We stood there, fag each other. Christina had her three Amazoness monsters, Swordswoman, Tiger and Padin ready to go.

  Spoiler[colpse]They were staring down my three dragons, Padin of White Dragon, Armed Dragon LV5 and Mirage Dragon.

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  “Are both of you ready?” Angelina asked. Like with the st match, she was our referee.

  For rules, again, simple. We would fight until all three monsters on one side had beeroyed. Not quite a battle to the faint, like in pokemon, but still.1Because someone might ask, I did pick up Pokemon Violet. But my monsters arely pokemon, so having them fight to ‘death’ is just fine.

  We were only going to fight with our three monsters, no other teiques, or cards, were to be used. I was actually a bit worried about Amazoness Spellcaster, a card that I had given Christina back when I gave her the Amazoness monsters, sidering that she could use it to trade Amazoigers inal attack with that of Armed Dragon LV5. If she did, what should currently be a 2300 attack tiger would grow to a 3600 attack tiger. And that would be a lot to deal with.

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  [colpse]Sure at that point I could use Armed Dragon LV5’s effect, discard Master of Oz aroy the tiger, but this will be a better fight if her of us do any shenanigans like that. Because at that point, I just Raigeki. Or Swords of Revealing Light. Or ge of Heart. Or … you get it. If I’d use my entire colle, I’d have tons of cards that would instantly win the fight for me.

  We also banned any attacks used agaiher of us, or wheher of us were in the line of fire. I learned from st time. This was actually a lot bigger of a limiting factor for me, as most of the attacks used by Christina’s Amazoness monsters are once you use up close, but my dragons do have some breath attacks, so I’ll have to be careful with them.

  “I’m ready.” I answered Angelina.

  “We are ready as well.” Christina added.

  “Alright. Then, in three, two, one, Go!”

  “Mirage Bst, Ionic Burst!” I awo of my dragons.

  They had taken flight and were fnking Christina’s monsters from the left and the right, so they could easily attack from there with no ce of hitting Christina.

  “Scatter!” Christina ordered ahree monsters left their formation. The two breath attacks from my dragons then turned a bit, targeting only the Amazoiger. That effect is stupidly powerful.

  While the breath from Mirage Dragon hit the grouo the Tiger, the one from White Padin hit it. The tiger took a slight tumble because of the attack, but it most definitely didn’t go down.

  “... I’ll have to take them down…” I heard Christina mutter. “Or I could…” She was saying as she turo look at Armed Dragon LV5.

  Yes. Do it. Fall for the trap. I know he looks like an easy target, but my Armed Dragon is the stro of these dragons. That’s why I had him stay bad hold firm at the beginning.

  My dragons pleted their turnarounds and were ing in for the pass with their breath attacks, but Christina’s monsters were ready. While the dragons had tet the Tiger, the Swordswoman and the Padin were free to attack them, by jumping up and sshing at them.

  While the ssh from Swordswoman to my Padin of White Dragon didn’t actually do any signifit damage, the ssh from Amazoness Padin to my Mirage Dragon did a lot more. Not enough where my monster instantly died, but it did get injured.

  “Fall back!” I ordered my twons.

  They both fell bad took positions on the right a of Armed Dragon.

  “Mirage, you keep going?” I asked. I have no idea if it uands me, but let's try anyway.

  Mirage Dragon seemed to slightly nod a out a little growl in response. I’ll take that as a yes. Had it indicated no, I’d probably have used it as a tribute for Armed Dragon’s effect. I could have dealt with the Swordswoman that way.

  “Alright. Then, Armed Dragon, move. Attack that Tiger. Armed Banisher!” I ordered.

  “Go, my Tiger. Strike back!” Christina ordered. “Padin, Swordswoman, attack that dragon as well.”

  Christina seemed to have accepted my challenge, all of her moo attack my Armed Dragon. In Yugioh terms, that is a suicide, but this isn’t Yugioh. Until that Tiger goes down, my dragon ot attaything else. It should be able to ter attack, but any attacks inating from it will seek out the Tiger.

