CH.482 SC: Unika’s S-rank tame
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<strong>[Unika POV, naturally]</strong>
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hey Brian. There is a call for A-rank adventurers in a remote location. Can we clear the quest?” I asked Brian after I spotted a call for higher ranking adventurers on the guildmunicator.
<span style="font-weight:400">Nowadays, I often follow the emergency calls on the guildmunicator, and pick quests that are good. Most of the time, they are B or A-rank. And while we, Einar, Eline and myself, are allowed to take B-rank quests, as we are B-rank, we aren’t actually allowed to take on A-rank quests without Brian, Alice, Lua, Ria or Agunan.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sorry Unika, but I’m busy with enchanting stuff. I’m just starting to get the hang of this, so I can’te with you this time.” Brian answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">I looked at the piles of broken dragon scales, as well as the other equipment Brian had destroyed in his quest for dragon scale armor, and sighed. I think any normal person would have given up and just asked the Supreme Dragon to do it for him, but I suppose Brian isn’t normal.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. I’ll ask one of the others.” I told him, before I went and talked to the others.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Lua was naturally busy, she always is these days. Between learning Holy Magic and teaching the dhampirs, she doesn’t have the time unless it is an emergency.
<span style="font-weight:400">Ria was also gone, acting as a bodyguard for Lawrence, as the merchant had some expensive items with him on his outing.
<span style="font-weight:400">And sadly Agunan won’t listen to me, unless Brianmands him to. I do somewhat understand why, he is a dragon, and Brian does go on about how might makes right in the dragon culture. I am nothingpared to the fire dragon, so he won’t do as I ask.
<span style="font-weight:400">So that just leaves Alice, but lucky for us, she does generally agree to go with us. She doesn’t want us to feel like we can’t go out, so if we need an escort, she usually agrees.
<span style="font-weight:400">Usually. This time is slightly different.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Sorry, but I’m a bit busy with something, so you can only have half of me.” She answered.
<span style="font-weight:400">She then brought something out of Storage, which I still don’t really get why Alice can use Brian’s skill, as they never really exined it. It looked simr to the avatar dolls Brian’s monsters use, but this one looked like an almost perfect replica of Alice herself.
<span style="font-weight:400">She then ced her palms on the palms of the doll, and after a bit, the doll opened its eyes.
<span style="font-weight:400">The doll’s eyes were bright green, and as I looked back at Alice, I realized that her heterochromic eyes were now both bright blue, when usually only one of them was blue, while the other was a green simr to the eyes the doll now has.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I’lle with you.” The doll spoke up, and it honestly spooked me a bit. I had heard Alice was practicing cing a part of her soul into a doll like this, but this was the first time I saw it.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... alright, Alice.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Please call me Mana.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... okay, Mana?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Quick question. Did Brian really never tell you about us?” The Alice, who was noting with us, asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... I don’t think so?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oh? Okay. Mana, you can exin it all on the way.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Already knew I could. I’m you.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes, you are.”
<span style="font-weight:400">I was more than a bit confused by their conversation, but hopefully it will all be exined.
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<span style="font-weight:400">I heard it all on the way to our quest, and the story was quite interesting. Naturally I had heard of the behemoth fight, and how Alice almost single handedly took down the great beast, but I hadn’t heard of this ‘fusion’.
<span style="font-weight:400">I know of quite a few of Brian’s cards, as I did help with his tournament, but I didn’t know he could fuse a monster with a person. I just thought he could fuse monsters together.
<span style="font-weight:400">But what annoyed me the most was that both Einar and Eline seemed to know all of this. I just … why do they get to know and I don’t? Does everyone else know? Or is it just people Brian picked up early on?
<span style="font-weight:400">What made me even more jealous of the cat-folk kids was when they told me about the coolest thing that has happened in their lives. The time Brian lifted HomeBase off the ground.
<span style="font-weight:400">I never knew that HomeBase was an actual dungeon that had been buried into the ground like every other dungeon. I assumed it had always been a floating dungeon and Brian justmandeered it for his own use.
<span style="font-weight:400">But apparently it wasn’t, and both Einar and Eline were there when it lifted off the ground. I really wish I could have been there.
<span style="font-weight:400">… I wonder if Brian could recreate the event in the Factory? Would he do that for me if I asked?
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<span style="font-weight:400">We got the information on what is happening from the local adventurers’ guild. In short, there had been an increasing number of monstersing towards the town, and some of them were already injured.
<span style="font-weight:400">This led the guild to conclude that a powerful monster had moved to the area, so they sent a C-rank party to investigate, but sadly the party never returned, so they called for higher ranking adventurers.
