CH.221 Dancing with Alice and Lua
“Brian, will you take us flying again?” Kody asked after we landed. I had gotten both him and Anika to stop calling Mr. Summoner, and call by my na instead.
“Yes. I can 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 grow a pair. You should ask Ria about it. She has a skill that can be used for that.” I inford Anika.
“Really? Where is she? I’ll go find her.” Anika said and rushed off.
“Wait for !” Cody called out and ran after her.
… those two make for a good couple. Well, they will when they grow up. Childhood friends don’t usually win, but let’s hope they can do it. I’m sure they can.
“What is with that grin?” Lua asked. I didn’t even notice she had approached.
“Nothing. I’m just glad I was able to make them happy with sothing so simple.”
“I don’t think anyone but you would call letting them ride a dragon simple.”
“It’s my blessing and curse. But what are you going to do? Dragons are amazing.”
“... they are quite … majestic.” Lua admitted. “But they can also be scary.”
“... yeah. I guess I can see that.” I agreed. “But those two things kind of co hand in hand. Dragons are majestic because of their strength, size and their ability to fly. But that also makes them scary.”
“... yes.”
Since this conversation was over, I changed 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 so sort of evening party and dancing will be a part of that, so at least Alice and I need to be able to dance.” I told her. “Also, while I won’t force you, I’d like it if you ca as my partner for the party. And I want to dance with 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 burn the entire city to the ground for insulting you.”
“You shouldn’t joke about sothing like that, since you can actually do it.”
“... yeah. Sorry. But still, if you are denied, then I won’t go either. That much I can promise.”
“... what if I say no?” Lua asked.
“Then I will accept your position and go alone.” No, I won’t mind control her to force her to go. Or use sothing like Change of Heart on her.
Change of Heart, huh. What a card. The ability to change soone’s opinion on sothing, no matter how strongly they feel about it. Sure it might not be direct mind control, but honestly, it might be even better.
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A reasonably tall shirtless male appeared, holding a guitar.
“Master, what may I play for you?” He asked.
“We’ll need so dance music. As in, ball dancing. I’m sure you can play that as well, right?”
“Hmp. Naturally. Even if it isn’t my usual style.” Musician King answered, seemingly annoyed that 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 beco a male monster?”
“... don’t ask. I really don’t know. It just works like that sotis.”
Now then, one more monster to summon. “I summon Spirit of the Harp.”
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With our music present, it was ti for our dance practice to begin.
I danced first with Alice. Just to show Lua the basic steps and everything. Then I switched to dancing with Lua and summoned Kagemusha of the Blue Fla to dance with Alice.
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I haven’t summoned Kage in a long ti. Mainly, because he really isn’t that strong. But he is useful. As the body double of the Ruler of the Blue Fla, he is quite skilled in multiple things. Dancing is one of them. Sure he is no dance instructor, but he can still dance. Probably better than I can.
Alice got a bit annoyed that I pushed her to the side, so I had to compromise a bit. Every other dance I would have with Lua, and the other with Alice, alternating between the two girls.
Alice, stop trying to make a harem man. I really don’t know if I could do it.
… I guess this is as good of a ti as ever to speak about that. Polygamy is absolutely legal in this country. As long as you have the money to support your family, you can have as many wives as you want. Or husbands. Reverse harems are sothing so ladies like to have.
“Lua, I think you should switch to your dress. It should be closer to what you will wear if you co to the party.” I said, as I started my second dance with her. Yes, technically 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 soone’s lead. So as long as she had a confident leader, she could dance with them fine. I think. But I can 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 sothing like Alice’s shade is, but just sothing to prevent you from seeing what is behind it. A few seconds later the darkness disappeared and Lua was standing there in her black and 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 50, right? You didn’t evolve so you might have gained a new skill or one of your skills might have leveled up. Did you notice anything this morning?”
“... I woke up a bit late, so I didn’t check it before breakfast… and I forgot to do it later, because I was excited that I’ll get to fly a dragon today…” Alice answered.
“Then why not go ahead and check it now, before the next song.” I said.
