I make my way over to Alice and Mana. This was, I think, her first time in real combat. That taken into account, she did so well. Probably better than me, anyway. I was just hiding in the back. Someone else would say that is the summoner's job, but Alice had an active summon and she was fighting next to it. Actually Lucia was as well.
“Alice,” I called out to her. “How are you feeling?”
“...Tired.” Makes sense. She did cast multiple spells in quick succession. And all the other stuff before.
“Well, at least you seem unharmed.” I told her.
“Yes, Mana was protecting me.” She answered.
“I kept your girlfriend safe, Master. Praise me.” Mana said to me as she came next to me. Do you want headpats or something?
“I’m not… “ Alice began to say.
“She is not my girlfriend, you know.” I told Mana. “Also, why do you call me ‘Master’ even if I didn’t summon you?”
“Master is always Master. Master made us. Without Master, we couldn’t be here.” She answered. So the monsters are loyal to me even if I’m not the one that summons them. That’s nice. I think that should mean they will never attack me, even if ordered by their summoner. I won’t have to be scared even if I give a stronger monster to Brandon.
“Could you give me the Red Medicine I gave you earlier?” I requested from Alice. “Some of the guards have injuries and I’d like to heal them.”
“Sure.” Alice responded and took out the Red Medicine card from her hoodie pocket. “Here you go.”
“Thanks. Try to relax a little. The battle is over.” I told Alice.
I make my way over to Zayaan.
“So, how many are injured?” I asked.
“Let me catch my breath for a second first.” He responded.
“Are you expecting me to do everything then?” I shoot back.
“...ask Jack.”
“Jack was the greatsword guy, right?” I confirmed.
“Yes.”
He was also still standing. Most of the others had collapsed to the ground after the last wyvern went down. Actually, Lucia seems to be hard at work draining the blood of the wyverns already. She is a massive over achiever. Taking one down with Slot Machine and now doing clean up work.
“Hey Jack,” I began talking to him. “Do you know if there are any injured?” I asked him.
“Most are just minor scratches. The guards said one of them got stabbed by a tail, but I don’t see anyone with a wound like that.”
“Oh yeah, I pulled him out of the combat zone and used a potion on him.” I told Jack. “He is inside the golem carriage.”
“I see. Well that’s good. He had the worst injury. Because of the emergency we don't really have potions on hand.” Jack told me.
“I still have one.” I told him. “And Zayaan has one as well.”
“Could you give it to me?” He requested.
“Sure I don’t mind.” I use the card I took back from Alice. “Red Medicine.”
The card disappeared and the potion bottle appeared.
“Here you go.” I said as I handed the bottle to Jack.
“That’s an interesting spell. I’ve never heard of a spell that stores items in cards.” He told me.
“Well, technically I’m not storing things inside them or anything.” I told him.
“Please, just stop. You are already mind breaking enough.” Jack stopped my storytelling.
“As you wish.” I responded. “If you need another potion, just ask Zayaan for his.”
“Will do.” Jack told me.
Okay, so injuries are taken care of, what now?
(You should go get the guard out of Overdrive. The summon limit is coming up soon.) Laura reminded me.
(Yeah, I’ll do that.) I responded to her as I made my way over to my APC. My APC? It feels strange to think that. I own an APC. And I have a dragon. Now I want to ride on Red-Eyes.
As I check over the guard in Overdrive, he seems … limp. Did he die? I check and his pulse is still there.
(He is just paralyzed by the wyvern poison.) Laura told me.
(My potion didn’t heal it?) I asked.
(Master’s potion heals wounds, but it can’t heal status conditions, such as paralysis.) Laura told me.
(What about a poison? Like a damaging poison?) I asked.
(It should heal the damage effect.) Laura responded.
So yes to poison damage, but no to paralysis. Well, I guess paralysis isn’t exactly a damage effect, so a HP potion might not heal it. I grabbed the guard and dragged him out of Overdrive. Then I unsummoned Overdrive.
Now, what to do? I guess I could just take a ride on Red-Eyes while he is still summoned, but that might scare people in town. I guess I’ll just unsummon him for now.
“Red-Eyes, you go back.” I said to no one. But it doesn’t really matter as the card appeared anyway and Red-Eyes flew into it. As it did, I felt a surge of power coming from my DiaDhank and flowing through my body.
What was that? A weird power surge?
After that, the mission report popped up.
| Emergency Mission: Protect the Town |
| Mission Complete |
| Reward: |
| Daily ‘Pack tokens’ increase by 1. |
| Sets Unlocked: |
| Pharaonic Guardian Magician’s Force |
| Dark Crisis Invasion of Chaos |
| Ancient Sanctuary Soul of the Duelist |
| Special reward for no deaths |
| Reprint Set ‘Dark Beginning 1’ unlocked |
| ‘Reprint tokens’ Unlocked |
| Daily ‘Reprint token’ s are currently 1 |
That’s a lot of sets. And I got a reprint set. But reprints exist with their own tokens? Why is that? Well, it doesn’t really matter at the moment.
