M always es. And I go to the factory.

  But today, I actually had something to do, so I had Laura call a lot of my spellcaster moo the main hall. Access hub. Whatever I should call it.

  They were all here for one reason, and one reason alone. I wao get some magic books analyzed. And for that, I was going to install Book of Secret Arts into the stro spellcaster of each attribute at least.

  But that also meant that I realized something. S my spellcasters by their attack stat, 7 of the stro were all dark attribute. Somehow I feel like that is wrong, but I ’t really tell why.

  The olier to this rule was actually Neo Aqua Madoor. Not because of his attack, but because of his defense. His 3000 defense was the sed highest of all spellcasters I have, beien only by Dark Sage.

  Spoiler[colpse]Anyway, I got sidetracked again. Funny facts about Yugioh monsters aside, my stro spellcaster monsters by attribute are Sorcerer of Dark Magic, Chaos and Magi, Kazejin, Neo Aqua Mademini Elf and Legendary Fme Lord.

  Spoiler[colpse]Yeah, I know. I still haven’t summoned Legendary Fme Lord. I’ll do it today in the vilge.

  But back to the books. Sorcerer of Dark Magic actually reended Dark Sage over himself, sidering that Dark Sage is more experienced, so he has a rger arsenal of different teiques to add to the book. But as I have plenty of books, I just gave oo both of them. Other than that, the installs went to the stro monster.

  o Queen also got o it produced a dimensional magic book, not space magid as dimensional magic is the upgraded form of space magic, the book is not that useful for me at this moment. I guess I’ll have to learn space magic the hard way. Well, I’m not sure it cssifies as ‘the hard way’ sidering that I do have a first css teacher.

  Dark Sage had an amazingly detailed book, which was around three times as thick as the others had. Sorcerer of Dark Magic’s book oher hand was quite short, but it was focused on a type of magic called Celestial magic. It isn’t actually anything like a separate attribute, but instead a type of magic. You do it with any attribute, if you practiough. The big difference being the power source of Celestial magic. Celestial magic uses a pressed form of mana called stardust and managing that power is the most difficult part of using it. Well, you’ll also have to be able to make this ‘stardust’ inside your body, then store it, the. Yeah. Let’s not go there just yet. I want to learn normal magic first. Baby steps and all of that.

  Other things of note were Neo Aqua Madoor’s book being focused more ohan water, so I also gave his ‘normal’ form, Aqua Madoor, a book, resulting in a more standard water magic book.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]Kazejin’s book was also a bit special, fog oh based wind spells, as well as spells that work well with water and thunder magic. Or should it be lightning magid Gemini Elf’s book had spells that were reeo be used by two people, simir to how Christina casted a spell with her maid in the dungeon. You could cast them solo, but you might ck either trol or power, so two people are reended. I’ll be sure to share that book to the dungeon database, instead of keeping it just in Tahlia’s database, as well as in the factory. Christina make herself one if she wants to from there.

  Also, because the light magic book of Chaos and Magi cked any info on healing magic, I ended up installing a book onto White Magi Pikeru. She might be quite weak, but she is the only light spellcaster I have with an effect to heal life points, so I was sure her book would have at least some light attribute healing spells.

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  [colpse]Too bad both Guardian Angel Joan and Shinato are fairy monsters, so I ’t install a Book of Secret Arts into them. They might get some better stuff.

  … yes I know I could do it with DNA Surgery, but at the same time, the low level books are enough for now. I get the higher level books when they are more timely. No need for more books on things like stardust. Or fairies might have a form of mana of their own, that they use for their high level spells. Shinato did call his spell ‘Divine’ so maybe that is another agic like Celestial magic is.

  But with all of the books now analyzed, and hopefully stored inside my Libraries, I was ready to head out. Well, first I met up with my daughters.

  Tahlia, iingly enough, was by the libraries, making sure the new books are sorted correctly. And Fantasia was also in the same room, but she had gotten bored, so she had called up one of the dragons and was flying around in the sky. In case you were w, the dragon she was riding is Divine Dragnarok. Thanks for the remihat I o summon King Dragun at some point.

