As the girls were rec from their fight with the Giant Orc, I summoned o Queen to act as my practice partner. No, I’m not going to fight her. I’m not that crazy. Just some space magic practice. Getting that skill will be immensely useful, so I level it up with Level Up! I also summoned Gemini Elf and Aqua Madoor after Paulina requested some earth and water attribute mohat could teach her.

  I guess I should also add a small mention here. The reason I st time went ihe factory to practice was to limit the steps o do magially, magic has two steps. Some might say three, but one of them isn’t actually necessary.

  You o have the correct mental image of what the spell will do and you have to do the correct mana trol for it. Normally, the mana trol part is done by the t, but you do it pletely without a t. But of course the mana trol is massively more difficult without the t.

  I guess if I put it into terms that a person living in the 21st tury would uand, it is like a program. If you use a t, you have a programming code you use, and the mana inside of you follows the programming code. It sorts out your mana pulses correctly, and all you have to do is let them out. The t also buys you time to send out all of those mana pulses, as eaeeds their own ‘el’. This is why mana circuits inside your body o be suffitly advanced before you use high tier spells. You just don’t have enough els to send out more advanced spells, if you don’t have multiple els for the mana to move through. I guess you could pare it to using a dial-up i e to try to surf the web these days. It would just take too long for anything to happen.

  Anyway, back to the tless variants. So if a ted spell is like using a programming code, tless magic is like g in binary. You have to really know what you are doing. You have to trol each mana pulse that you send out, which order you send them out in, how strong they are, etc. If you make a mistake, it drastically alter the power, target location, timing and other things of the spell.

  And as to why everything is easier in the factory, well simply put, ihe factory I don’t have to worry about mana trol at all. As long as I have the correct mental image, the spell will activate. Then when I have that part correct, I e back here and try to do it while having to actually trol the mana.

  Of course the problem was that I didn’t actually mao do any space magic spells ihe factory, only factory shenanigans. So I was still going in with potentially the wroal image, but better to try and fail than not try at all. And the ts do help with the imagination, as well as fixing small problems with the spell.

  After they had fully recovered, Alice practiced with Mana and I summoned Vampire Grace for Ria. She actually asked for a fire magic teacher, but I said that would only happen after her blood magic is true blood magic. I promised Lua that I would make sure Ria learns true blood magid I’m pnning on keeping that promise.

  ic practice kept up till lunch. Our lunch was chi. Well cockatrice. And it was amazing. Probably the best chi I’ve ever eaten. It had just been cut into thin strips and cooked over a fire and then some sauce was drizzled on top. Our sides were some rid boiled vegetables.

  Remio pick up some vegetables so I cook stuff that isn’t just meat with Mystik Wok. I really need a better lineup of pnt-type monsters. The only one I would even sider eating is Mystiato.

  After lunch, we returo the practice grounds with a few more people this time. Angelina, Jonathan and two maids came there. Mateo, Angelina’s husband, also joined up on the way, as he wao see his son fight one of my monsters. Jonathan’s instructor, a magian in his early 30s, was also there. He was actually part of the knight order, but his current orders were to act as an instructor for Jonathan.

  I had spent the lunch searg my colle for something iing and I found a few things. First I was thinking of Mighty Guard as it has lower attack than Winged Minion, but has a lot more defense, but then I noticed something that might be better.

  Spoiler[colpse]“Nightmare Horse.” I summohe monster.

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  It might be weaker than Winged Minion, but its effect is better. Direct attag allows it to ignore certain defensive abilities and spells, like the fme wall Jonatha time. It still be stopped by omni-direal barriers, but things like wall spells ’t stop it. Nightmare Horse is also a bit faster than Winged Minion, so that will add to the difficulty. But I guess Winged Minion could fly, so …

  “An undead horse?”

  “Something like that. It is a bit weaker than what Jonathan fought st time, but it has other things that might make it more difficult to fight.” I answered Mateo.

  “What did he fight st time? It was a monster of some kind, right?”

  “Yeah. A winged imp.” I think that is this world’s equivalent to Winged Minion.

  “I see… But would this horse really be weaker than a winged imp?”

  “It should be. It's just a horse. How strong a horse be?”

  “A well grown horse be very strong.”

  “Yeah, I guess. I’m just corrupted by all of my actually strong summons. I look at something like a horse and think, ‘that is nothing pared to a dragon’.”

  “I see that being the case.”

  “Fire, Barrage of arrows, attack my enemy, Fire Arrow Barrage!” Jonathan ted his first spell to start the fight.

  I had let him have the first move, so my horse was ordered to only move after Jonathan had let his first spell fly. This was actually a trap that Mateo suggested. Some people would see my horse as an easy stationary target and use a powerful siarget spell at it, not expeg it to dodge. Of course the target would then dodge as it saw the attaing and you would have wasted all of that mana and effort.

