“Brian, it’s time for breakfast.” A soft female voie up.

  To be specific, it was the voiy girlfriend. No, not Laura. She… well, you know what happened. My current one, Lua.

  “... just a … bit more…” I muttered. “...it isn’t time… for the s yet…”

  “That is over already.” Lua said, as she ran her hand ay cheek. “But breakfast is soon. Aren’t you hungry?”

  As she said that, my stomach let out a little growl. My appetite didn’t take nearly as big of a hit as it did with Lua, but I still did as much as I usually do yesterday. And waking up multiple times during the night didn’t help either, so yes, I was hungry.

  So with the multiple things piling on top of each other, I decided to just get up.

  In my room, there were a total of three people. Well four, if I t myself. The usual trio, and one of the manor’s maids. The maid seemed to have some medical experience, as she was doing basic tests on Ria.

  Ria, Ria, Ria. She actually didn’t ge much with the evolution. ra appendages, or anything else crazy. The noticeable ges are her hair, and her muscle structure. Her hair grew out about 10 cm, or so. I don’t know if that is something that always happens when you evolve, sidering that the same happened with Lua, but it could be. Now as for her muscles, they had grown to be somewhat more noticeable. Ria was never a thin girl, she had a good body structure, but it got signifitly more refined after the evolution. It would likely be the first thing you look at after you see her.

  As for her status, well.

  SpoilerName: RhiannaRace: Dhampir BrawlerLevel: 80HP: 2625Mana: 237th: 1680Defense: 1247Magic: 1105 Skills:True Blood Magic LV.5 (Racial)Vampiriodification LV.3 (Racial) Card Summoner LV.2 (extra) Fire Magic LV.4Mana trol LV.5Fast Mana Recovery LV.4Internal Magic Teique LV.6Unarmed bat Teique LV.6Flickering Step LV.4Power Boost LV.5Defense Boost LV.5 Blood Sucker (Racial)Sve. Master: Brian Wood[colpse]A Dhampir Brawler. These ‘races’ really sound more like csses, than races. Both Brawler and Monarch sound more like a css than a race. Well whatever.

  In terms of her stats, her strength and HP had the biggest ge. Then defense, but mana and magic barely grew at all. Her defense was actually lower than her magic before the evolution, but now it is higher. I guess Brawler, so it fits, but I just find it strange.

  I ehe bathroom and quickly got dressed. I wish ste had an ‘equip’ feature where I could directly s my clothes with it. … Wait, does it? … No, it doesn’t, right? But maybe if I install Tailor of the Fickle, it will get that? I’ll ask Laura and Tahlia about that ter.

  “So, Ria, how are you feeling?” I asked, before leaving for breakfast. The maid had fihe little checkup she was giving to Ria, so I didn’t interrupt it.

  “Good. Well, I am hungry, but I’ll eat soon.” She answered.

  “That’s good to hear.” I said.

  “Brian, we should go.” Lua reminded me.

  “Yes. Try to take it easy and enjoy your breakfast.” I said to Ria, before I turo leave the room.

  “Yes.” She answered. “... and thank you. … for taking care of me.”

  “Of course.” I turned back to answer. “I promised to take care of you, didn’t I?”

  Of course I made sure to tell everyone about the situation during breakfast. This led to us, Ria, Lua and I, being called into the Earl’s office afterwards. For no other reason than he wao know more about my cards. He didn’t ask too much, but he did ask if I could ‘force’ someoo evolve.

  Now the obvious answer is no, as the evolutions are a byproduct of leveling up, but the actual answer is yes. sidering what happened with Jenna, if I use Polymerization to fuse someoh one of my monsters, that will basically let them evolve. It isn’t teically the same, but the race does ge, so it could be called an evolution. But of course based on the oime I tried it, Polymerization does e with that otle problem called flict of i. The person used might want to do ohing, while the monster wants to serve me. At least that is what happe time. You might get around that by having the master of the person used in the fusiohe oo activate the Poly thought. Again, based on what happened with Fusionist and Cherubin when Alid Ria summohem, fusion monsters do seem to have some level of ‘loyalty’ to their first summoner. So if instead of me perf the summon, it would have been Christina, it might have worked out. Well, Christina didn’t have Card Summo the time, so that would have been impossible.

