Yugioh Card Summoner - Chapter .296

On our way back to Burch city, I stopped by the Sawyer manor. Because it was a surprise visit, it did kind of throw a wrench into their plans, but I was still able to have a nice little chat with Paulina and Angelina.

I, of course, offered Paulina a ‘job’ at my place, but because I couldn’t really go into full details what the job would be about, because I honestly don’t even know what I’d want her to do, she didn’t yet accept the job, even if she was interested. But let’s be honest here. I could hire her just to hang around with no real issue. Well no real money issue that is. 

I also ended up giving a fun little item to Paulina. A letter exchange portal. It was just a bit of something fun I made based on the exchange thing my and Christina’s dungeon terminals have. It honestly was nothing too complicated. Just a small box, made to look like a music box, which when opened would activate a small portal that can let inanimate objects through to the other side, even if the other side is closed. It did take a bit of orichalcum to make, so it was a bit expensive in terms of cost, and I did have to install Exchange to it, but it was still well worth the cost.

After introducing the letter exchanging box to them, Angelina was the one to ask me about the cost of buying a few, but I literally had to refuse until they could be made without HomeBase. Or at least with me using HomeBase to only make the bit of orichalcum they need. I guess Wilma could make the box itself, and then I make the portal parts inside and install Exchange to complete the object.

I didn’t tell them that much, but I did tell them that if I find a good way to make more of them, I’d definitely sell the Sawyers a few. But now with the letter exchanging box given to them, I could stay in contact with both Christina, as well as the Sawyer family. And if they get letters appointed to me, they can use the box to forward it to me. But I don’t think I’ll be getting many letters in the first place.

After our flight to the Burch city, Wilma and I kind of just hung out in the city. We did visit a few stores, mainly weapons shops because Wilma was the most interested in those. I did feel a bit bad, as this was basically a date, but we didn’t really have good choices. Sure we could have gone to where Alice was with Agunan and the catfolk, but I didn’t want to invade the hunting mission they picked up from the adventurer’s guild. And crashing into someone’s place, where Lua and Ria currently are, isn’t really an option either.

So yeah. We just ended up hanging out for the afternoon, until Lua and Ria were done with their meeting.

“So we can visit tomorrow?” I confirmed with Lua, as we were sitting at a table in a small tea-house I noticed while I was walking around the city, so when Lua ‘called’ me to tell she was done with her meeting and wanted to meet up, I suggested we come here.

“Yes. It will be a surprise visit, but after I had Grace cure him, he quickly agreed. He almost wanted to go today, but I said Grace couldn’t take care of an entire village, so we should wait for you.” Lua told me.

“... and what about temporarily taking the dhampirs to HomeBase to study?” I asked about the second part of our plan.

This was actually somewhat of a bigger reason I wanted HomeBase operational as soon as possible. Lua’s mission of teaching dhampirs. She can only teach them one village at a time, unless we can bring all the dhampirs to one location where we can teach them all. And HomeBase is perfect for that, as it has tons of space. 

Also it will be a great test for HomeBase’s facilities. I know for a fact that they are currently lacking, but I just don’t know what all they are lacking. And dhampirs are a great test drive for that, as they can survive with blood alone, so even if we run out of food or something, our guests won’t be starving. We can just make blood with my cards after all.

“We were asked to leave that choice to the people in question.” Ria answered.

“I’m also a bit worried about HomeBase’s state. Do you think it can take a village worth of people into it? This village is also a bit bigger than the one we come from, 46 people in total, so that would add to the difficulty.”

“... Yeah. I can see how that would cause a problem. We don’t have that many beds, let alone furnished rooms.” I admitted. 

HomeBase was still completely bare bones. Or more like empty rooms. Outside of our rooms and the things I made with the True core, which I tried to keep to a minimum so I could spend some of my excess cash to buy stuff and stimulate the economy at the same time, the rooms were empty. No beds, no dressers, not even tables or chairs. Basically the rooms only had bathroom stuff and the kitchen appliances. 

… so a house you would rent, I suppose. But unlike a renter, I can’t expect a guest to bring in all their own stuff. 

“So do we go on a shopping spree somewhere?” I just asked.

“We won’t have it for tomorrow. I’ll just stay in the village for a few weeks, like I did last time.” Lua said. “I can even travel from HomeBase with Gradius, as it only takes about 10 minutes.”

“Commuting in a fantasy world. Ain’t that fun.”

“...fantasy world?” Wilma caught onto the word I said.

“Ignore him.” Ria said, despite knowing the truth. “Brian says strange things.”

