“Take care, you two.” I said as we separated from Alid Paulina.

  The two of them were heading to the adventurer’s guild again today, while I was going to visit a sve trader with Angelina. I asked if Angelina could really just take a day off for something like that, but she said she had some other busio take care of around town anyway, so she didn’t have any paperwork or meetings today in the first pce.

  Oh, I guess I should mention that we weren’t on foot or in Overdrive, but in a carriage that Angelina had prepared for us.

  Ahing I feel like I should mention is the card I set on Alice to take the pce of Sakuretsu Armor. It ended up being Spellbinding Circle as it was the best trap I had to bo with the others she has set on her. I would have loved to set Waboku on her, but I don’t actually have one.

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  I did also sider setting a flip monster on her, but I o test them out first at least. And most of the flip monsters with a good effect are er than Sakuretsu Armor in sess.

  Like Maer Bug or Rafflesia Sedu. At least Old Vindictive Magi shouldn’t be too scary, but he is a creepy old man, so I don’t want to give him to Alice.

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  “We are here.” Angelina said as the carriage pulled up to a medium sized mansion. I really didn’t expect a sve trader to live in a mansion, but I guess sve trade pays well. And this might be a front for the more … noble tele. “Don’t look so suspicious. I know sve trade sounds bad, but it is a trolled and closely monitored business. The number of illegal sves in this try is very low and there is almost no kidnapping people to make them into sves, like you might hear in some stories.”

  “I don’t like the word almost.”

  “Well, there is no way to eliminate all crime. We just try to catch the ohat are illegally forced into svery.”

  “Well, at least that is good to hear. But what about the more … underground svetrade?”

  “As I said, we ’t eliminate all crime. And the problem with that side is that it is not on the level where just an Earl could do anything about it. The entire kingdom o take a to take down the rge scale criminal anizations. And sometimes the criminal undergrouends beyond the try's borders as well. I’m sure you uand that. At least based on what I know, you seem to have a good education.”

  “I do, in some areas, but not when it es to politics.”

  “e. Let’s go inside and I’ll introduce you.”

  We went inside and were guided to a parlor room by … Well, she isn’t a maid, that much I say. Service girl? Yeah. Let’s go with that. She was dressed in a fairly provocative leotard-style outfit, with her legs left bare. This, of course, drew your eyes to her long smooth legs. Now let’s just cut off the sleeves and some of the top part, add a bunny tail and ears, and she will be a fine bunny girl.

  Oh yeah, before the thoughts of getting a bunny girl outfit for Laura pletely derail me, I should mention that a guard had also e with me and Angelina ihe building. He had been sitting with the an while we were moving, but now he was following a few steps behind us.

  “Please wait just a moment. Corben will join you in just a moment.” The service girl said after she had guided us to a room.

  I followed Angelina's lead and sat o her on a cou the room. The guard remaianding behind us.

  Just a momehe door that the girl had entered opened again and a middle aged male ehe room.

  “Madam Garner, what do I owe this pleasure to?” He asked as he approached and stood oher side of the table. I was expeg that I should stand up, but as Angelina didn’t, I didher. Also, Garner is the surname of Angelina’s husband, so she must have taken it as well. “Looking for new servants perhaps? I believe I did send you the news about the new sves we just got in.”

  “Yes, I did e to ihem as well, but the main point of my visit is an introdu.” Angelina said, getting the sve traders attention on me.

  “The young mao you? I don’t believe I reize him.”

  “You wouldn’t. Brian here is a new noble. He founded a new dungeohe town of Alewatch. And you wouldn’t know him because he hasn’t made any public appearances as a . But I think you might have heard some rumors about him. If you have heard about the meical carriage going around town, that would be him.”

  “Oh? That is his? I really wouldn’t expeething like that from a young man like him. You must have some es to get something like that. … unless… don’t tell me your dungeon produething so valuable.” That st part was said in a quiet voice that I just barely caught. Well, Overdrive doesn’t e from my dungeon, so no worries.

