CH.147 Spirit Synchro
<span style="font-weight:400">Paulina led us back to the main house and we sat down to enjoy some tea.
<span style="font-weight:400">While I was, I was contacted by Lua’s System Support.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Mistress would like to get in contact with you. Is now a good time?) She asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">(... I guess as good as any. Well actually, give me a minute, I’ll move to somewhere private.) I answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then excused myself from the tea table and headed to a … powder room. Why are there so many strange terms used for the toilet? Likee on. Every person uses it, so going there isn’t that strange.
<span style="font-weight:400">(I believe the term ‘powder room’ is mostly used by females.) Laura said. (I believe males usually refer to it as a restroom,vatory or just toilet.)
<span style="font-weight:400">… thanks for the info. I didn’t really need it, but thanks anyway.
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<span style="font-weight:400">(Lua, Lua. Are you there? Can you hear me?) I tried to send a message to Lua. I hope it went through, but I’m not sure as this is the first time we have done it while not facing each other.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Brian. Yes. I hear you. Do you have time to speak?) Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Yes. I have a bit of time.) I answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">…
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<span style="font-weight:400">(Brian. Are you there?) Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">… did my message not go through?
<span style="font-weight:400">(You might not be as good at this as you thought.) Laura taunted lightly.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Lua. Yes. I’m still here. Sorry. I didn’t focus enough.) I said to Lua.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Brian. Good. I thought something was wrong when I didn’t hear back.) Lua said.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Lua. Don’t worry. I’m just fine.) I said to her. (So, what did you need?)
<span style="font-weight:400">(Brian. I got in contact with my mother and she said she would take us to the dhampir’s safe town. But there is a small problem. One of the usual adventurer teams that secure blood for the safe town was injured, so the blood supply is a bit low. My mother asked if we could go secure some and take it into town.) Lua said.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Lua. I see. So a supply issue. Then we’ll just go hunting, right?) I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Brian. Yes. That is what I wanted to do. Can we meet at the guild tomorrow at the second bell and head out from there?)
<span style="font-weight:400">Oh yeah. The bells are the time most people use. We need some better time keeping devices in this world. I guess not everyone can have a System Support telling them the time. The second bell should mean 9 am. That does sound fine.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Lua. Sure. I’ll be there. I’ll also ask Alice, but if she doesn’t want toe, I’lle by myself.) I said to Lua.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Brian. Thanks. I also got in contact with Alex and Saber Fang. They also agreed to help.) Lua said.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Lua. I see. That sounds good. You can sleep at your mother’s ce right? I can probably talk the earl into letting you stay here if you’d prefer that.) I offered. The earl did say he would help me like he helps his children, so sleepovers should be fine.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Brian. I’ll sleep with my mother. See you tomorrow.) Lua answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Lua. Yes. See you tomorrow.)
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Alice. Do you want to go hunting with me tomorrow?” I asked after I returned to the tea table.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hunting? Yes. Let’s go.” Alice immediately agreed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Why would you go hunting?” Paulina asked. “Wouldn’t normal practice be better for increasing skill level? You also have that level up card thing, right? So you have no reason to go hunt something.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, there is the adventurer rank to consider.” I said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh yeah. I’m only D-rank, while Brian is already C-rank.” Alice said. “Let’s go on some hunting quests so I can rank up.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s not that easy.” Paulina said. “It takes time to rank up.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“But you will never rank up if you don’t do any guild quests, right?” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, you won’t.” Paulina admitted.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Then we will go hunting.” Alice said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“May Ie along?” Paulina asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... sure, I guess. But why?” I asked. “Didn’t you just bash on doing it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I want to see how you fight.” She said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ah. I see. Well, it should be fine.” I responded. “We will head to the guild in the morning and meet up with some of the guys that we traveled with. Then go from there.” I told the two of them my n. Well, partially it was Lua’s n, but still.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I’d rather not work with them.” Alice admitted. “That summoner is evil.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alice. Don’t be like that. You know it was an ident.” I said to her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“He challenged you to a duel. And then hurt you. That’s not an ident, but an attack.” Alice said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... perhaps in a normal sword duel, but that’s not what happened.” I said, trying to defend Tye. I’ll fully admit that in a normal duel, using an attack like that could be excessive, but for a summoner, having their summon go down doesn’t seem to be the end of the world.