  But Jonathan hadn’t fallen for that trap and had instead used a barrage style spell, shooting multiple fire arrows towards my horse.

  Of course Nightmare Horse didn’t stand still ahe arrows hit him. As soon as the arropeared, it began to gallop to the left. The arrows, while not seeking or anything, were corrected so that they could have hit the running horse, but any time any of them got anywhere close to him, he would take a small sidestep or jump lightly to avoid the arrows.

  After all of the arrows hit the ground, Nightmare Horse turned and beeliowards Jonathan. Jonathan, for his part, seemed to have predicted that, as he had already ted his spell and activated it.

  “Fire, make a wall to protect me, Fire Wall!”

  A wall of fmes appeared between Jonathan and my horse, but my horse didn’t stop or even turn. It just kept galloping right at the fmes.

  And then it ran right through the fire and fmes.1Battle musibsp;I, of course, already k could do that, but everyone else seemed surprised. I guess normally horses are afraid of fire and would not charge through it.

  Nightmare Horse then tackled Jonathan, causing him to fall to the ground. After a few more seds of galloping, my horse came to a stop at a good distance from the downed Jonathan.

  I was holy expeg some calls from the viewers, but everyoayed quiet as we looked oched as Jonathan pushed himself up from the ground and got ba his feet. During that time Nightmare Horse just waited, as I had Laura and it to not attatil Jonathan is back up.

  Jonathan, for his part, didn’t look too badly injured. He had some road rash on his hands from hitting the ground, but he didn’t have any obvious life threatening injuries. I guess his leather jacket did a good job taking most of the impact.

  I waited until Jonathan was fully up and seemed ready to keep going, before I gave my horse the permission to move again. And as no one said stop, the fight was still on.

  Jonathan also ged his battle strategy. Instead of just holding a staff, he moved his staff to just his left hand, so he could draw out his sword and wield it in his right.

  “Fire, surrouh orbs of fire, Fire Orbs!” Jonathan ted his spell.

  A dozen or so fireballs appeared around him and began to orbit him, a few meters away from him, at a det speed.

  “Fire, form a ball and strike my enemy, Fire ball!” Jonathan then ted the spell and u at Nightmare Horse.

  My horse for his part just jumped a bit to the left and dodged the attack, before charging in at Jonathan, not even g about the orbiting fire orbs.

  “Fire, surround my bde, Fire Bde!” After Jonathan ted that spell, his sword was engulfed in fire. He then dropped his staff to the ground, so he could grab his sword with both hands.

  Nightmare Horse didn’t stop its charge, but just kept going, ready to tackle Jonathan to the ground again. It charged through the fire orbs, taking some damage from them.

  Jonathan brought his sword down, striking the horse just before it made tact with him. The ssh looked good to me and made tact with the horse, cutting ihe fire surrounding the sword added to the damage and my horse began to break apart. But it didn’t break into light before it had time to hit Jonathan and they both fell to the ground, with my horse vanishing a few seds afterwards.

  “You sure he won’t need extra healing? I summon some fairies to heal him.” I offered.

  Jonathan had already gotten some first aid by one of the maids, but there was still plenty of road rash all over his body.

  “No. He will heal.” Mateo said. “He ’t expect to always get perfect healing. In an actual battle, he would have to be able to operate with just the minimal amount of healing he already received. And those scrapes won’t leave scars so this is fine.”

  “Ah. Okay. If you say so.”

  With the practice match done, Mateo, Angelina, Jonathan and the rest of that crew left the practice grounds.

  Alice was about to follow, but I had one more test I o run. Alex had given me some information that I o research a bit.

  “So that is how you do it. Any questions?” I asked Ria after I had expihe entire process to her. I was going to have her summon Spirit of Fmes, just to test if that would instantly level up her Card Summohe tribute she had for the summon was Fme Dancer.

  Spoiler[colpse]“No. I think I got it.” Ria said. “I banish Fme Dao summon Spirit of Fmes.”

  After she said that, a sea of fmes appeared before us. The fmes then solidated and formed the body of Spirit of Fmes. He was quite rge, at least pared to Spirit of Aqua. Spirit of Fmes was over two meters tall demon looking thing, with horns on his head and fire surrounding his feet.

  I took a look at Ria’s status, but her Card Summoner didn’t level up. At least not instantly. But something else had happened. Her Blood Magic had evolved into True Blood Magic. I guess her training today did it.

  Name: RhiannaRace: DhampirLevel: 46HP: 1350Mana: 147th: 740Defense: 500Magic: 750 Skills:True Blood Magic LV.4 (Racial) Card Summoner LV.1 (extra) Fire Magic LV.3Mana trol LV.3Fast Mana Recovery LV.2Internal Magic Teique LV.5Unarmed bat Teique LV.4Flickering Step LV.2Power Boost LV.4Defense Boost LV.2 Blood Sucker (Racial)Sve. Master: Brian Wood

  “Okay. You unsummon him now. That didn’t do it. Let’s try another one.” I said to Ria.

