After dihe vilgers began giving me gifts. Anything from small wooden idols to a shortsword. Everyone brought something.
For my personal favorites were a shortsword made from blood iron, a material made by using blood magic while smithing. A bead neckce made from blood red stones. Well, that I really liked more because it arently handmade by Anika, the young dhampir girl. I’m not a pedo, OK. I just appreciate the effort she must have put into colleg this maones and putting them together in a neckce like this. I might wear it whenever I go into dhampir vilges.
Then there were a few bottles of the ar from the blood lilies. I don’t think I’ll ever use it, but I did appreciate receiving it. After all, I just make healing potions with my cards. I actually asked if I could have some seeds for the flowers (if they had any) and told them that I would like to have some growing in my garden if I ever buy a house. After all, my vampires should be able to grow them with their blood magiary, the old dhampir dy and the vilge chief, sent a feirs to get me some and I got a small bag with seeds in it. They did warhat the seeds might go bad if I don’t pnt them for some time, so I shouldn’t keep them for too long. But as I could analyze them and remake them with the duer, that wasn’t a major problem. I did also analyze everything else they were giving me, just in case some of it is useful.
Then there was my favorite gift. And it came from Ria. No, it is not my favorite because it came from Ria.
It was the hide of the crimson boa. sidering that the monster is called crimson boa, I was expeg it to be red, but it was white with red streaks making a geometric pattern on it.
And it was huge. sidering the size of the hide, the snake must have been over 15 meters long and over 60 diameter.
But the reason I was so happy to receive this thing was what I could do with it. I need new equipment and this hide should be perfeaking some of it. I think. And while having a white and red equipment might not be the stealthiest thing in the world, it will look amazing. And that is all that matters. A Kaiba style overade from a white snakeskin that has red stripes will look amazing. Not quite dragon hide, but snake is close enough for now.
“Are you sure I have this?” I asked Ria.
“Yes. It is my prepayment.” Ria answered.
“Prepayment for what?” I asked.
“For helpi deemed as stable.” Ria answered.
“I see. But I thought being my sve was the payment for that.” I said.
“But what belongs to the sve belongs to the master.” Ria said.
“I see. Thank you, Ria. I’ll accept it and I’ll be sure to make something amazing from it.”
While I was receiving gifts, Laura notified me that Christina had respoo the message that I sehis m. I read it after I received all the gifts and had a bit of time.
In short, she said that the dungeon was under trol. Diamond Sword were going to go there in the few days, so the difficulty of the dungeon could be properly assessed. And as it would be good for the duo be on the full side when the difficulty is determined, she asked me to let it be.
She also thanked me for taking care of Alid for the toploaders.
Well, at least I don’t have to worry about the dungeon. I did promise to take Alice there, but with Level Ups, I don’t really o. Still might do it though.
If Ria really will bey sve, getting a maginy pack for her might be a good idea. And I might evehe duo make a on for her. Well, I first o find out her fighting style. She probably could use a magic fsk as well.
Perhaps I’ll make her some equipment from the snake hide as well. After all, she is the ohat hu, so she should also get something from it.
After the party was over, but before I went to bed, I was taken to the side by Agatha. She apparently had something she o tell me.
“If you are serious about taking Ria in as a sve and helping her get approved as stable, I guess I should expin a bit about the process to you.” She said.
“Yeah. That would be a great help.” I said.
“Good. Then I’ll quickly go over the major points. Ria knows the process herself as well, so she keep you informed as you go along.” Agatha began.” First, you will have to get approval for the process. This is basically to show that the troller, in this case you, subdue the dhampir in case they go wild. The ease at which you do that does affect the scoing forward, so you want to really show how easy it is for you to hold down Ria.
The sed part is what takes a bit longer of a time. You have to live with the dhampir iion for at least a month, rec everything. Where you go, who you meet, what kinds ers you enter. And of course, any is or potential is. The less you have, the better the ce of getting approved. But if you have no enters with anyone and just keep the dhampir locked up somewhere, they will just fail you. They want you to live a normal life, not to shut into your house for a month.
Third will be the tests. There are three in total. One is on the first day, as you get approval to begin the process. Sed is after two weeks and the third is after a month. The first test isn’t too bad, but the two others are desigo push a dhampir into a blood frenzy. They are no joke. If Ria pletely loses trol, she will be brought back here as quickly as possible.
But as long as you keep her in ched she only has a few minor is, she will get the permission to keep living outside.
Well, that is under normal circumstances, but Ria is a bit different. She tried to do the process with me a few years ago and failed in the first week, so the examiner will be extra hard on her. And now she is powerful enough where I ’t even hold her down by myself, so we couldn’t every it.”
… holy. It sounds simple, but that was a lot. Dhampirs have it difficult. Well, I guess approving a blood sug mohat looks basically human, to walk around towns is not that easy.
