CH.166 Catching up with Alice and upgrading my Duel Disk

CH.166 Catching up with Alice and upgrading my Duel Disk

“Brian!” Alice excitedly called for me as she saw me. “You came back already.”

“Hi, Alice, Paulina. Yeah. I’m back.” I greeted the duo.

“Brian. It is good to see that you are fine. Did everything go fine in the dhampir village? No one sucked your blood hopefully.” Paulina said.

“Well, there was an attempt, but I dealt with it.” I said.

“Of course you would. When did you come back?” Paulina asked.

“Well, I left the village in the morning, dropped off Agatha, went into a certain shop and put in an order for some new equipment and then got here a bit before lunch.” I recapped my day to them. “What about you two? Where have you been?”

“Here. Look at this.” Alice said as she handed me two papers. She then dug a little in her magic fanny pack before handing me a third.

I looked over the papers and they were quest completion forms from the adventurer’s guild.

Two were for some sort of plant collecting, probably some sort of herbs or something. One was for hunting down goblins.

“You did some missions, huh.” I commented.

“Yes. I had to earn the cards you gave me, right? So I went to the guild with Paulina. Sure I only got three, not four, but I’m working on it.” Alice said.

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A reminder for the math. Brian set 5 cards on Alice. Draining Shield, Mirror Force, Threatening Roar, Sakuretsu Armor and Dust Tornado. But Alice had ‘earned’ one of them from the orc hunt, so she needed to earn the other four. The Level Ups don’t count for this, as they are ‘borrowed’

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“I see. Well, three quests in two days is good in my opinion.” I told her, even if these are super simple things, that you could probably do three to five in a day, if you know where to find everything. “And besides, the cards I set on you are for emergency defense. I don’t really consider them ‘yours’ like the others, so you don’t really have to earn them with quests. The same goes for the level ups that I let you borrow.”

“Eh? Does that mean I worked for nothing?”

“No. Of course not. Honestly, I’m proud that you would go and do quests for those cards. But let’s just say that the three quests you did were enough for the cards I gave you.”

“... I ... yes. Thank you.” Alice agreed.

“By the way, did any of the set cards activate while you were adventuring?” I asked.

“Yes. Two of them.” She said as she got out two cards. Sakuretsu Armor and Threatening Roar. They were still grayed out, so they must have been activated today.

“Did this happen when you were hunting the goblins?” I asked.

“... yes. I let my guard down at first and a goblin tried to shoot me with an arrow. That is when the roar activated. While it did stun all of them for some time, we didn’t quite get all of them and I almost got attacked again. That is when that other card activated.”

“Ah. I see. Well, it happens. What did the card do when it activated?” I asked.

“You don’t know?” Paulina asked.

“Well, not exactly. I know what it should do, but I’ve never activated one myself, so I’m not completely sure.”

“And you just give something like that to Alice? Shouldn’t you at least test it out first?” Paulina asked.

“Perhaps, but I don’t have unlimited amounts of time, so sometimes I have to just give them to other people without testing them. And that card can only be activated when you are about to be attacked, so I can’t just try it out whenever I want.”

“Just ask another adventurer for help or something.”

“And risk them literally dying? Are you insane? That card should destroy whatever tried to attack you and I’m not about to use something like that on a human. Unless you want to volunteer to be a test subject.” That last part was a joke. Even if she did, I still wouldn’t use a ‘destroy’ effect on her.

“... I see your point ... “

“Good. Now Alice, after the card activated, what happened?” I asked.

“This demonic looking man appeared and ripped the goblin to pieces. Then it bowed and disappeared. It was honestly a little scary.”

“... yeah. I can imagine that.”

“Could you perhaps change it for something else?” Alice asked.

“Sure. I’ll look into what I have and give you something tomorrow. But I’ll reset the Threatening Roar now. Give me that one and I’ll set another copy on you.” I said to Alice.

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And I was about to use five of them.

“I summon two Skull Servants.” I said as I summoned the first two monsters.

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Two human-sized skeletons rose from the cards. They weren’t that far from the skeletons that roam my dungeon, but they did wear cloaks, while the ones in the dungeon are naked. Calling a skeleton naked sounds weird.

