CH.296 The next Dhampir Village
On our way back to Burch city, I stopped by the Sawyer manor. Because it was a surprise visit, it did kind of throw a wrench into their plans, but I was still able to have a nice little chat with Paulina and Angelina.
I, of course, offered Paulina a ‘job’ at my place, but because I couldn’t really go into full details what the job would be about, because I honestly don’t even know what I’d want her to do, she didn’t yet accept the job, even if she was interested. But let’s be honest here. I could hire her just to hang around with no real issue. Well no real money issue that is.
I also ended up giving a fun little item to Paulina. A letter exchange portal. It was just a bit of sothing fun I made based on the exchange thing my and Christina’s dungeon terminals have. It honestly was nothing too complicated. Just a small box, made to look like a music box, which when opened would activate a small portal that can let inanimate objects through to the other side, even if the other side is closed. It did take a bit of orichalcum to make, so it was a bit expensive in terms of cost, and I did have to install Exchange to it, but it was still well worth the cost.
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“... and what about temporarily taking the dhampirs to HoBase to study?” I asked about the second part of our plan.
This was actually sowhat of a bigger reason I wanted HoBase operational as soon as possible. Lua’s mission of teaching dhampirs. She can only teach them one village at a ti, unless we can bring all the dhampirs to one location where we can teach them all. And HoBase is perfect for that, as it has tons of space.
Also it will be a great test for HoBase’s facilities. I know for a fact that they are currently lacking, but I just don’t know what all they are lacking. And dhampirs are a great test drive for that, as they can survive with blood alone, so even if we run out of food or sothing, our guests won’t be starving. We can just make blood with my cards after all.
“We were asked to leave that choice to the people in question.” Ria answered.
“I’m also a bit worried about HoBase’s state. Do you think it can take a village worth of people into it? This village is also a bit bigger than the one we co from, 46 people in total, so that would add to the difficulty.”
“... Yeah. I can see how that would cause a problem. We don’t have that many beds, let alone furnished rooms.” I admitted.
HoBase was still completely bare bones. Or more like empty rooms. Outside of our rooms and the things I made with the True core, which I tried to keep to a minimum so I could spend so of my excess cash to buy stuff and stimulate the economy at the sa ti, the rooms were empty. No beds, no dressers, not even tables or chairs. Basically the rooms only had bathroom stuff and the kitchen appliances.
… so a house you would rent, I suppose. But unlike a renter, I can’t expect a guest to bring in all their own stuff.
“So do we go on a shopping spree sowhere?” I just asked.
“We won’t have it for tomorrow. I’ll just stay in the village for a few weeks, like I did last ti.” Lua said. “I can even travel from HoBase with Gradius, as it only takes about 10 minutes.”
“Commuting in a fantasy world. Ain’t that fun.”
“...fantasy world?” Wilma caught onto the word I said.
“Ignore him.” Ria said, despite knowing the truth. “Brian says strange things.”
“I would argue, but that is true.” I admitted to hide my own slip up. I got too used to hanging out with Alice, Lua, Ria and Agunan, who all know my secret. … actually, did I ever tell Agunan about it? I don’t rember, but I feel like he knows anyway. Well, I’ll talk to him at so point, when we are just hanging out in HoBase or the Factory.
After Alice and her group returned from their adventuring job, we ended up heading to the sa inn where we slept last ti we spent a night in this city. It wasn’t a bad place, it was actually quite nice, so why not?
Sure we could fly to HoBase, but we would need four Gradius for that. Or we could use a B.E.S. monster, but those really shouldn’t fly over the speed of sound, so the trip would take about one and a half hours. I could move HoBase so that it is closer, but I don’t have any sort of invisibility spell around it yet, so commuting is the best idea. Don’t want people seeing a floating island after all.
As for why the invisibility barrier isn’t done yet, well, it kind of is. But also isn’t. An illusion magic barrier that makes HoBase hidden isn’t actually that difficult for my monsters to make, but I wasn’t happy with that. Because it would still ‘show’ HoBase when certain conditions are t. Like if there are a lot of clouds or stuff. The illusion barrier has to be able to adjust to those kinds of things. Rain is also a big factor. If HoBase floats between the rainclouds and the ground below, it could cause so issues. Sure I could keep HoBase higher up in the air, but that might cause issues of its own.
So the best choice was to use a Dinsional magic barrier, which would bend the space around HoBase so that it just … kind of doesn't exist. To those outside of it. The barrier will bend space and dinsions in a way where it will be impossible to spot HoBase from the outside, no matter the weather, ti of day, or any other thing like that. It should also be able to hide the magic signature of HoBase, so that will be a nice addition, not that that has caused any issues yet.
Now as for why it hasn’t been implented yet, well, in all simplicity, it doesn’t exist. But with Cosmo Queen, D.D.M. - Different Dinsion Master, Dark Sage and Dinsional Alchemist working on it, it is only a matter of ti until it is made. Then a quick Factory test, and as long as the spell works, I’ll add it to the Citadel core and make HoBase undetectable.
