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  1. #521
    So, her idea was to delve into the realm of Alchemy herself, was it? Interesting. Such a thing would free Kaiba up in his own repertoire, if only to continue seeking more Dragon-related skills and abilities in future. At the very least, she was keeping up with the necessities of the items for this little ship project. Someone around Kaiba had to be capable of that much. "Naturally," he said in response to her assertion. Indeed, the idea of treating the hull with the likes of a Dragon's physiology was another necessity. There was no point to having sails which resisted the high-density Mana of the skies, if the vessel itself crumbled before reaching anything of worth.

    He didn't seem bothered at all by the woman's little jab in his direction. No, he knew of his methods, and he knew of the payout. The Magisteel construct he possessed would be far more valuable in time than any kingdom of this world could ever know. For now though, something else of high value was in the works. "Atlantis is a good enough place to gather materials for conversion. The quality is questionable compared to Dragons, but that's where the Alchemy comes in. How long will it take you to develop the skill?"

  2. #522
    It seemed that Kaiba thought positively of her ability to keep up in the moment. Strange though it was, she was also familiar with people not really understanding the ideas she put forth. It was rare indeed to find someone with a reasonable mind. Moving on from this, she was asked how long it would take her to develop the necessary Alchemy skill. She sighed and thought about it. "Less time than it will take Ashikaga to find most of the materials we'll need to convert and build. There is only one problem I can foresee at present though..." she said looking at the blueprints and noticing what was being asked for. "The hull of the ship in the blueprints, calls for the bones of a creature of a specific quality. We need the body parts of a creature of Special A-rank," she mentioned with a roll of her eyes."It's called for in this blueprint and that would be the one thing that will take an unnecessary amount of time and effort. And the right team balancing to do without risking anyone," she said faintly. Specifically this blue print demanded the bones of something like a Kraken or Leviathan... both of which were particularly dangerous given their ability to fight in the current climate. That being said, there could be many more uses to such thing. Extra materials could be gathered from slaying such a creature even enough for everyone involved to be further rewarded. At present preparations would need to be made for such a thing to work out properly. Though given the varied skills sets of the people currently inhabiting Atlantis, it might not be as difficult of a challenge as it seemed. "Still getting Ashikaga and the Geno Killer on board, learning Alchemy, and getting all the materials in one place, makes it sound like the only properly time consuming thing will be the boat building," she finished with a shrug. Regardless, she began writing up a list of extra necessary materials that might be needed in bulk after the slaying of the creature. Made a list of several topics to look into at the Library of Atlantis, and started thinking about which of the two listed creatures would be better for slaying and getting everything they would need. "Kraken or Leviathan?" this question was posed to Kaiba, because she knew with a great amount of certainty she wouldn't be fighting at all.

  3. #523
    It seemed this woman could get the task done in an amount of time that was... shockingly short. Well, that was nothing to shake a stick at. The male had become so used to windows of time being something he'd consider too ridiculous, but he supposed he was now dealing with a genius of some sort. He had to give her capacity to develop the respect it deserved, whether he'd do so openly or not.

    "Hmph! If it's going to take that long, I suppose I'll take a nap." No admittance at all from Kaiba Seto. Still, he was satisfied with the time given. True enough, though, the building of the vessel would be a time-consuming matter regardless. There were always some alternatives, however. In his field of choice, it took nothing to have a large quantity of others take care of the manual labor, while orchestrating the designs and other such matters of importance. More importantly though, was the matter of what they had to take down for the sake of materials. This was no issue for Kaiba; he was certain he could fell any manner of beast on this side of the world. Whether this was true or not was a tale to be told by time, but as far as he was concerned, it was completely factual.

    "Special A isn't much of a problem at all, as long as it can be evolved effectively. I'd say Leviathan is the one most closely related to Dragons, so it should be the easiest conversion. It will pose a bigger threat, but that doesn't matter in the end. Now, where are the others?"

