CH.297 Curing 2, Vampire boogaloo
<span style="font-weight:400">“Brian. Let me step out first. I’ll try to order everyone to not attack. I think it might reduce chances of anything happening.” Lua told me, as she was getting out of the carriage.
<span style="font-weight:400">Fabio, our local dhampir and the person who brings blood to the vige, had done a good job gathering the vigers. Now it was up to us to cure all of them from their blood curse.
<span style="font-weight:400">… only one small problem. I’m not a dhampir, nor do I have that extra skill which Agatha has, so there is some chance that the dhampirs will try to attack me. I don’t want a repeat of Ria happening or anything. But I do have an ace with me. Or more like a Princess.
<span style="font-weight:400">Lua’s almost criminally underused unique skill, Dhampir Princess. It has a few sub-parts, like the one she uses to make dresses, but the most important for this moment is Dhampir Order. She can use it to order dhampirs, and while these orders are in no way absolute, they do have some impact.
<span style="font-weight:400">I watched from inside the carriage as both Lua and Ria stepped out first. Lua then removed the red mantle she always wore when we were anywhere in public and revealed the pair of white wings underneath it.
<span style="font-weight:400">I know at least parts of Dhampir Princess are powered up the more ‘princess-like’ Lua looks, so maybe revealing her wings is a way she is trying to make herself look more like a princess and/or an angel or something. … Do angels exist in this world? Because I don’t think I’ve seen a single one. Well it doesn’t really matter. Most dhampirs don’t have wings, so winged dhampir has more authority than a ‘regr’ dhampir, right?
<span style="font-weight:400">After Lua seemed to talk a bit to everyone, which I actually couldn’t hear and that could be a big oversight with this carriage, Ria came and opened the carriage door for me.
<span style="font-weight:400">I stepped out and looked at our audience. … is it wrong to call them the audience when they are more like… the subjects. That sounds wrong as well. I’m not some king looking down on my subjects. And if we go with experiment subjects, that is wrong as well. This isn’t experimental. I’ve done this before, so it is no longer experimental.
<span style="font-weight:400">As I took my position by Lua’s side, I heard some murmurs from the crowd, them speaking about ‘he really is a human’ and some other stuff like that. But a quick scan of the crowd didn’t show a single one of them with shining eyes, so it doesn’t seem like any of them went on a blood frenzy. That’s good.
<span style="font-weight:400">Did they all just enjoy some blood? Or is it Lua’s order? Their own self control? All of the above?
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, it doesn’t matter. As long as they aren’t attacking me, I can do what I want in peace.
<span style="font-weight:400">After a quick self-introduction, I activated my duel disk, including the light de part, so I had a total of 10 monster zones to use. I have a multitude of vampires who can cure the curse, so no need to leave it all to Cain. Let’s just summon all the vampires.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Come forth, my vampires.” I said before I began to list off their names. “Genesis Vampire Lord. Vampire Voivode. Vampire Vamp. Vampire Scarlet Scourge. Vampire Grimson. Vampire Grace. Vampire Fraulein. Vampire Duke. Vampire Sucker. Vampire Fascinator.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">Soon enough, the ten vampires appeared all around me. As they kept appearing, the eyes of the vigers went wider and wider. Not that I me them.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Cain. Everyone. Would you be so kind as to cure the vigers here?” I requested my monsters.
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<span style="font-weight:400">The curing itself went even better thanst time, and it wasn’t difficultst time either. This time, with a lot more vampires out here, even with a vige of 46 people, my ten vampires got the curing done fast. And without Cain ever even changing into his Genesis form.
<span style="font-weight:400">And because of my mission, you know, this one.
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Mission: Cure the Dhampirs</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Goal: Cure dhampirs of their blood curse</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><span style="font-weight:400">Reward: Grants a random Vampire card for each cured dhampir</td>
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<td style="width:100%;height:24px"><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">I got some new vampire cards. As well as plenty of repeats, so I’ll only go over the new stuff.
<span style="font-weight:400">In terms of new monsters, I got Dhampir Vampire Sheridan, Crimson Knight Vampire Bram, The Zombie Vampire and Number 24: Drags the Vampiric Dragon.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Four XYZ monsters. Though I really don’t think Number 24 is a Vampire card, so I feel like the mission is cheating. I did of course get a bunch of main deck Vampire monsters as well, but I have all of them already thanks to Cain using Vampire''s Domain to breed more Vampires. Domain just couldn’t make extra deck Vampires, so that is why they were new.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Anyway. Back to the rewards. In terms of new spells/traps, I got Vampire''s Desire, Vampire Domination and Vampire Takeover.
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<span style="font-weight:400">So a total of seven new cards from this vige. I guess that is alright, considering how many Vampire cards I already had. And of course I did get a bunch of extra copies of a lot of the Vampire cards I already had, but as I said earlier, that isn’t really worth recapping.
<span style="font-weight:400">But something is worth a thought. The new XYZs monsters I got. How do they work?
<span style="font-weight:400">Not like that you moron. I know how to XYZ summon. But how do the ovey units work? You know, for activating their effects. When I summon an XYZ monster, it will get some amount of materials. I would say they always get at least 2, but Zoodiacs are a thing, so I can’t really say that. But that doesn’t really matter for this thought experiment.
<span style="font-weight:400">So when I first summon an XYZ monster, it will have ovey units. But then what about when I summon it the next time, without performing a new XYZ summoning? I should be able to do it, considering that I can with fusion monsters, but if it works like resurrecting an XYZ from the GY, then the XYZ monster won’t have any ovey units.
