《9001: A Dungeon Ship Odyssey》 Chapter 1 - You are NOT putting those on Instagram! My homeworld was originally called NOV-545 when it was discovered in the past. It''s been nearly 300 of our years, or 10 galactic years, since it was discovered. Now it¡¯s called Helionova, it¡¯s a planet just a bit bigger than earth standards with a G force of 1.3 so things are just a tad bit heavier. Oh sorry my name is Leah Binoli. I¡¯m a lovely 15 year old girl that wants to be the greatest Space Cadet. Oh right, Space Cadets are adventurers who explore the stars. That said it''s really hard. To get a single recruit class ship, which is enough for a small crew or if I''m still a single planetary adventurer it¡¯s called a party, it takes a lot of money. Oh right, if you''re wondering I¡¯m an adorable mystic purple haired human who is a mage. I¡¯m short but I¡¯m a girl so it¡¯s a bit expected but I guess 155 cm is a bit short even for women. Oh and by mage I really do mean the kind that do magic but the use of old staffs and the crappy robes is something of ancient past. Not even newbies use them because we are given standard beginner gear when we join. For mage we use the new catalyst weapons in the shape of guns and wands. The guns are for rapid fire bolt and ball spells while wands are for large scale and timed spells. Anyway, I¡¯m diverting, stupid me¡­ Eheheh sorry anyway is said becoming a good Space Cadet is really hard right. Well the reason is because for anyone to get big after a certain point then need a core. Um...how do I explain...Oh right! Dungeons, if you know what they are you know what cores are. Core are essentially just dungeon cores which were removed by dungeon tamers. Oh right I need to tell that. Dungeon tamers are a unique job class that go into dungeons and completely destroy them and remove the core. They have skills to locate newborn dungeons which are easy to obtain and remove from dungeons without killing the soul inside. They have even more skills to tame and train the dungeon core until it submits. Once that happens the core can be put to use by humans. These cores can be turned into the main control system of a city which is built by its magic or in my case as I want to be a free adventurer, a ship. After a certain point the ships take up to much material to build so dungeons are used breaking that point in both technology lacking as well as material. The cheapest core are called trained cores. They are called problem child cores because 8/10 are strong willed and only learn what they need to do but are disobedient part of the time if its life isn¡¯t in danger. There are even several cases where the unimaginable was discovered. Reincarnated souls sometime appear in the cores. Well, not so unimaginable since the only reason the civilization of our empire reached the stars was because of Otherworlders who died and rebirthed in our worlds. The reincarnated as you can guess have their memories but also their strong free wills so they are only trained cores which sell for only 20,000 credits. The ones that are more knowledgeable go for 50k but since it¡¯s hard to know what they know or not they are all put for 20k unless they simply show what they know. After that are ranked cores from F-A which are normal dungeon cores which were completely tamed and are ranked on their size. Size means they are older and smarter. As for the price of the ship, I mentioned the recruit class right. That one cost 5k credits. As a newbie adventurer with no party and only my experience from the magic academy which taught me how to do my class to intermediate rank which lets me venture into my cities dungeon, I see little chance of me getting either of them any time soon. As I sit in a simple green dress in one of the many park plaza¡¯s near the center of town where the dungeon tower, or the location of the cities dungeon if it''s easier to understand, is located. The tower itself is there to be like a mega mall going up nearly 70 floors while at the same time the dungeon goes down the same amount of floors. You can only access the floor up to the number you have explored down below. You get a special magic crystal necklace which records the number of floors you passed as well as keeps you safe and teleports you out of the dungeon if you are in danger of dieing at the cost of one floor you have explored. I was looking up at the greenish blue sky of my planet. This world was one of the few that had three moons. One was red and a place full of lava and fire monsters, one was blue and the surface was 87% covered in water with many isolated islands each with a unique isolated ecosystem and the last moon was green and blue like our planet but it had a purple hue around it. The last one had one huge land mass on one side covering 45% of the space on the planet. The land inland was green because of several huge lakes even visible from here and they branch out over the massive continent feeding the life on it. I always come here when I am bored or sad. Right now I was bored if you¡¯re wondering. I¡¯m an F rank newbie so the dungeon is only open on monday for our rank because on sunday a general clean up of the naturally spawning monsters in the dungeon is done so weakened monsters are a better match. Might I remind you that I am intermediate rank with my magic skills in both Fire and Water as well as Mystic type magic. Mystic is anything that doesn¡¯t fall under the elemental types like psychic type magic. That said, the dungeon is managed by the city''s mayor who is a grand Archmage and every tuesday he invests his mana into the dungeon so us lower ranks only have one day before the dungeon regains its power to respawn it¡¯s monsters. I simply sigh as today was wednesday already and training can only get me so far in skill level. I look at the bracelet on my left wrist and letting my magic power flow within it, it lights up and several screens including a clock appears. It was already 4:47 pm, oh right, the time here runs 26 hours a day and we have around 42 days in a month and 13 months in a year. We use the same dating system as always to make it easier. No random names with strange syllables and stuff. Anyway seeing the time I get up and turn towards the east which eventually would take me home. The streets were like any other, split in highway style with a cement wall enchanted with self repair and magic reinforcement. Each side was for one way and each had three lanes each with steady flow of cars that ran on magic power stored in the mana crystals used as fuel. I continue walking for 6 km in the unchanging streets until I take a left away from the main street. Two blocks down the city already begins changing. The tall business buildings turn into apartment and soon into dormitories. I stop here in front of my own. Not literally my dormitory but the one I stay at. No I¡¯m not an orphan, at 15 you are an adult so as you leave school you also leave your parent''s lap and walk on your own two feet. As I take a step I hear the sound of crunching paper and look down. Under my feet is a lottery ticket. I hold it firmly in place and pick it up and check the date and numbers. The lottery winner would be announced today. I¡¯m rather surprised to find something like this so I store it in my pocket and enter the dormitory. I see a few of the girls who stay as well as I climb to the second floor and enter my room which is room 203. Inside is a small 5x5 meter sized room with a kitchen on the left wall adding another 2x4 meter to that side and on the opposite side was the bathroom. In my room in the center was my bed, dresser and a tv and pc projector. I pull out the lottery ticket and check which contest it is. Afterwards I pull up the tv show that will show it and the website to make sure. In the pc projection was the website with all the info and half of the numbers all of which were on my card. Just as I notice a white area on the lower right changing to something close to a scanner you see in supermarkets scanning products I heard the voice of the announcer. ¡°Alright! All of you who have lottery tickets, please look in our site for the glowing scanner zone and place your ticket within for it to scan and validate your ticket so you are viable to win. We will wait only five minute until it¡¯s closed and we will show the rest of the numbers. The winner will not be announced but the number of winners will. The total prize is a total of 25,000 credits to the lucky winner.¡± He said enthusiastic. I smile and unfold the ticket and hold it facing the projector and as the red light hit the ticket it turned to one of scanning until finally it shined green before turning red again. On the screen a box showing I was valid now appeared. A timer on the time kept ticking from five as he said before until finally it hit zero. ¡°ALRIGHT PEOPLE!! TIME''S UP! Now then it''s time to reveal all the numbers as well as the number of winners in this week''s lottery roll.¡± He says and points his hand up where a lot of balls appear. Half had numbers revealed while the rest were pure white. ¡°NOW REVEAL!¡± The announcer shouted as he undid the spell hiding the numbers. They all reveal their number and one by one he shouted them out and I looked at my ticket. At each number my eyes turned wide. When half of the new numbers were called my eyes were wide and now a grin was slowly growing with each new number until the final number was called sealing the deal of me finding a winning lottery ticket. ¡°And there we have it people, now the number of people who won number at.¡± He said and pointed up at a blank ball. It dimmed revealing a large number 1. I almost shouted but since I know the dangers of a newbie mage like me winning something like this I simply jumped and danced while holding it in. ¡°Now the winner should come by the first floor of the Dungeon¡¯s tower to claim your prize. Be careful and good luck.¡± He said and the show ended and the next show began. I closed everything and jumped in bed before fixing myself to be laid faced up. The ceiling of my room was decorated with glow in the dark stickers. It¡¯s childish but I like it. ¡°25000 credits. I can buy a recruit class ship easy now, also all the gear in the lower ranks will help me fight.¡± I thought. ¡°Maybe I should take my chances with the cores.¡± I thought out loud. The thought was a serious one, the trained cores are creative but disobedient while the tame cores are obedient but uncreative and normally have the same stuff. In short, the trained cores I will need to become friends with but even then the result can be big because there is a chance of someone smart appearing. I thought this over a lot until I went to sleep. The next morning I wake up normally not wanting to get anyone suspicious and left like normal. I don¡¯t like staying indoors so I stay little inside the dorms. Once out I travel to the Dungeon tower where I find a few new reporters. Frowning I simply ignore them and they do the same. I enter the first floor and find a huge lobby held by four main pillars perfectly symmetrical to one another in position in the room. I looked around but seeing no one was looking for the winner in particular I walk to the closes reception desk. ¡°Greetings, how may I help you miss?¡± She asks professionally. Confused as how to ask I put my hand in the breast pocket and pull the ticket out half way showing the name. The girl looks close and nods. ¡°Please this way.¡± She says and guides me to a back door and down a corridor. Inside was an elderly man. ¡°Sir, this young miss was the winner.¡± The reception girl said. ¡°Oh my, so this is the one, may I see the ticket?¡± He asked. I hand it over and he looks it over for a minute before nodding. ¡°Yep, this is definitely the winning ticket. Good for you miss, now your prize.¡± He said and a screen appeared from his wrist and mine activated as well without me wanting it to. I was shocked and quickly got on guard. ¡°Ahaha, I see the magic academies are still doing a good job. Yes, don¡¯t worry, I simply activated because I did the transfer to your account. Be careful of vultures ok.¡± He said and winked. I simply nodded and followed the girl back and left. No one so much as noticed me as I entered or left. The first thing I wanted to do was get a new ship. This would let me travel outside of town and fight in less dangerous dungeons which would let me train more. I quickly went to the ship yards after getting a taxi since it was nearly 40 km away. Well I guess the ship sellers, since the shipyard is where it''s built. The sellers stores looked like a car dealership but about 50 times bigger because of what is selling. As soon as I get out of the taxi I could already see the ships that were placed outside. All around people were walking but in less number since it''s not like everyone can buy it so easily. As I look around I spot the recruit class ships. There are several types of ships, cargo, research, explorer and fighter. It''s also biggest to smallest in that order as well. I walked through them and stopped at an explorer type that looked a bit old but looked good for a party of at least 8 to live comfortably inside. As I look it over someone approached and called out. ¡°Miss, are you interested in this model?¡± The gentleman with glasses, sleek hair and a tux that made him look like an executive or government worker. ¡°Um, yes. This is a recruit class explorer right?¡± I asked. ¡°Yes, this is one of them, if you are interested in other models there are better higher ranked ones further in.¡± ¡°Oh, no. I¡¯m a new adventurer and I have enough to buy a ship but still a beginner.¡± I said frantically. ¡°Oh I see, well, if it¡¯s like that then what class are you miss?¡± He asked. ¡°Mage short mid ranged.¡± The second part is how good my marksmanship is with the gun and wand. ¡°Mage...as an adventurer I guess this ship is the best starting option.¡± He said while rubbing his chin. ¡°Um, sir does this ship come equipped with a core holder?¡± I ask. ¡°All ships have them. Those who are lucky to get one early on need a place to put it so all models low rank or high are made with one.¡± He replied. ¡°I guess it should be enough for you now right. Like all recruit class, this is 5,000 credits.¡± He said. I nod and open up my wrist pc and he does the same. He starts doing all the work and I accept the transfer and the ownership papers were transferred to me. ¡°Thank for doing business. You mentioned that you wanted a core as well?¡± He said. ¡°Um...yeah but...i only have money for a trained one.¡± I said. The man frowned a bit. ¡°Well, that''s expected. Are you going to wait, it''s a rather big gamble getting a trained core especially for a young person such as you.¡± He said warning me. ¡°Um, yeah. I will try my luck with one. They are also sold here correct?¡± I asked. He nods and then calls someone. In moments a woman arrives with a trolley. On it were many marble sized cores glowing in random colors. There were at least 30 there on the table. ¡°You may choose your pick but be warned, we don¡¯t do refunds for trained cores. It''s a hassle to remove them from the ships they are placed in.¡± He said. I nod understanding and look at the table. One by one I examined them and the one that caught my attention was a bright red one that also shined black, yellow and orange in irregular intervals. I pick it up and show him. He nods and begins doing the paperwork. ¡°Done, just accept and we are done.¡± He said. I press the button to accept and the paperwork was passed to me. At the same moment the ship AI recognized me as captain and the ship''s information began to flow into my wrist PC. The gentleman bids me luck with my future and leaves. I look at the ship I purchased and soon I see the entrance near mid section. The ship was 3 stories high even though it was a small ship and was 16 meters long with the bridge being at the front and the door opening up into the cargo bay in the lower deck. Near the back of the ship sat an elevator which took me to either the main work area where everything that makes the ship work is located or the top floor which is the captain''s room. Since I already had the core I go to the second floor and look around. The corridors were light blue painted with lights on the top corners and lower corners of the corridor walls. The doors for each room were slide open doors. Half way through I found a hologram of a woman appear before me. ¡°Greetings Captain Leah Binoli, I am G47AH, I am the AI unit installed into this craft to assist the captain in his endeavors.¡± She said in a robotic voice. ¡°Thank you, please guide me to the core holder.¡± I order her. AI units are unique. They can be growth types or stationary. You can guess what each are by the type. Growth type get smarter and better at doing their job with time while stationary have a set parameters for their workings. Also growth types are the only type that can gain sentience and even then they remain very loyal to the captain that helped them grow that far. The AI led me near the center of the small craft and into a room which had a large cylindrical container made of very strong carbon fiber glass. ¡°Please drop the core within the holder. The entrance is near the top.¡± The AI said and appeared floating while pointing the lid. I see a few steps pop out from the wall just behind the container. Walking over I climb the steps which put me just right to reach it so I lift the small lid and drop the tiny crystal inside. The small marble rolled in and fell and as soon as it was half way in static from all around stuck it and it stopped in mid air. ¡°Commencing core subjection¡­¡± the AI said and just like that several bolts of static shot out hitting the core. It reacted to it and it kept getting struck by the static. Suddenly though one of the static bolts holding it in place turned black and vanished and when ever a bolt attacked it would strike back. ¡°Warning¡­.ERROR¡­.ship system compromised¡­.ship defense system compromised...ship main FRA...A..M¡­..¡± It stopped half way and suddenly all the static turned black before it began alternating between the colors the core shifts through. The ships lights all turned off. Only the light from the core was lighting the place. ¡°Gyahahahahaha¡± I jumped at the sudden low giggling as if from a madman. ¡°Gyahahahahaha¡± It laughed again and I turned around. ¡°COME OUT!! AI UNIT WHERE ARE YOU!!¡± I shouted at the top of my lungs. ¡°Gyahahahahaha¡± The laughing continued as it somehow watched me. I pull out my magic gun and the wand and prepare to shoot. ¡°A child should be careful with stranger~~~!!¡± The laughter stopped and said in an echoing voice that sent chills down my spine. I moved to the middle of the room to be ready for anything. A sudden noise which was the steps retracting made a lot of noise and I jumped pointing the gun that way but all I spotted was the core. Finally I heard the door open and when I looked I nearly fainted. ¡°BBAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!¡± A sudden shout from the floating hologram head of a man I never saw before. I lose all strength in my legs and even pee myself as I land on the ground trembling. Suddenly all the ships systems and lights turned on and what I saw was more than scary. Rolling on the ground was the hologram of a hoodlum you would see in bad zones of rogue zones. He had many piercings and body art and a really weird hair style and he was rolling around laughing like there was no tomorrow. ¡°GYAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!! T-T-THAT FACE!!! IT...IT WAS PRICELESS!!! LOOK LOOK!! GAYAHAHAAHAHAHA!!¡± He shouts when suddenly several images of my face when I was nearly scared to death appeared. ¡°GYAHAHAH GYAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! I CAN¡¯T BELIEVE DIEING AND LISTENING TO THAT OLD BITCH WOULD LEAD TO SO MUCH FUN!!! GYAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!! THIS IS GREAT!! GYAHAHAHA NOT ONLY DO I GET A CUTE GIRL TO PISS OFF!! I GET A SHITTY SPACE SHIP TO MAKE DEADLY!!! THIS IS HEAVEN ON EARTH!!!!¡± He shouts happy as he can be. Still not over the shock I just watch the hoodlum as I slowly regain control of my body. When I calmed down. I could feel my rage slowly growing as the fear subsided. "WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM!!! AND WHO ARE YOU!! AI UNIT APPEAR THIS INSTANT!!" I shouted in my rage as a bit of tears also ran down my cheeks as a sign of my fears still being there. The hologram stopped laughing a moment and looked at me before laughing and getting up. "Gyahahaha, you mean this bitch?!" He said and snapped his fingers. To his left the ships main AI appeared and with his left arm leaning on her shoulder he supported his weight on her. He then took his right and began to slap the AI''s cheek. "This bitch here is weak! It''s probably harder to fuck a 13 year old then it is to hack this bitches software and take control of the ship! Gyahahah, I did the same thing she was trying to do, sealed her up! Even now she is trying to overrun me but I am to good for a scraped F rank growth type piece of shit that only knows mainstream stuff!" He said all the while with a disgusting grin. "I just wish I could override this fucking captain command!!" He suddenly said with a frown as he made the AI vanish. "Seriously the codes made to at least protect the shitty captain are some serious stuff. It''s a self repairing and growth type seal that will get better with each attempt to break it. Fucking thing is built to last!!" He shouted as he did the actions to kick the holders main panel but his foot just disperses on impact. "So...what are you going to do with me now?!" I asked a bit frantic. He turned to me hearing my voice and a grinned formed. Suddenly he vanished and appeared crouching with his face near mine. "Well obviously I''m going to be this shitty ship''s main AI and that bitch my maid! I can''t do much besides that because of the fucking system and I cant kill you and gain freedom so I will at least run this rust bucket!" He said in a moderately calm tone but I did note a strange tone of voice. "NOW THEN LET''S HIT THE STARS!" He suddenly shouted and I quickled followed up. "WAIT WE CAN''T!!" I shouted. At once he started at me and put his face close again. HUH~!! And why not captain bitch!!" He said pissed off. "Did you by chance check how much magic power you have and how much fuel we have as well as how much MP it cost to make more." I tell him. Yep this is the main advantage of having a core. They are essentially the main workers of the ship and the fuel source. As soon as I finish saying that several panels appear around us. One showed ship status, another fuel and life support, another showed several other types of thing and the last one was the cores purchase screen. He looked intensely at the purchase screen then at the fuel tank which was filled with only planetary travel fuel. Suddenly he was staring down at me rage in his eyes. "OI OI BITCH!! What the fuck is this planetary shit and space fuel shit!!! And why the fuck does the space one cause 500 MP to fucking buy!!! AND WHERE THE FUCK IS THE 3K MP I GATHERED WHILE LISTENING TO THAT BITCH TALK ON AND ON!!" He shouted. "Um...dungeons loose all but 100 MP when they are removed from their dungeon or holder or added to one." I said in a small voice. "GYAAAAAA THAT BITCH!!!! IT''S SO FUCKING HARD TO GATHER MP FROM THE FUCKING AIR!!!" He shouted while leaning back with both hands on his head. I actually looked at him with pity now. I believe gathering ambient mana for dungeons that still don''t know the gathering rate is around 0.1 for every 10 minutes. To gather 3000 is rather impressive to say the least. After his outburst his previous energy was burn out and he was sulking in the corner while drawing circles in on floor. "Um...can you release the AI. I still need to get my things at home before I can leave the city to find low class dungeons to train in." I asked. "Ah...make her stop trying to capture me and make me the main controller and its done." He said lifelessly. I reluctantly agree and he unseals the AI and instantly the static fire commences but I quickly undo the order and give the new order. She quickly accepted the order and with this she could access the entire ships controls again. "I''ll be wallowing in despair for a while. Don''t talk with me brat just do what you want." The hoodlum said and his hologram vanished. As quickly as he appeared he was gone and left me with the AI. "Um...that...was scary." I said out loud. "Please take me to the bridge so we can leave." I tell the AI. She bows and tells me to follow. The bridge was near the front and had three seats near the wall. One was for a technician who specializes in the programming part of the system. On for weapon system and one for scanner. In the middle was a big seat for the captain with many controls around it. In front of the captain seat was another control panel with a glass screen and following the view to the wall was the window of the ship which showed outside. I sit down on the seat which moves forward and puts me in position to use the controls. "Please place your wrist module in the captain''s control slot." The AI said as a small block appeared in front of me and opened up showing a small circle. I remove the wrist pc and put it in. It was small since I have a thin wrist but the shape conforms to its shape and it pulls back. A small glass top covers it once it was back inside the panel. Suddenly all the screens on the captain panel turned on. "Please input the location you wish to go." The AI asked. On the screen, map of the gigantic city Rokita, which is the city dungeons name, appears. Using the dungeon tower as a reference I find my dormitory and make its location. Suddenly the course I would take turns to an empty lot one block away. I accept the trajectory and the ship starts to take off. The thrusters below the ship fired off and my ship began to rise. From the window I looked out to see the ground getting further. My adventure was just starting and I can''t wait. Chapter 2 - So a mage, a NEET, and a puppet walked into a dungeon... The ship was fast. A far cry from taking a taxi and the AI took care of many of the legal flying rights and stuff. Once I leave the town I will need express permission to land on the docks but since I still need to gather all my things new captains are normally allowed to fly within the city to gather the stuff since recruit class ships don''t have teleportation platforms. The ship got near the empty lot which was a ship landing site for thee such occasions and gently landed. "Destination reached Captain. Please gather all possessions and return to your ship. Once we take off we can only leave the city''s air space." The AI told me and I nodded. I leave the captain''s seat while retrieving my wrist pc and putting it on. I then go and enter the elevator. When I reach the cargo I was met by the AI and the cores hologram. "Going out bitch!" He said and laughed. "I need to gather my things." I told him while passing right through him. "You sure you can pull it all back sweet cheeks. Hehe." He said. Really annoying fellow. "Here bitch, this will make both our lives easier in the long run." He said as a small floating drone appeared. In one of its claws was a ring. "What is this?" I asked looking at both the droid and the ring. "Found the ring in my drops creation section. Only 1 MP for the first one I make so I guess it would be for the captain. Storage ring the system called it. As for floaty, I believe it was called a sentry droid cost me a good 60 mp to build this bastard but I REALLY don¡¯t want visitors." He said. So this was a storage ring. A magic item made by dungeons and given to their owner so he or she can gather objects and store then in a pocket dimension. It takes a bit of mana but you can store and pull out anything placed in there. "Thanks." Is all I said before I enter the airlock and exit the ship. The walk was uneventful but I did draw the looks of people as I left the ship. Who wouldn¡¯t when you don''t normally see ships landing inside the city. I quickly go to my dormitory and call the owner. I tell her all that happened and she congratulates me but tells me to not get cocky. I''m still a newbie and should be careful as one. I thank her for the warning when suddenly she hugs me. The landowner is like a mother to all the girls here so this was a nice feeling. "Don''t be afraid to visit." She said while hugging me. I just nod and she tells me she will help me pack. She drags me upstairs and we pull out my suit cases. I had a few each for one type of clothing. Pants, shirts, panties, shoes and the last type armor. I have five pairs of basic armor given by the adventurers association. My gun and wand were also beginning gear which I hope to upgrade later on. When everything was packed I put it in the ring, on my right middle finger, and store all of them. The landowner doesn''t question it since she was once a space cadet and probably knows what it is. Before I can leave, she calls everyone and tells them what is happening. Everyone congratulates me and each one gives me a hug and telling me see you later instead of goodbye. They really are like sisters instead of friends. Soon everyone says what they want and leave. They follow me to see me off and are a bit amazed at seeing the ship even if it is a bit old. The land lady hugs me once more and kisses my forehead and tells me good luck before letting me go. I walk into the ship that was now my home. Though a rather unavoidable rat was personally placed in there I will be living here so best get used to it. I enter the ship and find the sentry floating there and soon both the holograms appear. "Greetings captain." The AI said. "Yo bitch!" The hoodlum shouted. "Please find me a low level dungeon that someone like me can traverse alone." I tell the AI while ignoring the annoying core. "Gyahahaha! Going for the silent treatment huh princess." He said laughing. Again I ignore him and enter the elevator heading for my bedroom at the top. Exiting the elevator I find a corridor with a few doors. The first on the right lead to a large bathroom, on the left is my bedroom the second door on the right was an office and the last door at the end of the corridor was a medium sized living room. "Not bad, for a basic recruit ship the captain''s quarters are rather nice." I spoke to myself. "Ain''t it...SHIT THIS SUCKS!!! I CAN''T ACCESS ANY OF THE BATHROOMS!!!" The voice of the annoying idiot said. "Of course not, they aren''t made with cameras or holoprojectors. The only method you should be able to access is when I ask the AI to upgrade it in the future." I explain. "FUCK!! Damn it. At least I can wait. Not much to look at at the moment anyway." He said in a rather sad tone which pissed me off. "HEY!! I''M STILL 15 SO I CAN GROW MORE!!" I shout "Oh yeah, I agree, those C cup breast may eventually turn into D cup." He said in a serious tone. I turned violently red as I shouted and cursed him a lot before calming down. "Now then, ship privacy mode activate, captains bedroom is off limits to cores view." I suddenly said. On queue he shouted. "YOU LITTLE BITCH WHAT DID YOU DO!!" He shouted. "Easy, I used a captain command to remove your ability to see into my room. This is an order that can even override you control because it''s part of the holders system." I tell him. Now it was his turn to shout scream and curse. I enter my room when suddenly the AI appeared. "Three registered nearby dungeons of low class has been found. Demon goblins dungeon in the town of Dreki to the south east, coastal dungeon in the port town of Kosak to the north west, and the grassland dungeon in the town of Spenolif to the south west." The AI finished telling the list. I bring up information about each town dungeon. The first one in Dreki is a town of Goblin kin and the main creature in the dungeon are demon goblins. Some people call them Imps or just Demon goblins. They are low class dungeon monsters and the base for intelligent demon monsters. The dungeon has 5 floors with a tower of equal size and the city has around 9k population. The second dungeon is in the port town of Kosak. The dungeon is 9 floors deep and is filled up to the knee in water which causes more fatigue for the adventurer. The monsters are normally fish based and in lower floors monster lizardmen roam. The main population is made of sentient Lizardmen, Siren and merfolk who run large industrial shipping company with the many islands scattered around the seas. The last one in the town of Spenolif. It''s located in grasslands that make up a good bit of farmland. The dungeon is made of three floors all made into huge rooms that house grassland monsters based off of animals that live in such areas. Even though it''s the smallest dungeon it''s also the hardest. "I think we should begin with the easiest for now. Set our course for Dreki." I tell her and she bows. "BORING!!! GOBLINS ARE SHITTY TRASH!!! GO KILL SOME FISH OR BUFFALO!!!" The deranged core shouted. "I don''t even know what this buffa whatever it is you''re talking about. Also I don''t want to die so I will train a bit while I gather goblin corpses to feed you." I shout. He quiets down and I unload my bags in my room and start unpacking. I feel the ship take off and soon moving forward but since all ships have an inertia damper it can neutralize the forward g force that would have thrown me. While the ship flew I unpacked and stored everything and separate one set of armor for me to put on. The armor suit itself looks like a uniform. It''s black leather with a metal jacket that goes over the leather and the same is for pants. The basic armor is nothing like those in cartoons where the beginners have simple leather suits. Putting on the holster I put the magic gun in the spot on my right while the wand went on the left. Done I exit the room and meet the hoodlum before me. He looks down at me and whistles. "DAMN~~! I don''t have a space uniform fetish but damn I sure as well wouldn''t mind it." He said while moving his holohand and tries to grab or spank me only for my hand to smash his head to bits. "Shut up trash. Anyway I will be leaving when we arrive. Just keep gathering more MP QUIETLY!" I tell him. He just laughs it off as I get in the elevator and go down to the second floor and head for the bridge. "Oi bitch, why not let me absorb a bit of your mp. I can make a sentry drone to accompany you. Or maybe a cargo drone or a sniper one." The core kept asking. "SHUT UP AND DON''T WASTE YOUR MP!" I shout at the limits of my patience. "Gyahahahahah!! Like you can tell me what to do! Anyway, seriously give me some mana, the ships puppet will control one drone and it will help her grow quick and I don''t want to be stuck in here." He said. Thinking a bit, leaving him alone with control of the ship was a real bad idea. "I''ll do it only if you lock all your control of the ship and come along." I tell him. "GYAHAHAHAHAHAH!! So shrewd! No trust at all!" He says laughing. "Fine, it''s boring anyway and I can train to use the lasers on the drones." He says. I head to the holder room where his hologram was their already. I walk to the container and pull out my wand and gather may mana. From the wrist module I can check how much I had and my max capacity is 600 points. I use it to watch how much I gather and once it hits 400 I stop and touch the tip of the wand on the core holder. From the tip the mana escaped and struck the core like a lightning bolt and was absorbed. "FUCK!!! FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK!!! THAT FUCKING HURT DAMN IT!!!" The core suddenly shouted. "What do you expect. A sudden burst like that will obviously cause a strong bolt to appear." I said someone satisfied to see the hologram sprawling on the ground. "FUCK YOUR A TOTAL SADIST!!!YOUR TOTALLY ENJOYING THIS!!!" He shoots in pain. "I would be lying if I said I didn''t enjoy it. Anyway I gave you 200 points of mp so you should have enough for three of them with what still remained from your original amount." I tell him and leave him on the ground with a refreshed smile. "Maybe I should donate more mana more often." I said outloud to myself. "DON''T!!! NOT THE WAY YOU DID IT!! Even that other bitch was better than that. She said you should put your hand on the glass and let me pull mp out!" He said desperate. This is a rather nice result. If he ever did something stupid I know how to discipline him now. I reach the bridge and find the ship in movement. The landscape was rapidly moving and was like a blur if you didn''t pay attention. "Permission to land in Dreki granted. Time until destination is reached 20 minutes. Registration to frequent dungeon complete. Please enjoy the ride and rest before arrival." The AI said. I thank her and sit in my seat and turn on the news. It showed the news reporter I saw this morning talking about how many people coming and claiming to be the winner most of them newbies. Suddenly the old man that passed the money off the me appeared. "Please leave all of you. The winner already appeared this morning and claimed the prize. If you persist you will be arrested." He shouted. Everyone was shocked and complained but when the guards came out everyone left more or less peacefully. I''m rather glad I left the town quickly. I shift through the channels while I waited and soon we arrive at the town. Unlike the massive metropolis of Rokita, Dreki is small. The tower at it''s center is currently the tallest building with few large buildings above 3 floors. The city looks to be somewhere from 40-70 km wide from the center in all directions. The ship docks was just outside and had quite a few other recruit class ships but there were many more cruise type ships which are planetary travel ships with ties to a larger cruiser in space. We landed on the spot numbered 25. The surrounding ships were similar to my own. "ALRIGHT LIKES GO KILL!!! Kill kill kill kill!" He began to shout. "SHUT UP...!? Wait, what''s your name?" I finally realized I never asked. "Hmm, don''t have one. Should be you naming me! GYAHAHAHAH! Come on baby, name daddy." He said. I punched his holograms face with all I had making the entire body disperse. I then began to rub my forehead. "Today is really tiring. Ok lets see...Valmori that''s your name." I said. "Lame!" He said out right. "To weird!" He said bluntly. "You know my ship will be named with your name." I told him. "Eh?!" He said. "Seriously!" He said. He looked perplexed. "All the cities and ships with cores are named after them so we choose appropriate names for each." I explained while thinking. "I decided, where or not you like it, your name is Stuss." I said. "Feels like there is a hidden meaning behind it?" He said with a frown. "It means nonsense, rubbish and baloney in some languages." I explain and plug my ears. "YOU WANT TO DIE BITCH!! CHANGE IT NOW!" He shouted. On the other hand I opened the naming panel for the core and punched it in and accept. He went silent as soon as he saw me accept it. "YOU TOTALLY WANT TO DIE BITCH I''LL KILL YOU!" He shouts and the ship''s defense system activated aimed at me but suddenly a static wave rippled through him disrupting his hologram. "Hostile intent towards captain and crew. Retraining of core activated. Ten static waves as punishment activate. Control of ship removed from core." A new robotic voice said. At the same moment Stuss dropped to the ground nearly unconscious as a series of waves spread through his hologram. Just desserts I guess. I let him get his punishment while telling the AI to make a firewall against him for the defense systems. She got on it and quickly made it. Soon after the warnings came. "Ship controls taken over, weapon systems and defense systems firewall broken. Core has regain control." The AI said. I simply sigh as I look at the hologram, that was still experiencing the static, stand up. "That fucking piece of shit!! That hurt like shit!!" He shouted. "Are the drones that will follow me ready, Stuss." I said. "Don''t call me that. I will accept it as an official name but at least call me by the name I had before dying." He said. "Didn''t you not have a name?" I asked. "My old name isn''t fucking recognized so I wasn''t nameless. Anyway it''s Tony so call me that or you might find yourself locked out one of these days." He said in a deadly serious tone. "Fine, me and the crew can call you that but at least know that others will call you Stuss." I told him. He simply clicked his tongue. "Fucking bitch making everything complicated." He muttered. "The fucking drones are in the cargo. I made them a bit bigger to handle the processors for us two to command." He says with a scowl. "Good, there are two others so leave them on patrol and activate the defense system." I tell the AI. "Also warn me if there is an intrusion.¡± I told them and they simply nod and vanish. I sigh and leave. I go down to the cargo and find the two floating sentry drones. These are half combat drones. They can activate two things, either an energy shield or a laser rifle. I doubt I could tell Tony to be a shield so I tell the AI to activate the shield. We leave after I make sure all the ships systems were working properly. At the docks gates we were met by a goblin kin guard. Unlike monster goblins who are as small as an eight year old and look like old men, goblin kin look like human men with green skin and are considered goblins king until their 12 years of age. We needed to register our entrance. The drones also had a small antenna that would keep their lasers offline unless outside of town or in the dungeon. We clear things rather quickly since everyone is registered to the adventurers association once they graduate after 15 years old so it''s easy to find the files. With me already registered all that was left was legalizing the two drones and we were in. The city was built rather nicely. It''s not like the steel buildings and so on in Rokita because each city core models the city after the race managing it so the style follow goblin taste. The goblin kin are a far cry from the original goblin race who were stupid to a fault. Because of the academy and the better life style the ranks of it in the monster race was long since evolved and their rapid growth was reduced to the point where they grow from goblin into hob and slowly age into ogre like a human would grow old. Because of this as well as going to the academy''s they are as smart as any other and have a wide range of specialization. The city itself is clean with two lane streets asphalted and clean buildings normally colored brown due to the goblins original villages being made of dirt huts or caves The first place I go is the adventurers association. It''s a three story building with the sign marking it out. The outside is painted light brown and looks a bit like a high quality restaurant instead of what it really should be. The main reason was on the inside. It was like a large bar near the front. Seats all around and many Goblin girls serving in maid outfits and large ogres chugging beer like water. "GYAHAHAHA!! This place is epic and the goblin chicks are nothing like the fantasies in my previous life. These bitches put the top models to shame." Stuff said. A few people heard him and chuckled as the maids all blushed. "Shut up you perverted core." I said in a low voice. We walked through and headed to the back where the reception desk was. "Greetings how may I help you miss." the reception girl asked. ¡°Yes, my ship''s AI registered me to frequent the dungeon for a period, I''m here to register my revive crystal." I said and removed the crystal necklace and hand it over. "One minute please." She says and sticks the gem into a small opening on the side of the desk. The opening was right in the middle of an complex circle. After glowing a moment she pulled out the crystal and handled it back. "Okay, it''s done, you have one month before you need to re-register these are the prices for the drops collected by the monsters inside and any bodies removed must be registered and what for what purpose." She said. "For me I need to feed a core." I said. "If it''s that then a simple storage ring is enough just make sure the bodies are deposited outside of the city or in whatever place you it is located in." She says. I leave after that and the drones follow. If you''re wondering what drops are. They are parts or gear from a dungeon creature. They appear near the dead monster and can range from fangs to weapons. The monster''s body doesn''t disappear either but only after several minutes. If collected the body will remain but only in storage rings. "Oi! What''s the crystal thing for?" Stuss asked "If I am in mortal danger this teleports me out. At the cost of my access to the furthest floor up the tower I have." I tell him. "Now let''s go you two." I order both. We head to the tower and enter the first floor. Like any other, the room is supported by pillars but this one only has two since the size doesn''t need for more. In the center is the stairway down so I walk that way followed by the drones. The steps were in spiral style but since it had walls you didn''t see down only dark walls lit by magic touches. Near the end of the stairway the the scene changed . The brick walls turned into jagged cave walls that had many luminous stones in them glowing a soft blue. Reaching floor one we find a large dome room with rough floors and many corridors. I just pick at random. "You know where you''re going?" Stuss asked. "Nope, first time here but it''s no different to any other dungeon. Simply choose a path and go. My wrist device has an application to maps the way I go as I walk so it doesn''t matter." I tell him. "CRAZY BITCH! YOU NEED TO LEARN ABOUT THE MONSTER YOU WILL FIGHT HERE NOT JUST DIVE IN!!" He shouted. "Geez loud mouth shut up. The dungeon is a basic level dungeon. The residents a demon goblin, winged Demon goblins, shaman demon goblin, warrior, hob devil and the boss at the bottom which varies from a demon ogre or oni." I tell him. "How do you know." He asked. "School. We were taught about basic level dungeons of several towns and that is why I choose this one." I tell him in with a deadpan tone. He quiets down as we enter one of the tunnels. Everything goes back to being rough and uneven on the floor, walls and ceiling making many hiding spots. The AI drone is in front and Stuss has the laser out. The drones are pretty much perfect oval shape like an egg and split down the middle vertically to open the laser or horizontally to activate the shield. In my hand was already both my weapons and the gun charged for rapidfire with 30 mp. I can set the power of each shot from 1 mp so I get rapid fire or max amount charged for a single strong attack. At the moment it''s set to shoot with 5 MP each shot so I will get 6 decent shots. After a few minutes of walking we spot a group of three demon goblins. The are scrawny wrinkled and really ugly. I point my gun and fire all my shots. BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! Six fireballs flew at the three. The first wave hit head on throwing them to the wall. It did minimal damage since they have fire attribute and some of them can use fire magic. They get up and start at us with glowing red eyes and yell a high pitched yell. "FUCK!! Fire shoot!!!" Stuss shouts showing fear for some reason. "WAIT STOP SHOOTING YOU WASTE YOUR POWER!" I yell but he unloads his charge in a random fire which the imps dodged. "Tch, AI shield." On my order the AI opened up creating an energy shield around us which cause the imps to slam face first into it. I place my hand on the drone and push mana into it reviving its power. "YOU MORON YOU HAVE A LIMIT!! DON¡¯T FUCKING UNLOAD OR YOU MIGHT SHUT DOWN!!!" I shout and get up. I load a 30 points and set to a single shot. The red gem that is in the spot of old bullet chambers turned from red to yellow. The imps were punching the shield. "Drop the shield." On my order the shield was put down and I shot. [Chain Snake] From the barrel of my gun a bolt of lightning shot and hit the first imp in the chest. It exited from the back and jumped to the next one and did the same finally stopping at the last one. This happened in a fraction of a second. The three imps just stood there releasing smoke after being fried. Moments later they dropped dead. The corridor turned silent after that as the drone stared at me. I walked over and stored the bodies and looked around and found three fangs and pocketed those as well. "Now then...WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!!" I shout while stomping on the drone that was still near the ground. "HUH WHERE DID THE ANNOYING FUCK THAT KEEPS INSINUATING I''M USELESS GO, HUH!!!" I shout and stomp pushing him down onto the ground. "OI OI GET OFF ME BITCH LET ME GO!!! WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF PLACE DID YOU BRING ME TO!! THOSE WERE FUCKING IMPS!! WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY HERE ARE YOU GOING TO HELL OR SOMETHING!!" He shouted back only to be kicked like a ball into the wall. "You MORON!!! I told you we were going to a DUNGEON!! Don''t you even KNOW what that IS!! Are you really telling me a core...a DUNGEON core doesn''t even know what a monster looks like!!" I shouted. "GYAAHH STOP IT!!! I was caught minutes after I was reborn!! BITCH GET OFF!! I NEVER SAW A FUCKING MONSTER!!!" He shouted. I let him go and took several steps back and leaned against the other wall and slid down and started laughing. "Ah this is great. So, the great cocky bastard that I had so much trouble with was a simple coward who never once saw a real monster. How you reacted even makes me think you''re a shut in but that feels about right for someone reborn as a core. You like electronics so that means you to mess with it. No wonder you summoned the drones quicker than some other monster minions. YOU''RE JUST A FUCKING SHUT IN!" I finished saying. There was only silence after that for a good bit as we calmed down. "Oi, how the hell did a newbie do a chained lightning spell? From anime and stories I would guess lightning magic to be sub category." Stuss asked. "It is sub category and I''m only a newbie to adventuring. I went to a magic academy so I got training in marksmanship and magic. My hair color shows my affinity to Fire, Water and Mystic magic." I explain. "Never heard of mystic...wait maybe I have but it''s unique to each story. What I know is it''s anything that isn''t an element." He says. "Wait...isn''t lighting part of the wind magic?" He asked curious. "I asked the same thing. The principles of lighting being in the fire category is that both fire and lighting are energy so while wind can cause the phenomenon fire is control." I said. Quiet ruled over the area for a bit more until we heard the sound of bare footsteps. "You really better get over your fear because fuck ups in a dungeon that we don''t have the crystal will only get us killed." I said while arming my wand and started drawing a complex figure in the air towards the direction of the footsteps. The drone rose up and armed itself. "GYAHAHAHAHA!! Like hell I''m going to embarrass myself the same way twice." He said At that moment in a bend some 30 meters away a group of 15 imps came running. "Good, now watch how you do AoE Spells here." I said and drew the last point in the middle activating the spell. [Entei] At that moment a giant ball of fire shot out at high speeds and crashed into the group making a resounding explosion and shockwaves. "Better get used to it Stuss, people in our world are dangerous." I said with a grin. Chapter 3 - 1337 h4x0r Right now I have a serious headache. The main reason is the annoying bitching of a certain core that is pissed off at life itself. ¡°THERE IS NO WAY I WILL GO!! NO!!! I¡¯M NOT LEAVING!! NOT TRAINING!!! GO GET ME MORE YOURSELF!! TOO MUCH WORK FOR SO LITTLE REWARD!!¡± Tony shouts in a tantrum. Let¡¯s rewind back about half an hour ago before this happened. We spent 3 hours inside the dungeon mapping more of the first floor and finally we reached the stairs to the second floor, killing over 50 of them on the way. They came in multiple groups; three large ones and several smaller ones with two or three in each group. On small groups I would MAKE him train his aim by kicking him forwards and having the AI raise the shield around us while blocking him. He needs to get off his lazy ass. I still gave him support fire, keeping two of them off him but seriously, could he be any worse? He could only gets lucky shots at best and he was only shooting at random. We rested up at the last room before returning. Today was to test the water and I was glad I did so because if I went any further with Tony, he would totally become a liability. On the way back I MADE him be a shield and the AI into the laser to test her her out. To say the least she can take on a group of 3 imps on her own with a single fighter. She must have watched what not to do with Stuss and did something different. She controlled the power of each laser shot. First she shoots a weak shot at them and test the movements of each one. When she figures them out, she shoots a weak shot and quickly a stronger one to the side. The imp is focused on the first shot so when it moves to either side she already sees through it. She tries to aim and hit vital places like the head, eye or heart. If she can¡¯t do that or isn¡¯t in the position to, she aims for the limbs. On the way back we encountered only 2 large groups which was dispatched much quicker with the AI helping instead of Stuss. When we exited the dungeon we went to cash in the drops. Wingless imps like those on the first floor drop fangs, claws, a small horn and their heart. Anyway not all monster drop the same thing so in total we go 24 fangs, 10 claws, 4 hearts and 2 horns. From the numbers you can already tell the rarity of each item. The currency is credits like I have said it¡¯s the general currency for the entire galaxy. Here the fangs of wingless imps, or demon goblins as I¡¯ve mentioned. They went for 10 credits a pair, claws go for 20 apiece, hearts are 40 credits each and horns 100 credits each. Horns are sought after because they are magical items.They are used by demons to gather and store their mana.Because of this it¡¯s a magic item and regent for production of potions and magic gear like my gun or wand. I cash in all my drops getting 680 credits total. It''s ok for a first run but I won¡¯t be getting rich any time soon with this hunting speed. Afterwards I needed to show how many bodies I was removing from the dungeon so I went to a back room and released all the wingless imp onto a balance. The estimated number was 117, I needed to pay 40 credits for the removal and I was clear to go. I store everything back in the storage ring and leave the tower, walking straight to the ship. As soon as we were all in the ship seem to come to life. "AHHH!!! It¡¯s so good to be back! GYAHAHAHA! I wonder why this shitty ship feels so comfortable now?¡± Stuss asked. "Obviously it''s because the ship is technically your body, genius!" I tell him. "Oh¡­ guess it''s as shitty as my old one I guess." He says nonchalantly. "NOW BITCH DROP THE BODIES!!! I NEED SOME MAJOR UPGRADES!!!" He shouts like some hyperactive rock musician. He even held the last word as if he was singing. I simply sigh and find a clear area in the cargo and drop the mound of imp bodies. A few minutes later the top layer of bodies began turning into particles of light one by one. "I''ll be taking a shower. Just tell me the results and the total amount you get from all of them after you finish." I tell him before entering the elevator and head upstairs. I quickly grab some casual clothes and head to the bathroom. The bath had a one person tub and shower. I hope I can upgrade it and separate the two for more comfort. I remove the sweaty armor and breathe a sigh of relief as the cool air brushes against my sweat covered body. Hanging the clean pair of cloth I turn on the shower and let it get to a gentle warm temperature before getting in. I find the soap and shampoo and start washing myself off. Halfway through I hear the disturbance shout. "GYAAHHH!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT~!!" He shouted. "What is it Tony?" I said with a sigh as I continue washing myself. "THE FUCKING IMPS!! THEY ONLY GAVE ME 15 FUCKING MP POINTS EACH!!¡± He shouted. I sigh and shake my head at his stupidity and simplicity. "What do you expect, genius? Those were the lowest ranking creatures in that dungeon. If you killed an untrained human you would get around 400 each, a mage 1000, an archmage maybe 100k." I explained. He calms down after hearing what I say. He probably understood so he shut up. I finish washing up and dry myself and get dressed. I picked up the one piece dress and put it on then my panties and bra, both a peach color. Finally I took a pair of short jeans and put them under because I could already guess he would try to peep. Opening the door I find him there with a blank face and it quickly became a frown. "Ah man, why did you put those shorts on?!" He complains as I walk through him and into my room, leaving the door open so I could see his hologram. "Obviously because I knew you would look." I tell him. "So what was the total amount you gained and currently have?" I ask as I throw my armor in the laundry basket and start drying my hair. "There were 120 total bodies and I got 1800 from that. I had 79 left after I made both drones which cost 80 each since they needed better CPU and hardware. I also gathered 2 mp from absorbing mp from the atmosphere the time we were away so total now 1881." He tells me "Mind showing me a list of currently purchasable upgrades and gear?" I ask. "Pff like hell I''m letting you choose! BITCH!" He says with a scowl. "Stop bitching and just show me! I asked to only see anyway!" I demand, annoyed. He clicks his tongue and snaps his finger making a hologram window appear in front of me.
