“What else are you going to summon, Brian?” Lua asked.
“Not much. Two more ritual monsters and one fusion, I think.” I told her.
“You know I don’t know what these ‘ritual’ or ‘fusion’ monsters are.” Lua said.
“... Yeah, of course you wouldn’t. Rituals are the blue ones. Like that dragon rider. Performance of Sword is also a ritual monster, if you remember her.” I explained.
“The lady with the arm blades? Yes. I remember her.” Lua said.
“Yes, her. And fusion monsters are made of multiple other monsters. They have purple cards. The swordswoman with light wings I used against the thunder sprites would be an example of a fusion monster.” I told her.
“I see. Thank you for the explanation.” Lua said.
“Brian. Can I summon one of these fusion or ritual monsters?” Alice asked.
Again, she wants something. I guess I could let her, but I’m not sure it will count for my challenge.
“Let me summon what I want first, and then I’ll check if I have something good for you to summon.” I answered. That way, I could just say ‘not today’ if I don’t have anything.
“I activate Hamburger Recipe. I tribute a Hungry Burger so I can ritual summon Hungry Burger.” I said to perform the next ritual summon. It feels a little strange to tribute a copy of the card you are summoning, but it works.
After the ritual was completed, a giant burger appeared from it.
“Holy burger.” I let out.
That thing is huge. It’s almost a meter tall and even larger in diameter.
“Brian. I didn’t know your cards could make food.” Alice commented.
“That is not food. It’s a monster.” I said just before Hungry Burger opened its massive maw. Does it count as a maw?
Then the burger began jumping around. Thankfully, we are in an area with not a lot of people, so no one has to run away from the giant jumping burger.
Thanks Hungry Burger, but honestly, I’ll never summon you again. Unless I figure out a way to compress you down and eat you. Cause you do look like a decently tasty burger.
“I thought you said you won’t summon any more nightmare fuel.” Lua commented.
“When the vampire is scared of a moving burger. Ironic.” I commented.
“I’m not a vampire. I’m a dhampir.” Lua said back.
“I know, I know. It was a joke.” I tried to redeem my terrible joke.
“I should demand blood as compensation for something like that.” Lua said.
“Fine. Just don’t take much.” I gave permission.
“... I will. Later.” So she decided to hold onto that favor.
For Crab Turtle, my tributes were a little more unique. I needed 8 levels worth of tributes, but I don’t have many monsters of high level that I’m willing to throw away. So instead, I went with extra copies of some fusion monsters I will likely never use. And they are from LoBY so I’ll get extra copies anyway. I’m cheating the system. I can use fusion monsters as tribute for ritual monsters. No Nekroz Kaleidoscope required.
“I activate Turtle Oath. I tribute Flame Ghost and Flower Wolf to ritual summon Crab Turtle.”
After the ritual was completed, a 2,5 meter tall crab monster rose from the card.
… yeah. NO! Go away already. I don’t want to look at you any longer.
“Brian.” Lua said to me in an angry tone. “We talked about the nightmare fuel already. Twice!”
“I know, I know. I swear that was the last one for today.” I told her. After all, I had now reached 5 unique ritual summons.
“Then why did you even summon it?” Lua asked. “Just to unsummon it right after.”
“I explained that already. To improve my skill.” And you know, to get one of the strongest warrior-type monsters ever printed.
I opened the challenge menu and checked out my ritual challenge.
Summon unique Ritual Monsters |
Unique Ritual Monsters summoned: 5 |
Performance of Sword, Relinquished, Paladin of White Dragon, Hungry Burger, Crab Turtle |
Next Reward is given at 5 unique Ritual Monsters |
Next Reward: Black Luster Soldier + Black Luster Ritual |
[Claim Reward] |
A claim reward button appeared and I pressed it.
1 Black Luster Soldier and 1 Black Luster Ritual have been added to the collection. |
Nice. I have it now. I checked what my next reward was going to be.
Next Reward is given at 10 unique Ritual Monsters |
Next Reward: Chakra + Resurrection of Chakra |
Chakra? I don’t remember that one. I pressed on it and the card popped up so I could see its information.
