“I apologize for the surprise visit, but something came up, and I must inform you of it personally.” I apologized to Lord Peks as I met him the m.

  We had returo the town of Pekkers using B.E.S. Crystal Core in the m.

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  [colpse]After arrival, roup broke into three separate groups. Marii with Alice to get in tact with the local adventurer’s guild’s guild master, Lua, Ria and Wilma stayed with the ‘adventurers’ while I went with Agunan to give a report to the local lord about someone in this area using the illegal sve mark. As well as inf him that someone has definitely put a hit on Wilma.

  He actually took the news quite well, but the fact that Mariina was already in tact with the Sage’s tower, using the adventurer’s guild’s unicator thingy might have helped with that. He did also apologize for the trouble, but I just told him it is not on him, so it is fine. I just hoped he would help the adventurer’s guild looking into the illegal sve trade.

  I did reend also looking into that newer workshop, because I’d bet at least some mohat they are involved in all of this. I don’t think I o go into detail as to why I would think that way. Baron Peks promised me he would audit them, so hopefully they will get some punishment, if this guy find some dirt on them.

  Well, if he ’t, it doesn’t really matter to me. Sure I want to see them punished, but in truth, I don’t really care that much. Thanks to their BS, I got a skilled artisan w for me after all.

  “The sages will have a cil and decide on if they are going to share the information.” Mariina told me when I arrived at the adventurer’s guild. “It will take at least two to three days for us to get the information, if they even decide to share.”

  “Well, I guess I’ll just do it then.” I cluded. Sure we could wait three days, but why would we? I have a much quicker and easier solution.

  “ you really do that?” Mariina asked.

  “... do you really o ask that?”

  What I was trying to do was actually somethiremely simple to aplish. I just had to free some sves. At first, I thought I should try something like Snatch Steal or Brain trol to trahem to be mine, but that is too plicated and it wasn’t a good forever solution.

  Spoiler[colpse]Laura did make a good forever solution using Creature S. By giving away some of my moo the trol of the Master of the sves, the sves would be transferred to me. Permaly. Then I just kill, well more like destroy, the monsters, or let their summoning time run out. And if I use cards without sleeves, the card would just vanish after use. I could even use something like tokens for that. But still, too voluted, when there is a much simpler answer.

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  [colpse]

  I just free them. They are sves because of a magic mark drawn on their body, right? So what do you do when you o away magic? Well, you use the Feather Duster of course.

  “Harpie’s Feather Duster.”

  Spoiler

  nro_8

  [colpse]An oversized feather, which didn’t really look like a duster at all, appeared in my hand. I then used said feather duster to gently dust away the sve seals owo young catfolk, granting them their freedom.

  We agaihe town that day. We had no reason to stay here, and Mariina does have a schedule to keep. Of course, we now had two new people with us. Two little catfolk kids, who I agreed to employ. Like with Wilma, I will need people w for me, so why not pick up this duo.

  They actually have no home to return to, as they were sold by their parents. They are two of the nine children their parents had, and they simply couldn’t feed everyone. And because the boy, Einar, had the Taming skill, and his sister Eline had the Summoning skill, the two of them were sold because they were worth the most.

  And the real reason I took them, instead of handing them over to Baron Peks, is the fact that they are the only ones who know the person that drew that forbidden sve mark on them. We did get a description from them, but it was so generic that it would never get us the correct person. Well, maybe never is a strong word, but it would take a long time and lots of false hits.

  As for what happened with the adventurers. Well, they did get to keep their lives at least, but they were turned into sves and would probably be sent out to fight monsters most don’t want to fight. So in short, they are not for me to worry about. They didn’t know the inal person who drew the sve mark, as they picked them up from a traveling mert, whose description didn’t match the description given by the catfolk. So it is likely that that mert knew how to trahe illegal sves, but might not know how to draw the sve mark. I left looking for him to the Baron, as well as the adventurer’s guild.

