I didn’t sleep well. It was a restless night, filled with nightmares. Well, not really. I was just spinning thoughts in my head. Alice really got me to realize something. I’m stuck here. I’ll never see anyone ever again. Everyone I used to know. Gone from my life.
…
I really don’t want to get up. I turn in bed and try to get back to sleep.
Grr. Who is disturbing my sleep? I finally felt like I could actually get some restful sleep, and immediately someone had to come bother me.
“Lord Brian, please wake up.” A soft female voice said. She was shaking me softly.
“...don’t want to…” I said and turned away from her. I know I’m just a moody teen, but at the moment, I don’t care.
“But you will miss breakfast.” She tried arguing.
“... don’t care…” I don’t have an appetite anyway.
“Please, get up.” She tried arguing.
“...” I didn’t respond. Just go away.
After a little while, I heard footsteps moving away from me, and the door opened and closed. Good, she left. I hope I can get back to sleep.
“Brian.” Oh, great. Who is it now?
“Brian. Wake up.” And now there is more shaking. Next thing I know they will be kicking me in my side.
“...what do you want…?” I ask in a groggy voice.
“Could you wake up? I need your help.”
“For what?” I asked.
“It’s Alice. She is in some kind of spell and I can’t get her out.” The voice of Christina told me.
“Alice? Why would she?” I open my eyes and turn to face the MILF sitting on my bed. She is a MILF and you can’t convince me otherwise. But she is off limits. Her husband is already mad at me and I don't want to face his wrath.
“I don’t know, but she is inside some sort of dark bubble, and we can’t get through to her.” Christina told me. “Would you help me?”
…Do I have to? I guess I do. I’m kind of responsible for her being able to use magic, so I should at least try. And all things considered, I’m also the one that likely caused her to shut herself in that spell.
“Fine.” I sat up on the bed. Other than Christina, one maid was in the room. I haven’t seen her before, I think.
(She has been present at the dining room when they have been bringing out the food.) Laura informed me.
I see. Well, anyway.
“I think I need to change first. Please give me a moment.” I told the two of them.
“Sure, but don’t take too long.” Christina said as she walked out with the maid.
Okay, now I need a plan. If Alice has locked herself into a dark magic spell, I need something to dispel it with. MST should work for that. I think I could also use Dark Magician or Dark Sage. They should be able to overpower the spell, even if it was cast by Dark Magician Girl, instead of Alice.
But I’ll need some more sacrifices for the toploaders, so I guess I should speedrun my daily packs.
Daily Pack tokens: 10 |
Current Pack tokens: 10 |
Available packs : |
Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon |
Metal Raiders |
Magic Ruler |
Pharaoh’s Servant |
Labyrinth of Nightmare |
Legacy of Darkness |
Pharaonic Guardian |
Magician’s Force |
Dark Crisis |
Invasion of Chaos |
Ancient Sanctuary |
Soul of the Duelist |
Daily Reprint Tokens: 2 |
Current Reprint Tokens: 2 |
Available Reprint sets: |
Dark Beginning 1 |
I’ll start with the Dark Beginning packs today. That will allow for the best planning for the other packs I’ll open.
Nothing super good today. Magic Drain might be useful with Alice if nothing else works, Kazejin is a decent monster and I guess Left leg is a new Exodia piece.
(Laura, any idea what packs I should open?) I asked.
(You don’t have many good choices Master. This situation doesn’t call for power, but for reasoning. Alice likely doesn’t want to talk to anyone, but you need to try if you want to mend the damage you inflicted.) She told me.
(That doesn’t help.)
(Open Labyrinth of Nightmare. There is something that might help in that set.)
(Thank you.)
(By the way, what am I even looking for?) I asked Laura. She had some level of an idea, so I just went with it, but what am I actually going for.
(Darklord Marie.) Laura told me. (With it, you can fusion summon St. Joan.)
(Why would I need that?) I asked.
(If you need to go against dark magic, having a strong light attribute monster would not be a bad idea.) Laura reasoned. (One that won’t destroy everything.)
(Fine. I’ll accept that.)
Five more packs to go.
Oh. There it is.
(Was that all I needed for the summon?) I asked Laura.
(Yes, you already have the other cards you need.) She told me.
(Well then, I guess three packs of Invasion of Chaos it is.)
