Trait Ancient Relic Effect Lord's faction and surrounding region will be isolated from the world for 100 turns. During the isolation, the wave won't progress past ten but increases in number and strength in later waves until its isolation timer run out.
It was a bizarre trait that can't even be called a positive one, as it completely removes the user's faction from any interaction—left in a single province surrounded by the barrier and the threat of ever-growing enemy forces. Something akin to a Chinese cursed poison jar where the sole player's faction is left with a constant struggle with an enemy force for 100 turns.
For faction Zera with no diplomatic relation whatsoever along with lord Sylvesris, that has a negative point in diplomacy which leads to the declaration of war with a neighbor faction in just five turns. They already had all the negatives of such a trait, leaving only positive parts for them to enjoy.
"Well then."
With a smile, Limen scoured through her vast tech tree, searching for one that would fix one of her faction's biggest problems. Eventually, her eyes stopped on the research branch.
Research Mass Tech Effect A new resource, 'Mass,' will be added to the resource bar.
The cost of everything will double along with the total number of required resources converted into a new resource.
All production facilities and tools were replaced with MK.1 Fabricator and MK.1 Recycler.
New building unlocked: Mass Convertor MK.1, Energy Convertor MK.1.
Room/Building Mass Convertor MK.1 Effect Convert any material into mass in a 5:1 of its value for every 1 hour.
Room/Building Energy Convertor MK.1 Effect Convert energy into mass in a 10:1 of its value for every 1 hour.
Opening the armory, Lumen saw a room full of square-shaped containers the size of one cubic meter, with each of them filled to the brim with mass. Containers of the mass were arranged neatly and orderly into three lines, reaching the room's ceiling while leaving a small space in the middle. In the middle of the area lay four black cases on a pedestal.
Walking toward the middle of the room, Lumen opened the cases and checked the inside. Immediately a familiar screen appeared in her mind.
> Acquired: Chaos Fuel x 12
> Acquired: Building core Mass Convertor MK.1, Energy Convertor MK.1
> Acquired: Mass x 2800"
"So then."
Lumen took one case containing Chaos Fuel and two cases with both converters and left the room, heading toward the room that houses the power generator.
After entering the room, she gently removed two casings from the case and replaced the used one with a fresh one. After being fed a new battery, the beast, while dim lights and machinery of the room, brightened as the large generator began to roar and churn like its awakened beast.
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> Base switched to normal mode from energy saving mode. All functions are online.
Then after some thought, Lumen fed another casing to the generator as she knew she could overcharge the generator by providing another battery that boosts the performance of the entire base by 50% for a short period of time.
> Overcharge mode has been activated. All functions of the base improved by 50% for 12 hours.
After the message, Lumen immediately arrived at the main room and connected itself to a central terminal. In this way, Lumen assigned herself to the base.
In 'Just Out of Reach, ' the lords themselves are very versatile units that be used in both combat and management. When assigned to a specific building, it improves its effectiveness depending on its status. Of course, such a chance would never happen depending on its faction but not for Zera, as its faction was made to take full advantage of its lord's ability.
Lord Sylvesris was assigned to the main base. The following statuses are improved until Sylvesris unassigned from the base. Construction que: +5
Research rate: +150% on all tech except diplomacy and foreign energy -50%.
Base Defense: +300%
Base Offence: +100%
Production: +110%
Attribution resistance: +110%
Upon connection, Lumen's vision changed into a more tactical overall view along with a flood of various data. In the past, she would just be stuck in place without any idea what to do with the data. But now she can understand, manipulate and use them without any issues by using Sylvesris's powerful computing and analyzing capability along with letting its natural instincts take control of its body.
Zera's faction work in core oriented style where everything branches out from the base working as one whole entity rather than separate buildings. That is why Lumen needs to turn her base fully functional before building any factory and construction.
With her command, the whole base began operating for almost 200% of capability. The base's room with the manufacturer started to work. Various mechanical arms were equipped with fabricators that shot out the unknown beam in a constant flow as it formed the inner frame of construction drones.
Within 4 hours, the five construction drones rolled out from the room. It immediately began to clear one of the rooms that caved in and filled with debris using its recycler by turning and storing everything into pure mass. Then began to refit the empty room for various purposes.
While everything was happening, another drone left the manufacturer and moved towards the base's exit.
Its form looked more oval and a bit bigger than a construction drone, and it possessed six wheels and various sensors around its body. Its all-terrain unit scout drone has little to no combat capability except its onboard recycler.
With the road of the engine, the scout drone drove out from the base.
In Lumen's brain, the world around her is displayed as if it were a 3D map.
Intuitively she understood how Scout's drone vision was mapping the area from where it was. With a simple command, she switched to the sight of the drone.
It was an open space that was only covered with snow and ice. Far she could see various icebergs and pure sky.
It was a familiar frozen wasteland that Lumen had seen many times. It is evident that there was no such thing as recourse in this wasteland as she supposes to live by resources rewarded from the completion of wave after wave intended by the game's difficulty.
But now, thanks to the trait Legacy Stash, she can immediately start to gather resources by recycling everything around her, including water and energy.
A few hours passed.
Five drones carrying a pack of cubes full of mass left the base after finishing converting the base rooms. With Lumen's command, they quickly began to build wind turbines in the designated area. At the same time, she began researching the combat tech tree.
Research Advanced Armor Study Effect Unlocks production of MK.1 Power Armor for the Lord and Combat Armor for Bandersnatch.
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