CH.232 Handing out Rewards
<span style="font-weight:400">In the morning, I woke up like I usually do. To the sounds of Ria changing clothes. Sure it might be a questionable rm clock, but it works, so what are you going to do?
<span style="font-weight:400">The difference this time was that Lua had also woken up, so instead of just me, we both went to the factory together. Lua may or may not have ‘stolen’ my hand and ced it against her cheek before we did though. Not that I mind.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“... so, why did youe here?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Why not? I try to do it every morning and evening. It’s just a habit.” I answered. “But I do actually have something today. I need to do a few tests. Actually, we should start looking at your dress as well. You now know what my suit looks like, so if you want, we can try toe up with something that will match.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. Let’s.” Lua agreed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“But I do actually have some stuff I need to try.” I said to bring us, well mostly myself, back on track.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. What is it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Just some test. I’ll show you.” I said, as I began to make a new test area, like the one I madest time.
<span style="font-weight:400">As I was setting up the test area, Tahlia ‘teleported’ next to us. Yeah, I say ‘teleported’ as it technically isn’t teleportation, just destroying your avatar, and making a new one somewhere else. She was in her dark blue dress, in case you were wondering. I guess she still refuses to wear her pink onesie when she is in the ‘public’ areas of the factory.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Father, Lua, good morning.” Tahlia greeted us.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Good morning Tia.” Lua said to her. “It’s good to see you. It has been a few days…”
<span style="font-weight:400">As the girls made smalltalk, I kept working. After I made the armor stands, I made factory copies of Ria’s new and upgraded armor. By the way, it currently looks like this.
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Defense +200]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Fire Resistance - 50% damage reduced]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Lightened - 40% weight reduced]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Physical Attack Resistance - 10% damage reduced]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Toughness - 20% durability increase]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Blood Repair]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Vampire Armor]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Durability 2400/2400]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:96px"><span style="font-weight:400">Description: A leather jacket made from Crimson Boa hide. Because of the hide used, it is naturally fire resistant. It has thin blood iron tes inserted all over, to make it more defensive. The blood iron likes to drink blood, and by feeding it blood, the armor will self repair. The armor favors those that drink blood, and will defend them more than others. It has been enchanted to make it lighter, to increase its resistance to physical attacks and to improve its durability.</td>
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<span style="font-weight:400">I don’t know how, but apparently my monsters were able to make it quite a bit better. It is basically better in every way,pared to the bronze version, even with the Lunatite install. Sure the Lunatite variant had the magic resistance, but this one has physical attack resistance. And yeah, 10% might not be that much, but it is still nice.
<span style="font-weight:400">But back to what I was doing. I made three copies of Ria’s jacket, and lined them up next to each other. I learnedst time that one sess could be a fluke, so I think three tests will be the minimum for me. And I feel like Laura wouldugh at me if she heard that, saying something like “Three? It takes at least a hundred to make sure.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Brian, is that..?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It’s Ria’s armor.” I answered. “Well, a copy of it, actually.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I see. What will you do with it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Just a sec. I’ll get the cards out.” I said as I dug my collection for three copies of Metallizing Parasite - Lunatite. Then I gave one for Lua to read. “Here. Take a look.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">After a few seconds of reading, Lua spoke up. “So… it’s a parasite that is resistant against spells?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Basically yes.” I confirmed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“But doesn’t it … equip directly onto a person? What do you need the armor for?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It does, but if I use it that way, it is treated as a monster. That means it can only stay out for two hours, and will take up a slot on my duel disk, or you will have to hold it in your hand in other cases.” I exined. “But by installing it into an armor like this, it will be a permanent part of it. It doese with a small downside of draining the wearer''s HP, but that is a small price to pay for the defense increase, and the magic resistance the armor gets.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I suppose. But that just depends on how much HP it takes.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well,st time I checked, it was 1 HP every second. But mine, with the mithril tes, instead of bronze, only took 1 HP every 5 seconds, so I think this will be less. But we will find out soon.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I see. That could be bad for a normal adventurer, but we should be fine, I think. As long as we are careful not to wear it for too long.” Lua said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. It would be a lot worse, if you only had like 500 HP or something. Also, the HP drain doesn’t actually affect me, as my Health Conscious skill negates that damage.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh, I didn’t know there was a skill like that.” Luamented. “How did you even get it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I installed one of my cards into myself.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... of course you did. Why do I ask? But you’ve had that skill for a while, right? Before you had the armor, I mean. Why did you get it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Some of my cards require an HP cost to activate them, or as an upkeep cost. So Laura suggested I install a card that can prevent those HP costs.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. I guess that is a good reason to do it.” Lua admitted. “Will you install that same card into Ria?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I might. I’ll just ask herter. And I can just leave the armor without the parasite. It is quite good even without it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I got back to work, and installed one of the Lunatites into one of the copies of Ria’s armor.