—
I’m tired. I feel like I need a nap. It’s not even naptime yet.
I see a group of knights in armor come out from the town's gates and are heading towards us. You guys are late. We took down the wyverns like 15 minutes ago.
I think the one leading them is… No this is not my fault. Don’t come over to me to yell at me mister ‘father of the year’. Thankfully he seems to be making his way over to Zayaan and Jack. Thank you for your sacrifice.
But someone is making their way over to me as well. At least she is usually reasonable.
“Hello there Brian.” She began.
“Hi, Christina. Didn’t expect you to come here.” I told her.
“I’m still a strong earth mage. If wyverns were attacking, of course I would come as well.” She answered.
“Well, you are late. We already took the wyverns down.” I told her.
“So it would seem. Your summons are amazing.” She told me.
“Well, I didn’t do it alone. Also please go to Alice before her father explodes at her.” I tell her.
“Well, since you asked.” She said to me. “By the way, are you feeling alright? You seem pale.”
Pale? Really? I guess I do feel a little odd. And tired. (Laura? Is there something wrong with me?)
(Master is experi.ecsa..lvlpscs)
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[Alice POV]
Mother and Father came here. I guess they would. They are both good at magic and to take down a wyvern, strong magic is necessary. A group of guards in armor also came with them. They don’t usually wear heavy armor like that, but in case of a powerful monster attack, they do have some.
Thankfully Father made his way over to the adventurers. He won’t be yelling at me.
Mother is talking with Brian. I can’t hear them from here.
Brian fell down? What? Why?
I get up and run over. Mother is holding Brian in her arms. What happened to him? Did he get poisoned by a wyvern? But he was hanging back during combat. And I can’t see a wound on him.
“Mana, do you know what happened?” I asked.
“My connection to Master is still present, but I can’t reach lady Laura. I’m sorry, but I don’t know.” She seems down. I guess even with all her power she can’t help.
“He is burning up.” Mother said to me. “I think we need to cool him down.”
I put my hand on his forehead. He really is hot. More than feverishly hot.
“Will he be okay?” I asked.
“...I don’t know.” Mother responded. “First we must find out what is wrong with him.”
“Could he have run out of mana?” I offered an explanation.
“That could cause the pass out, but in that case he would be cold. It feels more like he is overflowing with mana.” Mother told me. “We need to get him to an expert.”
“My teacher can carry him.” Mana said and looked around trying to spot him. “Where is he?”
I also get up and look around. Mana’s teacher is the summon dressed in a purple robe, right? It shouldn’t be that difficult to spot him. But I can’t see him either. His card is still on Brian’s bracelet. Or whatever it is. I think he got it from the dungeon. I touch the card on it, and the card is super hot.
“Ow.” I yell out as I pull my hand back. Is that the source of the heat?
“I think we need to remove that card.” I said to my mother and Mana. “But it’s super hot.”
“I’ll do it then.” Mana offered and before I could stop her, she had grabbed the card. I could see her hand smoking as she was holding it. But she is just taking the pain.
“Please, let go of it.” I try to plead with her.
“Lady Christina, please make a stone pedestal for me to place this card on.” She calmly asked mother. How can you be so calm as your hand is burning?
“Sure.” Mother responded. “Earth control.”
With a simple spell, Mother raised a part of the ground slightly. Mana then placed the card in it. I take a look at Mana’s burned hand.
“I’ll use the… oh, I gave it to Brian.” I was going to use the potion Brian gave me to heal Mana’s burn, but I don’t have it anymore.
“It’s fine.” Mana said to me. “I’ll heal if you unsummon me.” She told me.
“Then, I’ll do it right now.” I said to her.
“Please call on me again.” She said as she flew up into the card floating in the air.
“We should get him to a proper bed.” Mother said to me. “His temperature is not rising any more, so that card might have been the source, but we still need to do something about this. If he stays in this high temperature for long, he could die.”
“Then, I’ll… what can I do?” I feel lost. I don’t know what to do.
.... I hope no one ends up stealing the card.
Yeah DB1 is one of the best set ever released in my oppinion. So many good cards in a single set.
Wonder if he was bonding with Dark Magician, or maybe he got too many levels and is evolving, maybe he is evolving to become more like Dark Magician as it was his only Toploaded card when he was fighting the Wyverns.
Also he can get the Black Luster Soldier Envoy of the begining, one of the ultimate cards in the old days, wonder if he were to get the Transmigration through light and dark to evolve one of the Dark Magician to the Dark Magician of Chaos too, of I can't wait. There is also Horus the Black Flame Dragons and Chaos Emperor Dragon Envoy of the End, and Blue-eyes too, he should keep trying to fish one out atleast getting some Pot of Greeds while at it
Yeah, there is a very good reason I limited DB1. And with the set unlocks, so many cards have become available. The Envoys are the two biggest of the time, but there is some other fun stuff as well.
Some of my favorites that some might not think of would be Levia-Dragon, Master of Oz, Shinato and XYZ Dragon Cannon. Also Ojamas, but let's hope we never get any, or people will get nightmares.