  I did tell the Earl as much, because I trust him. But as I was still trying to keep the entire Polymerization thing a secret, I did request that he not tell anyone else about it. Again, resurre is ohing, but installs for skills, Level Up! faining levels and Polymerization for evolution are all a bit more … questionable. If someone found out about all of that, they might want to abuse me by doing … unkind things to people I hold dear. And that would lead to a whole leap of problems, least of them being the fact that I’d likely burire city to the ground while saving those close to me.

  “... yes. I uand. I shall keep all of this to myself.” The Earl replied. “Might I ask, does anyone else know about any of this?”

  “Only Christina and Brandon. And they don’t know all of it. … Actually, Christina does, but Brandon only knows about Poly and the resurre stuff.” I answered. “Well, if we take others into sideration, Lua, Ria and Aliow it, but I trust them, so that should be fine. And, of course, there are a handful of people that know some part of it, but no one else should know all of it.”

  “... I see. May I ask one more thing?”

  “Sure, go for it.”

  “If a national emergency would e up, say a war, would you help us with that?” The Earl asked.

  “Yeah. But this has nothing to do with that.” I answered. “A war would likely be simple to win. I could likely annihite the entire enemy army with a few dragons. Probably. The real problem is that I don’t eople to think I’m anything more than an OP summoner.”

  “Yes. I uand.” The Earl said. “I’ll try to make that into a reality. But what about your resurre capabilities? Where do you fall with that? Are you willing to use it in a situation where others will see it?”

  “... depends. I already did use it once, so doing it again isn’t that much worse. But it really just depends on who.”

  “I see. I shall keep that in mind.” The Earl said. “You may go now, uhere was something else you wished to discuss.”

  “No. I think we are done for the day.” I said as I got up. “Thank you for your time.”

  We spent the rest of the m practig. Some dand some on skills. We, well I, was taking it easy, just so I could make sure Ria wouldn’t overdo it. There was a clear differeo what she was doing. To the point where even I could see it. She was faster and her punches were sharper. And she didn’t eve a new skill, or anything.

  (Laura, do you know what advantages her new race has?) I asked.

  (Yes. Other than the simple stat buffs, she ow obtain skills reted to close quarters bat easier, as well as the racial skill Brawling.)

  (... okay, that’s a nice boost. What does it do?)

  (It helps in fist fighting, as well as tinuous fights.)

  (... that’s it? I was expeg more.)

  (Well, you ’t get everything.)

  (Speaking of, what about Lua? She evolved, so ’t she get a new racial skill?)

  (Potentially. But what Miss Lucia experienced was a ‘double evolution’. She essentially skipped a mid evolution, a straight into the highest known evolution of her css. That might make it more difficult for her to obtain the new racial skill she has access to.)

  (Oh yeah. Mia did say something about Vampire Monarchs being the highest agic specialized dhampir. So there would be something lower css as well?)

  (Yes. Maria unlocked some information about it, and there is at least Dhampir Sorcerer. That is the css Miss Lucia skipped.)

  (... sorcerer. Jenna was a sorcerer when she was fused, right? And she had a racial skill, didn’t she? So could Lua get that skill?)

  (That is possible.) Laura answered. (However, I have no real information on that skill. Maria might have, so I shall ask her.)

  (Yes. I did gain basiformation about it.) I heard Mia say. Was she listening in again? (However, as my Mistress skipped that step, she o longer obtain that skill. She however does have access to its evolved form, Monaragic.)

  (... wow. That sounds… strong.)

  Monaragic, huh. I feel like the only step above that would be ‘God of Magic’ or something like that. Or would Master of Magic be higher than Monaragic?

