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  … what is this? A card? Where did it e from? Why? Laura? Do you feel like expining this?

  (I believe there is no need for that. Do as the card says and install it into yourself.) Laura said.

  (... are you sure it is safe?) I wondered.

  (It should be.) She said back.

  (I don’t like the word ‘should’.) I said back.

  (You have done more dangerous things.) Laura said. (If everything goes wrong, you always destroy it with Mystical Space Typhoon.)

  (I still think this might be a bad idea.)

  (But you love bad ideas. Why else would you insist on flying dragons too close to others.)

  (... because it is fun…) I admitted. (And exposure therapy. If people get used to it, I do it all the time.)

  (Not the greatest pn you have ever had, Master. And quit stalling for time and install the card already.) Laura pressured me.

  (Yeah, I won’t do it. Not without someone else present. I still don’t trust this card.) I said and decided to leave the install for after dinner. I was going to use Level Ups on Aliyway, so I have her with MST watg over me as I install this piece.

  During dinner, Alice again had an opportunity to do some story telling. Telling everyone how we took down the ord their settlement. And adding in a part of me quickly growing a dragon to over three times its inal size. Alice might have exaggerated a bit by telling everyo was over five times the inal size, but I said it was more like three times. Not that adding the correformation helped at all.

  “How many dragons do you have tracts with?” The earl asked, seemingly more out of ihan anything else.

  “Are we speaking about the rge dragons or all of them? I only have five rge dragons.” I answered. The five I ted are Blue-Eyes, Red-Eyes, Tri-Horned Dragon, Horus LV8 aeon. Yeah, I have three copies of Blue-Eyes and two copies of Red-Eyes, but I’ll let them be.1In case you are w, Brian has a total of 36 unique dragon-type monsters in his colle at the moment.

  “Five? Large dragons? Are you pnning on taking over the try?” The earl asked, seeming a bit panicked.

  “Why would I? Do you know how much paperwork that would mean?” I asked.

  “That’s your reason? You didn’t say anything about not being able to do it.” The earl said.

  “Well, I’m not sure if I could. But at the same time, if I used my dragons for that, there might be no kingdom left to rule. Or at the very least, it would need some major repairs. Taking over a kingdom with force is not the way to go. All you will get is a destroyed kingdom.” I reasoned.

  “Then how would you take over a kingdom?” The earl asked.

  “I wouldn’t. Too much work.” I said. “But holy, perhaps mind trol the King. Then marry a princess and kill off every other prind princess so that the princess bees the Queen. And then I would by teicality be the King.”

  “Hmm. I see.” The earl muttered.

  You aren’t pnning on a takeover, right? I didn’t just give you a battlepn? Well, if I did, I always go against that pn with my Monster Reborns. ’t keep them dead if I resurrect them.

  Luckily someo the table didn’t read the grimm mood and ged the topic.

  “Mr. Brian, would you show me one of these dragons?” Jonathan asked.

  “Sure. I do that.” I answered. I don’t mind showing them off. “But I have promises to keep tomorrow, so you might have to wait a few days.”

  “No. No. No. Nons.” Angelina tered.

  “Why not? I’m not going to have him fight them.” I said.

  “I agree.” The earl said. “Seeing the overwhelming might of a dragon is quite awe-inspiring.”

  “Have you seen one?” I asked.

  “Yes. When I was young. One of my cssmates was a summoner and they made a tract with a dragon.” The earl began a story that went on for the rest of the dinner. Apparently, I’m not the only ohat wants to show off my dragons at every opportunity.

  “Alice, could you e into my room for a few minutes?” I asked Alice as we were heading back to our rooms after dinner. I was a little hesitant to ask it as it sounds … questionable, but as I said we don’t need a maid to show us the way, it was just the two of us.

  “I , but why?” Alice asked.

  “I’m going to install a card into myself and I’m a bit afraid of it. I just want you to watch over me as I do, in case something goes wrong.” I said. “After that, I’ll also use the Level Ups on us.”

