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CH.290 Clearing away ve Marks

 “I apologize for the surprise visit, but something came up, and I must inform you of it personally.” I apologized to Lord Peks as I met him the next morning.

 We had returned to the town of Pekkers using B.E.S. Crystal Core in the morning.

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 After arrival, our group broke into three separate groups. Mariina went with Alice to get in contact with the local adventurer’s guild’s guild master, Lua, Ria and Wilma stayed with the ‘adventurers’ while I went with Agunan to give a report to the local lord about someone in this area using the illegal ve mark. As well as informing him that someone has definitely put a hit on Wilma.

 He actually took the news quite well, but the fact that Mariina was already in contact with the Sage’s tower, using the adventurer’s guild’smunicator thingy might have helped with that. He did also apologize for the trouble, but I just told him it is not on him, so it is fine. I just hoped he would help the adventurer’s guild looking into the illegal ve trade.

 I did rmend also looking into that newer workshop, because I’d bet at least some money that they are involved in all of this. I don’t think I need to go into detail as to why I would think that way. Baron Peks promised me he would audit them, so hopefully they will get some punishment, if this guy can find some dirt on them.

 Well, if he can’t, it doesn’t really matter to me. Sure I want to see them punished, but in truth, I don’t really care that much. Thanks to their BS, I got a skilled artisan working for me after all.

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 “The sages will have a council and decide on if they are going to share the information.” Mariina told me when I arrived at the adventurer’s guild. “It will take at least two to three days for us to get the information, if they even decide to share.”

 “Well, I guess I’ll just do it then.” I concluded. Sure we could wait three days, but why would we? I have a much quicker and easier solution.

 “Can you really do that?” Mariina asked.

 “... do you really need to ask that?”

 What I was trying to do was actually something extremely simple to aplish. I just had to free some ves. At first, I thought I should try something like Snatch Steal or Brain Control to transfer them to be mine, but that is tooplicated and it wasn’t a good forever solution.

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 Laura did make a good forever solution using Creature Swap. By giving away some of my monsters to the control of the Master of the ves, the ves would be transferred to me. Permanently. Then I can just kill, well more like destroy, the monsters, or let their summoning time run out. And if I use cards without sleeves, the card would just vanish after use. I could even use something like tokens for that. But still, too convoluted, when there is a much simpler answer.

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 I can just free them. They are ves because of a magic mark drawn on their body, right? So what do you do when you need to clean away magic? Well, you use the Feather Duster of course.

 “Harpie’s Feather Duster.”

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 An oversized feather, which didn’t really look like a duster at all, appeared in my hand. I then used said feather duster to gently dust away the ve seals on the two young catfolk, granting them their freedom.

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 We again left the town that day. We had no reason to stay here, and Mariina does have a schedule to keep. Of course, we now had two new people with us. Two little catfolk kids, who I agreed to employ. Like with Wilma, I will need people working for me, so why not pick up this duo.

 They actually have no home to return to, as they were sold by their parents. They are two of the nine children their parents had, and they simply couldn’t feed everyone. And because the boy, Einar, had the Taming skill, and his sister Eline had the Summoning skill, the two of them were sold because they were worth the most.

 And the real reason I took them, instead of handing them over to Baron Peks, is the fact that they are the only ones who know the person that drew that forbidden ve mark on them. We did get a description from them, but it was so generic that it would never get us the correct person. Well, maybe never is a strong word, but it would take a long time and lots of false hits.

 As for what happened with the adventurers. Well, they did get to keep their lives at least, but they were turned into ves and would probably be sent out to fight monsters most don’t want to fight. So in short, they are not for me to worry about. They didn’t know the original person who drew the ve mark, as they picked them up from a traveling merchant, whose description didn’t match the description given by the catfolk. So it is likely that that merchant knew how to transfer the illegal ves, but might not know how to draw the ve mark. I left looking for him to the Baron, as well as the adventurer’s guild.

