soldier and 1 Bck Luster Ritualhave been added to the colle.Nice. I have it now. I checked what my reward was going to be.

  Reward is given at 10 uual Monsters Reward: Chakra + Resurre of ChakraChakra? I don’t remember that one. I pressed on it and the card popped up so I could see its information.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]Level 7 Dark/Fiend with 2450 atk and 2000 def. It doesn’t even have an effect. Kind of sucky to get after Bck Luster Soldier. Well, hopefully the oer it is det.

  “So one more summoni?” Lua asked.

  “Yeah. One fusion.” I answered. I was thinking about summoning Bck Luster Soldier, but I kind of want a toploader for both it and the ritual spell, as I don’t have access to them in a. And tomorrow I’ll have a lot more sleeve fain.

  I pulled out a fusion monster and the materials I needed for it. And a toploader copy of Polymerization.

  “I activate Polymerization. I fuse Armaill and One-Eyed Shield Dragon to fusion summohe Wicked Knight.”

  God, I always fet just how terrible early fusions were. Take two 700/1300 monsters and make a 1200/900 out of them. Like holy. It would be better just to set one of the materials.

  But that doesn’t matter at the moment. My summoning was successful and a dy in armor, holding twin swords and with dragon wings on her back was now standing in front of me.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]And with that, the fusion challenge is at 5. Let’s cim the reward for it.

  Summon unique Fusion MonstersUnique Fusion Monsters summoned: 5St. Joan, Master of Oz, Giltia the D. Knight, Fusionist, Dragohe Wicked Knight Reward is given at 5 unique Fusion Monsters Reward: Meteor Bck Dragon + Meteon[Cim Reward]1 Meteor Bck Dragon and 1 Meteon have been added to the colle. Reward is given at 10 unique Fusion Monsters Reward: Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast + BerfometSpoiler

  [colpse]Okay. So for fusions the reward is Chimera. It’s not that strong, but it is a somewhat iic card. And I guess a flying, twin-headed lion thing wouldn’t be that bad. I could seem like a more normal summoner with it. Assuming normal summoners summon twin-headed beasts. I should probably study up on that.

  I unsummoned Dragoness and walked back to town with Alid Lua. Summonieor Bck Dragon shall wait as well. I probably should put a toploader on both it aeon after all. And I don’t o summon it right now.

  “Brian. That fusion summon thing. you do it with any monsters?” Lua asked.

  “No. They o be specific.” I answered. I pulled back out the card ohe Wicked Knight and showed it to her. “Look here. It says what monsters o be used as the material.”

  “Ah. I see.” She said.

  “But not all fusion monsters are like that. Some have more loose requirements for the materials. Like asking for a warrior monster and a spellcaster monster.” I told her. I don’t actually remember if a fusion monster with those materials exists, but it still works as an example.

  “Do you have any vampire fusions?” She asked.

  Vampire fusions? I don’t recall any. I know they have some xyz and link monsters, but fusions? I’m not sure.

  “No. I don’t have any.” I told her.

  “Oh. I see.” She said quietly. Was she really hoping to see a vampire fusion that much?

  “You could just fuse her with a vampire.” Aliented.

  “Alice. You know that is a bad idea.” I said back.

  “Why not? It’s not like it will cause any damage if you undo it ter.” She added.

  … this girl. I know I do it, but I don’t think I really should just go around fusing people with my cards. There probably is a side effect I just don’t know yet.

  “ you do something like that?” Lua asked.

  “Well, yes.” I answered. “But I’m holy not sure if it is a good idea. I’ve only do once, and it wasly what I would call ‘perfect’ result.”

  “What do you mean? Jenna was super strong, so it erfect.” Aliented.

  “Strength isn’t everything. She had some levels of mental problems because of the two wills inside of a single body.” I said. “And I think they would have gotten way worse if I didn’t uhem.”

  This is holy just something I think. Based on how Fme Sorcerer begged me not to fuse her with Jenna again. They might have even fought for the trol over the body, and that could have led to all kinds of difficulties.

  “There might also be other plications, like attribute or even race.” I added. All vampire monsters I have are dark zombies, whereas Lucia is water … spellcaster? Yeah. Water spellcaster. That sounds correct.

  “But a dhampir is a half-vampire, right?” Alice asked.

  “But my vampires are zombies.” I told her. I traded the Dragoness I showed to Lua earlier for the topder Vampire Lord in my colle. “See here. Zombie.”

  “... I guess it is a zombie.” Alice said.

  “Well, acc to legends, the inal vampires were undead creatures, so perhaps a zombie isn’t that far-fetched.” Lua said.

  “Really? That’s iing.” So if they were undead, they were basically closer to skeletons than humans. I wonder if Lua would tell me more about it. “Could you tell me more about it?” I asked.

  “... I guess I could. But only to you. And only because you helped me.” Lua said.