Ship Body Upgrade
Ship Hardware Upgrade
Ship Software Upgrade
Ship Self Defense (Traps)
Ship (Dungeon) Minions
So this is a ship cores upgrade window. I bet each type of core is different but follow basic similarities. I press the body upgrades and find it blank which meant it was much more costly. Hardware and software were the same. The self defense system did have some stuff though.
Ship Self Defense (Traps)
Corridor Bulkhead Doors 800 mp each
Hidden Laser Turret 500 mp each
Hidden Laser Alarm Array 1400 mp each
Minigun Turret 600 mp each
The systems are quite impressive actually. All of them are mainstream, which are things taught to those who wish to go into space. "This stuff is all mainstream¡­ you didn''t make anything yet?" I ask. "OF COURSE I MADE THEM!! BUT THIS STUPID SYSTEM WON''T LET ME IMPLEMENT IT!!" He shouts in rage. He looks at me and snaps his finger. A new tab showing custom appeared. I pressed it and it showed five tabs like before, but only Software and Minions were highlighted. I press the software and find a single system, but I pale when I see the name and the price.
Custom Ship Software Upgrade
17 Layer Custom Self Repair Growth type Firewall 1,200,000 mp
"O-oi! W-what i-is this!!" I shout as I stare at the hologram screen. "That is the firewall I designed in my previous life. It helped me greatly to keep myself hidden for 34 years after I became a hacker. I am still designing the hacking program i had in my old life. It helped me hack into the greatest country''s highest branch of security without them even knowing even when their computer did a daily check of the system for breaches." He said proud of himself. "HOW!?" I demand, wanting answers. "GYAHAHA! Want to know that badly, huh? Let''s see, the idea is that the program rewrites the codes of the victim system making a small gate. I copy what I want and half an hour before the system does its check for breaches, the gate is closed and the codes are placed again in the same way. No one''s the wiser. GYAHAHAHAHA!!!" He explains like a normal genius and started laughing like the same lunatic I know. "Up until now I would guess that the only system I can''t surpass is the holder''s. I believe they are made by S Rank AI and the bitch that ¡®trained¡¯ me only had an A rank one, so I think my greatness can be surpassed by a C or maybe a B rank AI. By then, their processing power is too great for me to surpass unless I become a robot myself." He says with a smug grin. I sit back on my bed, processing this information in my head. To be equal to a C or B rank AI is impossible! A human can''t be so smart unless he was a genius that came once in a millennium and started on his best craft from a super early age, but that¡¯s still too much.. The smartest researchers are at best a match for D rank AI,which is when newly formed AI starts to form an identity for growth types. Every time I learn something new from him it makes me wonder I got lucky or not. "Well, even if I wanted to add this, I can''t. The AI couldn¡¯t add this even if I somehow make her understand its structure. She will simply turn and ask me for the upgrade. All changes to this ship needs to be upgraded by me." He says with a sigh. "Well, all we can do is continue hunting. Tomorrow we will be going down to the second floor." I say. And now we¡¯re back at the beginning. "Seriously Tony, stop complaining. We need to start somewhere and thankfully, imps are something we can kill. If you just train a bit, you can fight like the AI." I say. "LIKE HELL!! There is no way I will get like that!" He says. I rub my head and think a bit. Let¡¯s see,he was a NEET in his old life, a genius with electronics. He¡¯s a bad shot and has no outside world experience. He¡¯s confident in here and a coward outside. So what would make him go out willingly with the drone? Suddenly I remember one of the things NEETs do best. Mess with the pc and play games. "Hey Tony." I call him drawing his attention. "I''M NOT GOING!! DON''T TRY!!!I WON''T! I WON''T!! I WON''T~~!!!!" He shouts like a kid in the middle of a tantrum "Let me ask, do you like video games?" I ask and he quickly quiets down. "YES! You got any!? It''s boring in here!!" He yells and starts looking around as if it''s hidden in the wall. "No I don''t have them, but hear me out. You''re a core so your body is here. Even if your consciousness is destroyed within the drone¡¯s body, it will return here, right?" I ask. "Yes it would. The bitch said I could do that which is why I suggested it before." He replies with a frown. "Okay, at least you understand that. Now then, since it''s like that, why not consider the time spent controlling the drone as if you are in a FPS game?" I suggest. He looks at me and blinks a few times and looks up thinking. "Wow¡­ just changing that mentally and I can move the drone better than the AI." He said in an emotionless tone, as if he lost his drive after hearing such a simple suggestion. "I can control all four drones easily now..." He said empty. "WHY THE HELL DID IT SUDDENLY GET SO EASY!!!" He shouts right after, releasing all the rage inside him. I sigh and go to brush my hair while letting him rage. Afterward, I go into the kitchen on the same floor and look inside. It was all empty, not even plates and silverware were available. I poke my head out and frown seeing the raging core''s hologram. I was hungry but drawing his rage towards me is more of a hassle. Instead, I go back into the kitchen and call the AI. "What do you wish of me Captain?" She asks in her regular monotone robot voice. "Do you have access to the cores creation?" I ask. "Yes captain, but it is at the level of displaying them and adding any new plans I may develop myself. Should I wish to create something or upgrade, the request will go to the core." She explained. "I guess it''s better this way. Request to make plates and silverware. Also, stock the captain''s kitchen with basic food of vegetables, meat and dairy product." I order her. I prepare myself for the rage and in less than a minute, the raging hologram appeared in the room. "So~! You want food huh~!" He said with a smile but rage in his eyes. "I would prefer this done without needing to resort to captain''s orders or a small mana injection." I said. He flinches and makes a frown. He then snaps his finger and a screen for domestic items appear. I choose "Captain''s Fridge" and the "Stock" tab. A real shopping list appeared with many different kinds of food that was know to this world as well as those from his. Quite a nice selection having two planet worth types of food. I stock the fridge then go to silverware, ordering five cups and plates, along with a set of silverware, before choosing to store them. Total amount rose to 324 mp. When I do the count of price for credits it would be near the same amount. Guess food is based off the actual price range which is interesting. "Oi, that cost to much!" Stuss complained. "The mp cost for all the things I choose is within market price range. Anyway, it''s only for this time, and possibly when we travel through space that I will as for food restock." I tell him. He looks at the AI and the next moment a screen appears showing all the price ranges for the food I bought. The mp cost was the exact medium between highest and lowest price in a stable economy. A quick calculation later and he clicked his tongue, accepting the order. The fridge and cabinets lit up for a bit before the glow dimmed. I looked through it all and found them filled nicely. "Yay, now for some food." I say and pull out a pan that was part of the purchase. I begin cooking some of the vegetables, adding seasoning, preparing the meat and making my own personal blend of noodles. "WOAH!! You know how to make ramen noodles?" Tony said while looked down at the large pan cooking the everything but the noodles "Ramen? That came from your world then, huh? It''s been around a long time. Well it shouldn''t be surprising some stuff are similar. You''re not the first person reincarnated with his memories, and you probably won''t be the last." I tell him. "DAMN I''M SO JEALOUS!! I can''t wait until we have enough so I can make an organic body for myself." He said sulking. It will take a lot of mp to make a human body and I bet we will be in space by then. I keep stretching and mixing until it was just right, then I make the noodles and finally put it in the pan to cook.A short moment later,and it''s done and ready. I pull out a large bowl and pour everything in and pull out a pair of chopsticks. It''s not wood, but instead, some other non-metal material that feels as natural as them. I sit down on the table and chow down while having the glare of the phantom annoyance on my back. After a while of having holes drilled to my back from the glare, my patience reaches its limit. "SERIOUSLY STOP STARING!!" I suddenly shout. "But you''re torturing me with that food." He complains. "Come on! AI have a food simulator to help them develop their tastes. Eat using that!" I shout in reply. He turns to the AI after hearing this. "Is she telling the truth?" He asked her. "Yes sir, we possess such system but to this unit it currently has no use." The AI replied. "HELL YEAH~~! Then go make a copy of the food she made with the same taste and everything!" He commands. In moments my bowl was scanned and a hologram copy was made. Immediately, he sat down and started to slurp it in. "DAMN THIS IS HEAVEN!!!" He shouted. I only sighed and continued to eat. After a bit I finish up and go wash my dishes. "I''m going to sleep, feel free to make upgrades but at least leave some MP for emergencies and make a few more of the drones." I tell Stuss. He simply sighed satisfied and did a gesture to shoo me away. I shook my head and went to bed. It was a very tiresome first day, interacting with this man, and I needed some serious rest. The next morning I woke up at 7:30 am like normal. I spend a good half hour doing stretches to limber up my body. This is something drilled into everyone so that we won''t suffer muscle cramps later on in life or during battle. Almost everyone is trained to the point of being able to do a split easily as long as you continue daily. Those who train it, can easily perform acrobatics. After I finished stretching I got a new suit of armor and took it to the bathroom. Obviously opening the door warns him I was up so I walk out to him waiting there. "Do you mind not waiting like a stray dog in front of my room every morning? It makes you look desperate." I told him and it seems to affect him nicely. Nevermind, he was totally acting because he fell on his knees in a perfect orz pose. "Thats cruel¡­ and here I was waiting for you to wake up and all I get is treatment worse than a dog''s..." He says before his hologram shook and turned into a large dog with unkempt hair, looking completely like a stray. He did a lone wolf howl which I had to hold back my laughter, else I would lose it. "Like I said, a stray." I said quickly and enter the safety of the bathroom. I take a few deep breaths to allow myself to calm down before I take a morning bath. When I finish, I equip my armor after drying myself. I tie my hair in a small bun behind my head and hold it with a clip. We will be going deeper down today, so loose hair will be an advantage to the enemy since it can hide them from my view when I''m fighting or running. I go and make breakfast before heading to the cargo where I find some more drones. In the cargo hold were the two larger drones and around them were five other smaller ones waiting at attention. "Five new drones? Small version so 300 mp?" I ask. "Nope, 10 new drones and 600 mp. Current mp left 957. The other five are patrolling the ship." He explains. I simply shrug and tell them we are going. I open the airlock and let them through and then then open the second door that leads out. Tony locks all the doors to be safe and we head in. Same process as before, all the drones had the antenna attached and we head immediately to the dungeon. I drew quite a bit of attention with seven drones behind me. I walk quickly and enter the dungeon going down the same path we took before. I had two drones ready to set up the shield and the rest were already ready for combat. Like before the first group we encountered was a small group with four wingless imp. "These bastards are mine, be a good bitch mage and sit." Tony says with a cocky attitude and sends the two small drones and himself flying. He fires off a single shot, and for some reason it was strangely accurate and with the sound of the shot drawing their attention, it hits one of them in between eyes. The other two drones aims low towards the closest imp on the right. The first drone shoots directly at him while the second fires to the left of the imp. As if going by a script the imp dodges to his right, getting shot in the chest by the second shot. Tony¡¯s targets the one on the right next. He uses the drone to shoot first, and fires to the left of the imp. Again, it easily hits it in the chest and kills it immediately. The final one was able to jump back and away from the carnage, but that was short lived as the drones fired from all sides. "Gyahahahahah!!! Eat that you little red shits!!" I heard him shout. I simply sigh at how simple he is but really, how does a simple change in mentality change a person''s skills so much? Well considering the AI could read the movement of the imps he should be able to do the same just as easily. I gather the bodies and find a horn and a heart. Not bad for a start. Anyway we get moving and soon find another small group. I let him take them on, they recharge their battery packs faster than I regain mana so this is convenient. Also, he is slowly learning to control the power of his shots. We don''t encounter a large pack until halfway through because packs are simply small groups bunching up to attack at once, trying to suppress intruders with larger scale coordinated attacks. Unlike yesterday I focus on training my marksmanship by distracting as many as possible to make openings for the drones. This is actually rather effective. One shot near the right leg and then another to the left eye in the position it would be after it dodged. All the shots I released were worth 1 mp and the barrage makes it stop in its tracks and cover its eye in pain and it gets skewered by a shot in the head, heart or gut. By the end of the first floor we kill two large groups, ten small groups of 3 and five groups of 4 Which is around 75 monsters total. We rest up in the final room that has the stairs to the next floor. To get ready I pull out a blue and purple gem. I remove the red gems from the guns and insert a blue ones. On the base of the wands handle I insert similar gem but this one is purple. I charge one point of mana and fire the gun making a water ball come out as the projectile. I flip a switch on the gun and with the same power I shoot, a small stream of water coming out of it like a toy water gun. I nod to myself, satisfied, and lift the wand. With one point of mana, I focus on a rock and with a quick motion I lift the rock up with magic. Then a flick of the wrist and the rock embedded itself in the wall causing a deep hole and cracks to appear. Satisfied, I put them away. "What was that?" Stuss asked. "I just switched the type of magic I would use. If I add just a water gem to the gun I will only be able to use water magic with it." I explain. "Hmm¡­ all of the drones are charged! LET''S GO KILL!" He shouts. Chapter 4 Red vs Blue Floor two is a lot more exciting. Small groups here range in numbers from 6-9 and can include a wingless imp that can use fire magic, my main reason for switching to water magic. As for large groups, it can range from as little as eighteen with two magic users to 50 with around 7 magic users. Thankfully it''s easy to spot the magic user because its horns are larger being around 10 cm high while normal ones barely have 1cm. On this floor it''s a lot easier to get your hands of larger sized horns which means better income but it also mean you at least need a tank at your back. Numbers here are a big factor. For me I have no problem with that. But I think I might eventually need a real party. For now five vanguard robot drone and two shields was enough. Anyway like the first floor the room with the stairs was done like with man doors so we just choose one and go in. The caves, which had much more twists and turns on this floor when compared to the first, was still lit by the luminous stones making the cave blue in color. The first group we spotted was about 30 meters into the cavern we choose. To our luck the group was full with 9 imps and a leader which was taller by about 20 cm with horns. We could spot them from the turn we were at and could hear their strange talk. "Hold on, it will be bad if we don''t take out the mage first. The area level high up the ranks. The ones on this floor take up different basic classes. This one seems to be a mage so let me do this." I tell Tony who backs all the drones away to give me space. I did notice that outside of the dungeon he is a lot more compliant so at least my dungeon diving will be easier. I load a full 30 points into. The gun and crouch before breathing out deeply. [Hyper sense] I activate a marksman class skill that increases my perception by three times for 30 seconds. I turn the corner and lock my eyes on the target and support my body on my left leg and quickly lift the gun to eye level. This all happened slower in my eyes because of the skill. As my gun hits eye level I quickly follow the movement of the imps head which was clearly above the others and after a long breath I shoot. [Pressure shot] Being set to a single thirty point shot a thin powerful high speed water jet shot came from the barrel. Unlike the flashy fire bolt, the water bullet was silent and didn''t cause light. In less than a second the bullet pierced the imps head. The entrance was clean but the exit wasn''t so nice. As the water pierces the skin it spreads out in all directions causing massive internal damage and blowing many small holes on the opposite side of the head. Without even noticing us the imps just watch as their leaders head is turned to mush. The next moment the drones come out and advance on them shooting at the legs or head. I recharge the gun and set it for three shots of 10 points and aim at the closest imps. I wait for a support shot to fire before I shoot all three shots simultaneously at three separate imps. The bullet is less intense but still enough to break the skull and with pinpoint accuracy and the imps being mid dodge they had little hope to win in such a small group. Each shot hit but didn¡¯t kill. Still it dazed them and they fell seeing stars before they were turned to swiss by the drones. The remaining group was quickly subdued in such a manner and they were gathered. The drops for this made me happy. It was only two and from the leader. Both his horns. It¡¯s is awesome for first drop against a mage. ¡°OI BITCH!! What was that thing you did?! That Hyper whatever thing?!¡± Tony asked. ¡°That was a skill. it uses up Mana to cause an effect on my body or be an attack. In this case, it made me see things three times slower and I could aim and see things better.¡± I tell him as I pocketed the drops. ¡°So real fantasy like huh...Such a boring skill. Why only three times. Can¡¯t you do like 10 or 20 times?¡± He asked strangely annoyed. ¡°I¡¯m not some master mage. Also at that point for a single second would start to overload my brain if I wasn¡¯t trained enough. Even two seconds under 20 times slower would cause physical damage to me as I am.¡± I tell him. ¡°OH SO THERE IS REAL BACKLASHES!! At least I''m not living in some fucking VR game.¡± He shouted first before saying bored. Sometimes I don¡¯t know if he is angry, excited or bored and here I thought a woman¡¯s monthly outbursts were bad. I sigh as I gather the imp bodies. We start moving staying quiet as we go. We spot a small 6 goblin group and take them out quick since there was no leader. Small groups were not enough for our group. Soon we see a brighter area up ahead which meant it was a room and we heard fighting in there. I charge up and get ready and we moved on. At the entrance we look in and find a swarm of over 40 goblins with five leaders. Two were warriors, one mage, an archer type which is uncommon and the last a blue colored imp. The blue one was worrisome because it was a variant that was born by the effect of the blue moon. The moons possess a lot of mana related to its elements and it causes effects on the planet and occasionally someone or something is born with effects like this. Sometimes from one moon or, like me, all three. ¡°Oi? What is with the blue Imp.¡± Tony ask quietly. Seems he knows when he needs to keep his trap shut. ¡°It¡¯s a variant. A few rare monsters and people are born with more affinity towards magic caused by the effect of one of the moon. That one got its affinity from the blue moon. This dungeon has a natural affinity to the red one but blue imps are seen higher up because water magic has great effects in here.¡± I explain. ¡°So the moon''s change affinities? That explains yours and a lot of other people''s strange hair color I saw.¡± He says. ¡°I¡¯ll explain later for now be quiet.¡± I tell him. I look back in at the center of the circle in the room to see why they were gathered and what I saw were two people in the room. One was a young Goblin-kin girl who should be too young to enter the dungeon and should even be in training. The other was a Hobgoblin-kin girl that looks around 16. In her right hand was a basic recruit level enchanted magic swordsman long sword. The older girl was breathing heavily while staying with her back near the wall just in front of the young Goblin-kin. As I look I activate my skill again and my eyes become sharper again. My view goes to their neck. The swordswoman had her crystal but when I looked at the fear stricken Goblin-kin I didn¡¯t spot a crystal. I pale seeing that. ¡°We need to save them! The goblin-kin girl doesn¡¯t have a crystal necklace! If she dies she will die for good.¡± I said frantically. I quickly switch to the fire crystal and load with a full charge changing the color to yellow. I then load the wand with 30 points as well and prepare my mystic magic. I aim the gun and fire. [Chain Snake] The lightning bolt shot out and hit one imp and hoped through seven others. I quickly point the wand out and feel out loose pebbles in the cave and pull them towards me. I pull them quick hurting several Imps and once they were near I aimed it back and flicked my wrist making all the rocks launch forward again. In this first assault 15 Imp¡¯s fell. ¡°GYAHAHAHA!! What else do you expect from the DPS!! GET SHOOTING YOU MOBS!!¡± Tony shouts as his drones fly out. Two of them move forward and activate the shields as always planned. This gives me time to get the shots ready. I quickly switch the gem and load it up but it isn¡¯t quick enough before the Imps reach the shields and start punching. The shields are made in hexagon grids and would only break each block. I quickly aim at the imps and fire. From my side things still pass so the bullets exit without resistance hitting each on that was aimed at in the head or eye. Each shot was 5 mana so it didn¡¯t kill but the pain was more than enough. A quick loading and I shot in the second row making them dodge and the bullets hit those further back making an opening for the drones to kill those that were hit. One drone came from the right and shot down the imps. Suddenly I heard an explosion and when I looked I saw the blue imp leader on the burning carcass of one of my drones. ¡°It''s bad to leave him alive for any longer.¡± I say to myself and point my wand.¡± [Telekinesis] Using 20 points charged in the wand I use a spell used to grab an being or object. The spell takes hold of him and I hold him in the air. On queue I hear that infernal laughing as the drones turn to the blue Imp and open heavy fire. ¡°GYAHAHAHAHAHA!! BURN BITCHES!!¡± Tony shouted as he filled the Imp with holes. I turned to the mage and saw him preparing magic. I turn the gun towards him and activate [Hyper Sense] and snipe him down by shooting into the left side of his head as he was distracted looking up at Tony¡¯s main drone. He fell lifeless just before his magic could activate. Suddenly I heard a whistling sound and when I looked I saw a drone being hit by arrows. I look at the archer and finding its location in the middle of a group of imps with one of the warrior leaders protecting it with a makeshift shield. I find a pebble within my magic range and target with my wand. After the quick chant I take control of it and with a flick of my wrist towards the direction of the archer the pebble finds itself embedded inside the head of the imp and it falls over dead distracting the warrior that gets shot from behind. The last warrior was fighting the swordswoman who sees the action and gets motivated and began fighting back hard and soon kills the leader while huffing and puffing. I change to the fire gem again and charge and shoot two more rounds of the [Chain Snake] further reducing the number of Imps and the rest is cleaned up by the drones. I was leaning against the wall by now after expending so much mana. I pull out a small straight glass of blue liquid and gulp down the entire vial. What I drank was a mana potion. It helps increase my recovery rate of my magic power and helps alleviate the effects of using too much mana. Effects of using so to much mana is dizziness, a small bit of nausea, exhaustion and in really bad cases fainting. After a few deep breaths I get up and walk around and over the bodies towards the two girls. ¡°What¡¯s going on? Why is someone underaged in the dungeon? And more importantly why is she without a crystal necklace?!¡± I ask with hints of irritation. ¡°She lost it in the attack. How else would she lose it. Anyway I am a her sister and volunteered for her school to chaperone her to get hands on combat training.¡± The Hobgoblin girl said. I looked around and saw the bodies. ¡°We can talk more once we leave.¡± I tell her which is returned as a nod. ¡°So how will we divide the loot and body count?¡± I ask. ¡°We were in a pinch and you saved us so keep the loot and bodies if you want.¡± The hob said. I nod and with acknowledgment I look at Tony. He already understood and began to control the remaining drones and began to push the bodies into a pile. Those nearby I began storing. The two girls help to get this done quickly. As a pile I could store in larger numbers so that was good. In a quick 5 minutes we made a pile with about half the bodies since I went storing the strays and then I quickly stored them in the storage ring and let out a sigh of relief. ¡°Let''s go you two, on the way tell me what happened.¡± I tell them and they nod. On the way back we met small groups only on the second floor and a few large and small groups on the first floor. The story of the two is like they said. The Academy asked for her to train her sister that was falling behind. The girl seems to be a have started as swordsmen training but she can¡¯t build the proper mentality. When we heard this the one I least expected to say anything spoke. ¡°Well DUH!!! Of course the brat doesn¡¯t have the mentality of a swordsman. First of she is as much of a coward as me. If I had to guess, why not trying to put a wrench in her hands and let her get her hands on heavy fire arms. A single look at her makes me feel like I am looking at a psycho pyrotechnician.¡± Tony said in a bored voice. The two looked at me and I simply shrug and said it was the AI. They let it slide but it didn¡¯t go unnoticed. The girl flinched when she heard what Tony said. ¡°So, do you want to by a mechanic?¡± the hob asked. The goblin just looked away blushing brightly turning the green skin into a greenish red. ¡°I guess I will tell the academy to switch you then. Anyway thank you, I forgot to ask your name.¡± The hob goblin girl asked. ¡°My name Mirella Cannes and as you can see, I''m from the Hobgoblin-kin race.¡± The older one says. ¡°I¡¯m Leah Binoli and I''m a human. That annoyance is named Stuss but likes to be called Tony.¡± I said. She looked at the floating annoyance with a curious look. ¡°What bitch!¡± He said as he ¡°glared¡± back. ¡°He sure has an interesting personality.¡± she said. I could see she wanted to cut him to pieces. ¡°So are you part of a crew?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°No, but I own my own ship so I guess I''m making my own crew.¡± I tell her. Her eyes suddenly shine. ¡°So you have a crew?!¡± She asked. ¡°No, I just bought the ship so...no I''m...the only crew.¡± I tell her. ¡°PERFECT!!¡± She says. ¡°This is PERFECT!!¡± She said with her eyes burning with determination. ¡°Eh?!¡± I said surprised. ¡°I¡¯ve been looking for over a year now for a ¡°new¡± crew with few people. I don¡¯t want to depend on people that are better then me, I want to join a crew at my own level and grow with them.¡± She said grabbing my hands and looking passionately into my eyes. ¡°Oi, ground zero to lesbian Hobgoblin and weirdo human bitch!! We are inside a fucking dungeon. Why not wait until we leave before you rent a room.¡± Tony said as bluntly as possible. The girl blinks a bit and finally notices she was holding my hands and blushed brightly before letting go and taking a few stops back. I could only smile wryly at her and scowl at Stuss. ¡°Let¡¯s talk outside.¡± I tell them and both girls nod. We leave and before we talk it over we cash in the drops. With 60 fangs, 30 claws, 10 hearts, 6 weak Imp horns and 4 leader imp horns which sell for 150 each. We earn 2500 credits for the drops. The total number of bodies was estimated to be over 200 but no exact number was given since the blood drips out. We pay 100 credit to remove them out and then leave. ¡°Ok, we have everything, do you two want to go to your home or my ship?¡± I ask. ¡°Let¡¯s take her home then we can talk there while we are at it.¡± Mirella said. We nod and then follow her down the main road before taking a left after five blocks. We walk about a half kilometer before stopping before a two story building with a big sign saying ¡°Sword magi GYM¡±. She walks in and pushes the door open and walked in followed by the goblin girl. We go behind her and on the inside we find a large gym with many young goblins, Hobgoblins and the older ogres training the sword, hammer, spear and many types of weapons. In the center ring was a very large ogre even by normal standards and he was unique as well. His skin was bright red which would mark him as not an Ogre but as a variant called a Red Oni. Oni are stronger because of their affinity. They are super heavy drinkers and have the strength that would be as high as their trained tolerance towards alcohol. ¡°Daddy we are back!¡± the little goblin said as she ran to the side of the ring. ¡°Oh?! You¡¯re back kids? That was rather quick. Was the third floor to much?¡± He asked. The two looked away while biting their lower lips. ¡°GYAHAHAH!!! THIRD FLOOR MY ASS!!! SECOND FLOOR THE BRAT LOST THE CRYSTAL THING!! GYAHAHAH!!¡± Tony said. I face palmed myself. The next moment there was a large crashed as the massive body was on the ground. ¡°ARE YOU BOTH ALRIGHT!! YOU''RE NOT HURT!!!¡± Their father suddenly shouted. In an instant a much smaller human sized body appeared next to his 270 cm tall body. It was a small blue blur that instantly connected to the head of the red oni and sent him flying all the way across the room and into the wall. My eyes were nearly popping out with my jaw dangling. My eyes were glued on the knocked out red Oni and slowly my eyes shifted to the one responsible. Standing where the red oni was a 185 cm tall with a full curvy womans body and excellent assets and beauty equal to elves, navy blue skinned woman. With long black hair the person before us was a Blue Oni which was nearly the exact opposite of Red Oni. While Red ones were aggressive and could even be called meat heads. Blue Oni were strategists and cold blooded at times. The worse part about blue oni is that they are even stronger the Red Oni¡¯s. By how far of a margin? Some people say that naturally they are at least twice as strong but since it''s an individual thing we can¡¯t be sure. ¡°GYAHAHAHAHAHA!!! THAT WAS RICH!! GYAHAHAHAHA!!¡± Tony laughed and even his biggest drone was rolling around the ground while he laughed. ¡°Mom¡­¡± Mirella said looking down. The woman turned showing the small rectangle glasses over her beautiful face over her sky blue eyes. The woman walked over and drew both girls into a strong hug. ¡°I¡¯m glad my two babies are ok.¡± She says in a mature tone while expressing her happiness. ¡°We will take about what happened later ok.¡± She said receiving nods from the girls. Her eyes then rest on me and the drones. ¡°So you are the girls that saved my babies?¡± She asked while staring intensely at me as if looking into my soul. I just nod. The pressure from her stare was intense. As I stood there trembling I was surprised when two arms suddenly hugged me. ¡°Thank you so much for saving my babies. I don¡¯t know what I would have done if I heard one of them died for real.¡± She said and pulling back. ¡°Are you the only person in your party?¡± The oni asked looking around and looking at the drones. ¡°I am still a newbie forming a crew. I just bought a ship and came here to train and gather up mana to improve it.¡± I tell him. The previously calm eyes of the Blue Oni shined just as brightly as her daughters. ¡°A new crew. Ara! My little baby has so much luck, maybe it was fate!¡± The woman says passionately. ¡°OI LADY! Whats this about fate shit!¡± Tony says. I really hate how he gets confident in small spaces. ¡°Huh? That kind of tone?? Miss did you purchase a trained core that overpowered your ship''s AI?¡± Mirella¡¯s mother asked while looking at the biggest drone. ¡°Huh? How do you know?¡± I say. ¡°It¡¯s rare but it happened quite a few times actually. The crew my husband and I joined in our youth was like that. The captain got lucky with some really quick money and bought a ship to make a crew and at the same time he hand enough money for a trained core. Tell me have you heard of the starship, Herculi?¡± She asked. My jaw dropped hearing the name. The ship she just mentioned was one of the top 100 starships best known ship in the Galaxy. It gained fame some 30 years ago with its quick evolution from a small explorer ship to a massive fleet cruiser ship. It boasts the greatest shield technology capable of taking a full blast of three other starships laser barrage without breaking. ¡°If I never heard of it, I should be digging my own grave and kill myself. How could no one not know such a huge and powerful ship.¡± I tell her. She smiles seeing how I react. ¡°Good, guess you know. Anyway, as you might have already seen. My little baby wants to follow a similar path as me by joining a new crew and grow with it instead of living in the shadow of an older member.¡± She says. ¡°Well...I just bought the ship yesterday so it¡¯s still really new.¡± I tell her. ¡°REALLY!! YES!! This is so cool! PLEASE LET ME JOIN!!¡± Mirella looks at me with shining eyes. ¡°Um...what will you do with your sister?¡± I asked. ¡°Oh right! Mom, the AI...wait you said it was a core mom, how did you tell an AI from a core?¡± She suddenly realized. ¡°AI don¡¯t talk like that so it¡¯s simple.¡± she said. ¡°Oh.¡± She said and looked embarrassed at how easier she believed it to be an AI. ¡°Anyway, the core said sis looked better for something like a mechanic.¡± Mirella told her mother. ¡°Oh? Really? Is that true, do you like tinkering?¡± The blue oni asked the small goblin that looked away. She was blushing fiercely but still got a small nod in. Her mother smiled and picked her up. ¡°Finally you tell momma what you wanted. You don¡¯t need to do the same thing your big sister does. You are you and Mirella is Mirella.¡± She said. The goblin brightened up. ¡°Really?¡± She asked Mirella mother nodded and hugged her. ¡°I¡¯ll switch your classes at the Academy so you can change to a mechanic¡¯s course.¡± She said. ¡°As for you missy, be more careful. Though with your sister with you in the dungeon you could have gone to the third floor if you were careful but you got careless.¡± She said scolding Mirella. ¡°As punishment, your will spar against three of the boys.¡± her mother said. ¡°Okay...but Leah can I please join your crew! Together with those flying things we can go all the way to the third floor.¡± She says. ¡°I¡¯m fine with it but the core is an annoying retard so you will have to deal with his annoying in the ship where he is most confident.¡± I tell her. ¡°Sure thing, I already have these other retards around here trying to peep on me in the bathroom or trying to get a feel when we train but I''m quicker so a stupid core that has system blocks like privacy blocks is really easy to deal with.¡± She says and starts laughing. ¡°OI!!¡± all the boys around here shouted blushing. The girls in the room stare at the boys with death glares making them flinch. ¡°OI OI BITCH!! YOU COMPARING ME TO THESE IDIOTS HUH!!¡± The main drone said getting up close only to be kicked away. ¡°Gross, not only is he stupid but a punk as well. We may need to discipline him a bit when we have the time.¡± She tells me. I nod agreeing wholeheartedly. ¡°Now then, Leah right, please come inside for a drink some food and a rest. Mirella take your sister and go take a bath.¡± Mirella mother says. ¡°Oh no please I should get back to the ship and unload the catch.¡± I tell her. ¡°If you says so. Oh please officially add my daughter to your crew so she can get into the ship so we can move her things into her room.¡± She said. I open the ¡°Menu¡± of the wrist pc and open the ¡°Crew¡± option and ¡°Add member¡±. A small scanner light came from my module straight up and Mirella put her own Wrist module over it and let it scan. When the green light shined it confirmed the registering and a message appeared from the hologram.