After a bit, Alice inford 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 an extra skill called Mana Flight.” Alice said.
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Na: Alice Watchman
Race: Human
Level: 50
HP: 630
Mana: 2080
Strength: 265
Defense: 355
Magic: 1615
Skills:
Card Summoner LV.2 (extra)
Magician’s Power LV.5 (extra)
Multicasting LV.3 (extra)
Mana Flight LV1 (extra)
Dark Magic LV.7
Mana Control LV.8
Magic Boost LV.5
Quick Cast LV.5
Fast Mana Recovery LV.5
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“... wow.” Is all I could say. A flight skill. I wonder, is it the sa kind of flight that Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl use? It probably is, right? Considering 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 can fly?” Lua asked.
“... I think so. The skill says I can fly by propelling mana from my body.” Alice inford 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 we can practice so other stuff.” I know I have to practice swordsmanship, or my monsters will be disappointed with . And space magic as well, but Cosmo Queen doesn’t really push the sa as my swordsn, and won, do.
After another few dances, I decided to call our lesson good. Kagemusha was surprisingly good at dancing 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 next practice session, I quickly went and checked on the duo making my forge. But they were still building it up and claying it, so I just left them to it.
“Now then. I’m going to practice with my sword for a bit.” I inford the girls. “What about you? Alice, you can summon Mana, or I can summon one of the even stronger spellcasters to help with practicing your new skill if you want. And Lua, will you practice magic? Or maybe try out your mace?”
“Let’s all practice with close range weapons!” Alice called out.
“... you don’t even have one.” I pointed out.
“Lend 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 dungeon two days ago ended up in my storage. But only if the person that challenged the room didn’t want to keep it. Because of that, I had a few swords, axes, knives and shields in my storage.
“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 one?” Alice asked.
“Maybe. After the forge is ready. Make one that doubles as a staff for casting spells, like Dark Paladin has.”
“Dark Paladin? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that monster.” Alice comnted.
“I guess I was with Lua when I summoned him.” Yeah. It was when we were getting blood for the villagers before our first visit. “Here, take a look.” I said, after I got the card out of the collection and showed it to Alice.
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Dark Paladin’s weapon is more or less a . So might call it a , but the blade of his weapon is so thick that it really is closer to a fauchard. But at the sa ti, there really isn’t a real world equivalent to so of these fantasy weapons, because the fantasy versions are just way too large and unwieldy.
“Yes. Just like that. Could you make one? I’ll pay for it.” Alice asked.
“Yeah. I think I can. It can be the first thing I make with the forge.” I told her. “... I just don’t know how expensive it will be. I guess that will depend on what materials it is made from. I’ll also have to ask soone like Dark Sage for the staff structure… make sure the blade won’t interrupt the flow of magic…”
“I get it! It will be difficult. But you can do it, can’t you?” Alice asked.
“... who do you think you are talking to?” I asked. “Of course I can 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?”
“Forget it. It isn’t a skill you can gain, so it doesn’t matter.”
“... fine. Then I’ll just get a skill of my own. My own unique skill!” Alice declared.
… did she realize Lua’s clothes changing skill is a unique skill? Well, whatever. Alice hasn’t told anyone that Lua has the system support, so I think she can 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 .) Laura specified. (You gained it when you eliminated the dungeon and the system gave to you to keep an eye on that skill.)
(... alright. So the system is a stalker. I guess that does explain so 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 dungeon to 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 commodity on the market. Everyone would want one, no matter the price.
“But back to practice. Alice, if you really want a weapon like that, this might be the best for you to practice with.” I said, as I got a bronze pole out from my storage. It is the one I got back when we went through the challenge rooms with Diamond Sword.
“... it's just a tal pole.” Alice complained a bit.
“I can have Kotetsu hamr one end of it into a blade. Or attach a short sword to it. That should suffice, right?” I offered. “And it is just a practice weapon.” I added.
“... I guess it is fine then. Thanks, Brian.”
I looked back to Lua and she had changed into her adventuring dress and was holding her mace. I also got out my sword and searched the collection for the monsters I would use for our instructors today.
Practice never ends.
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