Level 7 Dark/Fiend with 2450 atk and 2000 def. It doesn’t even have an effect. Kind of sucky to get after Black Luster Soldier. Well, hopefully the one after it is decent.
“So one more summoning left?” Lua asked.
“Yeah. One fusion.” I answered. I was thinking about summoning Black Luster Soldier, but I kind of want a toploader for both it and the ritual spell, as I don’t have access to them in any set. And tomorrow I’ll have a lot more sleeve fodder again.
I pulled out a fusion monster and the materials I needed for it. And a toploader copy of Polymerization.
“I activate Polymerization. I fuse Armaill and One-Eyed Shield Dragon to fusion summon Dragoness the Wicked Knight.”
God, I always forget just how terrible early fusions were. Take two 700/1300 monsters and make a 1200/900 out of them. Like honestly. It would be better just to set one of the materials.
But that doesn’t matter at the moment. My summoning was successful and a lady in armor, holding twin swords and with dragon wings on her back was now standing in front of me.
And with that, the fusion challenge is at 5. Let’s claim the reward for it.
Summon unique Fusion Monsters |
Unique Fusion Monsters summoned: 5 |
St. Joan, Master of Oz, Giltia the D. Knight, Fusionist, Dragoness the Wicked Knight |
Next Reward is given at 5 unique Fusion Monsters |
Next Reward: Meteor Black Dragon + Meteor Dragon |
[Claim Reward] |
1 Meteor Black Dragon and 1 Meteor Dragon have been added to the collection. |
Next Reward is given at 10 unique Fusion Monsters |
Next Reward: Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast + Berfomet |
Okay. So for fusions the next reward is Chimera. It’s not that strong, but it is a somewhat iconic card. And I guess a flying, twin-headed lion thing wouldn’t be that bad. I could seem like a more normal summoner with it. Assuming normal summoners summon twin-headed beasts. I should probably study up on that.
I unsummoned Dragoness and walked back to town with Alice and Lua. Summoning Meteor Black Dragon shall wait as well. I probably should put a toploader on both it and Meteor Dragon after all. And I don’t need to summon it right now.
“Brian. That fusion summon thing. Can you do it with any monsters?” Lua asked.
“No. They need to be specific.” I answered. I pulled back out the card of Dragoness the Wicked Knight and showed it to her. “Look here. It says what monsters need to be used as the material.”
“Ah. I see.” She said.
“But not all fusion monsters are like that. Some have more loose requirements for the materials. Like asking for a warrior monster and a spellcaster monster.” I told her. I don’t actually remember if a fusion monster with those materials exists, but it still works as an example.
“Do you have any vampire fusions?” She asked.
Vampire fusions? I don’t recall any. I know they have some xyz and link monsters, but fusions? I’m not sure.
“No. I don’t have any.” I told her.
“Oh. I see.” She said quietly. Was she really hoping to see a vampire fusion that much?
“You could just fuse her with a vampire.” Alice commented.
“Alice. You know that is a bad idea.” I said back.
“Why not? It’s not like it will cause any damage if you undo it later.” She added.
… this girl. I know I can do it, but I don’t think I really should just go around fusing people with my cards. There probably is a side effect I just don’t know yet.
“Can you do something like that?” Lua asked.
“Well, yes.” I answered. “But I’m honestly not sure if it is a good idea. I’ve only done it once, and it wasn’t exactly what I would call ‘perfect’ result.”
“What do you mean? Jenna was super strong, so it was perfect.” Alice commented.
“Strength isn’t everything. She had some levels of mental problems because of the two wills inside of a single body.” I said. “And I think they would have gotten way worse if I didn’t unfuse them.”
This is honestly just something I think. Based on how Flame Sorcerer begged me not to fuse her with Jenna again. They might have even fought for the control over the body, and that could have led to all kinds of difficulties.
“There might also be other complications, like attribute or even race.” I added. All vampire monsters I have are dark zombies, whereas Lucia is water … spellcaster? Yeah. Water spellcaster. That sounds correct.
“But a dhampir is a half-vampire, right?” Alice asked.
“But my vampires are zombies.” I told her. I traded the Dragoness I showed to Lua earlier for the toplader Vampire Lord in my collection. “See here. Zombie.”
“... I guess it is a zombie.” Alice said.