  Spoiler[colpse]

  After I got out of the factory, I thought I should make the two new light magic books, and maybe the water and ice magic books for Lua, but they would get a bit expensive in terms of geion points. A bnk book is cheap, but the higher level information books are expeo make. So I’ll just tell Lua to read them in the factory instead. Or install a copy of Book of Secret Arts into her Pikeru. Either will work. And I still have the two light magic books I picked up yesterday, so I’ll just give those to her.

  During breakfast, I asked Paulina about her schedule. Mainly if she would be fih going to the duomorrow. Alice had also reached LV.40 two days ago, so she was now over the level where I said she could attempt some of the challenge rooms.

  The main reason I was asking about this was because I was going to go see Christina tomorrow anyway, so I might as well bring everyoo the dungeon while we are at it. And I also pick her up and she e with us as well. Just to see how much Alice has improved.

  The sed reason I was firming it now was Agatha. I was going to ask if she would e with us as well. Holy, her having Card Summoner would just be extremely useful for her. She could summon something and ride it to the vilge. Maybe I install an autopilot into a Gradius, so that it will only fly that route with zero input from Agatha, so she won’t get lost. Or just give her a bird.

  Or maybe Luster Dragon and Luster Dragon #2.

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  [colpse]

  She could probably use #1 to go bad forth between the vilge and here. And if she used that lie about the ‘dragon’s blessing’, being able to summon said dragon, #2, wouldn’t be se. I think.

  Paulina agreed to clear her schedule, so we were good to go tomorrow.

  I also made sure to inform Christina about it, via our notebook letter services.

  I told Agatha about my idea on our way to the vilge. She agreed and said that she would be ready tomorrow m by the time I usually pick her up for the blood deliveries.

  I wonder. Should I ask Lua as well? Have the whole crew together. She could also introduce her evolved self to everyone.

  “... I’d rather not.” Lua answered as I told her my idea. “At least not until I learn how to hide my wings.”

  “Well, if you don’t want to, that is fine. But why hide them? They are beautiful, so you should just get used to them.”

  “I- I … don’t say something like that…” Lua pined.

  “But it is true.”

  “I … thank you. But I … I’m just… not used to it. Being stared at… I’ve beeing used to it here, but … I’m not sure how I would do in a big town or a city.”

  “I’m sure you’ll do fine, and we aren’t going to go to a city, just the dungeon. There will only be about five of us, and Ria, your mother and I have all seen your wings already.” I said, before ging the subject. “What about that offer of a new dress? Mia did tell me that you have been practig in the factory, so do you want to do it?”

  “... right now? … I guess we . Let’s head inside.” Lua said, leadio her room.

  “Don’t stare, please.” Lua requested.

  “... I wouldn’t, but why did you strip?” I asked.

  Yes. Lua was in faly in her underwear. After we got ihe room where she sleeps, she had just stripped to just that.

  “It … it's necessary.” She said. “If I don’t, my clothes will get used for the skill again.” She expined.

  “Oh yeah. I guess it will use everything you wear.” I ented. “So, which card did you want? Vampire Red Baron?”

  “... he won’t fit into the room with his horse.” Lua said. “ we use Vampire Grimson? I had good results with her in the factory.”

  “Grimson? Sure. I’ll summon her now.” I said, searg her from my colle. “Vampire Grimson.”

  Spoiler

  [colpse]

  The vampire grim reaper appeared in the room, holding her rge scythe in her hand.

  “Master, my dy.” She greeted us. Calling Lua ‘my dy’ I see. I guess she is a monard a princess, even if she is a dhampir, not a vampire. “I see that you have called for my assistance.”

  “y-yes. I wao do what we did in the factory, if that is alright.” Lua said.

  “Naturally. I will gdly give my clothes to you, my dy.” Grimson said. “Master, if you would.”

  “Sure.” I said, getting the spell card out. “Are both of you ready?”

  “Yes.” Grimson answered.

  “Mmm.” Lua muttered something, while nodding lightly.

  “Alrighty then. Tailor of the Fickle.” I said and activated the card.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]

  The outfit of Vampire Grimson disappeared from around her body, along with her scythe, leaving her in the same state Lua had just been in. In just basiderwear. This led me to figure out that Grimson has blue skin. I guess I should have figured it out earlier, but I just never focused on it. Her eyes were silver in color, and had a gssy look to them, almost as if she was blind.