  “I see. The’s go.” Alice agreed.

  “Here. I want you to hold onto this. And if I say use it, I want you to activate it targeting Different Dimension Factory. Do you uand?” I asked Alice as I handed her my toploader Mystical Space Typhoon.

  “Yes. If you say something is wrong, I will use this card to destroy Different Dimension Factory.” Alice repeated.

  “Good. I’ll start then.” I said as I held the Different Dimension Factory up to my chest. “Install.”

  The wave of pleasure hit me again. But a lot stronger. I thought I was getting used to this, but I most definitely am not. This one is worse than any before this.

  The pleasure was getting so overwhelming, it ainful. Extremely painful. I ended up biting my lip to keep myself from screaming.

  “Brian? Are you alright? Should I use the card?” Alice asked, worried about me.

  “I … “ I almost said yes, but Laura spoke to me.

  (No. Don’t interrupt it. It’s w.) Laura said to me.

  “... I’m … fine… I … … go … on.” I said to Alice, between my breaths. If Laura says to go on, I will.

  “Haa, haa, haa.” Finally, the pain ended. Why was this one so much worse? I swear. This is the st time I’ll use a card.

  (I believe the more likely reason for it is that Master has installed multiple cards into himself i few days and your body hasn’t had the time to fully adjust to them.) Laura said.

  Well, I guess in Yugioh you only equip five cards at a time to a monster. Well, teically ten, if both pyers equip five cards to the same monster. But why were the first and fourth ohe worst? And the third was by far the easiest.

  (It might be because the other three made a new skill, whereas United we Stand simply evolved your skill.) Laura reasoned.

  Okay. So two things learned here. One, don’t install more than three cards in a quick succession. And quick doesn’t mean taking an hour break between installs. Quick means absolutely no more than one install a day. And I probably should have at least two to three days between eastall.

  (A week might be better.) Laura said.

  (Probably.) I agreed.

  And the sed thing. Cards that make new skills have more intense effects. At least that is a good thing. I wonder how the magic attribute messing pares to a new skill? What is the worst?

  As I was still rec, I asked Alice whistall felt worse for her and she gave an immediate answer.

  “The first o orse.” Alice said.

  Okay. Good to know. I guess in a week or so I install something into Paulina a her opinion on things as well.

  “But did this one succeed? Or should I use this?” Alice asked.

  “Give me a sed. I’ll check.” I answered and pulled up my status.

  Name: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 40HP: 1040Mana: 128th: 305Defense: 525Magic: 385 Skills: Pack Opener LV.4 (unique)Different Dimension Factory LV.1 (unique) Telekinesis LV.1 (extra)Summoner’s Unity LV.2 (extra)Dungeon Founder (extra)Summon Water Spirit (extra)Health scious (extra) Mana trol LV.3Shining Taunt LV.1 Water Spirit’s Blessing (Greater)Language prehension (humanoid)

  … excuse me, what? A unique skill? Laura. What the hell was this idea? You ’t just go around making unique skills.

  (Actually, you are the one who made it.) Laura said.

  (It was your idea, so it is your fault. I just executed it.) I said back. (What does this skill even do?)

  (No idea. It is a brand new skill, so there is no system information about it.) Laura said.

  (... oh great. Well, I guess we experiment. But let’s get Alice out of the room first, just in case.)

  “Yeah. It succeeded alright. Thanks for watg over me.” I said to Alice. “Please give that card bae and I’ll use the level ups.”

  “Sure.” Alice responded and handed MST bae. “What skill did you get? Could you tell me?”

  “I … I’ll think about it, but I think I’ll keep it to myself for now.” I said. It’s not like I don’t trust Alice, but making a unique skill is … kind of crazy. The fact that installs sometimes make extra skills is already stupid, but unique skills are even more rare.

  “I see. I hope you will tell me about it one day.” Alice said.

  Yeah. Hopefully the skill is nothing too crazy. Anyway, let’s do the level ups.

  I got out the four toploader copies of Level Up!

