“.... good m.” I said to Alice, when I woke up. She must have already been awake, because she was ‘drilling’ her head into my chest.

  “M…. you are warm.” She responded, as she got even closer to me.

  “... thanks, I guess. … but could you stop pushing your head into my chest?”

  “Nope. I like it like this.”

  “... just use a bit less force, please.” I said, as I moved my hand to the back of her head and brushed it a bit. “Did you sleep well?”

  “Yes. I don’t know how I couldn’t, since I was o you.”

  “Well, that’s good. But remember, you ’t just take me. You’ll have to be able to share with Lua.” I reminded her.

  “I know. But I know you’ll just make us a big bed, won’t you?”

  “... I guess. But it won’t be ready today, or anything.” Well, I probably could make ooday with the dungeon.

  “That’s fine. Even a small bed fit all three of us.” As Alice said that, she hugged me even tighter.

  “... yeah. I suppose that is true, if you sleep so close to me.”

  Knock, knock.

  “Miss, Sir, are you awake? May I e in?” After a bit more cuddling, we heard someo the door.

  “Yes. We are awake.” Alice responded.

  After hearing Alice’s response, Jenna came into the room. Her eyes widened just a bit, as she saw Alice ging to me, but she quickly recovered.

  “Breakfast will be served soon. Please get dressed up.” Jenna told us, before she quickly left the room.

  Running away after seeing something you didn’t want to see? I hope not, because for some reason, I feel like this won’t be the st time Alice will want to do something like this with me.

  “So, shall we?” I asked Alice.

  “... I do like this… but I’m also hungry. … what to do?”

  “We keep going after breakfast.” I told her, knowing full well that what I said was likely a lie.

  “Okay. Then yes.” Alice said, as she let go of me.

  We got out of bed and as I was quickly dressing up in my usual t-shirt and jeans bo, Alice was looking at the few outfits she has iwo closets. Well, they were almost empty, as most of her clothes were in her magic bag.

  “... Brian, pie for me.” She then asked.

  “Alright. But why not just go with yical girl outfit?” I asked.

  “It takes some mana to stay in it. While not more than I naturally recover, it does slow down my mana recovery.” Alice reminded me.

  “... yeah. I kind of fot that part.” I admitted. “Well, I’ll piething for you then.”

  After going through what Alice had both in her closet, as well as her magic bag, I picked a daily-wear dress with a yellow te gradient. It actually looks amazing on her, even if I picked it more as a joke. I just wao see a dark attributed magical girl in a bright dress. Maybe I talk her into making oh her new skill.

  After breakfast, we had one more pass through the town. Mostly because I wao. We were going to get into Big Core outside the gates anyway, so why not.

  Mainly, I wao give Alex a Harpie’s Pet Dragon. I opehe trade for it, and he is the 'Harpie Master'.

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  [colpse]Finding Alex wasn’t too difficult and after handing him the card, as he was still at the guild. A lot of adventurers were. Perhaps because of how te into the night the party had gone, or perhaps because of the alcohol.

  As we were still there, Zay also came to see us, handing me four cards in toploaders. Threatening Roar, Draining Shield, Mirror Ford Spellbinding Circle.

  Spoiler[colpse]They had been found around the area where Alice had fought the behemoth, and Zay had taken trol of them all. I gdly took my cards back, and iurn, I gave Zay a Chorus of Sanctuary. Sure that isn’t a fair trade, but whatever. Chorus of Sanctuary just is an alright card that might help in emergency situations. At least I think so.

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  [colpse]After we were do the guild, we headed for the nate ready to return to Sawyer city. Sihere were a lot less of us this time, it was a lot easier to get everyoo the ship so we were quickly on the move.

  After we nded, we spent a lot of the day with dumb busy work caused by the ill there. Most of them wao speak/dine/have tea with the ‘heroes’, so we were basically forced to attend to that. But because of the amount of ihey ended up being bined into just two differes.

  First was lunch with vist Kramer. And two barons, but they are not important.

  With him, we talked a lot about summoning and taming monsters. Too bad I’m not an expert iher. Well, either way. Kramer was especially ied in ways of taming flying monsters, like wyverns, hippogriffs and griffins. Sadly, I wasn’t an expert, but Agunan actually knew some stuff about it. This is because dragons sometimes keep monsters like that as pets. Agunan never did, but some of the other dragons that were with him do.

  … too bad his tamihod was a bit … brutish, so it wouldn’t work with humans. Dragons would just beat the monster nearly to death, before healing it with magic. If the beast didn’t feel like following them after that, the dragons would either repeat the process, or just kill the beast a it.

  I could have tried to give some suggestions of my own, but even my ideas would rgely amount to something normal people ot do. I could do something like force a moo stay still with my cards, giving people a ton of time to attempt the Tame skill on the monster.

  The easiest way to look at the tame skill was … well, I guess I pare it to a Pokeball. Except that you don’t throw anything. When you use it, you have to be actively toug the monster you are trying to tame. Then you send a specifid of mana into the morying t it under your trol. That monster will theher fall in line and bees tamed, or it will resist and doesn’t bee tamed.

