Otaku Translation: The villain only wants to live a Buddhist life Chapter 326 Part 1

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Chapter 326: Dark Demon's Relentless Research

Although it looked like this [armour card] had been successfully crafted, the image displayed on the card was slightly different from what Dark had imagined.

With a light frown, he picked up the armour card and injected his magic energy inside.

As he received a transmission of information in response, he gained a general understanding of the [armour card].

　　▼

　　[Card name: Wooden Armor(木甲)]

　　[Type: Item card]

　　[Effect: Defence +10, slightly increases the ability to attract moonlight.]

　　▲

Based on the panel alone, there seemed to be no major problem.

[Armour card] was indeed a type of [item card], and it would simply be classified as [item card] in the panel.

Similarly, the name of this card was also very normal and appropriate. After all, it was indeed an armour made of wood.

As for the effect, the fact that such a crude work could produce a stat of [defence +10] had exceeded his expectations.

He initially thought its effect would merely be something along the line of [defence +1].

Unexpectedly, not only did it have a considerable buff in defence, it even had an additional effect of attracting moonlight.

"Attracting moonlight, huh? Does it mean that you'll automatically be the most striking lad if you wear this wooden armour at night?"

Huffing a couple of dry chuckles, Dark recited the Normal Summoning Spell to summon the wooden armour.

Generally, there were two methods of summoning an armour card. One was to summon it out of thin air, and the other was to summon it for the purpose of equipping the item.

If one used the second method, the armour would be directly equipped as it was summoned.

But what Dark used this time was the first summoning method, because his purpose was to get a full view of the armour.

As light shone from the surface of the card, the full set of armour appeared on top of the table.

Sunhat, vest, skirt and two bracelets.

Those were all there was to this wooden armour set.

Aside from the faint white light covering the surface of the wooden armour, it looked nearly identical to how it was before it went through the armour crafting process.

"No change in size."

"No change in material."

"It's still the same old wood."

Dark confirmed his discovery after a careful inspection.

Although this set of wooden armour gained the name "Wooden Armour", it was in fact still made up of wood carvings. Its essence didn't undergo any change.

The buckles, straps and pleats he carved out were still wooden.

This was completely different from what he knew.

After all, Alvette could even use the [trinity armour crafting magic circle] to craft battle armours out of knitted clothes!

That was what one might call a true "armour crafting"—to make the material of the armour itself undergo a great transformation.

"Just where did it go wrong?"

"Is it because my carving isn't good enough?"

"Or is it because I did a hack by using [deadly sin]?"

"Or maybe there's some problem with the materials?"

Dark couldn't help pondering over it.

However, his understanding of the [trinity armour crafting technique] basically came from what Headmistress Arte told him.

Some of the things the Headmistress regarded as extremely simple and obvious might very well be hurdles that were difficult for him to overcome.

……

"It's so difficult!"

Dark sucked in a breath as he thought so.

"Mi."

At some point, Sylveon had wrapped its feeler around his wrist, gently rubbing the skin as if to comfort him.

He turned around to pick up two of its little feet and smiled, "It's alright, with challenge comes motivation."

Sylveon: "Mi~"

Gatomon: "It's whining about having to wait even longer for its skirt."

Sylveon: "(ー`´ー)Mi! (Stop slandering me!)"

……

All in all, Dark didn't feel too down about it.

It was already very fortunate that his first "armour crafting" attempt didn't end in failure.

As for the aspects that were lacking, he could seek for breakthrough through subsequent experiment and research.

In the first place, a crafting experiment with such a high degree of difficulty was not something that could be accomplished overnight.

It was just like what happened after astronomy class on Wednesday night. He had actually obtained the data for [Magic Circle of Love] from Professor Medea, but after looking through it, he found that he couldn't understand even the slightest bit of it.

It was even more far-fetched to apply it in the development of the [Flower Card].

This instantly led to the large amount of materials he had prepared for this purpose becoming useless. He could only split them up and use them for other experiments.

He would most likely only be able to comprehend [Magic Circle of Love] after accumulating more astronomy and astrology knowledge.

But as of present, he had yet to show any talent for divination, hitting a bottleneck in his study of astrology.

Under current circumstances, if he wanted to continue his independent study, he could only pin his hopes on Eevee.

If Eevee managed to gain results in its study, Dark could continue his research and development on [Flower Card] with its assistance.

Fortunately, he wasn't in urgent need of [Flower Card].

With the foundation already in place, the research and development of [Flower Card] was a project he could restart at any time. Therefore, it would be fine to put it off for later.

In fact, this mindset was highly commendable.

Oftentimes, people who wanted to grasp everything all at once would end up achieving nothing.

……

In the end, Dark called Ditto over and had it transform into a wooden figure before putting the [Wooden Armour] on it.

"Mon Mon!"

Wearing the skirt and the hat, Ditto twisted and turned its little butt across the tabletop.

But the wooden skirt hanging on its body clacked and clunked. It didn't have the property of textile at all.

"Let alone giving any buff, this kind of subpar armour will be a hindrance instead…"

After thinking it over for a while, Dark decided to permanently cast it aside.

……

The following day, Monday.

After seriously studying for a whole day, Dark went to the library to finish his homework, grabbed something to eat, and then rushed back to the dormitory.

Instead of dampening his enthusiasm, the experiment last night further deepened his interest.

This time, he selected a large block of wood and prepared to carefully carve a skirt that would fit Sylveon's measurements.

From drawing the design to finishing the carving, the entire process took more than an hour.

Afterwards, instead of directly crafting it, he took out a set of paints and started to paint the skirt!

This was a countermeasure he took in response to the previous night's failure.

Among the three reasons he could think of that caused the "armour crafting" to fall short of expectations, he had no other solution for the matter of spiritual power nor any clue about the selection and addition of materials for the time being, so he could only start with improving the precision of the carving.

The outfit he made last night was really way too crude. It didn't look like the real thing.

This time, he would make a skirt that looked like a skirt!

Emmm…

In short, two hours later, he successfully created a pink wooden skirt and made Sylveon try it on.

The colour matched it pretty well, but the wooden skirt was stuck around its legs.

……

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