I was still sitting down, drinking with Lua, when Zay came to me and asked me to come to the guild master’s room. I almost wish I could have just had lunch before this, but what are you gonna do?
“Take a seat.” Both the ex-master and Zay were in the room.
I did as instructed and sat opposite to the ex-master. Lua had also come with me, just to make sure my story was correct. Zay was standing next to the ex-master.
“Now, would you tell me what exactly you did during the rescue operation?” The ex-master asked.
“What part of it? Or do you just want the abridged version?” I asked.
“Just the highlights will do. Then I’ll ask some questions.” He answered.
“Sure. We flew for a while, then I noticed lightning and headed towards it, we found the thunder sprites attacking Zay’s group, I had my summons take down the sprites, we landed and made contact with Zay, we healed people with magic and then headed home on the mechanical horse that you saw.” I told him.
“And that is all?” He asked.
“Basically yes.” I answered.
“What about the part where you resurrected someone?” He asked.
“I don’t recall something like that happening.” I said to him. Technically it wasn’t me. I didn’t activate the card, so it’s not my fault.
“I see. If that is how you want it, I’ll make sure the adventurer’s don’t speak. But you need to see to it that the baron doesn’t make a report about it.” The ex-master said.
“What about the Bakula company?” Lua asked.
“I can deal with them as well.” The ex-master said.
“Thank you.” I thanked the ex-master. “But now that we are talking about it. Zay, why did you not resurrect Rico?”
The ex-master turned to face Zay as well. I think he is looking at Zay with suspicion.
“Zayaan? Want to comment on that?” He asked.
“... I did what I thought I should have done. By rank, he is higher than Rico, so I think he would be better for the guild.” Zay said. “In that moment I acted as the guild master Zayaan, not as the leader of Prime Rib Zay.”
“Good answer.” The ex-master commented. “Sometimes the guild master has to put their personal feelings aside.” After he said that, he turned back to me. “Now, care to explain how you can do it?”
“I didn’t do anything. You just heard from Zay. He did the revival.” I argued.
“Oh, I heard about it alright. You gave him something that let him resurrect a person. And I would very much like to know more about it.” The ex-master commented.
“Sorry. Not going to comment on that.” I told him. “Zay and Lua know about it and that is enough for now.”
“So I can’t ask you to resurrect the others?” He asked.
“I’ll ask you this. Do you think I wouldn’t have done it if I could?” I asked.
“I’m not sure. I don’t know you that well.” He answered.
“Fair point. But I can’t do it.” I told him.
“I see. Well, that is all for now. I thank you on behalf of the guild. I’ll leave the reward to Zayaan. He will hand it over to you later.” The ex-master said to me.
“So I can go?” I confirmed.
“Yes. You are free to go.”
“Brian, are you ready to head home?” Christina asked me when I came back down the stairs.
“Were you waiting for me?” I asked her.
“Of course we were.” She said. “Is what I would like to say, but actually my husband and Henry were checked out by doctor Josh.”
“That makes sense. Better safe than sorry. So, were they alright?” I asked.
“Henry’s arm will take a few days to fully recover, but Brandon is just fine.” She responded.
I guess Henry’s arm was electrocuted decently well. I think some recovery time is to be expected, even after healing magic. Something like rehab. I think lightning can even destroy nerves and things like that. I hope he won’t sustain any permanent injuries.
(He most likely won’t. He got healed quickly after the incident.) Laura told me.
Well, that’s good. Actually, shouldn’t healing magic be able to heal things like that even after a while?
(No. If your body accepts that state as the ‘natural’ state using healing magic to heal it becomes much more difficult.) Laura specified.
So something like changing the default state. But shouldn’t the body's default state be complete?
Christina had called a carriage for us, so we didn’t need to walk in the rain.
When we made it back to the manor, the servants had gathered to welcome their master home. I finally got an idea of how many servants lived in this house. I counted a total of seven maids. Nicole, Jenna, the maid that woke me up a couple of times, two other younger maids that were probably in their early 20s and two older maids that were likely in their mid 30s. There was also a man I assume is the chef. And gardener, or something like that. A total of nine servants. I guess with Henry it would be ten.
“Welcome home, Father.” Alice welcomed her father back with a fake looking smile. It felt forced compared to the ones I see on her face.
“I’m home. I hope you’ve been keeping up your studies while I was gone.” Brandon said.
“Of course I have.” Alice told her father.
“That’s my girl.” Brandon said as he gave a little headpat to Alice.