I guess Invasion of Chaos will never give me good cards. I guess I now have both pieces of Master of Oz, but I still lack the fusion monster itself. Perhaps I'll try to get Master of Oz tomorrow. It can take the place of Ultimate Obedient Fiend as my strongest monster if I get it.
As I was doing my pack opening, I got dressed and relieved myself.
So, for sleeves, I should probably sleeve the two materials of St. Joan. Then a toploader for the fusion monster. Also a toploader for Polymerization and Mystical Space Typhoon. That should be enough for this.
(Laura, do I have sacrificial cards for all of that?)
(I’ll make a list.)
Now you might be wondering, ‘Why do you need sleeves for the materials?’ and ‘Why waste 25 cards on something that would get a free sleeve?’. But I have a reason for that.
With just a sleeve, St, Joan will have the long cooldown timers, so a toploader will be nice to have. And if I sleeve the materials, they won’t disappear. They will just be unusable while I have access to St. Joan. And if St. Joan was to ever die, I could just summon it again if it is in a toploader and I have the materials for it. I also did get De-Fusion, so I can use that to regain access to the fusion materials.
4x 7, A Deal with Dark Ruler, Agido, Altar for Tribute, 2x Amphibian Beast, 2x Amphibious Bugroth MK-3, Attack and Receive, 3x Avatar of The Pot, Battle-Scarred, Blast Juggler, Blind Destruction, Boneheimer, Bowganian, Burning Land, 2x Cannonball Spear Shellfish, Chaos Greed, Crimson Ninja, 4x Crimson Sentry, Cyber Raider, Darkfire Soldier #1, 3x Darkness Approaches, Dreamsprite, 2x Earthbound Spirit, Electric Snake, 6x Elephant Statue of Blessing, Fake Trap, Fenrir, Feral Imp, 2x Flame Dancer, 2x Flame Manipulator, 3x Gadget Soldier, 2x Gora Turtle of Illusion, 2x Grand Tiki Elder, Grave Protector, Graverobber's Retribution, Headless Knight, Humanoid Worm Drake, 2x Jinzo #7, 2x KA-2 Des Scissors, Kojikocy, Kozaky, Lady Ninja Yae, Lesser Dragon, Maryokutai, 3x Melchid the Four-Face Beast, Metal Fish, Minor Goblin Official, 3x Mystik Wok, 2x Night Assailant, Nobleman-Eater Bug, Nubian Guard, Nuvia the Wicked, Offerings to the Doomed, Ojama Delta Hurricane!!, Ojama Yellow, Old Vindictive Magician, Otohime
85 cards. That should make the toploaders and sleeves that I need. Let’s do it.
First the toploaders for MST, Poly and St. Joan. Then the sleeves for the Darklord Marie and The Forgiving Maiden.
I think that will do it. I have a plan and I won’t stick to it. Because I’m not planning on killing Alice.
...Actually, when was the plan to kill Alice? Well I'll just do what I do best and go with the flow.
...Wait a second. Am I becoming Yuma? I'll accept that.
I go out of my room, and there waiting for me is Christina and the maid. Let’s hope this plan works. Then again, I already said I won't stick to it.
Spells and traps in a sleeve will still be consumed at use,
So its totally useless to use sleeve to normal spell cards?
In short, yes. But they do need a sleeve under the toploader, so technically it isn't totally useless.
@nro_8 So he can’t toploader that ‘infinite cards’ card and make it reusable?
@UwUber No, he can do that.
Avatar of The Pot
Why doesn't he use this card's effect with the toploader pot of greed to game the system? In fact why hasn't he used pot of greed at all for the past few days? Didn't he topload 2 of them? That is 4 extra packs a day he is loosing. Plus the trap jar of greed.
Mystik Wok
Can't he use the Wok to cook monster meat and gain more life or defense or whatever? He should study his cards and their effects in this world.
... did you read CH.48? I'm sure you read it, but I think you might want to revisit it. When Brian uses a toploader Pot of Greed, the Pack Opener skill gives him a choice to integrate the card straight into the skill. This is why his daily pack token amount rises. Pot of Greed doesn't normally do that. It only gives you two tokens. But by integrating it with the skill, he gains the same amount of tokens as he would by just activating them once per day. (and I don't have to write in 'activated pot of greed' into the chapters.)