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After breakfast the next morning, our group split in two. Alice was going to take Agunan, Wilma and the catfolk with her to the adventurer’s guild, while I was going with Lua and Ria to the dhampir village.
Oh. Speaking of the catfolk. They did already have adventurer’s guild cards when we first t, so we didn’t need to get new ones for them or anything. And they have been official mbers of Card Summoner ever since they began traveling with us. Wilma also joined the guild at that ti, and with a quick combat test, Wilma was granted D-rank, but both Einar and Eline were just E-rank. They probably would be D-rank as well, but Eline couldn’t summon her lightning tiger at that ti and Einar didn’t have a tad beast with him, so they only got E-rank.
But that doesn’t really matter. We can get them ranked up a bit later, after we help them level up a bit. Maybe I should ask the two to show their status to , so it will be easier to use Level Up! on them. Sa goes for Wilma actually. Though I don’t want to … force is not the right word. Coerce? No. Pressure then to show their status. And telling them ‘I’ll only use my demi-god abilities to help you if you show your status’ is basically coercion.
Anyway. That is a problem for another day. Today, we have so dhampirs to cure.
We t up with a man, probably just over 40 or so. He was living in a dium-sized house near the western edge of the city. And the ‘man’ wasn’t really even a man. Well, he was male, but not a human, so… I guess he is still a man.
Our contact was actually a stable dhampir. Well, not anymore, as he is now a cured dhampir, but sa difference. Actually, being stable is a definition given by humans, so he is now both cured and stable. He was pulling the job Agatha was doing in Sawyer city. Gathering blood for the dhampir safe village, while bringing back the blood lilies and selling them to alchemists/whatever profession it is that makes potions. I’ll just call them alchemists until soone tells otherwise.
After so quick introductions, we were off. For that, we used my carriage. It was just the simplest thing, and Alice could use her B.E.S. Covered Core for transport.
And speaking of the carriage. Now with the HoBase mana factory running, I installed the mana transfer device inside of the carriage and we could use both the spatial expander as well as the small levitation device installed in the carriage.
This ant that the insides of the insides of the carriage were basically the size of a small house. It had a total of four rooms and everything. The main room, with nice seating and a small attached kitchen, two bedrooms and one lavatory. I wanted to fit a full bathroom into the carriage, but that turned out quite difficult. It isn’t impossible, but I’d need to use even better materials for that.
But problems with my carriage aside, our trip to the village went just fine. I chatted quite a bit with the dhampir, Fabio or Fio for short. I still want to know why dhampirs like to have those three letter nas. It is … strange. Fabio isn’t a long na.
Well, either way. Fio was quite interested in , as Lua had told him a bit about yesterday. Mainly, my ability to summon vampires, as well as my history with the dhampir race.
This of course led to tell him about how I ran into Lua. And more importantly, the mont I made the decision to cure her. After I learned that she took care of when I was passed out after the wyvern incident. No one so caring should be cursed, hereditary, racial or any other kind of curse. Even if the curse really didn’t affect Lua, her being cursed is still unfair in my books, so of course I wanted to cure her.
Arriving at the village, I quickly noticed that it was a bit better than the one near Sawyer city. There a lot of the buildings, other than the town hall, looked like they were built by soone with no idea how to actually make a good building, but here, almost all of the buildings actually looked fine. Fabio explained this by telling us about a smith who used to live here, until he retired a bit over five years ago. He lived here because here he could forge with blood iron, and in return, he helped the village to build good buildings and taught the villagers how to take care of them.
As Fabio headed into the village to call everyone, I stayed in the carriage. While I had analyzed that anti-dhampir necklace Agatha gave that one ti and I was wearing a copy of it at this mont, it wasn’t a surefire thing as I learned. But my carriage had full barriers and they could stop Agunan, so no way so dhampir would get through it.
“I guess it is too bad you can’t turn yourself into a dhampir.” Ria jokingly said. “Then none of us would try to attack you, despite the curse.”
“Yeah. I guess I just haven’t unlocked the dhampir geno yet. I can only be a dragon or a human. And I guess so half-spirit thing.” Sure I had other ‘races’ unlocked in One of Every Race, but they were more like classes than actual races. I would still be a human when I turned into sothing like a Summoner. “Speaking of… I wonder how I’d even do that? I probably can. Would just being bitten by a dhampir work? Does that turn into a dhampir?”
“... you do know I’ve bitten you multiple tis and you didn’t change because of them.” Lua reminded .
“Oh yeah. You have. … then maybe it is so blood magic spell?”
“Not that I know of.” Lua told .
“ neither, but Lua does know magic better than .” Ria added.
“... maybe Lua’s unique skill could do it?” I wondered.
“... I guess that could be the case. It does allow to make those thralls, so maybe at a higher rank I could turn soone into a dhampir.” Lua agreed with my idea.
“Well, I guess we will find out as you get more levels into that skill.”
We talked about nothing in particular for a bit longer, until Fabio had most of the village gathered.
Alright. Enough chit chat. Ti to get to work. We have a village to cure.
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