 So back to the two catfolk. Einar’s tamed beasts were all defeated by us, so that isn’t something I had to worry about. I meant taking them with us. Unlike summoned monsters, you can’t just unsummon tamed beasts. And you can’t put them away in a magic bag or even something like Storage. You’d literally have to transport them, like you do. But we don’t have any, so I don’t need to do that. Laura did tell me about an extra skill that could actually store tamed beasts, but that was quite a rare extra skill and not something most tamers would have. But maybe Einar will get it eventually, and I might even be able to cheat that skill onto him with an install. If I feel like rewarding him for good work.

 Eline on the other hand had three summoning contracts. One was with the lightning tiger, but she couldn’t currently summon it, because I killed it. Technically summoned monsters don’t die, but if they do ‘die’, the summoners will suffer some penalties depending on the contract they had with the beast. Anything from losing the contract to not being able to summon them for a few days may happen. Other than the lightning tiger, she has a contract with a D-rank forest tiger and an E-rank baby tiger. And because of her contract with the lightning tiger, she could summon it again two weeks after its ‘death’, so that beast will be summonable for her again.

 Of course my n for the two was simple. Well, maybe not so simple, but still simple. I wanted some maids and butlers. And these two would be the first for that. Well, first after Ria. She is the OG. And I guess Einar will be my first butler. I think that job will fit him well, as with his Taming skill, he can tame monsters that will be able to pull my carriage.

 And of course Eline will be a decentbat maid with her summoned beasts. She might not reach Ria’s level, but it will still be nice.

 Teaching them will of course be my two Dragonmaids, as well as the aforementioned Ria.

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 And because the mission that gives me Dragonmaids is worded the way that it is, I should get a Dragonmaid card for each of them eventually. Actually, I should get one for Wilma as well. She is my employee after all.

 … But as good as all of this is, it did leave us with a small issue. My carriage just isn’trge enough any more. It could fit the five of us fine, and even the addition of Wilma wasn’t a big problem, but now with two more people, I’d either have to hurry up making a mana source for the spatial expander, but I actually already had something for that.

 And that was a mana transfer device. I could link it with a magic stone, and then have the stone instantly send mana into the device. Wait, did that make any sense? I’ll try to exin it so that everyone will understand.

 So basically, I’ll have to have a magic stone that holds mana. Then I can link this device to it and it can pull mana from that stone. Hopefully that exnation makes a bit more sense.

 This was something I both identally and purposefully made. I wanted to make something like this for when my HomeBase infinite mana factory finally goes online, but I wasn’t meaning to make it when I did. I was actually working on a wireless magicmunicator. Basically a magic walkie-talkie. But instead I got something that was close to this, so I just converted the failed walkie-talkie into a mana transfer device.

 I think I’ll try to hurry up with my HomeBase ns, but it just isn’t ready to be implemented yet. The factory tests are good, and it should work out, but I’m still min-maxing efficiency, cements and all of that. I want to have my HomeBase be as well designed as the Hero’s country, if not better. No point in doing it poorly, only to have to rebuild it all from scratch.

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 Outside of the poption increase causing me to use some of my monsters for additional transports, our trip had been going well. And I think Einar and Eline enjoyed riding Ancient Gear Beast and Leogun.

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 I even ended up summoning some of my more ssic machines, Overdrive, Oni Tank T-34 and Labyrinth Tank. … Sadly, two of those are just a bit… out there, so using them might be a bad idea.

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 I don’t want some merchant thinking I’m going to rob him, just because I happen to be driving an Oni Tank or anything.

 Wilma was quite the fan of my machine monsters, by the way. She was especially interested in the materials they were made out of, and basically begged me to let her take one of them apart. I was thinking of letting her experiment with Cyber Dragons, because Cyber Dragons are titanium, I think, but I also don’t want her to do anything stupid to monsters that I really like.

 But yeah. Our travels are going rtively fine again, so I wanted to just rx a bit and maybe open some packs. It has been a few days sincest time. Last time was… it was after I returned Cailie home from the dungeon. … only for her to get re-banished… I hope she is doing well in the Hero’s country. Maybe I should take Alice and Lua on a date there and ask someone like how Cailie has been doing.

