NOVEL NEXT Chapter 6: Chapter 4: Training
If anyone ever asks me how quickly I was able to a stick a leaf to my forehead, I would say five minutes. If they specified sticking a leaf on my head with chakra with a gun to my head and a scalpel to my balls, I would say 5 hours. It is my only saving grace that no one was there to watch me do it because people do not understand the difficulty of using chakra to create a localized energy flow to keep a leaf pushed against one's head without making it either fall off from inconsistent flow or eviscerating itself due to too much energy in the system, especially when most people start when they are five and mistakes are permissible. Luckily, it only takes basic chakra control to use the Paper Strengthening Jutsu. Unluckily, chakra control directly correlates to your range of controllable jutsu so I am going to have to practically weld the paper together rather than doing whole pieces at once.
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After a few minutes of set-up, the card-making process itself is rather simple. Grind the wood into tiny pieces that are then ground with water to make a pulp. Separate the pulp into two batches, one for the white paper, and one for the brown paper. Soak the pulp for white paper in a basin with some ACME Bleaching Solution(TM) and rinse it a few times before repeating the process until white the pulp has turned white. Spread the pulp onto the strainer of your ACME Paper Press(TM) before straining the liquids out and pressing it to your desired thickness as long as said thickness is roughly the thickness of notebook paper. Use your glue of choice or a local paper welder to glue around five layers of your brown paper to create brown card stock. Run a third of the brown card stock through the ACME Cardboard Corrugater(TM) and glue the corrugated card stock between two layers of flat card stock to make single layer cardboard, perfect for boxing up small objects. Meanwhile, take white paper and turn it into 10 cards, made of card stock of course, and one paper card pack wrapper. Turn the cardboard into deck boxes and card pack boxes. Turn the cards and card pack wrappers into card packs while leaving some out for the deck boxes. Remember to claim that Starter Deck: Kaiba from the First Spirits quest before eating dinner. Eat dinner and fall asleep at the table because you haven't stop doing things for roughly ten hours and you still need sleep to function.
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Waking up at a kitchen table is not a pleasant experience unless breakfast has already been made. Unluckily for me, I haven't started hallucinating yet so I awoke woefully without breakfast. Directive: Eat Cereal. Status: Complete as of five seconds ago. Back down in the workshop I finish the set-up and split the ten starter deck boxes I made into two parts, five for the Yugi starter deck and five for the Kaiba starter deck. Grabbing my ink, I open the starter deck menu and select the create Starter Deck: Yugi option, after which a holographic projection of what I assume is a magic circle on the table. Already done with the day and no longer surprised at the constant ominous signs, I draw the runes onto the table, barely even caring about the subtle nudging of my hand to get them right. Also known as I had to wipe up the ink and start over twice because the nudging scared the shit out of me more than it helped.
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Finally done, I put the five blank starter deck boxes into the magic circle and press the ready button. As mist flows into the boxes, subtly transforming into an inky blackness as they turn the blanks into proper decks, I start to wonder if I'm becoming too desensitized to the occult too fast before deciding that I don't care enough to... care. A quick check with the system tells me that the Starter Deck: Kaiba uses the same magic circle as Starter Deck Yugi so, after a skipped cutscene, I claim the Booster Pack: Legends of Blue Eyes White Dragon and finish off the repetitive descriptions for today by turning the ten boxes of 36 card packs each into Legends of Blue Eyes booster packs. A quick sweep up of the shop area later, and I set up the display, having one of the counter displays show the image of Dark Magician battle Blue Eyes White Dragon for the starter deck while the other shows a Blue Eyes White Dragon being sealed into a magic circle.
{Starter Deck Display}
{Starter Deck: Kaiba}
{Starter Deck: Yugi}
{Booster Pack Display}
{Booster Pack: Legends of Blue Eyes White Dragon}
After a few minutes of deliberation, I decide to name the shop,
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