  (I believe so as well.) Mia firmed. (However, it doesn’t seem to be easy to obtain, and the system does not give any solid information on how to obtain it. All I know is that Mistress must get better with magic.)

  Better? She already use two attributes, and the racial blood magic. True Blood Magic, at that. And both her TBM and water magic are level 8. Well, part of that is because she use Level Up! on them, so maybe the answer is just practice, practice, practice. Level Up! might not be all powerful in the end.

  Well, I kind of khat already. It does cause that ‘disect’ feeliween your skill level and your actual skills if you don’t practice daily. But thankfully, we are able to practice daily, so we don’t have to worry about that too much. As long as we spread out the level ups to multiple different skills, none of them will reach the level where they overwhelm us.

  Iernoon, Lua and I headed out to do some shopping. As well as a test fitting for my suit. That was actually the more important part. Apparently, because of all the orders the tailot from the members of the Earl’s family, they were quite busy, so they struggled a bit to make mine on time. And because of that, the test fit ushed back to just a few days before the party.

  The ‘suit’ fit just fine, and I was happy with it, so they would be finishing it in the wo to three days.

  Lua also looked around that store, and she ended up buying some nightwear from them. She did get one given to her as a guest of the Earl’s manor, same as I and Ria, but she wanted some of her own. I also picked up two sets of my own PJs, as I was here. And price doesn’t really matter to us.

  Other than that, Lua picked up a few things, like tights, knee high socks, and underwear. Some she said she would use to experiment with, and others were just for use. Well, I wouldn’t mind if she wore some.

  After the clothing store, it was time for us to raid … I mean to purchase a lot of spices. And that led us to a shop specializing in that stuff, reeo us by the mansion’s kit staff. Of course because this was the store they also use, I’ll have to be a bit careful to not buy too much.

  But I still got a det amount of both bd white pepper, high quality rock salt, ginger, garlic, amon and cardamom. The store even had some mustard seeds, but uhe stall keeper I ran into, they didn’t seem to know the recipe for making mustard, as they ree as a way to make foods have more heat. I guess unless properly made, mustard itself is quite strong, so most wouldn’t want to use it. But I got the recipe for it, so I bought some more seeds from here, and shared the recipe with them. I don’t know if they will use it, but if they do, so be it. As long as there are some seeds left for me to buy, I’ll be fine. Or even ready made mustard. I don’t o make it, if I buy it.

  The st ‘spice’ we picked up was sugar. Now sugar didn’t e as the stuff you might think of, but instead, it was this solid pie the form of a e. Or something simir to a e. They called it a sugarloaf. They had ones of different sizes and different qualities, but I just asked for the best quality stuff. The best they had were these small es, about 15 diameter, and 15 cm tall. I picked up two of those and er loaf. The small ones cost over double what the rge one was, even though the e loaf was heavier thawo small ones.

  Of course the price difference was because of the quality. The rge one was low+ quality sugar, with a lot of brown sugar mixed in with the white sugar. Whereas the small loafs were excellent in quality, and were 100% white sugar. Of course after st the stuff in my ste, I used Material Quality Increase on it, and I was able to raise the low+ stuff to intermediate quality, and the excellent stuff became fwless. Fwless seems to be the max quality, and it doesn’t have any + or - addition, like the others do.

  So from the bottom, the qualities of items are poor, low, intermediate, good, excellent, fwless. And any but fwless have a + or - after it, so poor- is the worst you could get.

  After the spice store, we entered a travel goods store. I needed some more stuff. Mainly, a sleeping bag a for Ria, as well as aent. I could probably make a house which I store into ste, but that’s going to be a longer process, so tents shall do for now. I could make at least travel pelts myself, from the sword-horn bull hide, but that might be a bit of a waste.