… is that normal for Brandon? Perhaps it is.
I spent the rest of the day telling Alice about how I saved everyone from the thunder sprites. She was a little disappointed that she didn’t get to see my white dragon fight. She also demanded I summon St. Joan so she can see her and I obliged.
In the end, she said she wanted to become a magic swordswoman. I told her that it would be even more difficult than just using magic, but I’m not positive it got through to her. Then again, I don’t know what skills Alice has, so she might already have some swordsman skills. Perhaps she can become a Dark Paladin.
(Laura, make sure you wake me up as soon as my pack tokens come.)
(Of course, Master.)
This is what I decided to do. I don’t know the exact time that Rico died, but if I get a Monster Reborn with tomorrow's packs, there is still a chance. I’ll at least try to get another one.
With that, I went to sleep.
A thought I had, and maybe you addressed this somewhere already.
Roughly speaking, cards in the collection are basically in the deck, cards that are out and not active are basically in the hand, currently active cards are on the field. Something roughly like that, right? Then cards on cooldown could be considered as in the graveyard for effects, right? Would cards sacrificed for sleeves, top loaders, cards in sleeves but destroyed for whatever reason, or plain cards used once then destroyed by the time limit be considered as being banished?
I'm not actually a Yu-Gi-Oh player, but I do watch some channels on YouTube that do play it, so while I'm not familiar with everything, I do have a basic understanding of stuff. I remember seeing certain sets and decks that deal with banished cards. So I'm curious, would those cards dealing with banished stuff affect or be affected by the cards he's been destroying? While I'm not too familiar with the possible effects, it'd be interesting if he summons something that gets stronger as you banish creatures, and he summons it only to realize it's got like a million attack because he has banished so many cards since he got to the world.
Another possibly funny interaction, if my card 'location' logic is right, would be to summon Slifer, then pull out his entire collection to get it to hit something really hard.
Basically, Yes. I think the only thing that is slightly wrong is the ones sacrificed for sleeves/toploaders/effects aren't banished in the normal way you banish cards in Yugioh. They are closer to banished face-down, but even that is slightly wrong, as in Yugioh there are cards that can get face-down banished cards back, (Necroface) but Brian cannot get the cards sacrificed back at all. They just don't exist anymore.
For Slifer, technically Brian could pull out his entire collection and have Slifer gain a lot of attack as his hand is effectively, well a hand. You hold cards in your hand and Slifer gains attack for cards in hand. But there is a physical limit to how many cards you can hold in your hand before there are just too many, so Slifer wouldn't be able to go into much more than 100,000 attack or something like that. And if I use the anime version of Obelisk the Tormentor, it would have an effect to gain infinite attack by tributing two monsters. And anime Ra has the effect to gain attack equal to the attack of any monsters that you tribute for Ra, as well as any monsters you just tribute from the field while you control Ra.
@nro_8 I am guessing a likely not on this, but if he were to sacrifice a Giant Rex to an ability (just using this for all the system stuff), could he potentially get a free, cardless Giant Rex for the normal summoning time? Or, and I'm not sure something exists with this style effect due to my shallow knowledge, if he had a card that had an effect that triggered when another card is banished, could he trigger the effect off sacrifice? i.e. if card of type X is banished do Y damage to something. You know, stuff that relies on the act rather than the existence of the card somewhere.
@BobTheLost Yes he would. I'll touch on how those (summon monster from somewhere) effects work at some point, but yes Brian would get a Giant Rex from banishing a giant rex. I also believe there are cards that banish as a cost (Dark Armed Dragon etc.) but I didn't find a good example of one that would banish a singular card from the deck.
Alice, the Dark Paladin Girl
Wonder if he could get The Creator, he can revive monsters with his skill. Though he might be to op if it was full unlimited revival.
Though maybe he can revive the human as babies... since it is like Monster Reincarnation as it discards a card but it revives instead of adding to his hand.
Or it could be something like one revival per summon as it could take almost the full 2h time limit per revival. And he could have a shorter window of time for the revival than Monster Reborn. Like only being able to revive someone who has been dead for 6 hours, instead of the 24 of Monster Reborn. Brian would also need to sack a card for Creator's effect.
Also something like The Creator could have a downside where it takes away levels/skills from the revived person.
@nro_8 really nice, was gonna comment on him making Monster Reborn useless, but you surprised me there.
@nro_8 Speaking about Creator cards, He's got a few "The Agent of Creation - Venus" which lets you special summon a Mystical Shine Ball.
