CH.62 Curing the Curse
<span style="font-weight:400">As we agreed to try to cure Lucia’s curse, I let Vampire Lady take control of the situation. I’m not an expert on this.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Miss, we should move to your bedroom.” My summon said to Lucia.
<span style="font-weight:400">“That’s fine. Follow me.” She said as she got up from the table.
<span style="font-weight:400">“And you will stay here, Master.” My summon ordered.
<span style="font-weight:400">Really? I can’t watch? That’s disappointing.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I don’t mind if hees.” Lucia argued.
<span style="font-weight:400">(It would be better if Master doesn’t go, in case Lucia has a reaction simr to Master’s when blood magic is used on her.) Laura told me. Yeah, I almost lost my mind to the pleasure when she did that blood scan thing. I’ll just stay here.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s fine.” I said to the duo. “I can wait here.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“We’ll be back soon.” My summon said as they walked up the stairs.
<span style="font-weight:400">—
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, now I’m here with nothing to do. At least there is one thing. My reprints. I’ll just pull those open as I wait.
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Daily Reprint Tokens: 1</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Current Reprint Tokens: 3</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Avable Reprint sets:</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">‘Dark Beginning 1’</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Use a ‘Reprint token’ to open 1 pack of ‘Dark Beginning 1’</td>
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<span style="font-weight:400">Yes, open it.
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[copse]
<span style="font-weight:400">That’s kind of disappointing. I didn’t get anything crazy. Not that some of it isn’t at least interesting, but I was honestly hoping for more. Giant Trunade might be nice, Red Medicine has already proved itself and Curse of Dragon is a decent monster. Even Dancing Fairy might be useful. Well, let’s just open the two others and hope for the best.
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[copse]
<span style="font-weight:400">No. I did not. Is that really?
<span style="font-weight:400">I rub my eyes for a second and take another look. It’s still there. The beauty, the elegance, the absolute power. The legendary dragon.
<span style="font-weight:400">Blue-Eyes White Dragon
<span style="font-weight:400">I have one.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Laura, I need a toploader for this beauty, like yesterday.)
<span style="font-weight:400">Electric Snake, 2x Fiend Scorpion, Gigobyte, 2x Goblin Thief, 2x Gravekeeper''s Servant, Griggle, Hitotsu-Me Giant, Humanoid Worm Drake, Judgment of the Desert, Kiseitai, 2x Labyrinth of Nightmare, 3x Light of Judgment, 2x Man-Thro'' Tro'', Minor Goblin Official, 4x Monster Gate
<span style="font-weight:400">(Just make it. I don’t really care what you sacrifice.) I hurried Laura along. (But I want to ce it in the sleeve and toploader myself.) I added. Usually I would let Laura do it. But this is special.
<span style="font-weight:400">(As you wish, Master. Here are the sleeve and toploader. Please take out the card when you are ready.)
<span style="font-weight:400">If I have to wait to be ready, I won’t get it done today. You can’t get ready for this.
<span style="font-weight:400">I carefully pull my Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my collection. I hold it in my hand and just bask in its glory. Sure it’s not a first edition from Legend of Blue-Eyes, but it doesn’t matter. I have one and it’s mine. Don’t you dare to even look at it. It’s MINE and I won’t hand it over to anyone.
<span style="font-weight:400">I slowly and carefully slide the Blue-Eyes into the sleeve. I don’t want to scratch it at this point. After I have it all the way in, I watch as the sleeve seals around the card. Then I slide the now sleeved card into the toploader. Like with the sleeve, the toploader closes after the card is all the way in.
<span style="font-weight:400">I take another good look at my dragon. I honestly just want to run outside and summon her right now. But, I would likely just cause mass chaos. Blue-Eyes is likelyrger than Red-Eyes, and it’s also shining white. Everyone would see it.
<span style="font-weight:400">With one final look, I decide to ce it back to my collection and open thest pack of Dark Beginning. I love this set already.
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[copse]
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, that’s quite basic. Jar of Greed for a pack token and poly to summon fusion monsters with. And an Exodia piece, but isn''t right leg the one I had already?
<span style="font-weight:400">(Yes, Master already has the ‘Right Leg of the Forbidden One’. Also, Jar of Greed would give Master a reprint token.) Laura informed me. I can get another reprint token? That’s nice. (I already made a sleeve and toploader for it.) Laura told me. Again she is steps ahead of me.
<span style="font-weight:400">2x Weapon Change, 2x Theban Nightmare, 4x The Kick Man, 2x Talisman of Spell Sealing, 3x Sword of the Soul-Eater, Stone Statue of the Aztecs, 2x Sonic Jammer, 3x Soul Reversal, 2x Sr Ray, 2x Sand Gambler, 2x Sand Gambler
<span style="font-weight:400">I take the toploader Jar of Greed presented to me. I guess nothing more than to activate it. But, it’s a trap. Can I just activate it normally? Let’s just try. I ce it in my DiaDhanks spell zone, and try to activate it.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Jar of Greed.” I said quietly.
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Would you like to consume 1 ‘toploader’ ‘Jar of Greed’ to increase your daily Reprint tokens by 1?</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Daily Reprint token number increased by 1. Total is now 2</td>
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<span style="font-weight:400">I really got a spare Reprint token. And a daily increase. And I could activate a trap immediately after setting it. All good news. Let’s pick open thest pack.
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[copse]
<span style="font-weight:400">Nothing amazing here. Ground Copse might do something fun and St. Joan is a strong monster. But I don’t have the materials for St. Joan. Well, at least I have it if I ever get the materials for it. I also have poly.