  “Keep the women away from Armed!” I ordered my other twons, sending Mirage to intercept Swordswoman and Padin against Padin.

  This was actually arap. I wanted Christina to think my Armed Dragon is the weakest of them. That way, she might lose her Tiger to it and this fight will be mine.

  My dragons approached the women, but didn’t attack them. This was strictly to keep them from incurring Amazoigers effect. With the dragoween the women and Armed Dragon, the only ohat could make it all the way to my dragon was the Amazoiger.

  The tiger leaped towards the dragon, holding its cws out, ready to rip my dragon to shreds. That is, if it had ever made it. But instead, the fist of my dragohe tiger’s fad smashed it in.

  The tiger fell to the ground, injured but not out just yet. But that was about to ge. My dragon raised its fist and brought it down onto the dowiger, shattering the tiger into specks of light.

  “NO!” Christina yelled.

  “Padin, attack her Padin. Ionic Spear Burst!” I ordered, not giving Christina time to recover.

  This was my ce to turn the fight around. With the tigers effect out of the way, the other two were free game. And with one less Amazoness out of the field, both Amazoness Padin and Padin of White Dragon should now have 1900 attack, so they should just destroy each other.

  My dragon knight was surrounded by blue light and it rushed at Amazoness Padin. The Amazoness, for its part, prepared its sword and sshed at the dragon knight when they made tact, causing both of them to disappear as specks of light.

  Now, just the Swordswoma. And I know just how to deal with it.

  “Armed Dragon, use your effect. I sacrifice the Mirage Dragon to destroy that Amazoness Swordswoman. Shrapnel Bster!” I ordered.2Again, I cheat (ged the effect), but it fits, so just deal with it.

  My Mirage Dragon accepted its fate, flying directly into the mouth of my Armed Dragon. Armed Dragon LV5 did seem to enjoy its meal and then unched a massive amount of spikes from all around its body. All of those spikes were then directed at the Amazoness Swordsierg its body from all angels, ending the fight.

  “Winner, Brian!” Angelina announced.

  I turo face the audience, raising my right arm in a fist.

  “Brian, that was so cool!” Alice called as she ran to me. “That final attack was crazy. There is no way to dodge that thing, is there?”

  “There really was nothing. Maybe a capsule spell, but that attaes too fast to put up something like that.” Paulina added.

  Capsule spell? Like a co surrounding you? I guess that might block it, but I’m not sure. Those spikes might just pierce it.

  “I really stood no ce, did I?” Christina asked, having walked up to us.

  “Well, not really. You should have focused more effort into taking dowwo flying dragons first, as they were actually the weaker targets, instead of charging at my Armed Dragon.”

  “... so I fell for a trap, huh.”

  “Yeah. You kind of did.”

  “But what about that st attack? Why did your drago your other dragon?”

  “It's a special attack. Kind of like yer draws attacks targeted at your other Amazoness monsters. Holy, it was kind of my secret on for the fight. I could destroy your monsters with it, by giving up some of my own, and that would have weakened yer to the point where it would stand no ce against my Armed Dragon.”

  “... alright. I see.”

  “Speaking of the dragon.” Angelina said. “Is that normal?”

  I turo look look at my Armed Dragon, and it had a green ring of light at its feet. That ring was shooting up green light, whipassed the dragon.

  “... it's evolving, huh. Yes. That is normal.” I answered. So it really will evolve. Of course it should, but there is always a ce it wouldn’t.

  The about 7 meters tall Armed Dragon LV5 grew explosively. When we could see it again, it was basically double its previous size, now standing at 14 meters tall. My Armed Dragon LV7.

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  “B-Brian?” Alice asked.

  “It evolved. Some of my monsters do that after they win a fight. Remember that dragon I summoned when we huhat orc settlement? The same happened with it, except that it evolved twice.”

  “Oh. That’s so cool! …maybe I should get one of those ?”

  “... was your pn on evolving mid battle and sig that dragon on me?” Christina asked.

