CH.169 Goblins Rule

CH.169 Goblins Rule

(Good morning, Brian.)

(Good morning, Laura. What time is it? Do I have time to jump into the factory?)

(You went to bed early, so yes, we have time.)

(Good.)

I closed my eyes and entered my skill.

After I materialized, no I still should say realized, inside my skill, I saw as Laura did the same.

“Hey.” I said as I walked over and hugged her.

After a short embrace, Laura began telling me about what she did during the night.

“I opened up , but wasn’t able to even get one of everything. We still lack Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End, Dark Magician of Chaos and Levia-Dragon - Daedalus, but I have Different Dimension Capsules working on them.”

“Well, only missing three is not bad. Wait, that means I got Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning?”

“Yes, we have it.”

“Nice. That thing is super strong. Is it here? No, it isn’t right? I have to summon it first.”

“Correct.”

“... Almost should just jump out, summon it and come back.”

“I don’t think there is that big of a rush.”

“Perhaps not. But it is BLS - Envoy is too good. Well, maybe not ‘too good’, but it is still great. What else did I get..?”

I pulled open my collection and set the filter to only show cards from Invasion of Chaos.

Black Tyranno is something, Chaos Sorcerer I have to summon outside the factory. Oh yeah, now I have copies of Compulsory Evacuation Device.

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“Laura, did you install one in the vampire area already?”

“No, not yet. I thought we could go do it together.”

“... I feel like I’m about to start a war in here. I show too much favoritism for the vampires.”

“Probably not. I don’t think these monsters would start a war for your attention. They might have a tournament or something like that instead.”

“... yeah. Hopefully only that.”

As we were heading to the Vampire room, I noticed that some of the doors had been painted with the field spell artworks. That definitely makes them easier to differentiate.

“Laura, how did you paint the doors?”

“I had Goblin Calligraphers paint them. Those guys are quite skilled at that.”

“Oh? Well, they did great work.”

Now, back to the new cards I have.

Dedication through Light and Darkness is something I could use. I can sacrifice a Dark Magician to get a Dark Magician of Chaos. But at the same time, Laura did say I have some coming from with Different Dimension Capsules, so I don’t think that is really necessary. If I’m going to do something like that, I might as well get Sorcerer of Dark Magic from the Movie Pack. Actually, I probably should. It should be the strongest spellcaster I have access to, so getting one and summoning it would be a good thing.

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Well, need to add that to the list of things to do.

Oh. I also got Guardian Angel Joan. Nice. It should be my best healer monster now.

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And she looks amazing, so perhaps I’ll use her outside when I want to look more holy than I actually am.

I also got a new copy of Insect Princess, after giving one away back in Alewatch. I think it was supposed to go to that knight that was with us when I activated the dungeon. Hopefully he has been using it. And hopefully he wasn’t scared of insects, as that was all he got.

Also, now that I have multiple copies of Terrorking Salmon, I kind of want to throw one on Mystik Wok, just to taste it. Let’s make that for lunch when we are in the dhampir village. Perhaps if it comes out tasting great, I could offer it as a meal for the birthday party. I don’t think you can get fish meat that easily here, as there are only some rivers going through the area. No large lakes, not to speak of a sea. And Terrorking Salmon is a sea fish. From the Sea of Darkness.

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“Good morning, everyone.” I greeted the vampires as they came to welcome me to their, I was going to say domain, but this is a kingdom. It says so on the card.

“Good morning, Master.” They all responded in unison.

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He led me to the end of a short hallway, which had a few doors along the way, before knocking on the door and saying: “Master is here to see you.”

“Let him in.” I heard a response from the other side.

Goblin Calligrapher opened the door, but didn’t enter himself, so I just walked into the room. Perhaps Goblin Calligrapher is not allowed here.

The room was quite basic, but it was slightly decorated with things like a Pot of Greed, Jar of Greed, Dragon Capture Jar and even Cobra Jar. I think the Pot of Greed also had the Spirit of the Pot of Greed living inside of it, as I saw the green ghost peeking out of the pot.

The owner of the room was a Goblin of Greed. He was dressed in a well tailored black suit, wearing a familiar looking pendant around his neck. Black Pendant. I think a green gem would work better with his skin color, but I’ll let that be.

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“Master. Are you here for an inspection?”

“Well, not really, but I would like to be shown around.”

“Of course. I shall show you the most secretive areas of this room.”

I wonder what he means by “room”? Probably this room of the DDF, not this particular room inside this bank building thing.

Goblin of Greed got up from his desk and I really got an idea how different he looks from the usual Goblin of Greed. He wasn’t a thick boy that looks like he visits a burger place every day, but was actually a well-built muscular person. I wonder how he achieved that? Would installing a Dark Energy into him do that? Maybe.

As I thought that, I opened my Pack Opener and searched him out. Goblin of Greed that has a black suit and is muscular. It wasn’t too difficult to find him. Then I looked at the special notes and noticed that he did in fact have Dark Energy installed into him. Two copies of Dark Energy to be precise. Laura probably did that to motivate him.

Maybe I could use that as a reward for the other monsters as well. I do have easy access to the common LOB equips after all.

Goblin of Greed led me to a secret door in his office. It was hidden behind a basic bookshelf. Honestly, how much do these guys get done in just one night?

He scanned his hand on a panel and the door opened.

Behind it, I saw a sight I was expecting to see when I first walked from the hub into the Different Dimension Treasury room.

A highly advanced room that looked like the server room of a quantum computer.

{Welcome, Master.} A feminine machine voice welcomed me.

“Eh? My inventory can speak?” I looked at Laura. “Did you do this?” I know the inventory voice isn’t Laura’s voice, but I could totally see Laura getting some voice lines from different monsters and compiling them into a text-to-speech voice for my inventory.

“No. It always had that voice. I believe it is part of the card.” Laura said.

“Well, the card did say something about being highly advanced. I guess an advanced civilization would have figured out artificial intelligence.”

We walked through the room, even if I didn’t really understand anything about it. It just looked way too advanced to me. Inventory was explaining something about matter-energy storage and quantum entanglement, but I’m not a quantum physicist, so I’ll just go with it works, so it is good.

{Master, may I make a request?} My inventory asked.

“Sure. Go for it. Just don’t try to explain any more quantum mechanics. I’m honestly not sure my head can deal with any more of them today.”

{I would like you to install the card Time Seal into me. That way, I will be able to freeze the time on some of the items you store.}

“... okay. I was actually wondering if time was frozen for things inside my inventory, but I guess that is the answer. Sure, we can do it. Can I just install it into this room? Or do I need to do something else?”

“Dear, please wait a second.” Laura interrupted. “Please let me run an experiment first. Just in case something goes wrong. If you end up being the host of the install, you could die.”

“... oh yeah. The entire too many installs problem. Sorry, inventory. Or should I call you Different Dimension Treasury. You will have to wait until Laura greenlights the install.”

{Yes. I shall wait. Also, please just call me Inventory.}

“Dear, you need to head back.” Laura said. “A maid has entered your room and is going to wake you up.”

“Oh. Good thing you spotted that. Thanks. I’ll be off then.” I guess with all of the vampire and inventory shenanigans I almost stayed here for too long.

“Oh. You are awake.” The maid, who was standing right next to my bed said as I opened my eyes.

“yawn” I took in a large breath as a fake yawn and said: “Yes. I just woke up. Good morning.”

“Good morning. Breakfast will be served soon. Please get ready.” The maid said before leaving the room.

“Yes. I will.”