Mystical Shine Balls description is:
A soul of light covered by mystical shine. When you see its beautiful shape, your dream will come true.
Now, the shiny ball's description on it's own might be seen as an illusion effect or maybe a Luck boost or some other sort of Buff effect. But the fact that it's paired specifically with the "The Agent of Creation - Venus" card, makes it clear it means what it's saying a lot more Literally.
I think he also has a few Mystical Shine Balls in his collection, that is if they weren't turned into sleeves or Toploaders.
@crystalkalem He still has them. (2 Venus, 2 Shine ball) I try to hold onto interesting/more known cards when making toploaders. But how does the dream come true? Does the shine ball show you an illusion of it? Or does it just have the ability to warp reality around itself to make that dream come true? I think because of it's description says "When you see its beautiful form" that could be taken as the shine ball showing you what you want to see, instead of what is actually there.
@nro_8 It could be, that their shape is so abstract that whoever brains sees them makes them see whaever they want to see the most. Kinda like a cosmic horror making everyone that sees them go mad but a bit more positive, like the angels kinda deal were they are really abstract with a bunch of wings, eyes and stuff but we see cute or sexy naked humans since humans are perverts
@Ruiso Yeah something like that. If you look at the artwork on shine ball, it kind of looks like a fortune telling ball. It could show you your dreams and even 'make them come true', but people can dream about some things they wouldn't actually want.
@nro_8 Well the thing I was pointing out is that these two cards are tied together, and one of these two cards is THE AGENT OF CREATION!
Like, think of it this way. You go to the pope to ask for a boon, and the pope summons an angel, and that angel then grants the boon.
The agent of creation is pretty much just that, the agent of a god who does things on behalf of that god.
Agent meanings 1 & 2
1: a person who acts on behalf of another person or group.
2: a person or thing that takes an active role or produces a specified effect.
Since the agent cards ability is just to special summon this specific card, It means that cards important in some way.
Now, in terms of Yu-gi-oh. This effect is actually very useful for XYZ and Tuner summons. Because the more monsters you have on the field, the better and more powerful xyz or tunner effects you can get.
There is also the Loss of Life points to consider in order for the agent to summon the shine ball. Later on in the game being able to special summon a specific low tier monster became very mundane and almost always costs nothing.
But agent specifically requires you to pay life points. Because in the early meta, being able to special summon a monster from your deck was an almost game breaking event which could instantly net you a winning move.
Also at some point in the show there was a moment when Agent of creation used Shine ball to literally revive over a dozen dead allies in the shadow realm adventure arc. So there's that to consider as well.
@crystalkalem Well I could do something like, summon Angel Venus, ask for a skill, pay 100-500 HP (permanently) to gain a skill orb that looks like shine ball. Or you could also just use 1 shine ball (from the collection) to prevent the HP cost. (Again, permanently gone for the shine ball. No toploader saves.) This could work, but it might also be OP as f*ck.
@nro_8 Not saying that this thing can grant wish's or anything like that, I'm just saying that it's definitely not just illusory in nature based on the connected cards and what Agent did in the show using it.
Maybe it on it's own can create very vivid and indistinguishable illusions, but when paired with Agent the effect is basically real.
It is an agent of Creation, so lets try sticking to Creation related effects.
Like, Creating materials at the cost of Life points.
@crystalkalem The reason I offered creating skill is because a lot of people dream about having skill X, and its something that would take on the form of a shiny orb (Mystical Shine Ball). Brian also already has the ability to make materials with the dungeon, so that feels like a little bit of a waste.
@nro_8 That's true, the dungeon is a bit too OP in my opinion honestly, It doesn't seem to require any mana input from the owner in order to do things. Mana isn't an inexhaustible resource after all, and even with an S tier core, that thing shouldn't have as much mana in it as when the creature was alive, and should require supplementation from the owner in some way.
The method of gaining Dungeon points is pretty strait forward, absorb monsters to gain power to spend on stuff. I just found the amount gained via Goblins and kobolds to be a bit much considering their low ranks.
This Could be explained away by laura saying it absorbed both a Kobold Cheif and also a Goblin Chief, as well as dozens of Goblin / kobold mages that were killed by the combination of the spark and Uraby at the very start. but the later edditions of goblins killed in the woods kinda takes that choice away.
@nro_8 Also not sure if you saw my later edits for my last post about the shiny ball. Do you have a Discord set up?
@crystalkalem I don't because I've never seen a big reason to make one, but I guess it wouldn't be a bad idea.