CH.362 First Synchro Summon

CH.362 First Synchro Summon

“Then we must finish the star titanium sword before that. You have to have a great weapon to deal with something like that.” Wilma said when I spoke with her about the upcoming dimensional fissure.

Most of HomeBase doesn’t know about the fissures, but I did tell Wilma about them after she got her System Support. Other than her, it is of course just the OG crew of me, Alice, Lua, Ria and Agunan. As well as Lady Janina, but she is a special case.

“Don’t worry about that. I can just use my Red-Eyes Black Dragon Sword.”

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“No. I have the perfect plan for one. Come on. I’ll show it to you.” Wilma said, as she dragged me towards her Factory workshop.

Once there, Wilma quickly took a sword from the wall and gave it to me. It was similar in size to my mithril sword, but this one was of course made of star titanium.

“Looks good enough.” I said, as I received it from Wilma. It felt good in my hand and it was clearly made for me, so I was happy about that, but I do wonder. “What is so special about it, other than the metal?”

“So glad you asked.” Wilma said. “As you already know, the blade is made of star titanium, which is a great metal for emitting mana and magic, so producing a Mana Blade around the sword is extremely easy. Even someone without the Mana Blade skill should be able to do so.”

As Wilma explained that part, I put some of my mana into the sword and it did produce a Mana Blade. ... but something felt ... familiar about the grip.

“... Wilma, did you use world treant wood for the grip?” I asked.

“Yes. Is that a problem? I believe you have a lot of it.”

“... haah. No. It’s no problem. I mean, legendary grade metals do need that level of materials. Just ... try to not tell Karl that we are using it. It still is something that should only be used for special projects. I don’t want you making world treant arrows for Unika or something.”

“... Actually, I already designed a bow and arrows that she could use ... both made of world treant wood.” Wilma admitted, as she used the holo table at the center of the Factory workshop to bring up the designs for the bow and arrows. “I didn’t think it’d be necessary yet, but it might be in the future. And besides that, the bow string is worldweb spider’s silk and we don’t have any.”

“... then maybe don’t design weapons around SS-rank materials that we don’t have.”

“But Alice said you could make an SS-rank monster using the dungeon under HomeBase, so couldn’t we do that?” Wilma asked.

“Not for SS-rank monsters. Even A-rank monsters take a ton of miasma. SS-ranks just take way too much. Sure if it was required for something extremely important, I might do it, but for a bow string, not happening.”

As I said that, I opened up the stats screen of the sword I was holding.

Revealing Light Star Titanium Sword Thrusting - Damage done by thrusting attacks ignores 96% of the target's defenses.Slashing - Damage done by slashing attacks ignores 99% of the target's defensesSword of Revealing Light - Targets hit by this sword’s attacks are stunned and unable to move. Duration depends on the damage dealt.Stardust Repair - The sword repairs itself if Stardust is put into the sword.Durability 5900/5900 Description: A sword with a blade made from Star Titanium. The grip is made of World Treant wood, the guard and pommel are made of Aluminium. Being made of Star Titanium, the sword can repair itself if Stardust is put into the sword. Has been enchanted by unknown means, and the enchantment leaves targets hit by the sword unable to move.

“... Did Laura help you with this?” I asked.

“She did, yes. Fantasia was in my workshop when I was designing it and she wanted to see it shine, so she went to get Lady Laura and asked her to install a card into it that would make it shine.” Wilma explained. “... May I ask why you didn’t tell me you could do that?”

“I was going to. Eventually. I just ... you work too much. If you knew about the sword installs, you’d spend even more time in the Factory.” I told her, before adding another reason. “Besides, I think it would cheapen your own goals. My installs are way too cheaty. With them, making a weapon that gives its wielder strength isn’t even difficult. I mean, with just one more install, I could turn this sword into something that gives strength.” As I said that, I brought out the few swords that I made about a week back so I could show them to Wilma. “Like these swords. They were designed by you and I added installs to them. And now all of them give the wielder strength. But at the end of the day, it is just cheating. You won’t really accomplish anything.”

Wilma took some time going over the multiple swords I brought out, while hopefully understanding my point, and from the troubled look on her face, she seemed to get it.

“... Okay. I get it. This isn’t the way I want to do it.” Wilma accepted. “... but what is the way to do it?”

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“Ooh? That was cool.” Cailie said, as she clapped.

“Yeah. It is kind of neat.” I admitted.

“Definitely better than that ... Link thing.” Cailie said, before quickly realizing that a certain someone didn’t like what she just said. “No offense, Jasmine. Wait. Should I call this Jasmine something else? Big Jasmine? Winged Jasmine?”