“Don’t worry if you don’t remember all of that right now. I’ll help you as you gh it. I’m sure at least some of the vilgers will want to gh with the process now as well.” Agatha said.
“Yeah. We need more examiners when all of them will be all like: I’m stable. Let me leave this vilge.” I joked.
Befoing to sleep, there is ohing I want to do. Well, two things. But they are both about the same thing. Level Up! Yes, the spell card. Why does it have an ! mark in it? Just making things more difficult. It’s like ‘Cyberdark Impact’ vs. ‘Cyberdark Impact!’ 1 ‘Cyberdark Impact’ is a set, whereas ‘Cyberdark Impact!’ is a spell card. 2And ‘Cyberdark Impact!’ didn’t even e out in ‘Cyberdark Impact’.
But anyway, as I only have two Level Ups at the moment, I wanted a few more. You know, so I give two to Lua. And still have two for myself.
And as I have pack tokens, I just open up some Soul of the Duelist for more copies.
(I could do it for you, Master.) Laura offered.
(I know. You pull some packs when I sleep, but I still want to do a few myself.) I said.
(Does that mean I may restart the pack token produ?) Laura asked.
(Yeah. You do that. But keep it to just four hours per night. I don’t want you to overwork the Guardians.) I told her.
Well anyway. Let’s get a few more Level Ups so I use them before I sleep.
Use a ‘Pack token’ to open 1 pack of ‘Soul of the Duelist’[Yes] [No]
Yeah. I want to do it.
SpoilerSOD 1
Element Soldier, Noblemaer Bug, The Trojan Horse, Hade-Hane, Mind Wipe, Howling I, Big Wave Small Wave, Mind Crush, Dark Mimic LV3
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Well, no Level Up! But I did get Hade-Hane and it has an effect to return moo the hands. I might be able to use it with Vampire's Domain instead of using pulsory Evacuation Device. And now that I saw that, isn’t Hane-Hahing?
(Yes it is. And it is a rare in LOB. I did sacrifie of them for sleeves, but you still have 24 of them in the colle.) Laura said.
(Well, I guess we should make the vampire room then.) I said. (Just because we .)
(I do it while you sleep.) Laura said.
(... I kind of want to do it myself, if the vampire’s don’t mind a little wait.) I said. I haven’t pyed the town building simutor, that is my new unique skill after all.
(I think they might be willing to wait a day or two.) Laura said.
Well anyway, I got sidetracked. Back to getting Level Ups.
SpoilerSOD 2
Ultimate Baseball Kid, Bck Dragon's Chick, Taunt, Element Dragon, Hade-Hane, Armed Dragon LV3, Sanwitch, Big Wave Small Wave, Master of Oz
SOD 3
Big Wave Small Wave, Absolute End, Enraged Muka Muka, Howling I, Skull Dog Marron, The Graveyard in the Fourth Dimension, Noblemaer Bug, Taunt, Ojama King
SOD 4
Abyssal Designator, Dark Mimic LV1, Ultimate Baseball Kid, Masked Dragon, The Graveyard in the Fourth Dimension, Armed Dragon LV3, Mind Crush, Two-Man Cell Battle, Rafflesia Sedu
SOD 5
Fusion on, Hade-Hane, Howling I, Dark Factory of Mass Produ, Two-Man Cell Battle, Unshaven Angler, Masked Dragon, Horus' Servant, Master of Oz
SOD 6
Dark Mimic LV1, Level Up!, Howling I, Ninjitsu Art of Decoy, Goblin Calligrapher, The Trojan Horse, Masked Dragon, Mind Wipe, Ninja Grandmaster Sasuke
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Six packs for a Level Up, huh. Well, at least I got one before I got to ten. I was holy a bit scared. Also, two more copies of Master of Oz. I now have four in total, just in case I want to summon fiant kangaroo koa hybrids.
But I still want at least one more Level Up, so I give two to Lua, so let’s keep going.
SpoilerSOD 7
Dark Mimic LV1, Masked Dragon, Element Soldier, Neo Aqua Madoor, Element Dragon, Unshaven Angler, Skull Dog Marron, Hammer Shot, Mystian LV4
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Oh. An UR Mystian LV4. Nice. Sadly, the LV2 is the ohat starts the evolution process. But I guess I might be able to do it with the LV4 as well. At least it is good to have for colle reasons. plete colle he UR cards.
SpoilerSOD 8
Goblin Calligrapher, Two-Man Cell Battle, Level Up!, Unshaven Angler, Ultimate Baseball Kid, Noblemaer Bug, Dark Factory of Mass Produ, Skull Dog Marron, Master of Oz
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And there is the sed Level Up! And a Master of Oz. Because four of them just isn’t enough.
I don’t really o open more packs at the moment, but let’s do two more. Laura do the rest.
