Yugioh Card Summoner

CH.579 HomeBase made Airship

With Lua’s evolution over, and the new dragon maid, and butler, students on HomeBase, I was back to my usual grind. 

… okay, maybe not usual. I was grinding materials for the airship project, so I was at the HomeBase quarry/mine. I had summoned my miner monsters, and just sat in a quick hut I made, working on airship designs. Every now and then I’d go outside and take a bunch of material into Storage, where Tahlia would sort all of it. 

From there it was onto refining the stuff on HomeBase. And with the amount coming in, we had to upgrade our production facilities, so I turned floor 43, the volcanic floor, of HomeBase into a massive industrial refinery. And forge. Because eventually we’d need to hot press, or otherwise shape, huge pieces of star titanium to make the main bodies of my airships.

So a huge production facility was the best. And the magma on the volcano floor helped to get metal up to temperature. No, it wasn’t enough by itself, but with a little request to Ninatia, I had more eternal flames to use for the actual heating. The residual heat would just help in moving the molten material, without me having to take it into Storage. Though I might still just take it into Storage, because I can run ‘Material Quality Increase’ on the molten metal, and then use it again after the metal solidifies into ingots or other usable stock.

Honestly speaking, after the entire foundry, yeah, that’s a good name for it. The HomeBase Foundry. So after the Foundry was fully done, it felt super industrial for me. Because it really is. So I’m really glad I decided to build it inside the HomeBase dungeon, because that way no one will ever run into it.

The process of making star titanium isn’t that complicated. Refining titanium is normally a bit of a pain, but with the help of spirits, and magic devices I made to mimic the power of spirits, it isn’t that bad. We also aren’t producing tons of toxic chemicals or other stuff I really need to worry about thanks to them. Sure there are some by-products, but I can just keep them in Storage.

Then when the titanium is refined into … well, regular titanium, I just give that stuff Shooting Quasar Dragon, and the other Quasar variants, and they convert the stuff into star titanium.

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Each of them can convert just over 50 kilos of the stuff in their two hour summoning time, which sounds like a lot, but when we are talking about using this stuff to make the main body of an airship, it really isn’t all that much.

That is only about 2 body panels, and the airships will need about two hundred of them. So even with optimizing the summoning times for the quartet, I can only really produce 10 panels per day. Or it taking upwards of 20 days for 1 airship. 

Which honestly should be fine. They are going to be an expensive luxury product. 

Now I could, and likely will, try to improve my dragons’ abilities to convert the stuff, because honestly, I’d like to at least double our star titanium production speed. So I’ll be looking into install cards for the Quasar variants. I’ll also see which one of them is the absolute fastest at this.

… And after a quick test with the dragons, it turns out that Stardust Sifr Divine Dragon is the best at it, and Cosmic Blazar Dragon is the worst, with Shooting Quasar and Cosmic Quasar somewhere between the two. The difference isn’t that big, only about 10 kilograms in the two hour time period. But that, over like 20 summonings, will start to affect things.

And after some install card testing, I figured out that the best single install for the star titanium making is Stardust Shimmer.

With that installed, the speed at which my dragons could convert titanium into star titanium increased by over 50%. Stardust Sifr with Stardust Shimmer could convert up to 80 kilos in two hours. And technically I can summon ten of them at the same time, if I maximise the space on my duel disk, and hold a few cards in my hands while summoning them. 

So with that, my production speed gets up to 800 kilos in two hours. And if I summon the ten Stardust Sifr Divine Dragons five times per day, that gets me up to 4 tons. With that production speed, I have the required star titanium for an airship in just five days. 

With the turbo boosted material gathering for the airships now underway, I fully focused on finishing the design, as well as all of the internal systems. You know, autopilot, life support systems, defensive systems and all of that. 

I already had an almost finished version of everything, but I’d gotten some more info since those designs, so I needed to update them and finalize them.

Thank god I have access to some of the most genius people ever, my monsters.

And for this thing specifically, some of my new match winner cards were actually a great help.

Queen of Fate - Eternia and Testament of the Arcane Lords knew protective measures beyond what their monster stats might indicate.

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I think it has something to do with their match winner effect. I mean, they are literally able to rewrite/overwrite the future where you’d have to duel a second, and potentially a third, duel. Instead they just win you the match in one duel. 

So they can essentially rewrite destiny, or something like that. Win the battle and the war at the same time.

So with their help, I was able to improve the designed defensive shields around the ships to where they can basically rewrite the path of incoming attacks to be ones where they never hit the ship in the first place. Yes, it is dumb, but that is the best way I can describe it. 