  I used one on my overall level and the same for Alice.

  But for the skills, I was actually thinking of something else.

  “I want to level up Pack Opener. Level Up.” I said to activate my Level Up!

  I was holy not expeg for anything strao happen, but instead of succeeding, a system s with an error popped up.

  ERROR!Unique skills ot be leveled up by outside interferenbsp;

  … really? Now my cards are “outside interference”. Well, I guess that is fine, but I would have still liked to be able to do it.

  “Brian? What was that?” Alice asked, looking at the card in my hand. The card hadn’t lost its color so I could still use it.

  “Apparently this card ’t be used on unique skills.” I answered.

  “Oh. Well, that is only your Pack Opener, right? And that skill made the card, so I guess it makes sehat it ot level up the skill that made it.” Alice said.

  “Yeah. That’s true.” Well, the sed part anyway. “But then, I wonder if it works on Card Summoher. Let’s test that. I want to increase the level of Alice’s Card Summoner, Level Up!” I said, before waiting for Alice’s opinion.

  But again, an error s popped up.

  ERROR!Card Summoner (extra) is ued bycards made with Pack Opener (unique).

  … so it didn’t work. Well, I guess it is fine, again, but it still would be nice.

  “Error? Ued?” Alice seemed to be reading the same error message I was.

  “Yeah. Apparently I ’t use it on that either.” I said. “I’ll use it on some other skill. What do you want?”

  “Dark Magic, please.” Alice responded. I somewhat expected her to pick her Magi’s Power extra skill, but she picked that one instead.

  I did as instructed and the card activated just fine.

  Then I used one on myself, leveling up Mana trol again. I want that skill to at least level five before I level up anything else. It does to aent bottle-neck my other skills, so I want it at a det level before I level up Telekinesis or Summoner’s Unity. And until I figure out my equipment, I won’t level up Shining Taunt.

  Name: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 42HP: 1060Mana: 135th: 315Defense: 535Magic: 405 Skills: Pack Opener LV.4 (unique)Different Dimension Factory LV.1 (unique) Telekinesis LV.1 (extra)Summoner’s Unity LV.2 (extra)Dungeon Founder (extra)Summon Water Spirit (extra)Health scious (extra) Mana trol LV.4Shining Taunt LV.1 Water Spirit’s Blessing (Greater)Language prehension (humanoid)2Of course Brian didn’t see Alice’s status at this time, but I’ll leave it here in case you want to see it.

  Name: Alice WatRace: HumanLevel: 15HP: 230Mana: 88th: 115Defense: 145Magic: 645 Skills: Card Summoner LV.1 (extra)Magi’s Power LV.2 (extra) Dark Magic LV.3Mana trol LV.5 Magic Boost LV.3Quick Cast LV.2Fast Mana Recovery LV.3

  I said good night to Alid led her back to her room. Well, the other way around. First her room then the good night.

  Anyway, I summoned Aqua Spirit and had her make me a quick bath. I don’t know if she is sad that all I use her for is bath water, but she seems happy any time I summon her, so I think it is fine.

  But anyway. Let’s test out the new skill.

  (Laura, did you find something out?) I asked. I had her testing the skill while I took the bath. You know, just in case.

  (You should take a rexed position. I reend you just y down on the bed. Theher think or say ‘Different Dimension Factory’.) Laura informed me.

  (Simple enough.)

  I did as instructed ao bed. … That sounds like I’ll just sleep. I id on the bed and quietly said: “Different Dimension Factory.”

  As I did, the world around me went white.

  As my visiourned, I saw a hallway that was made of white materials. It wasn’t that long, only about 100 meters. With a width of about 30 meters a of about 20 meters. On both sides of the hallway were many, many doors and at the end of it, a rge garage door. Or something like that.

  But that is not the important part. The important part is the person that stood there. She was a bit taller than I am, at about 185 cm tall. Her brown hair extended just a little past her shoulders. Her green eyes shimmered, almost like they were holding the entire night sky in them. Her figure was great, just like it had always been. I still wonder what I did to ever deserve her.