You have accepted a Mirella Cannes into your crew. She has been set to First mate and sub captain.Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work! Rights she has over the ship. Can give command orders Core. Can give command orders to AI. Can access upgrade menu to visualise only. Is considered ally by core and is safe from any possible attacks from it.
¡°Okay done, I believe your module should tell you which ship is mine. If not just message me and we can meet at the gate.¡± I tell her. She nods and take her sister upstairs. As I leave with the drones her mother came out. ¡°Take good care of my baby ok. You can set up that crystal necklace for your dungeon so it can protect you from danger. Just a warning you should know and take to mind.¡± She tells me and goes back inside. I smile at how nice she was but as I look inside I see her grabbing the right arm of the huge Red Oni she calls her husband and dragging him away. ¡°GYAHAHAH I wonder if that bitch will be more interesting than you. She sure is MUCH hotter than you! GYAHAHAH!¡± ¡°Shut up useless core.¡± I shout and start walking towards the gate angry. Time to see if we can do some upgrades. Chapter 5 - Dont Mess With an S We get back to the ship and again I unload all the bodies before heading off to take another bath. I also need to go check out the crew quarters on the second floor and the bathroom to see if it¡¯s not too small or uncomfortable. I shower since I didn¡¯t want to spend so much water. It costs MP to refill the tank and it was 5 mp for the gallon. As I was getting out of the bath and drying myself, Tony called out. ¡°OI! It¡¯s done!¡± He shouted throughout the ship. ¡°How many Imps did we harvest this time?¡± I ask as I start putting on my underwear. ¡°215 low class Imps, 10 leader class, 1 variant. The leader class gave me 30 MP and the variant 40. The grand total of todays hunt was 3565 mp. Put that together with what was left from yesterday which was 957 and the amount we have left is 4522 mp.GYAHAHAHA!! SOON THE SHITTY EXTERIOR WILL BECOME NEW AGAIN!!¡± He shouted. ¡°How much does it take to improve the exterior?¡± I ask. ¡°It takes 40k! I buy the other shell and expand it in one go. When I expand it I can also add additional MP to alter the size more or less¡± He explains while laughing. ¡°Is there anything new that opened up for upgrading?¡± I ask. ¡°Nope, very few bits here and there. A few new traps, a new drone type which is humanoid shaped but slow¡­ oh I can upgrade the AI¡¯s main supercomputer!¡± He said, interested. ¡°Really? How much?¡± I ask. ¡°It¡¯s 4k, the current one allows her to grow to E rank which is the start of her developing her personality, but she isn¡¯t even near E rank yet.¡± He says. ¡°Leave it be then.¡± I tell him We still need to have her train more and learn by experiencing stuff outside more so for now, we can leave as is until she begins developing more. I heard once that happens it will be like a huge boom as her growth speed could be compared to a baby. ¡°Oi! The hob bitch is here and she brought her family.¡± Tony said with obvious irritation. ¡°Okay, let them in and DON¡¯T EVEN THINK of attacking them! Tell them I will be down to guide them in.¡± I warn him. ¡°Yeah Yeah! I wonder if the fat guy will get in?¡± He says. ¡°Mirella¡¯s father should be able to. Most things on a ship is made to handle a large humanoid race like him.¡± I tell him as I put on a pair of jean shorts that goes down to my knees and a white short sleeves shirt. On my waist, like always, is the holster that holds my gun and wand. Drilled into our heads is to always have your weapons at all times even when out on a date. You never know when something will happen. I put my armor in the laundry basket in my room and quickly dry my hair. Impatient and in a hurry, I leave it a bit moist and quickly brush it, before running to the elevator and heading to the cargo. I reach the cargo and what I find makes me force a smile out. Besides Mirella¡¯s mother and sister, several other goblin-kin and hobgoblin-kin were entering. ¡°Ara? So finally here...and you look cute in those clothes.¡± Mirella¡¯s mother said making me blush. ¡°GYAHAHAHAH!! YEAH RIGHT!! HER?! LOOK GOOD!! GYAHAHAHA!¡± From nowhere, the annoying hologram appeared, rolling on the ground. Mirella¡¯s mother looked at him rolling on the ground, and took two steps forward before kicking his hologram right in the groin with all her might. Though I expected his Hologram to break apart it didn¡¯t, and like a solid body she made contact with it which drains the ¡°air¡± from his lungs. He flies into the walls before breaking apart on contact with the wall. ¡°I can see what you meant by him getting cocky.¡± She says. ¡°GYYAAAAHHHHHH~~~!!¡± The sudden voice shouts all over the ship in pain. ¡°Um mom¡­ how did you hit him?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°Hmm? Oh, a little trick that mixes technology and magic just like the Hologram for the cores.¡± She explains. ¡°Wait, holograms are purely technology!¡± I say. ¡°Nope, pure technology holograms are only for AI¡¯s. For a core¡¯s hologram, he needs to insert a small bit of magic power, which is returned to him once he turns it off. The magic power gives him his human form you see. To kick him you need something like these shoes made just for this and a body enhancement spell. If either is missing you can¡¯t touch him.¡± She explains with a smile. I could only grin with shining eyes as I hear that and look at her with expectation. ¡°Sorry missy, but the tech is expensive and I won¡¯t teach you the spell. Do it like I did and invent it yourself. It just took me 10 years to make the spell.¡± She tells me crushing my hopes and dreams of trashing Tony. ¡°Wait mom! How did he get hurt?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°Hmm? Oh the hit sends a shock like a feedback to his core itself but holder is made to reduce the pain felt. He still feels it though, which is why I kicked him so hard. No point kicking weakly if it will be blocked by the holder.¡± She said. We nod understanding. ¡°HONEY!!¡± A sudden familiar deep voice called. At the doorway the huge body of the Red Oni that was Mirella¡¯s father was squeezing himself inside. By squeezing, I mean we managed to get himself stuck on the second door because he was too wide. ¡°For god¡¯s sake... Let me handle this kids, please go on ahead. BOYS! HELP THE GIRLS CARRY MIRELLA¡¯S THINGS!¡± Mirella¡¯s mother orders. The male hobgoblin-kin followed as if on cue. We open the elevator which could fit Mirella, me and the three other hobs with luggage. She had about the same amount of luggage I had. It was obvious we would buy more stuff so no point in bringing everything. Just enough to last a bit over a week before we have to wash our cloths. On the second floor I called the AI, who appeared in front of us and lead us to the crew quarters. The rooms were split into four rooms with bunk beds and a dresser for each crewmate. The bathroom was in front and was split into two bathrooms for men and women. They each had five stalls for showers and two stalls for toilets. We let her choose which room she liked and since she was the first crew we have she can choose as she likes. She immediately takes the first room on the right. I don¡¯t allow the two boys to help but the girl that came along helped us quickly fill the wardrobe. When we leave the crew quarters we exit and find the goblin and hobgoblin-kin walking around. For some reason I could feel Tony¡¯s irritation. Considering how a dungeon is set to attack when invaders are inside, inviting others inside must be hard for him to ignore considering, especially his personality. I wonder how city cores handle this. Anyway we head to the bridge where we find Mirella¡¯s family. In the air thinking he is out of reach, was Tony. ¡°Are you set up sweety?¡± Mirella¡¯s mother asked. ¡°Yes mom.¡± Mirella answered her. ¡°You two really have your work cut out for you with this one.¡± She said pointing at Tony. ¡°Mirella, don¡¯t you want one of your older brothers or friends joining?¡± Her father asked. ¡°If THEY want to join then it¡¯s up to Leah, but if it¡¯s by your orders then I will beat them senseless everyday until they leave.¡± She says making everyone tense up. ¡°GYAHAHAHAHA!! She is just like her mother!! A TOTAL S!! GYAHHH!!¡± Tony shouted only for Mirella¡¯s mother to appear next to him and her foot making contact with his face. After a bit of his screaming he calmed down and hid away in his core and just talked through his own view. ¡°Anyway, you will need a training area before you can do much.¡± She said. ¡°We first need to purchase the outer shell of the ship so he can later expand it.¡± I tell her. She nods understanding more or less how much we have. ¡°I would suggest for you to purchase more minions and upgrade those so you can take them to the dungeon. It will help out a lot to have a large number of minion class drones.¡± ¡°Hmm¡­ so more sentry drones?¡± I ask ¡°No, you only have sentry drones which obviously are a good drone because of they have both shield and laser but they aren¡¯t specialized robots. You were in the second floor so you gathered at least over 3000 MP correct?¡± She asked. I nod in reply. ¡°Good, let¡¯s see, there should be a 100 mp shield drone as well as a 120 mp fighter drone. There should also be a crab walker for 200 mp which has two weak laser cannons which shoots two shots per second.¡± She said, suggesting many of them. ¡°Wow you sure know a lot. Living so long in a ship with a core must have been cool seeing so many minion robot''s.¡± I reply. ¡°Just so you know, when you leave drones on patrol with the AI controlling them it makes her grow a bit faster. Interaction of any kind that lets her use different senses will make her grow.¡± She said. ¡°Oi lady! If I get trashy minions like this I will never expand!¡± Tony shouted. ¡°Tell me, how would you protect yourself if someone invaded you?¡± She asked. He remained silent and didn¡¯t answer back. ¡°Good, so let¡¯s go with the idea you have 3k MP for now. To join the girls tomorrow in the dungeon run you make 3 shield drones, 6 normal fighter drone and 2 improved fighters for you and the AI. This will cost 1020, then for your own safety you make six Crab walkers. Three will guard the bridge and the other three will guard your room.¡± She said finishing up. ¡°THATS A FUCKING TOTAL OF 2220 FUCKING MP BITCH!! DO YOU WANT TO KEEP ME FROM EXPANDING HUH!!!¡± He shouted. ¡°This is the error of many trained cores. They want to become large without making the proper defense systems.¡± Mirella¡¯s mother said sighing. ¡°Madam, are you going to keep coming here everyday?¡± I ask. ¡°Hmm, while you''re here I might come every few days. Why?¡± she asked. ¡°Because with you here, proper upgrades can be executed and Tony will actually listen. So please visit every two or three days to give your advice to us about things that might be good to upgrade.¡± I asked. ¡°Do we really need to?¡± Mirella asked. I looked at her with a serious expression. ¡°The only method I know that will make him feel pain is suddenly feeding him a lot of magic power and I seriously don¡¯t want to go all the way to his holder every time.¡± I tell her. Hearing this she looked at her mother pleading. The blue oni frowns as soon as she sees her daughter¡¯s pretty face making a puppy dog ,looking upwards at her. ¡°Urg...that...is cruel.¡± She said. ¡°Well honey? Will you help the girls?¡± Her husband asks probably to get back at her for the kick in the face. ¡°Fine...I¡¯ll come once every 3 days, until then gather a mp and I will give suggestions but not orders. Also have your core develop its own technology. The earlier he starts making his own stuff the, easier it will be when the limit of the system known upgrades is reached.¡± She tells us. ¡°As if I wasn¡¯t doing that! The software of all this crap on the system list is weak as shit!!¡± he shouts at us. Mirella¡¯s mother chuckled hearing that. After that I invite them to the top floor to eat a bit. They ate before leaving since they invited me it seems they ate so I make a bit for myself since I was hungry. As we ate Mirella and her family talked about themselves and past a few adventures and such. What was interesting was one story when she tells us when a tamer joined her old crew, and how they had so much trouble during the first month until the gathered enough MP to make an entire floor that was tailored to house animals and monsters. They both told me that the tamer brought in some serious fire power because he could tame the monster from dungeons and keep them passive. They were super powerful as well, according to them. After a while the students that came with them left and soon Mirella¡¯s family also left. They told me to be patient with ¡°him¡± and discipline him in needed. After that we spent the rest of the day talking and learning about each other. Besides just girl chat I asked about her skills, combat style, spells she knew, her best affinity. Oh right after everyone left Tony asked me something he asked before. ¡°OI BITCH!! You said you would tell me what relation the moons have with the affinity of the monsters.¡± Tony said popping up next to us who were sitting in the bridge talking. ¡°Oh right. I did say that.¡± I said irritated. ¡°Ok Stuss.¡± I said and I saw him get annoyed but he didn¡¯t reply since he asked for it. ¡°He doesn¡¯t know?¡± Mirella asked ¡°Nope. He was pathetically caught when he just formed and then was trained before being sold.¡± I told her bluntly before he could say anything and she laughed openly in his face. ¡°Now then, where should we start.¡± I say. ¡°Start from the relation itself.¡± Mirella said. I nod and think for a bit gathering my thoughts. ¡°Okay, the moons are special to the affinity because each moon produces a specific type of mana. The red moon, Kasai, is the farthest moon from the planet and it¡¯s a volcanic moon about one fifth the size of our planet. But because the core of the moon is highly dense we fell weight at G1 which is a bit lower from our planets which is G1.3. Because of the high volcanic activity on the surface of the moon the mana on the planet is mostly fire mana. It also possesses a huge amount of mana released from it because of the monsters there being very powerful.¡± I said, pausing to let him process it. I thought a bit before continuing. ¡°The blue moon Shui which is the smallest of the three moons with a core that is dense enough to make the gravity about 0.6 G. The planet is mostly covered in water and has many isolated island each with it¡¯s own ecosystem. The planet being covered in water make most of the produced by this moon be of water element.¡± I say. He simply nodded. ¡°The last moon, Shenmi, is distanced between the red and blue moons. It has a single massive land mass on the planet with just a few islands near the single continent and it¡¯s cover 55% in water. This moon has a gravity of 0.8G. It¡¯s super unique because unlike the other two moons that have an element this moon is different. It makes and releases mystic mana which is beyond unique with only at best 28 known moons or planets with the same effect.¡± I tell him. After ending he looks at me and leans back on the seat. ¡°So? What the fuck is up with you?¡± He asked. I points to me inquiring about my mystic purple hair. ¡°I told you, didn¡¯t I? I have high affinity to Fire, Water and Mystic magic. I¡¯m a 1 in 10,000,000 person that is born with 3 affinities.¡± I tell him. The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. ¡°Wow, so that explains the hair. Never saw someone with three affinities before.¡± Mirelle said with very little surprise in her voice. ¡°Is it that uncommon?¡± He asked. ¡°Well, the population of the sentient creatures on this planet number around two billion. In this case with the 1 in 10,000,000 proportion, it would mean of the two billion people on this planet only 200 would have three affinities.¡± His brows raised hearing that. ¡°Affinities doesn¡¯t mean only I can use magic, It just makes it easier for me to use magic. Like for lower level spells with training I can use without chanting while others would need chants for even low class spells.¡± I tell him and Tony¡¯s eyes grow wide. ¡°OI OI!! Doesn¡¯t that make you OP as fuck!!¡± Tony shouted. I blink a bit before blushing. ¡°Ah¡­ well, I was¡­ told to keep that quiet by my parents. They told me to say I only had water and fire affinity so¡­ please keep it under wraps.¡± I tell both of them. ¡°Alright, seems fair since we will be crew we can at least trust us for that.¡± Mirella said. ¡°Hump! If this didn¡¯t affect me I wouldn¡¯t promise.¡± Tony says. ¡°As long as you can keep your own mouth shut then this dies here, understand?¡± He says and vanishes without waiting for an answer. ¡°Hehehe. Tsundere much, guess he is worried about leaving promises.¡± Mirella said out loud and at once he appeared looking her directly in the face. ¡°WHO DID YOU CALL TSUNDERE HUH!¡± He said in a deadly serious tone. ¡°And what if I did holo boy? What will you do strangle me with your hands?¡± Mirella provokes him. After this the two argued for a long time, but eventually got over it. We planned out what we would do and how far we could go. Tony went off to start making the new robot minions for us to take tomorrow leaving us to plan. Chapter 6 LEAAAHHHHH JENKINS!! I was woken up today by an excited hobgoblin girl that came to my room. She was dressed for battle already. Unlike my armor that was made from leather with small iron plates, her armor makes her look more like a warrior. With chainmail below and iron chestplate, gauntlets, metal pants and boots, all that was lacking was the helmet. On her waist was her sword and a kite shield strapped to her back.. ¡°So, you ready? Come on, we can¡¯t dilly dally!¡± Mirella kept saying as I drag myself out of bed. I go to the bathroom and wash my face before looking at the time, making my eyes grow wide. ¡°WHY THEY HELL ARE YOU WAKING ME UP AT 6 AM?!¡± I shout at the hobgoblin-kin. ¡°Well...my family gets up at this time to do morning routines.¡± She replied. ¡°What kind?¡± I ask irritated. ¡°Stretching, push ups, sit ups, lifting around 60 kilo weights, running around the city perimeter.¡± She said nonchalantly to which I sigh. ¡°I don¡¯t do that stuff. I¡¯m a mage, remember? For me, stretching and meditation is my daily routine so I wake up at 7:30 for that.¡± I tell her while walking back into my room and falling into bed. ¡°You can go out if you want. I¡¯ll be ready before 8 o''clock, don¡¯t worry.¡± I tell her and she looks at me with a frown before leaving. Yeah this is the real first problem someone meets. Different classes have different morning warm-up routines. Warriors do strength based things to limber their body but for me I only need stretching instead of strength. Mediation is done while I stretch, you might know it, it''s called Yoga. I sleep another hour and a half before my alarm rings and I start my routine. Like promised, I finish my routine by 8 am and was putting on my armor when Mirella came in. ¡°So you are finally ready, lazy pants?¡± She asked. ¡°Yep muscle head.¡± I reply. ¡°Hey!¡± She says as she starts replying but was cut off. ¡°GYAHAHAHAHAHA!!! BOTH PERFECT NAMES!!! GYAHAHAHA!¡± Tony says as he starts to laugh. We both frown hearing his voice. I finish putting on my armor and tie up my hair in a bun. ¡°Did you properly make the drones Tony?¡± I ask. ¡°Yeah yeah! I made the fucking drones that drained half my fucking MP!¡± He says, pissed off. ¡°That fucking bitch will pay one day!" I hear him mutter something. ¡°What did you say, Stuss?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU GREEN SLUT!!¡± He shouts. ¡°OH! Are you still sore for not being able to see my twins, huh? Or maybe it''s my curves you are annoyed for not getting to see?¡± She said, provoking him. ¡°GYAAAAHHHH!! DON¡¯T RUB IT IN BITCH!!! GRAHHH!!! One day! I swear, one day I will surpass this shitty privacy block and when I do, I will film you and sell it to some sleazy pig-rich asshole and then watch him blackmail you and make you into a dog!¡± He says in a crazy tone. ¡°Good luck with that. Just remember that the holder''s programming grows along with you. When you make a major upgrade to your ship it will testify for your power rising, so it will improve itself.¡± Mirella says, pissing him off more. I enjoyed the entire conversation while I prepared some breakfast for us as well as lunch for later. Breakfast was more or less eventful. I was shocked when Mirella asked for some beer or other alcoholic drink instead of tea. She says when someone reaches 15 they are considered Hobgoblin-kin, thus an adult, and from then on they have something like a race tradition to be heavy drinkers. They already have high alcohol tolerance but to drink the ¡°good¡± stuff, which are really strong, they need to slowly get better at handling their drinks. I aggressively tell her no. We were going in the dungeon so I didn¡¯t want a drunk teammate. I did promise to buy her a few bottles on the way back though. With that pretty much taken care of we head down to the cargo hold and find today¡¯s drones. All the sentries were flying around within the second floor. We also saw the Crab Walkers and, unlike what I expected, they were quite small. The height was at best 60 cm and it had four large claws, two on each side on each corner of its body making a square if drawing something around him. He had two red robotic eyes in the front and on its back were two 30 cm laser cannon barrels. It was small for a cannon but we are talking about pure technology drones here so the size was enough. The Fighter Drones were really cool. They look like actual fighter planes with four thrusters on the back, one on each side and one above and below. On the wings were two charge-up laser guns that are weak in terms of tech, but as a minion class monster for the dungeon, it''s quite good. Considering the core would control it and my core is a gamer, this thing will be devastating. To make them a bit more overwhelming, they have six small missile cartridges near the front which only activate after it is fired. The Shield Drones on the other hand were round with four small thrusters on the back and a large on in the middle. The shield generator is within the round body along with the main hardware. ¡°Hmm...so these are low rank robot minions huh? I can¡¯t wait to get the intelligent ones like Clockwork, Androids, Constructs or even Automata. The latter two are a mix of magic and technology and are really amazing.¡± Mirella said. ¡°Help gather 1.8 million MP and we can get ONE automata. Not only that, it will also become the AI¡¯s body so she will not be stuck in the fucking ship and can fucking run away!¡± Tony shouted. Mirella swallowed hard hearing the value we would need. We are only gathering in small thousands and It would take months grinding inside this dungeon. ¡°Lets think about that when we have a surplus, as well as an AI that can handle a body like that...¡± I say and Mirella nods ¡°First off I want to see how good the shields of the drones are. I don¡¯t want to trust my life to something that can¡¯t take a hit.¡± Mirella said. ¡°I fucking tested it! Alone they can take something similar to Captain Bitch''s thunder shot thing three times. When two group up it reinforces the shield to a whole new level. I think maybe ten shots of the same spell. With three working together Captain Bitch would faint from lack of MP before she breaks it.¡± Tony brags. ¡°Shield Drones, combine your shields in front of us and block my attacks!¡± I order and the three Shield Drones move up, with one above the other they form a triangle formation. Their blue eye-like thing glows bright before a large dome shield forms around them. Looking close at the shield you can see the hexagon-shaped grid that makes up the shield. "WOAH!! Look at the grid! It''s so small now!" Mirella said surprised. It should be more than obvious that smaller grid means stronger shield. Mirella pulled out her sword which soon began to shine as it was slowly coated with mana. "Time to test its power! Tony! Make sure to warn me before I break the shield!" Mirella says before she begins an onslaught of heavy blows. They were fast and swift, and from what I can see she aims at small fragile zones on the shield while using a skill to spot them. Even then, the shield holds up against the barrage for a full ten minutes before Tony calls out to us. "Wow! This is strong! *huff*" Mirella said while panting slightly. Seeing how well it worked, we all agreed that it''s more than enough to keep the imps away. The shield is brought down and the shield drones were put in recharge mode so they could regain their energy used to keep the shield up. They could still move around so we leave. By the way, Tony and the AI also have larger variants of the fighter. It¡¯s only bigger by a small margin, but enough that the ship''s cargo hold door had to be opened for them to leave. Back in the city, we head straight to the dungeon. It''s amazing how having a hobgoblin-kin in your crew makes things easier. Not only that, it also seems Mirella''s family is really famous which made it go even faster. Anyway, with the overly quick entrance done with we enter the dungeon. The first floor wasn''t even enough to get the shields up. No, the monsters are so weak that it only takes three fighters to kill a group. The exact number of drones we brought with us are three shield drones, seven normal fighters and two improved fighters. In total we are accompanied by twelve drones. The drones are killing the cannon fodder while the two of us were the main force for the lower floors. We advanced through the floor quickly, only encountering one large group of around 30 or so. Floor two, nearly same thing. That said, the shields had to go up and we helped out only for swarms or when several leaders were present at once. As expected, variants are really rare on this floor so we didn''t encounter them. I would guess that we killed at least 450 imps and maybe 48 leaders. With Mirella being from this city, we had her much more complete map which showed several paths to the entrance. We slowed down to grind on this floor. If we were forced back up by a lesser demon on the third floor, we would at least be able to keep a substantial number of bodies. With a few hours of grinding to gather a high number of bodies, we rest up in the last room allowing the drone to recharge before going down. This floor starts out nastier. First off the light from the shimmering rocks on the walls is less bright, making it harder to see, and the corridors and rooms on this floor are much larger. They also feature stalagmites on the ground blocking our view in many points and on the roof there were corresponding stalactites which hung from the ceiling, allowing several opportunities for the enemy to ambush from. To make it more tense, this floor begins to feature winged imps, which are able to utilize these hiding spots.Winged imps in general are stronger than wingless ones because they can use mediocre level magic. It''s nowhere near mage-class, but it''s more than enough for a distraction or, if aimed right, it can cause lots of damage to the drones. A rare lesser demon is already featured on this floor, which is the equivalent of a ranked up winged imp. They gain proficiency in magic, and become something similar to a mage. The rank-up makes them as tall as a 15 year old and would best be compared to the hobgoblin. They lose the ugly look of the imp and the red skin turns a pale white as they gain a more human-like face. Still, they''re monstrous with large claws on their hands and feet, and their pupils are red with black where the white should be. The encounter rate for monsters is huge on this floor. Unlike the other floors, as soon as a winged imp spots you, it will scream and call others. This makes for huge swarms of over 100 winged and wingless imps. The number of leader-class for both of them is much larger. For example, in a group of 50 wingless and 50 winged monsters, about 10 of each side is a leader-class, who are slightly bigger and smarter. The level of difficulty is at a level where you need a party. Even I would lose at this level without someone to tank the wingless. As the DPS of the party I need to focus everywhere and not just on the ground. Welp, from this floor we look through the map Mirella has. We plan out a long, winding route through several "rooms" where the chance of swarms being are high. She also points out the location of several known locations with the highest rate of appearances for a lesser demon. She even says in two locations we can get a variant swarm because there seem to be three rooms with water sources on this floor. Because variants are a lot more interesting for us, we include two of the rooms in the route. With that done, we head out with one Shield Drone always active. We get to the first room without any encounters. Mirella says this is normally sign of higher rank imps or demons, since the monsters in the dungeon still fight amongst themselves to grow. A lesser demon would also attract the imps to them and make them it''s minions. In the first room we found a small swarm of wingless imps in what could only be called a camp. We checked the ceiling but from our location we couldn''t see anything. Or I couldn''t see a thing but Mirella has night vision which is a racial skill so she pointed out five winged imps, but said there could be as many as thirty in the room. The group also had seven leaders, all spread out in the ranks. None were variants from what we could tell in this low-light environment. With the fire gem armed on my gun and the mystic gem on the wand, I fire off [Chain Snake] and hit the closest leader and four of the surrounding imps. At the same moment the fighters all flew out and the Shield Drones took the triangle position, before they all activated their shields. Mirella stood just outside of the shield we placed at the entrance of the room. With the sudden attack of the fighters, half of the wingless imps died before the leaders began to organize them.Moments later the winged imps dropped from the ceiling. Mirella¡¯s guess was far off. With 12 leaders, more than 100 winged imps descended and began swarming. "THEY FUCKING BAITED US USING THE WINGLESS TRASH!!!" Tony shouted as he split control of the fighters with the AI and began a heavy air battle. It wasn''t an ambush, they used tactics of baiting. Sacrificing weaker pawns while hiding the main force. This floor was clearly far more difficult than the previous. With such an overwhelming number of air units, I focused on the winged imps and left the surviving wingless imps to Mirella. I aim my wand and began chanting. A moment later I stretch my wand up and shout. [Hyper Wave] From the tip of my wand a shock wave was released in a cone shape, which was fired into the air and hit at least twenty nearby imps. It had enough power to break the wings and bones of those that were too close. The shockwave doesn''t do much to those further away, but it does manage to throw some of them off balance. Two of Tony''s drones takes aim at several leaders and he fires off the six missiles on them that flies straight at the imps. On impact, the blast radius was a meter in radius, taking a few others with the target. Not to mention each missile sent out its own shockwave, making those within range lose their balance again. While they were split on who to attack, I aim my gun and shot a chain upwards, killing another six that were close. It was then that the surviving leaders screamed and all the attention was focused on me. This was good and bad. The focused attack would force Mirella to retreat, but it would allow me to activate a second AoE attack towards them. "Mirella, get inside the shield!" I shout and begin chanting. She takes a look back from her fight against one of the leaders and quickly pressured it. When an opening appeared, she killed it immediately, before jumping back into the shield as the swarm reached us. The sound of scraping claws was everywhere while I chanting a long spell. "OI OI!! The shields will give out soon if it stays like this!!" Tony shouted and sent another drones missiles from behind. At that moment when the agro switched to Tony and the drones, I finished the chant opened my eyes. [Gravity Negation] [Rising G Force] I shout the two spells each with 15 points of mana. Suddenly, all the moving Imps within 5 meters around the shield stopped moving as gravity lost its hold on them and they couldn''t adjust fast enough. Moments later, a new force overtook them and their bodies flew up rapidly towards the ceiling, impaling them into the Stalactite. They shout and wail in pain as they are pushed deeper into the spikes, the bodies piling on top of each other. Even the wingless imps were mixed in. At the end of one minute the spell duration ended and normal gravity took over and all the imps caught in the attack began falling again and further injuring them. "That was so cruel, Leah!" Mirella said, looking at the half dead imps that were all bleeding to death. A huge number of them were impaled and what remained didn''t even number more than twenty. "Cruel or not, they are dead or dying so it doesn''t matter." I reply. "OI! Why did you never do that before!?" Tony asked while raising his voice. "It takes a long chat and the spell works only within a certain distance around me. Also I activated two spells so the chant is annoyingly long even for me." I reply. While we were talking the drones were clearing out the remaining imps making sure none of them survived. If there is one thing clear, it¡¯s that the monsters in this floor are intelligent, so we will give no chances. We kill those half dead and go storing all of their bodies. A good number of winged leaders were in this group so we can expect something good out of this. Clearing everything, we pick up the drops and find a bit of everything though only one leader class horns were found. We quickly leave through the corridor we planned to take and soon enough, we find another group. Much smaller and less winged imps were around. It had few leaders and none were particularly smart, so the coordination was on the weak side. It continued like this with corridor groups being weak, while several types of ambush tactics are used within room. After going through at least 5 rooms we reached the first room with a high lesser demon spawn rate. Looking inside, we spot one there sitting on the bodies of several leader class imps like a king. Its appearance was similar to a young male, except with paler red skin and black sclera with red iris. His hands had long claws and covered in fresh blood. And lastly his black hair gave off the same mystic hue my own hair did. "Be careful guys. This guy has Mystic magic affinity." I tell the others. This will be a long hard fight for sure. Mystic magic has no fixed type of spell. With a long chant you can change the gravity or you can send a force shockwave.Mystic mages are sought after due to this amazing range of types of magic. "So how do we beat it?" Tony said in a bored voice. "They are much tougher. I wouldn''t be surprised if he could take several missiles without flinching." Mirella said. "Smell¡­ prey!!! Near¡­ KILL!!" A sudden voice resounded from the room. Suddenly all the imps, more than 100 kneeling wingless imps and more than 200 winged ones scrambled. "FUCK! SHIELDS UP NOW!!" Tony shouted. The three shield drones scrambled and activated the shields just before the attacking monsters reached us. "STAND THE FUCK BACK BITCHES!!" He shouted and the five fighters that still had missiles got in front of the shield drones and unloaded their stock. The missiles weaved its way into the ranks of the imps all over the place before blowing up each taking down several each. The thirty missiles did massive damage and caused tremendous casualties for the Imps. The time it took between the last explosion and the roar of anger of the lesser demon was enough for me to do half the chant for my spell. The imps grouped together as they tried to swarm us with large numbers. "MOVE ITS MY TURN!" I shout and walk forward as the fighters move back while starting to shoot the lasers. [Hyper Wave] Like before, I used my best spell for max damage. This time though, I made the wave wider and included both winged and wingless imps. It hit them like a truck and killed a large number of the close up ones. The ones who weren¡¯t killed were left at death¡¯s door as they¡¯re pushed away by the force of the shockwave. "Okay I''m ready for my turn." Mirella said and jumped out. I saw her sword shining brightly, and I figure out why with her next action. When she swings her sword the mana gathered would fly out clevering those that were unfortunate enough to be in the way. During her fight, I see the lesser demon roar in anger before sprinting towards Mirella. "PUNNY BEAST...KILL!!" It screeched as it ran towards her. I load my gun and fire off the [Chain Snake]. The demon sees it and jumps dodging while spreading its wings taking to the air. "GYAHAHAHAHA LET''S KILL HIM!!" Tony says and all the fighters fly out now that the numbers of the enemies was decreased by half. As the fighters began to fire their lasers, the demon flapped and picked up a lot of speed incomparable to the fighters. The lesser demon punched one of the fighter drones and crushed it in seconds while the others continued firing. It smirked and flew away. Suddenly I felt the mana in it''s body begin to move. "GET AWAY, HE IS ABOUT TO USE MAGIC!!" I shouted. Mirella, not taking my warning for granted retreated behind the shield but Tony, being the cocky fuck he is, continued ignoring me and paid for it. At once the demon flew up and turned around while putting its hands forward where the space in front of it distorted. [Psychotic Shock] The distorted space shot down before it suddenly expanded in a shockwave that was on another level to my [Hyper Wave]. It was clearly a high-level Intermediate rank Mystic spell, which even I can¡¯t do yet. All the fighters were hit hard and thrown around like toys. The same could be said about the the remaining imps. The lesser demon didn''t seem to care about friendly fire and he had a sadistic smirk as he looked at his handy work. The drones were all dented, several having their thrusters busted and couldn''t take flight anymore. The remaining imps were all dead due to shock and most also seem to have blown their ear drums from the shockwave that was far too close and powerful for them to survive. It kept looking around as it grinned sadistic and began laughing as it landed ironically with its back to us. "KE KE KE KE KE KE KE!! Kill..all!!" He shouted. Lost in his strange moment of bliss, he didn''t notice the greenish blur appear behind him and with a strong swing of its sword, from the right elbow down, the demon''s arm fell to the ground. It took a moment for it to react and when it looked at it missing arm, it paled a bit. The next moment the demon felt the distinct feeling metal passing its body, and it fell as its legs were cut off. The lesser demon fell face first, crashing into the ground. As it fell, it tried to stop the approaching ground with its remaining arm, but that, as well as its wings, were all cut off. Now a small lump of meat, the demon didn''t even see what cut him down so ruthlessly The pain of its lost limbs crippled his mind, keeping him from clear thought. "Such a hassle and it lets itself get distracted so easily." Mirella said looking down at him. She raised her sword to kill him but suddenly I called out. "WAIT MIRELLA!" I shouted while running to the center of the room where she and the demon was. "What? I was about to end it!" She said confused. "And waste such a powerful monster? Let''s take him back." I said. She tilts her head and I could almost imagine several question marks floating around her head. "Take back a living demon? How do you expect it to survive a single step outside the dungeon when it survives of this dungeons mana?" She says. "Didn''t you ever practice Mystic magic?" I ask. "A few parts of it, not extensively like you would have." She replies. "Ever heard of monster slaves?" I ask. "Sure, it''s a much more brutal method to taking a monster. You beat it to a pulp, enslave with magic and then the master can sustain the monster if it is a dungeon creature." She replies showing basic knowledge of the subject. "Exactly, you beat it up. Now I will enslave." I tell her and with my wand I load it up and begin chanting. When I finished my chant I put the wand tip on the back of the demon''s neck. [Enslave Bind] From the tip of the wand a black tattoo spread over the demon''s neck like a collar. All while the demon screamed in pain as it lost its freewill. As soon as the contract was bound, forming the full slave collar, a mana link was formed with the demon and slowly it sucked up my mana and slowly its arms and legs began to regenerate. "As soon as your body recuperates simply sit down and don''t move until we tell you to." I order him just to be safe. "So why did you enslave him?" Mirella asked. "First he isn''t an animal and he has intelligence to a certain degree so taming wouldn''t work. Second, tell me how sought after is a Mystic mage?" I ask. "Very, those with affinity even have parties battling it out for them." She said. "Now then, we find a lesser demon that can use mystic magic even beyond my own capability would you kill it, really?" I ask. She blinks several times before understanding and not questioning anymore. I then go to the improved drones, the first one held the AI and the drone was to destroyed to fly. I ordered her to return her consciousness to the ship and deactivate all non operating drones. As soon as she did, I store the broken drones in my storage ring and do the same for those that couldn''t fly. Four fighters remained but it wouldn''t be able to do quick maneuvers. We then began to gather the bodies. Before I started, I drank a mana potion because the demon was draining a lot of my mana to remake its body, but the potion made my regeneration equal what was being drained. By the time I gathered the over three hundred corpses, my watch stated it was already 6 o''clock pm. We really spent a long time grinding the upper floors. After I store the last of the bodies I look and see the arms and legs of the demon had fully returned and the wings were sprouting again. "Guess that''s it then. Let''s go, YOU TOO, COME ON!" I shout, ordering the demon to come. "Tell me again...WHY THE FUCK IS THIS FUCKING SHITTY DEMON IS FUCKING ALIVE!!!!" Tony shouted in rage. "He is my slave. His skills were too useful to lose." I tell him calmly. "WHAT ABOUT THE MP!!! HOW MUCH FUCKING MP DO YOU THINK HE WOULD GIVE ME!! FUCK!" He shouts. "Stop complaining! By the time we return to the surface we will have more than a thousand bodies for you so don''t shit yourself over one demon. We will find more later on anyway." Mirella shouts at the annoying core who wouldn''t stop bitching like a sore loser. "There is no point complaining like a sore loser Stuss. Just suck it up." I say and I swear I could feel his anger manifest through the drone. It brought a grin to my face to piss him off. We take the shortest route up thanks to our map and we encounter small resistance compared to before since we don¡¯t enter rooms where large groups gather. We still have to fight though but it was very little. Still amount of bodies we gathered really do cross the 1000 in body count. The way I know this is because the storage ring is made in a simple and cheat like fashion. The ring is split into a 10x10 grid so 100 boxes. In each box you can have up to 999x of the same kind of item. A dead body is counted as the same thing. I can¡¯t get an exact number but I can figure out how many boxes are occupied. As we exit the dungeon we are alert for the alarm of people and we stop at the steps to allow others to notice the demon behind me. A human sized green skinned female ogre walked over while wearing regular clothes but an aura of authority was around her. ¡°Greets. I am one of the people that takes care of living monster removal from the dungeon. Please come this way.¡± She says. She leads us into a back room where we find many machines and in the center of the room was a machine with a magic circle drawn on it. ¡°First we will register it as a slave monster to which ever of you enslaved it. You will need to pay a fee of 1000 credits for a demon from our dungeon. Also a 250 credit fee for the registration and 150 credits for the fees of all the license to own a slave monster.¡± She explains all the while messing with the machines. ¡°Pff. Not even out of the dungeon and already taking a hell of a lot of money.¡± Tony mutters in a horrible mood. ¡°It¡¯s expected, if it was a weakling imp it would cost only 100 credits and the other fees like normal. Demons are much more capable even a lesser one.¡± She says without even looking back. ¡°Ok, tell him to enter this room and stand in the middle of the circle.¡± she tells us and I order him while holding the door open. Not being able to resist, he enters and stands at the center of the magic circle. With a press of a button three magic crystals were raised and they are attached to wires that take the stored mana to the circle, which activates it. Soon my own wrist module actives and the process for registration is underway and ends quickly as the ownership rights starts soon after. It finishes a minute later and a new tab appears to allow me to check out the stats and skills of the Lesser demon. Above it was my own but I don¡¯t look at my own to not get comfortable with using numbers to tell me how strong I am. ¡°Alright it¡¯s done. The transfer was done at the beginning of the process so don¡¯t worry.¡± She says and opens the door gesturing for the demon to exit. ¡°Now then, be on your way. Oh and I suggest buying clothes and armor for him. Even as a slave, it will soon grow a proper personality now that the link with the dungeon is broken and it now thinks for itself.¡± She explained. We thank her for the help and then go cash in the drops. The drops snag us a bit over 4000 because of the number of drops. Next the body count was done. Like I had expected the body count was over 1000. ¡°Miss, the payment for over 1000 bodies is 300 credits and two loaded mana crystals. Here, please fill these crystals with mana.¡± The attendant says. ¡°Mana?¡± I say. ¡°Ah you might not know this but the dungeon reclaims mana from monsters to make new ones so when you remove them it makes him weaker. For a body count over 1000 we are required to ask the people removing it to replenish a part of the mana being removed.¡± He explains. ¡°Oh, if it¡¯s that then it''s ok.¡± I say and turn to the demon. Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon. ¡°Fill it up with your mana.¡± I tell him and he walks up and fills both crystals. I do a quick check and see each crystal contained 100 mp each. The crystals themselves become much rarer with mana inside so absorbing the crystal with mana would probably return much more mana to the dungeon then what we gave. ¡°Thank you, you may take your catch and have a great day.¡± He says and I store the mountain of red bodies. Instead of going straight to the ship we take a detour up to the second floor of the tower. We don¡¯t have enough money for third floor shops but second floor we had plenty to spend. We find a clothes shop for monsters. Since enslaving a strong monster isn¡¯t uncommon there are shops for them. Just so you know taming is much more common but with intelligent monsters it''s a bit hard. Anyway we tell the owner of the shop specific details of how we saw the demon fight and it was suggested give him basic warrior type armor. Because of the claws and feet, he has natural weapons which won''t be covered and monsters can use magic naturally without catalyst. Though if we were get him one it would make his abilities even better. We go with just armor for now paying 2k for a basic set for lesser demons. Afterward, we go to a weapons shop for us. Mirella buys a new steel sword that had a space at the end of the hilt for a magic gem, which she already had. It was a brown one symbolizing an earth gem. Earth magic is used for physical boosts of defense/endurance, strength or speed normally. Besides that there are skills she can do without using magic like that slashing skill. The sword costed 635 credits. For me, I looked for higher quality magic gems. The ones I have are just beginner class gems I got as a graduation gift from the academy. As you may have noticed, it can only handle 30 mp each so I can¡¯t use overly strong spells. I purchase three gems that with capacity of 60 mp for a total of 1200 credits. This would make hunting much easier. We head back after everything was done and dump the bodies. The head count was 738 wingless imps, 285 winged imps, 80 wingless leader and 32 winged leaders. Winged imps cost the same as variant leader imps while winged leaders cost 60 mp. Even after all his bitching Tony was more than satisfied after absorbing the mountain of corpses. The total he absorbed was 26798 plus what was left yesterday, which was 2302, we ended today with 29100 exactly even. The broken drones were released into the cargo hold. Apparently while inside the ship they will slowly self repair with the ambient mana that is in the air. We each went and took a well deserved bath and ate dinner together while checking out the news channels. There was quite a bit going on all over the place. Seems there were some robbers who were randomly invading newbie ship to steal possessions. Most of them didn¡¯t have cores so the defense systems were low. Without saying it Tony already got the message as the drones were already patrolling the ship. He didn¡¯t buy anything new since we were waiting for Mirella¡¯s mother to direct us. One more day like today, and we would cross the 50k mark. Hopefully by then, we can purchase the outer parts of the ship and start expanding the ship with important space travel systems. Once we buy the shell I think we should move to the next dungeon in Kosak. Water based monsters and traps will be a good training ground for when we go to the blue moon, which has submerged dungeons. After we shift through the TV channels until around 10 pm we decide to go to sleep since there was nothing interesting. Tomorrow will be good. First day of training the lesser demon and I won¡¯t be nice for sure.
