{I must thank you for eaining me, young Dragoed. Your monsters really are quite a bit of fun to py with.} Lady Ami Janina thanked me, after I finally called it quits on the fights she had with my three Sacred Beasts.

  In total, I resurrected Hamon and Raviel four times, and Uria five times. But despite the repeated battles and Uria’s ever increasing stats as more traps went into my GY, Lady Ami Janina never lost a fight to the three. Not eve one where Uria’s stats should have been 8000/8000, and my Sacred Beasts were trying to make use of that, by Hamon and Raviel trying to make an opening for Uria to let out a full power Hyper Bze.

  Spoiler[colpse]“I’m happy to hear that you ehe fight.” I told her, because I know by the end, my Sacred Beasts were no longer enjoying it. I holy almost switched to using the Wicked Gods instead, but with the Wall of Revealing Light breaking, I used that as a reason to call off ht.

  {Yes. Yes. I haven’t had a fight like that sihe Hero visited.}

  … did she just say something crazy? The Hero visited here? And he fought her? And she had as much fun as she did with my Sacred Beasts? Was the Hero as strong as three Sacred Beasts fighting together?

  … also, that means this dragon has to be old. As far as I know, the current dar system used by this try ts from the defeat of the Demon King by the Hero. And with the current year being 1365, I believe, that means Lady Ani Janina is at least that old. Likely older, as she probably wasn’t a newborn when she fought the Hero. I guess dragons do live for that long.

  In case you were w, Agunan isn’t that old. While I don’t know his exact age, I did learn that he was born after the Hero had already passed away. So Agunan is probably around 1000 years old or so.

  “I’m gd you’d pare my Beasts to a legend like the Hero.”

  {Do not think what I said is just lip service.} Janina stated. {They are powerful beasts, and being able to summon and trol them makes you impressive.}

  “... they still were no match to you, my Lady.”

  {I am not someoo be used as a parison. I have gathered power over many millennia, so ing even close to that isn’t something that someoh limited lifespan realistically gain. People who do that are born only a few times a millennia.}

  “... I see. Thank you.”

  …

  …

  {I believe it is time for a post-battle meal. Young Dragoed, would you like to join us?} Lady Ami Janina ged the subjed asked.

  “Yes. It would be an honor, my Lady.”

  {Please. o be that stiff. Someone as strong as you just call me Janina.}

  “Thank you, Lady Janina. Then feel free to call me Brian.”

  Lady Janina was able to quite quickly get a quick feast out for us. She used something akin to my Ste to take out a bunch of foodstuffs, and then used something close to Telekinesis to move everything a out a ‘table’. I say ‘table’, as it was just a sb of earth she raised out of the ground, so it could support the giant squid she set out oable. Krakens. I feel like I might have talked about them before, when I cooked Fire Kraken funan, but let’s recap anyway. Krakens e as lesser, normal and greater krakens, being B, A and S rank respectively. And their size ranges around 10 meters long for the lesser kraken to over 50 meters long for the greater kraken. The one we were eating was around 18-ish meters long, so it was somewhere between lesser and normal. It probably would be treated as a normal kraken, just a bit smaller than usual normal krakens.

  The iing part was that it erfectly cooked. Lady Janina expihis by telling me of her researto magid spells. One of her spells being a way to perfectly cook food. She developed it, because after she ventured into the humanoid grounds when she was younger, she simply didn’t feel like eating raw, unseasoned meals any more. So she made a spell that could cook food for her, and another ohat could keep food good for a long period of time. She also uses some of the ‘waste’ materials, like dragon scales, fangs and horns, to barter with humanoids from the Crystal Empire, so she obtain spices and redients.

  I was actually perfectly ready to cook something up with Mystik Wok, but I’ll gdly take something she offers instead. But still, the kraken was… it is good, but not amazing. Maybe I was expeg more, so I decided to run up a quick experiment.

  “Lady Janina, do you mind if I offer up a dish as well?”

  {You wish to? I do not mind, but are you sure you ? You don’t seem to have much with you.}

  “I do have a skill called Ste. It is simir to the way yht out this kraken. But that isn’t what I’m pnning on using.” I told her, as I got the cards out. “Mystik Wok, cook up a Fire Kraken.”

  Spoiler[colpse]With my magic wok doing the work, we soon had a sed kraken joining the one Lady Jani out.

  {I didn’t know humanoids had made spells like the one I have.}

  “It isn’t all humanoids, just me.” I corrected. “And this isn’t a spell. It is a part of my unique skill.” I don’t always speak about my skills with new people, but e on. This is a freaking multi thousand year old dragon, who knew/fought the Hero. Of course she will keep my secrets. At least most likely she will.

