After the Threatening Roar, the battle was ours to win. While Alice may have been the first to recover, everyone else quickly came to their senses just after her and took advantage of the stuate of the orcs to attack them with powerful attacks, taking down all four orcs that were outside of the hole.

  As for the ones in the hole, Vivien and Paulina used water magic to freeze them before Paulina used Earth trol to raise them out of the hole, while also refilling the hole.

  They theed the ice around the neck area of the orcs a bit, slig their necks, allowing for Lua to use blood magic to drain out all the blood in the orcs, leaving them dead.

  Lua was st the blood in big wooden barrels. They seemed to hold about 50 liters of blood ead from the eight orcs, she mao fill up one and got the sed one a little over half full. I guess a monster of that size would have over ten liters of blood in their body. Even with the blood that drained into the ground from the orc that was hit in the head and the neck bite from Flower Wolf, we still got blood from those two. I must have overreacted when I saw the blood gushing out.

  I also noticed something loose swinging around in my left sleeve. It was the toploader Threatening Roar. It seemed to have popped out of my shoulder and slid down my arm. Luckily, I had my sleeve down as far as I could without it interfering with my duel disk, so the card stayed in my sleeve. I made sure to throw the card bato colle. I also put the Vampire Lord that I never had a mon back there. Sorry, but you will have to wait until we get to the vilge. I also unsummoned Millennium Shield and Flower Wolf and pced it ba the colle.

  “What do you think? Is that enough?” I asked Lua.

  “... no. Not really.” She answered. “I’d at least like to have two full ones, but three would be better. I actually have four in total aing all of them filled up wouldn’t be a bad thing.”

  “I did spot some D-rank boar monsters during the scouting flight. We could go hunt some of them.” I said. “There are also the wyverns, but sidering the number of them that died ich, it might be better to not hunt them again at this time.”

  “Hmm. Forest boars, right? I guess they will work.” Lua said.

  We had a little talk with everyone, but as Saber Fang still had to dismahe ‘settlement’ so that no other monsters would take it over, it would be our team that tihe blood hunt.

  “So, how will we travel? I ’t summon Gradius yet and there really isn’t even enough spamon it here.” I said to Lua.

  “Walk? Isn’t that the usual?” Lua responded.

  “Takes too long. We would have to walk for over an hour. And it is away from the carriage.” I said.

  “Then just do what you always do and summon something.” Lua said.

  “Yeah, I just have no idea what.” I admitted. There is also the problem with sleeves. I do have some LOB trash I get rid of, but not that mubsp;

  “’t you just summon a dragon to ride?” Tye asked, having overheard our versation.

  “Well yes, but they tend to cause panic so I usually avoid them.” I said. “Gradius is better as people have no idea what it is so they don’t get scared.”

  Perfect example of human curiosity right there. Dragon = Scary. Spaceship = Unknown. But shouldn't the unknown be scary? Well, I guess for some. For others, the unknown is an opportunity to learn.

  (You could also summon Dark Magi and Vampire Lord. They just carry you two while they fly using magic.) Laura said.

  Oh. Yeah. I’ve not tried that, but that does sound like an idea.

  (You could also summon Horus the Bck Fme Dragon LV4.) Laura said. (I believe if you get it to activate its effect by having it kill a monster, it should evolve into the LV6 form. And then you repeat the process with it, you get the LV8 form that you wanted.)

  (... Does it work that way?) I wondered. (I thought I would o have oo summon one. But then again, Padin of White Dragon just made a new Blue-Eyes, instead of summoning ohat I already had in the colle.)

  (As you deduced, I believe the LV4 will sacrifice itself and create a LV6 that will e in a sleeve, as it is special summoned by an effect. The same will go for the LV8 version. But if you want one in a toploader, you might o summon it with the Level Up! spell card.) Laura said. (And of course you would o pull one from the packs first.)

  Ah. Yeah. I o figure out a way of removing the i sleeves from special summons. Well, ter is fine.

  “I have something we use. It is a dragon but it is on the smaller side.” I said to Lua. “Hopefully it won’t be seen from too far away.”

  “Sure, let’s use it.” Lua agreed.

  I have to say, I was surprised that Alice didn’t even ask to e with me this time. She usually does. And with Paulina here, I don’t have to worry about leaving her aloh ‘strangers’ and Alex.

  “Horus the Bck Fme Dragon LV4.” I said to summon our ride.

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  [colpse]I have to say, Horus (at least LV4 Horus) looks a lot more like a bird than a dragon. Like e on. It clearly looks like a meical bird, right?

  And as expected, it was quite small. Only about 5 meters from head to tail. But then again, it barely has a tail. I’m sorry, but it is the truth. You only get a tail at LV6 or LV8, so we better evolve you so you have one.

