The day of the birthday party is here. Well, it’s not my birthday, but still.

  The first thing I did in the m was firming my gift. Of course most of it was ready to go, but I did check out the sword I made. Okay, my monsters and Laura made it. I didn’t do anything. I’m just here to steal the credit from them.

  The sword was plete and analyzed, so I could take a look at its stats.

  Vampiric Steel Bastard Sword Element BdeThrusting - Damage done by thrusting attacks ignores 25% of the target's defenses.Sshing - Damage done by sshing attacks ignores 40% of the target's defensesBlood RepairVampire onDurability 3500/3500 Description: A sword with a bde made from Vampiric Steel. It has a guard and pommel made from bronze and a grip made of everwood. The sword drinks blood and use it to repair itself. The sword favors those that also drink blood and will show its true power when wielded by a blood drihe sword is capable of taking in the mana of any attribute and it will engulf itself in the element. It has been ented to increase its pierg and sshing capabilities.I think that is good. Iingly, there is no stat buff ing with the on. Armor has +defeo it, but her this sword, my sword, or something like Ria’s gaus have any sort of +strength. They just have things like pierg and sshing to improve your peion, or something like deep impact. Ria’s gaus have that. It isn’t quite the same, as it instead increases the power of all of her punches by 25%. But still, not directly increasing your strength.

  The element bde is iing though. I didn’t expect that part. Maybe some of my Element monsters did that. But anyway, apparently the sword take in the mana of any element, and engulf itself in said element. No, mana is attribute, element is the stuff the mana turns into. Well, anyway. Both Dark Fre Knight and Fme Swordsman showed it to me with a factory copy of the sword.

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  When wielded by Dark Fre Knight, the sword took on a dark aura, and with Fme Swordsman, the sword was engulfed in fmes. Iing to say the least. I tried it myself, but as my mana has no attribute, the sword just glowed a soft white light. I guess you might think it is light elemental, but it really wasn’t. Though iingly, the mana that came from the sword wasn’t the white and bck that my mana usually looked like when I wrote my h one of those magis that took into sideration your attribute. It was more like white and bck, with some hints of a violet color added in. It looked quite nice. Maybe I should have my monsters add that Element Bde to my sword. … actually they probably ’t as my sword already has a light elemental entment, which makes it more powerful against dark attributed monsters.

  Anyway. The sword is ready to go, and I think it is alright. My mithril sword has a bit higher thrusting pertage at 33%, but it has a lower sshing pertage at 35%. I guess a bastard sword, or a ‘hand-and-a-half’ sword, is better for sshing than my arming sword.

  Well, my gift is ready to go. My suit is ready and , thank you Tahlia. And my partner is ready and her dress is ready. So I’m ready. System, you’d better aowledge my gift and give me some new sets.

  For breakfast, we once again joihe Wat family. I still feel a bit bad about invading their family time, but I also know them quite well, so I somewhat rex with them.

  After that, I had a quick visit to the kit of the manuided me there, and I met up with Paulina as well as the head chef there. What was I doing? Well, I did promise them a dragon, didn’t I?

  For the dragon, I went with the Harpie's Pet Baby Dragon from the Lord of the Storm Structure Deck. Yeah, we are eating a baby dragon today. But it is a good size. I ’t just cook up a massive dragon and expect all of it to be eaten. And someone will have to carry it from the kit to the party hall. Sure I could do it with my ste, but how do you expect others to carry a whole roasted dragon?

  For my part, all I had to do was drop a Mystik Wok, just give it a slight surface roast with the spell and leave the rest to the kit staff. I hope they get it all cooked up in time, but they didn’t ask for it yesterday, so if they ’t, that is on them.

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  When I got back to our room, I spent some time just sitting with Lua. Well, that was the pn, but because it was us, our time just sitting around quickly turned into magic practice. I was still just casting Space Wall over and ain, trying to make something that actually stop something more than a light touch. Well, it could now stop a punch from a child, oblin, but it isn’t at a level where it be used in a real fight. I could use Level Up! to gain a higher skill level and that should help, but that will have to wait a day or two more.

  Of course I also made sure to teach Lua the ‘remote magic loop’ so she could practice it with me iure. It did seem effective for learning telekinesis, and Lua having LV.10 Mana trol and Mia cheats, she picked it up on the spot. If she practices it, she will likely learn telekinesis in a week or two.

  “Brian, it is time to head to the party hall.” Ria came to remind us.

