Our ‘rest’ day went just fine, but it wasn’t that restful for me. I went around the city, pig up preserved, and not so preserved, foods for us. Used Mystik Wok multiple times to make us foods, and also made sure to refill the magic fsks of both Lua and Ria with dragon blood. Agunan actually didn’t mind using the dragon blood in that way and didn’t raise a fuss.

  Now with a bit more than a month's worth of food, and sleeping bags as for all of us, we were ready to head to the duomorrow.

  After our m breakfast, as well as a quick goodbye to everyohe five of us were off towards dungeon 27_001. Admittedly, this might be just a day trip, but at the same time, depending on the size of the dungeon, we might have to camp there for multiple days, and we were prepared for that. I had some food ready to go in my ste, and I could make more with Mystik Wok and Emergency Provisions.

  Our flight to the dungeon was made in the brand new B.E.S. Crystal Core, that I just got. I just wao test it out, so I could pare it to Big Core.

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  [colpse]Crystal Core was a bit smaller than Big Core, but because of its structure, it actually had more inside space than Big Core. But it was less armed, having only the tentacle ser ons. And just like Big Core, it didn’t have any atmospheric dampeo stop sonis, so we would have to fly at subsonic speeds. Well, I could go to supersonic speeds outside of poputed areas, but I decided to keep the speed down. And with Crystal Core havier inside areas, we could practice during the flight, while Crystal Core was flying itself. Autopilot for the win.

  A lot of the practice was focused oing us used to our new skills. Well, mainly Ria and Lua. Ria ractig with Agunan, and wheher of them got injured, Lua would heal them with her new skill. Her Mana Healing was still less effit than her water magic, even with both Agunan and Ria’s affinity to fire redug the effectiveness of healing water magic a bit, but she was getting the hang of it quickly, and she said she should be able to use it in jun with water healing magic.

  “... why… Every freaking time…” I pined a bit, as I saw the burned down clearing. Just like st time, there were monsters in the clearing. But this time, they weren’t bugs from the dungeon, because I did block the dungeorah a giant boulder.

  This time, a group of goblins had made it their home. The strange part was, there were ser goblins with them. Or to be more specific, hobgoblins. Hobgoblins are actually quite dangerous, at least pared to their … not so powerful brethren. Hobs are k and be quite a threat, especially in rge groups. But because they are borremely rarely under normal circumstances, most people don’t worry about them. The ‘normal’ way a hobgoblin is born is when goblins … abduct humanoid females and breed with them, but because of how weak goblins are, that luckily doesn’t happen too often, based on what I know.

  But a handful had been born here for some reason. I khe forest had some goblins, but I still didn’t expect them to take over my clearing. … well, they didn’t take it over like the bugs had, more like they had settled in a er of the area.

  “Ria, do you want to try your skill against them? They are retively humanoid, so I think they will be good targets.” I asked.

  “Yes. If I may.” Ria agreed.

  “ I take the normal goblins? I want to try something.” Alice asked.

  “Sure. Get to the teleporter. I’ll beam you down to the ground.” I told the duo.

  After the two got on the ground, they got to work. Ria had a bit of difficulty separating the hobs, from the regur goblins, but after she killed the first few normies, the hobs quickly came to oppose her.

  While Ria was using ter Strike to nd powerful hits on the hobgoblins, Alice had sed from a regur outfit intical girl outfit and floated into the sky. Then, holding her arms above her head, she materialized a giant ball of fire.

  Bringing her arms down, she uhe fireball towards the goblins. At first, I was a little worried that Ria would be caught up in it, but on the way down, the fireball broke apart into many smaller fireballs, which then precisely seeked out ead every goblin on the field, burning holes into their chests or heads.

  With the small fray now out of the way, Ria could fully focus on the hobs. And even though hobgoblins are k monsters, Ria’s punches were dealing good damage to them, and in under a minute, Ria had dealt with the six hobgoblins.

  The rest of us got down on the ground, and I unsummoned Crystal Core.

  “I didn’t know you could use fire magic already.” Lua ented.

  “I ’t. Not the System magic, at least. That was doh my unique skill.” Aliswered. “... but it took over two-thousand mana, so it isn’t really usable in most situations.”

  “We o look into some sort of cheaty mana recovery skill for you.” I ented. “Would help if you could steal Agunan’s mana like I , but even that has its limits. But I 't argue with the power output and accuracy of the spell.”

