A Core Ship From The Start - Chapter 100

Chapter 100: Chapter 83 Mount Acquisition_1

Although Duanmu Huai truly didn’t feel much like working for a local indigenous god, as long as the other party was willing to pay him for overtime, he reluctantly agreed to it.

Of course, he did not forget to continue to allocate the remaining points on strength, intelligence and physical attributes —— after all, he couldn’t add any to charm.

He pondered; if Sigma was to give himself a special ability that increased charm, then who knew, perhaps he would be more proactive towards him.

It’s clear that Sigma doesn’t understand what people want.

As for the specialisation points, Duanmu Huai devoted all of these into [Psychic Combat Training], levelling it up to ten and transforming it into [Great Psionic Combat Training]. Furthermore, he also gained the special skill called [Psychic Combat].

[Psychic Combat: Every 1 point of subspace heat will increase weapon attack damage by 1%]

In simpler terms, this is a skill that condenses the heat consumption of the subspace to enhance the damage of the weapon. However, for regular psychics, this doesn’t have much meaning. While they do consume spiritual energy to release subspace heat in combat, once their spiritual energy is exhausted, the subspace heat will gradually cool down, like a machine gun cooling down after continuous firing.

However, a Soul Walker is different. The Soul Card will permanently occupy the upper limit of the subspace heat. Meaning, when Duanmu Huai is surrounded by a large group of enemies, he can summon a large number of Soul Cards through [Wrath], [Winning With Few Against Many] and then, add [Psychic Combat] which can forcibly raise his subspace heat, and then…

Well, when he swings his hammer down, it’s going to hurt a lot.

If he had had this special skill back in the Holy City, he wouldn’t have needed to wait for the Cathedral Church’s Sacred Knights, as a single strike from him would have killed the heretic Iver.

Next, everyone takes a temporary rest in Modheimer City, and General Pastte reports to the Great Crown Prince again. Although Modheimer City has already been claimed, but what should we do next? Completely purifying this city is a difficult task, almost equivalent to rebuilding the city from scratch.

Of course, there is also the possibility…that the Great Crown Prince’s scheme to reclaim Modheimer City is just a smokescreen, and his true goal is the dimension stone here.

But that’s none of Duanmu Huai’s business anymore.

Because Merlot brings him good news: the mount he had ordered from Baddy was finally completed!

Hearing the wonderful news, Duanmu Huai immediately returned to the Holy City, filled with anticipation, and brought Ogis, Lorena and others with him to the Puppet Zone to meet Baddy once again.

“I heard you’re all done?”

Upon entering the shop, Duanmu Huai started with this question when he saw Baddy. At the same time, his eyes darted around, trying to spot his new vehicle — um, it didn’t seem to be in the store.

“Ha ha ha ha, of course.”

Baddy seemed to be in high spirits as well, and undoubtedly, he took great satisfaction in completing this order.

“Stop looking for it, it’s not in here. With your size, the custom-made mount won’t fit in here. Follow me.”

“Okay.”

Duanmu Huai nodded his head, following Baddy and they all exited the shop, walking down the road. Along the way, Baddy kept himself busy by explaining the thought process and procedure behind crafting this mount to Duanmu Huai.

“Truth be told, you sure know how to give me a challenge. You wanted the mount to be tough but also require nimble and lightweight movement. It’s not easy to craft such a thing. And as you know, considering your physique, the size of the mount has to be large. As you can see right now, it would be infeasible to use it within a city, it can only be used outdoors.”

“I understand that.”

Duanmu Huai was not bothered in the slightest, seeing that he was quite like what Baddy had described. His body took up the space of three people on the road, even before his transformation. He desired to buy a car, or even a bike or an electric bike, but couldn’t find any that he could fit in. Even getting on the subway was a struggle; he couldn’t pass the ticket inspection gate without sidestepping.

One of the reasons Duanmu Huai always wore his Power Armor was because even if he took it off — he didn’t have any clothes to wear, they all had to be custom made!

Asking for a mount was primarily for the convenience of fighting. As for moving around in the city…forget it. Even he alone took up a lot of space while walking.

Yet, if modern society was like a six-lane road from both ends, it wouldn’t matter. However, the roads inside the Medieval City were… some places that Duanmu Huai had to sidestep to even squeeze into.

However, luckily, medieval cities were generally not large. For instance, the Holy City, when compared to the cities that Duanmu Huai had been to before his transformation, was about the size of one or two districts. It still was possible to get around mainly by walking.

“On the aspect of materials, I had to go through quite a bit of trouble before I found some refined mithril from the church’s warehouse. Originally, the church didn’t plan on selling these materials. But after hearing that it was to be used to craft a mount for you, only then did the Archbishop consent.”

“Ah, I really am grateful to her.”

