“Brian, will you take us flying again?” Kody asked after we nded. I had gotten both him and Anika to stop calling me Mr. Summoner, and call me by my name instead.

  “Yes. I do that.”

  “Yes!” Cody yelled out.

  “I wish I had wings like big sis Lua.” Anika said quietly. “I could fly whenever I wanted.”

  “If you train long and hard, you might be able to groair. You should ask Ria about it. She has a skill that be used for that.” I informed Anika.

  “Really? Where is she? I’ll go find her.” Anika said and rushed off.

  “Wait for me!” Cody called out and ran after her.

  … those two make food couple. Well, they will when they grow up. Childhood friends don’t usually win, but let’s hope they do it. I’m sure they .

  “What is with that grin?” Lua asked. I didn’t even notice she had approached.

  “Nothing. I’m just gd I was able to make them happy with something so simple.”

  “I don’t think a you would call letting them ride a dragon simple.”

  “It’s my blessing and curse. But what are you going to dons are amazing.”

  “... they are quite … majestic.” Lua admitted. “But they also be scary.”

  “... yeah. I guess I see that.” I agreed. “But those two things kind of e hand in hand. Dragons are majestic because of their strength, size and their ability to fly. But that also makes them scary.”

  “... yes.”

  Sihis versation was over, I ged the subject. “Lua, I’ll have to hold a little dance practice session for Alice. Would you join us?”

  “Dance? Why?”

  “For the Earl’s birthday party. Apparently, there will be some sort of evening party and dang will be a part of that, so at least Alid I o be able to dance.” I told her. “Also, while I won’t force you, I’d like it if you came as my partner for the party. And I want to dah you at the party.”

  “I … I … Am I even allowed to? Will it be fine?”

  “Of course it will. If it’s not, I’ll burire city to the ground for insulting you.”

  “You shouldn’t joke about something like that, since you actually do it.”

  “... yeah. Sorry. But still, if you are dehen I won’t go either. That much I promise.”

  “... what if I say no?” Lua asked.

  “Then I will accept your position and go alone.” No, I won’t mind trol her to force her to go. Or use something like ge of Heart on her.

  ge of Heart, huh. What a card. The ability to ge someone’s opinion on something, no matter how strongly they feel about it. Sure it might not be direct mind trol, but holy, it might be eveer.

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  [colpse]“... then, if I learn to dance, before the birthday, I’ll e with you.” Lua offered. “Is that fine?”

  “Yes. Of course. I’ll do everything in my power to teach you, alright?”

  “... alright. I’ll train.” Lua agreed. “... but what about my dress? Won’t I need something … more for a noble’s party? And what about my wings?”

  “You should keep your wings out.” I told her. “And what is a dress problem when you literally make new ones with your skill. And I give you the materials with my spell. We’ll just work out how it should look in the factory, find a monster whose clothes to use as the base, and go from there.”

  “... You make it sound so simple. And are you sure my wings won’t cause a problem?”

  “They might. But we will just deal with the problems as they e up, right?”

  “... Why does your brain work like that? You make this sound so simple.”

  “Because it is? No reason for it to be plicated.”

  “Alice, ready for your dance lesson?” I asked.

  “... do we really have to?”

  “It is the lesser of two evils. You say no, but I will tell Elnora. And I don’t think you’ll like what she has to say about it.”

  “... alright.” Alice agreed. “But I don’t have any sort of dress with me. And I don’t think this vilge has a dance floor. So where will we do it?”

  “You don’t hose for practice.” I told her. “You danywhere. And if you really need a dance floor, I make one. Probably.”

  As I said that, I opened my colle and began pulling out cards.

  “First of all, Legendary Fme Lranmarg the Rock Monarch.” I summohe duo for yesterday. No, they won’t actually have anything to do with the dang. They will be pleting the bcksmithing fe. But first, I’ll ask Granmarg for ohing. “Granmarg, you ftten and harden the ground in this area, so we use it as a dance floor?”

  Spoiler[colpse]“Of course, Master.” My golem mohing responded.

  The golem quickly used some magic to do what I asked, and we now had a stone dance floor before us. Let’s just hope it isn’t slippery, as a smooth stone surface be. I don’t think Granmarg would make that kind of a mistake, as I said we will use it for dang, but I might be wrong as well.

  “Thanks Granmarg. I left the fe materials over there, so you do go and try to finish it? Also, if you need anyone else, e ask.”

  “Yes Master. We shall get it done.”

  The two of them walked off to a er of the vilge, which might not even be a part of the vilge. It’s hard to say, because the vilge doesn’t really have an outer wall.

