CH.280 Luncheon with Baron Bloggs
“Sir, there is a ssenger sent by the Lord waiting for you.” The inn's proprietress inford , as she ca to wake up.
It was now our third day in town, and it was also going to be our last full day here. Today, Mariina would hold that exam thing and she had again asked for Lua’s help with that. I hope she is paying Lua for her part.
I was planning on taking another trip to HoBase, so I could make a few things for Cailie, but apparently, the world has different plans. And as long as I deal with this quickly, I can still make the trip to HoBase.
I’ll need to accelerate the plan to have HoBase lift off from the ground. But my spellcasters, Laura and Tahlia all say we don’t have the mana for that yet. Even with Spell Counters each counting as 1000 mana, floating an entire dungeon will take way too much of it for us to sustain it. I need another card besides Magical Citadel of Endymion making the counters, but I just don’t yet know what it is. Spell Power Grasp is sothing we are experinting with, but even that isn’t enough, because there was a ti limit on how often one could be activated.
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Because of that, Laura has been testing out different combinations of cards, trying to make sothing that can make even more Spell Counters. Safely, so the Tower of Babel is still banned.
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I did consider a loop using Banisher of the Radiance, either Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning or Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End and Primal Seed, but that is just a bit too convoluted and requires the control of at least two monsters, as well as the factor with Banisher of the Radiance banishing all of the cards I activate while he is out.
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It honestly is not a bad loop or anything, but again, because of Banisher of the Radiance banishing every card I’d use, it isn’t quite usable long term. But another great short term option. But I’m sure we can co up with sothing, if just given a bit more ti.
And honestly speaking, because this will be sothing that won’t take place in the factory, but will instead take place in the real world, I have to be able to do this all with installs, so that limits options as well. If I have to be there summoning the monsters, and giving them cards from Pack Opener’s Collection, what is the point? I need sothing else.
… did I get sidetracked? Again? Probably, but who cares?
Oh right. I have a ssenger from the town’s Lord waiting for , so yeah. He might care.
The town’s Lord invited to a luncheon. I was asked to et him so he could personally thank for solving the fishing problem, so why not? I only took Agunan with . He was playing the part of my attendant. I had to leave Alice to take care of Cailie, so I hope they will be fine. I trust Alice, but the two of them cannot communicate, so I just hope it will work out. Lua and Ria went with Mariina to hold that magic exam thing, in case you were wondering.
… speaking with a rmaid… my rmaid monsters, Enchanting rmaid, Cure rmaid and rmaid Knight all speak the language Alice and Lua understand… So can they speak both? If they can, they could act as translators.
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Sure I could also have Laura translate to Alice and Lua, but that won’t work if I’m not there. Well it would, but it would be a convoluted process of Mia or Kekri sending Laura a ssage with what Cailie said, Laura translating it using my Language Comprehension (humanoid) and then answering with the translation. And it wouldn’t allow Alice or Lua to speak rfolk. Maybe I should just ask the Goddess and/or Aulis if Alice and Lua can have Language Comprehension (humanoid). Considering all the favors I’m doing to them, they might agree.
Well, I’ll ask about that later.
“I thank you for your invitation, Lord Bloggs.”
“Yes. Thank you for coming, Sir Wood. You as well, Sir Dragon.” The current Baron Bloggs greeted us as we arrived. “Please, take a seat.”
The current Baron was soone I had t before, as he was with his father at the birthday celebration, so I am at least acquainted with him. Also, him calling ‘Sir’ and calling him ‘Lord’ is just etiquette and all of that. While we are both Barons in rank, I’m an honorary Baron, so permanent nobles do out rank .
“First, allow to offer an apology for what my father did to you. What he said, what he did, the way he acted. I apologize for all of it.”
“Don’t worry. I’m not the type of person to punish soone for the actions of their parents.” I answered, as if I had the bigger power out of the two of us. Well, I kind of do, but I try not to abuse my connections too much. And still, the fact stands. As long as he is reasonable, I have no reason to punish him for what happened with his father.
“Thank you. Also, let thank you for your service to the town. I was already under scrutiny for my … abnormal nomination to take over, so when the town soon ran into trouble, I was under quite a lot of pressure to solve the issue. So thank you for taking care of it.”
“Yeah. That was no trouble, and you really should be thanking Lady Mariina. She is the only reason I even ca into town, and I may have not taken part in the quest had it not been in the way of her work.” I answered almost honestly. Of course there was that entire System Mission thing, but that is a secret.
“Yes. I understand. I shall extend my thanks to her, as well as the rest of your party. It is a sha the others couldn’t co.”
“Well, they are busy helping Lady Mariina, so it cannot be helped.” They definitely didn’t say they wouldn’t co, even if they could. Well, one of them might have. Alice didn’t exactly enjoy the fact that this guy tried to take her for the first dance at the BD party.