It had to be said, Duanmu Huai was enormously thankful to the Archbishop, and he also gradually had more expectations for the mount. Baddy said that his mount was made of Mithril, so naturally, it ought to be something that shimmered… It certainly wouldn’t look too bad!

After all, fair skin could veil ugliness.

Meanwhile, as they talked, they arrived at a warehouse at the back of Puppet Zone. Baddy then took his key to unlock the large door, inviting everyone inside.

However…the whole warehouse was pitch-dark, and nothing could be seen clearly.

“Mister Baddy, where’s my mount?”

Duanmu Huai, puzzled, stared at the dim warehouse in front of him, curiously inquiring. He had a vague vision of a shadow, but Duanmu Huai wasn’t sure what it was.

“Ha ha ha, watch this.”

As he said that, Baddy turned a switch on. The next moment, the warehouse brightened instantly, and immediately after that, a gigantic figure presented itself in front of everyone.

Was that…a dragon?

No, not an ordinary dragon.

Its shape resembled a Tyrannosaurus Rex, with a streamlined gigantic body, two robust hind legs and a long tail. However, its front paws were somewhat smaller, although not as tiny as those of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. But compared to the robust hind legs, they did appear small. Moreover, along its body on both sides, there were two pairs of folded metal wings!

In simple terms, it looked like a Transformer version of a winged Tyrannosaurus Rex!

However, the head of this T-Rex wasn’t that of a dinosaur shape, but was closer to the pointed triangular head typical of the dragons in this era.

What’s more, the dragon was entirely black, its two eyes emitting a bright red glow, matching its steel-jawed mouth — it was terrifying no matter how you looked at it!

Lorena was even so frightened that she hid behind Duanmu Huai!

“What do you think? Kiddo!”

Slapping the three to four meters tall metallic giant dragon, Baddy laughed heartily.

“Looks awesome, doesn’t it?”

“………”

When he first saw this giant metallic dragon, even Duanmu Huai was shocked and had his War Hammer ready. Now, upon hearing Baddy’s question, he was rendered speechless.

“Mr. Baddy, didn’t I ask you to make it look nice?”

“Well, it is nice. It’s a giant dragon! Wouldn’t it be great to be a Dragon Knight?”

“But… why is it black??”

Duanmu Huai was nearly speechless. He could already imagine what would happen if he showed up in front of others riding this beast.

But wasn’t Baddy supposed to use mithril? What’s the deal with making it look like Death Wing?

“Oh, this is to match your armor, kiddo. Otherwise, one would be silver and the other black, which wouldn’t match. Plus, its eyes, I specifically made those match the color of your helmet. Great, isn’t it?”

“……It’s perfect.”

Thanks a lot!

Duanmu Huai felt like crying.

To be honest, his first instinct was to have Baddy redo it. He wondered if Baddy was a spy sent by the Brutal God to make him look more fierce. Baddy is a man after all, and he forgot that men and women have different tastes. He should have asked a female Puppeteer Master to create it; maybe it would have turned out prettier.

Although he thought so, but… when Duanmu Huai saw the card effect of this mount, he couldn’t bear to let it go.

[Rare Metallic Secret Dragon (Gold)]

[Cost: 4]

[Attack: 5]

[Defense: 5]

[All damage received by this servant is reduced to 0]

[Units attacking this servant will receive a -1/-1 effect (servants with defenses below 0 will be destroyed)]

[Rider’s intimidation level +1]

Darn, this mount is more impressive than himself!

Not only does it resist physical damage, but it also inflicts rebound damage?

If it were just a normal mount, Duanmu Huai would have wanted Baddy to melt it down and redo it, but… after seeing the special effects of this Soul Card, he again felt reluctant to let it go.

Immunity to physical damage and reflecting damage, it’s simply the perfect mount for charging into the enemy’s ranks.

With how it looks…

Why is the intimidation also +1?!

If it keeps increasing, he might become scarier than the Evil God!

By then, he might become the sixth Evil God of Subspace just by relying on this intimidating skill alone!

Huh? Why the sixth?

That’s a secret.

Although he was speechless inside, after riding the metallic secret dragon as Baddy instructed, Duanmu Huai found it extremely useful. Using a bunch of handlebars, like reins, he could freely control the dragon and make it do any actions. When necessary, the dragon could even spread its wings for short range flying. And Baddy’s design was just perfect; even while riding the metallic dragon, Duanmu Huai could swing his War Hammer to attack enemies.

Despite its huge size, against a real giant dragon, it was still a smaller version —— plus Baddy didn’t have that much Mithril at his disposal.

So riding this metallic secret dragon felt the same as riding a war horse, from this perspective, Baddy had indeed perfectly fulfilled Duanmu Huai’s expectations.

It’s just that its appearance really is a bit…

Duanmu Huai thought about talking to Baddy, maybe they could paste a bishoujo character from some anime on the Metallic Secret Dragon, at least then it’ll be a cute dragon!