 Yeah. I know that would be breaking some date etiquette, but I know that at least Lua worries about Cailie sometimes. Not so sure about Alice though, as she is the more easygoing of the two.

 Anyway. Back to some packs.

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Daily Pack tokens: 100</td>

 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Current Pack tokens: 1144</td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Legend of Blue Eyes White Dragon </td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Magic Ruler </td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Labyrinth of Nightmare </td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Pharaonic Guardian </td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Dark Crisis </td>

 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Invasion of Chaos </td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Ancient Sanctuary </td>

 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Soul of the Duelist </td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Rise of Destiny </td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">The Lost Millennium </td>

 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Cybeic Revolution </td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Elemental Energy </td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Enemy of Justice</td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Daily Reprint Tokens: 100</td>

 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Current Reprint Tokens: 981</td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Dark Beginning 1 </td>

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 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Dark Beginning 2 </td>

 <td style="width:50%;height:24px">Dark Revtion Volume 2 </td>

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 So as for the sets I have, Laura added those check marks after the sets that I have three of everything from. As if I wouldn’t remember it myself, but it was still nice of her. So yeah. I just have two not fullypleted at the moment. Not that I wanted to open up anything but Shadow of Infinity. I want another Sacred Beast card. I only have Hamon and I want another one. Not that I’ve summoned Hamon outside the factory yet, but at some point I will. And I’m sure Agunan will enjoy getting another Divine-Beast that he can lose to. Well, he can actually tie with Hamon, as long as I allow him to have infinite mana, but he does lose if he doesn’t have infinite mana. Maybe I should give Agunan another install, so he will be strong enough to beat some of the Divine-Beasts.

 Let’s think more about thatter. For now, let’s open some Shadow of Infinity.

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 SOI 1

 Super Junior Confrontation, Ancient Gear Factory, Saber Beetle, Miracle Kids, Anteatereatingant, Ancient Gear, Generation Shift, Gokipon, Princess Curran

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 First pack, all ready all repeats. That’s a shame. Next.

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 SOI 2

 Tenkabito Shien, Ancient Gear Factory, Full Salvo, Photon Generator Unit, D.D. Guide, D.3.S. Frog, Next to be Lost, Malice Ascendant, Memory Crusher

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 Same with this pack. All repeats. Next.

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 SOI 3

 D.D. Guide, Sand Moth, Machine King Prototype, Super Junior Confrontation, D.3.S. Frog, Silent Insect, Saber Beetle, Disciple of the Forbidden Spell, Option Hunter

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 … Do I even have to say it? All repeats. Next.

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 SOI 4

 Tenkabito Shien, Anteatereatingant, Trial of the Princesses, Saber Beetle, End of the World, Malice Ascendant, Chain Thrasher, Silent Insect, Chainsaw Insect

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 Well, at least Chainsaw Insect is new. It is also quite strong, and its usual negative effect isn’t really negative at all. I mean, how does someone ‘draw a card’? And they can’t get a Pack token either, if they don’t have Pack Opener. So it is basically a 2400 attack monster with no downside. … actually, it does have one. 0 defense means it does die easily, so it is basically a ss cannon.

 Anyway, next.

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 SOI 5

 D.3.S. Frog, Machine King Prototype, Symbol of Heritage, Saber Beetle, Next to be Lost, Tenkabito Shien, Ancient Gear, Cyber Laser Dragon, Chainsaw Insect

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 Cyber Laser Dragon. Nice. That is honestly so good. And with its effect to st anything with more attack than it has, it will be quite useful, I think. Sure A-rank and higher monsters will resist the destruction effect, but they will still take some damage from it.Once per turn, you can destroy 1 monster with ATK or DEF equal to or higher than the ATK of this card.

 Let’s keep this going. Next.

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 SOI 6

 Silent Insect, Symbol of Heritage, Ma Circle LV2, Super Junior Confrontation, Hero Kid, Chain Thrasher, Full Salvo, Ancient Gear Drill, Proto-Cyber Dragon

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 Well, Proto is new, so that is good. Always good to get something new, instead of a repeat. Don’t know how useful it will be, but still good to have.