  “Should I ask?” I heard Alice asking Lua.

  “Don’t bother. You know the expnation he will give.” Lua answered her.

  “Now then, for the music.” I said. “I activate Polymerization. I fuse together Lady of Faith and Witch of the Bck Forest. I fusion summon Musi King.”

  Spoiler [colpse]A reasonably tall shirtless male appeared, holding a guitar.

  “Master, what may I py for you?” He asked.

  “We’ll need some dance music. As in, ball dang. I’m sure you py that as well, right?”

  “Hmp. Naturally. Even if it isn’t my usual style.” Musi King answered, seemingly ahat I questioned his skill. I really didn’t. I trusted that he could do it. I more so taunted him so he would do his best.

  “Brian. A quick question.” Alice spoke up.

  “Yeah, what is it?” I asked.

  “How did two female monsters bee a male monster?”

  “... don’t ask. I really don’t know. It just works like that sometimes.”

  Now then, one more moo summon. “I summon Spirit of the Harp.”

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  With our music present, it was time for our dance practice to begin.

  I danced first with Alice. Just to show Lua the basic steps and everything. Then I switched to dang with Lua and summoned Kagemusha of the Blue Fme to dah Alibsp;

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  [colpse]I haven’t summoned Kage in a long time. Mainly, because he really isn’t that strong. But he is useful. As the body double of the Ruler of the Blue Fme, he is quite skilled in multiple things. Dang is one of them. Sure he is no danstructor, but he still dance. Probably better than I .

  Alice got a bit ahat I pushed her to the side, so I had to promise a bit. Every other dance I would have with Lua, and the other with Alice, alternatiweewo girls.

  Alice, st to make me a harem man. I really don’t know if I could do it.

  … I guess this is as good of a time as ever to speak about that. Polygamy is absolutely legal in this try. As long as you have the moo support your family, you have as many wives as you want. Or husbands. Reverse harems are something some dies like to have.

  “Lua, I think you should switch to your dress. It should be closer to what you will wear if you e to the party.” I said, as I started my sed dah her. Yes, teically she is currently wearing a dress, but her other one is much closer to a party dress, while this one is like a travel/adventuring dress.

  She didn’t really struggle, I think partly because she was great at following someone’s lead. So as long as she had a fident leader, she could dah them fine. I think. But I already say that she is better than Alice, because Alice herself tries to take the lead in a dance, instead of following.

  “... if you say so.” Lua agreed. She took two steps back, before a soft darkness engulfed her. It wasn’t aggressive or imposing, like something like Alice’s shade is, but just something to prevent you from seeing what is behind it. A few seds ter the darkness disappeared and Lua was standing there in her bd purple dress.

  “Ho-How did she do that!?” Alice yelled out.

  “A skill she has.” I just answered.

  “And she has wings? When? She didn’t have them previously.”

  “I - I got them when I evolved.” Lua answered.

  “Really? Will I also get wings when I evolve?” Alice asked.

  “No clue. You might, you might not.” I answered. “Speaking of, did anything strange happen to your status? You did reach level 5ht? You didn’t evolve so you might have gained a new skill or one of your skills might have leveled up. Did you notiything this m?”

  “... I woke up a bit te, so I didn’t check it before breakfast… and I fot to do it ter, because I was excited that I’ll get to fly a dragon today…” Aliswered.

  “Then why not go ahead and check it now, before the song.” I said.

  After a bit, Aliformed us of what she saw.

  “... I have a new skill.”

  “Nice. What is it?” I instinctively asked, before quickly adding. “You don’t actually have to tell, if you don’t want.”

  “No. I’ll tell. It’s ara skill called Mana Flight.” Alice said.

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  Name: Alice WatRace: HumanLevel: 50HP: 630Mana: 208th: 265Defense: 355Magic: 1615 Skills:Card Summoner LV.2 (extra)Magi’s Power LV.5 (extra) Multicasting LV.3 (extra)Mana Flight LV1 (extra) Dark Magic LV.7 Mana trol LV.8Magic Boost LV.5Quick Cast LV.5Fast Mana Recovery LV.5[colpse]“... wow.” Is all I could say. A flight skill. I wonder, is it the same kind of flight that Dark Magi and Dark Magi Girl use? It probably is, right? sidering what both Genesis Vampire Lord and Guardian Angel Joan said. And Alice is learning from DMG, so getting her flight skill isn’t that strange.

  “Mana flight? … you fly?” Lua asked.

  “... I think so. The skill says I fly by propelling mana from my body.” Aliformed us. “I’ll try right now!”

  “Miss,” Kagemusha interrupted. “We are still in the middle of a dance lesson, so how about after that?”

