CH.160 Lucia’s first System Mission
<span style="font-weight:400">“Brian, I need to talk to you for a minute. Could youe with me?” Lua asked me after lunch.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure.” I responded. Not like I had anything else to do. They would just shove me back to that wannabe throne otherwise.
<span style="font-weight:400">And now I’m having that tour with Lua that I wanted.
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<span style="font-weight:400">She took me a bit away from the town hall, into an area that seems to be the town''s graveyard. Just judging from all of the stones carved with names and dates. The dates were in a DD/MM/YYYY format and the years ranged from 1331 to 1363. That means this vige has been here for at least thirty years. And I guess this is also the first time I’ve gotten any idea of the date in this world. Not that it really matters, but still. I do wonder, what is the year 0 of their calendar. Another thing I need to find out when I get back to the city.
<span style="font-weight:400">Lua stopped in front of one grave that said Griffa, with the date 15/13/1359. Eh? 15/13? Like the fifteenth day of the thirteenth month? I thought the calendar was the same, but it is not.
<span style="font-weight:400">Lua then got on her knees and said some things in a quiet voice. I just stood a few steps behind her, keeping quiet. I don’t need to ask who that grave belongs to. I have a pretty good guess.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Come. Let’s go.” Lua said after she got up. “This is no ce for a conversation.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I just followed along.
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<span style="font-weight:400">She led us to one of the houses, well they are more like huts. Very basic wooden building.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Is this your father’s house?” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Kind of. There aren’t really individual houses in this vige. They are shared by multiple people.” Lua answered. “But the other person moved to a different house, so this one is currently empty.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I see. You know a lot even though you haven’t been here for a while.” Imented.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I did hear some of the gossip earlier.” Lua said. <sup ss="modern-footnotes-footnote " data-mfn="1"></sup><span ss="modern-footnotes-footnote__note" data-mfn="1"> When she was going around, telling people new blood had arrived.
<span style="font-weight:400">Lua then turned to me with a serious look on her face.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Brian, I got a system mission.” She said.
<span style="font-weight:400">A system mission? Lua got one? Nice. I’ve been wondering when she would get her first one. I assume this is her first one.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I wanted to ask what I should do about it.” Lua added.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, I usually do them, if they aren’t too difficult.” I said. I have done all of the missions I have gotten this far. Of course I also have the two long term missions and those are still ongoing. “So it might help if you tell me what the mission is.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It says to teach dhampirs true blood magic.” Lua said.
<span style="font-weight:400">… isn’t that simple? Lua got true blood magic after like a few days of training with Vampire Lady.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. Is that the problem? If I recall correctly, it took you only a few days, right?” I asked her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“No. That is not the problem. There is something strange about the mission.” Lua said. “... can I just show it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">(Of course you can, if you wish.) I heard Lua’s System Support in my head. (Just think or say ‘Open’.)
<span style="font-weight:400">“Open.” Lua said quietly.
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<span style="font-weight:400">It looks simr to mine. But there is one thing different about it. The reward section is ???. My missions usually have a reward that improves Pack Opener or gives me cards, but Lua’s just has ???.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I see. It is simr to mine, but also a bit different.” I said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Would you show me yours?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure, I can.” I then had Laura bring up my dhampir mission before saying: “Open.”
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Mission: Cure the Dhampirs</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Goal: Cure dhampirs of their blood curses</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Reward: Grants a random Vampire card for each cured dhampir</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">This mission is repeatable. You can gain the reward only once per person</td>
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Yours doesn’t have a visible reward. All of the ones that I’ve had have always had a detailed reward.” I told Lua.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. I was wondering about it. But also, how much do I have to teach them for it to count?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... not sure. Enough for the system to recognize it?” I theorized. “My missions have always had clear start and end points, except for the dhampir mission and one other.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Could you tell me about them?” Lua asked. “The other missions?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure. I had one for founding the dungeon, I had one to stop the wyvern attack and then I had one to save baron Watchman from the thunder sprites. They have all been very much time limited, or what I call them, emergency missions. But I also have two continuous ones. The dhampir one you already saw and another one to do with magical attributes.” I informed Lua.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Magical attribute mission? May I see that as well?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure.” I said and again Laura brought it up for me. “Open.”