<span style="font-weight:400">Now, I just wait. At least I have this tea to drink while I wait. It’s really good actually. She knows how to make good tea.
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<h4><strong>[Lucia POV]</strong></h4>
<span style="font-weight:400">I wasying on my bed in our team house. Technically Zayaan was the owner of the house, but we all paid for it together, so it''s a team house.
<span style="font-weight:400">I had stripped to just my bra for whates next. I honestly didn’t think it could ever happen.
<span style="font-weight:400">After all, i<span style="font-weight:400">n my room with me, was a vampire. A true vampire. Something that should have died over millennia ago. Only legends exist anymore.
<span style="font-weight:400">Her blue skin is different from what I’ve heard, but my intuition says she still is one. Perhaps she is a subtype of a true vampire.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Please, stay still and rx.” She said to me. I did as instructed. I know from experience that using blood magic on a person is easier if that person ispletely still.
<span style="font-weight:400">How did something that should be long since extinct end up in my room? Well it alles down to one person. The summoner, Brian. He came to town just a few days ago and already almost everyone in town knows about him.
<span style="font-weight:400">He wasn’t in the room with me, as the vampire ordered him to stay downstairs. I wouldn’t have minded him being here, but I’m also d he doesn’t see me like this.
<span style="font-weight:400">—
<span style="font-weight:400">For me, I met him when I was on a hunt with my team. We were aiming for a horned bison that was spotted near the south road. A c-rank monster. But when we found it, it was already dead. Brian had taken it down with his summons. He had two beasts with him at the time, an imp and a panda. I’d never seen a panda before that.
<span style="font-weight:400">He apologized for hunting our prey but we all agreed that it’s fine. We would still get the guild reward, as the problem was dealt with even if we didn’t do it. Then he even agreed to split the sale of the bison with us.
<span style="font-weight:400">On the next day we escorted him and the lord of the town to a new dungeon. Brian became the dungeon’s founder. He even gave me a ‘hoodie’ he made with the dungeon. I was a little brought down that he would use me as a test subject, but it was worth it. That hoodie is so soft and warm.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then he showed us how his unique skill works. I was surprised. I’ve never seen a skill that links to the system like that. I’ve not really even heard of them. The only one I know of is the ‘appraisal’ skill. And even that is slightly different.
<span style="font-weight:400">He let me try summoning something and the cute little creature I summoned was so adorable I just had to hug it. I was able to y around with it for two hours, before I had to unsummon it. I think Brian said something about two hours being the time limit.
<span style="font-weight:400">But then, something terrible happened.
<span style="font-weight:400">I was out in the fields watching over the lower ranked adventurers as they were herding and feeding the boars that called the ins surrounding the town their home, when a bird flew to me. The bird was see-through and it hade to us to deliver a message. It said that wyverns were going to attack the town.
<span style="font-weight:400">I didn’t fully understand but apparently, Brian had foreseen a wyvern attack and sent this bird to warn us. After telling me that the bird flew off somewhere, only to return a littleter.
<span style="font-weight:400">Brian then picked Rico and I up in a golem carriage. He was with the miss of the Watchman family. Why is she out here with him?
<span style="font-weight:400">We managed to take down the wyverns, thanks to Brian’s summons. I was even able to solo one, with the help of therge golem Brian loaned to me. His summons are incredible.
<span style="font-weight:400">In the end, no one died. Few had some injuries and one guard was even badly wounded, but Brian managed to heal him with a potion. He was left paralyzed by the wyverns poison, but that can be healed. Death cannot.
<span style="font-weight:400">But Brian passed out. I didn’t really know why. Lady Watchman said he was burning up, and as I made my way over to him, he most definitely was. I began using water magic to keep him cool. We got him on a stretcher and took him back into town.
<span style="font-weight:400">The doctor said he had severe level-up sickness. All we could do is wait and keep him cool. I didn’t sleep much that night, as I was using water magic to keep him cool. Thankfully the wyvern blood I collected helped me keep my mana levels up. I didn’t get to take part in the festival that took ce that evening, but I don’t mind. I had a more important job to do. Taking care of the town''s savior.
<span style="font-weight:400">He woke up and we spent the morning together. He then offered to give me light magic if I wanted. I knew he had something to do with the Watchman daughter learning magic, but I didn’t think he could just give attributes like that.
<span style="font-weight:400">I refused, because of my curse. He then offered to heal my blood curse. I tried to argue against it, but in the end he won.
<span style="font-weight:400">He said he could possibly summon a vampire. And he did. And now, we are here.
<span style="font-weight:400">—
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll bite now, just hold still.” The vampire said to me.
<span style="font-weight:400">Her bite didn’t hurt. It was pleasant. Like a hug. I could feel her magic flowing into me. Simr to how the ‘scan’ spells felt, but more powerful. Was she using ‘blood scan’?
<span style="font-weight:400">Then her mana got a lot more intence. A surge flowed through me. Every muscle in my body stiffened. But not for long, as the surge ran out, I rxed. I felt lighter. Did she do it?
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’m sorry.” She said to me. Sorry? Why? “I can’t cure your curse.” She told me.
<span style="font-weight:400">“But, I feel much better.” I told her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I could lessen its effect temporarily, but the curse is not gone.” She told me. “The lessened effect will likelyst two to three days.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I see. So even a true vampire can’t cure me. That’s too bad.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We should report this to Master Brian.” She said to me. “A higher ranking vampire should be able to cure youpletely, so we must tell Master to try to pull one.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure, let’s go back down stairs.” I answered and got up from the bed. I quickly put my clothes back on and followed the vampire down the stairs.