Two days have gone by since the assasins incident. Sam looked at his gains.

[500 TIER 1 CORE SHARDS]

[16 TIER 2 CORE SHARDE]

[2300000 EXP]

"Even with these numbers it's still not enough for a 10k army. I have to go into the third floor if I want to increase the exp and tier 2 cores."

He then decided to use one million exp to summon a thousand hanzo mechs. A bright light engulfed a part of the camp. It was an incredible site to see rows of mechs lined up.

"WE GREET THE MACHINE MONARCH"

Having the biggest grin on his face , Sam was ready to lead this small battalion of mechs to farm the 3rd floor.

In less than an hour they have already made it to the 3rd floor. The stone hallways got slightly bigger, before they made it a couple of meters ahead, a loud snarl was heard. A humanoid grey thin creature, standing at 2.5 meters with elongated limbs, green glowing eyes, sharp claws, and a jaw that opened up three ways showed up.

"Exactly what I thought a ghoul would look like, anyways slice him up boys."

Hanzos rushed to the ghoul to finish it off. Seeing this the ghoul started shrieking, then more snarling and growling came from deep in the tunnel. A group of ten more ghouls came rushing in, a hanzo that was about to attack the first one was side swiped to the wall like a rag doll. It hit the wall hard, and falling over having its arms and legs bent. A medic mech came over sending an energy pulse over the hanzo restoring it back in shape, while more hanzos defended it. An intense fight was soon taking place, with the hanzos in the back supporting with arrows and medics boosting the whole battalion. Ten minutes later all targets were taken care of, several hanzos needed to be repaired. Sam lost two hanzos in just one fight.

"If I'm going to fight the boss in this floor, I'm definitely going to need a Mark 3 to lower the losses." thinking this, Sam kept moving through the tunnels, losing 24 hanzos and 3 medics. They made it to the boss room and decided to turn back, making sure to not miss any more ghouls. Finally back at the surface, he checked how much he made in this dive.

[242 TIER 1 CORE SHARDS]

[53 TIER 2 CORE SHARDS]

[520000 EXP]

"Not bad not bad, although it took way longer this time, it's worth it. If I farm for a week, I can finally start advancing my plans."

With that said, a week passed by. Outside in the open field of the temporary base, Sam was sparring against one of the hanzos. He threw high kicks, jabs, side hooks, and sweeping kicks. Every single one was still blocked effortlessly by the hanzo, but it was still a way for Sam to stay in shape and know his limits. After an hour of heavy sparring and working out he took a bath inside his log cabin. The androids brought clean water and food for his daily necessities, although going to the bathroom was still uncomfortable. While soaking in the water, he looked at his gains.

[21212 TIER 1 CORE SHARDS]

[2,183 TIER 2 CORE SHARDS]

[23600000 EXP]

He quickly got changed into the same trousers that he has been wearing ever since he's been in this world. Walking out you can start to tell that he was gaining more muscles, not making him look slender anymore just lean and fit. He stood in the open field and opened the Mark 3 row.

[Description: Mark 3 Titan mech. A mech capable of ripping metal like its paper, armed with missle launchers, its a walking tank on two legs. Abilities are Missile barrage, Titan fortification, and power fist. Cost: 100000 EXP]

[Description: Mark 3 Arachno tank mech. A four legged mech with an arsenal of heavy weaponry, equipped with a thick cannon, Missile launchers, and machine guns. Just run and hope you don't get turned into red mist. Abilities are Nonstop barrage, Obliteration shell, and Hex shield Cost: 100000 EXP]

[Description: Mark 3 Energy mech. A mech with unparalleled strength and speed in its division. Equipped with a dense plated armor and a energy longsword. Abilities are eight fold slash, arc beam, and energy aura. Cost: 100000 EXP]

"Altough the Arachno tank mech is tempting its only focused on weaponry and seems more for a full siege, the Titan and Energy mech seem to be more of what he needs at the moment. I only have enough for 2 unlocks right now, Unlock titan and energy mechs. Summon 4000 hanzos, 6000 androids, 50 Titan mechs, and 50 energy mechs."

More than 10000 mechs appeared, filling up almost the entire base. Looking at the new Mark 3 Titan, it was a grey with black accent armor 4 meter tall small metal giant that had broad shoulders, thick legs, and arms. The Energy mech was 3 meters tall and with a grey with blue accented layered armor. It had a glowing arc reactor in the middle of its chest and a huge sword behind its back.

[DING 10K MECHS COLLECTED]

[SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS HAVE BEEN MET]

[BUILDING TAB UNLOCKED]

"HELL YEAH!"

Opening up the building tab, he saw only one option open.

[Description: Mark 1 Military base. A military compound, able to upgrade. Cost: 1000000 EXP]

He immediately bought the upgradable base, a large hologram covered the entire temporary base and more. Suddenly the entire thing started to turn into solid metal, it absorbed all the wooden logs, rocks, and trees. After an hour, Sam stood in the middle of a large open training ground with hangars, storage depots, and large metal walls surrounding the base.