“I would argue, but that is true.” I admitted to hide my own slip up. I got too used to hanging out with Alice, Lua, Ria and Agunan, who all know my secret. … actually, did I ever tell Agunan about it? I don’t remember, but I feel like he knows anyway. Well, I’ll talk to him at some point, when we are just hanging out in HomeBase or the Factory.

After Alice and her group returned from their adventuring job, we ended up heading to the same inn where we slept last time we spent a night in this city. It wasn’t a bad place, it was actually quite nice, so why not? 

Sure we could fly to HomeBase, but we would need four Gradius for that. Or we could use a B.E.S. monster, but those really shouldn’t fly over the speed of sound, so the trip would take about one and a half hours. I could move HomeBase so that it is closer, but I don’t have any sort of invisibility spell around it yet, so commuting is the best idea. Don’t want people seeing a floating island after all.

As for why the invisibility barrier isn’t done yet, well, it kind of is. But also isn’t. An illusion magic barrier that makes HomeBase hidden isn’t actually that difficult for my monsters to make, but I wasn’t happy with that. Because it would still ‘show’ HomeBase when certain conditions are met. Like if there are a lot of clouds or stuff. The illusion barrier has to be able to adjust to those kinds of things. Rain is also a big factor. If HomeBase floats between the rainclouds and the ground below, it could cause some issues. Sure I could keep HomeBase higher up in the air, but that might cause issues of its own. 

So the best choice was to use a Dimensional magic barrier, which would bend the space around HomeBase so that it just … kind of doesn't exist. To those outside of it. The barrier will bend space and dimensions in a way where it will be impossible to spot HomeBase from the outside, no matter the weather, time of day, or any other thing like that. It should also be able to hide the magic signature of HomeBase, so that will be a nice addition, not that that has caused any issues yet.

Now as for why it hasn’t been implemented yet, well, in all simplicity, it doesn’t exist. But with Cosmo Queen, D.D.M. - Different Dimension Master, Dark Sage and Dimensional Alchemist working on it, it is only a matter of time until it is made. Then a quick Factory test, and as long as the spell works, I’ll add it to the Citadel core and make HomeBase undetectable.

After breakfast the next morning, our group split in two. Alice was going to take Agunan, Wilma and the catfolk with her to the adventurer’s guild, while I was going with Lua and Ria to the dhampir village.

Oh. Speaking of the catfolk. They did already have adventurer’s guild cards when we first met, so we didn’t need to get new ones for them or anything. And they have been official members of Card Summoner ever since they began traveling with us. Wilma also joined the guild at that time, and with a quick combat test, Wilma was granted D-rank, but both Einar and Eline were just E-rank. They probably would be D-rank as well, but Eline couldn’t summon her lightning tiger at that time and Einar didn’t have a tamed beast with him, so they only got E-rank.

But that doesn’t really matter. We can get them ranked up a bit later, after we help them level up a bit. Maybe I should ask the two to show their status to me, so it will be easier to use Level Up! on them. Same goes for Wilma actually. Though I don’t want to … force is not the right word. Coerce? No. Pressure then to show their status. And telling them ‘I’ll only use my demi-god abilities to help you if you show me your status’ is basically coercion.

Anyway. That is a problem for another day. Today, we have some dhampirs to cure.

We met up with a man, probably just over 40 or so. He was living in a medium-sized house near the western edge of the city. And the ‘man’ wasn’t really even a man. Well, he was male, but not a human, so… I guess he is still a man.

Our contact was actually a stable dhampir. Well, not anymore, as he is now a cured dhampir, but same difference. Actually, being stable is a definition given by humans, so he is now both cured and stable. He was pulling the job Agatha was doing in Sawyer city. Gathering blood for the dhampir safe village, while bringing back the blood lilies and selling them to alchemists/whatever profession it is that makes potions. I’ll just call them alchemists until someone tells me otherwise. 

After some quick introductions, we were off. For that, we used my carriage. It was just the simplest thing, and Alice could use her B.E.S. Covered Core for transport.

And speaking of the carriage. Now with the HomeBase mana factory running, I installed the mana transfer device inside of the carriage and we could use both the spatial expander as well as the small levitation device installed in the carriage. 

This meant that the insides of the insides of the carriage were basically the size of a small house. It had a total of four rooms and everything. The main room, with nice seating and a small attached kitchen, two bedrooms and one lavatory. I wanted to fit a full bathroom into the carriage, but that turned out quite difficult. It isn’t impossible, but I’d need to use even better materials for that.

But problems with my carriage aside, our trip to the village went just fine. I chatted quite a bit with the dhampir, Fabio or Fio for short. I still want to know why dhampirs like to have those three letter names. It is … strange. Fabio isn’t a long name.

