“Sir, there is a messenger sent by the Lord waiting for you.” The inn's proprietress informed me, as she came to wake me up.

  It was now our third day in town, and it was also going to be our st full day here. Today, Mariina would hold that exam thing and she had again asked for Lua’s help with that. I hope she is paying Lua for her part.

  I nning on taking arip to HomeBase, so I could make a few things for Cailie, but apparently, the world has different pns. And as long as I deal with this quickly, I still make the trip to HomeBase.

  I’ll o accelerate the pn to have HomeBase lift off from the ground. But my spellcasters, Laura and Tahlia all say we don’t have the mana for that yet. Even with Spell ters each ting as 1000 mana, floating aire dungeon will take way too much of it for us to sustain it. I need another card besides Magical Citadel of Endymion making the ters, but I just don’t yet know what it is. Spell Prasp is something we are experimenting with, but even that isn’t enough, because there was a time limit on how often one could be activated.

  Spoiler[colpse]Because of that, Laura has beeing out different binations of cards, trying to make something that make even more Spell ters. Safely, so the Tower of Babel is still banned.

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  [colpse]In theory, Tahlia calcuted that we’d need around five Spell ters per Spell Prasps activation to be able to lift HomeBase off the ground, and that is with only it floating, so we would actually need more. In short, I need either a better field spell, more spells that gee Spell ters each time a spell card is activated or I have to force my Guardians to loop Butterfly Dagger - Elma even more. But I really don’t want to do that, as it relies on my Guardians, and they already feed my Pack token factory. It will be niergera mana, but I don’t want it to be my main sourana.

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  [colpse]I did sider a loop using Banisher of the Radiance, either Bck Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning or peron - Envoy of the End and Primal Seed, but that is just a bit too voluted and requires the trol of at least two monsters, as well as the factor with Banisher of the Radiance banishing all of the cards I activate while he is out.

  Spoiler[colpse]It holy is not a bad loop or anything, but again, because of Banisher of the Radiance banishing every card I’d use, it isn’t quite usable long term. But anreat short term option. But I’m sure we e up with something, if just given a bit more time.

  And holy speaking, because this will be something that won’t take p the factory, but will iake p the real world, I have to be able to do this all with installs, so that limits options as well. If I have to be there summoning the monsters, and giving them cards from Pack Opener’s Colle, what is the point? I need something else.

  … did I get sidetracked? Again? Probably, but who cares?

  ht. I have a messenger from the town’s Lord waiting for me, so yeah. He might care.

  The town’s Lord invited me to a lun. I was asked to meet him so he could personally thank me for solving the fishing problem, so why not? I only took Agunan with me. He ying the part of my attendant. I had to leave Alice to take care of Cailie, so I hope they will be fine. I trust Alice, but the two of them ot unicate, so I just hope it will work out. Lua and Ria went with Mariina to hold that magic exam thing, in case you were w.

  … speaking with a mermaid… my Mermaid monsters, Enting Mermaid, Cure Mermaid and Mermaid Knight all speak the nguage Alid Lua uand… So they speak both? If they , they could act as transtors.

  Spoiler[colpse]Sure I could also have Laura trao Alid Lua, but that won’t work if I’m not there. Well it would, but it would be a voluted process of Mia or Kekri sending Laura a message with what Cailie said, Laura transting it using my Language prehension (humanoid) and then answering with the transtion. And it wouldn’t allow Alice or Lua to speak merfolk. Maybe I should just ask the Goddess and/or Aulis if Alid Lua have Language prehension (humanoid). sidering all the favors I’m doing to them, they might agree.

  Well, I’ll ask about that ter.

  “I thank you for your invitation, Lord Bloggs.”

  “Yes. Thank you for ing, Sir Wood. You as well, Sir Dragon.” The current Baron Bloggs greeted us as we arrived. “Please, take a seat.”

  The current Baron was someone I had met before, as he was with his father at the birthday celebration, so I am at least acquainted with him. Also, him calling me ‘Sir’ and me calling him ‘Lord’ is just etiquette and all of that. While we are both Barons in rank, I’m an honorary Baron, so perma nobles do out rank me.

  “First, allow me to offer an apology for what my father did to you. What he said, what he did, the way he acted. I apologize for all of it.”

  “Don’t worry. I’m not the type of person to punish someone for the as of their parents.” I answered, as if I had the bigger power out of the two of us. Well, I kind of do, but I try not to abuse my es too much. And still, the fact stands. As long as he is reasonable, I have no reason to punish him for what happened with his father.

  “Thank you. Also, let me thank you for your service to the town. I was already under scrutiny for my … abnormal nomination to take over, so wheown soon ran into trouble, I was under quite a lot of pressure to solve the issue. So thank you for taking care of it.”

  “Yeah. That was no trouble, and you really should be thanking Lady Mariina. She is the only reason I even came into town, and I may have not taken part in the quest had it not been in the way of her work.” I answered almost holy. Of course there was that entire System Mission thing, but that is a secret.

  “Yes. I uand. I shall extend my thanks to her, as well as the rest of your party. It is a shame the others couldn’t e.”