  “I guess it really is small pared to your other dragons.” Lua said. “Still not as small as the one you used in that duel.”

  “Well, my Toon is a bit special. LV4 Horus is a lot more average.” I said. “We will meet up with you back at the carriages.”

  We climbed onto Horus’ bad I had Horus take flight.

  “Man, I wish I had a dragon to summon.” Tye said, looking at Brian and Lua flying off.

  “... so, what the hell was that roar?” Vivien asked after Brian and Lucia had taken off.

  “No idea.” Alex answered. “I’ve never seen him use it before.”

  “Is it ara skill? It seems like a powered up Intimidating Roar, but I’ve never seen someo out a roar that stuns monsters for that long.” Arvin said.

  “So it is ara skill, then.” Vivien said.

  “I’m not so sure. It might just be a high level Intimidating Roar. A level four roar stun enemies for about 10 seds, so a level 7 or 8 could be up that long.” Tye said.

  “Could he have a skill with that high of a level?” Vivien asked. “And what about that illusion of the manticore that briefly appeared?”

  “It’s possible that he has a level 7 skill. I don’t know about the manticore though. But for the skill level, you’ve seen his summons and he uses them so casually. That small dragon made Ceart look like an outcssed baby, so it might be an S-rank summon. And he also has that meical summon. I’ve never heard of someone summoning something like that. Even that metallic dragon he just summoned. It is probably k. And then there is that floating shield. It seemed to be a summon as well.” Tye listed off summons he had seen Brian use. “At this point, if you told me that he is the reination of the first summoner, I would believe you.”

  “He does have the skill.” Paulina blurted out. Normally she would never reveal information like that, but she was slightly delirious after staying up most of st night and actally let it slip.

  “Skill? What skill?” Vivien asked.

  “... I … “ Realizing what she had just said, Paulina shut her mouth.

  “Greater summoning magic? It would expirength of his summons, but not the shield or the flying golem.” Tye said, as he recalled the skills of the first summoner. “Summoner’s Unity then?”

  “Summoner’s Unity? Do you know what the skill does?” Vivien asked.

  “No, not really. We know it exists and that the first summoner had it, but we don’t have a description of the skill. Some believe that it was a unique skill, but we were taught that it is only ara skill.” Tye said. After all, Tye’s father had paid for Tye to go into a magic school to learn magic. He might have e out of there not being able to use any of the six elemental magics, but he could use summoning magic.

  “There. I see them.” I said to Lua as we reached the area with the boars.

  “Good. There are a lot of them.” Lua said.

  “How many do we need?” I asked.

  “... about half, I think. That should be enough to fill up two barrels, as long as we don’t let too much drain to the ground.” Lua said.

  “Sure. you let me take care of them? I have a few things I want to try.” I suggested.

  “As long as we get the blood, I’m fih that.” Lua said.

  “Then I’ll make sure to secure all of it.” I said to Lua, as I got out my first card. “Swords of Revealing Light.”

  Spoiler

  [colpse]I got it on the day we left Alewatd even put a toploader on it1In CH.132, but I ried it out, so I’ve been wanting to take it for a test drive.

  After I activated the card, rge sword-like things made of light appeared in the sky before striking the earth and making a circle of shining swords around the boars.

  The boars ihe circle were frozen. Almost like we were watg a video and someone had pressed pause.

  “Brian, what is that?” Lua asked.

  “Just something to hold them in pce.” I answered, as I got out four cards from the colle. “I activate Polymerization. I fuse together Dark Magi and Buster Bder to fusion summon Dark Padin.”

  Spoiler

  [colpse]I used ara copy of Dark Magi, which didn’t have a sleeve on it, along with one of the two Buster Bders that I had left as the materials. Sure I’ll lose them, but I’ll get new Busters soon and I still have one Dark Magi left, so I don’t care about losing o’s not a Blue-Eyes, so losing it is fine.

  As the blue whirlwind caused by Polymerization ended, my padin stood there. Stood? In the air? Casual airwalker. I guess he is flying, not standing.

  I was half expeg him to have red armor, as I did use a red robed Dark Magi for the fusion, but he looked normal.

  “Master, how may I help you?” He asked.

  “I’ll need you to kill some boars, but wait a sed first. I’ll o summon another monster for something else. Also, I least two for Horus as well.” I said. I then took out the card from my colle. “Vampire Lord.” I said to summon it.

  We nded just outside the sword circle caused by Swords of Revealing Light. I was inally pnning on doing everything from the air, but staying on Horus when it evolves might not be the best idea.

  I had Lua take out the two empty barrels so we could use them to store the blood.