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<td style="width:645.781px"><span style="font-weight:400">Mission: Granter of Magic</td>
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<td style="width:645.781px"><span style="font-weight:400">Goal: Grant a magic attribute to hard working people who don’t have one</td>
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<td style="width:645.781px"><span style="font-weight:400">Grants 1-5 monsters of the attribute given.</td>
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<td style="width:645.781px"><span style="font-weight:400">If the recipient is an extremely hard worker, cards maye in sleeves or toploaders</td>
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. So if you know anyone that doesn’t have an attribute but deserves one, just call me.” I told Lua.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I … yes. I will.” Lua said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“And now that we are talking about magic attributes, how about I finally give you light magic.” I offered.
<span style="font-weight:400">I promised to give Lua the light attribute all the way back when I first tried to cure her, but I just never did. Now is the perfect time for that.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... would you? I already have the water attribute, so you won’t gain a reward, right?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I know that. But Lua, you saved my life. Nothing will ever take that away. So giving you a magic attribute is nothing.” I told her.
<span style="font-weight:400">And it is true. With a pack token factory contained within my unique skill, I have no need to hold onto singr copies of some cards.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Then, please.” Lua said.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll just warn you before hand, but this can be a bit intense.” I told Lua. “It will feel like a mix between pain and sexual pleasure. Are you ready?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... what are you actually going to do?” Lua asked carefully.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s nothing sexual, I swear. But that is what it feels like.” I told her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I still want it.” Lua said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Good.” I said as I pulled Luminous Spark out of the collection. “I’ll do it now.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Please.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Install.”
<span style="font-weight:400">The card in my hand turned into light and entered Lua’s chest.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Ah.” She let out a small moan as it did.
<span style="font-weight:400">… yeah. Why does it have to feel like that? Couldn’t there be a better way? Something that won’t cause misunderstandings if someone overhears it?
<span style="font-weight:400">As I was looking over Lua, I also made a quick search in the collection for any light attribute monsters that can heal life points. Surprisingly, I only had one. White Magician Pikeru.
<span style="font-weight:400">I guess I never really thought about it, but Dancing Fairy is in fact a wind attribute monster, not light. But in terms of monsters that can heal life points, I have Cure Mermaid, Dancing Fairy, Fushi No Tori (but it only heals via battle, so it is more of a life steal), Skull-Mark Ladybug (only when it goes to the GY), Spirit of the Breeze, White Magician Pikeru and Griggle. Griggle does have an effect that triggers when its ownership changes, so I do wonder about that. If I summon Griggle, then transfer control of it to someone else, like Alex gave the summoned Red-Eyes back to me back during the sprite incident, would Griggle’s effect activate? It probably should, but I’m not sure.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Also, I do remember the Trial of the Princess spell. It is something that can upgrade White Magician Pikeru to Princess Pikeru. But I don’t have ess to either of those cards. They just are in a set I haven’t unlocked yet.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“That was … a lot.” Lua said after she had recovered from the install.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. But the first one is generally the worst, so if I ever install another card into you, at least it won’t be as bad.” I told her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Have you installed some into yourself?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. Four in total.” I answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Four? You can use four attributes?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Eh? No. Why would you think that?” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Because an install gives a magic attribute, right?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well yes, but actually no. Installs can have many different effects depending on the card I install.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Like what?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well I’ve only seen two different reactions. One is gaining, or more like altering the magic affinities. The second is gaining a skill.” I exined.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Gaining a skill? Like just getting a new skill?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. Exactly like that.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Brian?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Are you a god?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">… where is thising from?
<span style="font-weight:400">“No. Of course not.” I denied.
<span style="font-weight:400">“But you do things only a god should be able to do.” Lua said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t skill orbs exist? I’m decently sure they do.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“But they onlye from dungeons and the dungeons are a gift from the Goddess.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I thought the first Great Sage could make them as well.” At least that is what I took away from what Paulina said yesterday.
