When he was done gathering materials and mana stones and had stored them in his backpack he stood up and started walking back to base with a huge grin on his face. He had gotten 10 minor mana stones just day! that meant he could spend 1000 mana plus what he currently had! Today he would greatly expand his base. When he got back he immediately entered build mode and started designing a new layout for his base.
Currently it was just a 5 meter long 2 meter wide and 2 meter tall room with a door leading outside. He had the items from his backpack and an electrical air purifier and an electrical pump. Now for his new plan was first to raise the ceiling from two meters high to four meters high. Then he added a doorway at the end of the 5 meter long room connecting to the outside. And on the other end he made a new room. This one being 20 meters long and 20 meters wide and 3 meters tall. This room now further inside the big rock would become his central room. From where he would expand the rest of his base. The room he had used until now that connected to the outside he would fill with extra defenses just in case anything ever entered. It would basically be a trap room and then beyond that trap room. His base would actually begin. So the central room would really be his base.
Now he started building walls to divide his new big central room into many smaller rooms. Then he got to work on what would become the bathroom, the bedroom, and living room.
He had already moved the air purifier to the big central room and hid it into the wall and connected it to all over the central room. He also embedded the water pump in a counter in the bathroom. He also bought the boiler and water purifier, did the piping and connected them all to each other. Then he hooked everything up the power.
All of this would cost him 900MP so far. Seeing he still had about 300MP left counting in his natural mana capacity. He put in a shower and hooked that up to everything as well. With the 150MP leftover he created some shelves for his storage room and also added a metal mechanical locked door onto it. Then he added metal walls for his storage room. This way it would protect whatever he had and would also be a makeshift safe room. Although he was planning to make an actual safe room later. At this point he only had about 10MP left to spend so he decided to quit here. He grabbed his mana stones at the ready and then finalized his creation in build mode.
As soon as he finished the MP started draining out of him. Construction would take 2 hours, in which time he was planning to just lay down, relax a little, and start thinking up some plans on what he would create the next day. Time went by and he replenished his mana every now and then with a mana stone.
He had kept his drones at the clearing to keep killing creatures and keep getting mana stones. He got a few more kills throughout the 2 hours he spent relaxing while waiting for construction to finish.
XP: 455 / 600
He was actually already getting close to level three. He expected to wake up to being level three tomorrow. But what he was even more excited about than becoming level three was the expectedly huge amount of mana stones he would get. He would probably be able to finish his bedroom and kitchen tomorrow. He would also create his phone tomorrow. And after he got his phone he could start observing monsters and the forest from a safe distance. This way he could also gather more information about the animals, the forest and any other changes currently going on thanks to the earth going through evolution. Plus he was also kind of curious how things were going in the human cities. Although it would be too dangerous for him to start returning and walking back, sending a drone wouldn’t pose him any risk. Deciding he would buy a phone and send a drone back to civilization the next day.
Now then it was time he started clearing out the room he was currently in and start moving his belongings into the central room. So he took down his tent, filled his bag with everything and set off into the central room. Where he set everything back up. He kept the heater and the mattress with him for now. The rations and everything else in his bag together with the tent he stored away in the storeroom for later use.
Now though, it was time for his shower. Since he had finally installed a water pump,purifier and boiler and connected them all to his new shower and water system. He could now take a hot shower for the first time in what felt like forever. He quickly took off all his smelly and dirty clothes and almost jumped into the shower. And when he felt the warm water hit him and wash away all the dirty,blood and stress he had accumulated over the past four days, it truly felt like heaven. Never had he enjoyed a shower as much as that moment. He showered for about an hour before he finally had enough. He stepped out of the shower and then realized he had nothing nearby to dry himself off with. Shrugging he walked over to the storeroom and grabbed a piece of the tarp that made up his tent and quickly dried his body off. Not like he had any more use for the tent since he would have an actual bedroom from tomorrow on.
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He promised himself he would make a mechanism to dry him off tomorrow though. But now he just wanted to go to sleep. He didn’t want to put back on his dirty clothes so he just went all natural under his blankets. And as he went to sleep he dreamed about all the upgrades he would make to his base the next day.
When jake woke up he immediately got hit by a barrage of notifications. And after taking some more time to shake off the sleepiness he decided to take a look. The first things he got were a bunch of kill notifications. Now he just took a look at the ones that were actually new animals.
Big boar (fire) level 3 killed + 70XP
Tiny boar (fire) level 1 killed x 5 + 120XP
Gale wolf (wind) level 2 killed + 50XP
Tree toad (poison) level 3 killed + 70XP
Just those new animals alone gave him some major XP and he hadn’t even looked at all the terror rabbits and snakes yet. Then he let the other notifications roll out.
Required threshold reached...
Leveled up to level 3..
Required threshold reached..
Skill Create drone has leveled up to level 2..
His eyes shot open at that second notification. His skill had leveled up? He opened up the skill to see if anything had changed,
Create drone [Info] [Skill changes]
1. Scout - 100MP (3/20)
2. Worker - 300MP (0/10)
Immediately he noticed the two new additions to the skills menu. First he had a option to see what changes had been made to his skill. And second of all he had a new type of drone he could summon, a worker drone of all things. Quickly wanting to see what the changes to his skill were he selected the skill changes option.
And in front of him opened an orderly nice window that directly showed the changes that were made.
Skill changes
Scout:
Max speed: 100 km/h -> 150 km/h
Max drones: 10 -> 20
1 minute of video -> 3 minutes of video
Flashlight: ∞
[new] worker:
Max speed: 50 km/h
Max drones: 10
Max weight: 100Kg
Type of hands: Claw
He was actually kind of disappointed. Not because the drone was bad, not at all. But he had really been expecting a combat drone. Not that he would complain about having a drone doing grunt work for him. He could probably have it gather the mana stones for him out of the corpses after all. And if it meant he wouldn’t have to dig around guts and blood entrails anymore he was all for that. But he still couldn’t help being a little sad at not getting that combat drone.
Deciding to read about the drone via the info option that had gotten an update to accommodate the level up. This disappointment soon disappeared. The drone would actually be very useful. It was as he had expected a grunt worked. He could have it do all sorts of random tasks. But for now at level one it was mostly just things he could do himself. At later levels it would gain additional tools for hands such as drills for mining or Soldering tools to attach metal to metal.
Now he would summon it later to see how it looked. For now he focused on some of the changes that were made to his scout drone though. And as far as he could see the scout drone just got general improvements like a higher number of maximum drones, a higher maximum speed and a higher available recording time. It also gained a flashlight function which would be very useful in the night or in dark places like caverns.
Now that he,d checked out the changes that had been made to his drone skill he wanted to check out his status screen to see what else had changed.
Name: Jake miller
Age: 23
Class: Technomancer
Level: 3
Mana: 400/400
XP: 349/1200
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Skills:
Create drone lv2
Construction lv1
Weapon creation lv1
Traits:
Builder ll
After reading through his status a theory he had about his level up requirements was confirmed. It seemed the XP needed for every level would double when he leveled up. His mana also seemed to double in max capacity everytime he leveled up. His max mana being at 400 meant he would also regenerate 80MP per hour now too.
His clearing monster farming idea was working out great. Now though,it was time for him to summon that worker drone.