Yugioh Card Summoner

CH.564 Creating Life

So today started like so many do. I was in the Factory working, with Wilma in this case. 

We were trying to make our versions of the spirit/sprite/demon fusion that the States used to cause chaos in Smorog.

… and we may have succeeded. In the Factory at least.

Because in my Factory avatar’s hands, I was holding a tiny blob creature. I guess you could call it a slime, but I don’t want to insult either my new creature, nor slimes. 

As I said earlier, it was largely based on the creatures from Smorog, but I also mixed in info I got from analyzing the Metallizing Parasite - Lunatite. 

That is probably why it resembles a slime more than the things we saw in Smorog.

I included the data from Lunatite because Lunatite is great at equipping itself into stuff. Metal stuff specifically. And when installed into armor, it makes living armor. 

Yes, I tried to do it with weapons, but it ended up with the parasite dying after just a bit. I think there is an issue with it not being able to absorb enough nutrients or something.

“... a quick question.” Wilma said. “... did we just create life? Should we be worried about getting punished like the Demon King did? Are we doing something bad? Isn’t this exactly what he was punished for? Is the Goddess going to summon a Hero to stop us?”

“... good questions. But for one, we didn’t actually create life. Not yet anyway. It is just a mental projection of artificial life. So I don’t think we will be punished for it, at least not before we create one outside of the Factory.” I told her. “But even then, I’ve told the System Agents what we are doing, and none of them have stopped us yet. So I don’t think we are doing anything bad. As long as we don’t need the True Core to make these things, it should be fine. Because remember, it wasn’t creating new races that got the Demon King bonked, it was abusing the Chaos God Core to the point where it caused the dimensional barrier to break. We aren’t doing that, so we should be good.”

“... That is correct.” A third voice, belonging to an older gentleman, commented.

I turned around and saw the butler-looking System Agent, Aulis.

“... why are you here? Another fissure? I just dealt with one.” I asked.

“Luckily not this time.” Aulis responded. “I have a book club with your skill daughter.” He said, as he showed me a book on quantum physics.

“... okay. Well, Tahlia does what she wants, so go ahead.” I told him. “But since you are here, and clearly interrupting us, why don’t you reassure Wilma that we aren’t going to get bonked.”

“As you wish.” Aulis agreed. “Creating life in itself isn’t against any of the System’s rules. If it was, giving birth could be seen as creating life. So both natural and artificial creation of life is allowed. As well as artificial altering of life.”

“See. Told you so.” I said to Wilma.

“Artificial altering of life? What do you mean by that?” Wilma asked.

“It is what Holder Brian is constantly doing with his cards. His installs. They artificially alter life by giving people skills. Or in some cases, change people’s races. Or force them to evolve. That is what I mean.” Aulis explained.

“I see…”

“But please, do send the research to the System when it is complete.” Aulis said. “I must go now. I don’t want to keep Tahlia waiting.”

We watched him walk away towards the goblin bank, and after he entered the door leading there, I just turned to Wilma.

“... Well, that happened.”

“Do the System Agents come here often?” Wilma asked. “They don’t visit the Factory Workshop so I almost never see them.”

“Not that often, and it is just him and Coby. Coby sometimes fights with my monsters. I think the other System Agents are afraid of coming since we haven’t been acquainted yet, and the System Agents that used to belong to the Hero’s party just seem way too busy.”

“Well, they probably were Perfect System Supports, so maybe they have more work to do?”

“Most likely yes.” I agreed with Wilma’s stance. “Now, let’s see if we can put this … creature into a weapon.” I said, as I brought us back on track.

As it turns out, putting our artificial being into a weapon was super simple. We just kind of introduced it to a weapon and asked it to jump into the weapon, and it did. 

It first coated the weapon with its body and then was absorbed into the weapon.

… but sadly, despite the weapon now being possessed, it couldn’t move autonomously. So we still had some work to do.

“... maybe because it has no skills?” I pondered. “Red-Eyes Black Dragon Sword is a Red-Eyes Black Dragon turned into a sword. So it has all the skills of Red-Eyes Black Dragon. So it can use Draconic Magic and probably stuff like Telekinesis.”

“So we need to teach them how to use skills first and then let them possess weapons?” Wilma asked.

“That should work. Or we can teach them when they are already inside weapons. I don’t know if the order of things matters. But they do need to learn how to do stuff before they can act as living weapons.”

“Can we use installs for that?”