<span style="font-weight:400">“So you are admitting that you are as powerful as the first Great Sage. Is that it?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“No. Of course not. I have no clue how powerful the first Great Sage was, so I can’t exactlypare our powers.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I don’t think you are denying that it is possible.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Lua, anything is possible. I don’t think I, at this moment, am stronger than the first Great Sage. Honestly. But I think it is more than possible that I can grow to be more powerful than he was.” I said. With all of the BS my cards allow me to do, I should be able to do that. Probably. Level Up! to gain levels, installs to gain skills and just summoning monsters to … well, to fight for me. And if I do gain thatst Exodia piece, I’ll have the god-like power of Exodia by my side as well. And perhaps at some point I’ll get the other god-like entities of Yugioh, like the Egyptian God Cards, the Sacred Beasts or the Nordic Gods. I guess the Wicked Gods are also a thing, but they might be too dangerous to use.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... you really are an anomaly.” Lua said. <sup ss="modern-footnotes-footnote " data-mfn="2"></sup><span ss="modern-footnotes-footnote__note" data-mfn="2"> Lua is too smart. We must execute her immediately.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll take that as apliment.” I said. “Also, I want to give you a few cards.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“How much are you nning on giving? I don’t think I’ll ever be able to pay you back.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“And who said you’ll have to?” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I did. When you got me this magic bag.” Lua said as she patted the magic fanny pack I got her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well that is different. My cards can only be used by those with Card Summoner. Well, not really but still. I want them to be used and I can’t use all of them myself. So I want to give you a few more to use.” I told her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I’ll ept them.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Now as for what I gave Lua, first was White Magician Pikeru to teach her light magic, second was Cure Mermaid because I think it fits her. Then I gave her a copy of Vampire Vamp and Vampire Grace. I got two of each of them from the dhampir mission, so I can give one of each away without too big of a worry.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I think these four will do.” I said as I handed them over. I had, of course, put a toploader on each of them.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I understand the vampires, but what about the other two?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, they are to help you with healing magic. Cure Mermaid uses water attribute healing magic and White Magician Pikeru uses light attribute healing magic. You will need a teacher to learn light magic, won’t you?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I … yes. Thank you. But I didn’t expect a mermaid.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Actually, I have another two if you want them.” I offered.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... two more? I … please.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Here. Mermaid Knight and Enchanting Mermaid.” I said as I handed two more cards to Lua.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Thank you.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">We then went around the vige, Lua showing me everything. Not that there was much.
<span style="font-weight:400">The most interesting part was thisrge-ish flower field that grew deep red flowers.
<span style="font-weight:400">Lua told me that the nectar they produce is used as an ingredient in healing potions. I was a bit surprised because I haven’t seen them anywhere else and they are quite beautiful. But Lua said they need blood magic to help them grow, so only a dhampir can grow them.
<span style="font-weight:400">So that is why dhampirs are still around. I’ve actually been wondering why there hasn’t been some sort of racial extinction caused by hate for their blood drinking ways. But if they are the only ones capable of producing materials for healing potions, that makes more sense.
<span style="font-weight:400">As we got back to the town hall, I saw that the vigers had decorated it. Just a little.
<span style="font-weight:400">There were some sorts ofmps, but they weren’t the usualntern style that most ces use, or the candle holder style that the noble houses use. These looked more like LED strips. Where are you getting LED lights?
<span style="font-weight:400">There were also some clearly handmade decorations thatbined with the LEDs, made the building look like a starry sky.
<span style="font-weight:400">I have to say, I’m impressed that this backwater vige has decorations like that. I really like how those LED lights look. … Yes, I know they aren’t actually LEDs, but I don’t know what they are, so I’ll call them LEDs until I actually find out.
<span style="font-weight:400">We got inside and I was taken to the seat at the end of arge table that could seat the entire vige.
<span style="font-weight:400">I ended up having to hold a small speech before more snake meat was brought for us to enjoy. Most of the vigers took Lua’s advice and drizzled blood on top of it before enjoying it.
<span style="font-weight:400">I have to say, seeing the looks on some of their faces was quite fascinating. I guess eating solid food for the first time in your life can be quite the experience.