  “I activate Polymerization. I fuse together Monster Egg and Hinotama Soul to fusion summon Charubin the Fire Knight.”

  I had Ria perform a fusion summon as well. This was actually a double test. Both for the level ups on Card Summoner, but also to test if I had to do a fusion summon for it to t towards my challenge. I thought having Ria do it might t, but it doesn’t appear that it did. And her Card Summoner didn’t level up either.

  “... that didn’t work either. Alice, do you want to try summoning some as well? There might be some sort of minimum time requirement before the skill level up.”

  “Yes. I will. What will it be?” Alice asked.

  “Well, do you want something powerful or something cute?”

  “You’ll let me keep them?”

  “Well, I do owe you two cards, don’t I?”

  “... cute then. Like that cat you got today.”

  “Well, that one isn’t a fusion monster, or monster with a special summon dition, so it won’t do. But I have a cat that is. How about it?”

  “Yes.”

  “It leveled up!” Alice called out iement. I had given her a Fusionist to summon. It was a tle winged cat, so I thought Alice might like it. It also speak, so that is an added bonus.

  I was a little afraid of the fusion monster ing bae, as St. Joan didn’t like w with a me, but it appears I was worried for nothing.

  Or more like I was w about the wrong thing. It seems like any monster special summoned with a dition, like fusions, rituals, or Spirit of Fmes, have a boosted affinity towards the person that summohem. This is why St. Joan didn’t want to work with Christina. But as Fusionist was summoned by Alice, it lenty happy to stay with her. I also gave Alice Element Dragon, as she asked for it as her sed quest reward. Even if I think Element Dragon would fit Ria better. It does gain power from a fire attribute user, not dark.

  Spoiler[colpse]The real giveaway for that were actually the two mohat Ria summoned. After she returhem to me, they actually tacted Laura in the factory and asked if I would give them back to Ria, so they could serve her. I had no reason to refuse, sot them. They do only have a sleeve, as this was testing if the geion of the sleeve is the trigger for the level up. But I think there is also some kind of minimum summoning time requirement or something else.

  I’ll have to have Ria summon her monsters more often from now on. I’ll also have to get some special summon monsters for Lua before tomorrow, so she get the boost. Perhaps I'll get one of the vampire link monsters for her.

  The rest of the day wasn’t super exg. Alid I had a little etiquette lesson, well more of a recap. Ria was taken by the maids for some training as well.

  I also spent some time in the factory, pying with Fantasia and Tahlia. With Tahlia, I ying bames like chess and backgammon, losing to her about 80% of the time. I didn't even know she had recreated them.

  With Fantasia, we rode dragons iower room. It did have those mountains oskirts so it was quite nice. I have to say, riding on Blue-Eyes again was super fun. I wish I could do it more, but any time I do it outside, I cause a panic. Guess I’ll just have to do it here.

  We even tried to make wings of our own, but that ended with us falling. Apparently, making wings that carry you isn’t that easy. Perhaps I should just have them for looks and fly with telekinesis. But my telekinesis is not at a level where I fidently say I won't drop myself, so that will have to wait.

  Then after dinner, bath and level ups, it was time for me to go to sleep. For me, it was Iory, but Alid Ria both leveled up their Fast Mana Recovery.

  Name: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 56HP: 1750Mana: 229th: 415Defense: 615Magic: 535 Skills: Pack Opener LV.4 (unique)Different Dimension Factory LV.2 (unique) Telekinesis LV.2 (extra)Summoner’s Unity LV.3 (extra)Iory LV.5 (extra)Dungeon Founder (extra)Summon Water Spirit (extra)Health scious (extra) Mana trol LV.5 Water Spirit’s Blessing (Greater)Language prehension (humanoid)Sve MasterSves: Rhianna

  Name: RhiannaRace: DhampirLevel: 48HP: 1370Mana: 156th: 750Defense: 510Magic: 760 Skills:True Blood Magic LV.4 (Racial) Card Summoner LV.1 (extra) Fire Magic LV.3Mana trol LV.3Fast Mana Recovery LV.3Internal Magic Teique LV.5Unarmed bat Teique LV.4Flickering Step LV.2Power Boost LV.4Defense Boost LV.2 Blood Sucker (Racial)Sve. Master: Brian Wood

  Name: Alice WatRace: HumanLevel: 24HP: 370Mana: 126th: 135Defense: 245Magic: 985 Skills: Card Summoner LV.2 (extra)Magi’s Power LV.4 (extra) Dark Magic LV.5Mana trol LV.6 Magic Boost LV.3Quick Cast LV.3Fast Mana Recovery LV.4

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