“Brian! Are you alright?” I heard Alice yell.

  “I’m fine! I’ll keep its attention, so just attack!” I yelled back to the three of them.

  With shining taunt, I had drawn the aggro of an orc that had appeared on the route of our voy.

  Alice, Lua and Alex had quickly run up to the front and were now preparing to attack the orc.

  I, oher hand, was already in the middle of the fight, using Millennium Shield to block attacks from the orc.

  Against some monsters I would say something like Millennium Shield is overkill, but holy, with how hard this or punch, I’m gd I have an OP shield. Even with Millennium Shield, I could still feel each punch. Just a little, but still. Well, I guess Giant Orc has 2200 attack, but I don't think this thing ts as a giant orc. Just a normal one.

  Now you might be asking: “Why do you o hold onto the shield, as it is an autonomous floating shield?”

  Well, that’s simple. I want the shield teique skill and the best way to get it is to use a shield to block attacks. Acc to Laura.

  “Water Bullet.”

  “Dark Bullet.”

  I heard the two mages cast their first spells. They both ected with the right fnk of the orc, but the orc didn’t seem too bothered by them and instead just kept pung my shield.

  e on Millennium Shield. Are you so soft that the orcs hands don’t hurt from pung you? Or do orcs have some kind of pain immunity skill?

  I took a peak at the two mages, and while Alice looked a little flustered that her spell had no effect, Lua was already hard at work ting her spell.

  I also spotted Alex moving to a position to attack the orcs back.

  “Ice Lance.” Lua let her spell loose. A rge icicle was flying towards the ord ected with the orc's right shoulder, pierg the skin and causing blood to shoot out.

  The orc let out a massive roar, probably because of the pain. So it does feel pain. Then it turo face Alid Lua, and began making its way toward them.

  (Laura, do I get its aggro back if I reactivate shining taunt?) I asked.

  (There is a ce, but your skill level is also low, so you might not.) Laura said.

  But as it turns out, I didn’t o worry, because Alex was ready for this development. As soon as the orc turo face the girls, he rushed to the side that the orc had just exposed to him and shoved his sword into the wound that Lua’s spell had opehat’s some eamwork. They have probably done something simir before.

  “Brian! Use that taunt again!” Alex yelled as he pulled back. His attack had pulled the attention of the orto him, but as he failed to pull his sword out of the orc, he was now equipped with just his shield. Well then again, so was I. But my shield is bigger.

  I still did as instructed and used shining taunt again to try and pull the aggro bayself.

  As soon as I did, the orce again turs attention to me. I really wish I had something like a damage over time skill for situations like this. Something I could use to chip away at the orcs HP with, without having to expose myself from behind my shield. I wonder if installing Sparks, Hinotama or any of the other burn spells I have would get me a skill like that. o add that to the experiment list.

  After just one punch from the orc’s left hand, which I blocked, another volley of dark and water bullets came in from the two magis. While Alice’s dark bullets were hitting the orywhere, Lua’s bullets were aimed at its injured shoulder.

  Judging by the amount of blood that the orc has lost, it won’t st long. And with only one usable arm, it really isn’t that difficult to tank. Well then again, I am using an OP shield.

  After a few more puo the shield, the orc was visibly slowing down to the point that I opened my fanny pad pulled out my sword. Thankfully, my shield does float so I still use both of my hands if I o.

  My sword teique might be ent, (literally, I don’t have the skill) but I could still ssh at a slow moving orbsp;

  I deactivated my taunt skill a around my shield on the left side, as that was the side the orc’s injury was on, I sshed at the orc’s torso and made a deep wound in it. I have to say, I love this sword. It cuts so easily.

  After my attack, I took some distance from the orc. I needed a few seds for Millennium Shield to catch up, in case the orc didn’t die.

  But my worries were unfounded, because as I was waiting for my shield to catch up, the orc fell to its knees and fated into the ground.

  “Brian! Are you alright? You didn’t get injured, right?” Alice asked as she rushed over to my side.

  “No. I’m fine. Not even a scratch.” I responded as I sheath my sword.

  “Is it dead?” Timothy asked.

  “If it’s not, it will be soon.” Lua said before ting a spell and using blood trol to pull all the blood out of the orc. She then stored the blood in her fsk. Actually, she didn’t do that with the goblin blood. Is it so bad that she doesn’t want to?

