(So, Laura, what do you think happened with Lua’s clothes? Are they still held by that skill? They are, right?) I now really wao know. What kind of skill just makes your clothes disappear?
(May I ahat?) I heard Mia’s voi my head.
(Yes. Maria, please expin it to us.) Laura gave permission.
(The Princess’s Grace, a part of her new skill, transforms her current outfit into something more fitting of a princess, while keeping all of its usual stats. I tried to warn her about it, but she still activated it.) Mia expined.
(... so her adventuring clothing transformed into that dress?) I firmed.
(Yes.)
(That’s an iing skill.)
(I’d agree. There are no records of such skills.) Laura added.
(They may be unique skills only, so we ’t access those records.) Mia said.
(Will it do that every time?) I asked.
(No. It only forces that effe the first time, or if a princess outfit is not avaible in the skill. But as she now has one, she will be able to ge to it at will.)
(But she make new ones, right?)
(Yes.)
(And she use anything while she makes them?)
(Anything she ormally wear.)
(Including things like full suits of armor?)
(Yes.)
(And the dress will keep the stats of the equipment used?)
(Yes.)
(... holy. That is OP as anything.)
(I know you might think like that, but it really isn’t.) Laura interrupted. (She will still have to get the initial outfit or armor that she uses as the base. It only ges the appearance of the outfit she wears. Right, Maria?)
(Yes. While it is useful for making her pretty, it really isn’t that powerful all things sidered. And as the skill will always make a dress on some level, it won’t even make it that much easier to move in.)
(Yeah, I guess.) I admitted. (But it should be better when fighting humans and other such species, as seeing a princess like that makes us think she is defenseless.)
(Yes. I’ll make sure she knows that trick.) Mia said.
(But other than that princess dress, what her skill do?)
(Two things. One is the Dhampir Order. It be used to and other dhampirs. While it isn’t guaranteed, it does make them more likely to follow her orders. And wearing an outfit made by Princess’s Gracreases the effectiveness of that skill.
The sed is Thrall Creation. She turn weak monsters into her thralls and they will follow all of her ands. And like with the Dhampir Order, having Princess’s Grace active increases the power of Thrall Creation.)
(Just monsters? Not humans?)
(At least not as of now. Perhaps she when the skill levels up some. And as of now, the most she could do is a D-rank monster.)
A little while ter, Lua came out of the room dressed in the clothes I made her. I really hope she won’t actally transform these into a dress as well, as I only remake the full set one more time. Well twice if I fly over to the dungeon. I really o go hunt some monsters just to absorb them into my Dungeon Founder. Or maybe hunt them first, then fly over to the dungeon and then absorb them, so I won’t suffer the penalty for doing things remotely. And we were going to visit Christina tomorrow or the day after that anyway, as she did ask for us to drop by every now and then.
Some of the vilgers, especially the males, were a bit disappoihat Lua was no longer in her dress, her hair wasn’t even done up anymore. That quick ge skill seems super useful, holy. I wonder if it also keeps her clothes . If it does, it’s eveer than I thought. And I wonder how many outfits she store with it. And she only store one casual outfit and a few princess outfits?
Also, would one of my cards give a skill simir to that when installed? Hidden Armory, maybe, but I don’t have access to it yet. Enting Fitting Room? Probably not. Tailor of the Fickle? No. That would only switch your clothing/equipment with the equipment of someone else around you. Useful, but not what I’m after.
… Wait. I just had a stupid idea. If Tailor of the Fickle really ss my clothes with the clothes of someone else around me, could I..?
(There is a ce that would work. I test it, if you’d like.) Laura offered.
(Thanks. If it does work, I might get some OP equipment for free.)
(It likely won’t work that way. Your clothing will most likely go back to normal after the time limit, unless you somehow transform the equipment you borrowed from your monster into your own.)
(... like Lua with her new skill? We might be able to get an OP princess dress for Lua. … or we could just make some more blood iron or vampiric steel, make something from it and then have Lua turn that into a princess dress.)
(Or we could use the armor of Vampire Red Baron. It is a mix of both blood iron and vampiric steel.)
(... yeah. I suppose so. Let’s test it out first. If it works, we offer that for Lua. And Lua has to accept her atus as a princess. Otherwise it won’t help her.)