SpoilerSOD 9
Level Up!, Bck Dragon's Chick, Armed Dragon LV3, Ultimate Baseball Kid, Taunt, Gon's Eye, Fusion on, Element Soldier, Mystian LV2
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Kind of gd I did. I got the LV2 Mystian. Now I evolve it all the way to LV6. I probably use some Ojama tokens as targets for it to destroy.
Also, more Level Ups is good.
But still, one more pack.
SpoilerSOD 10
Fusion on, Absolute End, Big Wave Small Wave, Element Dragon, Level Up!, Unshaven Aaunt, Gon's Eye, Hammer Shot
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And one more Level Up food measure. I was a bit worried as I didn’t get any in the first five packs, but the sed five definitely made up for that.
Well, let’s throw some toploaders onto these Level Ups and go see Lua.
I got out of the room I was going to sleep in. The room that was given to me was one designed for advehat e here, as it is the sturdiest room in the vilge. Just so they sleep in peace, without having to worry about a random dhampir snag on them in the middle of the night.
There was still some partying going on outside, even though some had already gone home and were probably asleep by now.
I looked around but couldn’t see Lua anywhere, so I decided to tact her with the system link.
(Lua, there is something I’d like to discuss before bed. Where are you?) I asked.
(Brian, I was getting ready to go to bed, but I e back out there, if you want.) Lua said back.
(Lua, no. This is somewhat of a private matter. You know how my cards are.)
(Brian, are you going to break my sense of reality, again?)
(Lua, I just might. I’m not doing anything that the hero’s party couldn’t do though.)
(Brian, fine. Do you wao e to your room? Or will you e here?)
(Lua, I e there. Send the info over to Laura, please.)
(As you wish.) I heard the voice of Lua’s mother, well Lua’s System Support say.
I then followed Laura’s instrus to a room in the same building.
I did get a few looks from the partying dhampirs, but I paid it no mind.
{Knock, knock.}
“e in.” I heard Lua respond after I knocked.
I ehe room.
Lua was clearly ready to go to bed. She had on some lighter clothing and then she had thrown her hoodie on top of that. At least she wasn’t just in some night clothing. I think I would stare too much if she was. While she didn’t reach Laura’s level of beauty, she is the wo in my books.
“So, how did you want to break my sense of reality?” Lua asked.
“Oh it’s nothing that bad. Just an exp card.” I told her.
“Exp card? Like an exp potion?” Lua asked.
“Well kind of. More of a level up card.” I said. “It just levels you up and doesn’t care about your level, so I don’t think calling it exp is exactly correct.”
“... why do I even try to prehend you?”
“No clue. Just accept that I do what I do and move on. o worry about it.” I said. “Oh, it also level up your skills.” I added.
“... because why nht?”
“Yeah. Because why not. Anything with a level is fair game.”
“Haaa. Fine. Because it helps, I’ll accept it.” Lua said.
I took out two copies of Level Up.
“I’ll use one on your overall level and one on your skill. Does that sound fine?”
“Yes. Thank you.”
“Then I’ll do your overall level first. I want to level up Lua, Level Up.” I said to activate the card. The card then lost its color, indig that it activated successfully.
“... it worked? My level increased.” Lua said.
“Why are you surprised by that? I told you it would work.”
“Well, this isn’t normal.”
“Maybe not, but what you gonna do? So what skill do you want leveled up?”
“Is any skill fine?”
“Well, it doesn't work on unique skills or Card Summoner, but anything else should be fine.”
“Even a racial skill?”
“I’m not sure. I’ve ried a racial skill.” I admitted.
“Then would you increase my blood magic, please.”
“Sure. I want to increase the level of Lua’s blood magic, Level Up.”
I looked at the card in my hand. It didn’t activate. Why?
(You have an incorrect target.) I heard Lua’s System Support in my head. (Mistress does not have the skill Blood Magic but True Blood Magic.)
“Oh. Well, let’s try that again then. I want to increase the level of Lua’s True Blood Magic, Level Up.”
This time, the card activated just fine.
“It really did increase my skill level…” Lua said.
“I told you, didn’t I?”
“I know you did, but this shouldn’t be possible.”
“Perhaps. But it is, so… Well, I’m going to go to bed. Here, you have these two. They will be usable again tomorrow evening. You probably want to use only one on your overall level, so as to not get any level up siess.” I told Lua as I handed her the two Level Ups.
“Thank you, Brian. Good night.” Lua said.
I returo my room and locked the door.
I used two copies of Level Up! on myself. One on my overall level and one on Mana trol, as is tradition. My mana trol is now LV5, so perhaps I should level up something else . Like telekinesis. I was slightly tempted to use a third Level Up! on myself to increase my telekinesis level, but I ’t be siorrow, so let’s not.
I ged into my PJs ao bed.
Spoiler Because someone wants to see Brian's stats.
Name: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 44HP: 1080Mana: 142th: 325Defense: 545Magic: 425 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.5Shining Taunt LV.1 Water Spirit’s Blessing (Greater)Language prehension (humanoid)[colpse]
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