Black boxes appeared.
First kill. 5 points . first kill bonus double points. New skill unlocked
New level achieved.
Lex pull up his stats.
Name Lex.
Race Human/drone hybrid.
Level 2.
Age 22.
Sex male.
Strength 30. (enhanced)
Constitution 30.
Dexterity 20.
Intelligence 35.
Speed 25 .
Health 180/180.
skills
Enhanced strength . hack . lockpick. Shield. Simple blade and bludgeoning weapon creation. Harden body. New skill. Crushing hammer.
Universal system.
Integrated AI and wired matrix.
Silver titanium alloy chassis.
Lex added all 10 points to his dexterity and saved his stats.
Tatty pulled up her sheet and checked it over.
Name Tatty.
Race Vix.
Level 2.
Age 19.
Sex female.
Strength 20.
Constitution 20.
Dexterity 25. (enhanced)
Intelligence 12.
Speed 40. (enhanced)
Sense 35. (enhanced)
Health 120/120.
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Skills. Killer claws. Speed boost. New skill. Sense weakness.
She added 5 points to strength and intelligence. And saved her stats.
“ now I’m a whole level behind you two now. How is that fair.” Ella moaned, feeling just a little left behind. “ I didn’t even do much with my crossbow.”
“don’t worry sis. Give it a day or so and you will be a total bad ass. Just like your big bruv. “ he gave her a goofy grin.
“ Ally. What's the deal with these cores?”
“ Good question. Every magi beast has a core. The stronger the beast the bigger and darker red it is. They can be used for transactions or in the case of purer ones you can use then to imbue a weapon or armour with some kind of enhancement.”
Lex looked at the tennis ball sized stone in his hand. Its orange colour looking muddy. Guessing it may be low quality, he showed it to his companions.
“ Ooh shiny” said Tatty “what is it?”
“ According to Ally, it’s called a core. We can use it to sell or imbue stuff .I’ll look into it more when I have a bit more understanding and if we find some kind of civilization.”
“ Do you think we will find people?”
Ally put up his map with a concentrated amount of white dot to the north east about 10 miles away.
“ ok. Ally has just shown me something on my map. Looks like a town. I suppose that’s where were heading. But it’s only 10 miles away so I think we stay here until El gets her system up and running. We can set up in the cottage and wait. It’ll be a nice way to get used to the new world. I don’t know about you but I feel a little heavier.”
“ I was wondering that. Is that why I’m slower.”
“ Maybe. I feel sluggish but I don’t know if that’s my new metal body or the planet.”
“ planet gravity 1.5 that of your home world. You will acclimatize in time. This will have effects when you return to your home world as you will become stronger.”
Lex thought to Ally, I’ll keep that for now. I don’t want to panic them too much. “ Ally said yes the gravity is a bit more , but we’ll get used to it quickly.”
The girls nodded. With that decided Lex cut off one of the hind leg off the badger and slung it over his shoulder.
“ might as well make sure we have food. I’ll skin it back at the cottage.”
“i like meat” said Tatty “ I hope it tastes good.”
They all picked up their packs and headed back towards the cottage. Picking up branches and twigs on the way so he could fuel the wood burning stove.
Back at the cottage the trio unpacked their bags and set up a home-base.
They set up beds and cleaned up the mess from the meteor . Lex took the two interior doors and covered the hole in the roof. Lighting the stove and going outside to skin the badger leg. He stripped the bones clean and washed the blood away with the pumped water. putting the meat pile an o large plate he returned inside to start cooking. Setting a large pot and a frying pan he cut up veg and started a stew stock. And seasoned some slices to fry as steaks.
Meal over with. Eveyone settled down to sleep. Tatty and Ella sharing the larger bed and Lex in the chair in front of the door. Ally on surveillance while he slept.
Ella had a disturbed sleep tossing and turning and kicking off the blanket.
Lex looked over to his sister as she slept. he got up and replaced her blanket. He noticed the slight glow from her arms, realizing she was probably going through changes and that’s why she was unsettled. He returned to his chair and brought up his menu. Choosing weapons he created the war hammer . this time he concentrated on remodelling it. He stood up and lengthened the shaft, growing to two foot long. Then he created the head. Removing the hammer part and lengthening the point. It looked like a heavy warpick. He added extra weight to the head . swinging it a few times he felt happy with the heft of it. He saved it as prime weapon. He then brought out his shield, making it a diamond shape. The bottom edge was elongated into a spike. This would help to support defence and also it doubles as an off hand weapon. He save changes and created prime set. He absorbed them back into his body , with the command prime set his pick and shield formed in his hands and he slammed the spike into the floor.
“ do you wish these as your go to set up from now on?”
“Yes please . I like the feel of them. I know nothing about blades but I can swing a good hammer, and with my enhanced strength a heavy one is no problem.”
“ Understood. Maybe spend tomorrow practising . also if I make a suggestion, make the hilt section of the shaft more oval. It will help with indexing.”
“ what do you mean?”
“ with how it is now , it’s just round. You won’t be able to tell if you have the point facing the way you want it tot be. If you shape the hand section, you can only hold it the right way. That way the point is always facing forward. “
“ that’s a good point, thank you Ally.”
He re summoned the pick and lined it up, creating a comfortable shaped hand hold. Then saving it he re absorbed it.
“does that feel better?”
Lex agreed that it did indeed feel better, more stable. So he let Ally know mentally. He then pulled a blanket up to his shoulders and dozed off letting Alloy sense any problems.