<span style="font-weight:400">So our job was twofold. One, we should kill any monsters that areing towards the town, and two, we need to find and eliminate whatever monster is causing the issue.
<span style="font-weight:400">Part one was going to be simple, so I decided to leave it to Einar and Eline. After we got a bit away from the town, I sent the two of them down from my B.E.S. Big Core MK-3.
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<span style="font-weight:400">The two of them got on their tigers and began to run in the direction we expected to find our monster in, while clearing away the monsters.
<span style="font-weight:400">And after Lumi and Sparky had their fun, the tamer and summoner pair could have their other summoned/tamed monsters have their fun, and after those woulde the monsters they can summon with cards.
<span style="font-weight:400">They will be fine.
<span style="font-weight:400">So while they took care of the easy work, I searched for whatever could be causing this, but no matter how much I searched, I didn’t find anyrge or powerful monsters.
<span style="font-weight:400">Maybe it already left the area? But that doesn’t check out. There is a clearck of monsters in this area, so there should be something.
<span style="font-weight:400">That was when I got a call from Eline with a tool Brian called a ‘radio’. It was a short rangemunicator that could transmit sound. But I think Brian is crazy, because what he considers ‘short range’ is actually quite far.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Unika HELP! We found something and it is beating our Sphinxes.” She called for help.
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<span style="font-weight:400">That isn’t good. Einar and Eline’s Sphinxes are powerful monsters Brian gave them, so if this, whatever it is, is beating them, it must be very powerful.
<span style="font-weight:400">Luckily I knew where the two were, since my ship''s radar showed their location, so I quickly guided the ship there.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then beamed myself and Mana down to the ground.
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<span style="font-weight:400">I watched as the tworge Sphinxes were being hit by something flying, something that moved extremely fast, to the point where I could just barely follow it. And my eyesight is quite good because I am an archer.
<span style="font-weight:400">But what I did pick up was that it is furred and it has wings. And while its hits didn’t seem to damage the Sphinxes too much, the fact that it could damage them at all was a bit rming.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Do you know what we are dealing with?!” I asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“No! I think it is a winged beast of some kind, but it is so fast, and I think it uses illusions or something!” Einar answered, while he was tending to Lumi.
<span style="font-weight:400">The blizzard tiger was injured, so it likely took a hard hit from the unknown monster. I didn’t see Sparky anywhere either, so maybe he sacrificed himself for his summoner.
<span style="font-weight:400">I need information. What is this monster and how strong is it?
<span style="font-weight:400">“Bring forth your multiple tails and appear by my side, Silon!” I chanted to summon my A-rank monster.
<span style="font-weight:400">I don’t summon Silon all that often, because she takes a lot of mana to summon, but I needed her for this.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Silon! Can you slow that monster down, and maybe break the illusion it is using?” I asked the fox.
<span style="font-weight:400">{Yes, dear. I’ll do it quickly.} My summon answered.<sup ss="modern-footnotes-footnote " data-mfn="1"></sup><span ss="modern-footnotes-footnote__note" data-mfn="1">Unika can understand beasts and can talk to them, because she does have Language Comprehension (beast)
<span style="font-weight:400">It wasn’t quite as fast as Silon expected, but eventually, I got a good look at the monster attacking us. It looked like a winged fox, but winged foxes are C-rank. Also, this monster is small. It is much smaller than even Fer and Rum. But it is strong.
<span style="font-weight:400">I then began to recall stories about powerful monsters, ones I remember my father telling me, as well as ones that I heard on the beginner adventurer’s courses in the capital.
<span style="font-weight:400">In one of my father’s stories, he told me about an S-rank monster that looked like a winged fox, but was much smaller. But to make up for its small size, the monster had very powerful magic of both Wind and Light attributes. And because the monster loved the Sun, it would push away any rain clouds from the area and cause a drought.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... what was it called?” I tried to recall, but I couldn’t. But it shouldn’t matter. I know its attributes, so I should be able to deal with it.
<span style="font-weight:400">Activating my duel disk, I set Wynn the Wind Charmer on it face down. I then waited a bit, while my hidden monster repositioned herself, before I flipped her face up just as the winged fox was charging in.
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<span style="font-weight:400">Wynn quickly brought the monster under her control, and I got the first really good look at it.
<span style="font-weight:400">It really was a small winged fox, standing no more than 30 cm tall, with a body length, excluding the tail, of about 50 cm. Tinypared to even D-rank monsters. Usually only E and F-rank monsters are that small.
<span style="font-weight:400">Therge feathery wings did somewhat make up for that small size, but to me, they made the fox look even more adorable.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Alright. Let’s kill it.” Eline said.