“Let’s go! I’ll make sure to hunt more than you .” Ria decred as we ehe forest surrounding the vilge.
“I don’t think so. You might know this area better, but I’m stronger, so I’ll kill the monsters faster.” Lua responded.
After I admitted to Lua that I was a bit low on Geion points because I made her the clothes, she said we will head out to hunt something so I get some more. It would also double as a test drive for Ria’s new gaus.
And Ria just had to go and turn it into a petition. It was going to be her against Lua and the winner would be the ohat hunts down monsters worth more points. Simple.
But I still don’t know why. There wasn’t even going to be any kind of reward for the winner.
“So, the rules.” I began. “You do anything, except steal each others pray, attack each other, sabotage each other. You get the point. Any teique is fair game, as long as you don’t attack the other petitor. Is that uood?”
““Yes!”” They both responded.
“I’ll be in the sky in Gradius, so if you get in trouble, I’ll e and help.” I added. “Are you both ready to go?”
““Yes!”” Another positive response from the two.
“Good. The ready, set, GO!”
As soon as I gave them the go, both of them ran into the woods. I’m holy ied in whie of them will win. You might think Ria, as she has the homefield advantage and she is a cle fighter, but Lua is stronger.
Anyway, I guess I will see. I o get into position and make sure nothing bad happens to them.
“Gradius.”
I jumped into my spaceship and took flight.
Both of the two girls seemed to have somewhat simir battle pn, because as I spotted them, both of them had summoned a monster, or monsters. Lua was running through the forest fnked by Vampire Sucker and Vampire Vamp.
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Meanwhile, Ria had run up to the opening we used st time wheook flight. She summoned her Firebird and was now flying in the sky, trying to spot bigger prey. I just hope she won’t bite off more than she chew.
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Lua was w steadily, taking down any monsters she happeo find on the way. She would also seire’s out to scout, increasing the speed at which she was taking things down. But still, her prey was quite weak. D-rank and under.
As for Ria, this far, her prey was just oriped tiger, a k monster.
“Okay. Let’s check them out.” I said after the hunt was over and we had regrouped. I wasn’t going to absorb them yet, just shove them into my iory and absorb them tomorrow when I head to Alewatch to have tea with Christina. But Laura would still get me an accurate enough of aimate so I could judge the petition.
Lua had hunted a lot. To the point where she had pletely filled up her magic bag. Not her fanny pack, but the ohat was once carried by Rico, which she kept after Prime Rib broke up. Her final prey was 9 goblins, 4 forest snakes, 6 giant rats and 3 kobolds.
For Ria, there was the striped tiger and two winged deer, called a sky deer. All k monsters. The sky deer were actually sidered quite dangerous, as they use wind magic. But they are only k, as they don’t attaless you get too close, or try to take over their grazing grounds.
“Alright. The points are in. Are you two ready to hear the results?”
““Yes.””
“The winner is, by fifty points …. Ria!” I announced.
Lua got 2550 Geion points in total, by Laura’s estimate, while Ria’s three k monsters were 2600 Geion points. About as close as you get it. Just one moblin and Lua would have won.
(That would have actually tied them. She would have needed one more kobold to win.) Laura specified.
“... I won?” Ria didn’t seem to believe the fact that she did.
“gratutions.” Lua said, not seeming to mind that she lost.
“I WON!!!” Ria yelled out as she jumped about 10 meters into the air and struck a pose.
I know people do that, but it still looks strange. Even I jump up about 4 meters.
“So Ria, how were the gaus?” I asked her as we were returning to the vilge.
“They were alright. I ’t rip things that well, as I ’t move the blood iro, but I think I’ll learn soon. And my punches are way more powerful with them.”
“Good. Then just more practid you’ll get it in no time, I’m sure.”
“But holding the card while I ung things was really difficult. Do you think something be done about it?”
“Yeah. I’ll see what I do about that. I might be able to make a bracer like my terminal that hold one card, or even a full duel disk. I just o experiment with it a bit.”
Anood thing I learned was that Ria had not run out of mana this time. Sure she was a bit low, but not almost out. The level ups on her Fast Mana Recovery had apparently helped.
Ria was riding her high from that victory all the way until we left the vilge. Some of the vilgers were a little disappoihat their princess Lua didn’t win and ended up saying things like : “She held back.” “She didn’t even call on us.”