  I took a few steps so I was right in front of her and pced my hand on her cheek. It felt warm. So she is not just an illusion or a trick my mind is pying.

  I was thinking of saying something, but I didn’t know what to say. Instead, I just hugged her.

  “Master?” I heard Laura ask.

  “. I need a bit more.” I said as I held her tight.

  “So, what is this pce?” I asked Laura. No, this isn’t my Laura. Well, she is, but not really.

  “It is a mental pne. Or perhaps a sub-space would be more accurate. It is simir to other worlds that are ected with the one Master currently resides in, like the spirit world and the demon world.” Laura expined.

  “And how you take that form?”

  “As this is your mental pne, normal rules doly apply here.” Laura answered. “I’m capable of realizing a body for myself here.”

  “I see. And what about the outside world?” I asked. “Does time move there?”

  “Yes it does. However, if we raise the level of the skill, we might be able to cause a time ditioween the worlds.” Laura said. “Also, Master’s body is still ying on the bed. You ot escape into this skill in case of danger.”

  “I see. So it is like a VRMMO. I e here a as an avatar, but my real body is still somewhere else.”

  “If you want to see it that way.” Laura said.

  “So, what are we going to do with this pce?” I asked.

  “We do anything you want to. But if we go back to your monsters, I believe we link this skill with your Pack Opener and summon the monsters in this world.” Laura said.

  “Well, this building is ne enough to hold them.” I ented.

  “Don’t worry. Just open one of the doors and look in.” Laura said.

  I did as she said and walked up to the first door on the right. I ope and all I could see was a white void.

  “... not the most pleasing pce to live.” I ented.

  “It might be like this at the moment, but we ge that.” Laura said.

  “... we ?”

  “Of course. Did you already fet all of your cards?” Laura said. “Forest, Wastend, Mountain, Sogen3Grassnd, Umi4O, Yami5Darkness. All of the other Field Spells Master has. We install them into the rooms to make them better.”

  “Oh. Yeah. That’s hen just summon monsters in the habitat that they like.”

  “Yes. I believe that will make them happy.” Laura said.

  “But won’t it be bad if they are summoned here and then I o summon them in the real world?” I asked.

  “As I said, this is Master’s mental pne. In here, normal rules doly apply. Of course I may be wrong, but I believe that the monsters here wouldn’t t as being summoned in the same way as they do outside.” Laura answered.

  “Ah. I see. Then we will test that at some point.” I said.

  “Yawn.”

  “Master. You are tired. You should link Pack Opener and Dungeon Founder with Different Dimension Factory and go to sleep. I’ll make this pce better during the night.” Laura said.

  “Sure…” I sleepily said. “But why Dungeon Founder?”

  “I’d like to use it to mahis area better. It has features that I use to make cameras in this pne.” Laura reasoned. “And I also make us a bedroom.”

  … bedroom? … yes. For all the right reasons, we hat. Don’t we, Laura?

  …

  …

  I was holy expeg her to answer, but it appears she ’t hear my thoughts while we are in here. Or she is trig me into thinking that. I don’t know.

  “Yawn.” Another yawn from me. I really o get into bed. Wait. I already am in bed. “So, how do I link the skills?” I asked.

  “I do it for you, Master. Just give me the order.” Laura answered.

  “... okay. Laura, please link Pack Opener and Dungeon Fouo Different Dimension Factory” I ordered her.

  “Order received. Exeg.” Laura said. “Master, you should leave this pne and go to sleep.”

  “I will. Just one more thing. When we are here, please don’t call me ‘Master’. When here, call me Brian, or Dear, or Love.” I said to Laura before I closed my eyes and tried to leave that pce.

  I opened my eyes again and found myself on the bed. Well, I’m in my new PJs, ying iired. Nothing more to it than to fall asleep. I do wonder, if I fall asleep in Different Dimension Factory, would I fall asleep here as well? If I do, I could sleep with Laura again.

  Well, that is a question I answer another day.