Well, either way. Fio was quite interested in me, as Lua had told him a bit about me yesterday. Mainly, my ability to summon vampires, as well as my history with the dhampir race.

This of course led me to tell him about how I ran into Lua. And more importantly, the moment I made the decision to cure her. After I learned that she took care of me when I was passed out after the wyvern incident. No one so caring should be cursed, hereditary, racial or any other kind of curse. Even if the curse really didn’t affect Lua, her being cursed is still unfair in my books, so of course I wanted to cure her.

Arriving at the village, I quickly noticed that it was a bit better than the one near Sawyer city. There a lot of the buildings, other than the town hall, looked like they were built by someone with no idea how to actually make a good building, but here, almost all of the buildings actually looked fine. Fabio explained this by telling us about a smith who used to live here, until he retired a bit over five years ago. He lived here because here he could forge with blood iron, and in return, he helped the village to build good buildings and taught the villagers how to take care of them.

As Fabio headed into the village to call everyone, I stayed in the carriage. While I had analyzed that anti-dhampir necklace Agatha gave me that one time and I was wearing a copy of it at this moment, it wasn’t a surefire thing as I learned. But my carriage had full barriers and they could stop Agunan, so no way some dhampir would get through it.

“I guess it is too bad you can’t turn yourself into a dhampir.” Ria jokingly said. “Then none of us would try to attack you, despite the curse.”

“Yeah. I guess I just haven’t unlocked the dhampir genome yet. I can only be a dragon or a human. And I guess some half-spirit thing.” Sure I had other ‘races’ unlocked in One of Every Race, but they were more like classes than actual races. I would still be a human when I turned into something like a Summoner. “Speaking of… I wonder how I’d even do that? I probably can. Would just being bitten by a dhampir work? Does that turn me into a dhampir?”

“... you do know I’ve bitten you multiple times and you didn’t change because of them.” Lua reminded me.

“Oh yeah. You have. … then maybe it is some blood magic spell?”

“Not that I know of.” Lua told me.

“Me neither, but Lua does know magic better than me.” Ria added.

“... maybe Lua’s unique skill could do it?” I wondered. 

“... I guess that could be the case. It does allow me to make those thralls, so maybe at a higher rank I could turn someone into a dhampir.” Lua agreed with my idea.

“Well, I guess we will find out as you get more levels into that skill.” 

We talked about nothing in particular for a bit longer, until Fabio had most of the village gathered. 

Alright. Enough chit chat. Time to get to work. We have a village to cure.

