CH.154 What did you do?

CH.154 What did you do?

Hmm. Is it morning? It’s unusual that I wake on my own. Usually Laura is here to wake me up.

I get out of bed and walk up to a window. It’s still dark outside, so perhaps I woke up too early. Well, I feel rested enough so perhaps I slept enough.

(Laura? Where are you?) I called on her as she hadn’t said anything yet.

(Oh. Good morning, Master. I’m sorry. I didn’t realize that I can’t hear your thoughts while I manifest myself in the Different Dimension Factory.) Laura said.

(Aah. I see. So you were there.) I realized why Laura wasn’t here to wake me up.

(It is still a bit early. You can head back to bed if you’d like.) Laura said.

(... no. It’s fine. I already woke up and I feel well rested.) I said back.

(Then would you come to the Different Dimension Factory? I’d like to show you some of the things I did during the night.) Laura said.

(Yeah. I’ll come over.) I said as I headed back to bed.

But you said you weren’t tired. I know what I said, but I need to be in a comfortable position to use Different Dimension Factory.

“Good morning, Dear.” I heard Laura say as soon as I materialized in my skill. Is that the right word? Or would it be realized? I think Laura used the word realize yesterday.

“Good morning.” I said back, as I gave her a good morning hug. It felt good to be called dear again. I don’t mind being called Master, but it does feel a bit like we are roleplaying.

I let Laura go and turned slightly to the right.

... what? What is that?

The ‘hallway’ of my factory was filled with monsters of different kinds. The first rows were taken by warriors, spellcasters and other humanoid monsters, but the further you went, the more varied the species became. There had to be at least a hundred monsters here in total. At the front row were some familiar faces, like Dark Paladin, Dark Magician, Dark Sage, Black Luster Soldier, St. Joan, Vampire Lord and others that I had put either a toploader or a sleeve on.

“GOOD MORNING, MASTER!” They all said in unison.

...

I don’t know how to react to this.

“... G... Good morning, everyone.” I said back to them.

“How long did you practice that?” I asked Laura.

“I apologize, but I don’t know. I knew they planned it, but the preparations for it were taken care of by Dark Paladin and Black Luster Soldier.” Laura said.

“Okay... I think it is excessive, but I’ll accept it.” I answered, before even realizing what had really happened. “Actually, wait a second. How are so many monsters here? At the same time?”

“Oh, that. They are because they can be.” Laura answered. “After you fell asleep, I began summoning some monsters here as a test. But then the monsters began summoning themselves here, with no input from me. I believe when I linked the skills, the collection became very close to this space and all of the monsters from there could come here whenever they felt like it. They can be ordered here with a summoning, but they can also just roam free.” Laura explained. “I can also ban unruly monsters, but I haven’t had to do that yet.”

“And what about the time limit?” I asked.

“They don’t seem to have one here.” Laura said. “Their bodies here aren’t exactly physical. They look and seem like they are, but just like you and I, they are just avatars sent by the monsters.”

“... Okay. Well, if they like it then I suppose this is good.”

As the morning greeting was over, the monsters broke away from the formation and entered different rooms in the factory. It felt somewhat like a busy train station or perhaps an airport.

I also made sure to take Dark Paladin and Black Luster Soldier to the side and told them, while I did appreciate the gesture, it would not be necessary in the future. I also asked them to be in charge of keeping the monsters in check. Breaking up major fights and so on. They were the strongest monsters I could talk to after all, so having them take care of things like that would be optimal. I just hope they can take care of problems on the level of Master of Oz. Well, they probably can if they get some help from the other humanoid monsters.

Laura then showed me the different rooms of the factory. There were forested rooms, rooms with grasslands, a room that had a colosseum (I kind of want to go take a closer look at that), a room that was just darkness. One room was filled with ocean water and I wondered how did the open door keep the water in. Also, the mermaids there wanted to take me for a swim, but I refused as I don’t have unlimited amounts of time at the moment. And I can’t breathe under water.

Anyway, as we kept going, we eventually found some rooms that were still empty, but over half of the rooms were still taken by different things.

Finally, we arrived at the big garage door at the end. As we approached the door, the door automatically opened. I wonder if Laura ordered it, or if it just has some sort of sensor.

What awaited me there were large plains surrounded by mountains. The mountains formed a U-shape around the plains, with the entrance door at the top part of the U. At the center of the plains were 10 tall towers that made a circle around something like a pedestal.

[Pack Opener] [Collection][Sleeve maker][Summoning Challenge][Promo Trade][Instructions][Set lists][Open Packs] Daily Pack tokens: 97Current Pack tokens: 714Available packs :Legend of Blue Eyes White DragonMetal RaidersMagic RulerPharaoh’s ServantLabyrinth of NightmareLegacy of DarknessPharaonic GuardianMagician’s ForceDark CrisisInvasion of ChaosAncient SanctuarySoul of the DuelistRise of Destiny

Flaming Eternity

Daily Reprint Tokens: 37Current Reprint Tokens: 103Available Reprint sets:Dark Beginning 1Dark Revelation Volume 1Dark Beginning 2The effect of ‘Royal Magical Library’ activated. Gained 1 ‘pack token’.

