CH.363 Bad Reaction to Healing
<span style="font-weight:400">A few more days had passed since our visit to the Hero’s country, and thus the day we were going to deal with the next fissure came. Unlikest time, where I went to the location a day early and used Dimensional Fissure, the spell card, to open the fissure before having Exodia repair it, this time, we were going there on the day Sicily told us the fissure would appear. We would then keep watch and see how a fissure appears naturally.
<span style="font-weight:400">The group that was going was just me, Alice and Lua. Agunan was a little disappointed that I didn’t allow him toe, as he wanted to exercise against something that wasn’t my monster, but I just promised him that I’d take him and Ria next time, and he let it be. And let’s be honest here, no one else is ready to take on the fissures yet. They don’t even have Card Summoner. After my meeting with the King, I swear I’ll take them to TinaWood and I’ll try to get them the skill. Well, they will have to actually fight for it.
<span style="font-weight:400">But that is forter. For now, let’s head to where this fissure will appear and look over it. The location was near the Ruiso and Narra kingdoms border, but just on Ruiso kingdom’s side, so we didn’t have to worry about crossing the border. And as I’ve said previously, it was basically in the middle of nowhere, so we didn’t have to worry about the people.
<span style="font-weight:400">As for the battle n we had, well, let’s just say that it is interesting.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“... It’s just a forest.” Alicemented as we opened the canopies of the Victory Viper I rode and the Gradius the girls were in.
<span style="font-weight:400">“That’s good.” I told her. “At least no humanoids live in this area, so we won’t have to warn them.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’ll send out a few Option tokens to make sure.” Lua said, as she pushed a few buttons on Gradius to send out a few smaller surveince drones from the ship.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Make sure they check out for anything resembling a ck or purple lightning bolt. That should be a precursor to a fissure, if the report from Alewatch is correct.” I reminded her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes, I will.”
<span style="font-weight:400">After a bit of scouting, Lua’s drones found the precursor to the fissure, so we could get onto the next step.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alice, help me clear the area.” I requested, as I started the forest clearing off with a card. “Burning Land.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">The spell would start us off right, burning away a decent chunk of the forest around the uing fissure. This way, it would be easier for us to see whatever happens to appear from the fissure. It would also give Lua more space, as the strategy she has needs a Field spell card. Alice’s job in all of this was to use Fire Magic, specifically Control Fire, to make sure the Burning Land didn’t burn too much.
<span style="font-weight:400">After we had a nice big clearing around the sign of the dimensional fissure, I brought out a big nket and set it on the ground that was still warm from the fire.
<span style="font-weight:400">“So, how about a pic while we wait?” I suggested, as I brought out a basket of food. It was made by yours truly with some help from Tinkhec and Lorpar.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“... you know, if we weren’t waiting for a city destroying monster to appear, this would be really romantic.” Alice said, as we ate some of the foods I had prepared.
<span style="font-weight:400">“The slight scent of charred wood and earth doesn’t help, but otherwise, I think I get where you areing from.” Lua agreed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Your nose is too good.” Imented.
<span style="font-weight:400">“One day, I’ll turn you into a dhampir just so you get an idea of just how good.” Lua teased.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Can you actually do that?” Alice asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Not yet, no. But I think with Dhampir Princess I could do it, if it was at a higher level. I can already turn D-rank and below monsters into thralls, and they do take on some dhampriric characteristics. So I don’t think it is too far for the skill to eventually allow me to turn humans into dhampirs.” Lua said. “I mean, look at Brian’s unique skills. If they were the norm for unique skills, mine would seem nearly uselesspared to Pack Opener. Even One of Every Race is super strong and Storage and Factory are super useful.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“For most, Factory would be quite useless. At low ranks, you can’t mentally control it like I can now, so they couldn’t just mass produce legendary metals and other stuff there. And without a System Support, the skill management I do in the Factory would be nearly impossible, as you couldn’t link the skills in that way.” I countered. “But I''m not arguing about Pack Opener, OER or Storage. I think most people would love to have those skills.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... Actually, now that we are talking about it, Lua, why do you never really make thralls?” Alice asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I do sometimes, I just never bring them to HomeBase.” Lua said. “I leave them at the dhampir viges, and givemand of them to the vige leader. But they are still connected to me. That way, if something bad happens, the thrall will send me a distress signal and I’ll know to head over.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I didn’t know that.” Alice admitted.
<span style="font-weight:400">I actually did, even if I’ve never seen them. Lua did tell me of her little emergency measure, just so she could quickly get me toe along if something went wrong at any of the viges. I guess she is alsoing up with her own emergencywork.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I think there is a lot we don’t know about each other.” Lua said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I guess. Maybe we should have a girls night, just catching up.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... what do the two of you do when you take baths together? Don’t you talk then?” I asked, only to get a look that told me that was the wrong question to ask.