  “Do you think you make a skill like that?”

  “No clue, but I think so. I think that bining a few cards that use Spell ters would potentially do it.”

  “Like Pitch-Bck Power Stone?”

  “Yeah. But Pitch Stone ’t make ters outside of when it is activated, so we would need something else. The only problem is that all the cards that I have which gee Spell ters are monsters, and I don’t think another fusion is a good idea. Well, there is Tower of Babel, but that one is a bit too dangerous.”

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  [Each time a Spell Card is activated, pce 1 Spell ter on this card when that Spell Card resolves. If the 4th Spell ter is pced on this card: Destroy this card, and if you do, the pyer who activated the Spell Card at that time takes 3000 damage.]

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  Maybe I should look into making some sort of facility that produces mana using Spell ters. I know that mana be instantly transferred over even long distahanks to Agunan’s life dedication, so I should be able to do it as well. But I’ll still need better cards for it. Maybe if I had that one field spell, Magical Citadel of Endymion, I might be able to do it. Then make some sort of mana transferring device, using something like Pitch-Dark Power Stone, or some other card that move Spell ters around. Maybe even using some of the tech my monsters have.

  … wait? The facility … in that dream Lua told me about … was that the Magical Citadel of Endymion? Was I able to make one? If her dream really is anything more than a dream, then I thihere are just too many ces where I could call it ‘just a dream’.

  We got ihe dungeon, after I removed the boulder blog the entrahe stairs down were pletely covered in spider webs, and other stuff, but the monsters seem to have fallen bato the room ahead.

  “Master, allow me to clear the way.” Agunan said, as he stepped forward.

  “... sure…” I allowed him.

  Agunan ignited his own body, and the area around him began to burn. The fire then cleared all of the spider webs, as well as the other trash in our way.

  “Wow. Thanks, Agunan. Great work.” I plimented him, as we walked into the dungeon.

  “So, how do we want to clear this pce?” I asked. “Do I just summon some powerful monsters, so we bst our way through, or do we take a more careful approach?”

  “I think we should do it quickly. If the Goddess wants us to clear this pce, we should do it as quickly as possible.” Lua answered.

  “... that’s b. I wao fight myself…” Alipined slightly.

  “I don’t think this world will run out of monsters even if we demolish the monsters in one dungeon. And they do e back, even after we eliminate aablish this pce.” I reminded her.

  “Master, do you have tact with the Goddess?” Agunan asked.

  “Well, kind of. I’ve never met her personally, but she did promise to talk with me. And I have met with a System Agent, if you know what they are.”

  “Them? Yes. I’ve heard of them. … but the Goddess, huh. I wonder how powerful she is..?”

  “Please don’t fight with gods. And if you do, at least fight with ones I summon. It will be a lot easier.”

  “You summon gods?” Alice asked.

  “Well yes, but also no. At least not yet. Exodia, a certain golden giant Agunan was after, is more or less a demi-god. And there are other demi-god level cards, but I just don’t have a.” I told them. “... also, the Goddess said I shouldn’t summon Exodia anymore, so I won’t be doing it, unless absolutely necessary.”

  “ this Exodia appear in your world, Master?”

  “In the factory? ... I’m not sure, actually.” I answered Agunan. “I’ve never seen him there, and sidering that he is basically five cards in one, I think he might not be able to, unless someone summons him. … and I don’t want him destroying that pce, so I’m not sure I want to try. Maybe just wait until I get some of the od-cards.”

  Like e on. Agunan. Even after the install, you lost your factory rematch against Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, so why do you want to fight a god? Well, admittedly it wasn’t really a fair fight, because they fought in the area governed by Mountain of Light, so my Blue-Eyes got the power boost from it. ime, I’ll have them fight in a ral enviro. And if Agunan wins, he aly around with Shining Drago.

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  [colpse]

  “e forth, Bck Luster Soldier, Bck Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, Dark Sage and Dark Magi of Chaos.” I summoned my monsters.

  Spoiler[colpse]This lineup might be extreme overkill, but I also don’t want any trouble, so why not? Also, I haven’t summoned Dark Sage since I made the e bracelets with him, so it is about time I summoned him again. Same goes for Bck Luster Soldier. It has been a while since I've summoned him.

  “We are getting through this pce quickly. You four clear all the monsters in our way.” I ordered my summons, and they got to work.