“Well, according to legends, the original vampires were undead creatures, so perhaps a zombie isn’t that far-fetched.” Lua said.
“Really? That’s interesting.” So if they were undead, they were basically closer to skeletons than humans. I wonder if Lua would tell me more about it. “Could you tell me more about it?” I asked.
“... I guess I could. But only to you. And only because you helped me.” Lua said.
“Thanks. I’ll make some time for it.” I said.
Now I want to know even more. How bad can it be for her not to be willing to tell it to Alice?
The guild hall was a lot more busy now than it had been in the morning. It still wasn’t full, but it wasn’t empty either.
Some of the younger adventurers noticed me and asked me for a lesson, but I was able to buy some time by saying we could do it after I had lunch.
“Lua, do you want one?” I asked while pulling a burrito out for myself and Alice.
“Oh, don’t worry. I have blood. It’s enough.” She said.
“You sure? It’s no problem.” I told her.
“No. Not here.” She added quietly. Perhaps she doesn’t want to seem ‘different’ from how she was.
“Well, if you change your mind, I still have two more of these.” I said.
“Well then, can I get one?” A male voice asked behind me.
I turned around and saw Alex.
“Sure, if you want one.” I responded. He was almost a party member, so I should take care of him. Perhaps a temporary party member. Well, we aren’t technically in a party, so…
“I’d appreciate it. Uncle Sam’s might have a line at this time of day.” Alex said as I handed one of the burrito to him.
“That’s good. I honestly wasn’t sure as there has never been a line when I’ve visited.” I said.
“Well, that is because you move at weird times. Most adventurers would be working at that time of day.” Alex said.
“... yeah. That’s true.” I agreed.
“Do you have any left for me?” Another person interrupted our mealtime.
“And why would the guild master need to beg for food?” I asked Zayaan.
“It’s not begging, I’m asking.” He said.
“Well, lucky for you, I do have one more. But are you sure you can take a break?” I asked.
“I have to. I can’t work without food. I’m not used to it yet. Lex did warn me that I need to get used to it at some point, but for now I’ll eat when I’m hungry.” Zay said. “And this is also business. I would like you to take on the Bakula company escort job, after all. Otherwise I have to get Diamond Sword to do it, but that would leave the town with little to no defense in case of a strong monster.”
… “Doesn’t this town have guards for that?” I asked.
“Well, the guards are more to protect us from bandits and other human threats. Most of them don’t have the skills to go against high ranked monsters.” Zay explained.
“I think we should take the job.” Lua said.
“I agree.” Alex added.
“Sure, I don’t mind. What about you Alice?” I asked for her opinion.
“... I think it will be fine. But I don’t really know what I’ll have to do.” She admitted.
“Great. So you will take it.” Zay said. “Now we only need to agree on the departure date.”
We decided to leave on the morning of the third day from now. That will give us two days to prepare everything. Thankfully, the job had left the leaving date for the adventurers to choose as long as we gave a warning of more than a full day, so we didn’t need to argue about it with Bakula company.
Then we trained in the guild's backyard (because the other adventurers were asking).
I ended up summoning Performance of Sword, Giltia the D. Knight, St. Joan and even Dragoness the Wicked Knight. Thankfully, I had kept Dragoness summoned only for a few minutes previously, so I could just summon her again. With our four instructors, the guild’s backyard was full, as there was never really a line to wait for one of them to be free for a 1v1 practice match.
That was until Diamond Sword joined in. They had power to almost equally match up with Giltia and Performance of Sword, so their practice matches took a lot longer. Except when they challenged St. Joan. While she couldn’t subdue them in seconds like she could with others, it didn’t take her much longer than 30 seconds to win in a 1v1 against any of them. She even won in a 2v1, but a 3v1 ended up in her loss. Well, she probably could beat them if this wasn’t a practice match and she could just kill them.
In the end the other adventurers wanted to see a full teamfight between my summons and Diamond Sword, so we had that as well. My summons were at a small disadvantage, as it was a 4v5, but they did hold their own decently. Sadly, Diamond Sword was able to use their numbers advantage to pick off my summons from the weakest to strongest, so they did end up winning.