<span style="font-weight:400">Come on. It is a legitimate question. I talk with Karl, Einar and Valoa whenever we happen to be in the spa at the same time. Agunan … well, it is a bit difficult to talk with him after he insisted I make ava bath for him. Even with my stats,va still hurts, so nova bathing for me.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“... It’sing. Lua, you should do your prep now.” I told her, as I felt a change in the amount of miasmaing from the developing dimensional fissure.
<span style="font-weight:400">“A-Alright. … I can do this.” Lua hyped herself up a bit, being clearly nervous of taking on her first solo SS-rank.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alice, be ready to bind up the SS if anything goes wrong. Otherwise, you are on watch duty. If anything unexpected happens, step in.” I reminded Alice quietly.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes. I won’t killsteal from Lua.” She said.
<span style="font-weight:400">Where did she learn that term? Fantasia? No. Probably Tahlia or Laura. Yeah. Definitely Tahlia. She has been developing video games in the Factory, so she probably has yed some with Alice.
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<h2><strong>[Lucia POV]</strong></h2>
<span style="font-weight:400">As I was preparing, I kept setting cards into my duel disk. I could only have five set Spell or Trap cards at the time, so that would have to do, but I think those five will get me far with the strategy Brian and I came up with. Even an SS-rank monster should die very quickly, if this goes as nned.
<span style="font-weight:400">Then I summoned the one monster I would use with the strategy to make it run smoother.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Fire Princess.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">Effect: Each time you gain Life Points, inflict 500 damage to your opponent.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Her effect would help me deal extra damage. In theory, it shouldn’t be necessary, but it might help if the SS-rank monster can resist some of the effects we nned on using.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... maybe I should summon one more. No, two more.” I pondered. I know this strategy should work, but what if it doesn’t? Summoning two more monsters will be no issue. Actually, let’s make it three. “I summon Cure Mermaid, Spirit of the Breeze and White Magician Pikeru.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">I quickly exined the strategy to my new monsters, and we were ready to begin.
<span style="font-weight:400">Time to activate the first Spell card.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Vengeful Bog Spirit.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">Brian and I were both unsure if this card would be necessary, but as it should keep the appearing monster from attacking for just a bit, it should buy me enough time to activate the next cards, so we decided that it would be worth it.
<span style="font-weight:400">And just in time too, because soon after the card was activated, the fissure fully cracked open and arge monster appeared from it. It was a huge wolf monster, not inferior in size to the behemoth Alice defeated near Alewatch. Mia quickly identified it as a Fenrir, an SS-rank wolf monster.
<span style="font-weight:400">With just a quick look towards Brian, who was already chanting the summoning chant for Exodia, I got to work.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Paralyzing Potion.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">This was the first part of the n. We don’t have to worry about the monster, if the monster is fully paralyzed. And if the potion doesn’t work, Alice will use Swords of Revealing Light, Shadow Spell and Spellbinding Circle to bind it up.
<span style="font-weight:400">Luckily for us, it seems that thebination of the Bog Spirit and the Paralyzing Potion was enough, as the Fenrir was not moving at all.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. Next card. Life Equalizer.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">Brian told me that when at first he began looking at how this could be done quickly, he really struggled toe up with an answer. That was when he realized that monsters like this should have a ton of HP. And since I only have a bit over 3000 HP, as long as the monster has over 11,000 HP, this card should instantly bring it down to 3000, which is just a bit under my own max, so I won’t take that big of a hit. And since the card activated and took effect, his hypothesis seemed to have been correct.
<span style="font-weight:400">Okay. The Fenrir should be at 3,000 HP. Let’s deal with that next.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Bad Reaction to Simochi.” This was the secret trump card Brian wanted me to use. With it, I could use healing magic to do damage to an opponent. And unlike most magic, healing magic isn’t reduced by my opponent’s defense, so I’ll do what Brian called ‘true damage’ to the opponent. The card will also keep any regeneration of the Fenrir at bay, so it can’t even heal itself.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Next up. “The Paths of Destiny.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">As I activated the card, tworge coins appeared. One above my head and the other above the Fenrir. They began to flip through the air, eventuallynding either heads or tails. Minended on tails, while the Fenrirnded heads, the worst possible oue.