<span style="font-weight:400">“In a mage duel, dangerous spells will get you disqualified.” Paulina said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“See. That’s what I mean.” Alice said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... well, we didn’t have a mage duel, so the rules were different.” I said. “And I also kind of used a dangerous technique after his.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“But only after.” Alice said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alice. Please. Just let it be.” I said. “I’m fine now. You shouldn’t be mad at Tye because of an ident. You should be happy that everything ended fine.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“...” Alice didn’t respond.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Not much happened for the rest of the day.
<span style="font-weight:400">We did have a little discussion about training matches at the dinner table. Well, more like the earl instructed Alice and Jonathan. Alice ended up apologizing for messing with Jonathan’s training.
<span style="font-weight:400">Angelina also banned me from summoning any more monsters for Jonathan to fight without her permission. I guess my avoiding the rules trick only worked once. Well, I could go around this rule again by having someone else perform the summoning. As long as the card isn’t sleeved, anyone can summon it if I tell them the name of the monster. And Alice can summon ones with sleeves and toploaders.
<span style="font-weight:400">I also met Angelina’s husband. Mateo Garner. He is a viscount and he is the captain of Sawyer city’s guard. Or perhaps I should say knights, as this city actually has a knight order, even if it is on the smaller side. I think it’s interesting that a viscount joines the earl’s dinner table, but I guess this is normal for them.
<span style="font-weight:400">They apparently had their own house on one of the neighboring properties, but they often ended up eating here as Angelina works here and Jonathan studies here.
<span style="font-weight:400">I also ended up asking about the sixth sister, Violet. Christina said she should be here, but apparently she was in one of the towns of the area working on some project. It could be construction, probably. I mean, basically everyone in this family uses earth magic, right? And earth magic is used to make the walls surrounding the cities and towns. Probably.
<span style="font-weight:400">… well, then again, I only know that two of the daughters use earth magic. No, make it three. Christina, Mariina and Paulina all can use earth magic. At least based on the info I have. And as Paulina also can use water magic, if magic is that hereditary, a pure water user is possible as well.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“And this is your room, Sir Brian.” A maid that had guided both Alice and I into our guest rooms said to me.
<span style="font-weight:400">The maid outfits here were the same as they were in the Alewatch manor. A navy blue dress with a white apron. Not bad, but with none of the extra re added by theced edges that the ones I’m more familiar with have, it just feels basic.
<span style="font-weight:400">Oh, by the way, Alice was in the room next to mine. Let’s hope she doesn’t sneak in at night. That could lead to some awkward situations.
<span style="font-weight:400">My room did have an attached bathroom, like the one I had in the Watchman manor. The maid said she could call on someone to magic me a bath, but I ended up refusing, telling them that I can take care of it myself.
<span style="font-weight:400">For that, I summoned Aqua Spirit again.
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<span style="font-weight:400">I haven’t summoned her in a while, so I thought that I should. I also ended up doing one other thing. Summoning a water spirit.
<span style="font-weight:400">Likest time, the spirit formed from my bath water. But this time, it took a lot more water and formed a full man-sized body. Well, in this case woman-sized, as the body had … boobs.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh. The hero has summoned me. How may I be of service?” The spirit asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">… I recognize that voice. She is the same spirit that gave us her blessing. At least I’m decently sure.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... are you the greater spirit of rain?” I asked her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes I am, my dear hero. I’m d that you have learned my title.” The spirit responded.
<span style="font-weight:400">“So that is just your title? May I ask if you have a name?” I asked her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I apologize my Hero, but only the superior level spirits possess names.” She answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">Superior? So there are spirits stronger than greater. I guess that makes sense.
<span style="font-weight:400">“So, what can I do for you, my hero?” The spirit asked again.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... well, I originally nned for you to synchro with my summon, but as I got the great spirit, there is something I want to try.” I said. “Please synchro with me.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Thest spirit I summoned said it could be done, so now with a greater spirit, it should be easy.
