21 Changes

After seeing the tickets I was happy that the mission went on without hitch and there were no losses on my side. After hearing report from Ser Ed that there were few minor injuries for my men, which I already know thanks to me keeping an eye on overall situation, he also mentioned that 10 men were killed from the hostage ships before we came to resuce. I moved to the ship where my uncle was being treated and had a few words of comfort. He broke down when he saw me, he was only showing a brave front to not tarnish our house name and give courage to his fellow hostages. I understand his predicament, my uncle was no warrior, he was more of a scholar and merchant who is responsible for making negotiations and signing trade contracts with various merchants in his trade route. After giving few words of comfort, I arranged for my men to rest and repair the sails of the pirate ships so that we can take them back. I went back to my cabin and warged into albatross and scoured the nearby seas for any incoming ships. With the assurance of no imminent threat, I looked at my tickets hovering in my inventory again.

I summoned them and asked Mina to explain.

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Silver Enhancement Ticket: Anything can be enhanced to silver level.

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Party Upgrade Ticket: After Use you have the chance to upgrade party functions and unlock new functions.

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Weapon Ticket: After use you can get a random weapon that you can customize.

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I first tore the silver enhancement ticket and increased the Life drain to Silver level.

[LIFE DRAIN(Silver): Any being who is killed by you directly will provide you life points randomly based on the vitality he had before his death. You can now manipulate the stored vitality. Every 100 life points can be used to extend anyone's life or heal from injuries.]

I looked at the description and saw there were few changes after the upgrade. It wasn't any use to be as I never got hurt in the past one and half years, thanks to my enhanced physique and magic. The second change is that now I can actively manipulate the vitality stored which I obtained after I killed. I can also help other heal or increase their life span.

Due to the lot of killing that I have done, I now have large capacity of life points that can bring the person from near death to full of life.

Looking at the upgrade in satisfaction, I looked at other two tickets. One will improve the party function which I am looking forward to. Party module is a real deal and most OP thing that I have got. I can create thousands of army with great combat capabilities and peak human attributes in short period of time. Just imagine what I could do with this enhancement.

While the other will get me what I am missing the most. A capable weapon to show off my full weapon mastery skills.

I used the party upgrade ticket first. The torn ticket just crumbled to dust and then a notification rang to my mind.

[Ding ….Congratulations on upgrading 'Party Module']

"Mina, Show me the changes."

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PARTY MODULE: Anyone who has swore loyalty to you can join the party. All party members will have 80% loyalty locked as soon as they join the party. Party member have 30% increase in strength, agility and stamina .30% increase in recovery rate of injuries and stamina. Growth limit will be set to peak human.

This module has two functions:

PARTY SKILL SLOT: Any skill that is added to the party skill slot will have a shared benefit for all party members. Lord has 50%, Captain20%, Members 30%. The percentage can freely be adjusted.

For example, If party member A trained Archery for 100 days, Lord will get the benefit of 50 days, captain will get benefit of 20 days and remaining members would get benefit of 30 days. All this while having no negative effect on party member A. The effect is realtime. Lord can also choose who to share this benefit.

PARTY CHAT: Only open to members chosen by Lord. This is realtime communication between party members through any medium chosen by the lord.

PARTY GROUP: Lord can now freely create multiple groups and assign skill slot based on the group.

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I looked at the changes for few minutes and understood the effects completely. Looking at the changes and the potential it could have I started laughing out loud in my cabin. Getting my bearings, I compared it with before upgrade.

Previously I need someone with 50% loyalty to me to get him/her to join the party. But Now all I need is anyone who swore loyalty to me and they will be added to the party and their loyalty will be 80% by default. Here 80% loyalty indicates, as long as I don't outwardly abuse them for longer periods of time or kill their loved ones, They will not even have a thought in their minds to betray me. Additionally there is a 30% increase in attributes and recovery rate on top of their peak human strength.

Previously the advantage distribution was fixed. But now I can adjust them as necessary. For example I can create a batch of maids excelling in household work without having to by default have my soldiers to learn the household work.

Now I can also freely create groups and assign skill slots to it. For example I can create Cavalry group and Infantry group and have them learn their respective skills without having to wait until the skill slot is free from training. Also after looking at the Status bar I can see that the previous skill slot has been increased from 3 to 5. That means I can assign 5 skills at the same time.

After taking one final look, I shifted my focus on the final reward: The weapon token.

I tore it Immediately.

[Ding….Congratulations on Getting a Valyrian Great sword.]

I looked at the weapon with a bit of disappointment. Not because the reward wasn't good, the reward was excellent, but it doesn't suit my combat style. I am more inclined towards nimble melee combat. Not because I can't use the heavy great sword, no. I can use any kind of sword and be great at it because of my current Swordmanship level. I just prefer long sword or a bastard sword.

I summoned the Sword out of the inventory and looked at it. The sword was a bit larger than the 'Ice' of winterfell. As I was admiring it,

[Lord has one chance to customize your sword.]

[Do you proceed? Y/N]

"Mina could you explain what level I could customize the Sword?"

[Certainly, My Lord.]

[You can freely change the shape of the sword as you like. You can add color to it. You can break the sword and shorten it. Only condition is that the final product could only be bladed weapon. You cannot change the shape and make the great sword to an axe or a bow.]

"Understood." I said as I accepted the customization. The sword in my hands vanished and a screen appeared in front of me. It had various customization options. I looked through all of them and finally selected a design that I hand in mind.

Since I have a Dual-sword mastery, I am going to create two swords out of them. I took my time to carefully draw the design and adjust the weight, color, height, width etc.,. After finalizing the design I clicked ok.

It was design I selected was inspired by the dual swords of Legolas, an elf from the LOTR. It has navyblue handles with wavy design depicting waves of the sea. I didn't change the blade color, so it still shows the ripple pattern of the Valyrian steel. On the blade I engraved House Velaryon symbol as a final stroke. The height of the swords were similar to a ninjato blade. It is not too long not too short. It is just right.

Few minutes later 2 fine identical swords were created. There was still some Valyrian steel remaining. I thought for some time and decided to create a dagger. After giving the design input, I clicked ok.

A fine dagger was create in a minute. All 3 weapons are now placed in the inventory. All my weapons,armors and things in the inventory are basically hovering in the air. I can summon them with a thought and store them with a touch. No one can touch them apart from me. How I know this?

Once Nightfury was bored and thought of pranking me by hiding the weapons he could see hovering in the air above ground. He used his tail to grab them, but his tail just passed through.

In the past few months, all the 3 dragons in my sub-space are getting along well. Initially it was a mess because, Nightfury wanted nothing more than showing off his newfound powers. But after being spanked by the combined force of the Vermithor-Silverwing couple and me advocating to peace between them they started to become friends. Silverwing still is not bonded to me but due to the continuous effort and blessing from my 'Beast taming' Talent she is listening to me as a friend.

 A day was spent at the place where we fought off the pirates. After all the preparations were completed, I gave the order to set sail. Both my captains and captain from the velaryon ships that held hostage took charge of the sail back to driftmark. I only used very minimum level of magic, so the ships are expected to reach home in 3 days. My 3 rd uncle is now sailing on my ship. We meet during the lunch or supper and have chat on the trades that we are currently having and the future plans that he thought of.

3 days later, we finally reached Driftmark.