Danmachi - Card Wizard

PS: Thanks to a particular reader, yeah, you know who you are. I noticed that I've entirely nerfed his sword. The sword is supposed to cut through rocks and iron like butter, and an orc could block it, lol. Well, the weapon is reboosted from this chapter on. You'll see his sword slash through a minotaur as if cutting a piece of grass! Thanks for the notice, and everyone, feel free to tell me about the plot holes you found!

PSS: Stop asking for time skip or telling me to do one. I receive like ten messages every day about this. I'll make one when I feel it's the right time, all might not appreciate the slow-paced story, but that's how I'm currently writing this novel so, the time skips will happen when they happen. ​​

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(1 week ago)

"Alright, follow me, today you are going to be spectating the subjugation of the Goliath." Said Riveria as she brought the two up the stairs leading to the seventeenth floor.

"How strong do you have to be to kill the Goliath?" Asked Ais as she looked forward to seeing the strongest monster on the higher floors.

"The monster is level four. As such, normally, a level four along with a small group of level three will go and hunt it. A lot of adventurers use the chance to hunt this monster down to complete the second requirement to level up." She explained as she continued to lead the two up the stairs.

"Two requirements? What are they?" Asked Aidan curiously. He had only heard about having to have at least a D stat in his status.

"Well, the first requirement is on the status, as you know." Answered Riveria before continuing. "The second requires you to accomplish a certain feat which the gods would be impressed with. It is often in the form of killing a stronger monster." She explained as the three of them finally reached the top of the stairs and waited there.

"Oh, I see." Answered Ais before continuing. "So, the level three adventurers will level up after killing the Goliath?" She asked.

"No, they will only have the requirement if they kill the Goliath without the help of the level four, and at that point, they can choose whether to level up immediately or wait like the two of you will do." She finished explaining as the adventurers finally reached the Wall of Grief.

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"Alright, the four of you will fight the Goliath alone. I will not intervene unless you are about to die. So, good luck!" Said the male in heavy armour as he walked to the side. The four weaker adventurers went closer to the wall.

The four adventurers were separated into two females and two males. Both males were close-ranged fighters as they held a sword and an axe. As for the two women, one of them, an elf, had a bow while the human held a magical staff.

*Crrrrrk*

A sound of crystal slowly breaking appeared in the whole space as a hand pierced across the wall and punched the ground near the two men who hastily evaded the blow.

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As the four adventurers tensed and prepared to fight, Riveria started to explain what was happening.

"You see, the Goliath will appear across the wall and immediately attack any close opponents. It has a humanoid body, and the core is in the middle of its torso. Normally, to kill it, adventurers will pierce in the middle of its body, and it will immediately break the magic stone." She explained as the three looked at the fight.

"In the future, I will be able to kill it easily." Said Ais, full of fighting spirit.

"Well, I would hope so." Slightly smiled Riveria.

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(Current day)

"Ahh. It's been a while since we've been directly under the sun." Said Aidan as he showed a happy smile on his face.

"I can't wait to update our status." Answered Ais as she looked excited at becoming stronger.

"Well, let's go back to the manor. With the monsters you fought, you should be able to improve your stats greatly." Answered their teacher with a smile.

"Right, Aidan. Do you allow me to talk with Loki about what we discovered of your card magic? If we talk to her about the ideas for the map, storage and attacking cards, she should get you the most benefit. While she is most of the time unreliable, when it comes to business and working on getting benefits, she is one the best." She asked immediately. After all, if Aidan didn't want to, she wouldn't talk about the development of his magic with Loki.

"Well, there's no problem. If with our goddess help, we get the most benefits, I have no reason to refuse. Moreover, others will work freely to improve my map card, and I'll get a lot of loot from other adventurers." Grinned Aidan at the thought of using the profits to improve his cards rapidly.

After all, with a lot of money, he would be able to buy a large number of magic stones, and it would allow him to increase the amount of magic in his charge card to strengthen his other magical cards. It would let him fight stronger monsters based on magic alone.

"All right then, I'll come with you when you go and update your status, and we will talk about this huge money-making market." She answered back with a hand over the slight smile which appeared on her face.

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"So, how was your time in the dungeon?" Asked Loki as she wore a t-shirt that showed her midriff and emphasized her lack of curves.

"I showed them the 18th floor, the fight with the Goliath, and I accompanied them to fight up to the 10th floor where they could fight one monster at a time." Answered Riveria before continuing. "This time, they both greatly improved, and we made some discoveries on his card magic."

"Oh? What kind of discoveries?" She asked back with an intrigued glint in her eyes.

"Well, it's like this." Started the elf as she explained the new modes of his cards and the way of money-making they had thought of.

"Hum. It is indeed a good idea, but you think too small." Smirked the goddess as she bent towards the front and held her head with both her fists.

"Let's start with the storage card. I propose that you only sell this card to level two and above. There are a few reasons. The first one is that we can greatly increase the price of the storage card since level two are richer than level one. Secondly, this will make it a rarer commodity and people will be grateful to buy it. Finally, porters are normally level one, and if you sell your cards to level ones, a lot of them will lose their only way to make money."

"Moreover, level ones don't usually have much loot, so it would be a waste to spend your magic on cards for them." She explained seriously before turning towards the money-making way for this card.

"For making money with this card, you have only to allow one person to link with a single storage card and create a price depending on their size—for example, a million Valis for a one cubic meter storage card. For a fifty cubic meter storage card, you can sell them at fifty million Valis.

This way, adventurers will not only want to improve the size of their cards as much as possible, but they will also find it a pity to leave it empty when they bought a bigger size, making them store more items in it which will come to you if they die." She explained slowly before continuing with the second card.

"For the map card, however, it is entirely different. Your card is precise, easy to carry and allows people to locate themselves on the floors. As such, it will be a commodity bought by almost every adventurer.

The money-making way with this card is to sell the map card and only unlock the floor they bought. So, they wouldn't be able to use the cards on each floor but only on the unlocked ones. Moreover, we can easily increase the price the lower the floor since they are bigger and it becomes more 'difficult' to make." She explained with a maniacal grin.

"Finally, with both those cards and the attacking or defensive cards you can sell if you want, this will make all other familia not dare go against ours since, with these cards alone, it can represent the rise or fall of one." She finished with a nod of her head.

"I'll take care of this problem, no worries. I'll get as much money and benefits for you and the familia." She said as she got up and patted Aidan on his shoulder while grinning at him.

"Alright! Now that this is done, strip!" She laughed as Aidan only shook his head and took off his shirt to have his status updated.