  So back to the two catfolk. Einar’s tamed beasts were all defeated by us, so that isn’t something I had to worry about. I meant taking them with us. Unlike summoned monsters, you ’t just unsummon tamed beasts. And you ’t put them away in a magic bag or even something like Ste. You’d literally have to transport them, like you do. But we don’t have any, so I don’t o do that. Laura did tell me about ara skill that could actually store tamed beasts, but that was quite a rare extra skill and not something most tamers would have. But maybe Einar will get it eventually, and I might even be able to cheat that skill onto him with an install. If I feel like rewarding him food work.

  Eline oher hand had three summoning tracts. One was with the lightning tiger, but she couldn’t currently summon it, because I killed it. Teically summoned monsters don’t die, but if they do ‘die’, the summoners will suffer some penalties depending on the tract they had with the beast. Anything from losing the tract to not being able to summon them for a few days may happen. Other than the lightning tiger, she has a tract with a D-rank forest tiger and an E-rank baby tiger. And because of her tract with the lightning tiger, she could summon it again two weeks after its ‘death’, so that beast will be summonable for her again.

  Of course my pn for the two was simple. Well, maybe not so simple, but still simple. I wanted some maids and butlers. And these two would be the first for that. Well, first after Ria. She is the OG. And I guess Einar will be my first butler. I think that job will fit him well, as with his Taming skill, he tame mohat will be able to pull my carriage.

  And of course Eline will be a det bat maid with her summoned beasts. She might not reach Ria’s level, but it will still be nice.

  Teag them will of course be my twonmaids, as well as the aforementioned Ria.

  Spoiler[colpse]And because the mission that gives me Dragonmaids is worded the way that it is, I should get a Dragonmaid card for each of them eventually. Actually, I should get one for Wilma as well. She is my employee after all.

  … But as good as all of this is, it did leave us with a small issue. My carriage just isn’t rge enough any more. It could fit the five of us fine, and even the addition of Wilma wasn’t a big problem, but now with two more people, I’d either have to hurry up making a mana source for the spatial expander, but I actually already had something for that.

  And that was a mana transfer device. I could link it with a magic stone, and then have the stone instantly send mana into the device. Wait, did that make any sense? I’ll try to expin it so that everyone will uand.

  So basically, I’ll have to have a magic stohat holds mana. Then I link this device to it and it pull mana from that stone. Hopefully that expnation makes a bit more sense.

  This was something I both actally and purposefully made. I wao make something like this for when my HomeBase infinite mana factory finally goes online, but I wasn’t meaning to make it when I did. I was actually w on a wireless magiunicator. Basically a magic walkie-talkie. But instead I got something that was close to this, so I just verted the failed walkie-talkie into a mana transfer device.

  I think I’ll try to hurry up with my HomeBase pns, but it just isn’t ready to be implemented yet. The factory tests are good, and it should work out, but I’m still min-maxing efficy, pts and all of that. I want to have my HomeBase be as well designed as the Hero’s try, if not better. No point in doing it poorly, only to have to rebuild it all from scratch.

  Outside of the popution increase causio use some of my monsters for additional transports, our trip had been going well. And I think Einar and Eline enjoyed riding A Gear Beast and Leogun.

  Spoiler[colpse]I even ended up summoning some of my more cssic maes, Overdrive, Oni Tank T-34 and Labyrinth Tank. … Sadly, two of those are just a bit… out there, so using them might be a bad idea.

  Spoiler[colpse]I don’t want some mert thinking I’m going to rob him, just because I happen to be driving an Oni Tank or anything.

  Wilma was quite the fan of my mae monsters, by the way. She was especially ied ierials they were made out of, and basically begged me to let her take one of them apart. I was thinking of letting her experiment with Cyber Dragons, because Cyber Dragons are titanium, I think, but I also don’t wao do anything stupid to mohat I really like.

  But yeah. Our travels are goiively fine again, so I wao just rex a bit and maybe open some packs. It has been a few days si time. Last time was… it was after I returned Cailie home from the dungeon. … only for her to get re-banished… I hope she is doing well in the Hero’s try. Maybe I should take Alid Lua on a date there and ask someone like U how Cailie has been doing.