"Home sweet home!"

He ran towards a certain building that was directly in the middle, it had no doors or windows. Perfectly cube and metal shaped, as soon as he walked to the middle, two seamless metal doors slid open. Inside he could see a huge curved monitor screen that reached from the top to the bottom of the floor. A comfy armchair was directly in front of it, he sat it in and said the magic words.

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"Nostromo, initiate start up functions."

"Nostromo greets the Machine monarch, starting up live feed options." A robotic voice was produced all around the room.

The giant screen showed live images of the base surroundings, and inside. Thinking about a certain function the Mark 1 base had.

"Nostromo activate camouflage protocol, I don't want anyone seeing us in the open, and tell me what other favilities are running at your current Mark."

"Camouflage barrier initiated" replied Nostromo.

Since the base was set up next to the mountain side, the base from outside started turning into another part of the mountain and forest. Completely hidden from anyone who would look at it, unless they passed the small barrier that created the illusion.

"Mech assembly line fully operational and experimental research lab fully operational, those two are the only operable facilities at the moment. In order to add more facilities, 5000000 EXP is required to upgrade the base." Said Nostromo.

"What will I need to run both facilities?" Said Sam.

"Iron as well as exp will be needed to create mechs in the assembly. Several different metals, corpses of organisms, as well as exp will be needed for the lab to produce Mark 1 products." Responded Nostromo.

Getting his answer, Sam dispatched a team of hanzos to look for any iron veins to mine in the mountains. He left the base and gathered all Mark 3 and 500 hanzos to finally defeat the 3rd floor boss. After 2 hours they finally got to the boss door, having the new Mark 3s on his side, the ghouls were killed in less than one strike by the Mark 3s, since their capable of fighting Class 5 and 6. Class 3 ghouls stood no chance. Opening the door, they were met with a wet and heavily rooted stone chamber. In the far back a five meter tall bipedal creature covered in fur and a skull of a deer with antlers adorned its head. It looked extremely ripped from head to toe, and it looked at Sam with glowing purple eyes.

"First ghouls, now a windego. I knew Native American folklore legends were real. Anyways, your head would look great on my office wall." Sam said fearlessly smiling at the creature.

This caused the creature to let a deep howl that would make anyone's hairs stand up straight. It charged to the large group.

"Titans and energy mechs, put this little deer in its place."

Two titans rushed towards it and power fist smashed the windego into the ground, altought it was much heavier and taller looking than the titans. It was still slammed against the ground, a giant crater formed in the middle of the room. Unwilling to be pushed around the windego used its skill. Thick roots around the room moved to Pierce and slam the titans, too bad a few energy mechs already moved and used their skill eight fold slash to turn the roots into pieces.

The Titans picked up the windego and ripped its arms off, before he could howl in pain the energy mechs already slashed its head off clean. It didn't even notice it was killed until it started falling chest first into the ground.

[1 TIER 2 CORE SHARD COLLECTED]

[100000 EXP]

A medium well crafted chest appeared on a stone slab in the middle of the room, opening it up were three long gold bars, jewels, two glasses filled with a red liquid, and a shining sword with a skull in the middle of the hilt. Taking the rewards for this floor, Sam waited for the next set of stairs to show up, and he waited.

"God don't tell me this dungeon only has three floors." Running his hands through his hair Sam said.

He made the troops search around the room for any clues, maybe a secret passageway. He walked through the entire 3rd floor, but nothing. He faced the reality, and understood that already having this good of a farming spot early on was already a godsend. Making up his mind he returned back to the surface and went to the base operations room. As soon as he was walking towards his seat, Nostromo reported to him that a group of humans were spotted going through the forest near the base. From what they managed to find out, is that they were a called adventurers, the hanzos overheard them speaking of a job that had to do with looking for abnormalities in the forest. He also reported that another group of hanzos found a wooden base hidden deeper into the mountains, the inhabitants were rugged looking human men.

"Hmmm this seems strange, since they weren't looking for him specifically its fine, but Something still felt odd. Nostromo show me live video feed from the hanzos watching the human camp."

The large monitor screen turned into ten different angles of the human camp. Sam can see several rough looking men with mismatched armor and weapons, suddenly from a small dirt trail leading into the main wooden gate of the base. A small caravan of wagons with cages on their backs, half of them were empty and the other half were filled with a variety of humanoid races. He saw humans, beastkin, and even some dwarfs.

"I see, your typical slave traders. I knew slavery is prevalent and legal in this world. Humans also feel like their the superior ones, funny. nothing new I haven't seen."

Sam immediately deduced that this was some sort of place meant to store, and refill on slaves to be sold.

"I'm going to finally start my conquest on this kingdom, but I need info on the local regions military strength and more. A man who doesn't know his enemy is a blind man."

He couldn't count on Samuel's memories this time, since before Samuel was killed he was only thought to become a fighter. Once his father found out he didn't have much talent, and potential like his other siblings. He was shunned and kept from studying or learning combat, only when he sneaked out to the royal library would he gather some knowledge. Unfortunately a lot of that knowledge was not on the kingdoms infrastructure or other important details. He only knew that the closest town was Bryxton, a frontier town.