<span style="font-weight:400">“NO!” I quickly called out.
<span style="font-weight:400">“But that is our job.” Einar pointed out.
<span style="font-weight:400">“No. Well, yes, but no. We just need to get rid of it. So we can take it with us. I’m taming it.” I told them.
<span style="font-weight:400">The beast was currently under Wynn’s control, and it didn’t seem to resist, instead it almost looked like the fox wanted to y with Wynn. Maybe it is bored?
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hello, little fox. Would you talk to me for a bit?”
<span style="font-weight:400">{Foxydy! y with me!} The little pup eximed.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Yes, I can y with you. But we can’t y here.”
<span style="font-weight:400">{Why not!? I want to y!}
<span style="font-weight:400">“The humans close by are scared, because you are scaring the monsters in this area.”
<span style="font-weight:400">{Humans are boring to y with. I ran at them and they went to sleep and didn’t wake up. Don’t want to y with them.}
<span style="font-weight:400">… oh right. I almost forgot that this beast killed a C-rank party. We should try to find their bodies, if they are still in the forest.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Don’t worry. If you agree to be tamed, I can take you to this great ce where there are loads of fun people to y with.” I promised the fox.
<span style="font-weight:400">{Tame? What is that? Can I eat it? Can I y with it?}
<span style="font-weight:400">“Just put give me your paw, and you will be tamed.” I told the fox.
<span style="font-weight:400">Now usually it wouldn’t be that simple, but if the monster agreed to it, then yes, just a simple contact could do it.
<span style="font-weight:400">The fox didn’t even hesitate, just rushed me and jumped into my arms. It wasn’t quite what I wanted, as I nearly fell over and likely would have, had Mana not used Telekinesis to support my body.
<span style="font-weight:400">This little fox is way more powerful than I ever assumed.
<span style="font-weight:400">I felt the taming go through, and with that, there was only one thing left to do. Name this guy.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I think I’ll call you Nio.”
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<span style="font-weight:400">With the fox tamed, I asked Nio to bring me to where he yed with the adventurers, and we did find their bodies. They were quite damaged, but we could heal that damage if necessary. We do all carry Gift Cards so we can heal each other. Sadly they had been dead for too long, so we couldn''t resurrect them with Monster Reborn. At least their faces hadn’t been eaten by monsters, so we could return the bodies to their families.
<span style="font-weight:400">We then came up with an excuse monster that we could use in ce of Nio and luckily Mana had ess to Brian’s Storage, so we could use one of the HomeBase monsters.
<span style="font-weight:400">We decided to use a rainbow-horned rabbit, as it is a powerful monster. Their ssification is somewhat questionable, as they are B-rank monsters, but that is only because of their very low defenses. Rainbow-horned rabbits have very high offensive power, so just one can easily kill a party that isn’t prepared to face one.
<span style="font-weight:400">And admittedly, the impacts Nio left on the adventurers look like they could have been caused by a hornless rainbow-horned rabbit. And rainbow-horned rabbits are known to be extremely aggressive if they lose their horn, so we decided to me all of this on one of them.
<span style="font-weight:400">The vigers were thankful that we took care of the issue, and were even more thankful that we brought back the remains, so after we got paid, we headed back to HomeBase.
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<span style="font-weight:400">{y with me!} I watched as Nio rushed towards Brian.
<span style="font-weight:400">Brian barely flinched as he caught the flying fox and after a bit of looking at it, he spoke up.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Where on Earth did you find a Bibi?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“It was the monster causing issues.” I answered. “And bibi? Is that Nio’s race?”
<span style="font-weight:400">“Nio, huh? Almost Neo. A good name for a speedball.” Brian said. “And yes. Laura identified it as a bibi, an S-rank monster. How did you do with it?”
<span style="font-weight:400">I then told him how our adventure went, and told him that if Nio was doing more than ying around, we may have had some actual issues.
<span style="font-weight:400">“... alright. I’ll give you all some cards that can bind up super fast monsters.” Brian said.
<span style="font-weight:400">He then made sure to reset cards onto Einar and Eline, as some of their set trap cards had activated.
<span style="font-weight:400">{y with me!} Then came from Nio, as he took off from Brian’s stomach, and flew towards me.
<span style="font-weight:400">Only for a handful of Dark Chains to block his path.
<span style="font-weight:400">I looked at Brian and saw him smirking.
<span style="font-weight:400">“So the little bibi wants to y.” Brian said, as a handful of golden swords appeared around him. “You will make for a great practice target.”
<span style="font-weight:400">“... don’t hurt him too much.” I told Brian, but I let the two ‘y’ for a bit.
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