  {Then allow me to pare which is better.} Lady Janina said, before taking a bite out of the Fire Kraken. After mung on it for a bit, she spoke up again. {Quite good, but mine is better I believe.}

  After tasting both of them again myself, I do actually agree with her. The Fire Kraken was fine, but hers was better. Just the quality of the meat was better, possibly because her Kraken was higher rahan the one I cooked. Not that I’m salty or something. Not winning in cooking isn’t something I’m going to be salty about.

  {Dragon Avatars? Is that really all you want?} Lady Janina asked, after I told her about what I wao obtain.

  “Yes. Ever since Agunan told me about them, I have had a use for them in mind. Well, assuming that they work like I think they do.”

  {I’ve taught humanoids how to use them before, but that was only as a part of teag them how to separate their soul from their body. I don’t see why a humanoid would hem for anything else.}

  “Well, if y o, I show you.” At least I hope I . If this doesn’t work, I’ll look like a fool.

  … Okay, I already am a fool, but still.

  {Then we should head to the ste cave. you fly?} Lady Janina asked.

  “... not really. I levitate myself with telekinesis, but I ’t actually fly.” I admitted. “I summon a monster and ride on it though.”

  {Do not bother. You simply ride on my back.} Lady Janina said.

  … I get to ride this super dragon? I’m not giddy at all. Nope. If someoells you I am, they are lying.

  We moved to one of the other mountains, with me riding Lady Janina. Not like that, you pervert.

  We theered a cave of some kind. The entrance was rge enough for even a dragon to enter, so it wasn’t that bad. It led us to a giant cave, possibly rivaling some of the huge HomeBase floors in size. I wonder if this pce also has some spatial entment applied to it, like the dungeon has?

  Inside said cave were piles and piles of everything. In a word, this was a horde. A dragon’s horde. The first thing that you might focus ohe giant piles of money, which are rger than my Factory pile, stored ihe Goblin bank there. You know, the ohat is equal to the amount of money I have in my Ste. And with just one of those being equal or likely greater than my pile, with the other six or seven piles, this cave must have an absolute ton of mohere were even some s that I didn’t have, like some mithril s. At least I think they are mithril, based on the color.

  But what I was ied ihe mannequin looking things. Those were the dragon avatars. And yeah. They did basically look like bnk mannequins, except that they had ball-joints and stuff like that. Well, I guess poseable mannequins are a thing, so these avatars were something like that.

  {Do you wish to see how they work?} Lady Janina asked.

  “Yes, if that is possible.” I answered. While I probably just install a card into one, and that will hopefully make me a perma monster, I do want to see how these things actually work.

  Lady Janina aowledged my request and brought one of the avatars close to her face. The avatar then began to glow. Uhe glow, I could just barely see the avatar ging form.

  The white skin was turning darker, hair was growing from the avatar's head, breasts formed in … well, the breast area, and stly, clothes formed to cover all of that up.

  By the end of it all, I was looking at quite the geous female. She had a dark-ish brown skin, looking quite simir to Lady Janina’s bronze scales, but not quite like that. Her hair was golden blond and her eyes were silvery in color. She was dressed in a basic looking dress, except for the part where that dress looked like it was made from gold thread.

  “Ah, ah.” The avatar let out some sounds. She then moved her arms and legs, testing out the movements. “Feel regur. Transfer pleted.”

  “... Lady Janina?” I asked.

  “Yes. It is I. Do you uand now? What these dragon avatars are used for?”

  “I think I get it. Even unlike a humanoid form of a dragon, that form looks almost pletely human. No wings, scales or anything.”

  “You cat quick. While humanoid transformation is useful, this is a lot better when iing with humanoids. These avatars also limit our power, as they ot hold the erength of a dragon, so the young ones don’t actally kill humanoids when they go out.” Lady Janina expined. “Now, what did you pn on doing with them? I teach you how to move your soul into one, but I don’t see the point. You already look like a humae your race.”

  “No. I am ied in the soul trauff, but what I really hem for is my cards. Do you mind if I take o might break though.”

  “Go ahead. We have a lot, and I make more.”

  “... you made them?”

  “Just something to pass the time. And I’m not the one who came up with them. I was just instructed on how to make more.”

  “Oh. I see. Well, let me just test this out.” I grabbed a hold of one of the dragon avatars with telekinesis and brought it over to where I stood. Then I opened my colle and looked for a card to install.

  What to use? What to use?

  I could use one of the twonmaids I have, but if this doesn't work, I don’t want to lose them. And I ’t get more of them, so let’s go with something else.