<span style="font-weight:400">The pain the card inflicted on me wasn’t pleasant and caused me to fall to my knees, but I had no choice but to take it. And as soon as it was over, Cure Mermaid, Spirit of the Breeze and White Magician Pikeru got to work healing me. And just like me, because of Bad Reaction to Simochi, the Fenrir also should have just taken 2,000 points of damage, instead of healing for that amount. And with three heals, Fire Princess’ effect should deal 1,500 damage to the wolf killing it.
<span style="font-weight:400">That was the correct calction at least, but it didn’t work, as after the fire subsided, the Fenrir was still very much alive. Though it only seemed to be hanging on by a thread.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Miss. We’ll take it down.” Fire Princess said, preparing to attack.
<span style="font-weight:400">“No!” I quickly said. “I’ll do it.” I then rose up from the ground, looking directly at the Fenrir, as I began to chant. “Light. Bright beam of healing energy. Fly from my hands and heal my target. Healing Light Beam.”
<span style="font-weight:400">It was a spell to be used to heal your teammates from a distance, but because of Bad Reaction to Simochi, it will hurt the Fenrir instead. I looked as the beam of healing light collided with the beast, and after just a second of contact, it seemed to be enough as the light left the eyes of the beast, and it fell to the ground.
<span style="font-weight:400">I was happy that the strategy mostly worked. Sure there might have been just a minor problem with Fire Princess’ effect not ending the wolf, but it was nothing major. Now, let’s just wait for Brian and Exodia to close the fissure.
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<h2><strong>[Brian POV]</strong></h2>
<span style="font-weight:400">I was happy to see that the strategy Lua and I came up with worked like a charm. Life Equalizer really put in a ton of work, and I should keep that in mind for the future. Being able to bring an SS-rank down to just 3,000 HP is a huge advantage, and with most people having around or under 3,000 HP, it really shouldn’t be a threat to the person activating the card.
<span style="font-weight:400">Actually, whening up with this strategy, I came up with another one that was even more effective, but came at a very great cost. It’s called Self-Destruct Button.
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<span style="font-weight:400">If activated, it would instantly kill both the SS-rank monster and the person who activated it, but then I could just use Monster Reborn to resurrect the person that used the card. It was crude, it wasn’t a good idea, but it would work. And from the limited testing I did in the Factory, no SS-rank monster can resist the Self-Destruct Button, except for those that have under 7,000 max HP, and from what Laura knows, there aren’t many of them. Some ghost-type monsters do though, so even Self-Destruct Button isn’t 100% reliable.
<span style="font-weight:400">Of course this Fenrir should have had max HP of around 15,000 or so there was no issue. Now let’s just wait for Exodia to close the fissure and we’ll be done here.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Alice, Lua. Can you two deal with that worm?” I asked the two. Exodia was almost finished with the fissure, but an A-rank monster, an eartheater, aka. a giant worm, had popped out of the fissure just before Exodia finished repairing it.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Lua. Try healing it so that it will flinch. I think I can bring it to the surface if it doesn''t move.<span style="font-weight:400">” Alice quickly came up with a n and ordered Lua.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I can’t. I can’t use healing Healing Light Beam if I don’t see the target.” Lua quickly answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... Then … Brian!” Alice called to me. “Can you borrow a Smashing Ground?”
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Sure.” I agreed, as I got the card out of the Collection. When did Alice learn my cards well enough that she could name a specific card on the fly? Or is it just that one specifically? Maybe she studied up on it for her up anding earth attribute, like how Lua already has Spirit of the Breeze to prepare her for wind attribute. I do know Alice sometimes makes new spells based on my Spell cards, so it might be possible.
<span style="font-weight:400">With the card in hand, I threw it towards Alice while guiding it with Telekinesis, until I felt Alice’s Telekinesis take over and guide the card to her hand. She then quickly said the card’s name to activate it.
<span style="font-weight:400">A giant hand then appeared out of nowhere and struck the ground. It then raised back up, with a worm in its grasp.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Spellbinding Circle.” Alice then activated the next spell to make sure the worm couldn’t run away. It also did confirm that the worm survived the Smashing Ground, as you can’t equip Spellbinding Circle onto an already dead monster.
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<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright Lua. Go ahead and st it with some healing magic.” Alice said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... for some reason that sounds wrong, but sure.” Lua agreed and finished off the worm, as Exodia closed the fissure.
<span style="font-weight:400">And with that, we were done, and I got my System reward for dealing with this problem. I think Alice and Lua also got some rewards, but I didn’t ask, so I’m not sure.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then installed Forest onto the forest ground, just so it would help regrow the woods that we burned down to be our battle arena, and even added Rain of Mercy as a bonus to help the growth.
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<span style="font-weight:400">And for dealing with this fissure, I unlocked a new set, Cyberdark Impact. And about time. It has been forever since I got one.
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