“... no. You really didn’t. I just didn’t want to do this.” I said.

“Getting more pack tokens? But Master always does it. Isn’t that why we were using cards like Lighten the Load?” Laura asked.

“Well yes, but also no. There is a certain beauty in managing the cards I get and using them to the maximum efficiency. But this isn’t it. This is just breaking the system and calling it your bitch. And I don’t want to do that.” I said.

“... then should I take it down?” Laura asked.

“No. Let it be. It doesn’t matter any more.” I said. “When something is already broken to this point, there is no reason to fix it. Just make sure you don’t keep Elma and Kay’est here for too long per day.”

I mean, even if I take this operation down, it won’t change the fact that I have 97 daily pack tokens and 37 daily reprint tokens.

I escaped from the Different Dimension Factory because I didn’t want to look at the mass production facility of pack tokens any longer. I guess I did use Dark Factory of Mass Production for it, but I didn’t expect that. I just laid in bed until a maid came to wake me up. Well, I was already awake, but she would have woken me up if I wasn’t.

Laura did say to me that I should at least activate my Upstart Goblins, as that can’t be done in the Different Dimension Factory. Well it could be done, but I couldn’t get the money from it if it was.

But of course because of said factory, I now had 14 copies of Upstart Goblin. And they were all in toploaders. I guess the good news about having unlimited pack tokens is having unlimited sleeves and toploaders. From the 14 Upstarts, I got a total of 28 gold coins, 22 large silver coins and 20 silver coins.

I also had a bit of time, so I took out the notebook and pen that Christina paid for. I wrote a simple summary of most things that happened on our way here and in the days after we got here. I didn’t include anything about the Tye incident, as I don’t want her having bad blood towards Saber Fang if that team ever dives into my dungeon. Having the dungeon master hate you probably isn’t a good thing. I also added in a bit about the rising monster and miasma levels in the dungeon, asking if I should come over and clear out some monsters. It all depends on when adventurers start going into there. Diamond Sword should be able to deal with anything in the dungeon, except anomalies like the lava golem and the sword-horn bull.

When my message to Christina was ready, I shoved the entire notebook through the exchange slot on my founder’s terminal. I also added in 2 more copies of Amazoness Tiger that I had (in toploaders, of course), 2 Amazoness Swordswomen, as well as 13 toploaders, that she could put on the sleeved cards she has. Now that I have basically as many toploaders as I need, no reason to not use them. (Yes, I added an instruction on how to use them.)

“Good morning, Brian.” Alice said to me as we met in the hallway. I had gotten dressed up and was on my way to the dining room for breakfast.

“Good morning.” I said back.

“Is something wrong?” Alice immediately asked, probably hearing that my voice didn’t quite have the usual energy. “Did something bad happen with the thing we did last night?”

Thing? Last night? Oh yeah. She is referring to the install. Word choice my girl.

“You could say that.” I answered.

“Was it useless?” Alice asked.

“No!” I instantly said. “No, it really isn’t. The problem is kind of the opposite. It is too good.”

“Too good? How can a skill be too good?” Alice asked.

“I’ll show you. One day.” I said. I don’t even know if I can bring her into my skill, but it should be possible.

After breakfast, I was saying temporary goodbyes to everyone. I didn’t forget that I promised to go to a dhampir village with Lua today. And as I didn’t know how many days our job there would take, I was saying temporary goodbyes.

I also gave Alice a few cards. Now that I had no shortage of packs and Laura could open them for me, I could go a bit overboard. I gave her 4 copies of Level Up!, all in toploaders. (They are the ones I used on the two of us last evening, so they are at the moment unusable, but they will be usable in the evening.) I did say she could only use two on herself and the other two were to be used on Paulina, if Paulina wanted.

I also set a bunch of traps on her. Draining Shield and Mirror Force to protect her from incoming spells. Mirror Force would only activate if Draining Shield had already been used. Btw, Laura had gotten 1 copy of Mirror Force during the night.

I also added Threatening Roar and Sakuretsu Armor with the conditions that they activate if attacked with the intent to harm or kill. And like with mine, Sakuretsu Armor would only activate it Threatening Roar had already activated. The one that I didn’t have on myself was Dust Tornado. I added it with a condition that it will destroy any binding spell that might be used on Alice. I was going to add Nutrient Z as well, but I couldn’t set any more than 5 cards onto a single person. So I guess that is up to 5 installs and 5 set cards for a total of 10.

“Take care of yourself and if you go hunting, make sure to take Paulina with you.” I said to Alice before I left.

“Yes. You as well. I know you are used to Lucia, but most dhampirs can’t control themselves, so you’d better be careful.” Alice reminded me.

“Yes. I will. Thank you. See you later.” I said to Alice. “And Paulina, please make sure Alice doesn’t overdose on Level Ups while I’m away.”

“I will. Come back soon.” Paulina said.

I walked out of the house and summoned Overdrive.

(Laura, I hope you are here because I need my GPS.) I said to Laura, just in case she was still in the Different Dimension Factory.

(Yes. I’m here for you, Dear.) Laura responded.

... It feels different hearing it from her lips versus hearing it in my head.