In the m, I woke up like I usually do. To the sounds of Ria ging clothes. Sure it might be a questionable arm clock, but it works, so what are you going to do?

  The differehis time was that Lua had also woken up, so instead of just me, we both went to the factory together. Lua may or may not have ‘stolen’ my hand and pced it against her cheek before we did though. Not that I mind.

  “... so, why did you e here?” Lua asked.

  “Why not? I try to do it every m and evening. It’s just a habit.” I answered. “But I do actually have something today. I o do a few tests. Actually, we should start looking at your dress as well. You now know what my suit looks like, so if you want, we try to e up with something that will match.”

  “Yes. Let’s.” Lua agreed.

  “But I do actually have some stuff I o try.” I said t us, well mostly myself, ba trabsp;

  “Alright. What is it?”

  “Just some test. I’ll show you.” I said, as I began to make a est area, like the one I made st time.

  As I was setting up the test area, Tahlia ‘teleported’ o us. Yeah, I say ‘teleported’ as it teically isn’t teleportation, just destroying your avatar, and making a new one somewhere else. She was in her dark blue dress, in case you were w. I guess she still refuses to wear her pink onesie when she is in the ‘public’ areas of the factory.

  “Father, Lua, good m.” Tahlia greeted us.

  “Good m Tia.” Lua said to her. “It’s good to see you. It has been a few days…”

  As the girls made smalltalk, I kept w. After I made the armor stands, I made factory copies of Ria’s new and upgraded armor. By the way, it currently looks like this.

  Armored Crimson Boa Jacket - Blood Iroal Is [Defense +200][Fire Resistance - 50% damage reduced][Lightened - 40% weight reduced][Physical Attack Resistance - 10% damage reduced][Toughness - 20% durability increase][Blood Repair][Vampire Armor][Durability 2400/2400] Description: A leather jacket made from Crimson Boa hide. Because of the hide used, it is naturally fire resistant. It has thin blood iron ptes ied all over, to make it more defehe blood iron likes to drink blood, and by feeding it blood, the armor will self repair. The armor favors those that drink blood, and will defend them more than others. It has been ented to make it lighter, to increase its resistao physical attacks and to improve its durability.I don’t know how, but apparently my monsters were able to make it quite a bit better. It is basically better in every way, pared to the bronze version, even with the Lunatite install. Sure the Lunatite variant had the magic resistance, but this one has physical attack resistance. And yeah, 10% might not be that much, but it is still nice.

  But back to what I was doing. I made three copies of Ria’s jacket, and lihem up o each other. I lear time that one success could be a fluke, so I think three tests will be the minimum for me. And I feel like Laura would ugh at me if she heard that, saying something like “Three? It takes at least a huo make sure.”

  “Brian, is that..?” Lua asked.

  “It’s Ria’s armor.” I answered. “Well, a copy of it, actually.”

  “... I see. What will you do with it?”

  “Just a sec. I’ll get the cards out.” I said as I dug my colle for three copies of Metallizing Parasite - Lunatite. Then I gave one for Lua to read. “Here. Take a look.”

  Spoiler

  [colpse]After a few seds of reading, Lua spoke up. “So… it’s a parasite that is resistant against spells?”

  “Basically yes.” I firmed.

  “But doesn’t it … equip directly onto a person? What do you he armor for?”

  “It does, but if I use it that way, it is treated as a mohat means it only stay out for two hours, and will take up a slot on my duel disk, or you will have to hold it in your hand in other cases.” I expined. “But by installing it into an armor like this, it will be a perma part of it. It does e with a small downside of draining the wearer's HP, but that is a small price to pay for the defense increase, and the magic resistahe armets.”

  “... I suppose. But that just depends on how much HP it takes.”

  “Well, st time I checked, it was 1 HP every sed. But mine, with the mithril ptes, instead of bronze, only took 1 HP every 5 seds, so I think this will be less. But we will find out soon.”

  “... I see. That could be bad for a normal adventurer, but we should be fine, I think. As long as we are careful not to wear it for too long.” Lua said.

  “Yeah. It would be a lot worse, if you only had like 500 HP or something. Also, the HP drai actually affect me, as my Health scious skill es that damage.”

  “Oh, I didn’t know there was a skill like that.” Lua ented. “How did you eve?”

  “I installed one of my cards into myself.”

  “... of course you did. Why do I ask? But you’ve had that skill for a while, right? Before you had the armor, I mean. Why did you get it?”

  “Some of my cards require an HP cost to activate them, or as an upkeep cost. So Laura suggested I install a card that prevent those HP costs.”

  “Alright. I guess that is a good reason to do it.” Lua admitted. “Will you install that same card into Ria?”

  “I might. I’ll just ask her ter. And I just leave the armor without the parasite. It is quite good even without it.”