I almost should have summoned Millennium Shield and joined in myself. Or just summon something else to join my side. I probably would have won if this was a 5v5.
“I really thought your summons would win.” Alice said as we were walking back home.
“Well, they were at a numbers disadvantage and Diamond Sword used their extra member well to hold off St. Joan, so it’s not that strange. Diamond Sword just worked better as a team.” I told her. Teamwork is more than individual power in some situations. St. Joan just couldn’t get through multiple people without seriously hurting them, so she couldn’t help her weaker teammates. Or perhaps she sees them as unworthy of her help if they are that weak. I could totally see that being the case. ‘You are not worthy of serving Master if you are that weak.’ Or something like that.
“I should have summoned Mana to help them.” Alice said.
“Secret reinforcements are cheating.” I told her. “And if you had, they would have won no problem. This was better as it was a close match.”
“Close? How is a full wipe on your summons close?” Alice asked.
“It was close because before Diamond Sword subdued Dragoness the Wicked Knight, the match could have gone either way. Had St. Joan dealt with her opponents just a bit faster, my team would have won.” I explained.
With our post match chat finished, we walked back home.
Meatbun Delivery~
Thank you for the chapter ( ●w●)
*hungrily look at hungry burger*
I wonder how good a burger fed burger would taste… it’s like grass fed beef but burger fed burger… but would what the burger the burger affect the taste of the burger? If it was a grass fed burger and the burger ate that burger would it still taste like a grass fed burger burger?
@UwUber That's a good question. I think the Simpsons answered that in a Treehouse of Horror episode. There it made burgers so delicious that eating one would turn you into some sort of a zombie.
@nro_8 A burger fed burger that’s fed on beef that’s fed on pork sausages from chicken fed pigs and the chickens are fed on burger… the infini-burger
@nro_8 Teamwork? Power of Bonds? Don't sell me those reasons. The Summons would have won if they didn't restrain themselves too much. Braian had his Faeries with him & could have healed the DMGes caused to the party. I personally like to think that the summons held back themselves to 1/10 of their strongest considering their ATK power is strong enough to crush any A or S rank adventurer. I still have not seen a human with more then 1000 ATK power in this world to be honest. And if the summons relied on strength alone, they could have brute forced the entire fight. By the way how do stats work in this world? How much points do you get for every level & how much points do you get from training your physical form? It's weird for humans to be this weak in this world
But humans really aren't weak, if you can really dedicate yourself to training. We just haven't seen their statuses yet. For reference, currently (as of CH.239) we have actually seen a character with a magic stat of 2900. So for Diamond Sword to have their attack stat in the 1600-1800 range isn't that strange. And then with the numbers they could push for the win. Yes, St. Joan could kill them if she went all out, but that is the thing, she didn't.
@nro_8 So. Diamond Sword Atk stats are 1600-1800. That would explain a lot as to why there was such a huge difference. Still disappointed through, those cards have their own history & experience as fighters in their own world. Anyway thanks for giving me their basic stats
Rewards collected and new ones to be earned. The next ritual reward is disappointing but I like Chimera as the next fusion reward. The training with the adventures was interesting and I can’t wait to see what happens during the upcoming escort mission. But first Brian has quite a few preparations to make with his cards and only has a few days. Hopefully he’ll get lucky with a pack or two and get some helpful cards especially extra monster reborns and pot of greed. Who knows maybe he’ll unlock the next pack or something.
Also an army of Buster Bladers as he can get a new one every day hope he get's more Emblems of the Dragon Destroyer for that.
Though I am still waiting for Brian to get a coupple of Goblin Elite Attack Force, like he summons 5 of them and he has a small army of them surrounding him, perfect escort party.
@Ruiso Yeah. That will definitely sit well with the locals. Just a casual adventurer walking around with an army of armored hobgoblins. No one will panic at all. I do like the idea of Brian (or someone else after they get a duel disk) just walking around with 5 buster bladers walking behind them though. That would be intimidating as shit. And a little more city friendly than like 50 goblins. (Assuming 10 goblins per goblin attack force.)
@Pokemonking0924 Yeah, Chakra is a little disappointing as a reward, but I chose it as it is a card that took forever to be printed in the TCG. (In the ocg it was released in 2000 and in the tcg 2013.)