<span style="font-weight:400">“If that is what you want, but I should warn you, it will take a lot of mana very quickly.” The spirit said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I do have a decent mana pool.” I said back.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I think you might underestimate the power of a greater spirit.” The spirit said to me. “Even the heroine could onlyst a few minutes, and her water magic affinity gives her an advantage in that.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Lua synchro’d with you? When?” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“When she was healing you. Didn’t you know?” The spirit asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... no, I didn’t. I mean, I know she healed me, but I didn’t hear anything about the spirit synchro part.” I said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You should be better at sharing information with your team, hero. If you don’t, your team will fall apart.” The spirit said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I’m not actually a hero. I mean, I don’t have a skill or title or anything.” I pointed out.
<span style="font-weight:400">“A skill doesn’t make a hero. The hero makes the skill.” The spirit said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... yeah, that doesn’t make sense.” I responded.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You will understand. At some point.” The spirit said.
<span style="font-weight:400">The hero makes the skill? It probably could be something about a unique skill, right? I mean, by definition a unique skill should be one of a kind, right? So a hero is someone with the power to gain a unique skill? And I''ve had one since day 1 in this world.
<span style="font-weight:400">… but that shouldn’t be true. There is no way I’m the only one with a unique skill alive at the moment.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Now then, shall we do the synchro or may I leave? I do have things to do.” The spirit said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh, yes. Let’s do it. I at least want to know how it feels before I have to actually use it inbat or something.” I said to the spirit.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I wish your heroine had that level of forethought. She had to go through it in an emergency.” The spirit said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... wait? She did it for the first time while healing me?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes, she did.” The spirit confirmed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... holy. Lua is amazing. Well anyway, let’s do the synchro now.” I said to the spirit.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. I’ll start now.” The spirit said, before its form broke back to water and that water rushed at me.
<span style="font-weight:400">I reflexively took in a deep breath before the water crashed into me.
<span style="font-weight:400">Crashed? No. It didn’t crash. I was expecting an impact, but the water was quite gentle.
<span style="font-weight:400">I felt … something entering me. It was some form of mana, but it felt nothing like the ones I’ve felt until now. The closest thing I’ve felt is the mana from Dark Sage, but this isn’t quite the same.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then the mana drain began. I felt the invading mana eat up my own. Considering what the spirit said, I expected it to be worse, but I would still run out in about 20 minutes.
<span style="font-weight:400">(Oh. Your mana is nice and filling. I wasn’t expecting that.) I heard the spirit say in my head.
<span style="font-weight:400">(So you can talk like Laura. That’s nice.) I said back to her. (So, can I now use your power or how does this work?)
<span style="font-weight:400">(Yes. Please just imagine what you want me to do and I’ll make it happen. As long as it is water based and not too crazy.) The spirit said. (No need for incantations or anything.)
<span style="font-weight:400">(Ooh. Nice. Well, I’m not really that creative and this is no ce to practice spells, so let’s just move the water around a bit. And refill the bathtub.) I said to the spirit.
<span style="font-weight:400">I spent a few minutes moving the water around. It was simr to using telekinesis, but I could also do things like freeze the water or boil the water into vapor. A cloud of super hot water vapor sounds like a dangerous weapon. But I guess boiling water would be as well. Or making a huge chunk of ice and dropping it onto someone.
<span style="font-weight:400">(We should stop. We have used over half of your mana already.) The spirit said and I agreed.
<span style="font-weight:400">The spirit separated from me and quickly left after that. Her watery body didn’t ssh on the ground as I expected, but instead split. About half went into the bathtub that we had partially filled when we were in the synchro state and the other half was heading straight for the drain. I guess she is skilled enough to do something like that.
<span style="font-weight:400">I entered the bath and had the almost forgotten Aqua Spirit wash my hair and my back. (She asked to do it, btw.)
<span style="font-weight:400">“I wish I could enter Master’s body like that.” She said before I unsummoned her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... that sounds weird. Please never say it again.” I said to the spirit. “And if you want to learn it, I can try to get the water spirits of this world to teach you.” I offered.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Please do, Master.” Aqua Spirit agreed.
<span style="font-weight:400">I finished my bath, got dressed up in some PJs that I had been given by the earl and went to bed. I need to buy some of my own. A shopping day will have to happen at some point.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yawn. Perhaps I’ll open some Magic Ruler tomorrow for a second Upstart Goblin.” I said before falling asleep.