Joe and Sher had both levelled up to level 9, now that they are up there their levelling up will slow down drastically.
Louie stood up and entered the lounge where Joe and Sher were still working over their Tablets.
"Hey, guys! Lets set a reminder for 8hours and get some rest, nobody can make clear decisions when tired. Let's get some rest first, I'm going to take a bath and get some sleep, see you all later."
Louie entered the bathroom as BOB made himself home on the doggy bed.
He noticed that the bath was filled with steaming hot water but decided to take a shower first to get rid of all the dirt and grime before soaking in the bath.
After the shower he got in the bath. He laid back and closed his eyes relaxing for a moment when his reminder that he had set for five hours went off.
The first thing he noticed was that he was still in the bath but the water was drained and the temperature wasn't cold but around 25'C as if the room wanted to make sure he was comfortable while laying in an empty bath.
As he sat up he noticed BOB laying on the floor in front of the bath. He reached out and rubbed his head.
"Thank you boy, you sure are a good boy." Louie cringed as BOB's tail smacked the floor a couple of times, it sounded as if somebody smacked the ground with an iron pipe.
Louie got dressed and left the room stepping over to the vendor.
"Vendor, I did not see any underwear on the catalogue is there a reason why?"
There followed a half-hour of trying to explain to the vendor about underwear, and the difference between men's underwear and ladies underwear not to mention lingerie.
He gave up and bought another four engravers starter kits together with a copy of the book Engravers for Dummies.
He also bought a whole crate with wooden spools, two anvils and a mobile forge and four each of the following: tailoring starter kits, carpentry sets and blacksmith sets.
He moved over to the workshop where he found a section set aside for woodworking.
He removed the crappy ratkin spears they had used to wind the spider silk around and cut the heads off. He then fit it in a mana-powered lathe, he moved the spinning wheel over next to the lathe and fit the first of the wooden spools to it and attached the thin strand of spider silk.
Slowly he started to pump the paddle of the spinning weel and the silk started to unwind from the spear haft and onto the spool.
It took over 2hours but he got all six spears transferred onto the wooden spools. Sixty spools in total.
He stored everything after placing the spinning wheel back where he found it.
Next, he went to his room and retrieved his still slightly damp underwear and on his way back to the workshop he noticing that the other still seemed to be asleep.
He went to the big table in the middle and started to unload all the [bags of tricks] that they got as loot from the golems, there were 27 in total.
Louie decided to wait for the other before going through the bags.
He grabbed his underwear and the starter kit for tailors and started doing some embroidering with the spider silk, there was no pattern that he followed, he just ran the silk around the edges and every seam got some silk stitched through it, he even tried to engrave the jockey brand.
He then hung the underwear in front of the roaring furnace to dry.
He heard Sher and Joe enter the workshop. "Morning everybody." Louie said cheerfully.
"Sher! Just the person I wanted to see." He jumped up and fetched the jockey from in front of the furnace. Sher gave him a dubious look.
"You were looking for me, why? And why are you swinging what I assume are your underwear around?"
He placed the underwear on the table and straitened it out.
"I want you to
Louie cast
As the glow faded they could see that the piece has changed. It looked sturdier, sleeker even smelled fresher. Louie started laughing as he used
Osanyin's under wrap This self-repairing and self-cleaning underwear will keep your privates dry and clean and also offers comfort. This underwear has a plethora of benefits - including preventing any microbe or bacteria from accumulating and festering in and around the genitalia. Which also helps in preventing any bad odour and itchiness. It also allows the skin to breathe and helps to absorb the moisture, sweat, or discharge better than any other underwear. ”
"Did you guys know that the vendor doesn't sell underwear, it doesn't even understand the concept of underwear?"
He shared the notification with them.
"There are two spools with spider silk and there are also two tailor starter kits you guys can use, this will help a bit when you are out in the field. Be right back, just going to put something on." He smiled as he left the room.
He felt much better when he came back and noticed that hey started emptying the bags of tricks onto the table, he also noticed that the two spools spider silk and tailor kits were gone.
"Most of this is crap, useless junk." Sher moaned as she went through the stuff that came from the bags.
"True but there might be some treasures hidden between the junk."
Louie stopped them.
"Guys this might look like junk, but every piece of paper, every piece of 'junk' are system generated. A piece of paper blowing in the wind outside the Dungeon is just a piece of paper."
He picked up one of the pieces that looked like an invoice.