  “Well, they are busy helping Lady Mariina, so it ot be helped.” They definitely didn’t say they wouldn’t e, even if they could. Well, one of them might have. Alice didly enjoy the fact that this guy tried to take her for the first da the BD party.

  “I hope you will be willing to take some of the food to them, just so they really take in the great fish of this town.” The Baron said, before he gave the sign to the servants t in some food.

  “Yes. I’m sure they will enjoy it.”

  Our spread of meals wasn’t too bad, but it wasn’t amaziher. It was… so-so. Good, but not amazing. Though Agunan seemed to quite enjoy himself, so at least that is good.

  As our lun came to an end, I handed Baron Bloggs a quick gift my monsters had made after the invitation. It was nothing special, just a filet k was made from leftover blood iron with a grip of ever wood, so it basically cost nothing to make. It did look fine, but basic. But at least with the metal's tendency to draw in blood, it would be good for that.

  Baron Bloggs thanked me for the gift, and apologized that he didn’t have a full apology gift for me, but I just accepted his apology before I left. No reason to hold him responsible for his father’s as.

  After our lun, I asked for some of the best dishes to be put aside for me to take bad the Baron agreed to give us some, as he did ck the apology gift. Then Agunan and I returo the inn.

  “Hi, you two. How did you do?”

  “Wele back. How was the lunch?” Alice asked.

  “... it was alright, I guess. I think my Dragonmaids make better food, as do the chefs at your home and yrandpa’s pce, so… it wasn’t bad, just not quite what I hoped for. I do have some of it in my Ste, so you have a taste ter.”

  “Thanks.”

  “So, how was Cailie?” I asked.

  “Well, she is napping now, but she was a bit… not so calm. I think she had some… issues because I couldn’t speak with her at first, but then I made a spell to trahe speech, so we managed.”

  “Oh? Wow. Nice call.” I holy fot that Alice do that type of stuff with her unique-racial skill. Great call by her on that.

  “... But…”

  “It takes a lot of mana, right?”

  “Not that bad actually, just not something I keep active all the time. My efficy did go up a bit because the skill leveled up. I use that transtion spell for about two, two and a half hours with it before I run out.” Oh yeah. I think I fot to mention that part. Alice’s reward for the mission to solve the fishing problem was a level up tical Girl skill.

  “That’s really not that bad. You have like little over 4000 mana at the moment, right? So that divided by 150 minutes… is like … 30-ish mana per minute?”

  “A bit more. You don’t factor in mana recovery speeds.”

  “Yeah. I guess that is just a bit much then. But still, I wonder if using it will eventually give you the Language prehension title. Because I feel like it might. Aing that title on both you and Lua would be useful. But still, a great spell to have in your arsenal. … does it work with draic?”

  “We could try.” Alice agreed. “... just… alright. Agunan, you say something in draic?”

  I heard Agunan and Alice begin a versation in draic, so it seemed to work. I have to say, full points to Ali that one. Great call using her unique skill that way.

  I decided to foy own things so I pulled out the Dungeon Founder’s item developer and began w on the WDBDD. I still need a better name for it. My current goal is to make a Dimensional Barrier Observer, a DBO. It will just make me a baseline on how the barriers are and when I have that, I use that data to hopefully make the full WDBDD.

  Cailie woke up from her nap a bit ter, so I spoke with her a bit. I also spoke to her about what she would need for daily life. This resulted in a small list of stuff that I’d o get her, and I nning on doing that tomorrow. I could likely buy most of it, but I also just visit HomeBase ahe stuff from there for free, so why not? I also had a few things I should get for my own use.

  The biggest thing Cailie really needed was a water bracelet, or simir magic tool. This is something merfolk use to keep their skin moist while out of water. Lua, Alid I had all been doing it with magic, me with the help of the water spirits and Alice with her Racial-Unique skill, but a more perma solution would be better. The device itself was nothing special, just some sort of holder for a low ranking water attributed magic stone, with the spell carved into it, which would spread water across the skin of the wearer. HomeBase catalog had well over 100 of them in different designs, so I just opehe skill up and asked Cailie whie she’d like.

  Other than that, I nning oing her a wheelchair, just so Agunan or I didn’t have to carry her. Cailie was a bit against Agunan carrying her in the first pce, so it was mostly me doing it. I did py around with making a floating wheelchair, but mana ption got in the way. I should ask my Spellcasters to min-max these levitation spells better. They just really aren’t that mana effit. Telekinesis is more mana effit, than the levitation magic circles that these magic tools use. That might also help with the flying dungeon project.

  Last thing Cailie would need is some clothes. Ohat won’t be so susceptible to water. So for that, I again searched the catalog for water-proof clothing and found a long list. From there, it was fill up the ‘shopping cart’ and go pick them up tomorrow for 50% off, pared to getting them delivered right now.

  In the early evening, Lua, Ria and Mariiurned from the adventurer’s guild, so we enjoyed diogether. It was from the dishes I got from Baron Bloggs, as well as a few other local dishes I picked up on my way back to the inn from the Bloggs’ manor.

  We also went over tomorrow's schedule, just so we would be on the same page, before we called it a night and headed to bed.

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