  I noticed Angelina give me a look, which was my que to introduce myself, so I got up and said: “It is a pleasure to meet you. My name is Brian Wood, and as Lady Garner said, I’m a new founder of a dungeon and will require your services in the ing days.” I, of course, used my full name as I was ag as a “ the moment. I say noble in quotation marks, because I haven’t teically been given my title yet. Well, my terminal does somewhat show my status, but still.

  “The pleasure is all mine, Lord Wood. Feel free to call me Corben. Please, do tell me what I do from one such as yourself.”

  We spent a some time as I expihat I was going to take in a dhampir as a sve and everything that would e with it. We also made an appoi for tomorrow afternoon, when I would e with Ria here to have her sign a trad marked as a sve.

  After that, we walked around the mansion and Angelina checked up on the new sves. There were two families and some singur individuals. All of them were sves due to debt. It is a little sad to see aire family fall into svery because they incure a little debt, but Angelina said that it is better to be a sve than being forced to live out in the wilderness. I guess that goes especially for people of low level. But I think higher ranked adventurers could just run off into the wilderness and survive there. Then again, from what I know, they are paid quite well, so I don’t think they would fall into debt that easily. Maybe if something like gambling was a thing. Actually, it probably is. It would be something that exists. I think. I don’t see any reason as to why it wouldn’t.

  After cheg the new sves and iing the paperwork, (well, Angelina did all of that) we were ready to leave. I was expeg for us to ght back to the manor, but instead Angelina took us to a high css clothing store.

  “May I ask, why would y me here?”

  “You need a suit.” Angelina said. “Otherwise, other nobles will look down on you when you make your debut.”

  “Debut? I’ll have to do something like that?”

  “Of course. I know you don’t uand iquette yet, but I’ll have it taught to you in time.”

  “In time for what? When will my debut be?”

  “27 days from now. It will be my father’s 60th birthday and he decided he would introduce you to all of the loobles that will attend the party at that point.” Angelina said. “Also, as a new dungeon founder, everyone will accept a high css gift from you, so you’d better not disappoint.”

  “... well, thanks for the pressure.” I said before a system s appeared before me.

  Mission: Gift of ValueGoal: Give Earl Sawyer a gift worthy of his position. Reward: Opens new sets depending on the value and rarity of the gift. Giving an overly expensive gift above your position will decrease the reward.If the gift is either too lh in value, this mission will be treated as a failure and no reward will be given.

  Eh? A mission for something like that? I guess I do appreciate getting one, but now I o put even more thought into the gift I’ll give him. The pressure is on.

  “Brian?” Angelina asked as I had frozen ier I got the system mission.

  “... oh. Sorry. I was just thinking about the gift thing and zoned out a bit.” I admitted, not adding the entire system mission thing. I would tell her about it, but she doesn’t really o know. It isn’t an emergency mission after all.

  “You don’t have to be so pressured. Your dungeon made mithril ons, right? That will be more than enough. It might even be seen as y to suck up to my father, but that is a small price to pay.” Angelina said.

  … hmm. So a mithril sword is too much. I really o analyze some lesser metals and use them instead. Well, let’s stay in the here and now, instead of w about a gift that won’t be important until a month ter.

  “Madam Garhank you for visiting us today. What may I do for you?” The owner of the clothing streeted us as soon as we got into the store.

  “Will you be able to make one more outfit before my father’s party?” Angelina asked.

  “Yes. I believe one is doable, depending on what it is.”

  “He will need a suit. And it will be his debut, so I want you to make something worthy of that.”

  “Oh? A new noble? And making his debut suit. That is indeed something. I shall get my best desigo work on that. Young man, please e here and we will work out the basic details.”

  I followed the owner aroduced me to a few employees. I was then shown a few basic designs and was asked to choose one of them to act as a base. The suits in this world arely what you would think of when you hear a suit. These were more like stylized long coats h quality shirts. The best part about them is no raised up colr. I always hated that part about modern day suits. I just don’t like having it restrict my neck.

  The designer quickly drew up a basic design, and after hearing my name, she added some tree aesthetics to it. I don’t know if being named ‘Wood’ is good or bad, but I do like how the design looks, so in this case it is good.