"This is not just a piece of paper, this is a mana infused piece of paper, it was generated by the system. Check every piece, use
Most of the odds that they found were useless but there were some pearls.
68-Piece Okom travel Sewing Kit (soulbound) Tears, holes and missing buttons are no match for this emergency sewing kit. In a pinch, you can patch up any problem with the multitude of needles, spools of colourful thread, safety pins, white shirt buttons and plenty of additional tools inside this portable case.
Grants: +2 seamstress skill, +3 fast thinker skill +2 tinker skill
Poison Apple Vintage Travel Grooming kit (soulbound) Travel Grooming Kit which includes a mirror, brush, 6 piece nail care set, toothbrush holder, soap holder, bottle, comb, and container
Grants: +5 Charisma, +5 Luck to the user. Last 12 hours.
Restriction: use once per day
Sakara Health Bar x 5 This bar contains wholesome organic ingredients, healthy fats, is high in fibre and protein and has the right amount of antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals.
Grants: +100% health and mana regeneration for 2hours
There were a lot of sweets that gave boosts but the health bars was the best, and then there was the watch.
Mithril Cartier Tank Louis – Swiss Sports Watch (female) (soulbound) Manufacture in La Chaux-de-Fond.
Transform nails to Mithril claws (100% cat fighting during battle)
Agility, Constitution and Perception +100% (during battle)
Debuff: Permanent Charisma + 20
Trick Snap Bracelet A bracelet that allows you to throw your weapon that is held in the hand that wears the bracelet, up to 10 meter and have it return to that hand.
Louie was sure that the next bag they opened was from the first driver, the Dark mage.
Stick-on Tattoo (permanent) Dark drider (scalable)
Mental manipulation immunity: +50%
Improved reaction time +50%
10% chance for shields of 50% reflection
10% chance to learn universal language of Aracnea
But the bigger surprise that was first dismissed were ten folded blueprint drawings.
There was only one that reacted to
Level 1 Townhall. Requirements: 1 Cornerstone, 2 cubic Stone,2 cubic Thatch, 1 cubic Lumber, 1 Town Hall blueprint, 1 Builder.
Louie looked in his inventory and shook his head. "Damn this is a treasure trove."
They were dumbfounded at the quality of the loot. "I think it's our party title that is responsible for this high-level loot."
Louie moved the stick-on tattoo the spider pendant and the staff of elements to one side.
"Sher I think you should use these and this."
Unhatched Queen spider egg (pet) To hatch feed it regularly with mana.
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Will make a good pet.
Class depending on external factors.
Sher looked on in shock, as Joe spoke up.
"Louie, are you mad? You know she doesn't like spiders!"
"True but she is a Druid, she needs a pet and she will receive, if she didn't already, an animal form. I saw how she went to town with those last couple of spiders not to mention the Queen. She will also be able to learn the Aracnea language from the tattoo much easier if the pet is small and she talks to it every day. And they are not small hairy little critters that hide under beds and stuff, this is a big shinny metal creature - there is nothing to be afraid of."
They can see that she was wavering.
"Sher, everybody can do with a powerful companion in this new world. There are monsters out there, she will help and protect you."
Bob went up to her and gave her a nudge on her hip with his head. "See even BOB agrees that you should have someone powerful to protect you."
They heard her mutter something.
"What was that?"
She looked at Joe angrily. "I said I wanted a Wolf puppy!"
"Wolves are not natural to South Africa, who knows when you will get the chance to encounter a wolf."
They saw her gave in. "Ok."
She walked around the table and after wavering for a moment, she took the spider pendant and hung it around her neck next to another necklace under her top. She picked up the Egg.
"What should I do with this?"
They took a closer look before Joe shrugged. Louie read the
Unhatched Queen spider egg (pet) To hatch feed it regularly with mana.
Will make a good pet.
Class depending on external factors.
"You should feed it Mana, maybe like you imbue your power shots?"
She started feeding it mana till it felt that she has reached its limit.
She felt a longing and heard a faint girls voice whisper. 'mother?' deep inside her a feeling stirred, a feeling she had buried with her husband. The hope of ever holding her child in her arms. 'yes'
Congratulations
You are the second person in this Gaea system to bond a System generated Companion, you may now name it.
Be aware that if you mistreat this companion it may sever only the bond if you are lucky.
"I just bonded my Companion."
"Huh, Companion? Not pet?." Louie asked.
"No, I always thought of them as friends, not pets."
They just shrugged. "That might actually work out better."
"Now the Tattoo. The tattoo should go on your forehead."