For the Wok thing, he probably could, but he just hasn't had a reason to use cards like that.
@nro_8 Sorry, I thought when it said consume it just deactivated the card for a day and you forgot about it.
@GreenerThanGreen It might also be my word choice in the chapter, as you are not the first one to ask. I also added like two lines about it, so future confusion will hopefully be avoided.
For those using a text to speech program.
Pack 1: Magic Drain, Attack and receive, Minor Goblin Official, Rush Reckessly, Horn of Light, Final destiny, feral Imp, Blast Juggler, The Gross ghost of fled dreams, Grand tiki elder, Mystical Elf, Harpie Lady Sisters.
Pack 2: Imperial Order, Backup Soldier, Type zero magic crusher, Rain of mercy, Molten Destruction, Dimensionhole, Electric snake, skull servant, kazejin, Left leg of the forbidden one.
Pack 3: Spirit of flames, Crimson Sentry, Tornado wall, Earthbound Spirit, Supply, The Rock Spirit, The Forgiving Maiden, The portrait's Secret, Amphibian Beast.
Pack 4: Summoner of Illusions, Humanoid Worm Drake, Lady Assailant of flames, Zombyra the dark, flame dancer, chosen one, dreamsprite, the last warrior from another planet, spirit of the breeze.
Pack 5: Dancing Fairys, Aqua Spirit, Spirit Elimination, Blind destruction, boneheimer, cyclone laser, grand tiki elder, the earl of demise, infinite Cards.
Pack 6: Jam Defender, Vengeful Bog Spirit, The dark Door, Gadget Soldier, Crimson Sentry, Cure mermaid, Offerings to the doomed, Melchid the four-faced beast, destruction punch.
Pack 7: Gadget Soldier, The Emperor's Holiday. Curese of the masked beast, Supply, Fire sorcerer, Spirit of flames, dancing fairys, de-fusion, spirit message "A".
Pack 8: Fire sorcerer, Spirit of flames, the gross ghost of fled dreams, the Emperor's holiday, flame dancer, crimson sentry, bait doll, spherous lady, Spirit Message "L".
Pack 9: Crimson Sentry, Gadget Soldier, Dancing Fairys, Fire sorcerer, Curse of the masked beast, Lady assailant of flames, graverobber's retribution, maryokutai, darklord marie,
Pack 10: Stealth Bird, Energy Drain, Gigantes, Chaos Greed, Cora Turtle of Illusion, Skull-Mark Ladybug, A hero Emerges, Stumbling Getsu Fuhma.
Pack 11: Bowganian, Cannonball spear shellfish, Pinch hopper, gora turtle of illusion, Thinder crash, Ojama Delta Hurricane, Ojama Yellow, Insect Princess, Lekunga.
Pack 12: Recycle, A hero Emerges, Torpedo Fish, Energy Drain, Big Koala, Des Kangaroo, Chaos Necromancer, Hyper Hammerhead, Dark Driceratops.
Man. Cyber dragons will be fun
Have to get Cybernetic Revolution for them. That would also mean access to Power Bond. That's going to backfire so hard. Even The Lost Millennium will have some nice cards as it has the first Hero monsters, as well as Ancient Gears. Oh and Cybernetic Revolution also has the first Roid monsters. And Skyscraper, just in case you want an instant city.
Tbh I'm just hyped for exodia. The system is part of the mystery and what the cards will do is part of the fun.
I'm usually completely on board for slice of life but for once I'm hyped for combat.
But at the same type this character development is top notch
Glad you explained it, tbh I was confused as hell as to the difference between the two lol, TFTC!
Obrigado pelo capitulo e também pela explicação. Outra coisa, minha opinião é claro, ele deveria começar a utilizar mais as cartas mágicas e armadilhas, elas estão sendo esquecidas com o tempo.
I try to give spells and traps their time to shine but it's difficult as most spells and traps are only really usable in combat. And the spells and traps Brian gets are generally either 'I cause an apocalypse level event' or 'I tickled someone'. It just causes problems on how to use them.
There also aren't many spells I can write to be useful in everyday life, so that adds a layer of extra difficulty. At least if he gets another copy of Upstart goblin, he can use it as a money factory.