“Probably. At least for some of the skills. But I don’t know how many they will need, so they might need to learn some by doing.” I said to Wilma. “I think Telekinesis and maybe some overlay unit related skills could be given by cards, but maybe they can learn the weapon skills on their own.”

“... how does a … slime creature learn how to wield a sword or a spear?” Wilma asked.

“It doesn’t. It learns how a master spearman wields a spear or how a master swordsman swings a sword. And I think they can do that by possessing weapons and then I’ll just have one of my monsters wield that weapon.”

“... that might work.” Wilma agreed.

“And if we have install space, I can always install a card that gives them the weapon skill.” I told her.

I then had the … I need a name for these creatures. Living weapon core? Weapon slime? Weapon spirit? 

Maybe I can just call them poltergeists? That is what they will effectively be.

But I like weapon spirit. Sure they aren’t spirits, but still. Maybe I should ask the spirits what they think.

So I summoned a few of the superior spirits to the Factory and asked them about it. 

Some of them were against the creatures being called spirits, while others admitted that they are very close to spirits. Sadly they can’t actually live in the spirit realm, as their bodies, and souls, are formed from a mix of mana and miasma. And the spirit world is pure mana, no miasma, so they can’t live in the spirit world.

So maybe I can name them weapon demons? To learn if that would be acceptable, I summoned Hope and asked her for her opinion.

“... well, it is demonic in nature, even if it isn’t a demon. I think it could live in the demon realm, but I’m not positive. It might get poisoned by the higher miasma content.” She answered. “But I think if you want to call them weapon demons, we wouldn’t mind. We never get anything like that handed to us.”

“Thanks Hope. … but it also doesn’t feel correct.”

I then turned to my next source of information. My monsters. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

I asked them for their opinions, until one of them, Belial - Marquis of Darkness, had a great idea.

“Why not call them mabuki spirits or just mabuki? Mabuki are demons, or humans with demonic powers, that are capable of transforming into weapons. I do not believe this world has any of them, so mabuki should be acceptable.” He explained.

“... Yeah. That does work, I think. And in theory, if they grow large enough, they might be able to imitate weapons, not just possess them.”

And that is how our new weapon spirit slime creatures got the racial name mabuki.

Creating a mabuki outside the Factory was a bit more difficult than inside of the Factory. 

But not impossible. You just had to gather around 5000 mana and 3000 miasma, combine them with some thickened liquid, we used water thickened with cornstarch, just mix all of that up and hope nothing explodes, and voilà, you have yourself a mabuki.

Simple enough, right? Well, handling that much mana and miasma isn’t as simple as you might assume. Sure I can get that amount of both no problem, but I can’t actually control that much miasma at once. The mana I can do, but even that is difficult, but the miasma is beyond my current skills. 

So even if Alice or Lua could control the mana for me, which they probably can, the miasma is the problem. 

I first asked Hope if she could do it, but she admitted that that much miasma would be difficult for her. I’d need a sabbath for something like that. And while I could pay a demon to help me, I decided to try the routes I had easily available first.

So naturally I turned to my OP, not yet wife, dragon, Janina. She can control miasma like the best of demons, so she should be able to do it. Her HomeBase scale copy told me that her real body can easily do it, so I just took the materials needed and teleported to the Dragon Coast.

There, Janina and I gave birth to the first living mabuki.

Yes, I know that sounds wrong, but it is the truth. Kind of.

Sadly, our first child was not one for this world, because in less than an hour, the first mabuki passed away, and the cornstarch water it was made of splattered across the ground.

“... I guess it can’t be that easy.”

{You need a fluid more capable of accepting mana and miasma from the air. Perhaps try mixing in some metal powders or materials from monsters. We could also try monster blood, but it might not work with weapons that aren’t made of vampiric steel or blood iron.} Janina told me.

“Well, not the worst limitation, but yeah, let me return home and do some more Factory tests. It sucks when things fail like this, but things don’t always fail in the Factory. Just me not being able to imagine it failing because of real life limits, I suppose.”

{Think you can run from me?} Janina asked. She then shot out her tail and wrapped it around me, which was quite something considering her size and strength. {You can’t get away now. You owe this body cuddles.}

I probably could escape. Not with teleportation magic, Janina could block that, but she can’t block me using the Chaos God Core to teleport back to HomeBase.

But I won’t be doing that. So instead, a race swap and transformation into a dragon it is.

… I’ll also need to contact HomeBase and tell them I won’t be coming home tonight. But that is life.