  Laura could actually calcute accurate ces for all of that, based on things like the amount of mana used, the skill level of Tame skill, the monster you are trying to tame and so forth. But she also gave me a ip about it. If I were to attempt to tame a monster, I could hold it ih something like Spellbinding Circle, then attempt the taiming, and then, if the monster refused, I could use ge of Heart to force it to agree to the taiming. And the best part, I could do that with arying to tame a monster. It wouldn’t have to specifically be me doing it, it could be anyone. But I didn’t tell them about that part.

  I was offered a p the Vists taming squad, but I refused that. I did say that I would sider ing to help ‘part-time’ as an adventurer, but nothing more than that. After all, having access to my flying summons would help in taming other flying monsters.

  The afternoon was a bit more peaceful, so we spent that time just rexing, with some light magic practice. For Alice, a lot of time eing more used to her new power. Even with Mana’s soul inside her body, she still had difficulty using all of her new powers and had to focus immensely on trolling it. Luckily, her new System Support did help her, so that made things just a bit easier.

  Ria and I also had a quick meeting with Mateo Garner. Ria’s test time had already ended and teically her final test should have beeerday. But we weren’t here, so it wasn’t. Not that Mateo eve it was necessary. Acc to him, the st test would generally involve trying to make the dhampir angry, while also having human, or other humanoid creatures, blood in an open tainer, or even bleeding from a wound. But with the ‘episode’ of Baron Bloggs having happened, and Ria already having been exposed to human blood in her first test, Mateo didn’t see it necessary to hold an official test. Instead, he just wrote the official ‘stable’ papers for Ria.

  And now that she had those, Ria could officially bee an adventurer. I think we will register her in the ing days. I wonder, Agunan join? He is a dragon and he also doesn’t have a status.

  As I stated previously, we enjoyed dinner with Vist Hill.

  With him, our discussion quickly turned into metals and f. He was especially ied in the vampiric steel sword I had given to Thomas. I gave him an expnation using my summoned monsters. It just is simpler than telling them that we (Lua and I) have been able to teach True Blood Magic to dhampirs in the nearby vilge. I don’t want some Vist harassing them just because they do that.

  After that, our discussions quickly turo my dungeon made swords. For that, I brought out the mithril sword I use, as well as a handful of other stuff I have in my ste from Paulina going into all of the challenge rooms. Most of them were just alright, not amazing or anything, but alright is still alright. uess in this case I should say they were around intermediate+ in quality, while my mithril sword was good+.

  Oher hand, the parasitic armor Ria and I wore were both excellent in quality, while the vampiric steel sword I gave Thomas has been excellent-. 1For those that want a reminder, item and material quality goes: poor, low, intermediate, good, excellent, fwless. All but fwless have a + or -.

  A bit like with Vist Kramer, I got a request from Vist Hills to e visit his workshops, and perhaps help him to make some vampiric steel. And like with Kramer, I didn’t have any reason tht up refuse, instead saying I’ll think about it.

  In the evening, after Alice asked if we could, we opened some packs together.

  Because I already opened some The Lost Millenium packs with Laura, Tahlia and Fantasia, I decided to go with some Cyberic Revolution packs today.

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  Mad Lobster, Batteryman C, Des Croaking, scription, Doitsu, Cycroid, Spiritual Water Art - Aoi, Poison Draw Frog, Elemental HERO Bubbleman

  [colpse]“There is a Hero monster. Are they real heroes?” Alice asked, as soon as she saw the cards.

  “Well, kind of. They are based on superheroes. They e from stories from my world.” I answered.

  “I see… Could you tell me more about them?”

  “Sure. Some other time.”

  Other than that, Cycroid is actually somewhat iing. I don’t think bicycles actually exist in this world, so studying ight allow for the manufacture of bicycles. And Mad Lobster is something I want to eat. At some point.

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  Batteryman C, A Rival Appears!, Meical Hound, Drillroid, T.A.D.P.O.L.E., Cycroid, Cyberic Cyclopean, Indomitable Fighter Lei Lei, Dark Catapulter

  [colpse]Nothing too amazing in this pack. Well, I do like the look of Meical Hound. I want to go hunting with it. Drillroid is alsht, if I ever o dig through a mountain or something.

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  Spiritual Fire Art - Kurenai, Des Croaking, T.A.D.P.O.L.E., Drillroid, Dragon's Mirror, Poison Draw Frog, Fusion Recovery, B.E.S. Crystal Core, D.D. Trap Hole

  [colpse]“Oh? Crystal Core, huh?” I ented as I saw the super rare.

  “... is it another airship like that other B.E.S. monster?” Lua asked.

  “Spaceship, but yes. It should be.” I crified.

  I wonder, how does Crystal Core pare to Big Core?

  And there is also Fusion Recovery and Dragon’s Mirror. Those aren’t bad either.

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  Jetroid, Batteryman C, Dragon's Mirror, Meical Hound, Cyberic Cyclopean, scription, Steam Gyroid, Giant Kozaky, D.D. Trap Hole

  [colpse]Oh? Jetroid? I wonder if I use it as an actual jetfighter, or is it too small for that? There is also Steam Gyroid, but I he fusion materials for it, and the only thing it really is good for is being a fodder for my fusion challenge.