"WHAT! NO BLOODY WAY!"
They started cracking up, and Joe spoke up while wiping the tears from his eyes. "We are only joking, it can go anywhere, your shoulder blade should be ok since people might raise an eyebrow with it on your arm, or somewhere visible."
She glared at them.
"Hmff, turn around."
They turned around while she removed her top, and pressing it to her chest she turned her back to them. "I'm ready. Put it between the shoulder blades."
"Are you sure, why there?"
"I don't know. I just know it should go there."
Joe shrugged and took the tattoo and after soaking it in water applied it to her back right between the shoulder blades. As he pulled the backing off there was a bright light from the egg that Sher held, that travelled up her arms and onto her back till it concentrated on the tattoo. As the light faded they saw that the tattoo has changed.
"What happened, come on guys don't joke around, what happened?"
"The tattoo changed it now showed a copy of the egg that you are holding."
She looked at the egg and shrugged, placing it on the table she told them to turn around so she can get dressed.
"Wait, don't get dressed."
She glared at Louie. "What, why?"
He smiled. "I promised to show you guys what I figured out. Now listen carefully. I found out that you can place all your clothes in 1sq, no that's wrong."
He started pacing around.
"I took my armour and laid it out on my bed the way it would fit my body, I placed my coat first front to the top. Inside my coat, I placed my cuirass then my gloves in my coat sleeves, my pants and belt at the bottom of my cuirass Then the pant legs inside the boots and the helm inside the hood of the coat the top of the cuirass. Do you get what I meant? Think of it as me fully dressed for battle then just take the body out of the armour."
They looked puzzled as they try to figure out where he was going with this.
"I did the same with some other sets of clothing I bought at the vendor. Then I cleared a couple of Sq at the top of my inventory and willed my sets each in one inventory sq. Wait let me show you guys."
He stepped back and held his arms out like a showman and equipped his armour. His current set of clothes was replaced with his armour set and after a couple of seconds the armour disappeared and he was wearing his clothes again.
"TADA!"
They smiled. "Thanks, Louie." Sher walked out of the room to go put on her top.
"What did I do?"
Joe just shrugged. "The day you understand a woman, then you would understand how the world works.”
Joe started laughing as he grabbed some of the sweets and walked towards one of the other two doors against the wall.
"I'm going to practice a bit." He pointed at the door. "There is a practice yard in there with animated practice dummies and stuff, if you want to come to test your powers."
"Really? I will come and join you later. There is some stuff that I want to try out."
Louie had noticed that the Bag of tricks hat they got as loot were all 10sq bags of holdings so he gathered up all the bags and stored them.
He had also come to realize that his mace was ok but he needs something that he can use faster. His Fireninjato Ryu can cut metal if he activates the fire in the blade, but he figured he needed something like a lightsaber.
He took out his Tablet and started scrolling looking for weapons or something he could turn into a weapon. He found what he needed but there was a snag.
The metal is extremely hard and could not be shaped by any current means in this system, but on inquiring at the vendor he found that it can be sold in rods 1meter long and 3centimeters thick for 10G
Next, he found a toy that would work.
Sparkle wand/Toy If charged the mana stone will release small lightning bolts up and down the wand causing a sparkle effect,
Last for up to one hour or till the mana stone is removed.
This is a toy
Good for kids at parties.
He moved to the workbench and placed the metal rod on the table.
Tritanium Also known as "lustrous silvery", tritanium is completely impervious to most forms of heat or cold. Tritanium Armor is highly sought after by some races
Then he took the sparkle wand and glued the metal rod to the side of it.
He imagined what it would look like and searched through his inventory and used one of those spikes they got from the first lightning mage and bonded the amplification charm to it.
Amplification charm (single use only) This charm will magnify any spell that is cast through it by ten.
He then took the spike and glued it on the other side of the metal rod opposite the sparkle wand. Using a silver wire that he bought at the vendor he wrapped the whole length of his bastard creation.
He charged the wand's mana stone just with a trickle of mana and switching the wand on, he held his breath as the sparks ran up and down the wand, the lightning started to flicker as the mana charge ran out and he cast
In his hand, he had what looked like a lightsaber with a blue gem at the bottom. If a lightsaber had a silver rod for a blade.
"What's that?" He hadn't noticed Sher entering the workshop.
"This is my lightsaber of Golem's doom." He uttered in a deep voice laughing evilly.
"Really?" She placed one hand on her hip and raised one eyebrow.