And yes, I’ll be upgrading the HomeBase barrier to use this magic as well.

Emperor of Lightning was also a decent help when it came to the ships defenses, but not to nearly as much as the defensive might of the previous two.

He might also be a match winner, and thus some of this Lightning Magic is cool, but when it comes to offensive power, some of my monsters have match winners beat. Especially when it comes to duel winning effects like Exodia and Vennominaga. Hyper-Venom dispenser/aerolizer is extremely potent, but the problem is, it is too powerful. And chemical warfare is just a step too far. I know Geneva Convention rules aren’t a thing in a fantasy world, but still.

Admittedly my new Gimmick Puppet of Leo has a duel winning effect that could potentially help. The problem is, it is too slow in an actual combat situation. Yes it can basically take down anything, but yeah. Takes too long. Final Countdown and Destiny Board have the same issue. 

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If I had Disaster Leo, I might be able to use its duel winning effect. It is a bit better than Gimmick Puppet of Leo, but I’m not sure if it is good enough.

With the designs done, it was time to start manufacturing the body panels. Luckily the Foundry was already set up for it, so all I had to do is start manufacturing the stuff.

And for that, plenty of monster and spirit help was required. 

A few DNA Surgery and Transplanted Spellcasters to use Metal Magic. Wilma also summoned Athena to help with that part. Meklord Astro Mekanikle acting as our hydraulic press. Metallizing Parasite - Lunatite and Metal Reflect Slime acted as living molds, so I didn’t have to make a mold for everything. I probably will in the future, but I want an assembled ship first. Life Stream Dragon was here just to make sure none of us suffered burns. And finally, Odin overseeing everything with his all-seeing eye.

With that overpowered line-up, we made the body panels for the first HomeBase airship.

And that means I could get to actually manufacturing the thing. For that, plenty of machine monsters and Power Bond got their time to shine. 

Power Bond might be a dangerous spell when used in the TCG, but the welding the spell could do is no joke. It was by far the best way I figured for joining the plates together.

Now I know someone will ask. Why not just make the entire body from one piece? 

Well, it all comes down to maintenance. Power Bonded bonds can be broken, so if, and that is a big if, a piece gets damaged, we can use Alice’s Erasure Magic to break the welds, and then just weld in a new piece, instead of having to scrap the entire ship or having to add a patch.

But, as I said, I don’t expect the ships to get damaged. The HomeBase airships can defend themselves from Agunan, an adult fire dragon. You’d need to run into an SS-rank monster for the ship to have any chance of suffering damage.

And despite the fissures liking to spawn them, SS-ranks are super rare. Outside of the fissures, I mean.

Once the ship’s hull was all welded, it was time to start working on the inside parts. That meant a lot of woodworking. So plenty of my Plant-monsters got their time to shine, as they knew Nature Magic, which can manipulate wood.

Our main materials were ever-wood from the ever forest, and treant wood. I have a ton of both, as I’ve been cutting down the ever forest trees for different projects. And naturally HomeBase spawns treants, which we kill plenty of B and A rank varieties, so we can collect their monster cores, which we convert into magic stones for the flower beds.

Ever wood sadly isn’t the greatest wood, as it isn’t super durable or anything. But it can still be used for some furniture. Meanwhile, treant wood is great for basically anything, but it has to be isolated from mana, or it develops mana circuits, which could cause issues as they build up. But that is nothing a bit of mana insulation doesn’t solve.

Making all of the insides of the ship, even with my monsters working hard on it, took over four days. It really shows that even with an army of dedicated, and highly skilled, workers, making an entire ship is not easy.

We also had to secure all of the cloths and fabrics we would need for it. And for that, I enlisted my Insect monsters. Spider silk is amazing, and luckily I have a decent amount of Spider monsters, so they produced the stuff for me. 

Sure what they can make doesn’t rack up to the world-web spider’s silk, but it is still some nice stuff. And eventually I will get Number 77: The Seven Sins, and it should make silk on par with the world-web spider.@@novelbin@@

Then there was the engine. We didn’t make it by hand. It was all made with HomeBase’s True Core. I’m not messing around with an antimatter reactor if I don’t have to.

Then it was just installing everything in place, setting up all of the defenses, control systems, and just everything else, and we had our first finished HomeBase airship. 

… I’m almost regretting the idea of making them, but I got this far, so I may as well go all the way. Someone will want to lease one. And no, I’m not selling them. Because let’s be honest, almost no one could afford one if I did.

And if I just lease them out, no one will rip it apart for the materials. Unless they want to feel my wrath.