  Well, .

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  Doitsu, Cyberic Cyclopean, Tyranno Infinity, Mad Lobster, Meical Hound, Jerry Beans Man, A Rival Appears!, Jetroid, System Down

  [colpse]System Down is nice. If I ever face meical monsters, it should kill all of them. I think. Are there even any meical monsters in this world?

  (Metal golems would likely t as mae monsters, but we would o test that first.) Laura answered.

  Alright. Good to know. Tyranno Infinity also sounds iing, but I don’t think there is any reason for me to use it. And I don’t think there ever was a Dinosaur deck that focused on banishing its own stuff, so I don’t think Tyranno Infinity was ever really a good card.

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  Jerry Beans Man, T.A.D.P.O.L.E., Shien's Spy, Spiritual Wind Art - Miyabi, Prepare to Strike Back, Mad Lobster, Des Frog, Power Bond, Magical Explosion

  [colpse]“Wow. Power Bond. That’s good.” I ented.

  “What is so good about it? What does it do?” Alice asked.

  “It's a fusion spell, simir to Polymerization. It only works on mae fusions, but it does double the attack stat of the summoned monster.” I expined. “But it also does e with a huge downside of damaging the summoner.”

  “... then it shouldn’t be used, right?” Lua asked. “Isn’t your health most important?”

  “Well yes, in some situations. But sometimes it is worth it to give up some of your own HP, so that you quickly take down your enemy, right?”

  “Well, I suppose.” Lua admitted.

  Perhaps I should teach Lua and Alice how to actually py Yugioh. That would be fun. Well, I’ll do it when we have the time for that.

  pack.

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  Steamroid, Cyber Archfiend, Doitsu, Spiritual Water Art - Aoi, Jetroid, Dragon's Mirror, Des Frog, Goblie Attack Force, Bubble Shuffle

  [colpse]Goblie Attack Force isn’t bad. At least I think so. Not that I’ll ever use it, most likely. But I have one.

  .

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  Patroid, Cyber Archfiend, Prepare to Strike Back, scription, Spiritual Fire Art - Kurenai, A Rival Appears!, Cycroid, D.D.M. - Different Dimension Master, Bubble Shuffle

  [colpse]Different Dimension Master, huh? I wonder if he uses Dimensional Magic like o Queen does? He might be helpful in teag me things. I’ll o give him a Book of Secret Arts at some point.

  (You just leave that to me.) Laura offered.

  (... sure. You do it.)

  Anyway, two more, then I think it will be bedtime for us.

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  A Rival Appears!, Prepare to Strike Back, Shien's Spy, Cyber Archfiend, Soitsu, T.A.D.P.O.L.E., Steamroid, Jerry Beans Man, Dimension Wall

  [colpse]Dimensional Wall is not bad. It could be used as a set card with Wabaku and the other stuff I usually set on people.

  Well, one more to go. Let’s hope for something good.

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  T.A.D.P.O.L.E., Prepare to Strike Back, Ebon Magi Curran, Tyranno Infinity, Giant Kozaky, Protective Soul Ailin, Shien's Spy, Spark Bster, Cyber End Dragon

  [colpse]Yeah. I’d call that something good. Even if there is no way I summon it at this moment, because I don’t have the materials, Cyber End Dragon is ‘something good’.

  “Th.. that’s it…” Lua quietly muttered o me.

  “What is what?” I asked her.

  “... that dragon…” She poi Cyber End Dragon. “... in a dream I saw, you rode on the back of that dragon. At least I think it was that dragon.”

  “Really?” I asked. There is nothing strange, well that strange, about Lua having dreams, but this is the first Cyber End Dragon I have, so she shouldn’t have been able to see it beforehand. So how did she dream of it? “What kind of dream was it?”

  After I asked that, Lua blushed quite a bit. Theold us about her dream, but it felt like she cut out at least some information.

  The main parts I took away from it was this.

  1. In her dream, we were married.

  2. There was a dimensional fissure, and Alid I had goo deal with it.

  3. I had figured out how to keep my monsters summoher permaly or for long periods of time using something called ‘avatar dolls’.

  4. When I returned with Alice, we rode in on what was most likely Cyber End Dragon.

  That is iing. Now normally, I’d just say a dream is a dream. But sidering when she said she saw the dream, the information isn’t something she should have known. Not just Cyber End Dragon, but also the dimensional fissure. That also expins why she reacted to the term ‘dimensional fissure’ like she did.

  Did she see some sort of a prophetibsp;dream?

  The main thing I’m worried about are the dimensional fissures. If they really are popping up multiple times a week, that might holy be bad. Even if not all of them poop out something on the level of a true behemoth, they do still sound incredibly dangerous.

  Well, I guess I’ll ask about that when I get to speak with the Goddess.

  Anyway. With the packs opened, it was sleep time for us. We all shared the bed, so it was a bit cramped, but with both Alid Lua peting on how close they could be to me, we did fit.

  I just hope I sleep like this…

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