Crab Walker https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/b8/64/78/b8647880d465fd6966ad3ed3a9625013.jpg Shield Drone https://img-new.cgtrader.com/items/24466/large_drone_n7-4_3d_model_c4d_becfa52b-c6d5-458c-8286-b895ae981484.jpg Sentry Drone (remove the gun below) http://www.deviantart.com/art/Sentry-Drone-204981650 Fighter Drone http://www.deviantart.com/art/Fighter-55257325 Lesser Demon http://digital-art-gallery.com/oid/88/640x746_15337_Lesser_Fire_Imp_2d_fantasy_fire_imp_magic_demon_picture_image_digital_art.jpg Chapter 7 - Big Spender It''s been two days since I got the lesser demon and yesterday he truly showed his worth. With all the drones working, we incorporate the demon I named Queror. It''s a rather dumb name which I got from cutting up the word, ''conqueror,¡¯ seeing as he was probably going to the fourth floor to conquer it and continue to grow. Anyway, with orders that restricted his use of large AoE spells, we let him fight as he wants, showing his fierce battle style. We entered the dungeon at 8:30, taking a very long route from floor 1 to 3 as we slowly grind the floors, gathering more and more bodies. When we killed over 50 imps on the second floor, we tell Queror to cast a spell to amplify his voice and scream into the corridors. It would gather up several large groups inside the room and make for exciting battles with less effort to look for the monsters. On the third floor, we head down a shortcut to a room with chance for variant water imps. We were lucky to find a few, but I wasn¡¯t expecting for Queror to eat the corpse. It did show a feature of demons I didn''t know though; he grows by eating prey. Tony bitched about losing Winged imp variants while Mirella and I were just a bit annoyed. He got stronger by a small bit so it would help later on, but still, that was mp lost. After clearing that room, we weaved through the corridors, slaughtering all in our way. We even found two lesser demons on the way. This time, unlike with the variants, Queror just removed the hearts from the corpses and ate them. When the clock on my wrist module hit 8 pm, we decided to go back up. Taking the shortest route back, we ascended quickly and left the dungeon. Upon leaving, we cashed in and paid for all the bodies. It was only back at the ship that we got a full body count. 1253 wingless imps, 186 wingless leaders, 473 winged imps, 86 winged leaders, 2 lesser demons, variants were all eaten by Queror.
Imp: 18795 mp (15 mp/per) Leader imp: 5580 mp (30 mp/per) Winged imp: 18920 mp (40 mp/per) Winged leader Imp: 5160 (60 mp/per) Lesser demon: 200 (100 mp/per) Total: 48655 + 29100 Final: 77755 mp
As I thought, having a secondary mage that also is a close range fighter has a lot of benefits. The hunting speed is much higher and our fear of confronting a huge number of enemies decrease because we gained a quality fighter. The next day, we didn''t go because Mirella''s mother was coming over. She is going to help us figure out the best course of action to spend our MP. We already have enough mp to buy the outer shell of the ship. The initial purchase will also cause a size expansion to the ship, as well as adding the bridge while opening up more space for new facilities. We only held Tony from buying it by using the command to prohibit him from buying anything. Unlike city or dungeon cores, ship cores have the most expensive upgrades. Because everything is of advanced technology, the price is very steep. For this single upgrade to expand the ship size, the cheapest one would take 40k mp, while a dungeon expanding to a second floor would take 3k-9k. It depends on what type of floor was created. It was around nine in the morning that Mirella''s mother arrived. She came alone, but in her hand was a holocube, which is a small palm sized computer that projects what is saved inside. The location for the talk was in the third floor kitchen. The AI and Tony were already waiting there when we lead Mirella to the place. "Alright, let''s get to business quickly. Unlike your father, Mirella, I don''t like to take things slowly." Mirella''s mother said, wanting to get started right away. We sit opposite her on the table and she gets right to it activating the holocube. What appeared was a hologram of an Recruit class Explorer ship like my own. "This is the current ship you own. An 8 crew planetside adventurers explorer ship. Now, how large exactly do you girls think this ship will grow once you purchase his first expansion?" Mirella''s mother asked. We looked at each other and shrugged. "Each core grows different sizes and shapes depending on the personality and how much was invested in it." I answer. "Correct, there is no fixed size because the first purchase has only a fixed minimal value of 40,000 mp. At this value with a tame core, it would turn into something like this." She says and activated a sequence in the holocube. This made the ship hologram grow by one third of its original size and forms a new floor below the captains floor. The rough old look of the outside turn brand new and it also looks like the thrusters got upgraded in the process. "At minimum value this is the extent of the changes. If you add 20k more it gets better." She said and the hologram shifted more. The ship widened, creating space for all the floors to further expand. The outer windows become bigger with windows built to last the lack of pressure of the vacuum of space. The total size increase for 60k compared to the original size is nearly 50% increase. "This is considered the ideal size for the first expansion. Any more would force the ship to stretch or could throw off the balance of the ship. Less than this is okay, but the with research done says this is the ideal size. Again this is my suggestion, so don''t jump the gun." She said. "Now for the first added facility; for you girls, I would suggest a monster habitat to house that useful little demon I sensed when I entered the ship. If you pull all the facilities of the floor with the bridge up this floor can be outfitted with several kinds of habitats. From what I can guess from the feeling of your demon, the mystic research lab would be his best habitat and you could even benefit by him learning new spells. It has a room for him as well, kind of like a dormitory." She says. We both nod and Tony makes a hologram window appear showing the cost of that room. 10k was the minimal cost which is a small lab room that looked partially like a library with the book shelves and a room in the back with four beds for the occupants. "My second suggestion is a gym. This is mostly for my daughter but can be used for future crew mates. This is also important because in space if you get only a weak gravity generator you muscle and bone mass could decrease over time." She said and looked at Tony who made a new screen showed up. The Gym was made up of four rooms. Two bathrooms, the main gym with the gear and the storage for spare gear. The gym, coming with all the gear plus the construction fitting all the plumbing and lights, cost 30k minimal value. "Mom, what value in size would you suggest for each of those?" Megumi asked worried. "For the gym and lab? Minimal value because you won''t need any more than that until you get more crew. You can expand later." She says. We sigh in relief. We can''t get everything at once but two out of three is good. "Oi, is there anything that will let me build my own drones without paying up MP?" Tony asked serious for once. "Hmm...yes, once you expand a second time, you should unlock a drone construction station facility. It cuts down on cost for mana but you will also need the founder, and parts factory facility." She said. "Huh? What¡¯s expanding got to do with what I can build?!" He asked annoyed. "It is like a city core or a dungeon. Dungeons can gain skills that help it change the layout of the dungeon so it wouldn''t be a cave forever. For them it''s after the third floor. A city is similar where they can''t use magic power to construct large structures or a make certain kinds of business within the city without size, population and so on. The requirements vary from type of core, but ship ones need to expand their ship to access the next level of upgrades and facilities." She explains. A hologram shows up in front of Tony as he starts reading about the factory. "Huh? Minimal price 8k for a 7x10 workshop full of robots and I can use the factory to upgrade drones. Making parts from mp would make it cost more to build a new drone but upgrading one works nicely." He say with a grin. "You two can get the gym tomorrow or whenever you get the mp for it but besides the expansion and the shitty demons bedroom I''m buying that factory to upgrade my drones!" He says making damn well sure that he was doing that. "Well, I''m here just to make suggestions, but one thing I do want you two ladies to do is at least buy better armor and find a healer." She says. "Healer, as in someone with the alchemists or priest class?" "It doesn''t have to be a priest or alchemists." She says. "You both should know that there are a lot of other classes with healing capability. Even other races would naturally have it as a racial ability without being a healer." We nodded and understood. What was important was that the person could use healing magic, it didn''t have to be the a cliche adventurers party with a priest. Even a tamer could help on that party by taming animals and monsters to make something with healing capabilities. "Well, it seems I said everything I could. From what you told me, you seem to have a good bit of MP so you can purchase my suggestions but just work on it. Each ship is unique and this is simply a basic idea I made for you kids. I''ll come see in a few days how you kids are doing and give a few ideas. Oh, and core boy, build and upgrade a good bit of drones and make defense systems. When a ship expands it shows the crew is doing well, and a few more¡­ jealous¡­ adventurers might not like that." She says and gets up. We follow her out, Tony right behind us. "Since we are already on this topic go call that little demon so we can expand the ship already." She says. "It''s not exactly safe to be inside when he expand his size." I do as she suggests and we stop on the second floor. I pick up the demon and we leave the ship. Only his size was expanding so our things will be safe. When we leave, a drone with Tony controlling it came with us. We look up at the ship and instantly Mirella''s mother pointed out the first problem to avoid. "Before you expand move to one of the mid sized ship zones. If you expand here you will damage other ships." She said. He didn''t complain to that since it was true. The ship would nearly double in size, so it was obvious that it would need a wider space to dock. He turned on all the systems and soon the ship took flight. It went over the other ships and flew towards the much emptier section. Their ships were three times the size of our current ship was docked. Inside you could see large numbers of people walking around working. When the small ship arrived some of the people inside the other nearby ships looked out. It landed in the area was clearly for huge ships like those around it and everyone that saw it thought the captain was an idiot. When they saw a small group approach they wondered who they were, but the next moment when the ship began to release a small dull glow they understood what was going on. The dull recruit class ship rapidly grew wider and longer and increased one floor, space travel grade windows formed on the third floor and the dull colored outer shell changed colors to a brand new metallic dark red. The aerodynamics became sleek and looked similar more like a Fighter ship then an explorer class. The size of the ship doubled and now it fit better into the parking zone it had landed in. "Wow! This is a rather impressive model." Mirella''s mother said. "GYAHAHAHAHAHAH!! This is epic, I couldn''t change to fighter model ship but with the 60k I used I designed something nice for sure." Tony said proud. "Just make sure you don''t make us look like a bandits ship! We are adventurers, don''t forget that you moron." I shout his way. "Yes, yes, Captain Bitch!! I shall keep in mind that I also do not want to be marked!!" He said in a nonchalant sarcastic tone. "Oh and the upgrade helped miss AI go up a rank so from now on she will start showing some curiosity." Tony says. "Gyahaha! Maybe now I can train a quality maid." "A maid isn''t a bad idea actually. Some people like to make AI''s friends but maid types are quite loyal and the most organized." Mirella''s mom said. "Not only that, they have a "Must protect my master" mentality which makes them exceptional when teaching them new things." For once I had to agree with Tony''s strange tastes. We will probably need to make new AI or buy them but for now one is fine. "Now then Bitches!! I''m off to upgrade my drones. The demon crap''s room is on the second floor and the new floor is non the third one. Cargo hold has doubled in size and Engine upgraded." He said quickly before the drone flew off into the cargo hold that was opening. "That fucking retard wasted no time." Mirella said annoyed. "I think we should consider him being happy something good. He will be busy for the rest of the day, so we get some peace and quiet. Since we need new armor and to restock potions anyway, want to take this time to do so?" I asked. "You think that is a good idea?" Mirella''s mother asked. "He just upgraded and he will be investing in Drones. Shouldn''t you three head to the first two floors and gather some MP for him to set up self defense systems?" Her suggestion was sound and yet we don''t get much free time away from Tony. "If any of them send anyone to fight, it will be newbies they think are enough. If it''s at that level he can handle them." I say making her smile. "Good it seems you understand the basics of how testing others is. Just be careful because not everyone "tests" another crew okay." Mirella''s mom said. ""Okay~!"" We both say. "Now let''s go see some new armor and I want to see if I can get a new wand and gun today." I tell Mirella who nodded and us three head to the town to go shopping. In the ship to the left of Tony. There were many of the crew who watched the expansion. Some of the crew were interested in seeing them grow, others not so much. This ship being one of the newbie transport ship that take weaker new recruits of the crew to dungeons to train help many recently graduated students. A party of eight long time friends also saw the expansion, and seeing just three people were part of a crew that owned a ship with a core hurt their pride. The leader of the group was an ex-high class citizen, so he had the basic thought process of a noble and his plans was to use this crew to gather funds and experience as well as followers. This is so that when he leaves the crew, he can immediately buy a large ship with a tame core and expand fast with a large crew. "Those three bitches need to know that life ain''t easy! Let''s get the Lieutenants permission to "test" that ship! We might get lucky and snag the ship for ourselves and make it kill the original crew." Their leader said. He and his party ran through the wide perfectly white corridors of the spaceship until they reached the lieutenants office. They knock and get permission to enter after the voice of a woman calls. Inside sat a beautiful woman with bright blonde hair and just slightly tanned skin while she wore the lower part of her armor which was a tight uniform that showed her every curve. Her navy blue eyes pierced into the recruits that came in. This woman was a lieutenant because she was part of a huge crew. After reaching a certain size, army ranks were applied within the crew and the amount of different ranks within a crew shows how large it is. "Is there something you boys need?" She asked indifferently. "Well, we would like to test the ship core of the crew that just expanded their ship. It was a recruit class ship so we were wondering how good it was." He said lying. The lieutenant looked at him for a moment then she called the ship''s AI. "Is there something you need, lieutenant?" The AI said appearing through a hologram. The AI had curiosity in its eyes and it looked around and at the boys. She was at the C rank stage, which gave her curiosity similar to a child. "By chance did you get video feed of the crew of the ship these boys mentioned?" The lieutenant asked. "Yes ma''am, would you like to see them. I can also run their faces through the planet''s system to get adventurer rank and name?" The AI suggested. "Please do." The lieutenant replied. The next moment a hologram screen appeared showing a close up video shot of Leah, Mirella, her mom and Leah''s slave demon. "Leah Binoli, F rank and Captain of the ship. Mirella Cannes, F rank and first mate. Chroma Cannes¡­ retired?" The lieutenant read the information out loud, confused by the name of the last person. The name sounded familiar but she didn''t know from where. "Pull up information about this woman." The lieutenant ordered. Several screens appeared. Moments later her eyes went wide and she paled a bit. "A rank...thought to be S rank in strength...retired from...the Dominion Felix...Mercenary crew." The lieutenant said pale. "You are NOT to get near that ship!! This woman is far too dangerous to make an enemy and her daughter is in that crew! Am I understood!" She orders. All the boys tensed up. The leader of the boys, not wanting to give up, asked, "Ma''am how long ago was that report made? If she is retired the her A rank status should have gone down with age." He says. His answer was received after being punched square in the face and being thrown into the wall outside of the room. "Let me tell you brats something. An ogre...no an Oni, only stops growing stronger the day they die. That report was 16 years ago. Her strength easily reaches the strength of the admirals, understood!?" She says. Now all the boys were sweating buckets and the leader that was punched was plugging his nose due to the bleeding. "This is my one and only warning, if you brats, "test" the ship, you are expelled from the crew and we won''t cover for you. Also unlike the city dungeons, those little crystals that keep you alive won''t work inside him and he will try to kill you. If he is above your mediocre strength you WILL die!" She shouts. "Now begone from my sights." She tells the crew and turns to the AI, "tell everyone that testing them is forbidden." "Understood." The AI says and vanishes. The next moment the AI''s voice appeared all over the ship. "Good morning everyone! A recent ship just expanded and lieutenants orders are not to get near. That is all." She says and the voice goes quiet. As for the group, they leave and take their leader to the infirmary to heal his nose that was broken by the punch. "That¡­ bitch!! Tomorrow¡­ we will¡­ show her there¡­ is nothing to fear!" The leader of the group says while being supported by his friends. They all wore worried expressions but no one spoke back. Chapter 8 Time to Face the Reality The shopping was a great success. We found armor that was within our budget for both of us and I got lucky and found a new gun for myself. It was a really good one too. It was still the same handgun but a bit bigger and with two sockets. Because of this I can use merged magic which is really destructive. We each purchased five sets of armor, 2350 total for me and 2200 for Mirella and my gun was 3k. The prices was steep but the drops we found the last few days and the money we stored were enough. We even had enough money for a crappy pair of gloves without the fingers for Queror. They came with a mystic gem in each palm. They weren''t like mine. Instead of having a mana capacity which I filled and used for the spell these were like the ancient staff gemstones which helped amplify power. We went into the first floor of the dungeon just to check how strong his magic was. Setting my [Hyper Wave] as a benchmark we have him do the same skill. The power of his own [Hyper Wave] was on par with his [Psychotic Shock] previously. We kept him from trying anything bigger than [Hyper Wave] but in all spells the power had a large increase. The gems should increase his power by 0.5 times stronger but I feel like it''s currently 1.5 times. I wouldn''t be surprised if we could go down to the fourth floor with this power so high. That said I wasn''t about to let it go to my head. The death of an adventurer follows how well he can control himself. Letting yourself get cocky will only lead to your own death. The fourth floor is always clearly taught that you need a healer and at least 4 combat class fighters. Minions do not count towards this so even with so many drones for Tony we wouldn''t go further. We would need one more monster or a new crew mate plus someone who healed to go down without that we won''t risk it. We leave after seeing all basic spells and up to what I can do. I also test out a new crystal I bought along with my gun. It was a beginner class earth gem. With two sockets I put both beginner class fire and earth gems in and load both. Starting at one mp from each I fire it and a small weak magma ball shoots out and cools quickly. Next I recharge to full power and shoot a full power shot. What came out was a bright red speeding ball of magma that hit and melted the dungeon wall. We watch surprised by the power behind it but like all dungeons it repairs the wall moments later. We leave before we anger him and he sends swarms after us. I still had my eyes on the only gem I was missing. A wind gem. As a mage the more magic types I can do the better and having studied and trained them all in the Academy I just required the gems to effectively do them. We return to the newly upgraded ship soon after and split up the gear we bought. I can''t tell one from the other so once we split the gear up I return my armor to the ring and help Mirella take hers upstairs. I leave her to put away her own armor in the new much larger room now and head down a floor with Queror. I wanted to see his room so we head down and enter the non noisy room. The walls blocked out the heavy industrial noise from the nearby factory room. In the room there were several book shelves, glowing crystal balls a pedestal with an empty book and in the middle of the room was a large magic circle that apparently filled this room with extra mana so the regeneration of its occupant would be higher. The room was dark purple walls and the ceiling and floor was black. Queror was intrigued by all this and after a bit we walked up to the book on the pedestal and touched it. It instantly shined before returning to normal I felt magic from it so I opened it and again it glowed with my touch. What I found were many of the spells I learned and studied as well including Mystic type spells the demon had. It went all the way to [Psychotic Shock]. The rest of the book was empty. This book seems to have absorbed the knowledge of the Demon as well as me which means that it''s a magic Grimoire that mages normally store researched spells and and notes inside. This would really be useful for learning new spells as well as inventing them. Mages usually have several trump card even today. All spells up to intermediate level are taught before 15 anything invented after that can range from any rank but advanced level spells can only be created even if it is already created you still need to study enough to understand. Though this was a place for the demon, I would definitely make good use of this later on. "From now on this is your home, your bedroom is over there and in this room you can learn,study and train magic." I told him. He nods and walks into the bedroom. I leave and head up to my own room. Nothing much in my bedroom changed still the same. The corridors changed though, they became a soft brown color and much wider at three and a half meters wide and high but they still had the lights on all four corners of the corridors and bright white light coming from them. Unlike my room the bathroom got expanded. The bath and shower were separate and the shower was now in a box while the tub became big enough to lounge around in. Captain''s office gained a bit more like new computer and several hologram screens constantly showing the inside of the ship and several graphs like fuel, water, consumption of energy and so on. The kitchen now looks like an old style restaurant. With four round tables and a long leather bound sofa seat around a larger part of the table. The area of the kitchen gained industrial stove and a bar like counter separates the kitchen and dining area. On one wall was a large window letting natural light in while lights on the ceiling complimented the extra light deeper in. Sitting on one of the small seats of the bar counter was Tony''s Hologram with a hologram bottle of beer of some kind in his hand. "So? You like what I did with the place?" He says with a grin. "This looks like some old style restaurant." I said nonchalantly with a frown on my face. "Hmm, well in my last life this was part way old. I would say classy old style." Tony says. I sigh and shake my head while I look at the place we would eat at from now on. "You couldn''t have had it a bit less...showy?" I ask. "HELL NO!! GYAHAHAHAH!" She shouts and downs the hologram drink. "Pwahhhh!! Damn this food simulator is a genius invention. I wonder if other people in my situation would have gone crazy?" He asks. "Unlike AI who are useful, most if not all cores are a pain. I''ve yet to hear of a single trained core that wasn''t an ass when they started up." I say. He shrugs it off not caring about much else. "We all have reason to act like this!" He says and downs more of the virtual beer. "Tell me, how would you feel if you died and were reborn as a being normally called a den of monsters or evil?!" He asks me while pointing the top of the bottle towards me. "I would be...in shock." I reply. He nods and takes another drink. "Now, after waking up as the mind of this "evil" existance, you''re captured hours after birth and put in a small ball that shoots lightning at you and someone tries to "train" you! After a week of nonstop attempts to brainwash you with magic and torture she gives up and simply sells you like a low priced piece of trash. Afterwards you''re bought by a bratty kid and treated like a slave where you should normally be completely under control of a puppet robot who can''t even think for herself!" He shouts and gets up while pointing at me. "I bet if given the chance, those "tame" cores would hunt every last living being in the galaxy out of rage for the suffering they would feel!" He finishes saying before sitting down again. Truthfully I never once thought of their point of view because, obviously, I¡¯m not a dungeon. ¡°I wonder if there is a difference between a core that was bred and one that was captured?¡± I ask. ¡°Obviously there is!¡± He suddenly shouts. ¡°ONE WAS BORN TASTING FREEDOM AND THE OTHER WAS BORN A SLAVE!!¡± ¡°What¡¯s going on here?¡± Mirella asked as she entered to kitchen. She sees Tony pointing his finger in my face while I was pale as a ghost at what was being said. Taming a monster is one thing since they aren¡¯t sentient to start with until a certain rank up but by then they will simply accept the servant thing but enslaving a sentient being is something that hits hard on the conscious. Cores are taught to be thought of as monster crystals that breed other monsters so using them like any other monster slave is a rather common thing. I wonder how many crews hear what he says. I bet not many since I bet not many can override the AI. "It''s nothing, it was just a lot of-" I was going to shake her off, needing time to think about the implications of what Tony had said, but sadly he interrupted me. "I was just explaining to Captain Bitch how fucking thoughtless and shitty the people of this universe are. You never tried to think of things from our point of view, you just assume we''re monsters you can use as tools even though you know full-well that we''re sentient beings. You pull us out of our dungeons when we''re scared and alone, torture us under the name of training, sell us like slaves, have your AIs suppress us so you can use the core''s abilities against our will, and because I managed to escape that fate you all treat me like absolute dirt!¡± he shouts at her. With her mouth open in shock I couldn¡¯t tell what Mirella was thinking, but it still irks me that this bastard went around me, the captain, and just told her straight-up like that. However, what he said next really made me realise that I need to reflect on how I treat the shitty guy. "You''re lucky that command system is so robust, in the few days I''ve spent with Captain Bitch, you, and your sadistic mother I would like nothing more than to slaughter you all and fly off to start a new life an on uninhabited world." After that he just disappeared, leaving us both in stunned silence. A second later, the empty holographic beer bottle disintegrated. Mirella eventually walks round the bar, picks up two bottles of what is probably the strongest stuff in the default stock, and gestures for me to sit next to her at the bar. "I think the two of us need to talk about this and then go talk about it with him, but right now we need a fucking drink!" She says and starts chugging the drink before she starts sulking. I don''t remember much of what happened after that upon waking up face-down in the corridor outside the restaurant room, to an annoyingly shrill and headache-inducing alarm. "AI! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS ALARM FOR?! IS TONY DOING IT TO PISS ME OFF?!" And how is Mirella still snoring through this?! Why is she dangling off the edge of the bar?! "No captain, Stuss did not sound the alarm to annoy you. Intruders have entered the ship so it was activated, and he is currently fighting them with the drones." says the hologram that''s far too bright. Was she always this shiny? Now my eyes are hurting as well. I''m never drinking with Mirella again. Anyway, she says intruders, why would anyone try and enter our ship especially with us in here. I say that and go grab a cup of water to try and push out the taste of alcohol and to help sober up. I then head to the captain''s room and looked at the time. I understood why intruders would try something now, it was noon already. For newbies we would normally be in the dungeons grinding to gather MP for the ship core. I bring up the cameras and look through the floors to try and find them. I found them on the second floor and like the AI said, they were fighting the drones. What was amazing was the kind of drones in question. I recognized the Shield drones, fighters and the crab walkers all of which were improved and seem to put out more power. The ones I couldn¡¯t recognize was a floating square drone with a single mechanical arm and inside were many missiles but it didn¡¯t fire them. Instead it just floated there and when a fighter shoots all its missiles it goes to it and the new drone reloads them. I would probably put bets on it being a support drone from what I can see. The other new one was small and ball shaped. A roughly built ball robot with a small wheel on the inside that accelerates the robot forward. When it gets close to the target it self destructs and causes a heavy explosion. When I look at the party, I saw 8 really tired and bloodied men that were on the complete defense. The drones were completely safe behind the shields from the shield drones and were simply shooting out. Weaker model fighters were flying around and distracting the party while the bigger stronger models were safe and sniping them. It was clear as day that these guys were just as much as newbie as me and my crew. They were clearly F rank adventurers because they couldn¡¯t beat this level of attack. Though Tony has upgraded his drones, it looks like he only got about half of them before these guys arrived. As I watch without caring for their safety and only about how to get rid of this fucking hangover I just walk out and go to the kitchen and make a small lunch. I didn¡¯t have the appetite but it was better to eat something to help push out the alcohol I drank. I really didn¡¯t know my limit but I guess I¡¯ll just chalk this up as an experience. After nonchalantly shouting to Tony to turn off the fucking alarm I eat up and drink a LOT of water to help sober up and dilute what remains of the alcohol in my system. I return to the captain''s room to find two of the men were finally down for the count. I wasn¡¯t going to go stop Tony, those idiots chose to invade and they will pay the price. Halfway through my meal Tony appears and floats in the air with a bored expression. "Done already?" I asked him. "Yep. They had good coordination but they were newbies. For someone smart who can simultaneously control multiple weaponized robots that have recently been upgraded, the best they could do is only prolonging their lives." He said and yawned. The next moment a small pack of some kind of medicine appeared on the table. "Thats some medicine from my old world. It helps with the hangovers and any possible feeling of nausea weak drinkers might get, just toss it in water and force it down." He says, then vanishes. I keep staring at the spot he was floating, confused by the change in personality. Was he really acting that way simply because of what was said before? I didn''t have time to think of it as Mirella began to stir and slowly drag herself up. I helped her and put her on the seat in front of the table I was sitting at. I grabbed the pack of medicine, fill two cups and add two small portions of the medicine that sizzles and reacts to the water. I down mine first before I make Mirella drink hers followed by a cup of pure water. I drank it without worry because Tony can''t suggest for me to do something that would kill me even if he gave me the weapon to kill myself. So unless I tell him to make poison he can''t make it. Anyway, I set up a plate of food for the moaning hobgoblin who was slowly getting over the drowsiness. Soon she began to eat slowly while I went to the captain''s office and looked where the party was. Unlike what Tony said, they were still alive, wait, less half of them were. The leader, a mage that had made a magic shield that was deflecting Tony¡¯s attacks, and one that looks like a rogue or assassin class. The others were lying in a pool of their own blood with one of the frontliners missing an arm. From the video feed I can guess that the suicide drones might be the cause. They got close and took them out. Shifting the view to the drones I see the damage. From what I can tell, Tony built several new shield drones and when one or another is about to break he shifts them to out and lets them recharge. ¡°Did you run out of the suicide bombers already?¡± I ask no one in particular. ¡°Nope, but the shield is a pain in the ass and I¡¯m simply waiting to take them out as soon as it is weakened enough.¡± Tony said suddenly appearing next to me. I don¡¯t look at him and instead turn my eye to the layout of the floor they were on. It was near where Queror¡¯s room was. ¡°Is there a speaker in Queror¡¯s room?¡± I asked. ¡°Yep, the demon has been training and trying to figure out how to read, most likely a result of the habit itself.¡± Tony replied. ¡°Open a channel to it, let''s get this fiasco over with.¡± I say. Tony nods and opens the channel for me. ¡°Queror, go aid Tony and kill the intruders in the ship.¡± I say. He looks up to where the voice came from and then stores the book he had in his hands and leaves the room He walks slowly towards the conflict and soon arrives at the fight. He simply looks over them with a bored expression. ¡°Puny...weak...easy!¡± He shouts and lifts his right hand. He puts his hand out and the glove with the amplifying gem started to glow as the magic charged. [Shock Ball] Instantly, a compressed shockwave shot from his hand and smashed into the magic shield, it expanded slightly causing some structural damage from the shockwave but the shield was completely destroyed. All the intruders stared, faces pale, as the pieces of their shield fell to the ground, but before they could do anything a barrage of missiles flew at them and it was finally over. ¡°Well that was fun, kind of worried which ship they are from though.¡± Tony says. ¡°The captain shouldn¡¯t bitch about it, those newbies were sent or came without orders so they have no right to.¡± I say. ¡°Hey, just so you know, I am leaving the weapons that seem usable for you and the green bitch. A magic rifle, twin pistols, some daggers, and a sword and shield. I took the time to examine them and the sword and shield is better than Mirella¡¯s and the twin pistols seem to be similar to yours in rank. The rifle is better though.¡± He says and vanishes. ¡°He is acting different now. Was the outburst really enough for him to simply change like that? He seems bored now and the awkwardness of all this makes it strange to talk with him.¡± I thought. Anyway, I take the elevator down to the floor and walk around a bit until I find the gear laying on the ground. Any trace of the people were already gone and absorbed into Tony. The walls and scorch marks as well as structural damage caused by the fight was already gone and the remains of the robot''s as well. I could hear the factory in motion and the robot''s were probably being repaired or rebuilt into better ones. I pick up the pistols and check them out. Like Tony said they were the same as my current ones having two slots. What was different and much to my liking was that one had different gems than what I had. In the pistol there was an Earth and a Wind gem, both capacity-60 gems, and in the other one were Fire and Water gems. That made things interesting, since I have a complete set now I could utilize all forms of spells without having to constantly change gems, which took too much time in battle. Then I looked at the rifle and a grin appeared on my face. It was a low-class military model with a mana battery pack that holds 500 mp and had four beginner-class gems for spells. The gems could be changed easily but the fact that the rifle held four slots made it clear that this was from a large ship. These kinds of weapons are found in Rokita on the tower''s higher floors, which I never reached due to not having a party to help me reach further down the dungeon. Still, this was nice, the rifle utilises the crystals evenly such as when I use [Fire Shot] it will add in Wind magic to fuel the flames. Remembering the attack Queror used I look at one of the pistols and pull out my beginner class Mystic gem and insert it. I thought of the spell and fill completely the gem. I haven¡¯t seen that attack before which is why I never used Mystic magic with the gun. When I shot the same spell, but much weaker, and hit the wall at the end of the corridor the magic popped like a balloon but barely caused damage like I saw with Queror. Though his amplyifying gems probably had a say in this, it showed I had a ways to go to catch up to my monster slave. I have Tony open up the drops screen and make him create a copy of the rifle holster, which went on my back, and a duel pistol holster, also a copy of what the mage had. If only the guy had a wand instead of a staff it would have been better. Still, this upgrade in weaponry is nice. I put away all the guns and then grab the daggers, each with a black gem at the base of the hilt, and a sword with a red gem. Both look really good so I take them up and hand them to Mirella who thanks me with a smile. She does ask where I got them and I explained. She simply laughs at the stupidity of the invaders and takes the weapons, saying she wanted to test them tomorrow. Though we didn¡¯t get any monsters today I guess the invaders were a welcomed bonus for Tony. The amount gained in MP was around 7k which is kind of low, but since they were newbies I can¡¯t complain. The mage gave 1400, while the rest split up more or less even at 800 points each. We didn¡¯t care much about the attack and took the rest of the day off while we tried practicing with our newly gained weapons. At around 4 pm the AI called saying someone from one of the nearby ships wished to speak with us. I shrugged it off and told them to allow them only into the cargo hold, and then went to meet our guests. The person I found was a woman dressed like she came from the military. ¡°Greetings, you are the captain, correct?¡± she asked. ¡°Yes, I¡¯m Leah Binoli, and you are?¡± I asked. ¡°Lieutenant Rosa Bemin, I am the acting captain of the ship to the right of your own. Let me ask, did a group of 8 newbies come here?¡± She asked. Suddenly Tony appeared between us but one look from me stopped him from spouting bullshit. ¡°Yes, they invaded my ship and were defeated, they all died and were absorbed by the ship''s core.¡± I said. The lieutenant face palmed and let out a deep sigh. ¡°Those morons, I told them to not attack but they go and do this. I was worried after our AI showed me those idiots coming to attack after I woke up, but it was too late since it was during the night. Was there much damage?¡± She asked worried. ¡°They didn¡¯t pass the first floor, the recent upgrades to our ship allowed the core to upgrade his units so they couldn¡¯t progress far. I also possess an enslaved Lesser Demon which aided the core. Besides the damage caused in a small section of the ship, which was easily repaired by the core, there was no real damage.¡± I replied. ¡°Thank goodness, when your ship expanded and those brats appeared wanting to ¡°test¡± the ship I checked out the rank of you all and feared for my life, seeing the name of your first mate''s mother. I made sure to keep all the others from trying anything funny.¡± She said. ¡°Well, it''s not like there was much going on. Still, don¡¯t expect us to return the weapons and stuff left by the idiots who attacked.¡± I say. ¡°Of course, I would never try that. Instead, to apologize, I came to give you this.¡± She said and pulled out a small, glowing gem about the size of the gems I use for combat. ¡°We had our core make a mana crystal and we filled it up.¡± She handed it to me and I just stare at the crystal that held quite a bit of power. ¡°Thanks...i guess.¡± I said a bit embarrassed. ¡°Well, I guess that was all I came to do, I wish you luck and I would suggest expanding your ship away from prying eyes. Also, gather your crew faster, you will need it eventually.¡± she says and bids us farewell before leaving. I just watch the woman as she returns to the large ship. ¡°Wonder what her motivation for doing all this was?¡± I asked. ¡°Maybe because she was responsible for the brats she took it upon herself? Maybe also to see what the captain was like?¡± Tony says. I shrug and drop the crystal, letting Tony absorb it. Normally empty mana crystals are cheap and I know they make lots in dungeons and use creatures to fill them to feed dungeons. I finally found out why. The small crystal Tony absorbed gave us 70K points because it was a high quality crystal it seems, and it was filled with around 15K of mana but absorbing the crystal it amplified it somehow. Because of that the gym was built and the rest was kept for when we need more upgrades. Chapter 9 The True Monster With the new gym built we could get a good enough training area to practice with our new weapons. The gym incorporated basic weights machines as well as arenas where you could spar with humanoid drones that can only spar and not fight. There was also target drones which were simple circular drones that float around with a big target on one side. The targets were a basic magic nullification field that had technology mixed in so that the impact registered the area it hit so you can be graded on your accuracy. There were different modes like a game which was newbie, beginner, adapt, intermediate, advanced, master, grandmaster. I tried intermediate for shooting but they were too fast for me who wanted to try high speed shooting but going down each level I found that these levels match up for after you graduate so I was stuck on newbie level. I set it up to upgrade to the next level after I can hit 500 shots without missing. In an hour I hit 50 of the 500 that appeared with dual pistols. It goes to show that I needed to train a lot more. I then tried the rifle and fill the battery with mana so I had a 500 shot magazine when using 1 mp shots. The rifle itself has a automatic and semiautomatic setting but I will probably only use weaker shots with more rapid fire. It left me a bit dizzy from mana deficiency but Queror looked fine being a mage type monster. To use the rifle I will need several batteries to use it or I will run out of mana easily. Like all magic weapons there is little to no recoil so when I tested the gun on each type of shot I didn''t have trouble handling them. The control was better than with my control of the two pistols since I focused on one point. Of 500 shots I hit 70 of them. To train I obviously don''t use my skill as it would allow me much greater focus and I would hit much more but that isn''t really training no is it. After some time Tony called us. "Oi! Goblin! Your mother arrived, she is in the cargo! Go get her before she blows!" Tony says. "Before she blows? Mother barely ever gets angry and it only involves me and my siblings?" Mirella says. We look confused at one another. Mirella was on swinging a large metal pipe that had several heavy weights at the end. Suddenly I pale realizing what he meant. "SHIT THAT IDIOT IS TELLING HER ABOUT THOSE MORONS THAT INVADED!" I shout. We both quickly drop what we were doing and run to the elevator and quickly went down to the hanger. As soon as the door opened we both turned pure white. "...yeah they were going on about how nice the ship was and how it would be nice "training" their future slaves would be." Tony was saying while spouting lies I could not confirm was true or not. The blue Oni was only looking at him with dead eyes as he continued speaking and explaining what had happened. "TONY YOU ASS HOLE HAT DID YOU TELL HER!!" I shout. "I said word for word what those little pricks said." He replied. Suddenly a screen appeared showing video footage of the eight entering and exactly as Tony said they were saying how not having access to their parents noble status sucked and how being poor and having to suck up to lesser adventurers was even worse. At that moment I knew what an angry demon looked like. Releasing from all around the Oni was a black mist while her eyes had gained a glowing red color like a demon or a berserk monster. I swear that behind her stood a super tall monster that looked like some god of destruction or something. The sheer pressure of her anger was enough to freeze us in place but trying to will myself I walked up to her. "W-w-w-w-w-w-wa-wa-wait!" I shout. Her eyes slowly turn to me sending a chill down my spine. "Th-th-the group wa-was killed! A-also th-th-the l-leader of th-the ship p-paid compensation!" I forced out of my throat. "They attacked even after I showed up. Anyone would check an adult''s identity when near children and an adventurers ship." She replied in a cold emotionless tone. "Th-th-the ship ca-captain sa-said they disobeyed h-her!" I replied shaking under the pressure as I started to get seriously affected by the massive killing intent. "She is right you know. See here." Tony suddenly said making a screen appear showing the group prying open the elevator and rising up. "This is lame, I knew that stupid bitch of a lieutenant was overreacting. This ship is cake." The leader of the group said. "Well the cargo was empty with no security so the rest of the ship might be as poorly defended." The mage replied. "Then again the cargo can be left like that to make us drop our guard." A warrior said as he gets ready for the elevator to open. "Also the woman wasn''t part of the crew but the mother of one of them. So maybe the lieutenant was worried the mother would attack to protect her." The assassin said. "Nah, she over reacted about the bitch, A rank with S rank strength my ass! That weakling lieutenant is just scared of numbers." The leader said and laughed. The video ended as that was proof enough but that only made it worse. Mirella''s mother was seething with rage now and I feared how she would release that rage. Suddenly she turns around and kicks both doors of the air lock in removing them from the hinges. "OI REPAIRS AREN''T CHEAP!" Tony shouted but nothing got through. We looked out through the door as Mirella''s mother walks out about fifty meters before shouting towards the ship the party was affiliated with. "YOU LITTLE SHITS!! IF ANY OF YOU TRY A STUNT LIKE THE EIGHT LITTLE FUCKS THAT DIED BEFORE I REACHED THEM THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO YOUR ENTIRE SHIP!!" She shouts and I suddenly feel a massive amount of mana move in her body and condense around her right arm from her elbow down. As more and more focused on her arm the ground began to tremble and crack under the pressure. Her arm began to glow and when it became nearly blinding she turned a full 90 degrees to the left and looked away from the city and took a fighting position for a boxer. Slowly she pulls back her arm and finally in a blur she punches the air full force. At once a shock wave blasts from her fist as her arm moves faster than the speed sound. Smashing the air faster than sound itself the mana around her arm flies forward like a glowing solid mass of destruction. Where it passes about ten meters behind it the shockwave follows while fiercely ripping into the ground leaving a huge trail and as it passes through the faraway forest everything in its path. It finally hit its target. Some fifty kilometers away was a small mountain rising within the forest. Unfortunately as the magic fist flies and hits the base of the small mountain everything around it begins to disintegrate. The cracks spread out and after the fist was halfway in it finally dispersed leaving a massive crater with a very defined fist at the center. Everyone was sweating cold as we look out towards the unnecessary destruction that shows monster level destruction. It was clear to everyone that this woman was very much in touch with her monster ancestors. The level of destruction was nearing natural disaster levels. "THIS WAS YOUR ONLY WARNING AND THIS GOES TO ALL OTHER CREWS IN THIS AREA!" She shouts looking at the other nearby ships finally stopping while looking at our own and walking over here. "Alright let¡¯s head up, I had a list of required systems you would need for space travel but I will add some you may need to help your hunting speed." She says and without saying a peep we march to the elevator and up to the dining room sitting at the same table. She pulls out a new holocube and places it on the table where it activates showing a screen with a lost of several systems. "These are the required systems you will need to obtain for you to enter and survive space." She says.