  “Thanks. I’ll make some time for it.” I said.

  Now I want to know even more. How bad it be for her not to be willing to tell it to Alice?

  The guild hall was a lot more busy now than it had been in the m. It still wasn’t full, but it wasy either.

  Some of the younger adventurers noticed me and asked me for a lesson, but I was able to buy some time by saying we could do it after I had lunbsp;

  “Lua, do you want one?” I asked while pulling a burrito out for myself and Alice.

  “Oh, don’t worry. I have blood. It’s enough.” She said.

  “You sure? It’s no problem.” I told her.

  “No. Not here.” She added quietly. Perhaps she doesn’t want to seem ‘different’ from how she was.

  “Well, if you ge your mind, I still have two more of these.” I said.

  “Well then, I get one?” A male voice asked behind me.

  I turned around and saw Alex.

  “Sure, if you want one.” I responded. He was almost a party member, so I should take care of him. Perhaps a temporary party member. Well, we aren’t teically in a party, so…

  “I’d appreciate it. Uncle Sam’s might have a li this time of day.” Alex said as I handed one of the burrito to him.

  “That’s good. I holy wasn’t sure as there has never been a line when I’ve visited.” I said.

  “Well, that is because you move at weird times. Most adventurers would be w at that time of day.” Alex said.

  “... yeah. That’s true.” I agreed.

  “Do you have a for me?” Another person interrupted our mealtime.

  “And why would the guild master o beg for food?” I asked Zayaan.

  “It’s not begging, I’m asking.” He said.

  “Well, lucky for you, I do have one more. But are you sure you take a break?” I asked.

  “I have to. I ’t work without food. I’m not used to it yet. Lex did warhat I o get used to it at some point, but for now I’ll eat when I’m hungry.” Zay said. “And this is also business. I would like you to take on the Baku pany escort job, after all. Otherwise I have to get Diamond Sword to do it, but that would leave the town with little to no defense in case of a strong monster.”

  … “Doesn’t this town have guards for that?” I asked.

  “Well, the guards are more to protect us from bandits and other human threats. Most of them don’t have the skills to go against high ranked monsters.” Zay expined.

  “I think we should take the job.” Lua said.

  “I agree.” Alex added.

  “Sure, I don’t mind. What about you Alice?” I asked for her opinion.

  “... I think it will be fine. But I don’t really know what I’ll have to do.” She admitted.

  “Great. So you will take it.” Zay said. “Now we only o agree on the departure date.”

  We decided to leave on the m of the third day from now. That will give us two days to prepare everything. Thankfully, the job had left the leaving date for the adveo choose as long as we gave a warning of more than a full day, so we didn’t ue about it with Baku pany.

  Therained in the guild's backyard (because the other adventurers were asking).

  I ended up summoning Performance of Swiltia the D. Knight, St. Joan and even Dragohe Wicked Knight. Thankfully, I had kept Dragoness summoned only for a few minutes previously, so I could just summon her again. With our four instructors, the guild’s backyard was full, as there was never really a lio wait for one of them to be free for a 1v1 practice match.

  That was until Diamond Sword joined in. They had power to almost equally match up with Giltia and Performance of Sword, so their practice matches took a lot longer. Except when they challe. Joan. While she couldn’t subdue them in seds like she could with others, it didn’t take her much lohan 30 seds to win in a 1v1 against any of them. She even won in a 2v1, but a 3v1 ended up in her loss. Well, she probably could beat them if this wasn’t a practice matd she could just kill them.

  In the end the other adventurers wao see a full teamfight between my summons and Diamond Sword, so we had that as well. My summons were at a small disadvantage, as it was a 4v5, but they did hold their owly. Sadly, Diamond Sword was able to use their numbers advao piy summons from the weakest test, so they did end up winning.

  I almost should have summoned Millennium Shield and joined in myself. Or just summon something else to join my side. I probably would have won if this was a 5v5.

  “I really thought your summons would win.” Alice said as we were walking bae.

  “Well, they were at a numbers disadvantage and Diamond Sword used their extra member well to hold off St. Joan, so it’s not that strange. Diamond Sword just worked better as a team.” I told her. Teamwork is more than individual power in some situations. St. Joan just couldn’t get through multiple people without seriously hurting them, so she couldn’t help her weaker teammates. Or perhaps she sees them as unworthy of her help if they are that weak. I could totally see that being the case. ‘You are not worthy of serving Master if you are that weak.’ Or something like that.

  “I should have summoned Mana to help them.” Alice said.

  “Secret reinforts are cheating.” I told her. “And if you had, they would have won no problem. This was better as it was a atch.”

  “Close? How is a full wipe on your summons close?” Alice asked.

  “It was close because before Diamond Sword subdued Dragohe Wicked Knight, the match could have goher way. Had St. Joa with her oppos just a bit faster, my team would have won.” I expined.

  With our post match chat finished, we walked bae.