  Lua also bought a higher ra for herself. Well, I paid for it, but who's ting. She had one made from a D-rank monster hide, but she was now upgrading to k. There were no B or A-rank travel pelts, by the way. You could only get those with a order, and many saw them as a waste of materials. Maybe I really should make ones, just to be a jerk who shows off. … Okay, I’ll save the materials so I make a bed instead. A-rank monsters aren’t on enough where I want to waste the materials from them.

  … How evil would I be if I tried to artificially increase the power of monsters with my cards? Just so I could kill them a better materials? Where does that fall in the alig chart? Chaotic good? I mean, I’m still killing the monster. I’m just p it up first. And as long as I keep the materials for myself, I won't even disrupt the markets or anything.

  The st bits of the day were spent practig magic, like we do. Still no space magic skill for me. I wonder how reliable I have to be with the space wall spell before I get the skill? I was now at about 95% reliability of it activating when I cast it, and the wall would stay for 20 to 30 seds. Sure it would still crumble if you put any actual forto it, but you could softly touch it just fine.

  Lua and I also had a quioble etiquette lesson with one of the maids. It was basically a recap for me, but important for Lua. I also firmed the gift with the maid. That being, the rolls of fabrid the maginy pack. She said, as I had assumed, that it was a good gift, but as a dungeon founder, a on was, not expected, but would be sidered good. So I would just have to make one.

  I’ll do it tomorrow, when I check Ria’s armor. I know my monsters fi, but I want to see if I install Metallizing Parasite - Lunatite to it. I’ll do a quick factory test with a copy first, while I give out the rewards for my monsters. So when I install the Lunatites to both my armor, and Ria's, I'll install Twin Swords of Fshing Light - Tryto that pair of swords I got from the dungeon.

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  [colpse]… I still have nothing for Tahlia or Fantasia though … I really o figure a reward for them. They did a good job with my monsters.

  And in the evening, some skill level ups. I was having Ria sit out, for hopefully obvious reasons. I don’t think it would do any damage, but she sit out one day.

  For myself, I leveled up Unity again. Just because why not. Lua oher hand took her Fast Mana Recovery to LV.10. I guess it won’t hurt.

  SpoilerName: Brian WoodRace: Human !Level: 88HP: 3080Mana: 411th: 995Defense: 1115Magic: 1125 Skills: Pack Opener LV.4 (unique)Different Dimension Factory LV.3 (ue LV.10 (unique) Telekinesis LV.5 (extra)Summoner’s Unity LV.7 (extra)Dungeon Founder (extra)Summon Water Spirit (extra)Health scious (extra) Sword Teique LV.2Mana trol LV.10 Water Spirit’s Blessing (Greater)Language prehension (humanoid)Sve MasterSves: Rhianna

  [colpse]SpoilerName: LuciaRace: Dhampir Monarch !Level: 88HP: 2370Mana: 4355Strength: 839Defense: 1106Magic: 2914 Skills:Dhampir Princess LV.2 (Unique) True Blood Magic LV.8 (Racial) Card Summoner LV.2 (extra)Summon Water Spirit (extra) Water Magic LV.8Light Magic LV.2Mana trol LV.10Magic Boost LV.6Quick Cast LV.6Fast Mana Recovery LV.10Keique LV.2Staff Teique LV.6 Water Spirits Blessing (Greater)Blood Sucker (Racial)Lifesaver

  [colpse]SpoilerName: Alice WatRace: HumanLevel: 58HP: 710Mana: 25th: 305Defense: 395Magic: 1815 Skills:Card Summoner LV.2 (extra)Magi’s Power LV.5 (extra) Multicasting LV.3 (extra)Mana Flight LV.3 (extra) Dark Magic LV.8Mana trol LV.8Magic Boost LV.6Quick Cast LV.6Fast Mana Recovery LV.6[colpse]Tomorrow, well, I have the Lunatite experiment with Ria's blood iron armor. We’ll also be visiting Christina. We have to make the pn on when I’ll go get her. So that is tomorrow's agenda. See you then. Good night.