“Mr. Brain. Wake up please.” I woke up to someone slightly shaking me.

  I opened my eyes. The room was dimly lit by a ntern, which had been py bedside table. The ntern didn’t have a dle, but a small magic sto still looked like a cssitern, like the ones with the oil basin and a small wick that you light on fire, instead of the more modererns.

  The person waking me up was one of the maids of this manor. I don’t really know them, but I think she is one of the maids that usually e to wake Ria up. Usually… More like I saw her doing it once.

  “... good m.” I greeted her. “What’s up?” I asked that as usually the maids don’t wake me up. They only wake Ria up and then Ria would wake me after she has had her breakfast. Even if it isn’t actually her waking me up, but instead pullio this world from the factory.

  “Rhianna seems to be running a fever, so I thought I should wake you up as well.” The maid said.

  “Eh?”

  I quickly sat up on the bed and flicked on the light. … no. You don’t fli the lights in this world. You just pass a bit of mana into the trol panel and the lights go on. It’s much closer to a touch pahan a cssic light switbsp;

  It took a few seds for my eyes to adjust, sidering that I just switched on all the lights in the room. After my vision adjusted, I looked towards the bedding that Ria was sleeping on. Well, she wasn’t actually asleep anymore.

  “...good m…” She said quietly.

  “M.” I said back.

  The usually pale Ria was quite red. She definitely looked like she was running a fever.

  I pced my hand on her forehead and it was warm. Not hot, but just warm. But sidering that dhampir's body temp is just a bit lower than a human normally, this might be a more intense fever than this would lead me to think.

  “How are you feeling?” I asked.

  “... hot. But also cold.” She answered.

  “I see…” So cssic siess symptoms. Perhaps she is just sibsp;

  (Laura, you there?)

  (In the factory with Maria. She has better information on dhampirs, sidering her host, so I’m talking with her about the potential cause.) Laura answered. Her voice seemed a bit faster than usual. Like someone had ramped up the repy speed in a video. I guess the time ditioween this world and the factory will do that.

  (Okay. Here agai’s check her out.) Laura said. I didn’t actually feel a difference, but I heard it. Her voice was back to its usual speed.

  (What do you need me to do?)

  (Just put one of your hands on her forehead and the other oomach. We’ll pass some mana through her.)

  (Sure.)

  “Ria, I’ll examine you quickly. I’ll have to clear the b and yhtgown for that.” I warned her.

  “... mhm…” She said something that sounded like permission.

  I pced my hands on her like Laura instructed a Laura take full trol of my mana. I still felt it move, but I didn’t try to restrict its movement at all.

  (At least it doesn’t seem to be any of the major illhat Maria warned me about.) Laura said.

  (Well, that’s good. Any ideas what it is?)

  (A few. Opeatus for me.)

  I did as instructed and immediately spotted the outlier.

  SpoilerName: RhiannaRace: DhampirLevel: 50HP: 1420/1440Mana: 165th: 810Defense: 545Magic: 770 Skills:True Blood Magic LV.4 (Racial)Vampiriodification LV.1 (Racial) Card Summoner LV.1 (extra) Fire Magic LV.3Mana trol LV.3Fast Mana Recovery LV.4Internal Magic Teique LV.5Unarmed bat Teique LV.4Flickering Step LV.2Power Boost LV.4Defense Boost LV.2 Blood Sucker (Racial)Sve. Master: Brian Wood[colpse]She had a new Racial skill. Vampiriodification. I clicked on it to open up a description of the skill.

  Vampiriodification (Racial)A skill that only be gained by someohat has learrue Blood Magic. Allows them to alter their body, making it an even mightier on.

  (Is that the cause?) I asked Laura.

  (Most likely. It could be that bined with another siess. But as you don’t have the skills to perform a magic s, it is impossible for me to tell.) Laura answered.

  (So level up siess bined with another possible siess.)

  (Yes. We should summon a moo examine her.)

  (Or just rely on others for this.) I said as I took a look at the maid.

  “She has at least some level up siess, but she might have something else on top of that.” I told the maid. “Would it be possible to call for a doctor for her?”

  “Ah. Yes. I shall go and ask about it.” The maid said before she scurried out of the room.

  “Just rest for now.” I said to Ria. “If it really is just level up siess because of that new skill, it should pass by tomorrow.”

  “... yes.”

  “Do you need anything?”

  “...some blood…”

  “Sure. Where did you set your fsk?”

  “... some of your blood. if you will…”

  Wh.. what? She… I guess I uand why, but still. Mine? … fine. She is sid all. And just a bit of blood won’t make a difference.

  “Sure. You take some of mine.” I agreed.

  I gave her my left hand and she guided it to her mouth. She took both my index and middle finger in, before I felt a light pri both.

  And then, she sucked. … god that sounded wrong. She was gentle and slow, like she was trying to savor every drop. I let her go for a bit, before I told her that was enough. I could have given more, but she might ask for more ter, so I don’t want to give too much from the start. And I only give so much blood per day. And it takes a long time to make new red blood cells. That is why you only donate blood so often.

  After I pulled my fingers out of her mouth, I could just barely see the little spots where she had pierced my skin, but it quickly healed. I don’t know if that is my natural healing, or some sort of dhampir power. I think the effect is usually caused by blood magic, but as Ria is in that state, I’m not sure.

  The blood did seem to help Ria, as some of her reddeni down after that. I think usually it would be a bad thing, but she is usually pale, so going back to that should be better than staying flushed red like she is.

  I had to go have breakfast before the doctor came, so I did that. I did inform everyohat Ria was sick, so I wouldn’t be going aoday, but as I had no pns in the first pce, that works out just fine.

  It retty soon after breakfast that the doctor arrived. This holy might be a waste, but I just want to make sure. And I have the moo pay for it, so why not?

