“Alright. I’ll e find you as soon as I’m done pig up that order.” I said to Alid Lua as we went our separate ways from HomeBase. We all had our own jobs to do, so that is just how this is going to go.

  Alice was heading back to Burch city so she could work on finding out anything about the sve marks, now that she has a system missiarding those. And because the Brading pany is basically the only lead we have, and they are located in Burch city, Alice decided to return there and act as an adventurer. She was taking Agunan, Einar and Elih her.

  Lua and Ria were also heading to the same city, but their goal was different. They were going to go a up with someone who knows about the dhampir safe vilge and hopefully get us a visitation to that vilge. It shouldn’t be too difficult, as we did get that letter from Prince Elias.

  Lastly, Wilma and I would first head to the Hill town of Yuva to hopefully pick up my metal order. It should be ready, but sidering that they would usually inform us with a letter, which they admittedly might have sent to Sawyer city, I o go there and see if they are. And if they aren’t, well, we will at least get an update o will be ready.

  Now, as for what I did with HomeBase. It should be fio just leave it ae ma with Dungeon Founder, but I didn’t want to risk it, so I installed Endymion, the Master Magi into the True core and summoned one of him as a dungeon monster. I then moved him up to the top of the Citadels highest tower, which housed the Citadel core a him there to monitor mana levels and take care of stuff.

  Spoiler[colpse]I think after I’m doh this dhampir vilge, I’ll take Agunan and visit the dragons. I could really use some of those dragon avatars, so I look into avatar dolls, so I have more monsters avaible for me, without having to install them into the True core.

  “... Lord Brian… may I ask something about that ship?” Wilma asked, after we nded.

  Uhe roup, which had a total of 6 members, we were just the two of us, so we used a Gradius to move, while Alice piloted her brand new B.E.S. Covered Core to take the others to Burch city.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]

  Oh, by the way. Speaking of my Gradius. After I learned what Gradius’ Optioo Gradius when installed into it, I did install Gradius’ Option into my own Gradius. So in total, my Gradius now has Mae version Factory, a defensive 7 pleted, Cy Laser and Gradius’ Option installed in it.

  Spoiler [colpse]“Sure. Ask away.” I gave permission.

  “... what is it made of? It is some kind of a metal, but I .”

  “... a good question. I have no idea, actually. Probably some titanium alloy, I’d assume.” Well admittedly that was more like a guess.

  I think airpnes are made from some aluminum alloy. Or did they move to some sort of posite material? I don’t know. Well, either way. I don’t think titanium is actually used on things like airlis, but I do think it is used for military jets, so Gradius is probably titanium.

  “Titanium? I think I’ve heard of it… but isn’t it just a legend?” Wilma asked.

  “You might be thinking of star titanium. It is sidered one of the greatest metals alongside things like orichalcum and adamantite. But I’m not sure if normal titanium ts.”

  “... how do you know about that? Those metals… are basically legends.”

  “Well, this is orichalcum, so when I looked a bit into it, I found out a few things.” I pointed out, as I reminded Wilma that I indeed do have an orichalcum bray left arm.

  “What kind of informatiowork do you have?”

  “... I’ll tell you about it some day.”

  “I feel like you said that earlier.”

  “You know what, I just might have.” I admitted. Not that I remember what I even said yesterday. My mind is too occupied remembering more important things.

  Well, I do remember the important things, and that is all that really matters.

  “Ah. Lord Wood. It is great to see you again. I have to say, you came quite quickly. We just sent out the letter two days ago.” The same worker who took my order came to talk to me quickly after I arrived at the Yuva family’s metal wholesale store.

  “Well, I do tend to do that.” So they did have the time to send a letter. Maybe I should go visit the Sawyer manor so I pick it up. I also have oem I want to give them. And I check up on Paulina while at it. … maybe I should invite Paulina to work for me on HomeBase? I could use someone skilled in magic. Well, more like I just need more personnel as a whole. “So, is it all ready?”

  “Naturally. We wouldn’t want you to make the trip for nothing. The steel is of exceptionally high quality this time, so we hope you will enjoy it.”

  “Oh? Why thank you. That will be a great help.”

  “May I ask what you pn to have made out of it?”

  “Ask her. She is my new smith, so hopefully she'll make something iing.”

  After a bit more chatting, we moved to the storehouse where I saw all of my metal id out for me.

  In total, my order had 500 kilos of high quality steel, 200 kilos of copper, 200 kilos of bronze, 200 kilos of iron and 50 kilos of mithril. Quite the haul, if I do say so myself. And all for the low price of 152 gold and twe silvers. Actually, that is just half of the cost, as I paid the other half beforehand, so the actual cost was 304 gold and fe silvers. Though I did also give them a tip of awenty rge silvers, just because I felt like it. And because I was holy surprised by the steel quality.

  I was expeg to get some intermediate quality stuff, with maybe some being high quality, but all that I received was at least high+ quality, with about a third being excellent- and a sixth being just straight excellent.

  After getting it all into Ste, I made sure to use Material Quality Increase on all of it. This caused everything to rise by two ranks, so the high+ quality steel turned into excellent, the excellent- turned into excellent+ and the excellent turned into fwless.

  Not sure what the fwless steel will be used for, but sidering that I only have about 80 kilos of it, I know I don’t want it to be wasted. The excellent quality steel, which I have 250 kilos of, be used for most things and it will make for quality tools and ons anyway.

  Well, some of it will probably be verted into vampiric steel, but other than that.