  “Yes. We are ready.” I said, as I got up from the couch.

  Both Lua and I were dressed up and ready to go. I was in the same clothing as yesterday. The white silk shirt, a dark brown tailcoat and light brown pants, g the left forearm sleeve, yada yada.

  Lua oher hand was not wearing what she had oerday. She was in the purple and white dress we ‘stole’ from The Agent of Judgment - Saturn. With her hair in a reverse braid of some kind, courtesy of her skill, and she had a red stone neckce around her neck. All in all, she is absolutely geous.

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  In terms of arrival at the party venue, Lua and I were some of the first guests to arrive. For parties with nobles, it was somewhat important to arrive in the order of one's rank. And as an honorary baron, I was not quite the lowest, but basically yes. Below me would only be honorary knights. A single geion title like mine, given to those that show some exceptional skills or something like that. But no honorary knights were invited, so I was the first noble in the room. Other than me, a few high ranking merts had already arrived and a lot of them turo look at the two of us as we walked in. I didn’t know most of them, but I did reize one older man. Mister Baku, the owner of the Baku trading & transport pany. I didn’t know he was invited, but it appears that he was. I didn’t know if his pany was rge enough to get an invite, but apparently he did. I just hope he didn’t bring anything from my dungeon as a gift, as that would ruin mine. A bit, at least. But I’m sure he has something else. His reputation would also take a hit if he tried to show the same stuff as the new dungeon founder.

  A few of the merts made tact with me and introduced themselves to me. They didn’t go as far as asking for dungeon items or anything, but they did make it clear that they were looking forward to seeing what kinds of ems my dungeon make.

  Soon after us, other nobles begaering the room. At first, it was other honorary barons, followed by actual barons, then vists and then Earl Marsh. By the way, the unmarried children of Thomas came in when honorary barons were ing in, in case you were w. They aren’t teically nobles, but they are important guests.

  The st people to arrive were obviously Thomas, his wife and the sed Prihey all arrived at the same time, probably out of respect for the Prinormally, Thomas would have bee to arrive, but royalty is different. It would be disrespectful for the Prio not arrive st, but it would also be disrespectful if Thomas wasn’t st, so this was the solution to that problem.

  Thomas soon took his seat and the party began.

  First thing was a song. A local happy birthday song, which spoke about living to be over 100 years old. It was chorded by a simple piano melody, pyed by one of the manor maids.

  After the song, it was time for the gift giving. For that, the order we would present ifts was basically the reverse of our arrival order. The highest ranking person is first, and then others follow.

  So as you might have guessed, the Prince was first.

  His gift was.

  “His Majesty gave me the permission to return this to your family. I believe you know what it is.” The Prince said, as his aide pulled a rge mithril battle-axe from a magic bag. It was detailed aifully engraved, looking more like a showpiece than something someone would actually use in battle.

  “Th- this is … the founder’s axe.” Thomas muttered as he received the axe. “I … I thought it had been lost fes.”

  “No. Not quite.” The Prince said. “It reseo the Royal family some 600 years ago and we have been taking care of it ever since. But I believe the time has e to return it home.”

  “Yo-Yhness. Thank you.” Thomas said as he got up from his seat and prostrated himself in front of the Prince. “I’ll … I’ll do anything for you for this.”

  “Well now. I’ve already gotten what I wished for. You should get back up. The others still have gifts for you.” The Prince said, as he walked off. Wonder what he meant by that got what he wished for ent through?

  was of course Earl Marsh and his wife. Their gift was three magic books, aka. grimoires, from their own colle. It holy seemed like a great gift, it was just somewhat overshadowed by the ohe Prince just gave.

  Then it was the Vists. Garner, Yuva and Kramer.

  Garner, also known as Angelina’s husband and Angelina herself, gifted Thomas with a wyvern mahe wyverher ing from a wyvern hunted by the adventuring party Diamond Sword just a few days before Alewatch was the target of a wyvern attack.

  Vist Yuva, ruling a town with an ore mine and all, gifted a steel shield, which had a thin coating of mithril on it. It was very good looking, but at the same time fell into the ‘use item’ category for me, instead of the ‘decoration item’ where the battle-axe had been.

  From Vist Kramer, Thomas got two war horses. They are a subset of the regur horses that people use to pull carriages and other stuff, specifically bred to be used as mounts for knights. Ahey are actually monsters with a monster core. D-rank monsters, in case you were w. But having lived their entire lives with humans, and moamers, they were not at all aggressive. And as D-rank monsters, they were reasonably powerful, so they could run for a long time with , take multiple strikes without going down and so forth. Well, of course their durability would depend on who was the oag them.