People get way too petitive over nothing.
While the others were eating lunch, which ike Seadra by the way, Lua took me to the side and thanked me again for her new clothes.
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[colpse]She also asked if I was serious about Ria winning, or if I did that to make her feel better, but after I reassured her that Ria did actually win, she seemed a bit let down. I’m sorry, but it was the truth. Laura was the head judge, not me. I was just the announcer.
She then quickly expihe ge to her system mission. It was basically the same, but the reward se had ged a bit.
Now it said that she would have to teach at least 13 of the 17 vilgers true blood magid once she reached that, her Dhampir Princess skill would level up to LV.2. By the way, Ria did t towards the thirteen and currently the status of her mission was 5/13.
We left quite quickly after lund made it back to the city. There, we dropped of Agatha before making a quick stop at the adventurer’s guild. There I dropped off the papers Agatha gives me to show that I’ve pleted her escort quest.
Like st time, I got some questions about how I could do it so fast, but I just told the guild that I have a super fast golem carriage, aka. Overdrive. With Overdrive, you get to the vilge in under an hour, so it isn’t really that far. But, of course, if you go by horse or carriage, you have to sider the horse/horses. They only run so fast and for so long. And you’ll have to feed them ahem water while at the vilge, as well as allowing them to rest before you e babsp;
Well, that’s not my problem. Buy an Overdrive from me if you want to travel faster. First you’ll have to get Card Summohough. And I don’t think I’ll let Overdrive go for cheap either. And the Overdrives I sell won’t e with Mae version Factory or 7 pleted, so they won’t be as fortable. Those cost extra.
After we got back to the manor, we did our usual daily stuff. Aka. some magic practice, I filled in the ‘diary’ that I needed for Ria and hanging out with my girls in the factory.
I also spent a bit of time trying to expin telekinesis to Paulina. Apparently, she had gotten her mana trol to LV.10 a few days ago and wanted more examples of how telekinesis is done. I had to act as Laura’s mouth to expin as much as we could.
In theory, telekinesis is simple. You just surround the object you are trying to move in mana that is under your trol, and move the mana. Then the object follows. Simple, right? Yeah. It’s not. Go on. Try it. Exactly, you ’t. Simple doesn’t mean easy.
I guess if I were to pare it to something you might do ba earth, it would be like trying to move water, with just your hands. No buckets or anything.
Actually, that isn’t even correct. More like trying to move air with your hands. Sure you cause a tiny whirl, but nothing that would ever move an object. Well, maybe a piece of paper.
Or should I pare it to electricity? I don’t know. What do you pare it to, as earth has no equivalent thing.
Then it was just level ups and going to sleep. For me, it is still going into Iory. Just one more day and it will be LV.10. And for Ria, True Blood Magic to help her trol the blood iron.
SpoilerName: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 64HP: 2230Mana: 277th: 455Defense: 655Magic: 575 Skills: Pack Opener LV.4 (unique)Different Dimension Factory LV.2 (unique) Telekinesis LV.2 (extra)Summoner’s Unity LV.3 (extra)Iory LV.9 (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]SpoilerName: RhiannaRace: DhampirLevel: 54HP: 1630Mana: 179th: 880Defense: 620Magic: 860 Skills:True Blood Magic LV.5 (Racial)Vampiriodification LV.2 (Racial) Card Summoner LV.2 (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]“Ria, your Card Summoner leveled up.” I told her after I firmed that the level ups had worked.
“It did?” She asked and seemed to firm it herself. “It did! Yes!”
“grats. But I wonder why?”
“Maybe because I fought the monsters with Firebird?”
“Oh yeah. You did. That could be it.” Maybe fighting something with a monster, or anding a moo fight another monster is required or something. Alice, Lua, Alex and Christina had all do before their skill leveled up at least.
But Ria used Smashing Ground. Wouldn’t that t?
(It may not have, as she didn’t have Card Summo that time. And it might be limited to only happen when doh monsters. In fact, using spell cards might help people level up Card Summoner.) Laura theorized.
(... well, I did give Alice Pitch-Bck Power Stoerday, so if her Card Summoner levels up again, we might have our answer.)
“Anyway. I’m proud of you. You did well.” I plemented Ria as I got into bed.
“Thank you. Good night, Brian.”
“Good night.” I said as I switched off the lights.