"Dispatch the troops, send one titan and energy mech. As well as a company of hanzos, I want the important leaders and all slaves captured. Put them in the confinement area."

Nostromo connected to the assigned troops and relayed the information. Blurry figures were seen dashing across the forest, into the mountains. Once they regrouped with the hanzos already observing the camp they started taking action, Sam just watched from the main base monitor. All hanzos jumped from the trees, taking out the patrolling guards.

"Oi Ollie, time for a guard change. Boss says to go help out with the slaves in the cave." A guard lazily climbed to the top of the watch tower, "you hear me you idiot? Don't tell me you fell asleep on the job agai-"

As soon as he got to the top he saw the guard slumped over in a corner, an arrow going threw his eye and coming through his skull. He was about to alert the whole camp, before he received an arrow threw the head also. He fell backwards into to ground, but was caught by two hanzos below. Slowly the mechs were entering the camp without alerting anyone.

Further into the camp inside a giant cave that had a long tunnel system, a big furnished room filled with a desk and some furniture, with a room adjacent to it. Two men were sitting down having drinks while having seductive slave woman by their sides refilling their drinks.

"Haha Cornell this time I've managed to gather a large assortment of goods to sell, I've even got a secret merchandise surprise your clients would like." Said a tall muscular man laughing, while feeling up a woman next to him.

"Secret surprise huh? If it's really what you say, then I won't hesitate to buy it at a high price as usual." Said a short chubby man chuckling while grabbing onto the butt of a woman next to him, making him smile uncontrollably.

"You know you should tell your boss to talk to the Viscount, he's been causing trouble for my boys. Tightening security and more patrols on the road, it's bad for business. What gives anyways?" Said the muscular bandit boss with annoyance.

"Don't tell anyone, but apparently the bastard prince escaped to these woods and the viscount is the one trying to find him." Said Cornell.

"Haha that's actually not bad, if my boys can find him we could make a lot of money by selling him to the Visco-" The bandit leader got quiet and looked towards the door that lead to the tunnels.

Noticing his change in attitude and serious expression, Cornell decided to ask him.

"Hey, what's wro-"

"Shhhhh" replied the bandit.

The bandit then looked at Cornell and said, "We have company and it looks like their skilled enough for me to finally notice."

He got up and grabbed his sword, running outside and yelled.

"ENEMY ATTACK GET YOUR LAZY ASSES OUT NOW!"

Running outside with his men and seeing who would dare to attack them, he arrived outside and saw bodies lying dead everywhere. He wasn't the only one who was shocked, his men were also terrified of who can possibly do this undetected.

"As expected of the boss, we didn't even notice anything."

"Being silver rank is amazing"

The bandit leader didn't care about the praises, he looked around angrily, and knew the ones responsible were still hiding.

"I KNOW YOU'RE HIDING, SHOW YOURSELF, OTHERWISE DONT EXPECT ANY MERCY!!"

Slowly all hanzos, stood up completely surrounding the bandits. The bandit leader just looked confused at the weird get up, it gave off an intimidating feeling, not many knew this but he was halfway into gold rank. So he could tell all of these people were silver ranked.

"We are the fallen mountain bandits and have powerful people backing us up, so whoever you are. You better get out of my sight, or face the consequences!"

All hanzos just stood their watching him, without making a noise. It honestly was starting to creep the bandits out.

"Fine don't expect to leave here alive then!"

He attacked the closest hanzo, leaving an after image behind him. The hanzo wasn't his match and was sent flying then crashing through the wooden fence.

"Hell yeah that's our boss!"

"Yall are nothing compared to the great bandit king of fallen mountains!"

The bandit leader smiled confidently, and started to feel like he was worrying about nothing. After dealing with these guys he would take their expensive looking gear, and sell it for a high price but his thoughts were disrupted by a heavy booming voice.

"Hehe look at puny human smiling, thinks he strong" said a walking titan mech.

"He is quite confident, overconfidence is the death of the weak." Said an energy mech walking beside the titan.

Now that Sam managed to unlock higher mark mechs, they had better intelligence than Mark 2 and 1, and can actually talk out of their own will.

The bandit leader looked at the new arrivals and went wide eyed, because he couldn't tell what rank these ones were. For once he actually felt fear, and his body started to shake.

"Whoever you're you better leave before my employers find out tha-."

Before he could finish his words the titan appeared before him, smashed its fist into the bandit leaders abdomen. Causing him to go breathless and cough a pool of blood then sent flying into a rock wall.

"You're lucky the human didn't die, otherwise the monarch would be upset if you killed the leader." Said the energy mech with a tired voice.

"Hehe sorry, stupid human talk too much" said the titan.

All the bandits couldn't believe what they saw, even Cornell in the back was in denial that the bandit leader was easily taken care of. Soon all the mechs started a slaughter, killing only the useless ones and taking Cornell against his will. In less than ten minutes, all the dying screams died down and the mechs started searching the camp and tunnels.