  “Now then, Dark Padin, please use magic t out one boar for Horus to kill. Horus, don’t disie it, just use your talons or something to slice its neck open. And Vampire Lord, make sure to secure all the blood into one of the barrels.” I gave the order.

  Everyone did as I ordered and we secured about 10 liters of blood from the first boar. So we en to fill up two barrels.

  I looked at LV4 Horus, but it didn’t seem to start evolving.

  “Let’s do that again, please.” I ordered.

  After about ten minutes and three more boars, I felt a rea from LV4 Horus on my duel disk. I looked at the dragon flying in the sky and it was covered in a dark fme.

  I’m suddenly really gd that I’m not riding on it.

  After a few seds, the dark fmes dissipated and my new and evolved dragon floated where its smaller terpart had just been.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]I looked at my duel disk and saw that the LV4 Horus had disappeared. In its pow stood Horus the Bck Fme Dragon LV6.

  LV6 Horus was a ler than the LV4 had been. About ers from head to butt. I won’t t its tail, as uhe LV4, LV6 actually has a long tail.

  The new LV6 Horus card also had an e sleeve around it. So it is as Laura predicted. But I do still wonder, why did it take 4 boars? Are these boars just too weak? They might be.

  (There could also be a time g between the kill and the evolution. The cards do mention an ‘End Phase’.) Laura said. (It did take exactly 10 minutes from the first boar kill to the evolution.)

  (Okay. I see. Well the’s test it out.)

  “Padin, one more boar. Horus, take it down. Vampire Lord, stop flirting with Lua, you have blood to take care of.” I ordered my summons.

  “I find that offensive, Master. I wasn’t flirting. I was simply making sure she is fine, as you haven’t given me an opportunity to do that.” Vampire Lord defended himself.

  During the wait, I decided to test Swords of Revealing Light a bit more. Mainly, would it freeze me and my monsters. It should only work on my oppos, so we should be safe.

  I almost just walked in myself, but Laura told me to stop. She didn’t want to risk me freezing like the boars did.

  I ended up summoning the Fire Sorcerer that I once fused with Jenna. She hadn’t seen a sihat day and did voice a small pint about it. I’m sorry. I just have too many monsters. I need a pce where I just summon them for no reason other than to summon them.

  (I do have an idea for that.) Laura said.

  (Oh. You do? That sounds good.) I responded.

  (We try it out this evening.) She said.

  (Yeah. Let’s.) I agreed.

  Now then, back to the test. I ordered Fire Sorcerer to walk into the Swords of Revealing Light. She went through the wall just fine and could even move inside freely. And as I already saadin being able to move the boars around, that should be fine as well.

  I gave her the order t me out in case I froze and walked in myself. I felt a slight pressure hit me when I walked into the swords, but nothing more. It felt like I was carrying ara 20kg of body weight, spread evenly ay whole body.

  Well, it seems perfect. Swords of Revealing Light are OP and I will not say anything else. I got outside with Fire Sorcerer. I was about to unsummon her, but she asked to hang out so I let her.

  After one more boar and about ten more minutes, Horus was once again engulfed in dark fmes. And from those dark fmes appeared my LV8 Horus.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]As I checked my duel disk, the LV6 Horus had been repced by the sleeved Horus the Bck Fme Dragon LV8. Just like the LV6, the LV8 Horus had an e sleeve around the card.

  LV8 Horus wasn’t quite as rge as Blue-Eyes, but it is close. It was just a bit rger than Red-Eyes, standing at 18 meters tall.

  “Perfeow I have it.” I said to myself. “Vampire Lord, Dark Padin, please kill enough boars to fill up the barrels.” I ordered my summons. Horus sit this part out, as it already got five kills.

  “So, that’s enough?” I firmed with Lua after we had filled up two barrels with blood. In total she now had 2 50 liter barrels full of boar blood and about one and a half barrels worth of orcs blood.

  “Yes. Three is what I was hoping for so three and a half is more than enough. I just took the fourth in case there would be a lot of ord it fit in my bag.” Lua answered. “And it's better not to mix any other blood with the orc blood, as some dhampirs don’t like mixed blood.”

  “I see. The’s pack up the boar corpses and rendezvous with the others.” I said.

  With ten bloodless boar corpses shoved into my rge magic bag, I unsummoned Vampire Lord, Dark Padin and Fire Sorcerer. We then got onto LV8 Horus’ bad took off. After we were flying, I deactivated Swords of Revealing Light by removing it from a spell/trap card zone in my duel disk. The sword circle lifted and the remaining boars began to move again. Then I shoved the now grayed out spell card into my colle.

  Now, back to the carriage we go.

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