  As Lua was drawing out the blood, Alex’s sword that was lodged into the orc’s right shoulder came out and Alex collected it. He used something like a rag to wipe the chueat off of it. It didn’t have any blood because of Lua, but it wasly either.

  Oh. I should probably do that with mine as well.

  I pulled my sword back out and looked at it. It was . No blood or meat ks on it at all.

  (Laura. Why is this thing ?)

  (Most likely because the dungeon ented it with self ing. Also, mythril doesn’t hold blood like steel swords do.) Laura expined.

  So… both Laura and my dungeon are showoffs. I got it. Of course her of them would do nothihan a perfect job.

  “So, what do we do with the orc? Do I use my terminal to absorb it?” I asked when Lua had finished draining the blood.

  “Are you kidding me? Orc hide is quite valuable. It be used for quality leather goods. And orc meat is sidered delicious to the point where nobles make shows fetting pristine quality orcs to cook them whole.” Timothy said.

  … cooking a rge bi-pedal pig whole? I see that happening as a part of a festival or something, but that nobles do it? That’s ued. But I guess different worlds have different values.

  Alex ended up st the entire or his magic backpack. It’s still impressive to see something like an orc being stored in a backpack, but I’ll probably get used to it. Not like st a sword in a fanny pack is any less impressive.

  We got ba the carriages a going.

  “Brian, that sword and shield. Are they from your dungeon?” Timothy asked.

  Does he know about that as well? Does this man know all of my secrets?

  “The sword is.” I answered holy. I know more of them will eventually surface, so lying would just be dumb for the future.

  “And what about the shield? I’ve never seen a shield that float around like that?” He asked.

  “That’s because it is a monster I summoned.” I said, showing him the card.

  “Ah. I see.” He said. “Now that you’ve brought that up, may I ask about those summoning cards of yours?”

  … F***. Again. How do I keep doing this? Well, I guess I don’t care that much if people know that I use these cards for the summoning, but I just keep letting it slip.

  “... go ahead and ask.” I said. I think he probably already knew about them to aent, but it still pisses me off. I mean, I did leave Dark Magi out on the fields for like three days. Anyone could have just gohere and looked at it. At least the experiehat it was holdi it from being stolen.

  “ anyone use those cards?” He asked.

  “No.” I immediately answered. It’s not a lie. Teically. You use them, but not really. Without Card Summoner, you only use the non-sleeved cards. “At least not without some difficulty.” I added.

  “What kind of difficulty?” Timothy asked.

  “Well, if you look at the card closely, you’ll see you ’t actually read it, right?” I asked.

  “Yes, I ot. I did go and take a look at the card that was left ooal after the wyverns, but I couldn’t uand any of it.” Timothy said. “But how is that a problem?”

  “You o be able to say the name of the moo summon it. And if you ’t read the name on the card, you ’t use it.” I told him.

  “I see. I assume that you are able to read these cards?” Timothy asked.

  “Yeah, I .” I answered.

  “So, and I’m just assuming here, if you told me the name of one of these monsters, I could summon it right?” Timothy asked.

  “Yes, kind of. There is still another limiting factor, but I’d rather not expin that part.” I responded. He doesn’t o know about sleeves and stuff. And it also doubles as a pseudo insurance. If someone hears one of the people with Card Summoner summoning a monster over and ain, they will figure out the name of the card and might attempt to steal it. Only to realize that they ’t actually use a sleeved card without Card Summoner.

  “Hmm. So if I uood this correctly, I could use one of these summoning cards, correct?” Timothy asked.

  “Teically, yes.” I answered.

  “Then, could you perhaps sell oo me?” He asked.

  “No.” I answered.

  “May I ask why?” He asked.

  “Simple. I don’t trust you enough.” I said back. “Or perhaps I should say that if I sell you one of them, it will be on the level of an imp in power. Not like the ones you see me summon. And I doubt you would want oh such low power.”

  “I see. Then I’ll hope I’ll earn enough trust to be able to purchase one. Having a strong summon avaible for emergencies would be great.” Timothy said.

  We didn’t run into any monsters for the rest of the day. Laura did spot some goblins in the forest, but as they didn’t attack us, I let them be. Some roup deal with them. They are just goblins after all.

  After we had already set up our tents for the night, prepared a fire to cook some orc meat on and we were just hanging around, a group of adventurers ing from the dire where we were going joined us and asked to stay with us for the night.

  None of us were opposed to the idea, so we were now grilling some ord just having a good time. Both the new adventurers and the people from Baku pany said they would pay for the orc meat, so we were sharing it with them. Oh yeah, Lua was the ohat took it apart with her magic.