<span style="font-weight:400">Likest time, it changed a bit. But it was also different. Last time, it looked like someone poured a bucket of clear coat over the armor and it then hardened. But this time, it looked more like a bucket of blood was poured over it, and it then turned into this soft crimson coating over the jacket. You could still see the base color alright, but it was clearly now covered in some red stuff.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... so, what did that do?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Just a sec. I’ll analyze it.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Father, please let me.” Tahlia interrupted and did the analysis herself. After it waspleted, she showed us the results.
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Magic Resistance - 81% damage reduced]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Fire Resistance - 50% damage reduced]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Lightened - 40% weight reduced]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Physical Attack Resistance - 10% damage reduced]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Toughness - 20% durability increase]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Blood Repair]</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">[Vampire Armor]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">[Durability 2640/2640]</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Parasitic - When worn, the wearer will lose 1 HP every three seconds.</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">This effect can be negated, by feeding the armor blood</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Description: A leather jacket made from Crimson Boa hide. Because of the hide used, it is naturally fire resistant. It has thin blood iron tes inserted all over, to make it more defensive. The blood iron likes to drink blood, and by feeding it blood, the armor will self repair. The armor favors those that drink blood, and will defend them more than others. It has been enchanted to make it lighter, to increase its resistance to physical attacks and to improve its durability. A metal parasite waster added to it, making it a parasite armor. While the parasite does offer unparalleled resistance to magic, it will also drain away the wearers HP. But because the metal parasite has a body of blood iron, it can take blood instead of HP.</td>
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<span style="font-weight:400">“... wow. That is … amazing.” Lua muttered. “Isn’t this like … a national treasure or something?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“No clue. Maybe. But at the same time, I think not. I feel like national treasure level armor should be better.” I said. “But this could be the family treasure of some noble family, most likely.” That was just my opinion, of course. I’ve never seen either a family treasure, nor a national treasure ss item. Well, I guess that S-rank core was a family treasure, but that doesn’t count, as it isn’t equipment.
<span style="font-weight:400">I have to say, I’m super happy with the results. I didn’t think the blood iron would do that much, but apparently I’m wrong. Especially the blood repair and the ability to prevent the HP drain by using blood sound amazing. Not to mention the part where it is better for blood drinkers. I guess blood iron really is amazing for vampires and dhampirs.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Brian, which one is better, that or my dress?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I’m not actually sure. I’ve never analyzed your stuff, as we can just remake it with our skills if it gets destroyed. Want me to analyze it?” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. Please.” Lua agreed.
<span style="font-weight:400">She swapped her dress from the ck one to her red one. Then I ced my hands on her shoulders and analyzed her clothes.
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<td style="width:100%;text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:400">Permission of individual Lucia required for the analysis</td>
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<span style="font-weight:400">… really? Well, I guess her stuff does have that protection, so I guess this makes sense.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Lua, do you also see that?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“The system window asking for permission? Yes, I do.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“No, I meant the error, but apparently you have one of your own. Can you give me permission?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes.” She said, and the analysis continued.
<span style="font-weight:400">By the end of it, I had an alright idea on Lua’s equipment.
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Durability 900/900</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">A red dress made from blood cloth. Protects the wearer from sunlight.</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Defense +100</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Durability 1200/1200</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Defense +70</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Durability 1100/1100</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Pants made from an unknown leather. They have a deep blue color.</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Defense +50</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Durability 1000/1000</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Boots made from an unknown leather. They seem to always stay clean, and arepletely waterproof.</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Defense +90</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">Durability 1400/1400</td>
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<td style="width:100%"><span style="font-weight:400">A mantle made from the wing membrane of a vampire dragon. It has a deep crimson color. It has an edge made of vampiric steel. Protects the wearer from sunlight.</td>
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Tahlia, did we ever make that automatic analysis tool? The one to analyze the equipment of my monsters?” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. Mother and I did make that.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Have there been other times when the stuff that was analyzed has had things like that?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Plenty. Mother usually mes herself, saying she doesn’t have adequate system ess.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... wow. I didn’t know she felt like that. … I’m sorry, Laura.” I said to no one, hoping that Laura was inside me, instead of somewhere in the factory.
<span style="font-weight:400">(It isn’t your fault.) She responded.
<span style="font-weight:400">(It isn’t yours either. So no self me, alright.)
<span style="font-weight:400">(... I’ll try not to.)
<span style="font-weight:400">(Don’t try, just don’t do it.)
<span style="font-weight:400">“... so my armor is worse than Ria’s…” Lua’s muttering brought me back to reality.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. I guess it is.” I admitted. “But part of that is because Ria’s has Lunatite installed. Without it, hers was worse than yours.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh? Alright… Can I have one of those Lunatites?” Lua asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure. We can test that out.”