On our way back to Burch city, I stopped by the Sawyer manor. Because it was a surprise visit, it did kind of throw a wrench into their plans, but I was still able to have a nice little chat with Paulina and Angelina. I, of course, offered Paulina a job' at my place, but because I couldn't really go into full details what the job would be about, because I honestly don't even know what I'd want her to do, she didn't yet accept the job, even if she was interested. But let's be honest here. I could hire her just to hang around with no real issue. Well no real money issue that is. I also ended up giving a fun little item to Paulina. A letter exchange portal. It was just a bit of something fun I made based on the exchange thing my and Christina's dungeon terminals have. It honestly was nothing too complicated. Just a small box, made to look like a music box, which when opened would activate a small portal that can let inanimate objects through to the other side, even if the other side is closed. It did take a bit of orichalcum to make, so it was a bit expensive in terms of cost, and I did have to install Exchange to it, but it was still well worth the cost. Spoiler collapse After introducing the letter exchanging box to them, Angelina was the one to ask me about the cost of buying a few, but I literally had to refuse until they could be made without HomeBase. Or at least with me using HomeBase to only make the bit of orichalcum they need. I guess Wilma could make the box itself, and then I make the portal parts inside and install Exchange to complete the object. I didn't tell them that much, but I did tell them that if I find a good way to make more of them, I'd definitely sell the Sawyers a few. But now with the letter exchanging box given to them, I could stay in contact with both Christina, as well as the Sawyer family. And if they get letters appointed to me, they can use the box to forward it to me. But I don't think I'll be getting many letters in the first place. After our flight to the Burch city, Wilma and I kind of just hung out in the city. We did visit a few stores, mainly weapons shops because Wilma was the most interested in those. I did feel a bit bad, as this was basically a date, but we didn't really have good choices. Sure we could have gone to where Alice was with Agunan and the catfolk, but I didn't want to invade the hunting mission they picked up from the adventurer's guild. And crashing into someone's place, where Lua and Ria currently are, isn't really an option either. So yeah. We just ended up hanging out for the afternoon, until Lua and Ria were done with their meeting. So we can visit tomorrow? I confirmed with Lua, as we were sitting at a table in a small tea-house I noticed while I was walking around the city, so when Lua called' me to tell she was done with her meeting and wanted to meet up, I suggested we come here. Yes. It will be a surprise visit, but after I had Grace cure him, he quickly agreed. He almost wanted to go today, but I said Grace couldn't take care of an entire village, so we should wait for you. Lua told me. Spoiler collapse ... and what about temporarily taking the dhampirs to HomeBase to study? I asked about the second part of our plan. This was actually somewhat of a bigger reason I wanted HomeBase operational as soon as possible. Lua's mission of teaching dhampirs. She can only teach them one village at a time, unless we can bring all the dhampirs to one location where we can teach them all. And HomeBase is perfect for that, as it has tons of space. Also it will be a great test for HomeBase's facilities. I know for a fact that they are currently lacking, but I just don't know what all they are lacking. And dhampirs are a great test drive for that, as they can survive with blood alone, so even if we run out of food or something, our guests won't be starving. We can just make blood with my cards after all. We were asked to leave that choice to the people in question. Ria answered. I'm also a bit worried about HomeBase's state. Do you think it can take a village worth of people into it? This village is also a bit bigger than the one we come from, 46 people in total, so that would add to the difficulty. ... Yeah. I can see how that would cause a problem. We don't have that many beds, let alone furnished rooms. I admitted. HomeBase was still completely bare bones. Or more like empty rooms. Outside of our rooms and the things I made with the True core, which I tried to keep to a minimum so I could spend some of my excess cash to buy stuff and stimulate the economy at the same time, the rooms were empty. No beds, no dressers, not even tables or chairs. Basically the rooms only had bathroom stuff and the kitchen appliances. so a house you would rent, I suppose. But unlike a renter, I can't expect a guest to bring in all their own stuff. So do we go on a shopping spree somewhere? I just asked. We won't have it for tomorrow. I'll just stay in the village for a few weeks, like I did last time. Lua said. I can even travel from HomeBase with Gradius, as it only takes about 10 minutes. Commuting in a fantasy world. Ain't that fun. ...fantasy world? Wilma caught onto the word I said. Ignore him. Ria said, despite knowing the truth. Brian says strange things. I would argue, but that is true. I admitted to hide my own slip up. I got too used to hanging out with Alice, Lua, Ria and Agunan, who all know my secret. actually, did I ever tell Agunan about it? I don't remember, but I feel like he knows anyway. Well, I'll talk to him at some point, when we are just hanging out in HomeBase or the Factory. After Alice and her group returned from their adventuring job, we ended up heading to the same inn where we slept last time we spent a night in this city. It wasn't a bad place, it was actually quite nice, so why not? Sure we could fly to HomeBase, but we would need four Gradius for that. Or we could use a B.E.S. monster, but those really shouldn't fly over the speed of sound, so the trip would take about one and a half hours. I could move HomeBase so that it is closer, but I don't have any sort of invisibility spell around it yet, so commuting is the best idea. Don't want people seeing a floating island after all. As for why the invisibility barrier isn't done yet, well, it kind of is. But also isn't. An illusion magic barrier that makes HomeBase hidden isn't actually that difficult for my monsters to make, but I wasn't happy with that. Because it would still show' HomeBase when certain conditions are met. Like if there are a lot of clouds or stuff. The illusion barrier has to be able to adjust to those kinds of things. Rain is also a big factor. If HomeBase floats between the rainclouds and the ground below, it could cause some issues. Sure I could keep HomeBase higher up in the air, but