“Just call me Jasmine.” Aromaseraphy Jasmine huffed. “Both of me are still me. I’m just stronger.”

“Sure. ... does the same go for you, Winged Rosemary?” Cailie asked.

“Yes. I am the same, but just a bit more powerful.” Aromaseraphy Rosemary confirmed.

That is ... kind of interesting. Maybe because I used the OG version as material, they took some of the OGs’ memories? I think I recall that happening with some of my Fusion monsters, as well as monsters like Dark Sage.

Well, either way, I still have one more Synchro monster to summon.

“You don’t mind if I do my second Synchro summoning, right?” I asked Cailie and the Aroma monsters. Not that I was waiting for an answer, because I quickly began to chant. “My level 1 Aromaseraphy Angelica tunes with my level 5 Aromage Marjoram. I synchro summon the level 6 Aromaseraphy Sweet Marjoram.”

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I ended up spending nearly two hours with Cailie on the CropFields, just having her show me the plants. A lot of them were just a few days away from being able to be harvested. Sadly, I wouldn’t be able to be a part of the first harvest, as it would likely happen on the day Alice, Lua and I would head out to deal with the dimensional fissure.

After keeping Cailie company, I unsummoned the new Aromaseraphy, quickly summoned Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning so I could use Primal Seed to get back my banished Aromaseraphy Angelica, and then I returned to my office so I could take a look at the new unlocked tab of Pack Opener.

Pack Opener [Collection][Deck][Graveyard][Banished] [Momentum Reactor] (unlocked)[Sleeve maker][Summoning Challenge] (+1)[Instructions] (+1) [Set lists][Open Packs][Promo Trade][Buy Decks]

Momentum Reactor? That energy generator for 5D's? Why would my skill give me something like that, and what can it even do?

Well, let’s check it out and see.

Momentum ReactorGathered Momentum: 11[Use Momentum]

Okay, that doesn’t tell me a lot. It tells me that I have 11 momentum. I’d guess I get 1 per level of Synchro monster that I Synchro summon as Sweet Marjoram is level 6 and Rosemary is level 5, totaling 11.

(It might not be a bad idea to check the instructions tab.) Laura told me. (It has some info on the Momentum Reactor.)

I did as she recommended and read up on my new ... it isn’t a new skill, but a new part of my skill. In short, Momentum is gathered whenever I, or anyone else, performs a Synchro summoning with my cards, or otherwise summons a Synchro monster. Synchro monsters that are summoned not by Synchro summoning only give half their level worth of Momentum, while proper Synchro summonings give the full amount. And special kinds of Synchro summoning like Accel Synchro, Limit Over Accel Synchro and Double Tuning give multiplied points. With Double Tuning Synchro summon, I’d get Momentum equal to double the summoned monsters level, with Accel Synchro I get four times, with Delta Accel Synchro Summon I get five times, and with Limit Over Accel Synchro I get ten times.

But that's just how I get Momentum. The cool part is what I can do with it after I have it. First, Momentum can be turned into temporary Status points, 1 Momentum equaling a +100 in one stat. So if I use 10 Momentum, I can get a temporary Strength increase of +1000. I can also turn Momentum into HP or Mana at the same rate, but in that case, it isn’t temporary.

Second. Momentum Can be used to power up my monsters. The same 1 Momentum equals +100 in either attack or defense applies. These buffs last until the monster is unsummoned.

Third. Momentum can be used to purchase Pack and Reprint tokens. Would have been super useful if Laura didn’t break my Pack tokens with the Butterfly Dagger - Elma loop. Used as a recourse to make sleeves and toploaders, again would be cool if I didn't have near infinite cards. And Momentum can also be used to buy Decks, both Structure and Starter, and it can be used as a resource for Promo Trades. But since Starter and Structure decks can be purchased with Pack and Reprint tokens, and I’m not exactly low on either, I’ll just use them instead. Being able to use Momentum for Promo Trades is kind of cool though, because I can use it instead of something like Divine-Beast type monsters.

Fourth. I can use Momentum to purchase myself a D-Wheel, or a Duel Runner if you prefer the dub term. It costs 500 Momentum to get one and I’ll definitely be aiming for one at some point.

So yeah. Momentum is decently useful. Just a shame I only have the Aromaseraphy synchros.

I did also unlock the Summoning Challenge for Synchro monsters. I now have all of them, except maybe Pendulum, but I’ll go over it later, because like the Link and XYZ challenge, I can’t get to the first reward yet, so I’ll just wait until I have more Synchro monsters.