  Yeah. I know that would be breaking some date etiquette, but I know that at least Lua worries about Cailie sometimes. Not so sure about Alice though, as she is the more easygoing of the two.

  Anyway. Bae packs.

  Daily Pack tokens: 100Current Pack tokens: 1144 Avaible sets : Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragoal Raiders ?Magic Ruler ?Pharaoh’s Servant ?Labyrinth of Nightmare ?Legacy of Darkness ?Pharaonic Guardian ?Magi’s Force ?Dark Crisis ?Invasion of Chaos ?A Sanctuary ?Soul of the Duelist ?Rise of Destiny ?Fmiernity ? The Lost Millennium ?Cyberic Revolution ?Elemental Energy ?Shadow of InfinityEnemy of Justibsp;Daily Reprint Tokens: 100Current Reprint Tokens: 981 Avaible Repris: Dark Beginning 1 ?Dark Revetion Volume 1 ?Dark Beginning 2 ?Dark Revetion Volume 2 ?So as for the sets I have, Laura added those check marks after the sets that I have three of everything from. As if I wouldn’t remember it myself, but it was still nice of her. So yeah. I just have two not fully pleted at the moment. Not that I wao open up anything but Shadow of Infinity. I want another Sacred Beast card. I only have Hamon and I want another one. Not that I’ve summoned Hamon outside the factory yet, but at some point I will. And I’m sure Agunan will enjoy getting another Divi that he lose to. Well, he actually tie with Hamon, as long as I allow him to have infinite mana, but he does lose if he doesn’t have infinite mana. Maybe I should give Agunan another install, so he will be strong enough to beat some of the Divis.

  Let’s think more about that ter. For now, let’s open some Shadow of Infinity.

  SpoilerSOI 1

  Super Junior frontation, A Gear Factory, Saber Beetle, Miracle Kids, Aereatingant, A Gear, Geion Shift, Gokipon, Princess Curran

  [colpse]First pack, all ready all repeats. That’s a shame. .

  SpoilerSOI 2

  Tenkabito Shien, A Gear Factory, Full Salvo, Photon Geor Unit, D.D. Guide, D.3.S. Frog, o be Lost, Malice Asdant, Memory Crusher

  [colpse]Same with this pack. All repeats. .

  SpoilerSOI 3

  D.D. Guide, Sand Moth, Mae King Prototype, Super Junior frontation, D.3.S. Frog, Silent I, Saber Beetle, Disciple of the Forbidden Spell, Option Hunter

  [colpse]… Do I even have to say it? All repeats. .

  SpoilerSOI 4

  Tenkabito Shien, Aereatingant, Trial of the Princesses, Saber Beetle, End of the World, Malice Asdant, Thrasher, Silent I, saw I

  [colpse]Well, at least saw I is new. It is also quite strong, and its usual ive effect isn’t really ive at all. I mean, how does someone ‘draw a card’? And they ’t get a Pack tokeher, if they don’t have Pack Opener. So it is basically a 2400 attack monster with no downside. … actually, it does have one. 0 defense means it does die easily, so it is basically a gss on.

  Anyway, .

  SpoilerSOI 5

  D.3.S. Frog, Mae King Prototype, Symbol of Heritage, Saber Beetle, o be Lost, Tenkabito Shien, A Gear, Cyber Laser Dragon, saw I

  [colpse]Cyber Laser Dragon. hat is holy so good. And with its effect to bst anything with more attack than it has, it will be quite useful, I think. Sure A-rank and higher monsters will resist the destru effect, but they will still take some damage from it.1Once per turn, you destroy 1 monster with ATK or DEF equal ther thaK of this card.

  Let’s keep this going. .

  SpoilerSOI 6

  Silent I, Symbol of Heritage, Mag Circle LV2, Super Junior frontation, Hero Kid, Thrasher, Full Salvo, A Gear Drill, Proto-Cyber Dragon

  [colpse]Well, Proto is new, so that is good. Always good to get something new, instead of a repeat. Don’t know how useful it will be, but still good to have.