<span style="font-weight:400">Also, is there anything that prevents me from just putting more cards under my XYZ monsters? Because if I can just put a card there, it might turn into an ovey unit. Maybe. I feel like it should. I’ll try to remember to test it when I XYZ summon for the first time.
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<span style="font-weight:400">After the curing, the town was obviously in a festive mood. Of course Lua, Ria and I were the guests of honor, so we had some nice seats set out to us, but because this is still a dhampir vige, there wasn’t actually many people here who knew how to cook. There were a few older dhampirs who did have knowledge about basic cooking, as some of them learned how to cook for the smith that used to live here, but even though they did have a kitchen and some pots and pans, they just had no ingredients. Dhampirs with the curse can’t really eat anything after all.
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, it doesn’t really matter to me, as I have my own food in storage, but I think I should also give them some ingredients to cook with. I do still have a bunch of monster meat from clearing HomeBase, so I can share it around. … still low on veggies though. I really need to stock up on veggies,grain, potatoes and stuff. I should also teach them about foods that use blood as an ingredient. I remember the dhampirs from the other vige really liking that stuff, even if it was just alright in my opinion.
<span style="font-weight:400">Ria knows how to do that, right? I know she has learned a bit about cooking. Maybe Ria cane here every now and then with Lua and hold a cooking school. It would be better if I let her borrow my Kitchen Dragonmaid, but the Dragonmaids are mine. All Mine!
<span style="font-weight:400">… okay, a bit too greedy there. But the point stands. Dragonmaids and Blue-Eyes are both archetypes I really don’t want to share with anyone. They are for my use only.
<span style="font-weight:400">Anyway, back to the vigers. As a thanks for curing them, the vigers gifted us a few things. At first they tried to pile a bunch of blood iron essories onto us, made by thete smith of this vige, but I refused to take that much of it and only took a few of them, like a two pairs of earrings, one for Lua the other for Ria, and a small dagger, which was also going to Lua. I already have that blood iron shortsword from the other vige, and of course my monsters can make me vampiric steel weapons if I want some, so I didn’t want to take too much, but taking nothing is also not an option. So just a few items will do.
<span style="font-weight:400">As our celebration kept going, I put on a small feast for us. It is always easy with how OP Mystik Wok is. I decided to cook up a Sabersaurus, because I’ve never tasted a Dinosaur-type monster before. It was quite good, but dinosaur meat is a bit tougher than dragon meat, so I definitely prefer dragon. I also had Lua activate another copy of Mystik Wok and drain all the blood from a Tyrant Dragon, so the party would have some dragon blood to enjoy. That made a lot of the dhampirs open their eyes as wide as they can.
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<span style="font-weight:400">I still don’t fully understand why I can’t drain the blood from my monsters, but Lua and Ria can. It just … doesn’t make any sense. It has to be something to do with them being dhampirs, but … I just don’t like it. They are my cards. Why can’t I do everything with them? I should be able to. If only I could turn into a dhampir. I’ll seriously have to ask Lua if she can turn me into one.
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<span style="font-weight:400">As the sun began to set, we capped off the party. We did still need to get either to HomeBase, or Burch city to spend the night, so this was as long as we could stay. We also had Fabio to worry about, though he did seem to have a sleeping ce in this vige.
<span style="font-weight:400">The party had been a decent bit of fun, and while I hadn’t summoned my new Vampire XYZ monsters, all of the others had had their turn to join in on the festivities.
<span style="font-weight:400">As we were saying our goodbyes, Lua reminded the vige that she’d being back tomorrow to begin everyone''s training into True Blood Magic and reminded them to not party for too long. And because the time was quitete already, I decided we could travel back to the city in a B.E.S. monster, so Lua summoned her Crystal Core and we rode back to the city in it,nding just far enough that we wouldn’t be spotted as we got off and got into my carriage.
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<span style="font-weight:400">After dropping off Fabio, we headed back to the inn where we regrouped with Alice and her party.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I think that is all.” Alice said, as she capped off her tale of the day.
<span style="font-weight:400">She, along with Agunan, Wilma, Einar and Eline, had taken on a quest sent to the adventurer’s guild by nken Trading Company. Then while delivering the quest items to thepany, she tried to fish for information about the illegal ve marks and Wilma, but ended up with only minimal info, as she didn’t get to meet with anyone who actually knew anything. She then used her unique-racial skill to wipe any strange memories from the mind of the person she had talked to, before returning here.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... so it isn’t widely known at least.” I recapped.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Appears so. I can’t actually mind control anyone yet, so he may have just not answered.” Alice reminded me. “But I don’t think he knows about it, as his face turned a bit pale when he heard about the illegal mark.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“That might mean he knows about the mark.” I pointed out.
<span style="font-weight:400">“It won’t change anything anyway. He was just a small-time worker. Not anyone in any real position of power.” Alice said. “I’ll try to do a few other quests for the store, maybe even some of the more difficult ones. That might get me a meeting with the store''s owner or at least someone with more authority.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yeah. That might work. I’ll alsoe with you tomorrow, if you don’t mind.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Of course. Let’s hunt something big.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“We might have to wait for another fissure for that.” I joked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We can find an A-rank without one. And if it is just us fighting, without any of your summons, I think an A-rank will be a good challenge.” Alice told me.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... that might be just a bit much.”
<span style="font-weight:400">Honestly speaking, I was a bit worried. I know I took on a B-rank lightning tiger, but that was me juiced up on Red-Eyes ck Dragon Sword and Summoner’s Unity, so trying to fight an A-rank monster without either would be extremely difficult. Maybe if I at least used Millenium Shield. That way, I’d at least get the Summoner’s Unity boost.
<span style="font-weight:400">Well, I guess we will look into it tomorrow.