CH.322 Testing out the local Summoning Magic
HoBase didn’t need anything super important from us, depending on how you look at things. Just manual maintenance. Well, calling it maintenance isn’t even correct. More like just tasks that I haven’t been able to fully automate yet, like the swapping of the cards in the avatar dolls. The dolls themselves, even when a monster is using it, can recharge their mana just fine. So as long as the monster using the avatar doll is willing to take a two hour break each day, there won’t be any mana problems.
Of course other than the avatar doll problem, with all Card Summoners on the ground, no one is up on HoBase leveling up Wilma. She has been leveling up smoothly and was level 49 currently. Her skill level ups have been to her crafting related skills, Crafting, Blacksmithing and Enchanting. The reason I’m bringing attention to this is because she could potentially evolve now. Next ti I, or perhaps even soone else, level her up, she will get to 51. And that might cause her to evolve. But depending on how things go, I might have to leave leveling Wilma up to Ria, or soone else. Ria just is the ‘go to’ when I assign this kind of work, as she is my maid. Also, giving her more reasons to use my cards might help her level up Card Summoner. Lua got a level to it after summoning Vampire monsters for nearly a month on a daily basis while she was teaching the villagers. Well, really thinking about it, she would have done it twice now. So maybe all of that experience just was finally enough for her to get the level.
Compare that to Alice who used her monsters to fight high power opponents. Well, she actually got her Card Summoner to level 3 all the way back after the behemoth incident, so it could also have sothing to do with her being fused with Mana, but I’m not sure. So maybe level 3 Card Summoner can be reached either by one big case of using my cards, or a long ti of using them for daily tasks. I would say I’ll look into that, but realistically, I won’t. There just is no point, as I can’t cheat Card Summoner onto people. Maybe if I could, I would look for the level up conditions. If the skill even has any.
Well, level 2 did seem to have so. It does seem like you have to special summon a monster by a card effect for that at least, as Alex, Alice and Lua all got LV.2 Card Summoner after that. Though at the sa ti, Ria didn’t. But that might have been because she hadn’t had Card Summoner for that long at that ti. And she did get her level 2 quite soon after special summoning monsters, so it did seem to help her.
Well, my ranting about Card Summoner aside, I have so important work to do. Mainly, automate the freaking avatar doll card exchanger. Just in case I can’t get to HoBase for a day or two. There is no reason for to be doing it manually, so let’s finally automate it.
When I began thinking outside of my initial idea, the solution to this problem was actually quite simple. That is sothing I probably should thank Mariina for, as the discussion I had with her about satellites and navigation really helped open my eyes to just how set in my ways I can be. I think everything has to be done like it was done on Earth, as that is how I assu I should do it here, but I don’t.
So how do you automate things? You don’t. You just make soone else take care of it. And I’m not low on workers, as the avatar dolls are the workers.
So let tell you how I actually did this. First problem was taking cards out of my Collection without having to do that. For that, I actually went a bit of a roundabout way. Instead of figuring out a way to get the cards out of Collection, I figured out a way to get stuff out of Storage. Laura and Tahlia can easily move my cards from the Collection to Storage, and making a magic chest that linked with a specific folder of Storage wasn’t that challenging.
I just made a small box, actually it was an unlinked letter exchange box as I had one handy. Then I installed Pharaoh's Treasure to it, so I could turn that box into a magic bag. Well, a magic box in this case, but sa difference. After that, I just installed Exchange to the box, linking it with my Storage.
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… I may have also installed Dark Mimic LV1 just to act as protection. Not that LV1 Dark Mimic can do too much, but it can bite soone’s hand if they try to get stuff from that box without my permission.
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“.. what is that?” After the black stone appeared in my hand, Eline asked about it.
“A stone that holds a lot of mana. You can use it to get your mana back after you fill up the circle.”
“Is there… such a rock?”
“Yeah. But you will see. If you would, please fill the circle with mana. I want to see if it works.” In all honesty, I just wanted soone who for sure can use the local summoning magic to try the circle before I try it.
“Then… I’ll do it now.” Eline said, as she kneeled on the grass and put both of her hands on the outer edge line of the magic circle.
It took her a while to fill up the magic circle, and as she did, she beca noticeably drained. She likely did use most of her mana pool on it. Maybe I should have made the circle just 5 ters. But then there would have been basically no chance for an A-rank monster to appear.
After the circle was full of mana, it began to glow brightly and Eline quickly stepped away from it. As she did, she backed straight into , so I took a gentle hold of her and placed the Pitch-Black Power Stone into her hand.
“Pour just a bit of mana into the stone, so you can get the mana out of it.” I told the girl, and she seed to do as I asked, as her expression got noticeably better.
We watched as the circle glowed, until the light disappeared and in the middle of the circle stood a large lion. From head to butt, the lion was about 6 ters long, and it stood at just over 2 ters tall. That is its back height. If you consider the head, it was a bit taller.
(A mountain lion.) Laura identified the beast. (It is a B-rank earth attributed, cat-type beast.)
Wow. What a simple na. Mountain lion. Isn’t that like an actual animal on earth? Or was that just another na for a cougar? And do male cougars have a mane like lions do? Because this one clearly does.
Roar!
The tiger let out a roar, before it added so low-pitched grunts almost like it was speaking to us.
(Laura, would you be so kind.)
(It wants to see Eline use Earth magic. Then it will agree to a contract.) Laura translated for .
Now that I knew as much, I told that to Eline.
“... but I can’t use any magic, other than summoning magic.” Eline said.
“Ah. Okay. Don’t worry. We can figure sothing out.” I said, as I pulled up my Collection.
Eline can use a card, as long as it isn’t in a sleeve, right? I must have a Spell-card that causes sothing that looks like earth magic. Just a sha the lion didn’t ask for fire or wind, as those would be a lot easier. Even lightning would be easier than earth.
I found two cards that should be good shows of earth magic, but I’m not so sure if they are good for this situation. We might just end up killing this lion. Well, if we do, I’ll get it back with Monster Reborn. At least I think I’ll be able to summon it back if it dies.
And this card is still better than having Eline activate Mountain or Wasteland on HoBase.
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“Eline. I want you to hold this card.” I told the girl, as I traded the Power Stone in her hand for a card. “Its na is Fissure. I want you to say it.” I told her as soon as the card was no longer in my hand. I didn’t want to be the one to activate it.
“... fissure?” Eline said, and the card activated.
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As soon as she had said so, the ground below the mountain lion’s feet split open, and the lion fell into the open fissure. And then, just as quickly as it had opened, the fissure closed and crushed the lion trapped within.
“B-Brian… we killed it. Before the contract.” Eline said in a slight panic. As she was panicking slightly, she probably didn’t even notice that the card in her hand was disappearing.
“Don’t worry. I got this covered.” I said, as I held the next card. “Monster Reborn, bring back that mountain lion.”
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After I activated the card, the mountain lion that was just crushed by slabs of earth reappeared in the magic circle. It seed frankly terrified by what just happened.
{Raw… raw…} It muttered that it surrendered and accepted the contract.
“Okay Eline. Go and make a contract.” I told my little catgirl.
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