  “But…”

  “He is right, you know.” I agreed with Kage. “Let’s dance a few more songs first. Then ractie other stuff.” I know I have to practice swordsmanship, or my monsters will be disappointed with me. And space magic as well, but o Quee really push me the same as my swordsmen, and women, do.

  After another few dances, I decided to call our lesson good. Kagemusha was surprisingly good at dang with Alice, likely because he knew better how to let her lead, so Alice was doing quite well. Sadly, that isn’t the norm, so this might have actually been bad, as whenever I danced with her, we would still both try to lead and that just resulted in bad stuff.

  Before we began our practice session, I quickly went and checked on the duo making my fe. But they were still building it up and g it, so I just left them to it.

  “Now then. I’m going to practice with my sword for a bit.” I informed the girls. “What about you? Alice, you summon Mana, or I summon one of the even stronger spellcasters to help with practig your new skill if you want. And Lua, will you practice magiaybe try out your mace?”

  “Let’s all practice with cle ons!” Alice called out.

  “... you don’t even have one.” I pointed out.

  “Lend me one.” She said. “You took all of the ones we got in the dungeon.”

  That’s true. A lot of the challenge room drops we got in the duwo days ago ended up in my ste. But only if the person that challehe room didn’t want to keep it. Because of that, I had a few swords, axes, knives and shields in my ste.

  “Sure. Do you want a sword or an axe?”

  “... hmm. Do you have a sword with a long handle?” Alice asked.

  “A swordstaff? Not on hand, no.”

  “... could you make me one?” Alice asked.

  “Maybe. After the fe is ready. Make ohat doubles as a staff for casting spells, like Dark Padin has.”

  “Dark Padin? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that monster.” Aliented.

  “I guess I was with Lua when I summoned him.” Yeah. It was when we were getting blood for the vilgers before our first visit. 1 CH.150 “Here, take a look.” I said, after I got the card out of the colle and showed it to Alice.

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  Dark Padin’s on is more or less a fauchard. Some might call it a naginata, but the bde of his on is so thick that it really is closer to a fauchard. But at the same time, there really isn’t a real world equivalent to some of these fantasy ons, because the fantasy versions are just way te and unwieldy.

  “Yes. Just like that. Could you make me one? I’ll pay for it.” Alice asked.

  “Yeah. I think I . It be the first thing I make with the fe.” I told her. “... I just don’t know how expe will be. I guess that will depend on what materials it is made from. I’ll also have to ask someone like Dark Sage for the staff structure… make sure the bde won’t interrupt the flow of magic…”

  “I get it! It will be difficult. But you do it, ’t you?” Alice asked.

  “... who do you think you are talking to?” I asked. “Of course I do it. I think. I just have no idea how difficult it will be. If only you had a skill like Lua it would be so much easier.”

  “Skill? What skill?”

  “Fet it. It isn’t a skill you gain, so it doesn’t matter.”

  “... fihen I’ll just get a skill of my own. My own unique skill!” Alice decred.

  … did she realize Lua’s clothes ging skill is a unique skill? Well, whatever. Alice hasn’t told ahat Lua has the system support, so I think she be trusted with the info of Lua’s unique skill as well. Not that I will give her all of the details.

  “Good luck.” I said to Alice. Other than my card installs, the only way I’ve seen people get unique skills are thanks to their system support. Both my Pack Opener and Lua’s Dhampir Princess are from that.

  (Actually your Pack Opener predates me.) Laura specified. (You gai when you elimihe dungeon and the system gave me to you to keep an eye on that skill.)

  (... alright. So the system is a stalker. I guess that does expin some of your … tendencies.) I responded.

  So it isn’t that I gained Pack Opener because of Laura, but that I gained Laura because of Pack Opener. … I do have a duo eliminate. Maybe having Alice do that would give her a unique skill?

  … probably not. If it was guaranteed, rogue dungeons would be a super hot odity on the market. Everyone would want one, no matter the price.

  “But back to practice. Alice, if you really want a on like that, this might be the best for you to practice with.” I said, as I got a bronze pole out from my ste. It is the one I got back when we went through the challenge rooms with Diamond Sword.

  “... it's just a metal pole.” Alipined a bit.

  “I have Kotetsu hammer one end of it into a bde. Or attach a short sword to it. That should suffice, right?” I offered. “And it is just a practice on.” I added.

  “... I guess it is fihen. Thanks, Brian.”

  I looked back to Lua and she had ged into her adventuring dress and was holding her mace. I also got out my sword and searched the colle for the monsters I would use for our instructors today.

  Practiever ends.

  nro_8

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