Nick's awareness faded in and out for a while. He managed to crawl to the bathroom on his own, eventually. Petra gave him a ton of notifications that he set aside until later. Finally, he woke up feeling alert. He also felt filthy, and had a “shower” followed by a real shower. That improved his mood considerably.

Petra gave him chicken noodle soup, and he sat down to enjoy it while catching up on what he had missed. There were a lot of alerts about him being sick, and Petra requesting instructions. Apparently tutorial mode included emergency health care, since she eventually took action on her own.

“Wait. What was that?” Nick frowned and read one update again.

24 Health potion monsters sent to counterattack damage. Nick's health at 33%.

Nick called up the list of “monsters” Petra kept. It took a while to sort through them, since everything from the robot doctor to a floodlight was a “monster” to Petra. He sorted by time of activation, and found the 24 items that Petra was talking about. He called up specifications. It wasn't easy to make sense of them.

Size is 0.1 cm? Scanners...What's this about a temperature range? Nick scratched his chin through his beard, frowning as he tried to figure it out. He called up a feed from one of the tiny scanners and got gibberish. Shaking his head, Nick gave up for the moment. I wonder how Petra's deciding my percent health?

“Status,” he called. He got mostly the same display as before, but noticed a couple of changes. The first was that the fever “debuff” was gone. The second was that the diagram of Nick's body was a lot more detailed. I guess she studied up on human anatomy while I was sick. He squinted. Wait. Is that still updating in real time?

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Nick got a suspicion and asked for the locations of the “health potion monsters.” His body diagram lit up with a couple of dozen pinpoints. He stared, then face-palmed.

Petra must have fed me tiny robots in my soup or something. I guess I'm part cyborg now. He hoped that Petra knew what she was doing, medically. She'd better not decide to do surgery on me next!

He dismissed his status and called up Petra's, then sorted the most relevant information and changed its presentation a bit to make it more readable.

Name: Petra

Level: 6

Class: Dungeon

Gender: none

Core: 1

Rooms: 23

Traps: 0

Monsters: 132

Inventory: 35% capacity

Defense rating: 1

Energy: 44432/85680 (51.8%)

Power Input: 64/64 per second

Nick considered. She's expanded a lot while I was out of action. He decided to go on a tour.

Petra had followed his general approach of making staircases to lower levels, regularly spaced lighting, air purifiers, and even AC units. Existing rooms had also been reorganized. There were a few surprises.

Petra now had an Armory, down on Level Five. While he was unconscious, she had apparently shown initiative and created all those little warbots she wanted. Several of the rooms on Levels Two, Three, and Four were empty, but were labeled Trap: Incomplete, which Nick found a little concerning.

Petra's expecting to be invaded? Nick wondered. Or is this just Petra trying to follow game logic again? Maybe she thinks an adventuring party is going to come in.

There was also a large chamber that Nick figured was essentially a parking garage. It stored some bots and had a number of small tunnels leading out. He was surprised to see shelves holding what looked like robot parts along one wall.

I guess Petra wants to build some things much too big for her printer. At one point, he had managed to get Petra to build a larger 3d printer, but it still wasn't terribly big. I wonder if Petra will expect me to put it together? Will it have wordless Swedish assembly diagrams?