  “May I see her status?” He asked after his first few tests.

  “Sorry, but I’d prefer not to show it.” I answered. While Ria has less secrets iatus than I do, she has been colleg some. Mainly her racial skills. Card Summoner is also somewhat of a secret, but there is a ce that it will be more on iure, depending on how many will actually get it from the dungeon. “But if you want to ask questions about it, I’ll answer.”

  “Then, what level is she and has she learned any new skills retly?” The doctor asked.

  “She is level 50 and she has.” I firmed.

  “Level 50 you say? I see. That might be it…”

  After a few more tests and a magic s, the doctor told me his clusion.

  “She does have a cold. It is nothing major, but it has most likely bined with level up siess to cause the results we see.” He said. “I’ll cure the cold, but she will still need a full day of bedrest, so don’t make her work today.”

  “Of course I won’t.”

  “Now then. Stay quiet for this, please.” He said before he began a t. “Light, oh the ohat brings us life, relieve this child of her ailments, Light Remedy.”

  His t was a bit lohan usual. I think they are usually just one phrase, whereas his was two. Maybe it isn’t as optimized as it isn’t a bat spell. Or maybe healing magic has longer ts. Maybe both. There might just be o optimize and shorten the t for something you don’t use outside of battle.

  The spell caused a small light to envelope Ria. I took another look at her status after the light vanished and her HP had returo full, so it must have worked.

  I thahe doctor for his time and paid for his services. He said it was unnecessary, as the Sawyer family would pay the bill, but I said as I’m not a direct member of the family, just a guest, so I would pay it myself. The bill totaled 2 rge silvers for the home visit and another 6 small silvers for the treatment. Again, cheaper than I expected. I ended up just giving him a gold and told him to keep it, as I just didn’t feel like getting the exact ge. And having a doctor on yood side should be a good thing.

  As Ria had been ordered into bed rest for the day, I also didn’t leave the house. I spent the day doing different things, like raiding the library of the house, with permission of course.

  I didn’t have time to read that many books, so what I ended up doing is analyzing them, and recreating a copy inside Different Dimension Factory. As the factory had no produ cost for anything made inside of it, there were no issues. Laura then used my token factory, also known as the ten Royal Magical Libraries, to store all of those books, so I could read them in the factory ter.

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  [colpse]From skimming the books, I did learn some iing things. One was the mystery of the first Hero, who took down the demon lord. For some reason, the hero had no name in any of the books, even though his two panions, the Great Sage Arcadia and the First Saint Lucia both had their names written in multiple books.

  … Lucia. I wonder. Is that why she insists on shortening her o Lua? She doesn’t like being named after the first saint?

  Besides the library raid, I also spent plenty of time in the factory. Magic practice with o Queen, making a pn on how to sort the ten libraries with Tahlia and taking part in a swordsmanship tour with Fantasia. I lost the first match to he Magian, by the way. Fantasia oher hand was going strong, until she had to fight Silent Swordsman LV7. But part of that is because her other oppos were quite weak. Swordsman of Landstar, M-Warrior #2 and Kagemusha of the Blue Fme.

  Spoiler [colpse]The finals of the tour ended up being a fight between two Bck Luster Soldiers, the ritual and the Envoy. The winner ended up being the ritual one, not because he was better, but because Envoy cheated and used his effect to banish his ritual version. And as any magic, other than self boosting magic, was against the rules, the ritual form was decred the winner. Even if I had to use Dimension Fusion to pull the ritual back to the factory from its banishment.

  Spoiler[colpse]

  I did also meet Lua in the factory. I told her about both Ria being sid her new skill. At first she was worried for Ria, but after I told her what the doctor said, she calmed down and turned her iowards the new skill. I did expin the information the system gave me about it, but as we don’t know the exact dition where you might learn it, that doesn’t really help.

  Also, as I never said it in the m, I guess now is as good a time as any. Laura did fully plete Magi's Fore st night.

  I had most of it already, but having all of the different XYZ-Dragon on fusions will help a lot in boosting the number of fusion monsters I summon when I actually end up having my fusion summoning party.

  Alice, who had gone off to the adventurer’s guild with a knight as her guard, came back with one pleted quest. It was just a simple colle quest for some sort of herbal pnt, which was used in some potions. She also had a certificate for sying goblins. Apparently, she had been able to take down the goblins without Threatening Roar activating, so I was quite impressed. But even still as that isn’t a quest, that isn’t doesn’t her a sed card.

  For her reward, Alice asked for a copy of Pitch-Bck Power Stone, so I gave her one. I guess this alss up the cept of using Spell ters as a mana source, so I might as well mention this. A spell ter is 1000 mana, not an automatic full heal on mana like it appeared to be st time. But as Alily had just over a thousand mana, it is basically a full heal for her. That also means that Mega Ton Magical on should take 10 000 mana.

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  In the evening, I leveled up myself. Ria was going to sit today out, as she did have mild level up siess.

  I was still on that Irind. Don’t worry Tahlia. You will be level 10 soon, and then I’ll transform you into a unique skill.

  SpoilerName: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 60HP: 1990Mana: 253th: 435Defense: 635Magic: 555 Skills: Pack Opener LV.4 (unique)Different Dimension Factory LV.2 (unique) Telekinesis LV.2 (extra)Summoner’s Unity LV.3 (extra)Iory LV.7 (extra)Dungeon Founder (extra)Summon Water Spirit (extra)Health scious (extra) Mana trol LV.5 Water Spirit’s Blessing (Greater)Language prehension (humanoid)Sve MasterSves: Rhianna[colpse]After that, I let Ria have ano at my blood. Just a bit agai’s hope that is enough to make her better by tomorrow.

  Good night for now.

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