With the camp hidden from view thanks to Teacher's spell, I was able to take a small bath in a large tub with the water from the waterfall. Once I was finished, I sat down next to Bugbear, watching Onmyoji setting up a second barrier of her own.
She took out four talismans from her sleeve, walked over to each corner of the camp before placing one on each side, creating a square around us and used a hand sign to activate them. All four talismans glowed a gold/yellow color and a barrier formed around us before it disappeared.
"Ooh~, so pretty," Bugbear gasped in amazement and turned to her. "What does it do?"
"It's a barrier that shocks anyone that tries to enter without my permission," Onmyoji replied bending down to Bugbear's level and bopped her on the nose. "So don't touch the papers, ok?"
After receiving a nod Onmyoji stood back up, pulled out another three talismans from her sleeve and threw them as it transformed into three Oni-like creatures with yellow and red markings all over their body. They were 10 feet tall with bulging muscular bodies that could make the Hulk green with envy and waited for Onmyoji's orders in silence.
"Oooh~." Bugbear gasped, with stars in her eyes and before anyone could stop her, she ran up to them. "Hey, hey pick me up and put me on your shoulder," She yelled excitedly, but turned to look at Onmyoji with tears in her eyes when they didn't follow her command.
Onmyoji, herself, sighed lightly in defeat remembering someone else doing the exact same thing, and decided to indulge her, lest she would bug her for hours on end, no pun intended. She learned her lesson the last time and waved her hand allowing the middle Oni to pick Bugbear up much to her delight.
"Now, with a cute little girl like me on top of your shoulder, you'll never lose," Bugbear smugly stated with her eyes closed as she nodded to her own statement.
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We all shared a confused look at each other, even the Oni's scratched their heads looking confused. It was at that moment we all decided to ignore that little bit of information.
"Onwards, my stead!"
The giant Oni spared a look to Onmyoji, who gave him a pitying look and nodded before he walked off with Bugbear jumping on his shoulder as if that would make him walk faster.
I swear I could hear a deep sigh of relief coming from the Oni as he and his comrades walked towards the sleeping women before transforming into stone statues much to Bugbear's disappointment.
"With the protections in place, we just need to forage for food and make shelter for the night. I'll handle the shelter," Teacher said, waving her wand and creating three basic wooden tents from a few trees after cutting them down.
Teacher gave me the left over wood and I made a fire with it, but it was a lot harder and took longer than it looked on tv. It would've been easier if someone else did it, but I needed to know how to make one if we're ever separated, or that's the excuse I was given when I ask Teacher for help.
"I'll handle the gathering," Onmyoji replied, pulling out a few more talismans, making me wonder how much does she actually have hidden away in her sleeve. She threw it a few feet away and after a few popping sounds with small amount of smoke, 6 small white humanoid creatures about 5 feet tall appeared with black squares on their faces.
"Go out and gather some berries if you can find them, any small animals or any deers. Make sure to stay hidden and cover your tracks," Onmyoji ordered them, and they soon left. She then sat down with her legs under her in a seiza as she reached her hand into a glowing circle before pulling out a stack of papers, ink, and a brush from her storage space.
With Onmyoji busy creating more talismans, and Bugbear poking the fire with a stick, I decided to see what Teacher is doing.
She was looking through the gathered items checking out and fixing those that she could. Some of the weapons were all either useable but needed a good sharpening or broken, chipped, dull, or rusted and the same goes for armor or what's left of them. I ignored the dried red spots on said armors, looking for any symbols or markings that could give me a clue to where we are, and then to the coins themselves when I found nothing recognizable. The coins all were either gold, silver, or bronze with markings that meant nothing to me and some expensive jewelry that Teacher took the gems out of.
I started counting the coins and pretty soon had 53 bronze coins, 32 silver coins, and 8 gold coins in separate piles. If the value is similar to the distant past and games, then we're very rich and could survive a lifetime or two with this. I paused as a thought popped into my head, wondering if I could put the coins in my inventory and took a single bronze coin to test it.
It didn't work, the coin simply passed through the window like it wasn't even there, which I expected. I'll ask Teacher or Onmyoji later when they're not busy.