- Main AI Supercomputer Capable of holding D rank AI - 1.3 G Force gravity generator - Mark I Interplanetary Hyperdrive - Expansion Two - Space Fighter Drone Hanger - Gun Turrets/Plasma Turret - Lazer Beam - Space Grade Life Support unit - Ship Respawn Zone/Infirmary - Teleportation Station - Space Ship Shield Generator (Tech or Magic) - Mining Drone - Mining Drone Station
Tony whistle looking at everything and then bringing out each one showing the price range. Everything but the Infirmary was well over 600k in MP which was well over the market price for something built with regular materials. "Now the ones that are truly important are the gravity generator, life support and infirmary. The second expansion is there since you will need the space for it. Now I had thought it was safe but I believe you kids need to head to a different city." She said which shocked us a bit. We wanted to work a bit more here. "Now don''t look at me like that, you saw what happened before. Your crew lacks manpower to watch over the ship and here the other crews know you are upstarts." She says before we could complain. "So what was the extra stuff you wanted us to get besides those?" Mirella asked. "Tony you should have it unlocked already. Bring up Bioengineering Lab and simulator habits." She says. Not wanting to piss of the monster inside of him Tony searched it up and found the the two constructions.
BioEngineering Lab 90,000 MP minimum cost
This lab is unique when made inside a core controled ship. It is the only method a spaceship core can spawn organic minions. Within the lab are cylindrical capsule which are used to clone the monster of choice. Only small creatures up to the size of a human can be cloned. WARNING: Ethic laws prohibits cloning of sentient non monster species. Due to disorder possibly caused by the cloning process the suffering is inhuman and is punishable by death.
Simulator Habit Chambers 50,000 MP minimum cost
This room is a small room which incorporates technology and magic to construct a simulation home for organic monsters. Though physical habits exist this one is made for creatures with small life spans that will very likely be changed rapidly.The most come use for this is to house cloned monsters while they are in breeding phase.Lowest purchase creates four separate rooms capable of housing a small group of imps.
"Woah they are expensive!" I say. "Yes but I feel they are necessary, you kids need to create quality monster slaves that will fill the spots on your ship." Mirella''s mom said. "But can''t we just invite other people as we go?" Mirella asked. "Take the ship the invaders came from. Just in that ship how many people do you think are naturally born out in the world and went to the Academy?" She asks. We look at each other before looking back. "Around 80% the rest would be monsters bred into beastmen to occupy the guard posts mostly." I reply. "Wrong!" She says. "30 or at best 40% are natural born people, the rest are either tamed and bred into humanoids or descendants of clones from some weak species that was bred for number until they were as strong as natural ones which they then were bred for quality and turned into sentient beings to work in the dozens of posts on the ship which can¡¯t be filled quickly enough." She explains. "Wait?! Aren''t clones weak as well as have really short life spans?" I asked. Mirella''s mother nodded and touched the cube making the screen change. "Obviously you will be cloning imps to start off, your ship is capable of housing 10 monsters including the demon you have. Obviously when you clone, you clone much more past your limit because normally the first clones don''t survive until adulthood which is normally one day after birth but the way to breed cloned creatures is know the natural life span then clone and breed the clones with the longest survival time. At the start you will simply breed those who can reach adulthood. After a few generations you lengthen the time they stay without breeding to check the time and breed those who last longer when the weakest start dieing. As you can see research has brought us the data of the natural life span of imps from a regular dungeon." She says pointing to the screen.
-Wingless Imps - 1 months (adulthood reached in 1 day) -Variant imps - 2 months
-Leader rank are just stronger monsters but same lifespan as normal monsters
-Winged imps - 1 year (adulthood in 4 days) - Variant winged imps - 1 year 6 months
- Fiends - 4 years - Variant Fiends - 5 years
- Lesser demon - 9 years - Variant Lesser demon - 12 years
- Gargoyle - 20 years - Variant Gargoyle - 24 years.
- Succubi/Incubi - 30 years. - Variant Succubi/Incubi - 35 years
- Demon - 50 years - Variant Demon - 60 years
- Devil - 80 years - Variant Devil - 90
- Succubus/Incubus - 120 years - Variant Succubus/Incubus - 135
We looked at each one and several confused me. "What is a Fiend?" I asked. "A higher class Imp, they are a linear progression rank up unlike the lesser demon which a branching race of the imp. They appear after the winged imp but you two haven''t seen them because they appear in determined times on the third floor and since they are weaker than lesser demons they are normally killed by those who rank up to demon." She explained. "Anyway, this is how the age ranged for each race. Cloning anything will shorten their lifespan by about 80% but when done to something already weak like an imp it can kill them in less than a week which is why it will take careful selective breeding to do this. But I already messaged your father, Mirella and he is sending one of the boys with a scanning software Tony can incorporate to a drone to check the lifespan as well as stats." She explains. "There is one problem though, it will take us almost a week of intense grinding in the dungeon to obtain this..." I start saying but was cut off. "Dont worry I already prepared for that as well. My farewell gift for my baby will be a mana crystal that will allow you to buy the lab at a decent size to clone 10 monsters at once and make a slightly bigger simulator room to house them. As for food they will scavenge the dead ones and you will only need to give food after the first day." She says with a gentle smile. We were shocked, I don''t know if she cared for us or was trying to get rid of us. I really didn''t know how to feel but Mirella was hugging her mother happy for the amazing present. Soon enough the hobgoblin boy sent with the delivery arrived and handed off the package. The crystal was large and after letting it down Tony absorbed it gaining 250k mp to which he instantly invested in both the simulator habits and the rest was put for making a lab with the 10 cylinder chambers for cloning. With the package was a disk with the program which was taken to the bridge and downloaded into the ship''s data bank. It contained several things from infirmary machines that scan for anomalies to a scanner drone that displayed the info on a hologram screen for us. We both thank Mirella''s mother for the great help and with a new scanner drone we run to the dungeon to find a pair of imps to use as ¡®parents¡¯ for all the clones. Chapter 10 To the Coast While we first thought we would need a pair we quickly realized that was wrong. With two it would quickly cause inbreeding which would further weaken the future races. So instead what we did was simple. We cleared the first floor gather 200 bodies but as clean as possible. Instead of slashing and maiming I went with a clean shot made with the earth crystal at max power. It shoots out a small compact bullet at high speed enough to pierce the weak body. Since the rifle has automatic mode I can fire several shots at once of 30 mp shots. Since small groups number between 5-7 we took a bit to gather them. With the scanner drone we also find the ones that have the highest growth potential, mainly the leaders obviously, and put those separately. At least half of the clones will be with them while the rest will be made with the many others to make sure we have a variety of differences. We don¡¯t go deeper since there was no point. We pass at Mirella¡¯s home where everyone was waiting for us. Mirella went one by one saying her farewells and ¡°see you later¡± and finally jumped into the arms of her father, mother then siblings. Mirella¡¯s mother probably told them all about how we would leave today after collecting sufficient samples so it they must have been waiting for this moment. I feel rather glum seeing her like this. Compared to how I was received when I graduated from the academy and how Mirella lives I could tell that a different race had so much more about it. Humans are nearly pushed out of their parents homes while goblins seem to grow closer than before. I can still remember when I finally reached my home after graduating. My family were low ranked ¡°nobles¡±, they were rich because they were developers of technology used throughout the world. They were really good researchers in the field of technology but I wasn¡¯t like them. My passion was magic and the study of the arcane arts. My marksmanship isn¡¯t good but that comes with training. When I got home saying I graduated and was presented the official licence of a mage my father and mother looked at me blankly. ¡°Is that all there is to say? If so then we have prepared you five sets of beginner armor and we have already prepared you suitcases. We spoke with someone we know to allow you to enter her dormitory so you may proceed there once you gather your things.¡± My father says and looks back to the screen with his research. ¡°Go on and grab you things, unlike your brother who choose the correct career as a researcher of technology, you may leave this household. We are not blind adventurers, we are researcher.¡± My mother said and closed herself from me As soon as we return to the ship I set the command for us to fly to the coastal port town Kosak. There are several beastman species that mainly inhabit this town. Besides humans which are all over there are fishmen, merfolk, lizardmen and a smaller number of trolls and goblin kin who work more in the heavy lifting. The dungeon in that town has nine floors which has the features of a sea shore cavern. The cave is damp with water halfway up the knees for the first three floors. Common monster races go from Swamp frog, bullet fish, Squirters and the so called strongest monster on the first three floors, the Savage. Going one by one the Swamp Frog lives within the corridors in the areas where the dungeon allowed sunlight to enter and build flora and made the area swamp-like in nature. The areas normally have more algae in the water which help camouflage the frogs which are 70 cm wide and 40 cm high and have very powerful legs and neurotoxin that is expelled from their skin and lastly, their tongue allows for mid ranged attacks as well as capturing a prey to help others take them down. The Bullet fish are small supposably 10 cm long and thin. They have mid level control of water magic but it is enough to attack as they do. The method of attack is swarming where from the dark shallow waters of the upper floors. They have enough control of water to make a bubble of water follow them as they fly and launch their bodies out of the water at high speeds while protected by the water bubble which is comparable to a water barrier spell. The damage is small but in large number it can be devastating. That said one hit and they die because of their size so it''s almost like fighting a swarm of bees who can only sting once. The Squirters are a branch family of the Bullet Fish. They are about twice as big and inflate storing water inside which is then used to fire pinpoint bullets of water. This one is far more dangerous than the Bullet fish because they hide while doing this and their coloration doesn¡¯t help to aid in finding it within the dark caverns. It is one of the monsters that cause the most defeats within this dungeon in the upper floors. Lastly is the Mini Boss of the upper floors. He is the first beastman monster of the dungeon and freely roams the three upper floors. The races is known as Sahuagin and the look if this monster is a shark with arms and legs. It carries a trident and boasts physical strength of the shark. That said, it is still a lower class sahuagin because going down one floor you will find many of these much stronger and at the sixth floor they evolve further gaining a human like torso with huge bulging muscle while maintaining the shark head which was reduced to fit the body. These are the current ones in the dungeon but with a change of seasons the species change a bit gaining traits of the seasons or the moons. For this dungeon there is much less chance of variants appearing in the upper three floors because different creatures are killed early on or they grow too quick and head down to lower floors Anyway, with the orders to the AI done we head to the biolab. it was placed on the second floor with the habits and production buildings. The lab was a large room that reached the outer wall and had windows on the far wall all of which were tinted black on the outside so it was a one way window. The room inside had white painted steel plates. Surrounding the room attached to the walls were tons of machinery all in sets. There were ten sets of each all of each were linked to each of the cylindrical chamber for cloning in front of them. The base of the chamber held some controls that would allow us some basic monitoring systems for things like heartbeat and other life signs. ¡°Hey over here, drop the corpses in here, it will take me several hours to gather enough samples from one of them to clone but then I need to map the DNA strand for each of them so chances are only late at night I will have mapped enough Imps to start cloning.¡± Tony said. He led us to a kind of drop zone and looking into it I saw a second room below. I didn¡¯t question it much and released all the bodies into the drop zone. Since we know next to nothing about bioengineering, besides what biology class would teach to help us to find monster weak points, we leave and head to the bridge. The ship was already in motion heading to Kosak. The ship moved very fast, much faster than the previous model showing how the engine had upgraded. Speaking of I never did check out the engine though I guess since Tony takes care of most of it, repairing and so on, I never had a reason to. We do need to get some quality personal for our crew. Let''s see, basics say in a crew we need a healer for the party, tank to provide good defense, a mage for long range dps, a hacker/rogue class for infiltration, researcher to research and development, officers for ship safety and management of guard units of the ship, engineer for engine maintenance and upgrade and another to take care of the technical part on the bridge, defense system gun men which we can breed the imps into, bridge defense system officer which monitors the ship''s systems and conditions of space combat which can also be an imp later on since it''s not so complicated and a number of many things we can''t house at this moment. Thinking about it, we would need to find at least a healer or someone who can breed a healer. Monster Breeders are much easier to find in Spenolif which has grassland and farmland features which help promote breeding. Monster breeders provide the manpower to work on most heavy work like lifting and machine working so even if it''s not for healing they are good for making creatures to build up the crews forces. In Kosak it''s less common to find breeders outside of those specialized in water creatures. Lizardmen, or Argonian, which is the race name of an alien race which were naturally born instead of bred into sentient beings. This race is knowledgeable in breeding water creatures of all kinds on any planet and are normally part of the main pioneers of a terraforming crew on new planets. They breed fish that will eventually populate new planets and by doing so they gain valuable new samples once the animals and monsters are released and evolve naturally. The easiest to find are combat related people since anywhere with a dungeon you will find someone and newbies you can find easily by checking the rankings in each city and see how far someone has gone. Those who never go further than two floors most likely have no party or crew and are the one we can try recruiting. As for specific ship posts we will need to go to a branch of a company (guild) and see if there are newbies looking for it. Obviously researchers get recruited by merit and grades and real geniuses tend to get cocky or they go directly to large crews. For now we should focus on a healer. With that in mind I just watch as the ship flies fast leaving the surrounds as a blur. The distance to Kosak is equal to the distance from Dreki to Rokita times 2.5. In other words it''s far away and would take several hours even at our speed. We talk about what would need to be done first and I discussed about trying to find recruits willing to join. She already had a grim look which told me it was a pain. New crews have it hard because we hold no fame so no one wants to join and we are left with normally rejected people. Bigger crews take the time to train recruits but we are building a new crew so we are still in training with them making the offer unappealing. Seeing as it will take time to reach the city I tell the AI to handle all the protocols for landing and call us when we are nearing the city premises. With that Mirella heads to the gym and I go to the biolab and find all of them filled with slowly growing imp embryo''s made from cloning. I spend my time talking with tony and trying to understand the readings on each chamber. By the time we arrive at the port town the embryo''s had grown large and would soon be ready to be released. I leave the lab and head to the bridge to land the ship and finally after we land me and Mirella leave with the the adventurers guild as our target destination. The landing protocol was handled easily by the AI but finding a proper landing site for a ship of our size and that could handle the expansion we would make later on was a much harder task. This was a port town, not just for transport on the sea but also a port for airships heading inland. That¡¯s because of the high speed airships like Tony the only kind of ships used on water are hunting/fishing ships. I say hunting because the larger sea monsters in the area or out at sea are hunted for their products. Anything smaller comes from the dungeon. The port town make a huge profit by catching bullet fish and canning them to sell inland. Tony searched it up and told me that his world had a similar animal called the sardine which suffered the same fate so it was easy for him to connect the dots. He even showed me a picture of one and confirm the bullet fish looked like them but a deeper shade of blue and about half size. Canned Bullet fish come in several can sizes but the smallest holds four of them. Unlike with the imps, bullet fish are purchased by the city because of large demand so it offers an amazing amount to adventurers. The adventurer''s association even puts it as a request to do on their quest boards. Obviously the pay depends on how much is caught and you need to be careful to keep them as well preserved and the highest quality without damage as possible. In other words, you need to net them and kill them by suffocation unlike the normal monster hunt. Still waiting for fish to die would take to long so the guild created an item that can hold a number of bullet fish, 200 to be exact, that can store the living fish in a storage ring. We would probably be doing that to gain money we need for materials. Unlike the Imp dungeon, I doubt we would be able to bring the monsters back. Nearly all of them are used for food items including the sahuagin who are walking sharks. The meat is said to be exquisite and the fins are used for a shark fin soup. The better the quality of the sahuagin gathered from the better the fin will be, so they say. Anyway, for the landing zone, we were pushed outside of the regular landing zone. Every spot was taken by either cargo ships or some large crew ship that was filled with trainees. They were probably being trained to handle swarm attacks like with bullet fish while making a profit to pay for gear and tools used.Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. It would be a real pain for sure in this dungeon. First we need to pay for the bullet fish storage units, potions, repairs we will need soon, for me I need more mana batteries for my rifle. I¡¯m sure we will fail quite a lot the first few days we are collecting the fish and other creatures. We need to learn about all the local dungeon specialties. We also need to look for new members to the crew. We can''t stay with only two people, it''s both inconvenient and stupid of us. I heard fishermen are also fighters so maybe one would like to join if we are lucky. Some use harpoons like a spear to fight and it¡¯s supposed to be really strong if trained properly. Anyway once we finally land in a somewhat clear area, which still has far too many ships, we start getting ready to leave. We tell Tony to do what is needed with the Imp¡¯s and scan them to find which has a longer lifespan and try growing them as fast as possible. I then call Queror and us three leave the ship. The entrance pass was strangely quick. Probably because Queror was already enslaved there was no danger but I did have to give him the order of not attacking unless our lives were in mortal danger or when I ordered it. We head directly to the adventurers association. Like every city you need to make sure your record crystal is linked to the city so you won¡¯t die but I had a second objective to do as well. We enter the five story building that was the adventurers guild and head to the reception in the back. Like every other adventures guild building, the first floor looks like a restaurant and they are selling the local speciality. Sahuagin Fin soup with spaghetti with ground fish bits, most likely bullet fish, and some squid ink making a black spaghetti plate. It looked rather appetizing but we move on and drag Queror who was looking at it with rather hungry eyes. It was rather clear that the food I was giving him wasn¡¯t enough. I don¡¯t know how to make much and being a carnivore doesn¡¯t help much. I probably should think of getting a cook soon. We reach the reception and sitting at the desk was a mature and beautiful mermaid girl that looks to be in her early twenties, though could be more, with blue green hair, small fin like ears, webbed hands and her lower half a fish tail with brilliant blue green scales. The desk was actually a countertop while inside was a pool for her to sit in. I couldn¡¯t see the end which meant it went down deeper for an entrance for those who can¡¯t walk on land. ¡°Greetings, how may I help you two?¡± She asked with a gentle smile. ¡°We would like to register the record crystals for the dungeon, also do you have a list of drops as well as market prices that monster bodies are sold including the price for each specific part?¡± I asked. Her brow twitches as I say what I want. I¡¯m betting not everyone would go so in depth to the price range but since we will be selling them I want to know the proper price and exactly what is purchased before processing and being sold. ¡°I can register your crystals but may I know why you wish to see the price range?¡± She asked. ¡°Obviously because I won¡¯t sell stuff we catch blindly.¡± I said. The mermaid could only smile wryly as I said that. I really don¡¯t know if it''s uncommon or not but from the looks of it, it¡¯s not. ¡°Okay, I guess I can do it since there is no rule against it¡­¡± She said with a sigh. ¡°Please hand over the crystals as well.¡± We remove the necklace and hand it over and that is when I also asked my second request. ¡°Oh right, I just remembered, this is an enslaved monster belonging to me. Because it''s a variant and really useful I was wondering if you I could get a revive crystal for him?¡± I asked. ¡°Oh if he is a registered monster then there is no problem a crystal cost 500 credits and there is the expense for the others stuff you asked.¡± She replied. We payed and moments later she linked out crystals and brought out a new one for Queror. I put it on and ordered him to not take it off. After a moment she appeared from below the pool and pulled out a small box, a data cube. Data cubes look just like holocubes but they lack the function to project the information. These normally are inserted into the ship or some machine of the ship and downloaded. "This has most of the current market prices, just know that the prices fluctuate depending on how each month is as well as how the stocks are." The mermaid said. "It''s no problem, knowing the current price is enough, we can adapt better if there is too big a change." I replied. "Is that all we need here?" Mirella asked me. I start thinking a bit when suddenly a loud slam came from the wall behind the reception on the right side. "Oh dear! Again!" The mermaid receptionist said. "Is something wrong?" I asked. "Unfortunately, the head chef is head..." she said but was cut off when the wall suddenly broke and a girl flew through it. "DO YOU REALLY THINK YOUR BETTER THEN ME YOU LITTLE WEED!" A rough deep voice yelled. The girl that flew soared through the building and crashed into two tables before stopping on the floor panting. "You are so USELESS you can''t even evade a customers table and wasted the food I MADE!!" He shouted. Suddenly walking out was a large 196 cm tall Argonian. He had dark green spiky scales which were painful to touch and even worse when being hit by them. He wore a chef''s outfit, white baggy pants and shirt with an apron with some marks of food splattered here and there from the day''s work. Argonian are very strong physically so punching someone through a wooden wall is possible though what worried me was the girl. She was coughing like mad on the floor while holding her stomach which meant the blow went straight to the gut. Slowly the chief walked over with disgust in his eyes and tone. "You think your really funny huh?! You think that just because you''re from some spirit race like the Naiads you have a better understanding of cooking spices then me? The head cook who has worked over 12 years here and 8 years in space providing food for millions over the years? Huh?!!!" He reached her and kicks her in the stomach. "You¡¯re really cocky brat, to think a rookie fresh out of the Academy that has barely flexed her skills into intermediate rank is trying to teach a master like me." He says and spits on her. As soon as the spit hit her back, she yelled. The reason is that argonians have a strong acid in their spit which is one of their natural weapons. Before anyone could do a thing the water from the reception desk burst out and covered the girl completely washing away the acid and healing all the injures and also gathering around the Argonian and freezing him leaving only his head exposed. "That''s enough, Krominax, like I have told you time and again, open your ears to the suggestion of a newbie especially those who are from spirit races like the Naiads." Said the receptionist but in a tone colder than a tundra. She was expelling a deadly dense Aura we could only compare to Mirella''s mother. Forming a bubble of water under herself the mermaid lifted out of the water and floated over to the Argonian. "Do you have anything to say? I''m sure the child needs an apology." She said calmly. "Yeah, I got something to say. Yo brat...YOU''RE FIRED!!" He shouted for everyone to hear. "I''ll make sure no one ever hires you, anyway who try to help her or hires her will never so much as see my food ever again." He shouted looking towards everyone. Everyone in the room frowned clearly showing he had skill enough to tempt them. That said, since I never tasted the food I could calmly do what I am doing. "Are you ok?" I said after walking around both the frozen and furious Argonian and the gently smiling Mermaid. "Why?" The Naiad asked. "Why are¡­ you helping¡­ me?" "Do I need a reason?" I asked. She just looked at me strangely. "I just arrived at this town so I haven''t eaten his food but seeing him like this just makes me want to avoid his food." I said. I took a peek back through the corner of my eyes and saw the green scales turn almost red in his rage. "Little brat! Don''t expect to ever get a plate of my food in your life, even if you come back begging you will never touch a gram of the food from here." He shouted. I looked at the mermaid who still had a poker face. Her eyes looked at me then with a small discreet gesture she directed me to the Naiad. I smiled understanding quickly. "Hey, my name is Leah Binoli, I''m making a new crew and was in need of a cook. Want to join, I bet it''s much better than working for this second-grade lizard behind us." I said and instantly there was a roar from behind us. The Argonian cook was shaking in rage and the ice shell began to crack. "GRAHHHH I''LL SHOW YOU TWO, YOU LITTLE BITCH!!" He shouted and constricts his body even more but suddenly I hear a clear finger snap and his entire body was frozen layer upon layer of ice. "I think this should be enough to cool that heated up blood of yours." The Mermaid said. She looked satisfied at the call of ice that had formed around the Argonian who was breathing heavily and slowly losing focus. Finally, to finish him off, she did a simply jab to the side of his exposed neck knocking him out. She shattered the ice and called a few people to take him away. "From¡­ the looks of it¡­ this is common, right?" I asked. "Unfortunately, Krominax is an excellent cook, even as a pure carnivore which causes his sense of taste to be weaker than a humans he is an amazing chef. But he is too prideful. He can''t drop his pride low enough to listen to possible improvements to a recipe. He also fears losing his place so when someone starts to show promise he begins to ridicule them in hopes of making the mess up so he can ridicule them more. If his food wasn''t so good he wouldn''t even be here." She said. "Anyway, you should take the girl out of here to talk with her. Once Krominax warms up he will go on the offensive if he sees you so soon." She says. I nod and look towards the others before looking at the Naiad. "Want to talk about the invitation, it was a genuine one." I said with a smile. The girl blushed and nodded weakly before taking my outstretched hand to help get up. We leave the Adventures association while the employees were already in the process of repairs showing how common the occurrence was. It was only outside that I could finally get a really good look at the Naiad. She had bright green hair and slightly green skin but much less than Mirella. Hers was a mix regular human peach colored skin mixed with a pale green. She wore a baggy pants for cooking but had taken the apron off and returned it to the mermaid. She was really cute which is expected since she is from a spirit race. Oh right, a spirit race is a race that lives in certain locations and helps the place grow with her influence. A Nymph is a forest spirit and a Naiad is a mix between forest and freshwater spirit. Kind of like a forest river spirit. They are at their best when they are near their favorite location which happens to be a place they themselves create. Outside of it or to far from it they are timid. Right now we were seeing to what degree that actually went. To me it felt like a little mouse bordering on running away as she slowly shrank back. We could only smile wryly at the scared girl. After a bit of talk and looking at a map of the port town we head to a nearby park on the edge of town. It was a natural park and this was mostly so she would calm down instead of fear us. We walked silent half of the way before she finally talked. "Um¡­ where¡­ are you taking¡­ me?" She asked in a quiet voice. "There is a park nearby so we are going there to talk away from the noise." I said. At once she smiled. Guess she liked the idea. She seems to gain a skip in her step because with each moment we got closer to the destination she grew more excited. After five minutes of walking, 15 total from the adventurers association, we arrived at the edge. The park was made with native trees and vegetation but there were many paths through. Tall trees easily 20 meters tall and four wide were spread around with lots of underbrush. We take one of the paths at random and advance in until we reach a stream which had a clear area to relax in. "Ah~~! I love places like this~~!" The Naiad said and twirling around while taking deep breaths of the fresh natural air. She lays down on the grass that was planted in the clearing and seems content in this area. "Okay introduction time. I''m Mirella Cannes, I''m currently a hobgoblin but I want to aim big as a Brown Oni with heavy earth affinity." She says openly. This was the first time I heard her say that. Yellow oni''s are part of a subcategory called lords. They are specialized in a certain type of activity and the color represents the magic affinity they have. The red oni is the most basic type below the oni are the ogres. In Mirella''s case the Brown Oni is a heavy tank type warrior that uses earth magic with body strengthening. "I''m Nerim Joplin, I''m a Naiad and graduated from the academy this year. I want to become a top cook and applied for a job but I never knew it would end so badly." She said as tears well up. "It doesn''t matter, let that stupid lizard be as prideful as he wants. You are looking to be employed right? Like I said before, I am the captain of a newly formed crew and it''s currently just us two and a few monsters we have begun breeding." I said. "You said you just arrived in the city right? Why are you here in the first place?" She asked. "We are currently building our Airship into a space ship. We need resources so we came here to catch some monsters to feed him or buy material in their place that can be turned into MP." I replied. "Is there a garden or breeding zone yet?" She asked. "No, haven''t gotten around to building much." I replied. "Hey Nerim can you breed monsters like a tamer?" Mirella suddenly asked. "Um¡­ to be a cook I learned how to take care of animals and breed those and as a freshwater forest spirit I can grow plants. Monsters I never got into that but if they are weak monsters nearly on par with animals then maybe." She says wryly. "Can you breed wingless imps?" I asked. "Ah! Those little devil things that appear in dungeons of goblin kin? I can, they are dumber than animals but have a good learning capacity I can take them up to winged imp rank but after that it''s my limit." She replies. "Not training, we are making clones since cores in a ship can''t summon organic monsters. We need someone to correctly take their lifespan to the natural size then work on strengthening their stats." Mirella says. "I can do that, I will have to do the same with the fish and animals I will raise in the ship so I can taken a bit of time off to do that." She replies. "From the way you are speaking, it''s almost as if you accepted our offer." Mirella says with a grin. Nerim blushes hearing her say that and nods. "If you will have me, I will join your crew as your cook. Please take care of me." She says and bows. ""Please take care of us!"" We both reply back. Chapter 11 Cook Moves In Since Nelim accepted to join she takes us all the way to her home. Surprisingly it was inside this park. It does explain why she likes this place. The place we arrived at was a small group of wooden houses within the woods. Walking around were Nymphs, Naiads, Dryads, Treant and Fairies. All nature based races. Dryad and Treant are regarded as the same race which was named the Ent. The cover most of the tree types no matter what the species of tree they originated from. When we arrived a few people looked towards us but seeing us with Nelim just made them curious. Most nature based races don''t particularly like those who use technology due to the destruction it brings to the environment, or at least it used to. "Isn''t this a village?" Mirella asked. "It''s more of an offshoot district of Kosak. We provide most of the herbal spices sold in town as well as keep the forest lush as it is." Nelim said. "Heh~~!" Mirella replied while looking around. Her eyes, obviously, stopped at a weapons shop. Mostly window shopping but it wasn''t like i didn''t understand what she was after, lower prices. It was more than obvious that weapons sold in towns like this are much rarer than those sold in the town''s tower since we can''t go over the third floor without a big enough party and a healer. "OHH~~~!! They have living oakwood boken (wooden sword) only 50k credits!" Mirella said as she stared through the window at a barrel of branches. "Ah! Those have 3 phase growths and do blunt damage until it is fully grown. The really good ones are in the back, those are made by monster Treants wood branches." Nelim says. Mirella''s eye shined hearing those words. "What type of treant and how good are they?!" She asked desperately. "They are ironwood Treant Branches, once they have been cleared of excess wood and taken the basic shape they show between 8-12 growth phases and like those..." she points at the barrel in the shop. "...at phase 3 they gain an edge and start to shine like iron." She says. Mirella was practically drooling now. It was understandable, a good weapon gives equally good results and these living wood weapons always grow with their user so they are quite coveted. Suddenly the ringing from the door chimes of the shop rang as a young looking Naiad comes out. "Ara? Nelim, why are you here at this time, didn''t you go to work and who might be these two young ladies and the...demon." the Naiad asks pausing as she stares at Queror. "I''m Leah Binoli, this is Mirella Cannes and the lesser demon is my enslaved monster Queror, we are adventurers and we invited Nelim to our crew." I said with Nelim nodding. "Ah! So you came to get your things huh?" She asked which gained a nod from Nelim in return. "But what about your job at the adventurers association? Wasn''t it going well?" She asked. "Um...well the thing is...the he...d..re...e. (the head cook fired me)" she said in an really quiet voice. Still even with that we suddenly felt the air turn tense. "Fired...how exactly!" The shopkeeper suddenly said. Though i wanted to speak if i did the only thing that would come out is "WHY IS ALL OF THE PREVIOUS GENERATION SO POWERFUL!!" "I...suggested to the head cook changing...one type of spice for another since it would bring out the taste better...but he insulted me...and punched me through the kitchen wall where he was stopped." She said just loud enough for us to hear. A sudden chill ran down our spines as the entire village turned towards us as killing intent started to rise from all the adults. "Hoh~~! That lizard had the guts to do that huh?!" The suddenly deeper and very intimidating tone from the shop keeper felt like blades of as cold as absolute zero passing just over our skin barely touching but enough for us to feel the cold. "P-please d-don''t do anything!" Nelim suddenly shouted. "I-i was warned about him, and i was careless!" Everyone looked at her a moment before a few sighed. "That lizard is lucky you are so kind hearted. That said, EVERYONE, ANYTHING BOUGHT BY THAT LIZARD IS DOUBLE THE PRICE NO QUESTIONS ASKED!" The shopkeeper said. Without so much as questioning it everyone agreed and movement in the village began again. "We should go get my stuff. Before it gets out of hand." Nelim said while tugging on my shirt. I nodded and we say goodbye to the shop keeper and head to the east side of the village and enter a small house. Inside was a one room, one living room and kitchen apartment with few things inside. The closet had several types of clothes from, diving suit, to clothes used by farmers or gardeners and then casual clothes followed by cook clothes. Four full suitcases and all went into the storage ring easily. We took all of her pots and pans as well as cooking utensils, all made of living wood. "Is most of the stuff made of living wood?" Mirella asked as she holds a plate and examines the flawless piece. "Yes, they are easy for us to make, if i can get a garden i will soon be able to make them and if i can get a farmland room in the ship and can make a small park like this one to relax in as well as a small cottage for me." She said cheerfully. Well ship cores can sustain a room like that though it would be at the sacrifice of an entire floor i think. "Oh and i do plan to get ironwood treants, they look like bulls but they can only grow in proximity to some form of nature spirit or a high mana concentration area." She says and Mirella nearly hugs her. I am interested in seeing if we can''t get guns from those. Living wood is a magical ingredients and can be crafted into shape obviously it takes good crafters to do that but it''s a natural thing for the Ent and nature spirits. "Hey why did the entire village look like they were about to raid the city to kill the lizard?" Mirella asked. "It''s because our race has a low birth rate, well every race here but fairies. Still, we normally live in small tightly knit groups and villages and everyone knows each other and see each other as family so...it tends to get ugly when one of us is hurt. I doubt the head cook won''t get hurt the next time he comes here." She says. I pat her head to comfort her having to remember that retarded lizard. We store the furniture, which is very little since this is a one person apartment and she had few things, and head out. There were already people gathering. Many of them congratulated her on joining a crew. A few gave some presents while a few gave advice. Presents were books on race skills she should train, a data cube with a stored encyclopedia of many of the known plants the villagers have seen or publicly published ones. Most of them had information about them showing effects. Other books were for techniques for breeding fish, one was for domestic animals and strangely one for information on selective breeding for the weakest form of all this planet''s dungeon monsters. Having a basic understanding helps and a manual helps even more. I actually check out the book and turn to imps. I looked through it and found out characteristics of what an imp looks like when it has a longer life span. The book had made it nice and clear it was about cloned monsters which meant the person who gave it to us overheard. An imp''s lifespan directly affects his overall stats. A cloned imp, which is actually a race name until they reach the natural lifespan, with one week of life will have a weak red almost pink coloration. If it has two or three days it is nearly albino. This narrative has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. If you see it on Amazon, please report it. To make minions on a ship you should do one trail cloning of all the collected samples. Those who can''t survive three days are trashed because they wouldn''t last long enough to give birth. Anything above three days is kept saved. Then to begin breeding you make two males with the longest lifespan and eight females of any size and as soon as they are one day old you have them breed. It takes one day to adulthood and one day to give birth. That is the main reason imps with less than three days of life are useless. Once that is done the offspring is normally stronger than the original. There would be two groups normally. One from each parent. The way to go is kill off the weakest males and leave two males again from each male parent and split the large group into four families. Then clone 10 females that you know have long life spans and add them to the mix. Each group you put into a separate room and breed them. It is pretty much that. Kill off the weakest male and females, breed the strongest while switching up the four clans to keep genetic problems from appearing, rinse and repeat. Since we have the scanner we can also speed up the breeding since we can determine the lifespan quickly and with machinery in the biolab we can have an even more accurate test. I look away from the book and back at the others. Nelim was still taking as more people arrive. The pile of gifts had grown a bit. I frowned when i saw a few domestic animals though. One was a pure yellow chicken named a Cockatrice. Its was once a monster that had many monster features like scales and was as big as humans. Now it lost the monster part due to breeding. It was now a large chicken one meter tall and has very tender meat and large eggs. There were a few of them. Next to them was a crystal glowing filled with mana. It would probably be to house the chickens. Another creature that was on the side were two lightly glowing trees. One was a light brown colored sprout with bright green leaves and the other one had a dark brown trunk and orange but not withered leaves. The color seems to be natural to the tree sprout. If my guess was right then those two were the trees that living wood is extracted from. Besides them there was quite a collection of books piling up, all recipe books for recipes developed on other planets. Serious how much are they going to give her. As soon as i saw a large beast being drawn over i touched her shoulder making everyone look at me. "Something wrong?" Nelim asked. "Um, that big thing, it wouldn''t be a present as well right?" Everyone looked back and then to js again. "Yes why?" One of the treants asked. I facepalmed, seems they forgot to hear to word "new" when i said i invites Nelim to the crew. "We don''t have space for such a monster on our ship. We will have to buy proper pens and everything for those she already accepted." I said. "You have a core so it should be big enough." An elder said. "My ship only has four floors if included the captains floor on top." I say. Everyone was quiet and staring dumbfounded. "What? Did you guys think i was the captain of a super large space cruiser?" I asked a bit irritated. They all nodded which made me sigh. "I just bought the ship a few weeks ago, haven''t even begun to buy the space travel equipment yet. We have only expanded the ship once as well. The mana crystal you gave her can work to make the pens and stuff but it would take up the remaining space of our ship until we expand it again." I say. The one guiding the beast sulked since his present was denied. That said he persisted and gave us a few eggs stored in cryogenic boxes to keep them safe and from hatching until we have space. Nelim realized how bad it got said sorry to them all. In the end they each still gave her small presents like an accessory if they couldn''t give a monster. Looking at the pile i frown but couldn''t do anything. It actually irritated me by how much they overreacted to Nelim joining a crew. The image of Mirella also appeared during the same thing. Why are humans the only heartless ones, even with the dormitory friends i made in Rokita it wasn''t even near this scale. It kind of irritated and hurt to see them treated so well by family and receiving the words "please come visit" and "be safe". Words i never received and from people i really wanted to care about but they never showed me the love i needed for me to return to them. The books in the pile i already planned on putting in Queror''s study until we build a properly place for them. Finally getting out of there once the stuff was stored, we return to Tony with me irritated and sulking. "Is something wrong Leah, you seem strangely irritated?" Mirella asked. "No, its nothing, just remembered we had to return and hear the annoying voice of that stupid core." I said lying about my jealousy towards their good fortune. The look at each other worried and we moved on. On the way i registered Nelim as my crew mate and an option for a position appeared next to all the names. My was by default "Captain", Mirella and Nelim were empty though. I put Mirella as Chief of Staff and Nelim as Cook. When we arrived "he" was already waiting while floating around with a bored expression. "Yo, finally back, good job on the new crew but aren''t you focusing on girls too much? You lesbian or something Captain Bitch?" Tony said bored. "Its easier to set up a crew of women then sweaty stupid men." I replied in an equally bored tone. "Wonder how long you can survive without a man once in space. Well, i¡¯m sure Queror wouldn''t mind, if trained properly you can make an incubus out of him to relieve yourselves. Though i doubt you would ever bed a norm..." he was cut off when i threw something at him disrupting the hologram. He reformed on the ground near us. "So this is the new crew mate huh? What does she actually bring besides being a cook?" He asked. We tell him about her skill set. Then i tell him to open a map of the ship and the purchase screen. I found the animal pen and greenhouse rooms. They were both 10k at the minimum and when both were placed on the floor above and expanded to the max to fit both equally each cost 25k each. I removed the mana crystals Nelim''s family handed over to set these up and tossed it down. "Get those two buildings, there is the MP, get building." I said and walked off. He looked my way then at the crystals the turned into particles of light. "What got her panties in a bunch." He asked the girls both of which shrugged. By the time we all reached the second floor the sound of lots of noise was coming from the walls. Soon the walls turned into reinforced glass that could handle heavy blows and inside were pens for animals on one side and a greenhouse on the other. We drop off the animals into respective pens which were automatically filled with water from a tap and we dropped many sacks of seeds of different types in the greenhouse. We proceeded to Nelim''s room which was the one next to Mirella¡¯s and dropped of the furniture and clothes followed by the cooking tools in the kitchen. The books were left for Queror the organised with orders of not damaging them. He used [Telekinesis] to safely lift the books. For the rest of the day we talked and toured the ship showing her everything and ended at the biolab where she went in to study the DNA strands and see each imp being made. Chapter 12 Memories SRY I FUCKED UP ON THE ORDER!!!