  “So, why are you heading to Alewatch?” Alex asked the group of four adventurers.

  “We heard some rumors of a new dungeon being found and decided to head over.” One of our new friends … acquaintances expined.

  Their party was four people, 3 males and 1 female. First guy had a sword and shield like Alex, the sed had a rge two handed sword, and the third had something like a whip. I didn’t see anyone ich use a whip, so that’s first. Oh, and the dy had a bow.

  “There was also some talk about a summohat summon a dragon.” The whip guy added.

  “So they were talking about Brian.” Alice said.

  “Oh. You know of him? Is it true that he summon a dragon that took down like ten wyverns?” The whip guy asked.

  “No. That’s not true.” I said.

  “Of course it wouldn’t be.” He said.

  “It only took down like two or three wyverns.” I added.

  “... so, he summon a dragon?” The whip guy asked.

  “Yes he .” Lua joihe versation. “At least two of them. A be and a white ohe white one looks like a heavenly dragon. I even got to ride it once.”

  Yeah, and the other 2 copies of Blue-Eyes I now have. And Tri-Horned Dragon. And Hyozanryu. Aeor Bck Dragon, still o summon that at some point.

  (Don’t fet Curse on, Crawling Dragon, Divine Dragnarok and Ryu-Ran) Laura added some more dragons I had in my colle. And that wasn’t even all of them.

  “WHAT?” All four of them yelled out.

  “A heavenly dragon? That ’t be true.” The whip guy said. “No one has been able to summon one sihe first summoner.”

  Oh? So the first summoner could summon a Blue-Eyes level dragon. Not bad at all. Wonder if he could summon something on the level of Ultimate or Shining Dragon them? I think it is possible, but then again, Ultimate and Shining Dragon are basically god or demigod level monsters. I mean, they go against god-like entities and sometimes win. Zorubis, the Egyptian Gods. I mean, if we go by the Yugioh lore, Pegasus desighe Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon to be able to go against the Egyptian God cards. And it also did kill Anubis. So… demigod level? True Gods like Hoctie still wipe the floor with him though.

  “Yes. A heavenly dragon. At least it looks like the description that has beeo us in the books.” Alice said. She did see Blue-Eyes when one was summoned by Padin of White Dragon.

  “You. Mr. mert. Is that true? Is there really someone who summon a heavenly dragon ich?” The whip guy turo Timothy and asked.

  “I’ve never seen it myself, but everyohat has swears that it is a heavenly dragon.” Timothy answered.

  “Then give me a description of this ‘Brian’.” He demanded.

  “How much will you pay for it?” Timothy asked.

  “e silver.” He offered.

  Am I really that cheap? That’s like one high quality meal at the Boar’s Lounge.

  I noticed Timothy gng at me and I lightly shook my head no. If yoing to buy info o will cost you at least one gold.

  “No thank you. You should pay that much for what we’ve already told you.” Timothy refused his offer.

  “Fihe whip guy said before handing Timothy a rge silver. “So, how much more for a description on this ‘Brian’ guy?”

  “Two gold.” I said.

  “I wasn’t talking with you.” The whip guy s me.

  “I said the price for that info is two gold. If you want it from me.” I told him.

  “Do you really think that info is that expensive?” He asked.

  “Well, if you buy it from me it will be five gold.” Timothy said.

  “What? It ’t be worth that much.” He pined before turning to the others. “How about you? Want to make some silvers?” He asked Lua.

  “10 gold.” Lua coldly said.

  “Bitch. And what about you shield boy?” He asked Alex.

  “As she said, 10 gold.” He repeated the price Lua gave.

  He then came back over to me, but instead of just paying me, he asked Alice who was sittio me.

  “What about you little dy? Will you tell me what I want to know?” He asked.

  “...” Alice just stayed quiet and hugged my arm that she had ‘stolen’.

  “... fiake your two gold.” He said before tossing two gold s onto the ground in front of me.

  I collected them. “Thanks.”

  “... so, where is my information? The description of this ‘Brian’?” He asked.

  “Oh yeah that. I almost fot as you were fooling around.” I said.

  “JUST TELL ME!” He yelled.

  “God. You don’t have to scream like a little girl.” I said. “And by the way, I am Brian.”

  …

  …

  …

  After a long silence, he finally said: “I challenge you to a duel.”

  A duel? What kind of duel? Probably not a Yugioh duel right?