Waking up was the easy part, opening my eyes? that was hard, and after a few hours I opened my "eyes", and boy was that disorienting, I can see all around me and inside of my body.
I look like a Crab with a fan on the front that cools my internals, how do I know well there is a handy little screen that tells me all about my body.
Combat bot 1341 or CRAB is a small anti-infantry weapon created to protect bases and locations that are hard to reach or to do simple tasks, armoured with titanium and steel it can take more hits than it looks, it is the "grunt" of the Military. height of 40cm and 60cm wide, its battery has 2 hours of high-intensity actions, 5 hours of continuous use, and one day of low-intensity actions Particle weapon a small gun on top of this platform shoots ionized mass [preferably mercury] near the speed of light, while this beam doesn't reach lightspeed it does have kinetic energy and as such can damage things that would otherwise deflect or absorb normal energy weapons Bio-Furnace is a generator that can use most biological matter and even fossil fuels, the reason why is this weapon platforms would be used in environments with biological life and would be able to be powered indefinitely with biomatter, overuse of this weapon platform has caused massive damage to ecosystems as they "ate everything in their sight", Bio-furnace produces huge amounts of heat and as such has an inbuilt cooling fan and two backup radiator fins, Nano-mender, this component comes with almost all military platforms, Nano-Machines coat most of the internal space, acting as shock absorbers and insulators, it will repair all but the most damages, capable of patching holes and broken circuitry, many times the enemy has thought they destroyed a weapons platform only for it come back in days and wreak havoc to supply convoys and patrols, [note: CRAB units only have a cap of 15k nanobots and the fabricator can only create 200 an hour]
well that is an interesting read, lets's not waste more time and look around, I seem to be in a small ruin, all around me everything is either broken or rotten, cloth hanging from a window now more seems like moldy bread with all those different funguses, the table I am on top of looks like it has been eaten by termites and is already flaking and cracking under me
"This better not break-" and with those words, I cursed myself as the table broke and I fell with the grace of a 250kg crab.
getting up was easy as subprograms worked much like how the human body doesn't need to think about thinking about it, looking around I see that it isn't that big of a place and me being in the middle of the room it is roughly 10 meters to 6 meters, to my right is a window with a bed facing behind me and to a shelf with bottles and stuff, on the left wall is another window with a double bed in the corner, in front is a door and right behind me is a steel box with a yellow sticky note with the words "For you"
interested I go and look what is inside the box, inside was three-item, one cube of silver-grey something, one crystal chip that I am sure is a data chip and last is something that looks like a hard drive with an azure octagon shaped crystal in the middle
"well, this is interesting" just as I picked up the Crystal chip my arm automatically plugs it into my brain and instantly I get "Faster" this chip is like a GPU or a RAM drive making my previously human-like reaction speed now is increased to inhuman levels and the only thing that is holding me back is the motors, it also came with higher than normal military intel, the silver-grey cube is a cube of nanobots that can do anything, unfortunately, I can only use it 3 times and then the self destruct protocol is activated. the hard drive is a small infantry carry quantum pocket generator with 120kg capacity it is an inventory of your typical RPG or any games that use inventory
"well let's first attach the Pocket first if I'm going to carry anything" and with a bit of fumbling, I got it attached under my body.
outside was an absolute beauty, I don't know if it's because of my new eyes but everything is more vibrant! from the trees to the sky and the animals too!
the house seems to have been a small farmhouse wide-open field, cobblestone fence, a small stream, and the remains of what could have been stable, it a nice place I can see why they the family was here, now the question is, why was I in a house, and where are their tenants, the family wouldn't have just run away from their house right?