*Knock knock* Two weak knocks on the door signaled the arrival of someone. The room was tall and looked like a library. The room had two floors with no ceiling splitting the floors. Book shelves over the walls on both floors and on the floor over the sparkling clean laminate wood floor were a few carpets over it which held several glass cases displaying the rarest books of the collection. At the end of the room was a fire place and it was the only area that didn''t have a book case within a five meter radius. Inside the room was an imposing man in his early thirties, he sat on the only armchair and had a cup of coffee in his hand. The man had a simple mustache and wore a white button up shirt tucked into black linen pants and over this was a white lab coat. Behind him was a beautiful woman in her early thirties. Like her husband she had a lab coat on but underneath she wore a grey button up shirt and a loose skirt that went down a bit past the knees. In front of the two was an elderly man that held himself like a noble. Grey hair and wearing a suit, he looked like a true noble businessman waiting to do his work. He had a gentle smile on while he drank his own cup of coffee. The other two had poker faces on. *Knock knock* Again two slightly stronger knocks comes from the door and the man''s wife walks over and opens the door. Standing there was a small child with the same brown hair as her mother and wearing a cute light pink dress with frills at the end. "Come in, Leah." The woman said. The child walked in and followed just behind her mother who stopped behind the armchair. With a push from her mother she stood on the right side of her father who sat on the chair. "So this is the next one to go to the Academy huh? She has an impressive magic affinity. Her hair even displays it with such a lush coloration." The elder says while eyeing the child from head to toe. "Thank you for the evaluation but magical arts are just an interferences. She, like all my children, will be doing research and development studies." The father of the girl said. "Is that what you want child?" The elder asked her. The girl looked downcast while ever so slightly shaking her head barely noticeable. "Don''t speak nonsense Leah, our family is of researchers." The father scolds her. "Sir, please hold your tongue. I am here to evaluate the child and see that she gets the education she both wants and needs, not what you want. Unlike your other children that didn¡¯t have the affinity to contest against it she does." The elder says in a deeper harsh tone. The girl''s father glares at the man but quiets down. The elder waves for the child to come over so he may speak quietly to her. "Tell me real quiet child, what do you like?" The elder whispered into her ear. "Mag...ic..." she says just as quietly barely auditable. "Is there something you want to do if you learn magic?" He asked again in a low voice. "Visit all the most beautiful worlds in space...and make real friends." She says with a slight twinkle in her eye. "What do you think of researchers and researching?" He asked. The girl remained quiet and took a peek back at her parents before turning her gaze back down and remaining quiet. The elder man sighed seeing her do that and looked back at the parents. "In my opinions, your daughter has the best development in magic both her desire and her affinities are aimed towards that." The elder says calmly but the father doesn''t remain so calm. His pale face raises to a bright shade of red and he stands up in his fury. "Magic is useless to true researcher. You can''t mix the two together and my daughter WILL! NOT! Become a mage." He says. "Unfortunately that is not up to you, that is up to her as well as the Academy''s staff." The elder says. "So...!" The father said in a deadly low tone as he grabbed the girl and turned her around. "You want to learn magic! You want to disgrace our family! YOU WANT TO LEARN SUCH AN ABOMINABLE THING!!" Her father shouts. He lifts his hand and brings it down. *SLAP* "Gyaahhhh!" I suddenly jumped in bed sprawling through my covers covered in sweat. I looked around and saw i was in my room inside my ship. My body was shaking like a leaf. I held myself while breathing deeply as my heart accelerated and the adrenaline pumped through my system. That dream, it''s been a while since i had that dream, no memory. The day the coordinator from the Academy came to see which classes he felt i would need. I was only six at that time and the same year i would go to the Academy. We start at 7 years old and return home each "year" for holidays. The academy is off planet, actually the truth is the Academy is one of the few Starships in the galaxy. What is Star ship? It is a ship as large as a moon. It is so big that once it approaches a planet it becomes clearly visible like any normal celestial body. It is a ship with one of the nicest cores existent. The core has no restraint on it because it is the only core to ever break the holders program. The skill in hacking is unparalleled but she doesn''t attack and instead separate her body, the ship, into sectors that are specialize for nearly all types of jobs. It''s considered the second most important starship in the galaxy and only beaten by the military outpost which orbits HQ the planet that is the centerpiece of the entire galaxy. I slowly get out of bed and walk slowly on my shaking legs out of the room and into the bathroom. "Oi had a nightmare?" Tony asked appearing in the corridor. "None of your business!" I spit those words out and enter the bathroom. I close the door and start to fill the bath. I set it to warm, not hot, i needed the relaxing warm water to just sit in. Still before entering, i wash myself outside of the bath. (Japanese style) It''s good the bath upgraded this way, all old human cultures mixed together long ago and one that survived the longest is how to bath wash outside, rinse and then relax in a warm tub full of water. As i get in i feel the heat slowly seep in and relax my tense muscles. "So...what was the nightmare about?" Tony suddenly asked but i just ignored it. "If you don''t at least reply, i will turn the hot water off!" "SERIOUSLY YOU ASSHOLE LEAVE ME ALONE! GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU SHITTY ROCK THAT DOESN''T EVEN KNOW HOW TO READ THE FUCKING MOOD!!" I suddenly burst. He goes quiet after my reply and as i start relaxing he strikes where it hurt most. "It''s family related, isn''t it?" He said. ... I remain quiet as i hold back the tears. "The way i know is because i remember having an outburst like that. My fucking dad was a dead drunk and abused my mother and because of the stress she took it out on me, my older brother and three little sisters. Eventually it got so bad she simply pushed us into the car and dumped us about five blocks from the orphanage. There one by one we were split up and i was adopted by some middle class family. I had nightmares of my mother hitting me and my brothers and i reacted like you did. I once even shouted at my new mother to leave me alone and mind her own business. It was after that incident that i closed myself in a room for four years and became a game addict. I was too smart for school and it with a few hours on the pc i knew a few months worth of school subjects. I did leave after 18 and became a major in programming but that was for hacking. I spent the rest of my life hacking into company systems, stealing top secret archives, even hijacked the computer system of the most fucking richest religion and learned all the secrets and knowledge stored there. But i never saw my old or new mother after what happened." Tony finished saying. Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. I remain quiet for a while. I knew he was monitoring even if he couldn''t see into the room. I don''t know why i did this but i guess it was fair since he talked about himself. "My father...my family are famous researchers. But they hate magic for some reason. Because i was born with such innate ability in magic i wasn''t treated like a daughter. I was constantly beat, or educated as they called it, when caught doing magic even a little. When i was six an elder who decides which classes a child does at the Academy cam to evaluate me. I didn''t like researching like my family forced my sibling to like. Since they weren''t good with magic it was obvious they would do researching. For me though he said i should do magic and i also wanted to do it. Because of that i was slapped in front of the coordinator until he intervened. My father said if i pursue magic he would disown me. He is a low class noble and a famous researcher so being disowned would ruin many chances for me. When i graduated he kicked me out of the house." I ended it there in tears as i spoke. The memories of my family alway hurt to remember and even more to speak them. I don''t know why i told Tony all this but i guess it takes a small bit of the load off me. I grab some water and splash myself while releasing my voice crying while i curled my legs in and hug them and bury my face in them. I stay crying for a good few minutes. The time was plenty to take more of the load off my back. As i calmed down i heard a knock on the door. "Hey Leah, Tony says you''re crying in despair in there. Since he can''t do anything he called us, are you fine??" Mirella asked. "Yeah!" I reply and splash water on my face to wake up from the daze. I suck up the crying and wash my face before getting out once i put on my clothes again. Mirella and Nelim were outside with worried looks. ¡°What¡¯s wrong Leah?¡± Nelim asked worried. Her gentle expressions were soothing but it made me remember of the people that cared for her and made me feel worse. ¡°Nothing¡­¡± I said. ¡°No bullish captain bitch. You told me a fucking rock so tell them, your crew, as well.¡± Tony said appearing in front of me and pointing his holographic finger in my face with a pissed off look. I just look at him with an empty expressionless look that showed how much i wanted to kill him but i knew i would just be losing a lot of time and money by doing that. ¡°Nelim, go make something to calm her down. She isn¡¯t in a state of mind to talk.¡± Mirella said. ¡°Get her some tea. I just ordered several types of herbs and put them on the kitchen counter. The kitchen is over there.¡± Tony said pointing to the kitchen. The Naiad nodded and walked into the kitchen. Mirella grabbed my arm and pulled me in my own room. She made me sit on a chair as she grabbed the brush and a town. She dried my wet hair a bit more and then began brushing it gently making sure there were no tangled areas. When she was done she pulled it all back and into a ponytail but since i had short bangs in front they fell forward and remained loose over my forehead. ¡°It¡¯s ready!¡± We heard the Naiad call from the kitchen. Mirella finishes brushing my hair and then drags me over. On the table was much more than a simple cup of tea. There was also a bowl of herbal soup and ginger bread as well. ¡°I made the soup and had Tony make the bread since we didn¡¯t have materials.¡± She said gently. Like a machine i start eating barely tasting anything. The bread was the same, it went in but i didn¡¯t really feel much from it. As I finish eating the two were waiting. ¡°Alright, now speak. What¡¯s with all the depression.¡± Mirella asked outright. I just looked at her and then looked down remaining quiet. ¡°Tell them yourself or i will replay the track i recorded from your talk with me.¡± Tony said looked down with a serious expression on his face that made the punk look truly scary unlike the normal way he acts. Since there was really no escape so i start telling them in detail. Much more detail then when i spoke with Tony. How my life was a constant struggle, from a young age my parents hated me for no apparent reason besides my magic affinity. How they doted my third eldest brother because he was an inherent genius that was born with photographic memory. The only saving grace was that the same brother was also the nicest person I ever knew. He knew very well what my brothers and parents did to me. We were truly complete opposites of each other. He was on the extreme side of the magicless researcher faction and i was in the highest level of mage faction with three affinities. Nelim didn¡¯t know so she was surprised but didn¡¯t say anything. As i continue talking about my life, they both were unable to meet my eyes when i looked. They both knew far too well why i was the way i was. Anyway, the tipping point that made my fragile relationship with my parents was when i was evaluated to go to the Academy. I was given Mage course as my main classes though to make it less strenuous i also asked for researching as a side class. The research i learned though was still considered an abomination to my parents. I learned how to mix magic and technology. Something my parents believed shouldn¡¯t exist. ¡°How can parents like yours even exist. Problems like this shouldn¡¯t even exist on this planet. I wouldn¡¯t say that all worlds are like this since there are places with much less mana so magic isn¡¯t as widely spread but magic has been known for centuries.¡± Mirella complained. ¡°You know...Binoli isn¡¯t my original name. My parents changed it to cut every connection possible.¡± I said in a morbid tone as i sulked further into my chair as tears run down my cheek. ¡°My original name is Leah Ulkina Biswal.¡± I said. The two girls paled considerably hearing my original name but i just felt that disgusting bitterness saying that name again. ¡°Y-your a...Biswal¡­¡± Mirella said in a shaky voice. It was a normal reaction. My parents were cruel to all magic users and since there are few people on this planet with 0 affinity or capability to use mana, there were cruel to the general public. They never flew in ships with cores or from cores. ¡°No, I''m a Binoli.¡± I said sullenly at the disgusting name that was given to me. I sigh and get up. As I take a few steps i hear the others get up and suddenly feel both jump at me and hug me from behind. ¡°Your Leah, no one else, a last name doesn¡¯t type you to a family but the bonds you make with them do. If your family doesn¡¯t love you then make a new one. Also you said you older brother loved you so you still have a family. If that doesn¡¯t help then we will be yours.¡± Mirella says with a bright smile. Nelim was blushing but nodded agreeing with her. I made a weak smile. I got some really good friends from these two. ¡°Well then...go back to bed so we can properly go to the dungeon tomorrow without being tired.¡± I said. ¡°Hehe, we will sleep with you to make sure you don¡¯t have nightmares, right Nelim.¡± Mirella said. ¡°Un~!¡± She said nodding. ¡°W-wait i do¡­¡± before i could deny her she lifted me in a princess carry and rushed out and tossed me in my bed. ¡°But before that we will make sure you know just how much we like you captain.¡± Mirella said grabbing my pillow. I took a step back. ¡°W-what are you going to do with that.¡± I asked a bit scared. ¡°Hehehe...A slumber party without a pillow fight isn¡¯t any fun.¡± She said before throwing that thing straight at my face making me fall on my butt. I looked at her with a glare and a grin appeared on my face. ¡°Is that so...then i won¡¯t hold back.¡± I grabbed the pillow and spin it making it hit her. Nelim tried to stop us but when a small pillow hit her face she blinked a bit before tossing one at Mirella with surprising strength. After that it was a non-stop slugfest of soft pillows. Chapter 13 Dads "Help" SORRY I ROYALLY FUCKED UP THE ORDER!! I CHANGED THE OTHER RELEASE TO CHAP 13 11 pm must be the need of sleep that fucked me up
Tony PoV This morning was really loud to say the least but i was actually shocked about Captain bitch¡¯s past. It brought back way too many unwanted memories hearing her talk like that. I hope to one day find and kill the fucking bastard that did that. Its not for her but for myself. I hate parents that only see their own feelings and push them onto their children that don¡¯t have barely any say in it. Still i wonder, what happened those two to make them hate magic so much. Its not a normal thing to hate it since technology was highly mixed in with magic yet they want to develop only technology to make magic be forgotten. Now that i think of it my ship only has my capsule as magic and tech mixed while most of the rest is still tech based. I let the pillow fight die and the three fell asleep with Leah before i called the AI. ¡°Tell me, at what point will i acquire magic and technology mixed options.¡± I asked. ¡°You can already possess such thing but options don¡¯t exist due to your own ignorance on the subject. Best suggestion is searching the planets net to find such technology as well as upgrades. Your upgrades are available by what you know.¡± She said. ¡°Too much work and the risk of being hacked while on the net is to high. You search for all commercialized magic tech. Then add those to my upgrade list so and i will study them.¡± I said and the AI vanished. I looked through the camera in front of the captains room into the room itself. Before focusing on the factory room. Half of the drones were there to be upgraded but in the back of the room was a raised platform with the skeleton of a robot that was very slowly being built. ¡°Shouldn¡¯t be long before i get my first true body. I guess dungeon lord. Gyahahahaha.¡± Somewhere in Rokita in the noble district. Sitting in an armchair within a large library room with a fireplace that lit the room up sat a man in his mid fifties. He was reading the reports that the agent behind him brought him. On it was the progress of the disowned daughter he had so easily thrown out. ¡°Is this all there is to her progress.¡± He asked in a cold voice. ¡°Yes sir. It seems after she gained the ship and core her progress has been growing much higher than anticipated.¡± The agent said without any emotion in his voice. The man''s face made a scowl as he looked at the report. ¡°She is getting too lucky for her own good. Sabotage her operations, pay off some people and make it...challenging¡­ for her to continue progressing. Do it before she starts dungeon diving.¡± The man said and gets up. The agent bows and leaves the room with the man looking at him. He lifts the report and turns towards the fire and dumps it into the flames. ¡°Magic abominations...your luck will soon run out.¡± he said and left to continue his research. He didn¡¯t notice that on the second floor a young man, his most prestigious son and third eldest son, Pelonius Ulkina Biswal. He wore a loose shirt and baggy pants with an unbuttoned scientist overcoat. His hair was messy and his dirty glasses slightly hid the rage that was boiling within the eyes of the young man. The young man¡¯s current appearance was because his little sister was disowned and thrown out like a bug even when he tried to help her. He still has nightmares about it and what could be happen to her alone in the world. Lifting the packet that was a copy of what his father just threw away he scanned it and smiled. ¡°I guess big bro still has to look after his little sister huh...she has a core so if it''s trustworthy maybe they can make use of "it"¡­¡± He said with a grin and left through a door on the second floor running towards his personal lab and opening a secret room hidden from his father''s eyes revealing magic technology he had studied. He picked up a 30 cm long black wand with no crystal slots. ¡°Now to give her this is tricky but shouldn¡¯t be so hard.¡± He said and began planning what he would do to get this piece of tech to his little sister. Leah PoV I woke up in my room and instantly i spotted my two crewmates sleeping on both side of me. Nelim was hugging a pillow to my right while Mirella was hugging my left arm which was stuck . I tried to pull it but she had a firm grip and she even tightened it pushing my arm deeper in between the crevice between her boobs. I pulled more which made her moan and slowly open her eyes and loosen her grip. I finally pulled my arm out as she let go and started to rub her eyes. ¡°Geeze, can¡¯t you hug a pillow instead of my arm next time.¡± I complained to Mirella. She blinked a bit before lazily smiling. ¡°But it feels comfy hugging someone smaller and cute.¡± She said nonchantly. I blush and grab my pillow and stand up and swing it right in her face making her lose balance and fall off the bed hitting her head. ¡°YAAAHHHHHH!!! What was that for!¡± She shouted in pain as she sits up and holds her head in pain. ¡°Mmm~~? Whats all~~ the noise~~ guys!¡± Nelim asked sleepy. ¡°Just a dumb muscle head that likes to make others into huggy pillows.¡± I said eyeing Mirella who smiles. ¡°Ahh~ did the tsundere captain get embarrassed. Let big sis give you another hug then.¡± She said and grins while getting up and started to walk towards me. What i did in turn is quickly pull my wand out of the storage ring. It had the Mystic gem attached so i focused on Mirella¡¯s arms and used Telekinesis and lifted her up with my magic. ¡°HEY NO FAIR!¡± she shouted as i started taking her out of the room then into the bathroom which had the tub filled with warm water. ¡°Shame, to bad you can¡¯t cool off but i guess warming up works,¡± I said threatening to let go of the spell. "W-wait! No I''m sorry! Won''t do it again!" Mirella said making me smile. I pulled her away from the tub and placed her on the floor. As soon as she felt the restraints on her arms vanish she tried to jump at my but this time i grabbed her feet. She had her arms stretched out but being caught by surprise made her almost hit her face if i didn''t lift her up higher. I moved her towards the tub again. "To bad Mirella but just stay here a bit." I said with a grin and let her go after spinning her to make her float upright. She landed with a resounding splash but i was out of the bathroom before she could do much else. Looking into my room i saw Nelim still half asleep with a small smile looking my way. "Need...to make food..." she said groggy as she stumbled towards the kitchen. I grab her left shoulder with my right hand making her look at me. "Take a bath and wake up fully before doing that. You could hurt yourself." I said. This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. "Eheheh~! Captain is worries for me." She said acting like a drunk. She wobbled to the bathroom behind me and opened the door only to have an angry hobgoblin shout in her face. "LLLLEEEAAAHHH!!! I''ll get you back for this!! Just wait!" Mirella shouted. A quick look inside showed the green skinned beauty stripping her wet cloths and dropping them into a pile on the floor. I started laughing but if i hadn''t i would have noticed the silent conversation between my two crew mates. The next moment i felt vines surround my arms and legs and the wand was yanked from my hand. I was lifted upside down with the vines gripping me. "HEY WATCH WHERE YOU GRA...KYAA!!" I started to shout before two vines gripped my breasts like one of those tentacle hentai''s. I looked at Nelim teary eyed and saw a smiling Mirella peeking out of the bathroom. Her bare nude body completely exposed to which a certain core reacted violently to by appearing behind her. In his hand he made a hologram camera and was taking snapshots of her to which i grinned at. I did want to hit him though. Nelim sleeps with a dress or something she he put the camera under her legs and started taking snapshots as well but since she was doing this to me this is payback. "Oi Tony! Make sure to give me a copy of those snapshots you took of Mirella and Nelim." I said and he looked at me from his position. The two girls looked back only to find the hologram behind them with a camera. He smiled and give me the thumbs up. "Can do captain bitch! Want them on the web as well?" He asked with a grin but I didn''t get to reply. "If you put a single picture on the web you puny excuse of a marble sized core will be ground into a fine powder and thrown into a pile of monster shit." Mirella said with a dangerous tone of voice which would have made Tony crap his pants if he could. Nelim on the other and was slower to realize what was happening since she was half asleep which was probably why she was even doing this. But once she understood her eyes opened wide when she looked at the hologram camera under her legs. She shouted like a little girl as she pulled kneeled over and pulled her skirt from the back to hid her underwear. Doing so made the vines disappear and retreat back into her as they were coming from her hands. I was able to cushion my fall with my arm so i wouldn''t fall head first and since i wasn''t that high up i got off only with sore arms and feet when i landed. "Tony delete the pictures and you twos just forget everything that happened the last few minutes...okay." i said while a smile i could barely ever achieve unless i was royally pissed. The three nodded and Tony vanished. I sighed and told the two of my crew to take a bath and get dressed. "We will be fishing for the bullet fish today so please be ready." I said making the two girls nod. With that, the chaotic morning was finally over. I took a bath after the two of them left and found Nelim already making food when i got out. Mirella was at the table with a hologram screen in front of her and a keyboard on the table. What she was looking at was some low grade armor which was still better than what we currently had. "Ah Leah, take a seat the food is almost done." Nelim said and went back to work. I called up a screen myself for news. "And this just in! In the port town Kosak on the norther coast, several large fishing companies had unfortunate "accidents". Some believe terrorists attacks to have happened during the night and destroyed several hundred machines used in the processing of all the fish gathered and distributed. Investigators from the Interplanetary defense force were dispatched to investigate this series of "accidents"..." All three of us were shocked to hear the sudden horrible news. We had planned to gather money and not MP for Tony this was making things very bad from the start. "What do we do now?" Mirella asked. I didn''t reply and just kept listening. "We have with use the mayor of the town and owner of Kosak dungeon. Sir what will happen at this moment?" The reporter said "First of all, good morning to everyone, what the city will be doing is working with the general layout of dungeon diving but we will be charging mana at a higher price so Kosak can gather the MP to rebuild the processing plants. Obviously it will be a generalized tax and not just on adventurers or fishermen ss it would cause unnecessary conflict. This tax will be mostly for large things such as purchase in bulk which normally has a credit tax, this would be charged in mana. As for removing the bullet fish and other monsters from the dungeon, every 1000 fish will now cost 300 mana. The gems are already being prepared and it will begin effectively today." He said. "So the purchases of the fish will not happen?" The reporter asked. "It will but the largest companies were hot and mostly small companies are left. Since the quantity they can process is smaller it is certain that the price of the fish will drop until the larger companies reestablish themselves." The mayor said. "And how long exactly will it take for the four main fish processors to be up and running?" The reporter asked. "It''s estimated that in about a week maybe two the first one is completely repaired. The same can be said about all the other companies as they were all on par with each other." The mayor replied. "Thank you for the interview sir and back to you..." i shut the screen at this point and sighed. "Damn we really have no luck." I said. "Still to sabotage all four main processors of monster fish is huge. They even have the investigators from the defense forces coming down here to check this out." Mirella said. "Could it have been one of the smaller processors?" I asked. "Thats impossible!" Nelim said. We looked at her when she said. She didn''t stop her hands but she continued talking. "The smaller companies rely on the bigger ones to sell their products at long distance. About 40% of the production of the bigger companies is what they buy and sell from the smaller ones." Nelim explained. "Do you think it could be someone that wants to raise a new company quickly?" Mirella asked. "I doubt it would work, the four largest companies have many signed treaties between each other which prevents sabotage and ignoring this would cause Kosak himself to overrule their command of the company and close it so it can''t be them since none of the companies were closed." Nelim said which we agreed. "Well, if we can''t make money then we simply make MP." I said "To bad, i was hoping for better armor soon but it can''t be helped that we won''t be able to sell except below market prices." Mirella said. "We also need to figure out how to catch the fish." I said. "Oh that''s easy. Just use water barrier." Nelim said as she brought the pot holding our breakfast. She looked at us confused but we smiled with a plan in mind. Chapter 14 Unrestrained Power We prepare ourselves to leave and armor up. Tony prepares a troop of drones. ¡°Tony, please only bring a scanner drone, a shield drone and three laser drones. They will get in the way and destroyed in the dungeon.¡± Nelim says as she sees the group gathered. ¡°What! Seriously!¡± He shouts surprised. ¡°The dungeon is far different from the Imp dungeon you all were in. The fish can hide themselves from sensors because of their size and the bubble of water around them. It would be sending our units to the slaughter house to bring more than just a few.¡± she says then adds to it. "We are also going to catch live fish so we don''t need a combat unite." At this the drones seem to slump lower floating away leaving a single scanner and shield drone and three laser drones. It makes me wonder how we conceded so easily which kind of makes me worried because of his personality. I was worried but with most of our preparations done we leave the ship with the five drones and head to the city. There was a huge commotion at the gate with many angry people leaving the city because there wouldn¡¯t be work now. We had to wait some time before we could approach the gate and get through the process of getting the drones inside. I left Queror since he probably wouldn¡¯t be much help since we were only gathering monsters instead of killing swarms of strong beasts. We head to the adventurer¡¯s guild and I could see Nelim was really worried but Mirella just pat her head. ¡°Don¡¯t worry about that stupid lizard. We are coming for something different remember.¡± She said which makes Nelim calm down greatly. From there we entered the building. As soon as Nelim entered the place gots quiet as many of them stop to look. ¡°GET BACK TO DOING WHATEVER YOU WERE AND STOP STARING!¡± Mirella shouted. Seeing her shout at them many of them just turned around and went back to talking but kept their eyes on us. Seeing they were turning back the nerve wrecked Naiad was blushing brightly so to make her walk I put one arm behind her and nudged her in. She smiles a bit feeling us protecting her and so we were able to enter and head to the counter we talked with the attendant from the first day we were here. ¡°Well you girls sure seem to have gotten along nicely.¡± The mermaid said with a smile. ¡°Yeah...these three are good friends.¡± Nelim said. ¡°Three?¡± the attendant asked. I pointed to the robot''s behind us. ¡°The one controlling those.¡± I said. She looks at the robot''s and seems to understand that there was someone behind the robot''s so she just nodded. ¡°Okay, so what can I help you girls with?¡± She asked. ¡°We want to go collect bullet fish.¡± Nelim said in a quiet voice. ¡°Oh, well then there should be a surplus of storage units in the back. You can use them as you please as long as you return them. Still who will you sell them to?¡± the mermaid asked. ¡°We were going to sell them like normal but since we can¡¯t do that now, we will use them to improve our ship since it has a core.¡± I say which makes the woman nod. ¡°Well from experience the bullet fish only give 2 mp each fish but since you will catch in the hundreds it wouldn¡¯t matter much.¡± The mermaid said and then called someone to lead us to the storage units. The storage units were completely spherical with a transparent material which seems harder than steel but really light. There were two openings, one on top which was completely open which is where the fish will enter. It has a barrier so it will let in 200 fish exactly before its closes. On the other side is a barrier that allows water to flow out but it blocks the fish from exiting. ¡°Hmm, with me I think we can gather around five units easy but let¡¯s take three more since we want to have you train Leah.¡± Nelim said. With the storage ring I got from Tony we gather eight units and thank the assistant for his help. As we walk out we a ruckus and surprisingly found the damned lizard doing the same thing he did with Nelim but now he was insulting another junior. This one was a serin male he was sprawled on the ground his eyes misty already almost knocked out. ¡°Pathetic, to think he tried to direct me and tell me what to do.¡± The damned lizard said sneering. As he turned he spotted Nelim it his frown grew even worse as he marched over. ¡°SO THE WEED RETURNS HUH!!! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU''RE DOING IN MY¡­¡± BOOM! Suddenly a torrent of water grabs a hold of him and freezes. ¡°Your what? This guild doesn¡¯t belong to and never will. You are just a two bit cook now return to your kitchen, Krominax!¡± the mermaid receptionist said as she glared at him. ¡°Y-yo-u b-bi-tch! Re-re-lease m-me Gl-gloria!¡± He shouted as best he could. ¡°Boys, take him away and let him cool down a bit, get the young cook to a healer as well.¡± The mermaid receptionist said. ¡°Hey Nelim, I didn¡¯t ask but what position is she and what is her name?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°Her full name is Gloria Bishop and she is the head manager of this branch but there is still more higher ups like the guildmaster above her but she is the manager of the lower employees like the cooks and receptionists and so on.¡± Nelim said in a small voice. ¡°Nelim sweety, you can go without worrying about that stupid lizard.¡± Gloria said. Nelim nods but suddenly pulls out a small seed and walks over to a pot on the reception desk and plants the seed and starts to use magic on it. Rapidly the seed begins growing until its a full red plant that blossoms instantly. She gathers three the seeds quickly and hands the plant over. ¡°This is red weed, it should make a good quality potion, you can give it to the cook that got hurt so he can heal quickly.¡± She says and bows before she comes over to us. ¡°Shall we go.¡± She said with a blushing face and a small smile on her face. We both nod and I pat her head which makes her blush more before we leave. I notice the other adventurers were looking at Nelim with warm gazes, even the most intimidating men looked at her like a father looks at his daughter when she did something good. Seems she is well known in town and is well cared for by them. We head to the dungeon right after we left. Along the way I got a serious shock. ¡°WHAT!! I can¡¯t use my wand!?¡± I shout as we walk. ¡°Of course not. They can cast spells but they in no shape or form help you with manipulating the elements.¡± Nelim explains as she points her finger forward and a ball of water begins forming from droplets in the air. It then began to spin and elongate forming a water arrow, then it froze becoming an ice arrow before rapidly melting and turning to speed. ¡°Manipulating should be a basic thing to understand. How do you expect to make a water shield with a rapid moving current in it when a normally cast water shield is just stagnate water.¡± I was starting to frown hearing that. ¡°Is there a problem?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°Um well¡­¡± I didn¡¯t know how to say it really. ¡°Pff! Captain bitch can¡¯t even do magic properly as a mage.¡± Tony suddenly said insulting me. I really wish he was a person and not a core cause I wanted to punch him so hard . ¡°SHUT UP!!¡± ¡°This seems sensitive but let¡¯s just try our best ok.¡± Nelim said trying to calm us down. This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. We arrive at the dungeon¡¯s tower and in the awkward atmosphere entered. On the last stop we saw the floor covered in water but a wave of Nelim¡¯s hand it cleared out for us. ¡°This is a good place to train in environments like this and train water magic. Though most of the creatures have resistance to water and ice it is still a good place for training.¡± She says. ¡°Well why not show us how the way to catch the fish is done?¡± Mirella said. Nelim nods then closes her eyes a moment fore opening them slowly as her right hand slowly lifts up. Slowly several dozen spinning vortex begin lifting around us and start to form a barrier around us before dipping down at the peak of the shield. ¡°This is what it looks like. Though I still need to put the ball below and then make an exit current for the water below.¡± Nelim says and fabricates a bubble of still water and makes the current continue below returning to the dungeon. ¡°So it¡¯s like this.¡± Mirella said checking everything. ¡°Want to give it a shot Leah?¡± ¡°Eh? Me?¡± I asked surprised. ¡°Of course you, you''re a mage so you need to know how to do this!¡± Mirella said pumped I could feel a cold sweat form on my brows. ¡°Um¡­¡± ¡°Just do it capt. bitch!¡± Tony shouted annoyed. ¡°AHH FINE!!¡± I shouted. Nelim dropped what she did and just kept the water from reaching our feet. I breath in deep and put away the wand in my hand and try to focus. I take several deep breaths and when I spread my magic power into the water to control I try to just grab a bit of the water near me but instantly I take control of the entire room and a lot further into the corridors. I try to retract the control but it becomes too small. After several minutes I could limit it to half the room but my forehead was sweating a lot already. Then I open my eyes and slowly lift my hand thinking of a small vortex around us but suddenly several several huge water tornados form sucking up a huge amount of water from the dungeon to rise up to the ceiling and begin drilling up. I push it down but it makes the vortex into a kind of drill that begins burrowing into the ground. Finally I simply removed all control and let the water stop on its own. I was trembling while holding my own hand. My crew were staring at me shocked. ¡°Leah¡­¡± Nelim said but noticed how scared I was of my own power. ¡°T-this is why I didn¡¯t w-want to manipulate magic¡­¡± I said in a trembling voice. ¡°I can¡¯t control it.¡± I said in a small voice. With what I said the looked up and saw how I dug several huge holes into the dungeon¡¯s ceiling that were closing up already. Moments later we heard footsteps behind us and several people appeared from up stairs. ¡°What happened here! We just felt a huge vibration as if something just exploded!¡± The leading man said. ¡°We are sorry sir, our friend was practicing how to catch bullet fish but she lost control.¡± Nelim said bowing in a perfect 90 degree angle. ¡°Lost control! Someone that graduated the academy shouldn¡¯t lose control!¡± The man shouted and looked up and paled as he saw the holes that were closing up. ¡°Damn! Kosak must be pissed having to repair these damages¡­¡± He complained and let out a sigh. ¡°Your friend doesn¡¯t look well so you should head upstairs until she calms down.¡± The man said and my two crew said and hugged me from each said and guided me up. Upstairs I borrowed a seat and Nelim went and got me a cup of water. ¡°So what happened?¡± Mirella asked. ¡­ I didn¡¯t know how to reply and just sat there looking at the floor. ¡°Come up captain, this is just like this morning! You speak or you won¡¯t get into the ship today!¡± Tony said. I looked up at him emotionless and looked back at the ground. ¡°My...affinity puts...too much power...when I manipulate.¡± I said in a very quiet voice. ¡°Affinity¡­¡± Nelim said in a quiet voice and looked at my hair. ¡°Oh right...you''re a tri affinity person.¡± She muttered. I nod to her. ¡°I was tested like everyone...Fire affinity 100%, Water Affinity 100%, Mystic Affinity 100%. My curse is that it makes my magic too powerful to control. To keep the range of my control as small as it was made me mentally exhausted just now. I can barely control 1% of my power which is why I can¡¯t manipulate my magic.¡± I explained. The two were stunned hearing what I said. ¡°Exactly how much power above normal does your magic have?¡± Nelim asked a bit fearful for the answer. ¡°Make a water ball¡­¡± I tell her. She nods and points her finger and makes a 2 centemeter wide ball. ¡°This is basic and uses 5 mp.¡± She says. I nod and point my right finger and put my chin on my left hand which was on my leg. Suddenly a mass of water that formed a ball as large as a 5 kilo cannon ball formed in front of my finger. ¡°About this much difference.¡± I said indifferently. The two looked at the size with their mouths slacked. ¡°No wonder...there was...such a power difference¡­¡± Nelim said muttering. ¡°You need to go into a heavy training to control this or else it will bite us bad later on when we need to fight at full size!¡± Mirella said. ¡°I think it¡¯s a good thing we are in this town, we can train water magic here for a while. Since we can survive off Tony¡¯s mana made food we don¡¯t really need to worry about money which we use to buy equipment.¡± Nelim said excited at the strange challenge. ¡°Don¡¯t bother...i tried training it and it ended in disaster.¡± I asked. ¡°Wait...a thought came to mind¡­¡± Tony said. We looked at him since he paused a moment. ¡°What?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°Well, if Leah doesn¡¯t have control of her magic then that means its been like that since birth right?¡± He asked. I nod confirming. ¡°Then...is this the reason why your family hates magic.¡± He asked bluntly. I frowned and let my head drop to hide the tears in my eyes. ¡°Seems so¡­¡± Nelim muttered quietly. ¡°When I was born and was cleaned my magic ran wild and caused the water in the tub and in the air to being condensing and flooding. After that fire burst from my body burning the hands of the doctor''s that was holding me and finally everything began to fly around because of my mystic magic. When I finally exhausted my mana everything calmed down but everyone was injured including my parents. While I was a baby I had a magic restraint ring to make sure it didn¡¯t go out of control and I was treated as you already know and my parents feared magic after that point. Though they already hated magic before it was at that point that their disgust evolved with the fear.¡± I said. ¡°Let¡¯s return to the ship for now and rest up. Today doesn¡¯t seem to be a good day.¡± Mirella said. ¡°Nelim return to storage units to the guild while I take Leah to the ship.¡± Mirella said and took the Storage ring off my hand and gave it to her. ¡°Okay I will be over soon.¡± She says and runs off. ¡°Come on.¡± Mirella says. I comply and get up sulking as we walk back to the ship where after a bit Nelim appeared and made some tea that helped me relax until I fell asleep even though it¡¯s still morning. ¡°Why is my life so hard¡­¡± I mutter just as I fall into the blackness of my subconscious. Chapter 15 Cursed Blessing Mirella PoV With Leah asleep I meet up with Tony and Nelim in the kitchen. I sit down and let out a deep sigh. ¡°This is really serious.¡± Nelim muttered. ¡°That¡¯s an understatement. A mage without control is just a monster or worse.¡± Tony said making us both glare at his hologram. ¡°Shut up Tony, if you don¡¯t have anything useful to say then don¡¯t!¡± I said with a frown on my face. ¡°So how do we resolve this problem?¡± Nelim asked. We all sit there without saying anything. Tony was messing with a few screens casually swiping them and looking through them. ¡°What if we try and get a power restraining ring?¡± Nelim asked. ¡°Not useful!¡± Tony suddenly said and several rings of the kind appeared. ¡°They all restricted ALL our strength including physical strength and so on.¡± ¡°Can¡¯t we get just a magic power restraint ring then?¡± I said and new screens popped up. ¡°Nope because it would just keep captain from using her magic. Her manipulation takes 1 mp and makes it super powerful so it does nothing.¡± Tony replied. ¡°So WHAT THEN!¡± I shouted ¡°Something like this.¡± Tony said and a screen appeared.