<span style="font-weight:400">We spent a lot more time ying around with the idea of where I should install the Lunatite into Lua’s equipment, but all of them ended up failing, as her equipment just didn’t have enough metal for Lunatite to take ce in. But that experiment did teach me something. Lunatite takes a better hold in stuff with more metal. A full te mail is the best, and then from there, the effectivenesses down. It also prefersrger, thicker pieces of metal, like the ones my armor has. That is why the magic resistance is higher in my armor,pared to Ria’s. And in stuff with little to no metal, Lunatite cannot take hold. The install will either just fail, or it will end up breaking the armor if I force it. That ended up happening when I tried it with a copy of Lua''s Vampire Dragon Mantle.
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<span style="font-weight:400">After that was the thing I was both dreading, and looking forward to. Rewarding my monsters. Some were easy, others not so much.
<span style="font-weight:400">Firstly, the two most important monsters. Iron cksmith Kotetsu and Hinotama Soul. That duo can really work the new forge super well, and without them, making this stuff might have been impossible.
<span style="font-weight:400">Kotetsu got himself an install of Mystical Moon, while Hinotama Soul earned an install of Burning Spear.
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<span style="font-weight:400">It is too bad that I don’t have any Pyro specific equip cards, so I had to go with the more generic Burning Spear. I also really wanted to give Kotetsu a hammer, but I just don’t have one. Maybe I can give him some of the materials from my storage, so he can use them to make himself a hammer.
<span style="font-weight:400">Anyway, next up were the vampires. Because we worked with blood iron, they were necessary. This of course meant that multiple of my vampires gained Violet Crystals.
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<span style="font-weight:400">And because Lua was here, we tested out if Violet Crystal could be installed into a dhampir. It worked, but it was far from perfect. It is designed for ‘zombie’ or ‘undead’ type monsters, while dhampirs are perfectly alive. Sure they have some undead tendencies, but they are more like half-undead. Or probably quarter undead. So while it could be done, other, more generic cards made for better installs.
<span style="font-weight:400">Next was a group of monsters I wasn’t so sure about. I know the invitation was open for all of my monsters, but for some reason, I didn’t expect these guys to do anything.
<span style="font-weight:400">Archfiends Darkbishop, Infernalqueen and Terrorking. Those three were responsible for the Physical Attack Resistance enchantment on Ria’s armor, so by the rules, they needed something. … I just … really didn’t expect my Archfiends to do anything, so I was a bit taken back.
<span style="font-weight:400">The Darkbishop got himself a Dark Energy, the Infernalqueen got Falling Down and the Terrorking was now wielding an Axe of Despair.
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<span style="font-weight:400">… I really hope I won’t regret this.
<span style="font-weight:400">Out of my spellcasters, Dark Sage was the one that put in the most work, so he was the one getting a reward. He already has a Book of Secret Arts, so instead I gave him Diffusion Wave-Motion. I don’t know how good that will be for him, but I hope it will suffice.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Then was the time for the ‘care squad’. Aka. the monsters that took care of Ria. Cure Mermaid, Dancing Fairy, Spirit of the Breeze and White Magician Pikeru. They all got the same reward, an install of Soul of the Pure. This further increased their healing abilities, making them even better for next time.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“... maybe that could be installed into me…” I heard Lua mutter, as I was installing the cards.
“Sure.” I told her. “But I think we should wait until after the birthday party, and let Mia and Laura run experiments with it first.”
<span style="font-weight:400">As for the water monsters that worked with them, they all got either Steel Shell, or Power of Kaishin depending on their type and preference. And type. Can’t give Power of Kaishin to anything that isn’t aqua-type afterall.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Last, but not least, was Tyrant Dragon. His blood was used for the blood iron, and because of that, he had to die a few times when the blood was gathered. Sure, Laura did resurrect him with Monster Reborn every time, but dying cannot be fun. As a price for that, he got a Dragon Treasure, as well as the right to pick any of the Mountain peaks in the tower room for himself. And if anyone tried to im that he has no right, I would set them straight.
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<span style="font-weight:400">I do feel a bit bad. Not because of what I did, I think that is perfectly fine, but because Tyrant Dragon ended up taking thergest mountain top in the room from Blue-Eyes. And I would never sacrifice a Blue-Eyes for its blood, so Blue-Eyes really didn’t have a choice. I’d like to just give Blue-Eyes its own Dragon Treasure and let the two fight it out for control of the mountain top. But that would be tant favoritism, and that honestly might do more bad than good. I already show massive favoritism to monsters that I summon to outside the factory, so I’ll try to keep a more objective look here.
<span style="font-weight:400">But with all of my monsters rewarded, and the second test of Lunatite done, we could return to the real world and get ready for the day. Sadly, because of how much time both the Lunatite experiments and the rewarding took, we couldn’t look into making a dress. Well, we do still have a day or two, and if we do really run out of time, I think we can just use Vampire Fascinators dress basically just as it is. Or even the ck dress Lua made by ident. I think either should work.