  I got back to work, and installed one of the Lunatites into one of the copies of Ria’s armor.

  Like st time, it ged a bit. But it was also different. Last time, it looked like someone poured a bucket of clear coat over the armor and it then hardened. But this time, it looked more like a bucket of blood oured over it, and it then turned into this soft crimson coating over the jacket. You could still see the base color alright, but it was clearly now covered in some red stuff.

  “... so, what did that do?” Lua asked.

  “Just a sec. I’ll analyze it.”

  “Father, please let me.” Tahlia interrupted and did the analysis herself. After it was pleted, she showed us the results.

  Armored Crimson Boa Jacket - Parasitic Blood Iroal Is [Defense +370][Magic Resistance - 81% damage reduced][Fire Resistance - 50% damage reduced][Lightened - 40% weight reduced][Physical Attack Resistance - 10% damage reduced][Toughness - 20% durability increase][Blood Repair][Vampire Armor][Durability 2640/2640] Parasitic - When worn, the wearer will lose 1 HP every three seds.This effect be ed, by feeding the armor blood Description: A leather jacket made from Crimson Boa hide. Because of the hide used, it is naturally fire resistant. It has thin blood iron ptes ied all over, to make it more defehe blood iron likes to drink blood, and by feeding it blood, the armor will self repair. The armor favors those that drink blood, and will defend them more than others. It has been ented to make it lighter, to increase its resistao physical attacks and to improve its durability. A metal parasite was ter added to it, making it a parasite armor. While the parasite does offer unparalleled resistao magic, it will also drain away the wearers HP. But because the metal parasite has a body of blood iron, it take blood instead of HP.“... wow. That is … amazing.” Lua muttered. “Isn’t this like … a national treasure or something?”

  “No clue. Maybe. But at the same time, I think not. I feel like national treasure level armor should be better.” I said. “But this could be the family treasure of some noble family, most likely.” That was just my opinion, of course. I’ve never seeher a family treasure, nor a national treasure css item. Well, I guess that S-rank core was a family treasure, but that doesn’t t, as it isn’t equipment.

  I have to say, I’m super happy with the results. I didn’t think the blood iron would do that much, but apparently I’m wrong. Especially the blood repair and the ability to prevent the HP drain by using blood sound amazing. Not to mention the part where it is better for blood drinkers. I guess blood iron really is amazing for vampires and dhampirs.

  “Brian, whie is better, that or my dress?” Lua asked.

  “... I’m not actually sure. I’ve never analyzed your stuff, as we just remake it with our skills if it gets destroyed. Wao analyze it?” I asked.

  “Yes. Please.” Lua agreed.

  She sed her dress from the be to her red ohen I pced my hands on her shoulders and analyzed her clothes.

  Errorot Be AnalyzedPermission of individual Lucia required for the analysis… really? Well, I guess her stuff does have that prote, so I guess this makes sense.

  “Lua, do you also see that?”

  “The system window asking for permission? Yes, I do.”

  “No, I meant the error, but apparently you have one of your own. you give me permission?”

  “Yes.” She said, and the analysis tinued.

  By the end of it, I had an alright idea on Lua’s equipment.

  Vampire DressDurability 900/900A red dress made from blood cloth. Protects the wearer from sunlight.

  Armored Leather CorsetDefense +100Durability 1200/1200Other attributes ot be analyzed

  Navy Leather PantsDefense +70Durability 1100/1100Pants made from an unknowher. They have a deep blue color.

  Knee high Leather BootsDefense +50Durability 1000/1000Boots made from an unknowher. They seem to always stay , and are pletely roof.

  Vampire Dragon MantleDefense +90Durability 1400/1400A mantle made from the wing membrane of a vampire dragon. It has a deep crimson color. It has an edge made of vampiric steel. Protects the wearer from sunlight.

  “Tahlia, did we ever make that automatialysis tool? The oo analyze the equipment of my monsters?” I asked.

  “Yes. Mother and I did make that.”

  “Have there been other times wheuff that was analyzed has had things like that?”

  “Plenty. Mother usually bmes herself, saying she doesn’t have adequate system access.”

  “... wow. I didn’t know she felt like that. … I’m sorry, Laura.” I said to no one, hoping that Laura was inside me, instead of somewhere in the factory.

  (It isn’t your fault.) She responded.

  (It isn’t yours either. So no self bme, alright.)

  (... I’ll try not to.)

  (Don’t try, just don’t do it.)

  “... so my armor is worse than Ria’s…” Lua’s muttering brought me back to reality.

  “Yeah. I guess it is.” I admitted. “But part of that is because Ria’s has Lunatite installed. Without it, hers was worse than yours.”

  “Oh? Alright… I have one of those Lunatites?” Lua asked.