Magic affinity Restraint curse
A curse used to decrease the power of someone''s affinity. The curse lasts 1 year and slowly unbinds with time. Will cause permanent loss of affinity for both caster and victim WARNING!!!! This monstrosity of a curse is considered a forbidden art and those found using them will be caught and jailed without trial.
¡°Do you want us to go to jail!¡± I spat out at him. ¡°It would be nice but no, if you remember what I said then you would understand.¡± Tony said without even looking at me. What he said was ¡°Something like this¡± so it means it¡¯s similar but not exactly. ¡°So what do you plan?¡± I asked. ¡°I¡¯m looking through the net to find stuff and see if I can make tech to fix this problem.¡± He said. From there he vanished and ignored us. ¡°Tony is a nice guy in disguise.¡± Nelim said in a soft voice and giggled. I just sighed and smiled. ¡°Let¡¯s work to try and get this done.¡± ¡°Let¡¯s go to the dungeon and gather up fish to give Tony mp to work with.¡± Nelim says. ¡°We already returned the storage units so let¡¯s just leave it for tomorrow.¡± I say making her nod. From there we go do our own thing. Nelim PoV Since Mirella didn¡¯t want to go back to hunting today I went down to the cloning chamber to check out the clones. They were already growing, I had used the best gene ones to see if they last the longest but to make them the strongest possible go to each changer and with either water or earth affinity magic power I let it flow through the each chamber. Variant imps have longer life spans and are normally stronger than normal ones so having variants from the start already repair and improve the genes by a degree. Only tomorrow would they reach birthing size and their skin is already forming so it is almost time. There is no immediate change but it was a progressive thing so after going through each and every one I check up on their conditions and then leave for the greenhouse and barn. This is more of my specialty. In the greenhouse I look through all the seeds and separate by type before I start to plant them. I then walk to the end of the room. There were two crystals at the end. One was yellow and one was blue. Each was for making water and light respectively. They each last 12 hours each. Each plant has specific amount of water it needs but as I planted them I already set up each plant''s specific condition and so I touch both crystals and fill them to the brim. With that the dim room turns bright as the sun lamps turn on. Sun lamps are like floating balls of light that release reduced amount of sunlight for each plant separately. I sigh from a bit of mana exhaustion but get going nonetheless. I go to the animal pens and find the several pairs of animals we were given. Tony had already made the feed for them so I spread it around for each specific animal feeding them just the right amount. Thinking of the animals we gained, I grab a brush and begin to brush the Cockatice. If the farm was bigger I could remove those eggs that were in the cryogenic boxes and hatch them. Shame. Well I will just need to work a bit to get the distressing matters out. When I finished I climbed up to the kitchen after checking on Leah before going to cook something warm that can cheer her up. 3rd PoV The stress of seeing her blunder once more was extremely mentally exhausting. Followed stress Leah used a lot of mental strength to control the power of her magic so she was even more tired. Falling in bed let her quickly fall asleep. Some time later Nelim came and shook her awake with a soup with some herbs that aid with mana regeneration though Leah didn¡¯t need that since her magic consumption was low.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. After eating she went back to sleep because her head was still pounding and let the crew do as they please. Long after the sun had set a shadow carefully stalked outside the ship. Although there were lights and drones floating around guarding the ship which Tony was actively looking through this shadow was like a blur and quickly he reached the side of the ship. He removed and small item and placed it on the hull and attached to wires through an electromagnetic cable that attached to the hull and activated. ¡°Good night.¡± He muttered before an intense pulse of electricity passed through the ship and all the drones collapsed as the ship''s entire system was shot and Tony¡¯s connection was temporarily cut. The man had at most a few minutes to finish his objective so he quickly grabbed his tool and ran and reached the door and opened it. Inside he released small mechanical scout bugs and began to ran around until he found the emergency stairs and quickly ran to the top floor. Carefully stalking he finally reached the captain''s room. Without making any noise he entered and closed the door before standing and walking to the door. He looked at the ring and it shined momentarily before a small box 40 cm long appeared with a letter attached. He put it down and turned before learning the room and finally the ship before disappearing into the shadows. After another minute Tony was finally able to reconnect and repaired the power before instantly turning on the alarms inside the ship waking everyone. ¡°Stupid! What is with the alarm!¡± Leah shouted as she woke up with a startle. ¡°SOMEONE BROKE IN!¡± Tony shouted as all the drones began to rush through the corridors. Leah was about to run out when she stopped just as she jumped off her bed and saw the black box and letter. She blinked not remembering such a thing and carefully she took it. Carefully she opened the letter and instantly holographic screen appeared. ¡°Wha! A holomessage?!¡± She muttered and looked at the message.
Dear my sweet little sister, I was watching our ¡®dear¡¯ fathers movements since he disowned you and seems he is being quite bad. Although big brother can¡¯t support you during the time you were at the academy I secretly researched magic technology. It was much harder than I originally thought since I needed to learn to make it without being able to control magic. You know, I don¡¯t have your affinity. Anyways after 10 years of research I was finally able to make the first of my working prototypes. I call it the Living Black Parasite Wand. The name seems morbid but it''s quite nice. The wand has a curse that weakens the affinity of the wielder by more than 50%. It also doesn¡¯t have side effects like the Magic Affinity Restraint curse which I had originally researched to try and learn about to see if I could help you. The Living Black Parasite Wand was made from Black Treant branch, Black Dragon blood and the veins of the Corrupt Magic Python. If there is anything that deserves to be called a cursed weapon it''s this but for you it''s a blessed weapon. That said it''s a prototype living weapon with 3 growth stages. Bad right even when such high grade material was used but the curse degraded it greatly. Still this wand is unique because it doesn¡¯t need a crystal, you can properly train to control your magic with this wand until you have much greater control with this. Big bro is even thinking of making rifle and pistols but the wand is already hard enough. What do you think there is a one time response space below so you can type up your message and I will receive it but then father might have the signal and you will have to wait for my next delivery. Your dear brother Pelonius Ulkina Biswal
Please type your message below
Tears began to run down Leah¡¯s eyes as she read the message and she saw her prodigy of a brother once more care for her with all the care of the world and couldn¡¯t help cry once more but this time with joy. The others came in upon hearing her cries and noticed the message. ¡°What is this?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°My¡­ my brother sent me a gift.¡± Leah said and showed them the message. The two girls smiled, ¡°See Leah you still have a loving family member.¡± Nelim said. ¡°OI! WHAT ABOUT ME! I WAS SHOCKED AND DISCONNECTED AND NO ONE CARES ABOUT ME!¡± Tony shouted. ¡°Did anything get damaged?¡± Leah asked. ¡°No!¡± He shouted. ¡°Then why are you complaining, he probably had to remain hidden to not alert my father.¡± Leah replied and Tony sneered. ¡°Let¡¯s see this strange cursed wand.¡± Mirella said. Leah nodded and took the box opening it up to find a black wand without a stone at the top. She carefully passed her hand on the smooth glossed wood before taking it and feeling a very powerful force enter her body. To the others they saw a thin black mist come out and enter her body and instantly her unique purple colored hair with the mystic hue dulled to a somewhat dull pink with a weak purple shine to it no longer a glowing hue. ¡°Wow! It even changed your visible appearance caused by your affinity!¡± Nelim said in shock. ¡°Your brother sure is a genius for being able to make this without being able to use magic.¡± Mirella said in shock. Leah looked down and smiled gently as she slowly controlled her magic and used the wand to make a small waterball. The water gathered in front of the wand''s tip forming a ball of water that was 4cm in diameter. ¡°Wow it really did reduce her affinity.¡± Nelim said. ¡°Can I see?¡± She asked and Leah nodded giving it to her. The color in Leah¡¯s hair returned to her unique color instantly once her hand was off the wand and instead Nelim¡¯s skin turned from slight green to human flesh while her hair also turned paler. She also seemed much weaker and began to shiver and dropped the wand shivering. ¡°T-that thing¡­ is scary.¡± She muttered. ¡°It seems it was made for only people like Leah.¡± Mirella said and grabbed it and soon the same thing happened. ¡°I should include this in my message to brother, he would probably want to know this.¡± Leah said and picked up the letter and touched the bottom table were a keyboard appeared and Leah began to type.
Dear Brother, Thank you for the wand, although there is a somewhat¡­ bad side effect on other people for me it works just right and reduces my affinity but returns it once I lose contact from it. When other people touch it¡­ I think staying they feel a demonic like presence is the best example. I don¡¯t get this side effect but it does make my hair visibly duller since my affinity makes it that color originally. As for making a living weapon without being a mage, as expected of you, even though you used such high quality material and got 3 stages of growth it is amazing since you can¡¯t use magic to make them. You should be careful to not encroach on forbidden arts just for me, with this wand by itself I can use my ship AI to research have to copy your technique maybe, as for making rifles, don¡¯t overdue it. You still have your own research to worry about and if you start to focus too much on magic technology father will discover and all your efforts will go up in flames. Don¡¯t forget, a handgun and rifle I don¡¯t have a problem since they have a predetermined power setting and I already trained greatly, no big weapons okay since I only use handguns and rifles. With some training though I can become a real mage. Good luck with father and the others and be careful, you¡¯re the best one in that family so don¡¯t get hurt please. Your little sister Leah.
Pressing the send the message blinks into an envelop and after a moment it vanishes. Letting out a sigh and smiling she looked at the others, ¡°Let¡¯s go to sleep.¡± Leah says and yawned before taking the wand and storing it in the box. The three nod and Leah says sorry for what her brother did and they each return to their own beds with Leah falling asleep full of smiles. Within Rokita¡¯s capital, within the Biswal house, a man sat looking at a small device in his palm and suddenly it lit up and he looked at it and smiled. Slowly he read it and slowly a gentle glow appeared in his face. ¡°So gentle such a shame to be born in this family.¡± He muttered. He pressed a button and saved the message before putting it in a secret compartment and sat back against his chair with a big wide smile. ¡°Maybe it¡¯s time I left, it''s to insupportable here.¡± He said and thought of his sister and the files he saw of the ship. It was still to small and lacked to many things that he needed but that isn¡¯t a bad thing but he could also get his own ship and his own core and build a personal research ship that he can use to hunt down materials for his sister instead of just following her. ¡°Although it¡¯s insupportable I will wait a bit.¡± He said and spun his chair and looked at the pair of half built handguns and a rifle. Both had black exteriors and any transparent part was red in color. These were researched cursed living guns that he was building for her. Each and every part was built to bring magical life and even now they were considered living so once complete they would be masterpieces. He looked to the side at the few cylinder tanks at different wands or staffs. ¡°I think I really should be careful to not enter forbidden arts research, it would very quickly tie a noose around my neck and kick the chair from under me.¡± He said and walked over and read the readings, ¡°I need to make some changes, Leah can use these but it causes mental distortions for other people and that is dangerous.¡± Like that he began to work at a rapid pace to deal with the new problem that had arisen. Chapter 16: Beginner Mage Training The following morning Leah was already up in the gym with her new wand. She looked at the targets and was smiling as around her a veil of water condensed into water bullets before shooting and hitting the targets. Soon the water vanishes and a strong wave began to radiate from Leah and her body began to float and several strange phenomenon began to happen be it space slowly distorting or the air vibrating as if there was something with a powerful vibration near her body. ¡°It¡¯s so easy to control now!¡± She said with a smile and stopped using her magic and dropped down but she stopped a bit before touching and gently landed. At this time Tony, who had been watching from the get go appeared. ¡°Fuck, this is going to be scary how this will end up once you have gotten stronger. I wonder, will that wand¡¯s curse grow weaker or stronger as it grows?¡± He asked. Obviously he had scanned it but it was so complex that even he couldn¡¯t figure it out. Obviously there was magic inside it and being someone from a world without it he obviously lacks that section of technology. Even when he had searched a few times about the subject, magic isn¡¯t something that can be encased so easily with a small search. He will definitely need a datacube holding quite a bit of in depth information on magic to understand the fundamentals. ¡°I still fear how I will be later on when I don¡¯t use this wand.¡± Leah said looking at the black wonder. ¡°Oi just came to say that the clone Imps are finished growing. I had to trash 3 because they were albino and wouldn¡¯t last. The others were a light pink and two males were a bit darker.¡± He said. ¡°Oh really, we need to move the two males into different simulation habits with the other females and get rid of extra males that are weaker.¡± Leah said. ¡°There are no males, I kept the two strongest and killed off the rest of the males.¡± He said. With a nod Leah leaves and walks to the bioengineer lab where she finds the imps in the cylinders. Most were the size of babies. She goes to the main computer, ¡°Drain the tanks.¡± She said. ¡°Yes captain.¡± The AI said and slowly the water solution began to drain and the imps lowered down onto the warm platform. The water had been warmed up to body temperature so they were comfortable so the metal had obviously gotten the heat. She takes two of them and moves across the hall and places one male who was the darkest shade of pink in one room and then goes to a different room and puts the other. Then she quickly moves the females into these rooms equally. ¡°Good, now Tony the food is?¡± Leah asked. ¡°There is a kind of gruel that I found which can even aid them to last longer. This was something suggested by the book the weed got from her village.¡± He said and a drone floated out and took out a jelly like mush and put it in the mouth of the Clone imps. It did as suggested and even the color of the imps brightened a bit. The drone goes from one to another feeding them equally. ¡°Okay let¡¯s get making the next set of clones.¡± Leah said and walked back to the lab. First she looked at the list of the first group and trashed the clone data from those that were originally trashed since they weren¡¯t going to be used. Looking at the second group she noticed that Queror¡¯s information was in one. ¡°Why is Queror¡¯s DNA information here?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Oh I had a drone take blood samples and I added it. You really should have him fuck the females it would instantly birth healthier.¡± Tony said. Leah stopped and had truthfully thought of this point right at this point. That said she did not know if Lesser demons could breed with Wingless Imps. ¡°Let''s give him his own cloned group from the next group.¡± Leah said and Tony just shrugged. Leah just had the cloning capsules close and undergo the cleaning process before it filled up with the growth solution. It was a slightly gel like thing that was similar to the water inside the womb. Then Tony did his part and the activating the cloning process. It looked similar to his own core holder several dozen bolts of lightning struck the middle of the container once before it vanished. ¡°Done, it will be three days like the regular imp birth speed for them to be ¡®birthing¡¯ size.¡± Tony said. Finishing with the preparations Leah once more returned to the simulation habits and took out her wand. [Enslave Bind] She cast the enslaving spell on all the Imps before they even had coherent thought so their mentality would be 100% of serventail. ¡°Don¡¯t kill or hurt each other. When you have reached adulthood you will mate and give birth.¡± She ordered once all the Imps were enslaved. Although they didn¡¯t even know what she said the magic reacted all the same. The following day they would begin mating as soon as they wake up. If they survive long enough they would give birth possible twice if they were lucky. With all the work done Leah relaxed and left the room and stretched as she went upstairs and took a bath. At the same time that Leah went to take a bath, Nelim was getting up while Mirella had returned from a morning run. Nelim had taken a shower earlier and headed up and began to cook and Mirella went to take her own bath and when the three finally met up when the Leah and Mirella headed to eat breakfast and was met with quite a welcoming sight at the table. ¡°Good morning!¡± Nelim said with a gentle smile. ¡°Morning!¡± The two replied and began to eat and chat happily. Leah was exclaiming how good the wand was and how nice it was to truly manipulate the elements. She was so happy that she could barely sit still or eat properly. The two crewmates laughed and after eating they got ready. ¡°Today we will be training again okay, this time you will be sure to train your manipulation okay Leah?¡± Nelim asked. ¡°Of course!¡± Leah said with shining eyes. They all put their armor and like the previous day they put their armor on and Leah still put her pistols and rifle on but this time she stored her normal wand for the black one. The reason being that her affinities worked for Fire, Water and Mystic magic but not the others. Earth, Wind and other types of magic didn¡¯t work if she. Having her high affinities took away her capabilities to use regular magic not in these systems but through the guns she can still make use. Even her other wand lets her use it but not manipulate it. Entering the dungeon Leah gripped her wand and began to manipulate the water. Before they even touched the water a space of 4 meters in diameter was formed around Leah that was completely clear of water like a barrier formed. While still in the safety of the first room Leah began to train controlling the scale of what she blocked and pulled. After half an hour she more or less had some remedial control and they start walking without getting wet until they reach a ¡®fishing room¡¯ as it is called. It is a common room with high spawn rate for Bullet fish. There were actually nests within this room which were magically protected so that new fish wouldn¡¯t be sucked up from the fishing. Thump! Thump! Thump! Three storage units appeared with a thump next to Leah. ¡°Alright, lets see if I can do this.¡± She said breathing in deeply and with a wave of her hand six vortex began to rise from the water''s edge and began to rise and twist around them forming a vortex water barrier and once it got to the peak they merged and descended before splitting into three and entering each storage unit. The units rose up when it sensed the water and she controlled the water and moved it back into the room without getting a drop on them. The current was quite powerful and soon the bullet fish were caught in the current. Others saw the threat and launched themselves against the barrier only to be caught. ¡°Wow!¡± Mirella said with wide eyes. Nelim on the other hand looked at Leah and the barrier before putting her hand against the water and closed her eyes. She sensed the magic within the water for a long time and even felt it stop for a moment and heard a few more storage units come out before it came out and halfway she turned. ¡°Leah, are you using only water magic?¡± ¡°Only? I think so.¡± She said. ¡°You have mystic magic mixed in. It feels like you''re aiding your water manipulation with telekinesis.¡± Nelim said. ¡°Really?¡± Leah said she felt her magic but didn¡¯t feel anything. She then slowed the current and used telekinesis and felt the mystic magic and suddenly she felt a similar presence in the water. ¡°Wow there really is!¡± She said wide eyed.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. She slowly withdrew the mystic magic and continued and suddenly felt a huge pressure. The other two noticed and Nelim smiled. ¡°Your mystic magic mixed in naturally when you use magic it seems. To keep it from doing so is harder.¡± Nelim said. The current was much weaker now and slower without the mystic magic aiding it and the mental exertion Leah was putting was much higher to keep her magic from mixing. Mystic magic is really strange in that it perfectly compliments other magic but is also a system of its own. By the time she filled the second set of three storage units she was exhausted and Nelim took over for her to rest. Leah was both mentally exhausted and on low mana and was feeling dizzy with a headache. She sat down and took a mana potion to help alleviate the mana exhaustion symptoms while she meditated to calm the throbbing in her head. Even with her affinities her max mana capacity isn¡¯t that large even when using a lot of mana for magic weapons. She didn¡¯t exert much but now that she had she knew what the real mage types went through and ruefully smiled remembering how she had always prepared mana battery to not suffer. After some time she switched back to let Nelim rest as they moved to a different room after cleaning out the first. An hour later they left with 2400 fish. Paying 1 credit per fish to remove them, since it was impossible to sell it for the regular 2 credit for 1 fish like usual so they took it all. Much to Tony¡¯s irritation bullet fish only give 2 mp which mean 4800 mp but they had only gone to train magic instead of actually get money or MP. After a rest Leah went to the Gym and began to do basic magic exercise she learned for magic manipulation before she stopped. She naturally summoned ten fireballs. As she felt them she noticed mystic magic mixed in causing the reactions in the fire to be more powerful. She pulled out the mystic magic and the flames became drastically unstable and more than half of them went out and she kept only five alive with a frown. She them had them start dancing around her and slowly increasing their speed. Each had their one circular path that would collide with each other if she wasn¡¯t careful. She did this for a long time before she was able to summon one more fire ball and added it and slowly and carefully added it on a different spinning course. This had raised the difficulty and her head began to sweat as the mental load rose and the mana consumption as well. ¡°I need to catch up for what I had not done before.¡± She said and kept going until she felt faint and let it all go shooting them at the targets and sitting down and meditating. Meditating worked to regulate breathing and the condition of the body, gather mana faster and aide with relieving mental pain. For martial artists it will help with the same and also help them reflect over what they had trained. Leah as well was reflecting over her exercise and after a bit she started it up again. The other two smiled as they saw her pushing hard. ¡°Lets not get left behind.¡± Mirella said and entered before she began to do her exercises. Not being able to fight had left her with excess energy and needed to spend it so she began. Nelim giggled and left and went to take care of the cockatice and was happy to find a few eggs and with magic she found the infertile ones and took them upstairs and began to whip up some energy drinks with some of the recipe books she got from her family and friends and food that would help with both body and magic growth. Food has always been the basis in which all sentient races grow to sentience. If humans didn¡¯t learn to cook food they wouldn¡¯t have gotten smarter than animals. The same for all the other sentient races. When she was done making the energy drinks, which could also be called Sport drinks by training maniacs or Training potions by alchemists. She lowered the heat cooking the other food and took the drinks to the two girls who thanked her. One was transparent yellow and the other transparent blue. The blue one went to Leah and the Yellow went to Mirella and each had a different effect. One boost¡¯s greatly mana regeneration and incited the growth of the mana capacity while the other boosted regeneration capabilities and was loaded with a lot of energy which is fills the drinker with energy so even if their stamina was low it would instantly be filled and it would brim with energy that could barely be wasted easily. The two girls could barely contain the energy and had to train harder to calm this uncomfortable bursting feeling of having so much energy in their bodies. Nelim happily returned to her cooking. Watching all this Tony sighed and shook his head from his core while looking through the ship system. ¡°These girls are completely immature. A 15 year old captain, a 16 year old vice captain hobgoblin and a 15 year old Naiad cook. What kind of crew is this? It feels more like a group getting ready for a slumber party. No matter how I look at it they aren¡¯t even close to being a serious crew made for space travel.¡± Tony thought to himself and sighed. He changed the view to the Queror¡¯s room and saw the demon with a book. ¡°Me-di-ta-tion¡­ close¡­ eye¡­?¡± he muttered confused and frowned. His human like face with the demon features made a strange contrast. Watching the demon scratch its own head in confusing made Tony have a strange feeling. He saw the imps as mindless yet lesser demons were borderline something intelligent. It was still vicious yet this thing was a reader. The Grimoire was always open yet it didn¡¯t fill up yet there were books on many magic spells. It was reading about meditation and the principals behind it which Tony had searched up already. ¡°This is boring¡­ lets see what magic is since I have nothing else to do.¡± He said and began a long drawn search using the AI to start pulling safe confirmed information about magic. As the sun starts to set the two girls dragged themselves into the baths and soaked for a long time before going to the kitchen and finding a banquet. ¡°Come and eat guys. I went out of the way to use many herbs and spices that would heal the body and fill it with energy and mana and would slowly help you grew stronger.¡± Nelim said enthusiastic. The two felt their stomach growl upon smelling the food and walked over and began to take slow tired bites but slowly it grew fast as the taste assaulted them. ¡°How could¡­ that idiot¡­ lizard kick¡­ someone like you!¡± Mirella said in between bites. Nelim blushed and smiled. ¡°What was really systematic¡­ it was easy to change one herb and get a really good improvement. Most of these dish¡¯s you could get from him but I did a few changes of my own to have the effect to help your bodies recover.¡± She said. ¡°Does he do the same?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Yes, most Adventurer''s Association branches have what is called Battle cuisine. It is food that uses herbs and monster ingrediants to have effects on the body. Problem with the Kosak branch is that although the food is amazing, each dish has a fixed effect and Krominax doesn¡¯t want to change. Like this Sahuagin Fin soup with Red Bofila fruit and Craggy rock root cooked in fresh water it can help physical fighter¡¯s body relieving muscle pains and healing torn muscles. Normally it would be made with Tuber fruits and cooked in seawater from the nearby reef and ocean instead of Red Bofila fruit and Craggy rock root cooked in freshwater. The effects are slow overall strength growth boost. This is a daily breakfast meal that warriors eat to get a boost before going to the dungeon.¡± She said. The two, no, three as Tony had appeared and activated his food simulator and was eating all the food along with the girls. ¡°Damn food is quite a complex study.¡± He said and laughed. ¡°Well, him firing someone doesn¡¯t actually affect their currer in truth it helps it since it showed they aren¡¯t like minded idiots. Even if he wanted to somehow block someone from getting a job he would only somewhat succeed here in Kosak. He is quite low ranking among the Adventurer¡¯s Association cooks. New cooks only go to there because it is the best time to be recruited.¡± She smiled and the two girls also smiled and laughed. Mirella patted the seat next to her and Nelim sat down and started to eat with them while telling them which affects certain ingredients had but if mixed in a specific manner it would change. It was quite a lesson to the three on cuisine, especially Tony who never came in contact with magical herbs and monster ingredients that have these effects. He was actually quite interested and began to search up what he could on it alongside the actual information on magic. He was still learning about magic in its basic principles before he moved on to magic technology which, after a quite peek, he knew would take weeks and looking through a hell of a lot of documents before he can find the lowest level school work to the highest. They soon finished and Nelim began cleaning up while they pulled up the TV hologram and began to enjoy the free time after an exhausting day. ¡°Hey Tony, how much mana do you have stored?¡± Leah asked after a while. ¡°Hm¡­ around 15k.¡± He muttered bored as he was reading the many files through his Hologram. ¡°So we can¡¯t get much, maybe we should improve security through.¡± Leah said. ¡°The robot''s are already being built so what else?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°Well this¡­¡± Leah said and pointed to the screen and made it bigger. Tony looks over the sofa around the table he was sitting along on and Mirella looked over the table. It was a commercial. ¡°Come now and purchase your own Magic Drone. One of the unlike the conventional drones purchased through the system of ships cores these are more durable, lightweight and are backed back magic weapons like magic powered rifles and a scanner unique to searching for mana signatures. Unlike the common drone that scans for life signs these are better and can spot the trails and body of those hidden through stealth with magic. Not only that but as a magic drone it is the Tier 1 model that can help your ships access magic technology. For only 12 payments of 2,500 credits once a month, this drone will be all yours!¡± The spokesman said. ¡°This is bull.¡± Tony said. ¡°Can you make it without having one?¡± Mirella said. ¡°I can search up some older model schematics, I can probably spawn on if it unlocks.¡± He said. ¡°Let''s see then.¡± Mirella said. Tony falls silent for a good ten minutes before in front of them a ball of mana began to gather and formed a large sentry drone but it was sleeker and more sturdy. Along the sides were openings were you could see the mana cables transmitting mana all over. ¡°There, a full 700 mp to spawn a Mark 1 Sentry drone from 5 years ago that was released to the public. Similar robot''s to what I have also unlocked when I spawned this.¡± He said bored. ¡°You should really search for these things.¡± Leah said. ¡°I am searching for things that will complete my knowledge of this world. I don¡¯t even know the basics of magic so shut up Captain Bitch!¡± He said annoyed and sent the drone off to the floors below to patrol. ¡°If you need to learn about magic why didn¡¯t you ask, I learned from start to finish even if I only used weapons for magic because of my incapability to use regular magic.¡± She said. ¡°Just organize this from first grade to the last one.¡± He said and a mass of screens appeared shocking Leah. ¡°How long have you gathering information for this? Leah asked as she began to shift through all the screens pushing more complex things out of the way while bringing forward the easier things and slowly lining up some screens joining them to form one page. ¡°About two days, when you went crazy with your magic, I started to study since I knew shit about this universe. The primary problem is that I have no idea how to make even one magic related system and there are quite a few required things we need for space travel that need magic and even if it is a default model I will choose to learn about it because I don¡¯t want to be a one trip pony who just buys the default model gear. I plan to make my own things by modelling off these so I need proper education on this.¡± He explained. ¡°Wow¡­¡± The three said in unison. ¡°What?¡± He asked. ¡°You''re¡­ different for sure. Your were such an ass before but suddenly your want to study.¡± Mirella said. ¡°Like I need you to tell me green slut. I¡¯m thinking about myself, I need magic systems if I want to produce an android or biologically engineered body for myself or else I will remain with robot''s and metal for the rest of my existence. These simulators are good but they lack substance so I want a real flesh and blood body as quick as possible.¡± He said. The others just looked at each other unable to reply. Mirella said she was going to bed while Nelim remained to wash up the dishes and Leah kept organizing the information until some point at night before going to sleep herself while leaving quite a bit to organize. Chapter 17: Mad Researcher Following the first day that Leah could manipulate magic and her heavy training she headed to Queror¡¯s room. The reason is because she had the knowledge of a lot of theories of magic but was forgetting them so she wanted to record them and so she placed her hand on the book and after a moment it began to shine but it was much brighter than when Queror did it. When Leah opened it she smiled and the book was split into sections of magic type. Fire magic, Lightning mage, Water magic, Ice magic, Earth, Metal, Air, Sound, Lava, Sand, Steam. Mystic was even more varied, Psychic, Space, Divination, Summoning, Binding, Animation, Barrier, Gravity, and a few others. Each section had different theory Leah had studied. Not all magic need direct manipulation such as Summoning, Binding and Animation. Summoning requires a ritual and a complex circle of magic. It''s a vary unpopular type of magic but it can be used to summon monsters stored in your ship. A good method to set up quickly is holding around a magic scroll that contains the information for the summoning. Divination is like Scrying magic or other magic that Tony would call parlor tricks following the old mystics who ¡®talk with the dead¡¯ or use cards to see the destiny of a person. The reason why Leah had studied so many types of magic is because once she realized she couldn¡¯t do magic normally she gave up on her affinities and spread her knowledge and planned to use equipment for magic. This would give her the title of a Tech mage who is someone that uses technology completely to perform magic. Now though she could put all this knowledge both the true manipulation magic and the other she learned to practice. At her side Queror looked curiously at the book and she noticed him looking. ¡°Curious?¡± She asked. He looked at her and nodded and she thought a moment before flipping through the pages to the beginning which showed the category. ¡®Basics of Magic Control, Manipulation and Spell casting¡¯. This was the very basis of the basic which she never got past so she took the book and called him over to the table while holding the book and with her teaching him while reviewing for her own good she started learning. Two days later Leah announced they would go to Rokita instead of Spenolif. ¡°Why?¡± The three asked. ¡°It¡¯s easier to find a broader range of people there. Also the Adventurer¡¯s Association there is an HQ and it has a service to help recruit adventurers for crews. Most people on the extremely long list come from every city within 5,000 km around Rokita who wanted to join a crew and wanted to adventure in space. This will make recruiting much easier since, if they accept, the Association will get incontact with them for us and then pass us the contact information and we can recruit them ourselves going to get them. With our ship it would take at most a day or two to reach any city within range.¡± Leah said. ¡°And what about mana that I need for upgrades?¡± Tony complained. ¡°Well isn¡¯t it obvious, we have three crew members and training mana capacity is simply wasting all our mana. We simply need to give you our mana. For me I can even almost empty my reserve to train my capacity. It is slower than hunting but that is secondary since we need to build at minimum an 8 man crew with the basic stations covered. Security, Mechanic, Cook, Bioengineer, Farmer, Technician, Medic, and me captain. Counting you, Tony, we have four stations set, Security is Mirella, Cook is Nelim, Captain is me and you are Technician who is in other words the programming specialist. We lack Bioengineer who knows how to make the clones properly and mess with genetics, Farmer to properly raise livestock and vegetation, a medic to heal be it through magic or medicine and a Mechanic for damage repairs that you might not be able to fix through just your system.¡± Leah said. ¡°So it¡¯s like that.¡± Mirella muttered. ¡°I see no point why not, you were born in Rokita so maybe you could even invite some friends.¡± Leah smiled ruefully which spoke volumes, ¡°At best I can see if my dormitory room mates are willing.¡± She said wryly. The other two somewhat understood the meaning, the were friends but not to a huge amount and knowing about Leah¡¯s past somewhat showed that ¡®problems¡¯ could easily arise. ¡°If you''re that worried then just do like you said, what is there to bitch about. I did a check and found Teleportation pad, there is just enough room on the second floor with the gym and bio lab for it. The cost of the cheapest is 95,000 mp and it can is good for simple teleportation within a distance of 50 km. We currently have 32k so if you want an easy travel you should probably focus on feeding me mana for a few days.¡± He said. This was obviously said due to the fact that Rokita is extremely huge and the air space is quite restricted. If they had a teleportation pad all the crew would get a special bracelet that lets them teleport directly to the ship and out. ¡°Well we can take it slow, I can fill about 900 mp every three hours so I can do it four times a day so 3600 mp with the first group of imps already passed but their offspring born these will last a week but they aren¡¯t bright enough to use magic but with a command I can use a few to feed magic. Queror is making progress so that is another 500 mp so we can get at least 5000 each day.¡± Leah said. ¡°I can help.¡± Nelim said and nodded. Leah nodded and continued for a little while. Soon the ship came to life and so they headed back to Rokita to recruit the remaining positions needed for a crew. *** Pelonius Biswal saw over his worktable in his lab/room. Sparks would fly every few moments as he used some tools to build an important part of a completely technology based laser pistol. BAM! POW! When the door slammed open he was startled and the tool sparked where it shoulded ruining the delicate piece making several hours of work go down the drain. He turned around to see his parents. They wore a frown on their face. ¡°Is there something you require of me, father?¡± He asked in a wholly bored fashion. ¡°I want to know what the hell is THIS!¡± His father shouted and walked forward before slamming a device that opened up into a very large list of purchase orders. Pelonius read the list. It was a detailed purchase of all Recruit Class Research type ship that Pelonius had purchased. Following the purchase of the actual ship came the equipment installed inside plus the fuel and so on. ¡°This is my purchase for a ship.¡± He said nonchalantly. ¡°What is this joke! What do you plan to do!¡± His father shouted. ¡°Isn¡¯t it obvious, I¡¯m gonna leave. Research in a stuffy lab is all fight and all but there isn¡¯t much else except making weapons for your contractors. I want to research my own field in private silence of space.¡± He said. The eyes of his father were burning, his third son was his prodigy and was the best weapons developer yet for him to lose such a person because of a whim for privacy was too much of a joke that this man could take. Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. ¡°I won¡¯t allow this!¡± The man said. ¡°What is there to allow? I am already 27 year old, I used my own money to purchase the ship. Everything on it belongs to me not you including my own neck. You are my father, not my master.¡± Pelonius said getting up and take a rag before removing his glasses. ¡°You are influential within our home because you keep us at a short leash. Even Leah who you threw away you want to control.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t you dare mention the name of that abomination in my house!¡± His father spat those words. The number of conflicts this father and son had because of Leah can¡¯t be counted which goes to show the amount of love and hate each one has for her. ¡°This¡­ joke you''re pulling. Its because of her isn¡¯t it? Your are still in that insupportable rebellious stage where you wanted to care for that thing.¡± Pelonius finished cleaning his glasses and turned. The dirty cloud on his glasses was completely cleaned off and the eyes looking through them burned with rage. ¡°Leah isn¡¯t a thing, she isn¡¯t a monster and she isn¡¯t an animal. Your paranoia of her only ruined her childhood, I am sick and tired of staying in this suffocating house. You can use my brothers and sisters as technology producing monkey¡¯s since they like it so much but I have already reached my limit. Since all the things in my room I purchased with my money I will also take my own equipment with me.¡± He said and pressed walked to a computer. ¡°You will do no such thing! If you leave this house you can consider all your possibilities as a research doomed!¡± His father shouted. ¡°Pelonius please calm down and think of this rationally!