that might cause issues of its own. So the best choice was to use a Dimensional magic barrier, which would bend the space around HomeBase so that it just kind of doesn't exist. To those outside of it. The barrier will bend space and dimensions in a way where it will be impossible to spot HomeBase from the outside, no matter the weather, time of day, or any other thing like that. It should also be able to hide the magic signature of HomeBase, so that will be a nice addition, not that that has caused any issues yet. Now as for why it hasn't been implemented yet, well, in all simplicity, it doesn't exist. But with Cosmo Queen, D.D.M. - Different Dimension Master, Dark Sage and Dimensional Alchemist working on it, it is only a matter of time until it is made. Then a quick Factory test, and as long as the spell works, I'll add it to the Citadel core and make HomeBase undetectable. Spoiler collapse After breakfast the next morning, our group split in two. Alice was going to take Agunan, Wilma and the catfolk with her to the adventurer's guild, while I was going with Lua and Ria to the dhampir village. Oh. Speaking of the catfolk. They did already have adventurer's guild cards when we first met, so we didn't need to get new ones for them or anything. And they have been official members of Card Summoner ever since they began traveling with us. Wilma also joined the guild at that time, and with a quick combat test, Wilma was granted D-rank, but both Einar and Eline were just E-rank. They probably would be D-rank as well, but Eline couldn't summon her lightning tiger at that time and Einar didn't have a tamed beast with him, so they only got E-rank. But that doesn't really matter. We can get them ranked up a bit later, after we help them level up a bit. Maybe I should ask the two to show their status to me, so it will be easier to use Level Up! on them. Same goes for Wilma actually. Though I don't want to force is not the right word. Coerce? No. Pressure then to show their status. And telling them I'll only use my demi-god abilities to help you if you show me your status' is basically coercion. Anyway. That is a problem for another day. Today, we have some dhampirs to cure. We met up with a man, probably just over 40 or so. He was living in a medium-sized house near the western edge of the city. And the man' wasn't really even a man. Well, he was male, but not a human, so I guess he is still a man. Our contact was actually a stable dhampir. Well, not anymore, as he is now a cured dhampir, but same difference. Actually, being stable is a definition given by humans, so he is now both cured and stable. He was pulling the job Agatha was doing in Sawyer city. Gathering blood for the dhampir safe village, while bringing back the blood lilies and selling them to alchemists/whatever profession it is that makes potions. I'll just call them alchemists until someone tells me otherwise. After some quick introductions, we were off. For that, we used my carriage. It was just the simplest thing, and Alice could use her B.E.S. Covered Core for transport. And speaking of the carriage. Now with the HomeBase mana factory running, I installed the mana transfer device inside of the carriage and we could use both the spatial expander as well as the small levitation device installed in the carriage. This meant that the insides of the insides of the carriage were basically the size of a small house. It had a total of four rooms and everything. The main room, with nice seating and a small attached kitchen, two bedrooms and one lavatory. I wanted to fit a full bathroom into the carriage, but that turned out quite difficult. It isn't impossible, but I'd need to use even better materials for that. But problems with my carriage aside, our trip to the village went just fine. I chatted quite a bit with the dhampir, Fabio or Fio for short. I still want to know why dhampirs like to have those three letter names. It is strange. Fabio isn't a long name. Well, either way. Fio was quite interested in me, as Lua had told him a bit about me yesterday. Mainly, my ability to summon vampires, as well as my history with the dhampir race. This of course led me to tell him about how I ran into Lua. And more importantly, the moment I made the decision to cure her. After I learned that she took care of me when I was passed out after the wyvern incident. No one so caring should be cursed, hereditary, racial or any other kind of curse. Even if the curse really didn't affect Lua, her being cursed is still unfair in my books, so of course I wanted to cure her. Arriving at the village, I quickly noticed that it was a bit better than the one near Sawyer city. There a lot of the buildings, other than the town hall, looked like they were built by someone with no idea how to actually make a good building, but here, almost all of the buildings actually looked fine. Fabio explained this by telling us about a smith who used to live here, until he retired a bit over five years ago. He lived here because here he could forge with blood iron, and in return, he helped the village to build good buildings and taught the villagers how to take care of them. As Fabio headed into the village to call everyone, I stayed in the carriage. While I had analyzed that anti-dhampir necklace Agatha gave me that one time and I was wearing a copy of it at this moment, it wasn't a surefire thing as I learned. But my carriage had full barriers and they could stop Agunan, so no way some dhampir would get through it. I guess it is too bad you can't turn yourself into a dhampir. Ria jokingly said. Then none of us would try to attack you, despite the curse. Yeah. I guess I just haven't unlocked the dhampir genome yet. I can only be a dragon or a human. And I guess some half-spirit thing. Sure I had other races' unlocked in One of Every Race, but they were more like classes than actual races. I would still be a human when I turned into something like a Summoner. Speaking of I wonder how I'd even do that? I probably can. Would just being bitten by a dhampir work? Does that turn me into a dhampir? ... you do know I've bitten you multiple times and you didn't change because of them. Lua reminded me. Oh yeah. You have. then maybe it is some blood magic spell? Not that I know of. Lua told me. Me neither, but Lua does know magic better than me. Ria added. ... maybe Lua's unique skill could do it? I wondered. ... I guess that could be the case. It does allow me to make those thralls, so maybe at a higher rank I could turn someone into a dhampir. Lua agreed with my idea. Well, I guess we will find out as you get more levels into that skill. We talked about nothing in particular for a bit longer, until Fabio had most of the village gathered. Alright. Enough chit chat. Time to get to work. We have a village to cure.