Chapter 257: CH.254 Celebration at Alewatch

After I got our flight clearance from Thomas, the Watchman parents had finished their goodbyes and all of their stuff had been packed into my storage, I summoned B.E.S. Big Core. With the cloaking device on, of course.

Even still, with most of the Sawyer sisters there, at least two of them spotted the light coming from the main engine of Big Core. Those two were Mariina and Violet. Interestingly, as I’ve learned over the past few days, Violet, the sixth daughter, actually has an affinity for light magic. Out of the sisters, she is the only one to have that, so that might have helped her spot the engine. Oh. I guess as we are talking about the sisters, the second sister Sylvia had affinity to water, instead of earth. But that is less strange than Violet, considering that Paulina has both water and earth affinity. And the fifth daughter Cressida does have an affinity for earth magic, but it is on the lower side, so she couldn’t really keep up with her older sister Mariina. And lastly, William, the Earl to be, could also use both water and earth magic like Paulina.

 

But yeah. With the goodbyes said, and all of the servants, guards and coachmen already boarded, I took the nobles up to Big Core so we could be off. Daniel for his part stayed quite calm. Apparently he got information about Big Core from his parents before boarding. And Agunan didn’t seem to care either. Well, he did see a ton of my summons in the factory, so compared to that, this was likely not that strange.

Then, just a short flight later, we were in Alewatch.

 

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We left the maids to unpack, as Lua, Ria, Agunan and I, along with the rest of the Watchman family, headed into town on the carriages I just pulled out of my storage. Lua and Alice were with me, The rest of the Watchman family was in another carriage and Ria and Aguan got the third one for themselves.

 

While in the carriage, we had a quick talk about Alice’s new unique skill and race, using our system link to ‘talk’ so no one could overhear.

For a quick overview, Alice’s race was a magic specialized race, but it was a bit more balanced that Lua’s Dhampir Monarch, which was fully magic based. It boosted the acquisition of magic based skills, as well as movement based skills like Mana Flight, Flicker Step and stuff like that. I guess magical girls aren’t supposed to get hit, or something.

For her unique-racial skill, that is where things get a bit more interesting. First, basically just like Lua, Alice could turn any clothing into a ‘magical girl outfit’. It honestly was so close to Lua’s unique skill that I almost laughed. 

But there were a few differences as well. First, while wearing the outfit, Alice would have a small mana upkeep cost. While she recovered mana faster than the outfit drained, wearing her magical girl outfit would slow her mana recovery. But at the same time, while wearing it, she had heightened HP recovery speed, as well as increased strength and magic stats.

 

Second part of the skill was ‘Realize Weapon’. With it, Alice could make any weapon she wanted out of just mana. … but if it wasn’t constantly supplied with more mana, the weapon would soon break apart, and the weapons she makes cannot be used by anyone but her. The main problem with it was the mana costs. Just making a basic steel sword would take around 500 mana, with an upkeep cost of 30 mana per minute. And that was just a steel sword. Something like a mithril sword would be a lot more expensive, in terms of mana. 

Combining that with the upkeep cost of her magical girl outfit, even with her LV.10 Mana Recovery, Alice couldn’t recover mana faster than the upkeep costs, so she would eventually run out. … and the only ‘weapon skill’ she has is her Staff Technique LV.3.

 

The last, and perhaps the strongest part, of her skill was ‘Imaginary Magic’. With it, Alice could basically imagine new spells and make them into reality. … but again, the mana costs for this were insanely high. It seems that this is how Alice cast that last spell she used against the behemoth, considering that she herself admitted that she likely couldn’t use that spell at this moment. With Imaginary Magic, Alice could also use spells outside of the attributes she has an affinity for, but they did come with a higher mana cost as a penalty. But still, quite the skill and a good reason to give her another two attributes. Too bad I can’t give her all six with my cards, but that is just the limit they have.

 

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As we arrived at the guild, there was a large crowd of townspeople following our carriages. Perhaps because they spotted multiple boxed carriages, which are rare in this town, they realized who was inside and followed.

As we pulled into a stop, Ria basically bolted out of the carriage she had been riding in and came to open the door to our carriage. By the way, she wasn’t wearing any sort of maid uniform, just some casual clothes that you could see on any lady in Sawyer city. I don’t know when she bought them, but I do recall giving her some money from our adventuring job, so maybe she went shopping with one of the maids from Sawyer manor.

 

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After Ria opened the door for us, I got out of the carriage first. Then I helped first Lua and then Alice out of the carriage, and as Alice emerged, the crowd nearly exploded with the applause she was getting.

She winced a bit, but quickly regained some confidence, as I took a hold of her hand.

 

Lucky for us, the applause stopped about as abruptly as it had begun as soon as Agunan jumped out of the carriage he had been riding in. I guess a tall man, with red scales instead of skin, and a pair of large red wings, as well as a tail, would look intimidating.

 

Perhaps because of the commotion, Zay soon came out of the guild's front door.

“... you are here?”

What? Is there something wrong with that? Aren’t you the one who wanted us to come?

 

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After a bit of a talk with Zay, we got back outside. There was going to be a celebration this evening, so for now, we were free to do as we wished.

And because of that, we ditched Ria and Agunan and went on an improvised date in Alewatch. … Well, it was also largely just to show the town’s people that we are here and to tell them about stuff happening later tonight, but we still made sure to have some fun. 

 

We made a lot of stops at both street stalls and actual stores, picking up whatever we happen to find interesting. I was paying for everything, except the free stuff that a lot of people were shoving our way. It wasn’t anything really much, or I would have paid for it, but we still got everything from free skewers to cookies and drinks.

 

For lunch, we enjoyed some great food at the Boar’s Lounge inn. We could have gotten it for free, but I ended up sneaking the payment into the waitress’ hand at one point, so I wouldn’t feel bad. I have the money, so mind as well spread it around a bit. And great food is always worth paying for.

 

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Soon after our lunch, the celebration was on. I have to say, I’m impressed by the speed at which this town operates. In a matter of hours, they had set up a full street celebration at the main square of the town. That included ‘seats of honor’ for Alice and I. … I don’t know why I was included, as I really didn’t do that much, so I actually refused to take my seat and gave it to Brandon instead. Honestly speaking, considering what I heard, he did more than I did, so he deserves it. There is also the fact that he likely fed a ton of mana into the prophecy over the years of being a prophecy obsessed fool.

… and admittedly, him having Ultimate Obedient Fiend was actually a good thing, and because it died in the fight against the behemoth, I’ll give him something new to take its place. I’ll also give the knight who has the insect monsters a few new ones to make up for the two he lost against the behemoth. His cards weren’t in toploaders, so they were in fact lost.

 

I ended up giving Brandon Perfect Machine King, Machine King, Barrel Dragon and Blowback Dragon.