@nro_8 the Shinato Ritual was really nice, will he be able to unlock the structure decks? Like the first water and fire ones, I like them a lot, though Leyendary Ocean was really nice and pyro burn became a thing... I missed the good old days when one play like 3 or 4 cards and ended their turn. I tried using the YGOpro and got destroyed by Ritual fairies and Agents and a bunch of sh*t that triggers off of a single card...
@Ruiso I definitely want to give Brian access to structure decks as some cards first appear in them, but I just have no clue on how to deal with them. I could give them as quest rewards or I could make a system that allows Brian to trade pack tokens for structure decks. Something like trading 10 pack tokens for one structure deck wouldn't be broken, but at the same time it might be considered a terrible trade.
And yes, I think plenty of people miss the times when T-set pass wasn't a death sentence. The newer meta is interesting in a different way, but the back and forth of monsters is what got a lot of people into Yugioh.
Can't wait to see those then, like upgrading Red-Eyes B. Dragon to the Darkness Dragon and maybe later to the Darkness Metal Dragon, maybe with Metalmorph?
Though, 10 packs for a structure deck is a horrible trade though he can probably just spend a day and get the packs back, bit loosing a potential 100+ cards, of which Pot of Greed, Monster Reborn, Change of Heart, Raigeki, United we stand, Graceful Charity, Exodia pieces, like there is so much to get, maybe they can be like spend 5 token for a structure deck though only give one of each Structure Decks as there is a Pot of Greed and other broken repriprints on some.
Maybe getting the new cards only as quest reward might be good, as getting 1 - 3 cards as a reward isn't as busted as getting 40+ cards, included a garanted Pot of Greed on most of the old Structure Decks, well unless they are difficult missions.
@Ruiso Yeah, having the 'broken' reprints in structure decks is the biggest problem. I can't give Brian cheap guaranteed access to Pot of Greed, so even something like 5 tokens for a structure deck wouldn't work. If it was 5 reprint tokens it would be closer, but still.
I could also make a system where he could trade tokens for singles, but again for most cards it would have to be multiple tokens for just one card. I can't have him getting a pot for one pack token.
@nro_8 I could try making my own custom packs in ygopro and use that, but then it might feel like cheating. Or I would make it too bad and Brian would open them once to get the one or two cards he wants from there.
@nro_8 you could make it a single token per card and just give him the new cards, though here that might still be too much as he would be getting a huge beater for a token. Maybe they have some limited summoning conditions, like tributing a red-eyes for the darkness dragon or a vampire lord for the genesis like the ocg/tcg. Since only the new cards are given, he would have to find the other components elsewhere.
@Ruiso A single card for a token would still lead to the question of 'Can he get a Pot for a single token?' and 'Can he get multiple copies of the same card for 1 token each?' And I think I even mentioned in some of my comments that I was going to keep the original summoning conditions whenever possible, as long as the og condition isn't complete ass.
An example of an 'ass' summoning condition would be something like Great Dezard summoning Fushioh Richie. I know there are others, but that's one stupid one. But stuff like Gate Guardian still needs its three pieces.
I liked Fusion Richie, he was cool, and really anoying, though his summoning condition is indeed ass. Also you can probably make Gate Guardian split in to his three pieces, I don't know why he doesn't do that in the anime, nor the actual card.
Like Gate Guardian is worst than the three separate component, appart from his higher attack. Would the card evolve even if he weren't to have the boss cards, like if he were to summon Zoa and use Metalmorph, would he get Metal Zoa or would he need the Metal Zoa card.
@Ruiso Yeah, if I ever get all the Gate Guardian pieces it will act more like three monsters working together, instead of the one beatstick it actually is. Even in the anime, in it's first appearance, Gate Guardian was not a beatstick but three monsters stacked into one. It could still use the abilities of its parts, so that's what I would do.
@nro_8 Gate Guardian will be a beast
evolving is not the right word for that, "metamorphosis" "transformation" even "transmogrification" is a better word for it.
@vancono metamorphosis maybe, the other two makes no sense in the context. If the change is permanent as in it is their new normal state, it isn't a transformation, but an evolution.
Evolution, not in the sense we use it in real life, but a more generic rpg games style, like pokemon, where a monster evolve into a higher species after leveling up enough or accumulating enough power, instead of a creature species has been living little by little after thousands of years to adapt into a 'better' creature for it's enviroment.
@Ruiso if Darwin was a ghost he would definitively "speed up the evolution" of people that f*cked his word xD, now i imagine a angry ghost Darwin with a shotgun haunting people in the deep of night👻👻👻.
@vancono Yeah
Though it has been that way for dozens of years, *Cough* Pokemon *Cough* now-a-days it is a very common thing in litrpg novels and anime to 'evolve' in to a higher species, specially so for monsters.
@Ruiso yea i f*cking hate Pokémon for that 😂 i also get bothered by people saying "ishtupid" stuff like "eleven-hundred" when the hundreds end at 999 🤣🤣🤣 im in constant pain xD