  The other thing they made sure is that my founder’s terminal would be visible. Apparently, it is ary for dungeon founders and masters to show their status that way. Well, in a practical sense, all that ment is that I’ll only have half a sleeve on my left arm.

  “It will be ready in time.” The owner reassured us as we were leaving.

  “Angelina, sorry to ask more from you, but I might need a crash course iiquette before the party. Could I ask for your help with that as well?” I asked as we were riding back to the manor.

  “Of course. I’ll have a few of the maids teach you whenever you have time.” Angelina said.

  “... I’m going to be busy, won’t I?” I said as I realized just how much I had to do this month before the party. Etiquette training, taxying Agatha to the dhampir vilge and back, taking care of Ria aing her deemed stable, keeping up with my skill level ups, so there won’t be any dised probably doing some adventuring work with Alice. Let’s hope I mahat all.

  Oh and I guess I should also add getting a good gift for the earl into the list. And maybe I should also mention perfeg my colle, even if Laura takes care of most of that.

  I also o have a day for mass fusion summoning. And the rituals as well.

  So much to do, so little time. So I’d better start right now.

  That meant that for the rest of the day, I had the crash course iiquette training. And some dance practice, but when I was in high school we had a mandatory dance course, so I actually did detly with the dang. Thank god the basic steps are simir, instead of being pletely different. Also, being LV.46 and havi stats meant that I could easily st the lessons without getting overly tired. The maids actually had more difficulty and had to s out as my dance partners, even though they were more skilled than I was. I guess I could use some Level Ups on them as a reward, but I don’t actually have that many Level Ups right now. I only have a total of ten, and two are with Lua and four with Alice, so I only have four left for myself. Perhaps it is time Laura pletes Soul of the Duelist for me. I might need more copies if I’ll use some on Ria. And I probably will.

  In terms of etiquette, I had the basic table manners down in a matter of moments, as they were basically the same as what I had learned ba … well, bae. They were slightly more advanced, but nothing much.

  We also had some memorization training, as I would have to remember the names and faces of other nobles, but as I had my cheat called Laura, that was no problem. Without her though, yeah, let’s just say I would fail. In general, it would take me anywhere from five to ten remio learn the names of new people. Maybe even more.

  There was a good part to all of this training as well, as I was able to ask about giving gifts. Mainly I found out that any wearable accessory, like a pendant, bracelet or even earrings with a magic stohat you made, given to a member of the opposite sex would be seen as a proposal. So that is how my actal proposal to Alice happened. But I did check if the pendant would be fine and it is, so I give it to her.

  After I was let go from the training, I spent some time using telekinesis. It is the skill I leveled up yesterday, so I should practice with it. I didn’t feel the same disect as I did with Mana trol, so I think daily practice with one skill level up per day will be manageable.

  Laura did also tell me that the Upstart Goblin with Goblin of Greed worked, and she had used all 172 copies of it, and all of that money had ended up in my Iory.

  In there, I now had 336 gold s, 259 rge silvers and 270 small silvers. And they all still only took up one slot each. So one Iory slot could hold at least 336 items.

  Too add to the goblin experiments, goblin monsters, like Goblin of Greed, Goblin Calligrapher and Sed Goblin could activate any ‘Goblin’ spells or traps, like Good Goblin Housekeeping, Upstart Goblin, Goblin's Secret Remedy and Robbin' Goblin.

  That’s nice. Especially them being able to use Housekeeping, as the transfer of tokens from normal to reprint are doh that. And my ‘unlimited’ tokens only t for the normal tokens.

  “Brian! We are back.” Alice said as she returned with Paulina.

  “Hey, Alice. Wele back. How did you do today?”

  “We pleted one quest. Here.” Alice said as she handed me a form like I had seeerday. D-rank quest to hunt 3 forest boars that were too close to farm areas.

  “Great work. You pleted a mission, so I guess I’ll give you a card for it. Do you want it now?”

  “Yes, please.” Alice said.

  “Do you want to choose yourself or do you trust in my choice?”

  “... I … I’ll let you pick this time.” Alice said. “I really liked Getsu Fuhma that you chose for me st time, so I’m sure you have something good this time as well.”