 Next.

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 SOI 7

 Silent Insect, Sess Probability 0%, Elemental HERO Neo Bubbleman, Anteatereatingant, Chain Thrasher, Next to be Lost, Hero Kid, Demise, King of Armageddon, Proto-Cyber Dragon

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 Well, that is a Demise. Hi Demise. Sorry I never got you with Manju, but at least I was now able to pull you from a pack. I still need your waifu, but I’m working on it.

 Next.

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 SOI 8

 Malice Ascendant, Grass Phantom, Beelze Frog, Tenkabito Shien, Sess Probability 0%, Full Salvo, Machine King Prototype, Super Junior Confrontation, Phantasmal Martyrs

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 And that is all repeats, but let’s hope Phantasmal Martyrs is a sign of the iing Sacred Beast. Next.

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 SOI 9

 Full Salvo, Generation Shift, End of the World, Beelze Frog, Anteatereatingant, Machine King Prototype, Elemental HERO Neo Bubbleman, Ancient Gear Cannon, Cyclone Boomerang

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 At least Cyclone Boomerang is new. And I might be able to reverse engineer it and make some cool weapon out of it.

 I think next pack will be thest, so maybe something amazing?

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 SOI 10

 Next to be Lost, Beelze Frog, End of the World, Parasitic Ticky, D.3.S. Frog, Symbol of Heritage, Miracle Kids, Adhesive Explosive, Damage Condenser

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 … I mean… it is something new. And it is an SR, so that is good. Sadly it just… isn’t amazing. It is alright, I guess. And Adhesive Explosive is new as well. And it is actually better than Damage Condenser. So this isn’t a bad pack to end things on.

 I think I’ll pull another ten tomorrow, so I can get a Sacred Beast, and maybe some Enemy of Justice packs as well. Yeah. I think I’ll do that. Then let Laura take over and fullplete the sets.

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 “... Lord Brian… would I be able to ask something?” Wilma asked me that evening. We were once again keeping guard, as the others slept. I got some looks from Alice and Lua when I decided on the order we would keep guard, but I’m honestly just min-maxing out System Support efficiency. It is best if one of us System Support holders is always awake to keep guard.

 “You already did, but I’ll assume you want to know something else. Go for it.” I granted her permission in my almost ssic slightly snarky way.

 “... that day… when you came to my workshop…” Wilma began. “... I died… didn’t I?”

 “Why would you think so?”

 “... it is just… I remember… this strange ce… It felt like a dream… I was only there for a second… but it felt… I don’t know.”

 “And why would that make you think you died? It could have been just a dream.”

 “I … I thought so too… But then I heard about the smoke bomb… Something like that. If what you told me… about how smokey the room was… I should have died, I think. But I thought it was impossible, because I’m alive. … until I saw you resurrect that catfolk boy. He was dead. I’m sure he was. There is no way he would have lived for that long… with a big hole in his stomach.”

 “Perhaps. So, where are you going with this?”

 “... well, if you really can do that, and it is easy enough that you did it to someone who attacked you… maybe you did it to me?”

 “... I see. Well, that is one possibility. Or maybe what we told you earlier is the truth? That you were simply passed out from the smoke. So, do you want to actually know the truth, or was that just you asking about things?”

 “... I … I wish to know the truth. Did you resurrect me that day?”

 “... No. I did not.” I answered honestly, with emphasis on the I. Because Lua was the one who used a Monster Reborn on Wilma.

 “I see…”

 “But you did die that day.” I then added. “When we arrived, the smithing room was alreadypletely full of smoke. Agunan was the one that came into the room and took you to the other room. Lua tried her best to keep you alive, but she isn’t great when ites to breathing problems, and you ended up passing away.” I exined to her what happened. “After that, she was the one who used a Monster Reborn on you and resurrected you. I didn’t do it.”

 “... she can do it too? … what is she?”

 “Ask her yourself. She might answer, or she might not. Her secrets are not mine to share.”

 “... I see. I’ll… think about it… But at least… I’ll make sure to thank her.”

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CH.290 Clearing away Slave Marks