Yugioh Card Summoner
CH.640 Repair Call

After Wilma and I returned to HomeBase from our little birthday getaway, she headed straight for her room where she relaxed and went into the Factory. She had some weapons to design now that she had the full specks of Chandrahas.

I was tempted to go with her, but I had a few papers to go over as I skipped my usual office work yesterday.

There wasn’t much. I had a few invites to parties from different nobles, all of which I refused. Some business propositions and trade deals. I sent those to Lawrence to check over. And lastly, a few sign ups to the Duel Runner Tournament. They had already been added to the roster as they registered through the Factory, but my monsters had left me a paper, which isn’t actually a paper but a mental report, as I wanted to see the people who had signed up.

Because of the tournament coming up, and the preliminaries starting in just a few days, the Factory was extremely busy. Anyone who had signed up could use the D-wheel tracks and since this was the first tournament where you could actually practice beforehand, plenty of people did so. 

Some of them had begun to ask if they could customize their bikes, as everyone was using a very much default bike, but I told them what I had told beforehand. The tournament finalists will get to make their custom bikes. And after the tournament, others will be able to do so as well.

Also, there is one more difference with the upcoming tournament. It will be livestreamed. 

Since I introduced the Internet and phones, I can do that. Sure not everyone holds a phone, but as long as people have a phone and a projector, sold separately, they can have an entire room of people looking at the tournament.

I already gifted regular phones to all adventurers’ guild’s guild masters, and plenty of them have upgraded to smartphones to get access to the Internet. And the money they can potentially make from having the tournament be visible might help them recover the cost of both the phone and the projector.

I mean, they can just ask for a small fee to watch the tournament, and that is ignoring all the food and snacks the viewers will want. And since the guilds, at least everyone I’ve been to, run a small eatery, they can make and sell those snacks.

Now you might realize a little problem in that plan. The Factory time dilation. Sure I’ve limited it to just 5 times the regular speed in most parts of the Factory, but that is way too high for those observing from the outside. 

But admittedly, the answer to that is simple. I can just turn it off. The preliminaries will be run under it, as those won’t be livestreamed. I’ll still make a collection of videos from the prelims, but I’ll only release them after the tournament so that people won’t be able to see their opponents’ decks.

Sure they can still get an idea, especially if they practice together, but that isn’t my fault. And it isn’t like the D-wheel track is isolated from the public parts of the Factory, so you can also get an idea that way.

By the way, a few people have challenged me to duels and I’ve accepted when I’ve had the time. I’ve been running random decks for those. I did bust out Cosmic Quasar Dragon and Red Supernova Dragon in two of them, hopefully making people think those will be my boss monsters for the tournament.

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And no, neither of them is actually allowed in the tournament. Shooting Quasar and OG Red Nova Dragon are, but their retrains are a bit too good.

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And yes, I’ve decided what deck I’ll bring to the tournament. It is an archetype no one else will have access to, and I even made quite a few custom cards so that I could actually use it. Konami just never made it all that good and I need it to be worthy of being the deck of the ‘main villain’. As I already said, this tournament will likely be even higher level than the previous ones.

But that is for later. I did all my paperwork for the day, so it is time for some training.

After both physical and magical training, I headed to our private bathhouse. My monsters had already prepared a full bath for me, and apparently they had called someone else as Unika was waiting for me. She had clearly washed herself already and was ready to wash me, so I just let her do as she wished.

The next day, I woke up to a call from Duke Burch. He called because his airship, yes he had leased one of mine, had been attacked by a monster when he was returning to his domain from the Capital. It hadn’t been visibly damaged but the Duke was worried it had some damage and wanted me to check that the ship was safe to use.

I asked him what had attacked, and it was just a few B-rank monsters, so I knew for a fact the ship would be fine. I mean, if the ship had been damaged, it would have sent me an automated damage report. But since my customer is worried, I made a house call. 

It started with me teleporting to the city’s adventurers’ guild and walking from there. It is nice to just walk sometimes. Though admittedly, I was getting more looks than I’ve been getting previously. Is there something on my face?

I quickly checked and confirmed I was looking just fine. Sure I was wearing clothes based on my old world so and those get some looks, but I was getting more than what I’m used to.

Maybe they’ve seen me in the videos I’ve made or something? I am one of the few that can make videos, and I’m the one who has made the most. And my videos are always prioritized on the video sharing website I made.

It doesn’t seem to be a problem for now, but if I get even more well known, I might have to start wearing a disguise when I go into big cities. Though I can probably just use One of Every Race for that. Maybe I can somehow unlock a feature that lets me change my hair color and hair length with it. That would really allow me to turn into someone else.

Sure I can just change my gender, but that will only work for so long. 

I eventually reached the Duke’s private airship dock. There already was one in the city for the times the King came to visit, but since obtaining the ship, it had clearly been overhauled.

It was by no means in bad condition, but now it was in fantastic condition, easily rivaling the airship dock in the Hero’s country. And where it previously had space for two airships, it could now fit a third, that spot being taken up by the ship I’m leasing him.

Being led to the ship, I found a few mechanics looking at parts of it. Luckily they hadn’t taken anything apart, as with certain systems active, the ship could see it as an attack. They were seemingly just scanning the ship's panels for damage.

I was quickly introduced to them, but admittedly I remembered them from when I delivered the ship. I had given them a quick crash course on what not to do with the ship. Technically any damage they’d inflict with ‘repairs’ would be their fault, thus the fault of the Duke, and they would get expensive quickly.

They took me to the bridge and luckily they had turned off the automatic defenses before messing with the ship. I downloaded the ships information onto my phone, because while I get basic reports from the ships to HomeBase, that is only things like location info and how much antimatter the ship has used. And also if any error or damage messages had been given.

With the more detailed report on my phone, I dropped my phone into Storage so that Tahlia could get the report without having to see it from my memory. It didn’t take long at all, so I took my phone back out and placed it into my pocket. Can’t receive calls when it is in Storage.

From there, I did a full system’s check on the ship with the console and nothing was wrong with it. Again, as expected.

I then completed a walkaround of the ship with the two mechanics. This allowed me to take a look at how the Duke had customized his ship, and while it wasn’t all that much, there were some things I admittedly didn’t consider when building the ship.

For example, he had built a small stage that held some instruments so that he could enjoy live music while on board. The kitchen was also a bit different from how I designed it, but that was a minor thing.

He had also added a video projector to the main sitting room. It didn’t have a smartphone attached to it, but just having a projector laying around was something. Maybe I should add those to the next gen airships myself. 

After we finished on the inside, we checked out the deck and then the outside of the ship. Again, no damage. 

I then took the ship into Storage and scanned it real quick. I did notice higher than expected wear on a few parts and made sure to mentally note that down, but those parts still won’t break for around 10 years. I just expected them to last 15 to 20 years with this level of use.

Except that I have a little workaround for that. Storage can repair completed items I can fit inside of it. That includes the entire airship. So I naturally used Storage to repair everything.

The only thing Storage’s repair couldn’t do is refill consumable things of the ship. So things like the fresh water tank and fueling the antimatter. Consumable things aren’t the same as durability damage. But I emptied the ship's blackwater tanks.

I told the mechanics that the ship was perfectly fine, reminded them to refill the fresh water tank, told them about the extra service on the blackwater tanks, and asked them to relay the good news to the Duke. I didn’t tell anyone off for calling me, because I know that with the usual airships on the market, after an attack by B-rank monsters, the ship needs to be looked over and might even need some repairs. My ships are just overbuilt.