  “Let’s hope so.”

  “... Brian, perhaps this could wait a moment.” Paulina cut in. “We did just e bad I think both of us could wash ourselves first.”

  “... good point.”

  A little ter, the three of us were in a private room sitting around a tea table. And to be precise, we were in Paulina’s room. It wasn’t any rger than my guest room, but it was better decorated.

  “This is for you, your first dragon.” I said as I gave Alice Pitch-Dark Dragon. “He isn’t that strong, so don’t think he is, just because he is a dragon. But he should be easy to ride, so you practice that. And if you like him, I give you a stronger dragoime.”

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  [colpse]The real reason I had picked Pitch-Dark Dragon is it being a Union monster and it isn’t to. Being an Union monster makes Pitch-Dark Dragon easier to ride than most dragons, acc to Laura. And as dragons are still seen as dangerous by the people living here, so if I gave Aliething like Red-Eyes or even Kiryu as her first dragon, she might get into trouble. But Pitch-Dark Dragon is only about 7 meters from head to the end of the tail, so a small dragon like that should be fine. And as I said, if she likes it, I give her Kiryu . And maybe Red-Eyes after that.

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  “A dragon? Yiving me a dragon? Thank you.” Alice said as she received the card.

  “... Brian? Are you sure about that?” Paulina asked.

  “It's just a small dragon so it should be fine.” I said. “And if it causes problems, Alice just has to give it back to.”

  “I won’t cause problems with it.” Alitercepted.

  “Hopefully you won’t. Not that I have any right to say anything. I always cause trouble with my dragons. Well, not always, but sometimes.” I admitted thinking back to the Blue-Eyes act and more retly the Horus i. “I also have something else for you. Remember when I promised you something if you learn a new spell?”

  “... yes. I remember. We had a fight after that, didn’t we?”

  “Well, more like an argument, but anyway. I’m giving it to you now.” I said as I got the pendant out of my fanny pack. I still only used my Iory for the s, so everything that had been in my fanny pack, still is there.

  “A pendant?”

  “Yes, I thought you would like it. It also has a special effect, so it will help you.” I said as I got up, walked behind Alid pced the neckce around her neck.

  “Th-thank you. It is beautiful.” Alice said as she looked at the pendant.

  “I’m happy that you like it. It also boosts your strength and magic a little, so it will help in that way as well.” I said, telling Alice about the effect of the pendant.

  “Does it..? Status.” Alice said. After taking a look at something in front of her that I couldn’t see, aka. her status, she took the pendant off and took another look. Then she pced the pendant back around her ned looked again. “It really does. Thank you so much. This is amazing.”

  “Of course. Sorry it took so long for me to hand it over.”

  “No. I’m gd I got it. I’d wait even longer if I knew I would get something like this.” Alice said, looking at the bck gem hanging around her neck.

  “I’m gd you like it.”

  The rest of the day was … uful. And as I had already taken a bath earlier after my etiquette and dance practice, I went straight to bed after diomorrow, I’ll go a Ria. Then… well, I guess we will find out. Living without a pn is the best way to live. Not really, but I still like it. It leaves you with options to do as you want.

  “Just one more thing for the day…” I said as I got out two copies of Level Up! “... I should probably level up iory, right? Even if it hold over 300 of the same item in one slot, having more slots will be nice. I want to level up Iory, Level Up.”

  I felt the card activate and thehe sed copy. “I’ll increase my overall level, Level Up.”

  Again, the card activated. I put the two Level Ups bato my colle. As I checked my status, I realized I’m almost LV.50. Tomorrow, I shall be. Well, nothio do but to go to sleep.

  Good night.

  SpoilerName: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 48HP: 1220Mana: 176th: 345Defense: 545Magic: 465 Skills: Pack Opener LV.4 (unique)Different Dimension Factory LV.1 (unique) Telekinesis LV.2 (extra)Summoner’s Unity LV.2 (extra)Iory LV.2 (extra)Dungeon Founder (extra)Summon Water Spirit (extra)Health scious (extra) Mana trol LV.5 Water Spirit’s Blessing (Greater)Language prehension (humanoid)[colpse]

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