  “Princess’s Grace. Make a new dress.” Lua said, probably to activate her skill.

  I was expeg a rge ge, but not a lot happened. Her dress stayed reasonably close to what it had been previously. Some of the parts actually simplified, like the rge brood the ruffles u disappearing.

  What remained was a red dress, with a blue and browher armor over it, which looked almost like a corset. Her legs were covered by dark blue leather pants and pink and brown knee-high boots. On top of that was a crimson mantle, with a silvery edge. The dress and the leather armor both had small holes for her wings, so her wings were slightly poking out, visible uhe mantle. C her eyes was a mask that looked like a masquerade mask. It robably the least inal looking of all of her new outfit, as it looked like it was made from gray ce, instead of bone like it had been. In her hands the rge scythe from Grimson had turned a six fnged mace. Though Lua is more of a caster than a frontline fighter, so I’m not sure how well she’ll be able to use that mace. But sidering that the fnges should be vampiric steel, she should be able to alter its appearance a bit at least.

  “... well, I would call that a success.” I said.

  “Yes. It really was.” Lua said, looking over her new clothes. “Thank you.”

  “I don’t mean to interrupt, but Master, if you would.” The near naked Grimson said.

  “Yeah. Sorry for f you to wait.” I said, getting out three cards from my colle. “Tribute to the Doomed. I discard Outstanding Dog Marron to destroy Vampire Grimson.” I said to activate my card.

  Spoiler[colpse]Now I know what you might ask, why? Well, it is simple really. Lua just basically stole the clothes from Grimson and we hem back. And the easiest way to do that is simply destroying her aing her e back after her death cooldown. And Tribute to the Doomed is the best card I have for ‘peacefully’ killing her. I don’t want to do something like smack her with a ically rge wooden mallet after all.1Hammer Shot And using God Marron, I mean Dog Marron as a discard just makes sense, sihe dog e back automatically as soon as they go on the death cooldown, because of their effect.2Actal joke born because I misspelled dog as god. I was going to fix it, but it was funny so I left it.

  “Monster Reborn.” I activated the third card which I got out. This part wasn’t actually necessary, but sidering that we just stole the clothes from Grimson and then killed her to get them back, using a Monster Reborn is deserved.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]The now again clothed Grimson reappeared before us.

  “Thank you Master. You really didn’t have to.” She said.

  “Maybe, but you also did us a great service, so of course I will. You go now.” I said, unsummoning the newly resurrected vampire.

  I turned back to look at Lua. She had taken off her masquerade mask, and she was looking bad forth between the ma her right hand and the mask in her left.

  “I ’t put them away…” She muttered.

  “Put them away? What do you mean?” I asked.

  “When I was in the factory, I was able to put aarts of my clothing. Like my ons, my mantle, or even something like this mask.” Lua said. “But I ’t do it now.”

  “... alright. Are you sure that wasn’t just factory shenanigans? You just altering your avatar?”

  “No. Mia said it was the skill, so I don’t think so. And I could only do it with clothes and ons I altered with Princess’s Grace.”

  “... okay. Well, I really don’t know, so… Maybe you need your skill to level up, but the factory somehow treated your skill as being at a higher level?” I offered.

  “... your skill is weird.”

  “Yeah, tell me about it. But it's not like yours is pletely normal either, so I guess we are even.”

  “... but it only makes dresses, so it isn’t nearly as good as your skills. Especially the Pack Opener.”

  “I would still sider that good. Also, your new clothes look amazing.” I plimented her.

  “Eh? I … thank you.”

  “When you are ready for a sed one, just ask. But holy, that will be a great daily wear dress. I kind of prefer your other one, but that one might be a bit much for daily use, so this is great. But I do wonder, how defensive do you think it is?”

  “I guess we could try it out in bat to find out?” Lua offered.

  “So the dungeon. Tomorrow?”

  “I… I guess.” Lua agreed. “Wait? You tricked me!”

  “No I didn’t. I’ll e pick you up tomorrow m, around the time we arrived today.” I told her, before esg the room.

  “Brian!” She called out after me.

  I looked back just to see her taking a good two handed grip on her mace.

  Yeap. Time for me to take some distance. I know I have det defense, but I still don’t want to take a mace to the face. Or any other part of my body for that matter.

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