  Maybe I should just throw Dark Magi into one? I have a multitude of copies of him. But then again, maybe the limit on these dragon avatars won’t allow something as strong as Dark Magi to be installed. So maybe something a bit weaker.

  …

  …

  Let’s just go with this. She is a spellcaster and an Exempr, so she should be able to tell me if something is wrong with the dragon avatars. And hopefully she isn’t to, where the dragon avatar ot take her. Well, sidering what Lady Janina said, it might limit her power a bit.

  I held the Magical Exempr to the dragon avatar and said: “Install.”

  Spoiler

  [colpse]

  Like with Lady Janina, the dragon avatar began to glow a bit. Uhe glow, I could see the avatar ging to take on the form of Magical Exempr, including her clothes. After the glow vanished, a perfectly normal looking Magical Exempr was standing in front of me.

  “... how does it feel?” I asked her.

  After moving her body a bit, and eveing out a small spell, my monster answered.

  “It feels fihough I ot operate at full power. I feel like I’m around 90% of my max.” Magical Exempr answered.

  “That’s not bad. … 90% of 1700 would be … 153ht? So with a bit lost to estimation, maybe the limit of them is 1500 even?” I theorized.

  “Difficult to say. We would need more data points to make an accurate estimation.”

  “The’s make another one.” I said, and used telekinesis t out a sed dragon avatar to me. Then I pulled open my colle, so I could check for the monster I was going to install.

  “Wait! Wait! Wait! Just a moment, please.” I was interrupted. “You. What did you just do? Expin.” Lady Janina demanded.

  “... Eh? What do you mean what did I do? I used your dragon avatar to host a monster I summon. Magical Exempr to be specific.”

  “Monster? You call her a ‘monster’?” Lady Janina asked. “How you even summon humanoids? That should be impossible, as far as I know.”

  “... well yeah. Did I never mention that? And I call them ‘monsters’ as that is how my unique skill cssifies them. All of the ‘monster cards’ I use are just that, monster cards. They hold a ‘monster’. Sure some of them are humanoids, but they are still cssified as monsters, so I do tend to call them monsters. … even if it sometimes is a bit awkward. I guess I should call her a Spellcaster instead, as that is what Magical Exempr really is.”

  “... alright. I think I uand.” Lady Janina said.

  “Good. Then do you mind if I use a sed one?”

  “You may, but I uand something else. You are iing.”

  “... okay?”

  “I’m ing with you.”

  “... okay?”

  “I want to see what you really do.”

  “... I mean, I don’t mind. It would be great to have someone as knowledgeable as you avaible. But is it really fine? Aren’t you like… the one in charge here? you just … leave?”

  “Oh, do not worry about that. I won’t be leaving this pce.”

  “... I don’t think I uand. You are ing with us, but also not?”

  “Are you perhaps blind? Look at me. And then at the other me.”

  When she said that, I think I realized what she meant. Lady Ami Janina has two bodies. Well, one of them isn’t her body, the other is. She has her full dragon body, and this dragon avatar body. She send the avatar with us, while still keeping her main body here. At least, that is what I think she meant. But…

  “ you s your body over a long distance?”

  “Who do you think I am, young Brian?”

  “The divine dragon Ami Janina?” I holy have no idea if she is some divine dragon, but sidering her power, calling her divine isly wrong. She did make my Divis look like outcssed babies.

  “Why, thank you. You really do know how to pliment a dy. I am ohat has mastered the trol of both mana and miasma. One who knows how to separate souls and transfer dimensions. Do you think moving my soul is that big of an issue?”

  “... probably not.”

  “Exactly. So unless you have something against it, I wish to send this avatar with you. I will e every now and then so you eain me.”

  “... I’m guessing that saying no would be a bad idea.”

  “No. If you don’t wao do so, I won’t. I do not want to force you.”

  “Well, I won’t say no. Lady Ami Janina, it would be my honor to have you along.”

  And that isn’t just lip service. She is the stro … anything I’ve seen in this world, other than maybe the Goddess. I actually kind of want to know, who is stronger? Lady Janina or the Goddess? I want to say the Goddess, but she has said multiple times that her power is limited without a physical form. Whereas Lady Janina does have a physical form, but she ot use the ‘creation energy’. You know, that ‘other’ subpart that makes up the Chaos God Energy.

  Well, anyway. I’ve secured my dragon avatars. Now I just have to figure out if dragon avatar is the same as the avatar doll, or if the dolls were some upgraded form of these avatars. Also, divine dragon secured as … an adviser? Or just a person who pops up when she wants to? Either way, having access to her knowledge and skills ot be a bad thing. At least I think so.