  Then came the barons. But none of their gifts were that impressive, so I won’t go over them.

  Well, I guess I’ll mention two. First, the one given by the Wat family, even though I feel like it is mostly from Christina. A magic tool which used earth magic stoo improve the soil quality, as well as a det amount of small magic stoo power it. The magic stones weren’t fuel by the way, more like batteries. After being used, they’d have to be recharged with mana. This could either be done by just leaving them out in the air where they will slowly refill themselves, or by having a mage with the same attribute as the stone filling it with theirs.

  The sed worth, or in this case not worth, mentioning was the gift from Baron Bloggs. He gave Thomas a bangle made of gold, set with a few small gemstones. Giving something like that to a young dy should be fine, but giving it to a 60 year old male, not so much.

  For the rest of his children, Mariina gave her father a golem carriage she herself had apparently made. It didn’t e just from her, but the Sage’s Tower as an anization, as they had paid for the materials. It didn’t fit into the room, so I didn’t see it, but that was quite the gift.

  Cressida brought her father a rare book from the capital. She had hand copied the book, as the inal copy was forbidden from being printed. It could only be copied by hand.

  Violet, who had arrived yesterday from aown where she had been doing something, gave her father a magitern which used a light magic stone as the light source.

  And Paulina gave her father a magic device to help pnts grow. It used both water ah magic stones for that. Too bad it was somewhat overshadowed by Christina’s gift, as they were both very simir.

  Then finally, it was my turn. I did feel just a bit nervous as I approached Thomas, but his gentle smile did calm me down.

  “My Lord.” I began. “I’d like to give you some of the treasures ing from my dungeon.” As I said that, I got the maginy pack loaded with fabrics out of my ste. Again, ste store ‘magic holding items’ even if they have stuff inside of them. “This is a magic bag from my dungeon. While it only store a small amount, it is small from the outside as well, and be clipped around your waist, making theft highly unlikely.” As I expihat, I heard some awes from the merts who had been invited. A bag like this would be more useful for them than most nobles, after all. Merts are the ones who have to look out for pickpockets and stuff. “Inside of it, you will find six bolt rolls of fabrie of denim fabric, two of cotton fabrid three of tricot fabriow I uand at least some of them might sound new, so I’ve prepared some clothes made from them.” As I said that, I got out the ‘three-piece suit’ I’d made. Yeah, it wasn’t a suit at all, but I did somewhat style the jacket after one.

  It sisted of a retively normal looking pair of bck jeans, a long-sleeved crew-neck white shirt and a bck double-breasted cotton suit jacket. The jacket might holy be more of a bzer than an actual suit jacket, but who really cares?

  As I went on a quick expnation on the fabrics, and what I believe they are good for, the butler took the ‘suit’ and pced it o all the ifts. He had also pulled the fabric rolls out of the maginy pack.

  “Then st, I’d like to present you with this sword.” I said, as I got the vampiric steel bastard sword out of my ste, and ha to Thomas. “It is a bastard sword made of vampiric steel, with a guard and pommel made of bronze, and a grip of everwood. The scabbard is everwood and sword-horn bull hide.” I expined, as Thomas pulled the sword out of the scabbard.

  As he was holding it, I heard some murmurs from the audience, like “It ot be vampiric steel.” and “It has to just be blood irht?”

  Nope. Vampiric steel all the way. Because why not? It isn’t that much more expehan blood iron.

  “It is quite a beautiful bde.” Thomas said, as he looked at it. “While it might be somein in design, that allows for the special metal to shoh elegahank you.” He thanked me for the gift as he slid the sword bato its scabbard.

  After that, I bowed slightly before walking back to where the other party goers were. As I returo Lua’s side, my quest notification popped up.

  Mission: Gift of ValueMission pleteSets The Lost Millennium, Cyberic Revolution and Elemental Energy unlocked.Repri Dark Revetion Volume 2 unlocked.You overdid it.

  What do you mean I ‘overdid it’? My gift is perfectly reasohers just give bad gifts. Well, other than the Prince. His gift must have still beeer than mine, right?

  And holy, I don’t really care. I got three new sets, and one reprint. That is just fine. E-Heroes and Cyber Dragons. The world better be ready for the chaos I’m about to unleash.

  … no, I actually won’t unleash anything. But still, I like that I now have access to those cards.