CH.183 Space Magic Practice

CH.183 Space Magic Practice

Our ride back to the Sawyer manor was done in Overdrive. Take that gate guards, I do have a carriage, so you can’t complain.

After we got inside, we went different ways. Well, more like three of us went to our rooms to wash up and Paulina went to make a report about the road safety check.

Like yesterday, I doubled our bath time as magic practice time. I did promise Lua that I would get Ria to learn True Blood Magic. Her teacher today was Vampire Fraulein.

For my part, practicing space magic with Cosmo Queen wasn’t going that well. Not because I’m a bad student. Okay, maybe I am, but it is also because I’m trying to learn an advanced magic, without having a basic magic as a base. It's like learning how to drive with a Lamborghini and I’m not even sure that analogy is strong enough.

“Perhaps we should do this study inside the Different Dimension Factory. That might make it easier for you, Master.” Cosmo Queen said.

“Would it? Why?”

“You already control that space, so you should be able to instinctively use space magic inside of it. We will have you gain experience doing it that way and then transfer that knowledge over by doing the same with the mana of this world.”

“If you say so. But that does leave the problem of my body.”

“Your body? Brian, what are you talking about?” Ria, who had just gotten out of the bath, asked. And saying ‘just’ is wrong. She is already fully dry and clothed, but her being dry is because Aqua Spirit dries us up after we finish our bath.

“Just thinking about one of my skills.” I said. “Aqua Spirit, thanks for the help, you can go now.” I said to my monster as I unsummoned her. Maybe I should also practice that spirit synchro thing with this world's spirits. I might gain a spirit magic skill.

“Another strange skill?” Ria asked.

“Don’t call them strange, useful. Another useful skill.” Well, they are strange, but also useful. So both are true.

Also, for why I haven’t given Ria a card yet, even though she has Card Summoner. Well, I just haven’t. I have no excuse. I’ll give her one tomorrow when I summon a bunch of them for the weapon test. I’ll also have to give Alice two cards for the adventuring quests we did today.

“But yeah. I’m going to use one of my skills. It will look like I’m sleeping, but I won’t really. Can you watch my body while I do that?”

“I don’t really understand what you mean, but sure.”

“Cosmo Queen, head to the factory first, I’ll be right there.” I said as I unsummoned Cosmo Queen.

I then laid on my bed, leaving Ria and Vampire Fraulein in my room.

“Haah. I really need to figure out how to get Ria here.” I muttered as I opened my eyes in the factory.

“Just work hard and we can do it.” Laura said as she realized next to me.

“Well, I don’t exactly know how I level up my unique skills. Sure I probably could hunt down and kill a super strong monster, but what will that accomplish? If it doesn’t level you up, all we will have is a huge amount of materials that I have to get rid of.”

“I don’t have a level, use the word upgrade instead. If I had a level, there is a chance that Level Up would work on me. And we can just store the materials inside your Inventory.”

“Sure, and let them rot away. Did you find out if we can install Time Seal into Tahlia and have inventory gain a time freeze function?”

“I did. And yes, we can. I didn’t do it yet, as Tahlia wanted you to do it. But you might want to level up Inventory once or twice before you do the install.”

“... okay. Why?”

“Because the install evolves Inventory into the unique skill Storage and unique skills can’t be leveled up.”

“... oh god. Why?”

“Is something wrong?”

“How many unique skills are you planning on having me acquire?”

“As many as you can get. There is a chance that I will get upgraded as you get more of them.”

“Oh? Then yeah. But maybe I should level up inventory to LV.10 first. That is the skill level cap right?”

“Soft level cap. It is possible to go beyond 10, but you need to get to LV.99 first. Then perform a limit break. That way, the limit for your overall level becomes 199 and the limit for skills becomes 20.”

“And let me guess, this limit break isn’t easy.”

“Correct.”

“Well, I’m not level 99, so I’ll worry about that later.”

“I believe that might be for the best.”

“But if I want to max out my Inventory, maybe I should accept the use of a few Pyro Clocks. I could use multiple and just skip all of that annoying being in a coma part.”

“I still do not recommend it, but if you really want to, I won’t stop you.”

“Or I’ll just wait. Or not get inventory to LV.10. Difficult decisions to make.”

“Master, are you ready to keep going?” Cosmo Queen appeared next to us from a portal and asked.

“Yeah. That’s why I’m here.”

“Us too, us too.” I heard a kid calling.

I turned and saw my two daughters riding towards us on beasts. Fantasia was riding a silver wolf and Tahlia was sitting side saddle on a dark gray multi tailed goat thing.

“That’s Laura.”