  4. #524
    "Go ahead. Seems like you need one," mentioned Bulma. She didn't have any problem with the man known as Kaiba Seto, even so, his words always seemed to come with a bit more bite than what was actually necessary. Bulma managed not to take offense to this, and kept about her work. For the most part amassing a list of items she'd need the lass known as Miki in her current incarnation to provide to make the boat building process easier. As well as the leaving an opening for the addition of some other things she might need once she started her proper work in alchemy. The first thing she'd need was the book on Alchemy located within the Great Library of Atlantis. After that the rest of the materials list would come. Having finished writing her list and hearing the question posed by Kaiba, Bulma picked up her pack and popped a single cigarette into her mouth, she lit it using a small lighter and took a long drag before exhaling. After this, she'd let it hang from her mouth as she walked over to where she'd thrown her shorts and replaced them. "The Geno Killer and Ashikaga have been in her room for the past several hours," she said calmly. Of course, she knew this simply because they both possessed pieces of Dracolite which she was always tracking given her radar. While she spoke she put on her socks and shoes and eventually looked properly presentable for leaving this room. She walked back over to her desk and picked up her list, and the Dragon Radar and began walking assuming of course that Kaiba would follow. "Might as well hand off the materials list and figure out the team composition. Also I'd knock first..." she commented absently enjoying her cigarette.

    Where would they find Miki and Kou? Just where Bulma had said, in Miki's room behind the throne room of the palace. What were they doing, as Bulma noted they were in the same place, but for the past several hours, the two dots which were their identifiers had been beeping in unison practically atop one another. When the door to the room opened, however that happened, one would find Miki furiously turning and pressing buttons on a small golden ball she held in her hands. Her fingers rapidly rotating as the energy she poured into the ball seemed to fill it in several different ways. She'd been sitting this way for quite a while, studying the item given to her by Kou, only to decide at a moment's notice that she fully understood how to get all the way to the point of completion. And she'd be within a couple of moves of that completion by the time they reached her. "Sugoi! I'm almost there!" she chimed happily. Kou's head was likely still resting in her lap as she aimed to complete the gift he'd given her.

  5. #525
    "Hmph!" Did Kaiba let this utterance slip in response to Bulma's rebuttal? Or, perhaps, was it a response to her claim that they should consider knocking? Simply put, the answer was yes to all. His indignant nature left him responding to such a way almost as his own bridge in any conversation. Regardless of his reason or the reaction to his doings, he was off when Bulma finally decided to dress herself and depart. He walked along behind her, until tiring of the shorter individual's pace, at which point he broke out ahead.

    ... And what would he do after taking the lead? Naturally, he was going to burst into the room in which Miki and the still-sleeping Kou could be found, just as he'd done in Bulma's workshop. "Ashikaga! Geno Killer! It's time to get to work!" he announced. One of them toying with some device, and the other sleeping, had no impact on Kaiba's outburst. A job needed to be done, and it needed doing right away. As far as he was concerned, whatever else the two were up to, was of no consequence.

  6. #526
    Bulma would simply shake her head at the lad's response. Why? Well, she figured he wouldn't take her seriously enough to make sure not compromise everyone's good time. Beyond that point, he wasn't known for respecting anyone's boundaries or anything of the kind, so she knew for a fact once his steps led him out in front of her, that he'd definitely be barging into the room, regardless of the current state of anyone within said room. 'Maybe when he catches an eye full of random naked teen, he'll learn to knock,' she thought absently. Still Miki was within this room her final turns being made she'd just laid her finger on the final button the moment before Kaiba barged into the room yelling about some work that needed to be done. At the same time a green light seemed to spread and escape the ball opening up a large world map which spread across the room in a holographic style projection. "Sugoi! What an interesting thing... it's a giant map, but you wouldn't just give me a map. What are all these markers for? It's so," she paused.

    Miki's eyes widened as she took in the sight but still she managed to frown when her eyes made it to Kaiba. "The noise is unnecessary, Kou's sleeping," she snapped immediately. "It figures the one time I don't lock the door, Kaiba waltz's right in and starts making demands," she would have already begun a tirade of yelling but she wanted the lad in her lap to continue sleeping peacefully. "Work, he claims. As if we aren't the reason this place isn't a cesspool of degenerate Mer," she frowned. What could he possibly want right now? She absently patted his head with her one free hand and looked up with a great deal of animosity, though it wouldn't get the chance to amount to anything. A gentle knock against the door frame would be a distracting sound as Bulma caught up. "I'm coming in..." mentioned Bulma after waiting a few seconds and when she entered she found her eyes accosted by a strange green light projection which seemed to be shifting about the room they were now in. "Hoh? Two of you, together?"

