CH.209 A bit of everything

CH.209 A bit of everything

Morning. And morning means a factory visit. But there really wasn’t much to it today.

I guess worth mentioning is that Laura traded for all of the cards from my Promo Trades over the past few days.

The , the cards and the cards.

Of course the Sphinxes were something, but I might never use them. Shining Dragon is amazing, but I still can’t summon it. Rare Metal Dragon should have a mithril hide, so that is nice, but I need a way to harvest it. And at the same time, I can just make mithril with Dungeon Founder instead. But I would need a lot of Generation Points for that, so getting it from Rare Metal Dragon wouldn't be a bad thing.

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Inferno Tempest is also a card. But the condition for it is a bit ... out there.

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Yamadron is also something I took notice of. For no other reason than the hydra fight a few days ago.

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Yamadron is basically a three headed fire hydra. But it only has 1600 attack. So I wonder, what is stronger, my Yamadron or a twin hydra from this world? I wouldn’t question it otherwise, but considering that Diamond Sword members were able to 1v1 monsters in the 1800 attack range in practice matches, and while they didn't win, they did put up a good fight. That would mean that B-rank adventurers should be decently close to that mark in power. And a hydra, well a twin hydra, is a B-rank monster, so it would mean that a twin hydra should be around that same power, if not a bit higher, considering that usually it would be a party of B-rankers that are sent to take down a B-rank monster.

Well it doesn't really matter. Yamadron will make a decent practice target for everyone, if they want to practice fighting a hydra.

As always, I spent a bit of time with Tahlia and Fantasia, spoke a bit with Lua, she is doing fine btw. and then returned to the real world for breakfast.

After breakfast, we were going to head out to the practice grounds for combat practice, but Ellanora (the Earl’s wife) ... convinced us to have etiquette and dancing lessons instead. Ria was also pulled to the side for some more maid training, so I guess no combat practice for us this morning.

I’m actually quite surprised by how well I can do in these lessons, at least compared to Alice. Alice is a born noble, but she still struggles with some of the basic things, like dance. I guess this might be her father’s obsession showing itself again. I have heard that she was basically magic practice only for a while, so maybe she barely had any dance practice. Meanwhile I was ‘forced’ to take on dance courses in my school. Well, only one of them was mandatory, the other was just highly recommended. But that second dancing course was also one of the best courses of my high school life, so definitely worth it. ... now I miss dancing with Laura. I wonder if she would dance with me if I asked? We need a dance floor in the factory. And some music. I’ll try to figure all of that out some day. The dance floor might be doable just by factory being the factory and Musician King can offer us some music. Or maybe Spirit of the Harp.

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After lunch, we (Ria and I) had a meeting with Lord Garner, concerning Ria. Her second test for getting deemed stable. Technically, it was supposed to be tomorrow, but as we would transport another blood delivery to the village tomorrow, he had arranged it for us for today.

While we did technically take all of the steps necessary, considering the situation, we got through it no problem. The sad part was that Ria actually politely refused to drink the blood they offered her. Even though it was apparently from a C-rank monster. Ria just said she preferred the one I was giving her. Well, I have been getting her dragon blood ever since we figured I could get it with Mystik Wok, so... Maybe I’m spoiling her, but at the same time, it doesn’t cost anything, so why not?

Other than that, the test involved a walk around town where we checked if Ria could walk around without running into problems. And, of course, she didn’t, so she passed her second check.

After that, I went shopping with Alice. She had actually come with us when we first came to the knight orders headquarters, but she had already gone to browse a few shops while we were taking the test.

“Of course it is special!” Alice said. “Tell him.” She asked the clerk.

“Yes. That shirt is from a dungeon and it boosts the wearer's mana movements, allowing for more mana to be used for spells, boosting their power.” The clerk explained.

“Oh? I guess that is useful.” I said, but in all honesty, that just sounds like it would be wasteful. You don’t want to put too much mana into the spells, just enough to kill the target. Anything more than that will just be a waste. But at the same time, faster mana movement might make things like telekinesis easier, so I suppose there are other uses for it. And it might even help you cast spells quicker. But I still feel like that is a bit too basic for Alice. “But if you like it, you can just buy it.” I told her.

“Yes. I think I will.” Alice said, before again disappearing into the changing room.

She returned a bit later in her usual clothes, holding the new shirt in her hand.

Other than her shirt, she also picked up a book of handwritten notes on fire magic. I wonder why fire? Maybe it is because of Mana. You know, Dark Burning attack. It does have burning in the name, so maybe it is some sort of fire and dark composite spell. I don’t know.

The shirts, yes she picked up two, were actually quite cheap, only 5 gold per shirt. But I guess considering that you can get a normal undershirt for 2 large silvers, ten times that might be expensive. And considering that I paid 13 gold for the two books, the shirts were actually somewhat affordable.

After our shopping, Alice had us stop at a cafe. Well, a tea shop. There was no coffee available. We enjoyed some great tea and slices of cake which were basically sponge cake.

Then we returned to the manor.

Back at the manor, we were finally able to get some practice in. As in sword practice and punching practice for Ria. I was working with Familiar Knight and Ria had Amazoness Fighter and Karate Man as her tutors.

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I don’t know why, but I feel like I have very few monsters that punch things. At least as far as warriors go. Those two are basically it. And even if I add Beast-Warriors, it would only be Des Kangaroo, Hitotsu-Me Giant and Master of Oz. And two of those aren’t really something I should summon because of their size.

At the end of our practice session, I was drenched with sweat. Familiar Knight really kept pushing me, saying that I can keep going as I’m higher leveled now. In all honesty, I could but I still got super sweaty. But still, my muscles don’t hurt too bad and I was still feeling fine. I just need a bath. I remember last time my muscles really hurt, but I guess having more than double the strength does show itself in some places.

And, of course, bath time for us is also magic practice time. I was getting closer. I can feel it. Just a day of two more and I’ll be able to cast Space Wall. And hopefully get the skill while I’m at it.

Ria was also getting better at blood iron control. She had managed to turn the knuckles of her gauntlets into a singular large spike. You would not want to be punched by it. In terms of Vampiric Body Modification, well, she is working on it. She is quite confident with extending her fingers, but other than that... As I said, working on it.

We ended the day with our level ups. For myself, I leveled up Summoner’s Unity. For Ria, a level in Internal Magic Technique.

SpoilerName: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 74HP: 2530Mana: 3270Strength: 735Defense: 935Magic: 895 Skills: Pack Opener LV.4 (unique)Different Dimension Factory LV.2 (unique)Storage LV.10 (unique)

Telekinesis LV.3 (extra)Summoner’s Unity LV.4 (extra)Dungeon Founder (extra)Summon Water Spirit (extra)Health Conscious (extra) Mana Control LV.7 Water Spirit’s Blessing (Greater)Language Comprehension (humanoid)Slave MasterSlaves: Rhianna[collapse]SpoilerName: RhiannaRace: DhampirLevel: 66HP: 1840Mana: 2010Strength: 1065Defense: 755Magic: 940 Skills:True Blood Magic LV.5 (Racial)Vampiric Body Modification LV.2 (Racial)

Card Summoner LV.2 (extra)

Fire Magic LV.3Mana Control LV.4Fast Mana Recovery LV.4Internal Magic Technique LV.6Unarmed Combat Technique LV.5Flickering Step LV.3Power Boost LV.5Defense Boost LV.3 Blood Sucker (Racial)Slave. Master: Brian Wood[collapse]

Tomorrow, another visit to the village. I know Lua is doing well, but it will still be nice to see her myself.