Turning my attention to my status screen, a smile appeared on my face before it was wiped away remembering how I leveled up.
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Name - Alexander
Level – 19 (9%)
Class - The Summoner
HP - 8,500 {Regen 9.5 per min}
MP - 1,700 {Regen 9.5 per minute}
[X3 Premium Summon Tickets, 1 Ultimate Summon Ticket]
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Seeing that I have more than enough mana, I decided to try summoning a few times and then giving the rest of mana to my Valkyries. As for the summoning tickets, I'm just going to use 1 premium ticket. Feeding my mana into the crest, I watched as the summoning circle glowed and felt it connecting with something instead of someone, much to my slight disappointment.
[–100 MP]
[400 Rare Metals]
Trying it again, I managed to actually summon someone this time and I'm very happy with the result.
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Slime
[EXP boost for Fusion] A mysterious tribe that gives valuable EXP to people they meet.
Element Type: Special
Rarity: Normal
Level: 1/30
Attack: 1400/1400
Defense: 2400/2400
Soldiers : 100/1200
Skill: Level Upper
Activations: Always On
[Autoskill] Battle EXP +10%
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Kneeling before me was a naked green slime girl with a darker shade of green for hair, green eyes and had her hand out towards me.
"...Experience, want to give it a try?" She asked with a smile, crawling closer towards me.
Tilting my head to the side, I watched as she wrapped her arms and legs around me in a hug, rubbing her cheek against mine as I placed my hands on her waist. She felt wet, warm, soft and a little squishy, but I was still dry. It was an odd feeling.
"...You... smell nice," she muttered softly, before blinking in shock as she was quickly picked up into the air and was left there hanging, like a naughty puppy.
"Slime, what are you doing?" Teacher asked, standing behind her, causing Slime to look back at her.
"...Give experience."
"He doesn't gain experience like that," Teacher said, sighing a little as her shoulders slumped. She set Slime down who tilted her head looking back at me.
"...You don't... receive experience?" Slime asked, looking at me more closely and then she gave me a pitying look as she started poking me.
"I do, but not from sacrificing you or the other Valkyries. I get it through battle and killing," I told her, taking her hand in mine, giving her a smile.
Her eyes lit up in joy and a smile grew on her face as she sat up. "...My skill... can give you experience."
"Yes, that's why I want you," I told her, and yelped falling back as Slime suddenly hugged me in joy.
After calming Slime down, she moved behind me, leaning forward as her arms perched themselves on my shoulders, her breasts presses against the back of my head, curiously watching me do my summoning.
Feeding the crest my mana, I got another 200 Rare Medals. Trying it two more times got me a Dark stone (M) and a Light stone (S). Glaring down at my tattoo, I deciding to take a small break, before I use up all of my mana and keep summoning until I got another Valkyrie. I turned my focus to the store, wondering what I can buy with the Rare Medals.
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[ARCANA STORE]
[You have: 700 Rare Metals]
• Arcana Forced ATK [+50 ATK] (Cost 180 RM)
• Arcana Strong DEF [+50 DEF] (Cost 180 RM)
• Arcana Forced ATK+ [+500 ATK] (Cost 500 RM)
• Arcana Strong DEF+ [+500 DEF] (Cost 500 RM)
• Arcana Fierce ATK [+3,000 ATK] (Cost 1,000 RM)
• Arcana Divine Protection [+3,000 DEF] (Cost 1,000 RM)
• Arcana Soldier small: Raises the maximum number of soldiers by +150. (Cost 500 RM)
• Arcana Soldier medium: Raises the maximum number of soldiers by +500. (Cost 1,000 RM)
•Arcana Soldier large: Raises the maximum number of soldiers by +1,000. (Cost 2,500 RM)
• Arcana Skill Cost: +1 Raise a card's custom skill cost by 1. (Cost 1,250 RM) [Can only be placed on a card 7 times]
• Arcana's blessing: Can be used with upgrade. You will receive great success for certain. (Cost 50 RM)
• Arcana turnover: Can be used with evolution fusion. The possibility of evolution accidents occurring will increase by 20%. (Cost 50 RM)
• Arcana strong T.O.: Can be used with evolution fusion. The possibility of evolution accidents occurring will increase by 40%. (Cost 200 RM)
• Arcana Full T.O.: Can be used with evolution fusion. The possibility of evolution accidents occurring will increase by 100%. (Cost 500 RM)