  Also, for those w what the metal quality actually affects. After being made into ons, the inal quality of the metal used affects things like how much durability the finished piece will have, how good of stats it have, and how entable the item is.

  And one more thing. I feel like I’ve mentiohis before, but I might not have so I’ll add it here. After steel is verted into vampiric steel, it is no lohe ‘same material’ in the eyes of Ste, so I actually use Material Quality Increase on it again, effectively getting a double Material Quality Increase oal. I suppose if I went all the way from ore to vampiric steel, it would get like four or maybe even five boosts, but that might be just a bit too much work. Well, maybe eventually when HomeBase is running like a well oiled mae and everything is fihere I might look into it.

  “So, Wilma. Want to e with me or should I take you baeBase?” I asked my smith, as we were walking away from the hill town so I could summon Gradius and fly off.

  “... I’ll e too, if that is fine. I’d like to get to know everyone just a bit better, so I better uand how they fight. It will help when I make ons or armor for them.” Wilma answered.

  “Yeah, I guess that might help.”

  “... I also would like to see that swain. That … dragon sying sword, was it?”

  “You mean Red-Eyes Bck Dragon Sword, right? Sure, I show it off again. Is there something about it that really is you?”

  Spoiler

  [colpse]“Yes. … Do you know about on statistics?” Wilma asked.

  “I do know a bit about them, yes.” I firmed. “With my Dungeon Founder skill, I analyze ons and learn their statistics. But I’m by no means an expert.”

  “So you know that your mithril sword doesn’t give its wielder any strength?”

  “Yeah. I do know that.”

  “But your … red dragon sword does.”

  “Red-Eyes Bck Dragon Sword.” I reminded Wilma. “And yes. It does. Quite a bit of strength, actually.”

  “Exactly. But most ons don’t do that. That is why I want to know more about that sword.”

  “... most?” I asked to firm. I’ll fully admit that I haven’t scouted the oions of HomeBase’s catalog that much, so I don’t really know what ons and ot do, but hat I’ve seen have given strength to the wielder.

  “Yes. There are ons that give strength. They are sidered legends and myths, but they are real. I was shown one as a part of my training. The iructible sword of penance, drahas.” Wilma told me.

  “... wow. That sounds like… something.”

  “It was. It was encased in a clear crystal, having beehere after its previous wielder passed away. But despite that, I could feel a power emanating from the sword. And when I tried to appraise it… I passed out after seeing just two lines.” Wilma said, before telling me what she could see. “The sword, as its name would indicate, is iructible and ever be broken. And it grants its wielder 250th.”

  “... wow. That is quite the sword.”

  That is ho praise. Sure my Red-Eyes Bck Dragon Sword reach that level, so it isn’t something pletely insane, but my cards are also pletely imbanced, so using them as a basis is just a bad parison. The fact that a sword like that exists is not something I ever even sidered. Well, I did, but I assumed that only something like the sword wielded by the Hero would be on that level.

  I wonder if I could make one by installing multiple cards into a sword?

  … yeah. No way that would work, actually. The sword would just break if I tried. There is a limit to the installs ons take. Maybe if I had an orichalcum sword or something to use as a base.

  “Yes. Yes it is.” Wilma said, seemingly thinking back to the moment when she saw it. “... and I dream of the day I make one.” She admitted.

  “I’m sure you , if you set your mind to it.” I told her. “And as long as you work for me, I’ll help in any way I .”

  “... then, the sword… could I take a look at it? And maybe even hold it?” Wilma requested.

  “Sure. Let’s do that before our flight then. … or maybe we fly in Big Core and I’ll hold a showcase of cool ons mid-flight.”

  “I am fih either, my Lord.”

  “Then mid-flight it is.” I decided, and summoned B.E.S. Big Core.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]

  During our flight to Burch city, actually we are first going to stop by the Sawyer manor but still, I showed a multitude of ons to Wilma.

  Of course we started off with Red-Eyes Bck Dragon Sword. Then I just activated different equip spells oer the other, just to show Wilma the variety of stuff my cards summon.

  Legendary Sword, Divine Sword - Phoenix Bde, Fusion Sword Murasame Bde, Lightning Bde, Sword of Dark Destru, Sword of Deep-Seated, Sword of the Soul-Eater, Twin Swords of Fshing Light - Tryce, Samandra and Wicked-Breaking Fmberge - Baou. And that was just the ohat are swords.

  Spoiler [colpse]I also have Axe of Despair, though that one is a bit dangerous, Burning Spear, Electro-Whip, Power of Kaishin aus of Dag.

  Spoiler [colpse]I also showed Wilma Raregold aalsilver Armor, just in case she might want to make something like that.

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  Now, as for something iing. Unlike Ria, who couldn’t ‘equip’ Cestus of Dag, Wilma could hold them just fine. So dhampirs ot, but humans and dwarves are fine for Fairy-type equips. Let’s keep that in mind.

  Oher hand, Power of Kaishin aro-Whip were both bad for Wilma, as they would either shock her or freeze her. I could wield either just fihough.

  But the ohing that her of us could use was the Sword of the Soul-Eater. It does need a low level normal monster, so I guess her of us fill that dition.

  Now I wonder, could Alice’s Erasure magic, which she doesn’t actually have yet, erase the ‘ only be equipped to xxx’ part of the effect? It probably could, I think.

  Well, we test that out when Alice gets that skill. For now, we shall look more closely at the ons Wilma found the most iing and see what she will want to do from there.