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  SpoilerSOI 7

  Silent I, Success Probability 0%, Elemental HERO Neo Bubbleman, Aereatingant, Thrasher, o be Lost, Hero Kid, Demise, King eddon, Proto-Cyber Dragon

  [colpse]Well, that is a Demise. Hi Demise. Sorry I never got you with Manju, but at least I was now able to pull you from a pack. I still need your waifu, but I’m w on it.

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  SpoilerSOI 8

  Malice Asdant, Grass Phantom, Beelze Frog, Tenkabito Shien, Success Probability 0%, Full Salvo, Mae King Prototype, Super Junior frontation, Phantasmal Martyrs

  [colpse]And that is all repeats, but let’s hope Phantasmal Martyrs is a sign of the ining Sacred Beast. .

  SpoilerSOI 9

  Full Salvo, Geion Shift, End of the World, Beelze Frog, Aereatingant, Mae King Prototype, Elemental HERO Neo Bubbleman, A Gear on, Cye B

  [colpse]At least Cye B is new. And I might be able to reverse engi and make some cool on out of it.

  I thi pack will be the st, so maybe something amazing?

  SpoilerSOI 10

  o be Lost, Beelze Frog, End of the World, Parasitic Ticky, D.3.S. Frog, Symbol of Heritage, Miracle Kids, Adhesive Explosive, Damage denser

  [colpse]… I mean… it is something new. And it is an SR, so that is good. Sadly it just… isn’t amazing. It is alright, I guess. And Adhesive Explosive is new as well. And it is actually better than Damage denser. So this isn’t a bad pack to end things on.

  I think I’ll pull aen tomorrow, so I get a Sacred Beast, and maybe some Enemy of Justice packs as well. Yeah. I think I’ll do that. The Laura take over and full plete the sets.

  “... Lord Brian… would I be able to ask something?” Wilma asked me that evening. We were once again keeping guard, as the others slept. I got some looks from Alid Lua when I decided on the order we would keep guard, but I’m holy just min-maxing out System Support efficy. It is best if one of us System Support holders is always awake to keep guard.

  “You already did, but I’ll assume you want to know something else. Go for it.” I granted her permission in my almost cssic slightly snarky way.

  “... that day… when you came to my workshop…” Wilma began. “... I died… didn’t I?”

  “Why would you think so?”

  “... it is just… I remember… this strange pce… It felt like a dream… I was only there for a sed… but it felt… I don’t know.”

  “And why would that make you think you died? It could have been just a dream.”

  “I … I thought so too… But then I heard about the smoke bomb… Something like that. If what you told me… about how smokey the room was… I should have died, I think. But I thought it was impossible, because I’m alive. … until I saw you resurrect that catfolk boy. He was dead. I’m sure he was. There is no way he would have lived for that long… with a big hole in his stomach.”

  “Perhaps. So, where are you going with this?”

  “... well, if you really do that, and it is easy enough that you did it to someone who attacked you… maybe you did it to me?”

  “... I see. Well, that is one possibility. Or maybe what we told you earlier is the truth? That you were simply passed out from the smoke. So, do you want to actually know the truth, or was that just you asking about things?”

  “... I … I wish to know the truth. Did you resurrect me that day?”

  “... No. I did not.” I answered holy, with emphasis on the I. Because Lua was the one who used a Monster Reborn on Wilma.

  “I see…”

  “But you did die that day.” I then added. “When we arrived, the smithing room was already pletely full of smoke. Agunan was the ohat came into the room and took you to the other room. Lua tried her best to keep you alive, but she isn’t great when it es to breathing problems, and you ended up passing away.” I expio her what happened. “After that, she was the one who used a Monster Reborn on you and resurrected you. I didn’t do it.”

  “... she do it too? … what is she?”

  “Ask her yourself. She might answer, or she might not. Her secrets are not mio share.”

  “... I see. I’ll… think about it… But at least… I’ll make sure to thank her.”

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