  7. #527
    Few things would teach Kaiba Seto a lesson about invading the privacy of others. He certainly wouldn't be deterred by something so simple as nudity, regardless of any additional connotations. Even so, he was briefly taken aback by the three... or perhaps four-dimensional map filling the room with its green glow. Odd though this may have been, he seemed entirely unfazed after only a second or two of witnessing it. Business as usual from then on, it seemed. "If he's sleeping, he should stop. He's going to be useful in the coming moments," he explained of the slumbering Geno Killer. He didn't care why Kou was asleep, nor what this pair had accomplished in Atlantis prior to this moment. They were to benefit as much as, if not more than those who sought their aide. In such a scenario, Kaiba saw no point in one arguing against making themselves useful. Mutual benefit was what drove many things he did, even if his choices were made without much selflessness at all.

    The pair of Kaiba and Bulma being in one another's company was apparently something worthy of note to Miki. The male scoffed, wondering in his own mind why the blue-haired woman had even come along, knowing she had no intention of directly participating in upcoming events at all. No matter. He'd do what he was always going to, regardless of these facts. "In your time here, have you faced any of the greater sea creatures?"

  8. #528
    Kaiba stated that if Kou was sleeping he should stop. He seemed to pay only passing attention to the map which was rotating in projection around the room. Miki scoffed, as she was always going to, Kaiba was always a pushy man, one of good sense but exceedingly annoying by her own standards. It seemed that many individuals played this role within the eyes of the currently blonde lass. She looked out into the room, not directly at either of her visitors, instead she was studying the things seen in the map, trying to orient herself to it, and figure out its purpose. "Iie, Tsu-chan said, he's probably going to be like this for a few days at least. He's more than a week out on lack of sleep... " she said without further explanation. Technically speaking anything she could try to explain would only be supposition, and as such Miki was content to keep studying her map. It seemed by Kaiba's own words he had something of a proposition for them. In fact, given his choice of words she was almost certain that he had something he wanted done up his sleeve that he couldn't or wouldn't do alone, not that it mattered either way. Kaiba was never one to rest on his laurels and found himself moving along to the point he'd wished to make upon coming to this place. Rather, he posed Miki a question which caused the lass to draw her eyes away from the things she was studying on this map off in the distance. "Ugh, of course not. Those kinds of creatures are never just at the surface. They only appear at the end of quest-lines, guarding some treasure or appearing to try and restore the balance," she said from the perspective of a person who devoted a large chunk of their life to playing video games. "And let's not even get into underwater fighting mechanics... though admittedly most things have been a lot easier than I'd thought they would be..." she said with a casual shrug, that golden ball clasped between her hands. Still this leading line of questioning was a bit too ominous for Miki's own liking, her face soured while she was speaking, when she realized why Kaiba would take such a line of questions. "But you really didn't come here to ask what we've been up to..." Miki said finding in herself a slight lack of patience that wouldn't tolerate a slow pitch of an activity if it required real effort from her.

    Bulma stood at the back of the room, her own eyes traveling around as she took note of the different structures presented by Miki's specific activity of choice. With the news that the Genokiller would be out for a few days at least, it put a bit of a damper on the potential early plans. Well, at least Bulma thought so, the best possible team composition as she saw it, was Kaiba, Miki and Kou and then a superfluous fourth perhaps. Anyone could potentially do in the last spot so long as the first three were arranged that way. "Mendokusai, though I saw this coming..." she mumbled. Unknown to everyone else, she had her Dragon Radar, and as such she had been watching the movements of that pair of individuals for the duration of her stay in Atlantis. She'd seen one of the dots moving about, in the way that implied it was Miki and she'd seen the other, locked in place for days, un-moving, only to get up and do something for a few hours and then return. It was quite telling that the lad hadn't managed to sleep during the week, she wondered what his efforts netted him. Regardless, it seemed there wasn't any experience with higher order sea creatures and there would be at least a minor delay in the slaying of one.