• Arcana stability: Can be used with evolution fusion. Will prevent the occurrence of evolution accidents. (Cost 50 RM)
• Arcana training: Can be used with upgrade. Experience points gained will double. (Cost 80 RM)
• Arcana succession: Used with evolution fusion. Increases a card's stats after evolution by 5%. (Cost 100 RM)
• Arcana awakening +5%: For use in awakening. Raises awakening success rate by 5%. (Cost 100 RM)
• Arcana awakening +10%: For use in awakening. Raises awakening success rate by 10%. (Cost 150 RM)
• Arcana awakening +15%: For use in awakening. Raises awakening success rate by 15%. (Cost 200 RM)
• Arcana awakening +20%: For use in awakening. Raises awakening success rate by 20%. (Cost 250 RM)
• Arcana awakening +25%: For use in awakening. Raises awakening success rate by 25%. (Cost 300 RM)
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I started drooling at all the Arcana's, especially the [Arcana Soldier] and [Skill Cost] since I don't remember them from the game. Though it's a bummer that there's a limit to the [Skill Cost Arcana], but I understand since some Valkyries skills were broken as fuck.
I couldn't help but be excited at the low cost of the Arcana Training and Succession. I blinked at the question marks at bottom of the page and pressed it.
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ATK/DEF/Soldier Stat bonus (per card):
Evolution bonus +5%
Max level bonus +5%
Arcana succession +5%
[Material card #1 x stat bonus] + [Material Card #2 x stat bonus] + [Arcana Succession 5%] + Base stats of the next stage
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So if my math is right, Teacher will be stronger than her normal counterpart if I max out her level and stats, then use the Arcana Succession for each evolution until she reaches High Normal, the final evolution. Same for any other cards in my deck.
I decided to buy three Arcana Succession, and three Arcana Training, for now since I don't have that much Rare Medals on me.
[700- 540 = 160 Rare Medals]
A pack of cards suddenly appeared on my lap just as I purchased the Arcanas and I closed the window. I picked them up and put them in my pocket for later use.
Pulling out the Premium Summon Ticket, I held it and started the process again, feeling my mana being transferred into the ticket. Once it absorbed enough mana, I felt someone Strong latching themselves to it and was pulled. The ticket flew out of my hand, landing on the summoning circle on the ground and a blinding flash of light erupted, more powerful than any of the previous summonings.
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Calamity
A miasma that leaves ruin in its wake seeps from runes carved upon this demon queen.
Element Type: Dark
Rarity: UR (Ultra Rare)
Level: 1/70
Attack: 6,550
Defense: 6,450
Soldiers : 100 / 6550
Skill: Ruinous Miasma
Activations: Infinite
Effect: All Dark allies' ATK 350% up
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When it was over, I blinked at the information I received and was surprised at the fact that I actually summoned a UR Valkyrie on my first try. Turning my attention back to the person I summoned, I was surprised by how cute she looked.
Calamity is a young woman with milky white skin with long silver hair that has two black hair clips on each side of her head, a thick black necklace and piercing red eyes. She's wearing a black dress like armor that looks similar to a China dress, but leaves most of her chest and arms exposed, with black thigh highs and black shoes. On both of her arms are weird symbols running from her shoulder down to the back of her palm.
"Doom awaits all who meet me, for I am Calamity," she said calmly as a pinkish red miasma started escaping her form, destroying the grass she was standing on. It didn't spread far from her, showing she has some control over her miasma.
"Hi Calamity, I'm Alex. It's nice to meet you," I said, smiling and waving at her, ignoring the way Slime's grip on my shoulders tightened.
She blinked at my nonchalant tone, staring at me intently before nodding and turning her gaze to the other Valkyries. Onmyoji, Slime, Bugbear and Teacher were alarmed and tense, watching her.
No one spoke and it was starting to get a little uncomfortable. The tense silence was soon broken thanks to the timely arrival of Onmyoji's shinigamis that returned with a large deer and some berries. My stomach growled at the sight.