“Sorry you two, but I need you to be the materials for this.” I said. “With my two Skull Servants I build the circuit. I link summon Vampire Sucker.”

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“Master! Thank you.” Vampire Sucker jumped onto me and hugged me as soon as I had summoned her.

“Hey, hey, hey. You could at least ask for permission first.” I said as I was trying to push her off.

“Come on Master. Just a bit longer. I’m not even trying to suck your blood. I just want your warm hug.” She argued.

“Yeah. That’s not much better. Ask first, hug second.” I said as I pushed her away. “Unless you want to never get summoned again.”

“... extortion is not fair...”

“Neither is sexual assault. Now will you control yourself or do I need to unsummon you?”

“I’ll be good!” She instantly responded as she stood up straight, like she was standing in attention.

“Good. I’ll summon the other one then.” I said as I got out four more cards. First of all. “Skull Servant, times three.” My next set of materials came out. “I use my three Skull Servants to build the circuit and link summon Vampire Fascinator.”

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“Master. It is a pleasure that you went out of your way to summon me. Might I thank you with some physical affection?” Vampire Fascinator asked after she rose out of her card.

“... er, let’s do it some other time. I still have a little more I need to do before I go to bed. Do you two want to stick around or head into the factory?”

“I want to stay!” Vampire Sucker instantly said.

“I will stay as well, if I’m not in the way.” Vampire Fascinator agreed.

Well, as I said, they can stay, so they shall stay. I have to say, the test was successful. I was able to link summon just fine and my new monster zones work just fine, as I had summoned the two link monsters into them. And I could use both with no extra links or anything. The only thing I didn’t test is if I can summon link monsters into zones that aren’t those two, but I’ll be able to test that out at some point.

The last thing on the agenda. What to do with all of my Upstart Goblins? Or more like where to store all that money? My magic bags need to have space for my daily stuff, so I can’t just shove everything there. They would fill up with gold and silver in a week. Well, the larger could probably hold out for a month or so, but still. I could really use an inventory skill.

(Laura, any ideas?)

(A few. First is Different Dimension Capsule. It is a storage device that uses different dimensions, like the Item Box skill, so it might work. The other card that might give that skill is Pharaoh's Treasure from Pharaonic Guardian, but you don’t have that at the moment. We could also try to just learn the skill naturally.)

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(Yeah, but learning the skill will take a while, even with your help, right?)

(Yes, it will. The last option could be installing Interdimensional Matter Transporter into Different Dimension Factory. That way, we could also activate the Upstart Goblins inside the skill. We could also have Goblin of Greed activate the cards for us.)

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(... would that work?)

(We can try. All we will lose is one Ultra Rare card.)

(... sure. But don’t try it during the night. I think you were going to work on Pharaonic Guardian in the night, so If you get Pharaoh's Treasure, which we should, we can combine that with Different Dimension Capsule and that will surely get me the item box skill. And then we can check out if the DDF with Interdimensional Matter Transporter plan works. Or if we can link the item box with DDF and just directly dump the money from the factory into my item box, without having to use the Interdimensional Matter Transporter.)

With that, the plan was made. Now all that was left was to use the Level Ups, go to bed and sleep till morning. I used my skill Level Up on Telekinesis btw.

My vampires were a little disappointed that they didn’t get to do anything, so they spoke me into getting a massage from them. I have to say, it was nice.

I then thanked the two of them, reminded them to head to the factory afterwords and unsummoned them.

Good night.

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Brian's stats, after the level ups.

Name: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 46HP: 1100Mana: 1540Strength: 335Defense: 555Magic: 455 Skills: Pack Opener LV.4 (unique)Different Dimension Factory LV.1 (unique) Telekinesis LV.2 (extra)Summoner’s Unity LV.2 (extra)Dungeon Founder (extra)Summon Water Spirit (extra)Health Conscious (extra) Mana Control LV.5Shining Taunt LV.1 Water Spirit’s Blessing (Greater)Language Comprehension (humanoid)[collapse]