  “That was a backup pn of sorts. But as I said, my dragon would have to win a fight, or more accurately, take down at least one of your monsters first, so had you won with no casualties, you wouldn’t have had to face it. Well, not like you did now.”

  “Ah. I see. So I just had no knowledge about your monsters a about this in the wrong way. Thank you for the match. I had fun.”

  “Yeah. I also liked it.” I said, as I returned my two grayed out dragons, to my colle.

  … now I’ll have to summon Padin of White Dragon again when I want to use it ime… Why did I order that suicide charge?

  Well, anyway. As I was returning the cards to my colle, I thought of something, so I got out 4 copies of Level Up. In toploaders, of course. I gave her four, as I have extra, and she use the other two on … well, anyone she wants. Maybe the maids, or even Brandon, if he earns it. Might be a useful thing to have as a carrot when Brando want to work.

  Or she give two to Zayaan. Or I could do that. But at the same time, I’m not so sure that is a good idea. I kind of want to keep the Level Ups with people that ot be stepped over that easily. Some higher ranking guild person could potentially just order Zay to move to a different guild and force him to use the Level Ups in more selfish ways. Christina, Alid I have the fact that we are … well only Christina really is, but still. We are more or less nobles, so it is a bit more difficult to force us to do something. And Lua. Well, she is a dhampir, and norincess. And a system support holder. I’m sure she figure something out.

  “Christina, I think you should have these.” I said as I hahem over.

  “... level … Alright. Thanks. But what exactly do they do?”

  “They level you up. Either your overall level, or you specify a skill and it will level that up instead.” I told her.

  “Wait! Repeat that, please.” Angelina requested.

  “... fine.”

  I expihe Level Up! again, and Christina used her new copies. Two on herself and two on Angelina. She wao at first use her extra copies on Alice, but Alice showed her mother her own copies, so that got denied. I made sure to warn her about the potential level up siess, if she used more than two on herself as well.

  I unsummohe LV7 Armed Dragon, then summoned Big Cain, and took us back to Alewatch. Then, after a bit more chatting, we, except Christina, got bato Big Core and flew back to Sawyer city.

  (Laura, you add a new research thing onto the list?)

  (Of course. What is it?)

  ( we install something into Christina’s terminal so that it will get a duel disk? Like how I installed Hieroglyph Lithograph to gaiwo new slots?)

  (Yes. I’ll look into that.)

  If I get a duel disk for Christina, maybe I have a 5v5 against her. But if I did, she might actually wiiger would get super powerful with 5 Amazoness monsters on the field. And if she used Buster Bder, I couldn’t use dragons, or he would just kill them all.

  I mean, I would still win if I went all out, but I would have to summon some quite powerful moo match up against Buster Bder or a 3100 attack Amazoiger.

  Back at the Sawyer manor, we quickly did our usual evening things. Lying into the Ria diary, bathing and magic practice. The usual stuff. I just hate how difficult the mana trol for space magic is. Even with a t and Laura hacks, I haven’t been able to cast one, even if I cast the Space Wall ihe factory with about 50% success rate. Maybe I need some more levels in my Mana trol skill. Well, maybe tomorrow. Today is still Iory. And tomorrow m I’ll give Tahlia her Time Seal.

  Perhaps also because of my own ana trol, and Ria still struggling with trolling blood iron, possibly because of her Mana trol level, her skill level up of the day went to mana trol.

  SpoilerName: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 66HP: 2350Mana: 289th: 465Defense: 665Magic: 585 Skills: Pack Opener LV.4 (unique)Different Dimension Factory LV.2 (unique) Telekinesis LV.2 (extra)Summoner’s Unity LV.3 (extra)Iory LV.10 (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: 56HP: 1650Mana: 186th: 890Defense: 630Magic: 880 Skills:True Blood Magic LV.5 (Racial)Vampiriodification LV.2 (Racial) Card Summoner LV.2 (extra) Fire Magic LV.3Mana trol LV.4Fast 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]Anyway. That is it for today. Tomorrow I’ll be going back to pying adventurer. Good night.

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