“Laura? As in your system support? Or is there another Laura?”

“No, that’s her.”

“What? Show me.” Alice said, and she rushed over to take a look.

Ria followed right after her and also looked at the picture.

“... she’s beautiful ...” Alice muttered as she was looking at the picture.

“Is she? She seems somewhat... basic.” Ria questioned.

“But how can a system support have a body?” Paulina asked. “Shouldn’t a system support only be inside of your head or something like that?”

“Normally yes. But I have a skill that allows her to do that.”

“... can you do it here?”

“No. It doesn’t work like that. It’s like this space inside my head I can enter. I can interact with my monsters there and Laura can have a body there, but not here.”

“Then this painting? How did you make it?”

“I had one of my summoned monsters, which can paint, do it first inside that skill, then I summoned it here and had the monster paint it again.” Of course that isn’t what I did, but I could have.

“... Hmm. That skill sounds interesting. Can you show it to me?” Paulina asked.

“No, not at the moment at least. I can’t bring others there unless I level it up first.”

“That’s too bad. May I keep this painting?”

“No.” I instantly said. No one gets to keep a painting of Laura, but me. “But I’ll let you borrow it until you can have some designer look at it. But I do expect it back before your father’s birthday.”

“Thank you. That will be plenty of time.”

As I was about to return to my room, Paulina called out and said one more thing.

“By the way, Father said he would buy the cockatrice meat, so could you drop it in the kitchen?”

“Sure, but I don’t know the way.”

“Oh, right. Kay, show him the way.” Paulina ordered the maid that was with her.

“As you wish.”

After dropping off the meat, I returned to my room. There, a maid was waiting with a few gold coins for the bird meat. 9 in total. I took one and gave the others to Ria, ordering her to take half of them to Alice for her portion of the work. The one gold I took was for transport and butchering fees. And to make the split between the girls even.

“Brian, may I ask something?” Ria asked after she returned from taking Alice’s portion of the money to her.

“You already did, but I assume you meant something else. Go for it.”

“Why are you giving this much money to a slave?”

“... because you will need it when you buy stuff that I don’t need to know about.” I said. I learned from Laura. You don’t question certain things girls buy. Especially when it comes to their once per month products.

“What do you mean by that? I’ll never buy something that I won’t tell you about.” Ria said.

“... what? Not even your more ... private products?”

“What do you mean by private products?”

“Eh? ... Do I really have to explain that? Like the products you use to protect your ... private areas. Usually around once per month.”

“Protect private areas? Once per month? No, I don’t know.”

“... How old are you?” Is Ria young enough that she doesn’t have her monthly cycle yet? That shouldn’t be the case, but I have to know.

“I’m twenty one.” She answered. Safe. And she is just one year younger than me.

“... so, you don’t have a period?”

“Period? Oh, that. I think Agatha spoke about it. No. Dhampirs don’t have that. We control if we get pregnant with blood magic.” Ria explained. “So if you ever want to call me to bed, there won’t be any trouble.” She added with a tempting tone.

“... Thanks for the offer. I’ll think about it.”

I don’t feel right forcing her, but if she offers, I might have to do it. I’m not going to say I haven’t wanted to at least rub one off at some points, but I just never have. And if Ria really is willing and there is no chance of pregnancy, perhaps yes. I’ll have to ask Laura first though. I know she isn’t the same, but still. For me, she is.

After that, it was level up time. For me, because of what Laura told me earlier, it was Inventory. For Ria, Fast Mana Recovery. At least that might help a bit with her running out of mana in the fights.

Name: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 54HP: 1630Mana: 2170Strength: 405Defense: 605Magic: 525 Skills: Pack Opener LV.4 (unique)Different Dimension Factory LV.2 (unique) Telekinesis LV.2 (extra)Summoner’s Unity LV.3 (extra)Inventory LV.4 (extra)

Dungeon Founder (extra)Summon Water Spirit (extra)Health Conscious (extra) Mana Control LV.5 Water Spirit’s Blessing (Greater)Language Comprehension (humanoid)Slave MasterSlaves: RhiannaName: RhiannaRace: DhampirLevel: 46HP: 1150Mana: 1270Strength: 740Defense: 500Magic: 670 Skills:Blood Magic LV.4 (Racial) Card Summoner LV.1 (extra)

Fire Magic LV.3Mana Control LV.3Fast Mana Recovery LV.2Internal Magic Technique LV.5Unarmed Combat Technique LV.4Flickering Step LV.2Power Boost LV.4Defense Boost LV.2 Blood Sucker (Racial)Slave. Master: Brian Wood

“Good night.” I said to Ria as I switched off the lights.

“Good night.”