  9. #529
    Of course. Of all the people who could be out of commission, it would be the Geno Killer. Kaiba knew Miki was reliable enough; she was the go-to tester outside of his company for his new ideas. Alas, he was interested in seeing this 'Geno Killer' of local legend for himself, and this was to be the prime opportunity. Another day, perhaps. The worst part of Miki's retort was her mention of never encountering the creatures he spoke of. That didn't matter too much, but more information would have been lovely to have beforehand. Oh well. There was no point wasting time by looking around for Atlanteans who knew how to deal with Leviathans. "Kuso. That's an annoyance, but fine. There is a need to kill a Leviathan, and make use of its parts to craft a vessel. I take it you have no problem doing this for the sake of making it into the sky," he said. Whether Miki knew of the world beyond where they had been thus far, he did not know. It didn't matter. The job would be done one way or another, and the sky would be reached. "The two of you are only level 30, but I doubt that will be a problem even for the likes of you. You have looting skills, yes? Come, use those, and unlock the ability to reach the next stage of this world."

  10. #530
    Miki sat looking at the map displayed by the object in her hand and took note of something. At least one of the marked objects was close to the center point which happened to look like the golden ball within her hands. She wondered if it was position relative, if it was, it would allow her the ability to explore whatever that point of interest was with great ease. She locked that away in her head though as her eyes shifted to Kaiba and she heard what his current grand idea was. Some sort of vessel to get them to the Sky. The Sky Islands were the greater goal of the game. After conquering the mainlands, one was supposed to find a method to reach the level of the Sky Islands in search of Dragons, famed civilizations of lore, and treasures beyond their wildest dreams. Of course, she was no slacker when it came to her life or gaming preferences, as such, she knew about the Sky Islands and it was her ultimate goal to reach them, if only to attain treasures and the like while there. So, of course, given her own goals, and ones she'd heard from Kou about their shared goal of attaining particular Dragon themed items she could assume such a thing would be for the greater good of the group. Even so, Kaiba's approach was almost laughable in its outset. He managed to be somewhat more polite than normal but also still be annoying to the lass. If she didn't know him in life, she might have been a bit skeptical of his motives, she might have said no on principle, as things such as shared activities with those who weren't used to her personality never went well. 'Ugh, does he have to be such a jerk all the time. If he wanted some help slaying a creature in exchange for helping us get to the next step it was literally all he had to say,' she scoffed, she'd rather be exploring her gift, but she supposed she could put that aside for now, for the greater good of the group.

    "Alright you want to slay a Leviathan. That's fine. I can help with that, and I am not such a noob that I would make a character that only had support skills or that couldn't be useful in direct combat. Besides that if we are in a decent party our levels won't matter. Kou and I took out the Lizardman Army around Dwargon, and the one plaguing the Marshlands while we were under level 30. It just required a bit of improvisation. Besides that, I am sure I can count on you to be decent DPS. At least you better be, or that level is meaningless..." Miki mentioned her thoughts beginning to wander just a bit. There needed to be a party a bit fuller than normal if that was going to be the case. "And you... what do you want?" she asked of Bulma. Who took a deep drag from her cigarette. "I need you to get your hands on some more items for me. To help with the vessel crafting. I am going to learn Alchemy in the meantime," she said moving to step forward with the list. Instead of allowing this Miki moved her index finger, snatching the paper from within the lass' hand and having it before her eyes to read within seconds, while she held the moving map alone in the other hand. "Sou ka, a combined effort from the pair of you. I had always hoped to see something like that, working with both of you..." she said, having a decent idea that this could only be beneficial. Meanwhile, Bulma was left wondering why Miki had such a skill, when someone like Karna also had it, or maybe it came in the other direction and that lad had picked it up from her. "I can get all of this pretty easily. Kaiba who else would you like along for the actual slaying quest... if Kou is going to be out for it. He'll need to be replaced as the physical DPS and flexible positions he played," she said. "Also, breathing underwater will be a problem, he's the reason we were able to get here without drowning potentially, his ability to convert Mana being lost is a big hit. I was planning to come here before, and that was something, I'd stopped to figure out a way around while I was playing..." Miki provided the necessary specs to both of the individuals present knowing that she'd been more involved with Kou in combat than anyone present in the room currently and knew what a large loss his presence would be potentially.

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