CH.421 Centaurs and Cyberdarks

CH.421 Centaurs and Cyberdarks

... I don’t really know what to start with, so let’s start with the most important news.

I got True Blood Magic. And I was one of the first. ... not actually the first, as I was still figuring out regular Blood Magic, but yeah, I was able to get it to True pretty quickly.

It was quite simple really. You just have to have a deeper understanding of blood.

You could compare it to understanding air. Air is air, right? And blood is blood. But that isn’t exactly true.

Air is composed of multiple different gasses mixed together. Nitrogen, Oxygen, CO2 and some other stuff.

The same goes for blood, except that it is more like understanding the different cells that make up the blood. You know, stuff like red and white blood cells. Platelets, and also just the general blood plasma.

Basically, the difference comes from seeing blood as more than this single unanimous liquid.

That also made me realize why Lua was able to get her True Blood Magic upgrade so quickly. She was already training to be a doctor/healer, so she likely understood a bit more about how the body works.

That naturally got me thinking if the same would apply to other magics, mainly Wind Magic, so I taught Lua about the different elements that made up air. Sadly just that wasn’t enough and she still only had standard Wind Magic. Maybe some more things about wind like how it is caused by differential pressure and all of that, but it will have to wait.

In other news, both Molly and Cina have begun to evolve. Luckily I had designed custom evolution tanks for both of them, because if they do evolve into centaurs, the regular tanks can’t fit them after the evolution.

A few of the dhampirs, mainly those that were learning maid tasks like Syra, were worried when they heard the two were in the medbay. That is because cleaning was largely taken care of by the horse girls and my monsters. But they calmed down when they heard it was because the two were evolving.

And I didn’t even get any questions about the suspicious timing of their evolution, likely because the HomeBase visitors realize how hard everyone here trains. And while yes, you get basically no EXP from training compared to fighting/killing monsters, you do still get just a bit of it, so you can, theoretically, evolve from just doing daily tasks.

And that isn’t even counting for titles like Blacksmithing and Mining that Karl has. He gains massively boosted EXP from both of those actions because of those two titles. So you could have a title for Cleaning and get a bunch of EXP whenever you clean.

Well, a bunch is a strong word, but you’d get a lot more than you’d normally get.

The two horse girls came out of the evolution fine.

SpoilerName: MollyRace: CentaurLevel: 41 [+12]HP: 1240 [+424] Mana: 700 [+196]Strength: 990 [+404]Defense: 410 [+108]Magic: 390 [+108] Skills: Gallop LV.4 (racial) [+1]Reckless Rush LV.3 (racial) [+2] Fire Magic LV.2Mana Control LV.2Internal Magic Technique LV.2 [+1]Unarmed Combat Technique LV.2Strength Boost LV.2 [+1] Defense Boost LV.2

Cleaning LV.4 [+2]

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[collapse]SpoilerName: CinnamonRace: Centaur

Level: 41 [+14]HP: 1160 [+458] Mana: 800 [+262]Strength: 870 [+358]Defense: 470 [+196]Magic: 440 [+116] Skills: Gallop LV.4 (racial) [+1] Reckless Rush LV.3 (racial) [+2] Wind Magic LV.2Mana Control LV.4 [+1]Staff Technique LV.2 [+1]Strength Boost LV.1Defense Boost LV.3 [+1]

Magic Boost LV.1Cleaning LV.4 [+2][collapse]

Their evolution results were nice, but nothing crazy. The craziest part was their new body shape, which did come with some ... minor problems.

Mainly the fact that their clothes didn’t fit and their beds were too small. Both were simple fixes, but I also decided to look at a few cards for a different option.

Spoiler[collapse]SpoilerName: MollyRace: CentaurLevel: 41HP: 1290 [+50] Mana: 750 [+50]Strength: 1010 [+20]Defense: 430 [+20]Magic: 410 [+20] Skills: Gallop LV.4 (racial) Reckless Rush LV.3 (racial) Horse-folk Reversion (racial) [new]

Fire Magic LV.2Mana Control LV.2Internal Magic Technique LV.2 Unarmed Combat Technique LV.2Strength Boost LV.2 Defense Boost LV.2

Cleaning LV.4 [collapse]SpoilerName: CinnamonRace: Centaur

Level: 41HP: 1210 [+50] Mana: 850 [+50]Strength: 890 [+20]Defense: 490 [+20]Magic: 460 [+20] Skills: Gallop LV.4 (racial)Reckless Rush LV.3 (racial)Horse-folk Reversion (racial) [new]

Wind Magic LV.2Mana Control LV.4 Staff Technique LV.2 Strength Boost LV.1Defense Boost LV.3

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We started off with some of the younger, or as the System calls them, lesser true dragons. No, they aren’t actually lesser in any way. Calling a young dragon a lesser dragon is like calling a young child a lesser human. They are just children/adolescents.

My regular Cyberdarks, Horn, Edge and Keel, were able to equip living dragons to themselves, but the dragons could fight for dominance over the machines. Sometimes they would succeed, but other times they’d fail. It seemed to just be a chance game with them.

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With the more adult dragons, or intermediate true dragons, my regular Cyberdarks basically never managed to overpower the will of the dragon. They could still equip them, and if the dragon gave in, they could work together in a way. But if the dragon didn’t like it, the Cyberdark stood no chance.

For greater true dragons, the regular Cyberdarks couldn’t even equip onto them. So I busted out the fusion spell and called out the Cyberdark Dragon.

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Cyberdark Dragon was a lot better at this, being able to overpower the will of every lesser and intermediate true dragon. He even had a high success rate with the greater true dragons, but that wasn’t 100% reliable. More like 80%.

We then tested it with Lady Janina, but basically as soon as my Cyberdark Dragon tried to take her over, my machine burst into a million pieces. So no taking over the supreme dragon with Cyberdarks.

We stopped the tests there, but we weren’t done playing yet. So I used Advanced Summoning Magic to summon both Himeśaila and Gleipnir so we could play a bit more.

Nir was just about a match to greater dragons, depending on matchup really, while Himeśaila really wasn’t. But when I ended up doing a Beast Union with Himeśaila, the two of us together could stand up to many greater dragons. We didn’t win every match, but it wasn’t like we were hopelessly outmatched either.

And doing that technique made Lady Janina ask if I could do it with my card monsters, which I’d admittedly still not tested. Hearing that, she demanded that I test it right now.

I successfully did so and because of that, Lady Janina told me to summon out a Divine-Beast, union with it and fight her.

I went with Uria, because with Uria, I can easily control how much attack and defense it has.

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Reminder that I use the Anime version of Uria, so it does gain both attack and defense for each trap in the GY, not just attack and not just for continuous traps.

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Despite my Uria being at 5000/5000 and the Beast Union on top of it, we lost quite quickly.

It honestly almost feels like the stronger her opponent is, the more powerful Lady Janina becomes. Kind of like a better version of The Wicked Avatar.

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After the fight I asked her about it, but she just chuckled and said that a lady must keep some things secret. But that comment does make me feel like I’m on the right track.

Before I left the coast and headed back to HomeBase, I had a lesson on my draconic skills. After all, I’m here with Lady Janina’s real body instead of just her in a dragon avatar, so this is a lot more effective.