*ROAR*
scratch that they would indeed run away, should I though? can I take on a mystery monster?
within deep in the forest the tortured creaks and the sharp crack of trees breaking echoes, from the darkness a mountain of muscle and fur emerge, a giant bear the size of a truck its deep dark fur with streaks of green going along its back, quietly I slink in the shadow of a tree if I have enough time I could slowly slink away, my sharp pointed legs helping in this situation as tree branches and leaves slideway and my leg punching through the soft soil underneath,
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slowly and carefully I move slowly backward my eyes focused on both the bear and the place I'm stepping and after half an hour I get out of its sight and then I BOLT away, my legs look like it was bending to my camera eyes I get to roughly one and a half kilometers
phew that was close, I didn't think that machines could hold their breath! though it was more like me subconsciously halting my cooling fan and extending my radiators, with the giant mountain of flesh now not endangering my existence I can now focus
on what do I do? I don't have much to wish, I can eat trees won't die from old age, and will never be destroyed if I play my cards right, so what?... ah yes, make a Country! more specifically a technocratic Country! I will create a country that turns down the easy way and forge a new path in this new world even if it takes a few centuries, but all stories start somewhere
right in front of me is a trail with a sign, and on it in clear English to me is the words [Miner's dream Dungeon]
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[Time skip]
So after a long hike, I am finally in front of a cave opening, around the area is similar to a place that had seen a lot of camping, a ring of stone with a burnt-out fireplace, Log seats, a table and a dirt path to what I would guess is the bathroom
Warning: power level 15%
"Time to eat! I wonder if I taste what I eat?" approaching a tree I select it and see a black smog of nanomachines that then proceeds to break down the tree, the tree turns into a black sludge of processed biomatter that slides down the melting tree, extending a proboscis like a mosquito I slurp up the black sludge, I Can Hear the furnace starts, its sounds like a small jet-engine and from the exhaust a plume of dark grey smoke streams out,
"aah sweet smell of industry, reminds me of my home!" and after getting a full charge I go into the cave, it was lined by these rows of crystals that light up the path, and after a few minutes of walking, I encounter my first foe! a rocky little golem its ponderous steps shake bits of dust and sand from its body, I take a shot at its center mass
*ZAP* with a beam of light a molten hole now exists where there was rock, and with a Pained rumble the rock golem falls crumbling
poking around the rocky corpse I found a little Topaz in the head of the golem, it shines a dim yellow light and flickers from time to time
a burst of laughter is heard from a few meters away, and from the distance, small biped lizards armed with bone knives and wooden clubs, as they rush in, quickly getting to the side of the wall I get off a few shots,
"Ow ow! stop Throwing Shit at me you lizard brains!" the lizards now knowing that they cant reach me started throwing rocks in the room we are in, though none make a dent in me it still is hard to keep my footing when rocks are flying at you, *ZAP* with that the last of the lizards fall dead
"Hmm I'm a bit low on power, let's see what happens if we eat these dead bodies" as soon as the smog touched the bodies it turned into a dark red sludge, slurping up the sludge it recovered half of the power used making my total power now 85%
a few minutes of walking later I come across a giant slate door, on the side, there is a sign with the writing Dungeon guardian ahead I guess this is it, let's go!
pushing inside is an open room with scattered mining equipment lying around, looks like this was the storage room with the tools and stuff needed before this was taken over,
warning! left leg 2 severely damaged!
"Fuck!" one of my left legs was hit and the pick punched right through! *ZAP* *ZAP* *ZAP* launching quick three bursts from the gun the light beams melts and cooks the flesh underneath the armor, wincing it stops to look at its wound and then at me, it the Roars, shaking the room from its voice, without losing a second I launch another burst of beams from my gun, the already angry lizard stops roaring, it now has some kind of red haze around it, its muscles bulging and its eyes bloodshot it Rockets towards me, like a berserker it swings its pick with wild abandon, getting out of its range as quickly as possible I get a few shots to its head
what looked like a simple piece of scrap metal helmet somehow deflects my shots, though now it has a burning hot metal hat which it promptly throws away.
"Big mistake!" *ZAP**ZAP* two quick shots to its head boils its brain. its eyes look like hard-boiled eggs and its forehead now sports two holes where my shots landed
Congratulations! you have defeated the dungeon guardian