Even Chimera was released late in the tcg as it came out in 2010. And considering that Chimera was one of Yugi's monsters, that is surprising.
Also, when the next sets will come in, it will be fun. Some of my favorite archetypes are released in the next sets. (Ancient Gears and Cyber Dragons) (What, am I not allowed to like Machine Fusions? Power Bond OP.)
@nro_8 I see some of those Cyber and nachine in general cards and the abikity to fuse people with cards and I see a new race of Androids and/or Cyborgs in the horizon, though I fon't see Brian doing those unless he goes through an evil phase... wonder if anyone can use poly or other fusion cards or that it is something only Brian could do.
@Ruiso I can always make them into mech suits. Or just other form of wearable improvement. But then again, cyborgs are nice as well.
@Ruiso Fuse four Cyber Dragons into a person to give them Cyber Dragon Doc Ock arms.
@nro_8 Yooooooooo!!! I like that a lot!
Maybe go with the Chimeratech Overdragon for infinite Cyber Dragon Heads (number of Machines used to summon Chimeratech Overdragon) ad to not fuse to many cards at a time, maybe he can fuse that to himself, a single card gave him a powerful cyber upgrade with an Cyber Ironman suit over him and a bunch of Cyber Dragon mechanical heads behind him. Maybe he can use Cybertech Fusion Support to help the transition into Cyborg/Android-hood?
@Ruiso Imagine voltron but replaced with cyber dragon heads from various cyber monsters.
@Pokemonking0924 I was thinking of the Ironspider power suit, though a Dragon themed Voltron super robot sounds really nice too.
Kinda want to see how the Super Quant Archtype would revolve in this universe, ummoning the Mega Zords
@Ruiso Super Quants should be simple, right. Summon ranger, use it (either alone thanks to field spell or with another monster) to summon Mech Beast. Then combine all mech beasts to summon Great Magnus.
Mech Beasts cannot move without a driver (because 'Cannot attack unless it has Xyz Material.'). Hope that was everything I needed to mention about them.
I kind of like the idea of making a Chimeratech Overdragon core or pendant or something like that. It would function kind of like Iron Man's chest piece for his nanotech armor and a cyber dragon like armor can be called out from it with some mana.
@nro_8 That would be awesome. Also can't wait to see that power rangers chapter, and all the descriptions about how they are combining their Mech Beast to form a massive Mech Lord. Meanwhile Brian 'Suit-up' with his Chimera-nano-tech Overdragon Armor. Wonder if his skills would recognize the Giant Mech along with all the components, the XYZ Materials, or just count the final Mech.
@Ruiso That is only if Brian does end up using cyber dragons, instead of someone else. But I think it would fit Brian. He already uses Blue-Eyes, so I could make the monsters he mains be the main monsters of the yugioh rivals. (Blue-Eyes, Cyber Dragons, [even though I think Ancient Gear Golem is the actual blue-eyes counter part of the GX era with its stats being 3000 and a fusion that (in the anime) need 3 of it], Red Dragon Archfiend [that's going to be interesting, as it is technically 'Red Demon's Dragon'], Galaxy-Eyes [All three version, Photon, Tachyon, and Cipher], Some DDDs [or not, because demons], and the Borrel Dragons.)
@nro_8 that would be nice, also the Blue-eyes Chaos Max Dragon look like a mecha version of Blue-Eyes, so it can also work with theme purpose, same as the Red-eyes XYZ that burns the opponent every time they play a card. And yeah even though he likes Dark Magician and Red-eyes, he is obviously biased to Blue-eyes, so having him like the rival's arch-types could work if you want to. Also I think the Blue-eyes counterpart in GX has to be the Ojamas, as they were the main arch-type of the rival, Chazz.
I think the Rival is also always Rich as f*ck. Seto Kaiba, Chazz Princeton, Jack Atlass, etc... though the Ancient Gear is one of my favorites, they were used by the guy/gal that was basically moving the plot forward in the first half of the first season and also the first half of the second season with that Bonapart fellow. So Dr. Crowler is kind off like a mid boss that is not bad, like Team Rocket in the Pokemon Animated Series were they work for a criminal organization, Jessie and James are more comic relief than anything.