“I hope you will be willing to take so of the food to them, just so they can really take in the great fish of this town.” The Baron said, before he gave the sign to the servants to bring in so food.
“Yes. I’m sure they will enjoy it.”
Our spread of als wasn’t too bad, but it wasn’t amazing either. It was… so-so. Good, but not amazing. Though Agunan seed to quite enjoy himself, so at least that is good.
As our luncheon ca to an end, I handed Baron Bloggs a quick gift my monsters had made after the invitation. It was nothing special, just a filet knife. It was made from leftover blood iron with a grip of ever wood, so it basically cost nothing to make. It did look fine, but basic. But at least with the tal's tendency to draw in blood, it would be good for that.
Baron Bloggs thanked for the gift, and apologized that he didn’t have a full apology gift for , but I just accepted his apology before I left. No reason to hold him responsible for his father’s actions.
After our luncheon, I asked for so of the best dishes to be put aside for to take back and the Baron agreed to give us so, as he did lack the apology gift. Then Agunan and I returned to the inn.
“Hi, you two. How did you do?”
“Welco back. How was the lunch?” Alice asked.
“... it was alright, I guess. I think my Dragonmaids make better food, as do the chefs at your ho and your grandpa’s place, so… it wasn’t bad, just not quite what I hoped for. I do have so of it in my Storage, so you can have a taste later.”
“Thanks.”
“So, how was Cailie?” I asked.
“Well, she is napping now, but she was a bit… not so calm. I think she had so… issues because I couldn’t speak with her at first, but then I made a spell to translate the speech, so we managed.”
“Oh? Wow. Nice call.” I honestly forgot that Alice can do that type of stuff with her unique-racial skill. Great call by her on that.
“... But…”
“It takes a lot of mana, right?”
“Not that bad actually, just not sothing I can keep active all the ti. My efficiency did go up a bit because the skill leveled up. I can use that translation spell for about two, two and a half hours with it before I run out.” Oh yeah. I think I forgot to ntion that part. Alice’s reward for the mission to solve the fishing problem was a level up to her Magical Girl skill.
“That’s really not that bad. You have like little over 4000 mana at the mont, right? So that divided by 150 minutes… is like … 30-ish mana per minute?”
“A bit more. You don’t factor in mana recovery speeds.”
“Yeah. I guess that is just a bit much then. But still, I wonder if using it will eventually give you the Language Comprehension title. Because I feel like it might. And getting that title on both you and Lua would be useful. But still, a great spell to have in your arsenal. … does it work with draconic?”
“We could try.” Alice agreed. “... just… alright. Agunan, can you say sothing in draconic?”
I heard Agunan and Alice begin a conversation in draconic, so it seed to work. I have to say, full points to Alice on that one. Great call using her unique skill that way.
I decided to focus on my own things so I pulled out the Dungeon Founder’s item developer and began working on the WDBDD. I still need a better na for it. My current goal is to make a Dinsional Barrier Observer, a DBO. It will just make a baseline on how the barriers are and when I have that, I can use that data to hopefully make the full WDBDD.
Cailie woke up from her nap a bit later, so I spoke with her a bit. I also spoke to her about what she would need for daily life. This resulted in a small list of stuff that I’d need to get her, and I was planning on doing that tomorrow. I could likely buy most of it, but I can also just visit HoBase and get the stuff from there for free, so why not? I also had a few things I should get for my own use.
The biggest thing Cailie really needed was a water bracelet, or similar magic tool. This is sothing rfolk use to keep their skin moist while out of water. Lua, Alice and I had all been doing it with magic, with the help of the water spirits and Alice with her Racial-Unique skill, but a more permanent solution would be better. The device itself was nothing special, just so sort of holder for a low ranking water attributed magic stone, with the spell carved into it, which would spread water across the skin of the wearer. HoBase catalog had well over 100 of them in different designs, so I just opened the skill up and asked Cailie which one she’d like.
Other than that, I was planning on getting her a wheelchair, just so Agunan or I didn’t have to carry her. Cailie was a bit against Agunan carrying her in the first place, so it was mostly doing it. I did play around with making a floating wheelchair, but mana consumption got in the way. I should ask my Spellcasters to min-max these levitation spells better. They just really aren’t that mana efficient. Telekinesis is more mana efficient, than the levitation magic circles that these magic tools use. That might also help with the flying dungeon project.
Last thing Cailie would need is so clothes. Ones that won’t be so susceptible to water. So for that, I again searched the catalog for water-proof clothing and found a long list. From there, it was fill up the ‘shopping cart’ and go pick them up tomorrow for 50% off, compared to getting them delivered right now.
In the early evening, Lua, Ria and Mariina returned from the adventurer’s guild, so we enjoyed dinner together. It was from the dishes I got from Baron Bloggs, as well as a few other local dishes I picked up on my way back to the inn from the Bloggs’ manor.
We also went over tomorrow's schedule, just so we would be on the sa page, before we called it a night and headed to bed.
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