He snickered. "Sorry, I couldn't resist. I wanted to make a sword that can cut through golems, but I don't know how to make a lightsaber so I found a toy that let lightning run up and down its length and did a bit of modification and WHALA! I got a lightning sabre!"
He held aloft what looked like a modified lightning rod.
"Where is Joe? I bet he would like to see this."
He pointed towards the practice yard and soon she was back with Joe.
"What's this about?"
"Louie is about to try out the new lightning sabre that he made to kill golems with."
"Ow ok."
Louie could not understand why they were practically hiding behind the doorframe of the practice yard.
"What's wrong? Don't you guys trust me, I did make Joe's axe, and this is just a small divergence on how the axe was made."
Louie noticed that the spike and wand's mana stones have merged into one stone that can be removed by twisting it, nice
He started to charged the mana stone and was surprised at the amount of mana it took to fill. He heard Joe ask if he had analysed it just as he pressed the button on the side of the lightning sabre.
There was a loud SNAP and suddenly lightning roared up and down the blade, the light was so bright that he couldn't see anything and the roar had burst his eardrums.
The sabre was starting to vibrate so bad it felt like he had a giant tiger at the scruff of its neck and it was trying to get loose. He pressed the button but it didn't work.
Slowly he moved his hand down to remove the mana stone from the wildly bucking lightning rod.
Suddenly everything was quiet and dark.
He felt a warm glow flow through his body and he could hear and see again.
"Fuck, that was fucking wild." He moved the lightning sabre away from him where he was sitting on the ground.
Wtf when have I sat down?
He looked around at the devastation he had caused, halve of the big table was missing and there were a couple of big gouges in the floor.
"Louie you idiot. Did you analyse that thing before you decided to use it?"
Joe just shook his head as Louie looked slightly sheepish. He went over and picked the rod up. And used
Lightning Saber of Doom
Made by armourer Louie.
Bet he wished he didn't.
"Well, my
"Lightning Saber of Doom? I was joking when I said that." He got up from the floor and took the lightning sabre that Joe held out to him.
"I think I will hide this in one of the far corners of my inventory. I don't think I will be ready to wield this for a very long long time."
He bend down to pick up the mana stone when he noticed that there was a difference.
Mana crystal (extremely Rare)
When two or more mana stones merge, mana crystals are created.
A Nice money maker.
As he walked past the snickering Sher he handed her the staff from the drider consort
"The staff is also for you, I think that you are the only person that can use it since you got the most mana of us all. It should work the same as Joe's axe, run your mana up your arms into the staff and just think of throwing the spell, according to the description it should throw elemental bolts."
"I'm going to bed, I'm clearly still tired because I'm making stupid mistakes." Sher burst out laughing and Joe just shook his head.
"Here Joe. Before I forget." He walked up to Joe as Sher was trying to get her laughing under control. He handed Joe a stack of papers.
"I think you should take the blueprints. If you are still serious about building a Dungeon town or fortified barracks outside this Dungeon then they will come in very handy."
Joe scratched his head. "True but I will need a cornerstone for the town hall. I have looked and there is nothing in the Vendor. It just said that you need it to start a system recognized town."
Louie moved away a bit and removed the glowing cornerstone out of his inventory.
"The first time I opened it, I saw this in my inventory, I don't know where I got it from, I guess that if I go back far enough in my reports then it will say where. But my best guess is that I got it when I destroyed the Ratkin nest, and it only analyses as Cornerstone, nothing else. I didn't know what it was but everything in me screamed Quest item, so I left it alone. It's yours if you want it."
The stunned Joe looked at the glowing stone. "You sure brother? With this, you could start your own town, start building your own damn Kingdom."
Louie just laughed. "What would I do with a Kingdom? I got a quest, I guess you can call it a seekers quest, in that direction." He pointed in the direction of where he thought Cape Town was.
"When I get out of here I must go around the mountain and see where this search of mine leads to. I can't stay here. Maybe a couple of days tops. But that's it, then I got to go."
Louie turned around and left the half-destroyed workshop to go and try to catch up on his sleep.
Sher shook her head as Louie left the workshop.
"That man is very confusing. He goes out of his way to help and then in the same voice he tells of hacking people apart in a blind rage, then he goes and gives away the possibility of a Kingdom."
BOB gave a small whine and followed Louie out of the room. Joe agreed. "He makes a good friend, but I think he would be a very bad enemy to have. I'm just glad we are friends."
He turned around and went back to practising with his axe and