  Out of the five of us, only Agunan could keep up with their speed, so the rest of just kind of stayed bad walked. I also kept colleg the monster corpses into my Ste as we did. That led me to realize something I haven’t noticed before. The monster corpses from the dungeon have a dition called ‘miasma curse’. It means that they have a lot more miasma than usual monsters, so their materials ot be used, uhey are purified by Holy Magid I use Ste to purify it as well.

  The miasma itself, acc to Laura, would result in the equipment made from them being cursed, so you definitely don’t want to use them without the purification. Even high ranking monsters outside of dungeons sometimes have that dition, but Tahlia must have alurified it. One of those ‘It doesn’t really matter, but wish she or Laura had told me’ things right there.

  The sed rge room didn’t have is. Instead, it was filled to the brim with pnt type monsters. The stro of them was a B-rank maing pnt, so that was fun.

  The third had bird type monsters, with the stro ones being a group of friffins.

  “... he is this dungeon?” I asked, in a tohat might have sounded more like pining.

  It was the evening of the day we arrived here, and thus far, we had gohrough over 30 rooms of this dungeon. And with the rooms being massive, and filled to the brim with monsters, even with my arsenal of summons, it took a while per room. Also, all of the monsters were high ranking monsters. None had been below k, and most were B-rank.

  Aually, even A-rank monsters began appearing. Whi itself wouldn’t be a problem, but they did slow us down just a bit, especially if I didn't have my A-Forces out here. But I could easily fix that little problem by throwing out some equip spells, so we were making good time.

  The only problem was, we now o sleep in the dungeon. … I holy hoped we’d have this pce cleared in one day, but nope. And uinaWood, this pce doesn’t have guaranteed safe zones, so we have to use some… not so ventional means of making a safe zone.

  “Swords of Revealing Light.” I activated the spell. With it, no monsters should be able to attack us.

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  [colpse]… but we would still have to have at least one of us stay awake, to keep watch, just to make sure. For that, the girls needed more powerful monsters. If something does break the Swords of Revealing Light, the cards Alice, Lua and I have set on us should buy us a bit of time, but still better to make sure.

  I gave Lua her own copy of Guardian Angel Joan, as well as Water Dragon, and the cards she o summon Water Dragon. Guardian Angel Joan I don’t think I eveo expin, but I added the Water Dragon because she paid some attention to it when I pulled it from the pabsp;

  Spoiler [colpse]But I really need some stronger water attribute monsters. My stro is Gogiga Gagagigo, and he is untrolble. Sure Neo-Daedalus is almost as strong, but still. None of my water-attribute monsters have over 3000 attack, and that is just a shame.

  Spoiler[colpse]Giving something to Alice was a lot easier. My dark lineup is a lot more varied. But there was only one she really wanted.

  “ I have the Dark Padin?” She requested.

  So of course I gave her a Dark Padin, as well as its fusion materials.

  Spoiler[colpse]I also let her keep the Polymerization she used to fuse her monsters, and also gave her a De-Fusion to go along with it.

  Spoiler[colpse]I did warhat I’d take them back if she used them on a person, but Alice just reassured me that she wouldn’t do that.

  And finally, Ria got herself a copy of Sacred Phoenix of hys. Don’t think I fot that she wa. Sure it might not be quite as strong as the others, but it will buy a bit of time in case of an enemy attack.

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  “Master. You should just let me keep guard, so all of you sleep for the night. I don’t o sleep, as long as I have food.” Agunan offered.

  “Nope. Not happening.” I denied. “I need you in tip top shape for tomorrow, and for that, sleep is important.”

  The order in which we were taking turns keeping guard was Alice, Agunan, me, Ria and stly Lua. The reason I went with this order was because Alice, Lua and I could tell time with out System Supports, so we would be able to time for how long we o keep guard before waking up the person. And our System Supports would also wake us up for our own guard shift.

  … the only problem was the Swords of Revealing Light. While Lua, Ria, Alid I could all activate it, if a me activated it, we couldn’t all move inside of them. If Ria activated it, Agunan and I could move inside just fine, but Alid Lua would be frozen. And if Alice or Lua activated it, Agunan and Ria would get frozen. So the only choice was that I have to wake up every two hours to recast the spell. It could be worse, but I still don’t like it. But better than beien by monsters during our sleep, so I’ll just have to accept it.

  We naturally didn’t use Level Up!s because we were in a dungeon, so after getting into my sleeping bag, I quickly fell asleep.

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