  “Sure. We test that out.”

  We spent a lot more time pying around with the idea of where I should install the Lunatite into Lua’s equipment, but all of them ended up failing, as her equipment just didn’t have enough metal for Lunatite to take p. But that experiment did teach me something. Lunatite takes a better hold in stuff with more metal. A full pte mail is the best, and then from there, the effectiveness es down. It also prefers rger, thicker pieetal, like the ones my armor has. That is why the magic resistance is higher in my armor, pared to Ria’s. And in stuff with little to al, Lunatite ot take hold. The install will either just fail, or it will end up breaking the armor if I force it. That ended up happening when I tried it with a copy of Lua's Vampire Dragon Mantle.

  After that was the thing I was both dreading, and looking forward to. Rewarding my monsters. Some were easy, others not so much.

  Firstly, the two most important monsters. Iron Bcksmith Kotetsu and Hinotama Soul. That duo really work the new fe super well, and without them, making this stuff might have been impossible.

  Kotetsu got himself an install of Mystical Moon, while Hinotama Soul earned an install of Burning Spear.

  Spoiler[colpse]It is too bad that I don’t have any Pyro specific equip cards, so I had to go with the meneric Burning Spear. I also really wao give Kotetsu a hammer, but I just don’t have one. Maybe I give him some of the materials from my ste, so he use them to make himself a hammer.

  Anyway, up were the vampires. Because we worked with blood iron, they were necessary. This of course meant that multiple of my vampires gained Violet Crystals.

  Spoiler

  [colpse]And because Lua was here, we tested out if Violet Crystal could be installed into a dhampir. It worked, but it was far from perfect. It is designed for ‘zombie’ or ‘undead’ type monsters, while dhampirs are perfectly alive. Sure they have some uendencies, but they are more like half-undead. Or probably quarter undead. So while it could be doher, meneric cards made for better installs.

  was a group of monsters I wasn’t so sure about. I know the invitation en for all of my monsters, but for some reason, I didn’t expect these guys to do anything.

  Archfiends Darkbishop, Infernalqueen and Terr. Those three were responsible for the Physical Attack Resistantment on Ria’s armor, so by the rules, they needed something. … I just … really didn’t expect my Archfiends to do anything, so I was a bit taken back.

  The Darkbishop got himself a Dark Energy, the Infernalqueen got Falling Down and the Terr was now wielding an Axe of Despair.

  Spoiler[colpse]… I really hope I won’t regret this.

  Out of my spellcasters, Dark Sage was the ohat put in the most work, so he was the oing a reward. He already has a Book of Secret Arts, so instead I gave him Diffusion Wave-Motion. I don’t know how good that will be for him, but I hope it will suffibsp;

  Spoiler[colpse]Then was the time for the ‘care squad’. Aka. the mohat took care of Ria. Cure Mermaid, Dang Fairy, Spirit of the Breeze and White Magi Pikeru. They all got the same reward, an install of Soul of the Pure. This further increased their healing abilities, making them eveer for ime.

  Spoiler [colpse]“... maybe that could be installed into me…” I heard Lua mutter, as I was installing the cards.

  “Sure.” I told her. “But I think we should wait until after the birthday party, a Mia and Laura run experiments with it first.”

  As for the water mohat worked with them, they all got either Steel Shell, or Power of Kaishin depending oype and preference. And type. ’t give Power of Kaishin to anything that isn’t aqua-type afterall.

  Spoiler[colpse]Last, but not least, was Tyrant Dragon. His blood was used for the blood iron, and because of that, he had to die a few times when the blood was gathered. Sure, Laura did resurrect him with Monster Reborime, but dying ot be fun. As a price for that, he got a Dragon Treasure, as well as the right to piy of the Mountain peaks iower room for himself. And if aried to cim that he has nht, I would set them straight.

  Spoiler[colpse]I do feel a bit bad. Not because of what I did, I think that is perfectly fine, but because Tyrant Dragon ended up taking the rgest mountain top in the room from Blue-Eyes. And I would never sacrifice a Blue-Eyes for its blood, so Blue-Eyes really didn’t have a choice. I’d like to just give Blue-Eyes its own Dragon Treasure ahe two fight it out for trol of the mountain top. But that would be btant favoritism, and that holy might do more bad than good. I already show massive favoritism to mohat I summon to outside the factory, so I’ll try to keep a more objective look here.

  But with all of my monsters rewarded, and the sed test of Lunatite done, we could return to the real world a ready for the day. Sadly, because of how much time both the Lunatite experiments and the rewarding took, we couldn’t look into making a dress. Well, we do still have a day or two, and if we do really run out of time, I think we just use Vampire Fasators dress basically just as it is. Or even the bck dress Lua made by act. I thiher should work.

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