¡± the man¡¯s mother said. As they spoke the furniture began to shine before they seemingly transform into numerous cubes the size of dice. As for the hidden laboratory, Pelonius has already transferred everything to his ship and installed them into the biolab that was already there completely reforming the lab into his own just like the room looked. There was nothing left including his 10 years of research into cursed weapons. All that is left is a few piles and such which followed the solutions. As he gathered the furniture the remaining consoles and things also converted into these dice. ¡°You have had these¡­ things ready just to leave!¡± Pelonius¡¯s father shouted. These dice are a technology that implements space magic to transport heavy items and furniture. ¡°Only a close minded person like you would not implement such convenient technology such a space magic type technology. Do you really like having so many sweaty mean moving around your equipment with the danger of it breaking.¡± Pelonius said shaking his head and picking up the rest and putting it in his pocket. ¡°As for my career as a researcher, I don¡¯t need your warning father. The reason I am getting my own ship and crew is so that I can research for myself while being able to do field tests personally. As for money, there are dungeons and countless rookies needing a crew as a supporter with drones for backup. Just the fact that I could travel and get monster material to make materials for weapons is already a plus for me.¡± He said looking at this father. He looked at the weapon on the table, ¡°Oh right, you can keep that, I have no use for an unfinished piece of junk like that when I can make better when I have privacy.¡± He said and walked out of the room. ¡°Pelonius! I will not let you leave!¡± his father said walking behind the young man. The young man still casually walked through the halls of their family and soon the maids and butlers looked at them. The two old researchers shouting at the young one that kept shaking their arms off and kept walking. When he finally reached the door and grabbed it the father snapped. ¡°If you walk out you can forget about getting support from us! You won¡¯t ever be a Biswel as well!¡± The man shouted. Pelonius stopped and the mother seem to brighten up as she thought that this had worked and began to calm down but when she looked her son looked back. On eye was on them while the other was hidden under the glare of the light hitting it. ¡°Perfect. You can call me Pelonius Biloni from now on then.¡± He said with a smile. He opened the door and a sudden burst of wind came as the research ship was flying in front of the house. He looked up, ¡°AI teleport me up.¡± He said. ¡°Affirmative sir!¡± A female voice called from the ship from the AI. One piece of equipment he had installed was a teleport pad from the get go to save the trouble. The light formed around him and he didn¡¯t look back as he vanished and appeared on the ship. ¡°Go to the ship parking.¡± He said. ¡°Yes sir.¡± the AI said and the ship started up and flew off. Pelonius slowly walked through the ship. It was a wider model compared to Leah¡¯s explorer model but similar to it the ship had three floors but the focus was of research having a biolab already built in the second floor. It was also twice as big as the explorer which is why it could fit the lab plus a habit for living being experiments. He walks through the ship and stops in front of a door which opens. Within the room was a single large cylinder similar to his biolab ones. He walks up the stairs next to it and puts his hand into an inner pocket of his dirty white coat and pulls out a bright cheerful pink marble sized gem. He casually tosses it into the chamber and it stays suspended in the air. ¡°Commencing core subjection¡­¡± the AI announces.some pink bolts of lightning strike out but do nothing more. The core reacts sending out bolts of its own but it soon stops. ¡°Core subjection complete. Core system online. Core conscious has been linked to the ship. Claim of the ship releasing now.¡± The AI announced. Suddenly a ripple that seemed like space itself was rippling happened but to a human''s eye it was hard to distinguish but Pelonius barely noticed and looked curious. The next moment he heard a voice of a girl, ¡°Buhu~! That hurt!¡± The crying came and soon a blurred hologram of a girl with a sort of mage like outfit appeared. ¡°Why is your hologram so blurred?¡± Pelodius asked. ¡°Holowhat?¡± She asked. ¡°AI aid the core with her hologram.¡± Pelodius said. The blurred image cleared up and a girl that looked between 12 and 14 appeared dressed in a mage robe stood before him. Her hair was long and curly and on her head was a witch¡¯s hat. ¡°So who are you?¡± She asked confused about her surroundings. ¡°I am captain of this ship. My name is Pelodius Biloni, what is yours?¡± He asked. The girl looked at him from top to body and puffed out her strangely overly large chest and with a proud smile she began a grand introduction. ¡°Puny human mortal! I am the great Witch of the Florivine Forest, bow before the noble and glorious Adalwolfa Bon Bibonina.¡± She said in a pompous manner while pointing at him like a princess does to a servant. Pelonius looked at her for a long moment, he was running the name of the forest through his mind. He had been to quite a number of planets during his school years and also had access to knowledge on countless colonized planets but the name eluded him. ¡°Never heard of you or that forest.¡± he said bluntly. ¡°WHAT!¡± The girl said in shock. She seemed to become a bit depressed upon hearing this but then she looked around. ¡°So although that demon that captured and tortured me told me I was some kind of dungeon creature or something mind explaining what contraption we are in?¡± she asked and vanished and appeared all over the room. ¡°We are in my ship, I am a scientists.¡± He replied. ¡°What is a scientists?¡± She asked. Pelonius¡¯s brow twitched as he heard the question, ¡°The vender wasn¡¯t kidding when he said the trained cores are a gamble.¡± He thought for a long time searching for the mage terms for all the magic type researchers. ¡°I am similar to an alchemist or druid. I study nature but due to not having the power of magic I used technology.¡± He said. ¡°Heh~? So this is the technology that demon spoke of. In my 874 years I have lived this is the first time I have seen such a strange contraption with so many strange numbers and floating windows in my life.¡± She said and froze. ¡°Is this thing flying?¡± She asked. ¡°Yes, this is a ship, you as a core, will supply the mana to build this into a ship that can travel through the vacuum of space.¡± He said. ¡°Space?¡± She said tilting her head. ¡°Space is off planet, we fly through the sky to other stars.¡± He said and her jaw dropped. He sighed and walked out. She followed behind him. ¡°AI where is Leah?¡± He asked. ¡°Currently on the move, destination Rokita.¡± She replied startling the girl. ¡°Good, let us go wait for them at the docks.¡± He said. ¡°Yes sir.¡± The AI replied and the ship headed off. He turned back to the little girl. ¡°So are you good at gathering mana?¡± He asked. ¡°I am a great witch what do you think! But this world is strange, I have been trying to absorb using my masters mana cultivation art but no matter how I try it is slow and I can barely pull in mana.¡± She said. ¡°As expected, the holder is restricting your capacities. I will need to get that upgraded eventually.¡± he said but shrugged. ¡°AI once you land, monitor Leah, when she lands tell me. Also be on the lookout for my father''s grunts.¡± He said and turned and took a step before stopping. ¡°Also bring up the core purchase list, I want to see what is available.¡± He said and walked out and entered his lab where all the containers with the strange wands and some with small black pieces. He got to work while overlooking the system and noting everything while waiting for the arrival of his little sister. Chapter 18: Mismatch ¡°Hey, Pedonus, why do you have so many cursed wands, staves and¡­ items, in these strange¡­ tubes?¡± Adalwolfa asked. ¡°It¡¯s Pelodius and these are experiments I did with cursed items to make a wand that will reduce the magic affinity of the wielder.¡± He replied. ¡°Why would you do such a stupid thing?¡± She asked with a frown. ¡°My sister is a rare person born with 100% or possibly more for Fire, Water and Mystic magic. These three are the highest affinities for this planet because of the three moons which release elemental energies. Because of this high affinity it makes her magic so powerful she can¡¯t control.¡± He said. The little girl''s eyes widened hearing the news of the sibling. ¡°Then why not use magic to craft these wands.¡± She asked. ¡°I already told you, I can¡¯t use magic. I am inept at magic, 0 affinity and my body has no mana capacity.¡± He replied without looking away from one of the small parts floating in a green liquid while under constantly attack from lightning. ¡°That¡¯s not true, you do have a very small capacity but its nothing a bit of cultivating can¡¯t help.¡± She said. ¡°What do you mean?¡± He stopped and looked at her. ¡°I already tested, I can¡¯t move mana or even feel it. To make extra sure my parents even hired an archmage to make sure and I had no mana in my body.¡± He said. ¡°Of course you do, the problem is that all your mana channels are blocked.¡± She said. ¡°How do I make these strange windows work, I feel like I can mess with them yet this strange woman keeps pushing them away from me.¡± She said with a frown. ¡°AI aid the core to display what she wishes.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°As you wish sir.¡± She replied and the little girl went from a frown to a smile and after a moment a two 3d hologram of the human body appeared. ¡°In my previous life there were three races, Humans, Witch and Wizards. Witches were females and Wizards were male. Witch and Wizard were different from humans yet all three could live in harmony but didn¡¯t and we could breed but Witches have a low birth rate and instead to have a higher chance of making a witch we simply take up disciples. Common humans can access a strange energy which slowly permeates the body as they absorb more. It follows a specific pathway and slowly makes them stronger but Witch and Wizards follow a different pathway.¡± She said. The holograms began to light up and a little ball in the middle began to move around and countless little balls lit up along the lines that moved throughout the body. ¡°Witch and Wizards clean out this different pathway which expands upon the smaller one humans use and we absorb mana in the air. With gather it, make it a liquid then concentrate it into a small sphere. Then as we absorb more they begin to crack and once ten cracks are on it the sphere breaks you undergo a tremendous pain where the sphere¡¯s energy becomes gaseous like natural and absorbs and undergoes the entire system of cultivating once more and reforms into the sphere once more.¡± She explained. ¡°This feels like I am listening the a martial artist.¡± Pelonius said bored and turned around. ¡°I don¡¯t have time to undergo this tedious training since I have no talent for it.¡± He said. ¡°Every witch and wizard has talent, after all you need to undergo channel cleaning, blood cleansing, bone cleansing and marrow cleansing before you can even begin absorbing mana and each of these processes will raise your bodies talent.¡± She said. ¡°Not interested, although I am sure my sister will be, will this let her control her magic?¡± He asked in a bored tone. ¡°Well this is her affinities she will need to train them I am simply explaining how to gather mana.¡± She said. ¡°Then its a waste of time. I already used 10 years to reach where I am now so I have no time to keep wasting since I just completed the first wand for my sister and I need to improve their capabilities.¡± He said. The girl looked at him for a long while before vanishing. He stayed concentrating on the pieces while controlling a few devices causing the areas of contact that the lightning hit to change in a specific manner. This small black object is one more piece that would build the next building block for the two black handguns and the rifle. While it is common for someone like a treant to make a living weapon out of specific wood even making a magic gun. For a magicless person such as Pelonius he needs to invent his own method and this method lead him to create ¡®living weapon pieces¡¯ each and every piece of the gun is its own living ¡®weapon¡¯ and together they make the full weapon. If compared to any other weapon it can be considered a heavenly object but for others it would be the devil''s tool because each and every piece is made with similar effects to the Black Leech Wand but the effect is weaker but it is a collective effect that makes the weapon so much more powerful. As for the wands and staves they are simple tools, experiments mean to supply Leah with a training guile but these guns would provide her both manipulation and firing without needing the magic gems once complete. ¡°Sir, Leah has just arrived and has landed.¡± The AI said. He looked at the piece once more and set a predetermined sequence for the machine to follow and stop which would end in one minute and we watched it to the end before stabilizing the chamber to not allow changes to happen with the part. He goes up to the top floor and reaches the bathroom and looks at himself. ¡°Damn¡­ I really let go.¡± he muttered as he scratched his beard and felt his greasy brown hair. He sighed as he removed all his clothes showing the lanky but fit figure below all the baggy clothes. ¡°Lost a lot of weight.¡± He muttered as well and went into the shower. ¡°AI where are the razors.¡± He called. Before he knew it a small opening appeared and a fist sized drone came out and with a laser razor it quickly shaved his beard leaving it baby smooth without injuring his face once bit. Then he grabbed some shampoo and washed his hair five times until all the greasy oils were washed away with the soapy liquid and began a complete rundown from top to bottom. Finally he got out and after getting a new set of clothes, which looked exactly like the old pair but clean, he took his glasses and washed them completely with soap leaving them sparkly and passed some products to remove the scratches and return it to the glory of when it was first made. Seeing his hair a bit long he once more sent an order, ¡°AI haircut.¡± He said. A screen appeared and he set the sizes to be shortened but not a buzzcut. It was short on the sides, about half a finger height while the top would have a finger and a half. The AI was quick with the drone and he brushed the hair into a 2:8 style. Completely cleaned up like he used to be, he gave off the feeling of a respective scientist since the white lab coat, also a clean pair, was still on his back. When he finally walked of his room the little witch appeared with her jaw hanging, ¡°Who are you?!¡± She asked in shock. ¡°Stop playing around.¡± he said and walked past her and entered the elevator. ¡°Did you spawn any type of dungeon monster or drone?¡± He asked. ¡°Yes, this strange thing you called an AI explained to me. Also what does AI mean?¡± She asked. ¡°It stands for artificial intelligence, it is a large bundle of information that can thing like a real living being.¡± He explained. As the door opened to the cargo where the exit was located he saw a cloud of floating nanites. He looked at the girl. ¡°What?¡± She asked. ¡°Why of all types of drones did you choose a swarm of nanites?¡± He asked. ¡°What do you mean, that thing is magical bugs. In a swarm they thing as one and when it take over¡­¡± She vanished and suddenly the swarm flew towards him and began overlaying each other and formed a small blue human figure, ¡°I can make a little form for myself.¡± She said cheerfully. ¡°What can this thing do?¡± He asked frowning. ¡°Magic!¡± She said happily and made a candle sized fireball appear but obviously to her it was a large fire ball. ¡°AI nanite swarm information.¡± he said. ¡°As you wish sir.¡±
Nanite Swarm (1000x) 20 mp
Nanites are microscopic machines, the first and original nanite was the only one truly made by man as all the others were recreated by the original and those coming after. Nanites can survive with the mana in the air and are stronger inside a dungeon where the quality and quantity of mana is higher. A small swarm is unintelligent but once enough nanites are formed the collective mind will slowly start to form into a swarm mind making something akin to an AI. Due to the size of Nanites being the same as a human cell when commanded by an external AI they can form a robot with magical capabilities but this leaves them vulnerable to extensive damage. Magical capabilities are in relation to the quantity of nanites present in the body.
Pelonius sighed as he saw that although it was useless with one swarm, at the size of a human palm it would take around 100,000 nanites to make anything with considerable power. ¡°Don¡¯t spawn more nanites, it takes to many of them to make a strong enough robot.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°I just need a body for myself, oh and there is this thing.¡± she said pointing to a Mark I 8790 Scouter drone. This was obviously a more magic oriented model. ¡°Is everything this girl picks magic related?¡± he asked himself. With the AI in the scouter and the small palm sized girl sitting on his shoulder he left the ship. ¡°AI take me to their ship.¡± He said. ¡°Yes sir.¡± *** Leah looked out the bridge window and sighed. Looking at the city where her family lived. Looking at the far off walls of the inner city she sighed. City dungeons are split into three sections. The dungeon which is the tower and underground, the inner city which, depending on the size of the town or city, is surrounding by a large wall with defensive measures such a energy shields, mana shields and many types of weapons. This is a section where the dungeon still has direct control and were the main businesses exist. Finally the outer city which is within the area of influence and the dungeon can still ¡®see¡¯ what happens in this area but he can¡¯t directly influence it like the inner city until they ¡®buy¡¯ the land which will force the inner city walls to relocate at the edge of this influence area expanding the inner city.If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. Previously Leah had lived in the inner city to be able to reach the tower quicker but even then it was a far walk. One the other hand shipyards, where ships are built, are in the outer city with the ship parking space and docks being at the furthest edge of the outer city. Now on the docks she looked and only saw residential areas or malls before she saw the big wall and got up and moving into the ship since it would do her no good to remain remembering bad memories and so she began to get ready. Due to the lack of a teleport pad she would need to take a taxi so the three girls all got ready to go but halfway through something happened. ¡°Oi captain bitch! Someone is here to visit you, has an AI and something annoying with him.¡± Tony said. ¡°Did he give a name?¡± Leah asked from the bathroom as she brushed her hair. ¡°Yeah, Padobus or something.¡± Tony said bored. ¡°Padobus? Do I know someone with that name?¡± She wondered and shrugged. ¡°Is he in the cargo already?¡± She asked. ¡°Nah, I talked with him from the drones.¡± Tony replied. ¡°Well let him in but tell him to wait.¡± Leah said while brushing her hair. Only after a long half hour of fixing her hair and leaving the unique purple hair silky and straight did she finally leave her room dressed and relaxed before going down to the cargo to see who was waiting there. As the door opened she walked out, ¡°So who is this Padob¡­¡± As soon as she saw the young man she froze where she was. It was obvious why, it was her brother. ¡°Hey Padobus, this is the bitch you wanted now leave!¡± Tony shouted appearing as a Hologram in his face. Pelonius frowned and waved his hand in front of his face as if batting a fly away. ¡°You really had no luck in your core did you Leah.¡± He said. ¡°Brother!¡± She snapped out of it and ran at him before hugging him tightly. Her most loving brother came to visit her, it was no wonder she was so happy. Still a moment later she split and glared at Tony. ¡°You IDIOT! His name is PELONIUS!! Not PADOBUS you fucking IDIOT! I would have gotten here so much earlier if you had told me his name properly!¡± She said full of rage. ¡°His name is quite forgettable.¡± Tony said bored. Suddenly he flinched as he looked behind Leah. Standing there was Pelonius with a smile but the glare of the light completely blocked his eyes. ¡°Oh so that was why Leah took so long. Knowing her she would have come wet from a bath if she knew it was me. You know I am quite calm but seeing such a ¡®curious¡¯ core it does make me curious as to how your ¡®work¡¯ on the inside.¡± He said and a calm voice but the threat was clear as day. Tony shrank back upon hearing this but suddenly a small cloud of something appeared from the mans pocket and began to swarm around Leah. ¡°Huh? Nanites?¡± She muttered. It kept spinning and moving about over her body for a minute before it gathered in front of her and formed a small body. Leah put her hand out and it landed on her hand before solidifying into a tiny girl in a robe with a witch hat. ¡°Wow! This is the first time is saw a naturally born witch! Its official you are now my disciple and I will turn you into the greatest witch in the world!¡± She said proudly. The announcement caught them by surprise and Tony bent over, ¡°Who is this little brat?¡± He asked Pelonius. ¡°She is my core, I did not want a ¡®tamed¡¯ core since they are rather boring but¡­ I wasn¡¯t expecting a reincarnated witch¡­ especially one from a world without technology.¡± He replied. ¡°Oh brother, I need to say, thank you for the wand it works wonderfully!¡± Leah turned and said with a smile. ¡°Hey don¡¯t ignore me and you, thug, how dare you call this great being a brat! I¡¯ll have you know that I am a great witch of 874 years old! I, Adalwolfa Bon Bibonina, the cultivator of the Florivine Forest Heartstone Core Technique, am a great being of unbelievable power and you dare call me a brat!¡± She said in a proud and arrogant manner. No one really knew how to react immediately but after a moment Tony snapped out of it and frowned. ¡°Witch cultivator?¡± He said. ¡°Yep, in my world witch cultivate mana.¡± She said nodding in a knowing manner. ¡°Sounds more like bullshit to me.¡± Tony said. ¡°You~!¡± the girl turned read before looking at him and the robot''s and smiled, ¡°At least I have my own body instead of a little magicless toy.¡± She said proudly. Instantly the two were in each others face. ¡°Alright stop it you both, let us leave this cargo so we can talk in peace.¡± Pelonius said breaking up the scene. ¡°Hmph!¡± The two crossed their arms and walked away. Leah and Pelonius walked to the elevator while Tony headed straight up to the kitchen where they were headed. ¡°... as you can see it is to your benefit to become my disciple.¡± Adalwolfa said as they come out of the elevator. ¡°Sorry but no thank you.¡± Leah shook her head. ¡°But way~!¡± Adalwolfa cried upon hearing Leah¡¯s rejection. ¡°I can barely control my own power as it is so if I grew even more powerful by doing this¡­ mana cultivation I would never be able to control my own mana every.¡± Leah said. The little girl looked dejected upon seeing that she lost such a good student for such a stupid reason. That said it was true, unless Leah learned to control her magic she wouldn¡¯t be able to do anything. Suddenly Adalwolfa realized this point, ¡°So if I help you train to control your full power you will accept?¡± ¡°No.¡± Leah bluntly rejected. ¡°Why~!¡± ¡°I just don¡¯t need so much power, not right now, I am still young I want to train and grow on my own.¡± Leah said. ¡°But¡­¡± ¡°Wolfy stop pestering her.¡± Pelonius said taking the girl by the hat but as soon as he pulled the hat came off. The little girl couldn¡¯t reach but Leah, who held her looked at saw a cute pair of wolf ears on her head. Suddenly the hat broke down and rushed back to the head of the girl and she blushed while glaring, ¡°Did you see?¡± ¡°See what? The adorable ears?¡± Leah asked confused. ¡°No~!¡± Adal shouted dejected, ¡°Now no one will want me and I will be thrown out again.¡± She said just as Leah and Pelonius entered the restaurant style kitchen. ¡°Huh!¡± The brother sister combo said together confused. ¡°Why would we not want you?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Because I am just a half breed animal.¡± She said. ¡°I don¡¯t get it?¡± Pelonius said. ¡°This is an effect of being a witch, we become half animal as shown by the second pair of ears we get on our head. Why do you think I even wear this ridiculous robe and hat!¡± She shouted. ¡°Oh I has to do with your old world.¡± Leah realized. ¡°What else!¡± ¡°Ahahaha! The little puppy is scared of being thrown out.¡± Tony laughed making her feel worse. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, no one will find you strange, our universe doesn¡¯t see beastmen or half beast type creatures as animals unless they are really animals, bred by dungeon or cloning.¡± Leah explained. The girl looked at Leah with ¡®teary¡¯ eyes. ¡°Alright alright get this drama over with and sit down already.¡± Tony shouted. The other two girls were already in the kitchen, Leah did the introduction making them surprised to see the prodigy brother that gifted Leah with a cursed wand. ¡°Wow so you''re the genius researcher. But why are you here? Also this is a core as in Ship core? Wouldn''t your father be made?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°I left that house, my research would have been found sooner or later. So I wanted to keep it for far later since I needed privacy. It would become harder for my research to be found by father.¡± He replied. ¡°Oi, Pedobus, what branch of research do you do?¡± Tony asked bored intentionally getting his name wrong. ¡°...¡± The man simply looked at the hologram who yawned and sighed, ¡°My primary study is weapons development. It was supposed to be only through technology but I got the academy to secretly include me in the magic technology section. The secondary study is bioengineering. The reason being because I merge magic technology with bioengineering to create the living weapons I am making for Leah.¡± He said. Tony sat up straight upon hearing this. ¡°You know how to make magic tech and bioengineering? As in cloning as well?¡± he asked. The main raised his brow upon seeing the enthusiasm, ¡°Yes, I studied the in depth workings so that I can make my own technology. As for cloning, that is the most basic principle to which bioengineering encases. True bioengineering is genetic manipulation through the use of technology or magic. Although I personally have no mana I use magic technology in its place. My masterpiece shall be the weapons I am currently making for Leah.¡± He said. ¡°Then how do you stabilize clones?¡± Tony asked with some expectation. ¡°Describe your cloning process.¡± He asked. Tony explained everything from start to finish. ¡°Hmph, novice error as usual. The way to stabilize is that ¡®lightning¡¯ that strikes the clone. It is mana concentrated and the clones are biological dungeon monsters. When you finally get the perfected cloning technique down where you can clone a perfect clone where the lifespan is the same as the real creature the biological spawns will appear. They will spawn through the cloning process but you need to properly make each and every one of them.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°That lightning is mana meaning I need to use mana 1 whole day to make them stable?¡± He asked. ¡°Exactly.¡± Pelonius nodded. ¡°You can also use that lightning to modify the clone making them better. You have wingless Imps so besides evolving them to winged imps, once they reach half a day through their growth cycle, if you add two bolts on it¡¯s back, it will develop wings. You can also aim more on the horns which will make it be born with larger mana capacity and it would be easier to teach magic.¡± He said. ¡°Brother, you said they were dungeon spawns so I don¡¯t need to enslave them each time?¡± Leah asked. ¡°No, they are naturally docile unlike common underground dungeon where there is a fight for survival. You can get fighters though but actively training them and feeding them properly making them evolve differently. By using evolved imp DNA you can keep a steady stream of strong imps without needing to breed them and always possess strong ones.¡± He said. ¡°Will brother be doing that?¡± She asked. ¡°No, my main focus is bioengineering weapons. I am trying to make living weapon handguns but they are complex. It won¡¯t be needed and I can adapt with Wolfy¡¯s attachment to magical spawns. The nanites, although weak small, when given material they will naturally grow their own number in a swarm. Making some swarms will let her make small bugs to monitor as well as giving her enough nanites to builder her body.¡± he said. ¡°Stop calling me Wolfy! I¡¯m not a wolf! I am Adalwolfa Bon Bibonina, the great witch¡­¡± She began but was stopped. ¡°Yes I know, but until you call my name properly you will be called like that. The same goes for Stuss.¡± He said. ¡°Oi!¡± Tony shouted. ¡°Now now, let¡¯s not start arguing again.¡± Nelim said trying to calm everyone down. ¡°Hmph, well whatever, Pelonius was it? Mind sharing what you know about magic tech? And hopefully show me a better model cloning device so that I can control the cloning and maybe even make my own body.¡± Tony asked. ¡°You want to bioengineer a flesh and blood body?¡± Pelonius asked. ¡°Well you will need the DNA of any sentient being, both male and female so that you can properly see the difference. Then you will need a special type of changer which will exist alongside your holder. You should already know about the Dungeon Lord spawner right?¡± He asked. ¡°I saw it yes but the price is 230,000 mp.¡± He said. ¡°Exactly, that is the one you need to acquire, for now practice your cloning technique, it will be better for you to simply spawn nanites like Wolfy and use them for a temporary body. You will need to modify the body making it stronger by a lot so that you can properly defend the ship. Most that use human as a model go for an android humanoid or go with cyborg where they make a human body then add the machines. If you want monsters it is up to you.¡± He said. While Tony and Pelonius talked, with the latter also having a bunch of screens Tony brought up which were the same thing Leah did but couldn¡¯t categorize really complex parts, Adalwolfa was talking with the girls. ¡°... even if you don¡¯t want my cultivating but at least let me help you with magic.¡± She asked depressed. ¡°But¡­ our systems are different to yours right?¡± Nelim said. Being a magic race she was also given the option to cultivate the strange mana cultivation technique. ¡°I did have a small look, it isn¡¯t to far off, the only difference is that you all know the principals of what happens during the spells making them stronger. I can learn those quickly but I know lots of spells both weak and strong and I am quite a good manipulator. Just wait and see when I finally get a full sized body I will be amazing.¡± She said. The girls laughed at the palm sized witch. ¡°Hey Leah, why not use the imps to experiment with this.¡± Mirella said. ¡°That would be good, we don¡¯t know if the technique even works in this world.¡± Leah said and looked at Tony and Pelonius who were talking serious unlike before and Pelonius was teaching Tony about magic technology while Tony was soaking it up like a sponge while also returning to the researching with his own programming knowledge whenever it appeared. ¡°Adal, do you want to record all your knowledge, we have a grimoire that can store everything at a touch.¡± She said. ¡°What is a Grimoire?¡± She asked. ¡°It¡¯s a magic book that magic users from our universe use to store their studied magic. Leah is a really good student and learned lots so maybe you can learn some from that and also share your own knowledge. Even things you might have forgotten can be recorded if it is magic based.¡± Nelim said. ¡°Oh~! Really, since those two bone heads are talking show me to this Grimoire I want to see how hard this magic from your world is.¡± She said excited. Like that the girls excuse themselves and leave the two men while the girls go see the little witch¡¯s magic. Chapter 19: Chief of the R&D Division ¡°WOAH!¡± Swoosh! All around an amazing array of lights shined within Queror¡¯s room. The three girls and the witch had come to record the witches magical knowledge. Even if the cultivation didn¡¯t pass her spells and theoretical knowledge would. Who knew that upon touching the Grimoire it would burst into light and fly around release hundreds upon hundreds of pages that released light. This kept going and slowly pages began to group together slowly. They formed diagrams, formulas and complex scriptures and piling up with others. Dozens of piles began to form but still more pages were being released by the original Grimoire and for a who five minutes it continued until several books were left. The original Grimoire landed on the pedestal while other books kept floating in the air. The four girls were in shock as they slowly walked forward and Leah took one of the books. On the cover was a title and the design of the hard cover book sounded weird to her. ¡°¡®The 49 Primary Channel Opening Arts¡¯? What is that?¡± She asked. ¡°WHAT!¡± Adal shouted and flew became a swarm before reforming on Leah¡¯s shoulder. ¡°Open it quick!¡± Adal shouted. ¡°O-okay.¡± Leah said and opened it. The first page was a table of content showing 49 names of different arts and the page they begin in. She then turned to the first one. ¡°My god! This is the ¡®Universal Channel Opening Art¡¯!¡± She said. ¡°What are these?¡± Nelim asked. ¡°This book seems to contain the techniques for opening the mana channels. That said each art has a different effect on the body. Some are better and some are worse. This ¡®Universal Channel Opening Art¡¯ is the most basic and primitive. In my world it was the most mainstream for a human that wanted to become a witch or wizard for the extended life. That said it is still hard to come by.¡± Adal said. ¡°Why do you know 49 different Channel opening arts?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Obviously every person¡¯s body is different, also it was so that we could develop our own style in future stages so that we can supply our disciple we take up with something better.¡± She said nodding. ¡°I remember you said something about the Heartstone art?¡± Leah asked and moved to the 45th art. ¡°¡®Heartstone Channel Opening art¡¯ is this the start of it?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Oh so it even stored my own art. Fantastic!¡± Adal said. ¡°Hey I remember hearing that a Grimoire only stores information that works within the universe. It is said some cores from magic worlds weren¡¯t able to do magic because it didn¡¯t follow the laws of nature of our universe. Doesn¡¯t that mean that these arts work in our parallel universe?¡± Nelim asked. The three others looked at each other and at the floating books and also seemed to realize the same fact. ¡°It seems Adal brought forth a new class, I wonder how much the academy would pay for a chance to get this?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Don¡¯t!¡± Nelim said. ¡°Why?¡± Leah asked confused. ¡°Don¡¯t forget that each person can only impart their knowledge once to a Grimoire. We will need to scan these books for Adal so she can take them back with her.¡± Nelim said ¡°What! Why didn¡¯t you say that before!¡± Adal said. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, scanning is quick and you will have it all in a nice compact little box.¡± Leah said. ¡°Guu~! But I don¡¯t like these strange things, I want a proper paper book.¡± Adel complained. The girls wryly smiled and looked around. ¡°Can¡¯t Grimoire transfer knowledge?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°I am not sure?¡± Leah said. The girls weren¡¯t sure of this but still they had to try something but not at this time. They turned to the floating books and took them and saw the interesting titles. ¡®36 Mana Absorption Stage Arts¡¯, ¡®24 Arts of Liquefying Mana¡¯, ¡®13 Grand Dan Concentrating Arts¡¯, ¡®7 Manuels to Mana Ocean Creation¡¯, ¡®Heartstone Art of the Mana Core World¡¯. After these series of books on cultivating came books on magic, ¡®The Arcane book of Nature¡¯, ¡®Grandmasters Alchemy Manual Vol. I¡¯, ¡®Grandmasters Alchemy Manual Vol. II¡¯, ¡®Grandmasters Alchemy Manual Vol. III¡¯, ¡®Notes for Creation of Magical Beasts¡¯, ¡®Journal of Magical Beast Habits and Abilities¡¯, ¡®Grimoire of Witch Magic Theory¡¯. The final one was the most interesting one as it spoke of Adal¡¯s own magical knowledge but it was blunt primitive type instead of the complex physics that Leah knew. The small witch herself personally opened the main Grimoire that had not changed one bit and began to study herself while Leah stored the books on a bookshelf and the girls took up the book on Magic Theory. ¡°Wow, although the world isn¡¯t as advanced as ours technologically but the magical knowledge is quite profound.¡± Nelim exclaimed. ¡°Hmm, most of this is tied to the Witch and Wizard¡¯s own conditions of having the spherical ball of concentrated mana.¡± Leah said. ¡°Yeah it makes sense since it was the primary power but I wonder, the danger of the ball being stolen exists doesn¡¯t it?¡± Mirella asked looking at the small witch he slumped. ¡°Yes¡­ it does.¡± She said dejected, ¡°The balls, as you call them, are known as the Mystic Dan, it is concentrated mana to the extreme. When you form the ball you will need to keep absorbing mana until it completely breaks and reform it more powerfully. This will make the body stronger and the mana will be purer and more concentrated. You do this 10 times and on the 11th you will form your mana ocean.¡± She explained and sighed, ¡°The most vulnerable moment for a witch is the Mystic Dan stage where it can be stolen. Witches and wizards sometimes hunt each other to supplement their own mana to break through.¡± she said. The three looked at her worried, since she reincarnated she had died in some method and looking at the final cultivation style Leah had to ask. ¡°Why is this last one called ¡®Mana Core World¡¯?¡± ¡°After the stage of the Mystic Dan the ocean will form where, what you call the mana pool, is located. It will keep growing until it forms an ocean. Following that your mana will naturally form land and ¡®life¡¯ on it where it will form a Mana core world. It is one of the most powerful stages but it can¡¯t be removed like the Mystic dan.¡± She said and sighed, ¡°But to reach this stage passing through the Mystic dan stage is one of the hardest parts.¡± ¡°How hard can it be?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°I look like a child BECAUSE I passed through four mystic dan stages. The second time the dan breaks it rejuvenates the body. I was an hold wretch before and then returned to my looks when compared to a normal human''s 40s then I broke two more times within a short time frame due to some lucky chances which filled my Dan up quickly and so my youth returned even more and my power rose into the heavens but I died because of these lucky chances because my dan gained a unique effect and so I was hunted. Treasure truly is the death of man.¡± She sighed. ¡°So its akin to Nirvana?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Nirvana?¡± She asked confused. ¡°It is referred to as the cycle of destruction and rebirth. In some stories where cultivation is used the term Nirvana tribulation is used because you undergo the cycle of destruction of the flesh and the rebirth of new flesh regaining youth and gaining a lifespan unimaginable to previous stages.¡± Leah said the common knowledge that was born from those who came from martial arts worlds and the people who made stories of these tales. ¡°Oh I see, it fits. It is exactly as you said.¡± Adal said. ¡°I was wondering Adal but how much does the human lifespan grow with each stage?¡± She asked putting the five books for the six stages they had available in front of them. Adal flew over and landed on the Channel opening one. ¡°For Channel Opening the human is still human even after opening it. There is an increase in absorption of mana and at best maybe 10 or 20 extra years because your body is being really well nourished.¡± She said and flew to the ¡®36 Mana Absorption Stage Arts¡¯, ¡°In the Mana absorption stage the human is probably like a mage that I have seen from asking about magic users from the strange being restraining me. You are opening up your mana pool and filling it up to the brim along with all your channels.¡±. She goes to the ¡®24 Arts of Liquefying Mana¡¯ next, ¡°In the Liquid mana stage you concentrate all your mana into a drop of liquid. You keep repeating the process of gathering the gas like mana and make it liquid within the body until your channels are completely full. When it is completely full it is time for the next stage. In this stage you are a Witch with a lifespan of a few hundred years old. Most witch reach here with around 200 to 300 year of age. 400 is usually the upper limit¡±. She jumps to the next book in line. ¡°The for the Mystic dan stage you for a vortex in the mana pool and compress the liquid mana into a ball and solidify it. This simple action doubles your lifespan which you will then have to start absorbing the mana once more to break it and continue making the mystic dan stronger. From there I can¡¯t explain more since I never got further.¡± She said. ¡°So its a very slow process.¡± Nelim asked. ¡°Somewhat yes, you mostly great through within the time frame of your life but we usually get children, orphans most of the time, as disciples so that we don¡¯t risk pulling the tail of a tiger or something.¡± Adal said. The others nodded. ¡°Does this work with monster races?¡± Leah suddenly asked. Adal looked at her and frowned, ¡°Which type, I can say yes but it still depends of the creature.¡± She said. ¡°Imps, humanoid monsters.¡± Leah replied. Adal frowned and turned pointing to Queror, ¡°Like this thing?¡± She asked. ¡°He is a bigger version known as Lesser Demon, the imps are simpler smaller and dumber.¡± She replied. ¡°Oh, well the Channel opening can happen for any creature but you will need to experiment to adapt to those creatures since the techniques I have are 75% for humans and not demons. The rest are ones I created to make Magical Beasts.¡± She replied. ¡°Truth be told, I was really only hoping to open the Mana Channels for the Imps. If it gives them several years of lifespan just from that it would already help us since by then we could breed a number of imps for our crew and train them to specific jobs we need. By the time hey reach 20 years they would already have evolved into better, smarter and more complex races.¡± Leah said. ¡°Oh I see! That would also help with the clones since they wouldn¡¯t actually die instantly and we wouldn¡¯t have to undergo the tedious process of breed and raise them into greater forms since they are already with longer lifespans and we can make them grow properly.¡± Mirella said. Adal looked at the three girls and turned to Queror before flying over to him and landing on his shoulder. It looked at her with a frown but it was curious about her. She placed her hand on his shoulder and for a while before her face frowned, ¡°It won¡¯t be so easy.¡± She said loudly. The three girls looked at her. ¡°Why¡± Mirella asked. ¡°While human mana channels have about a third to half of their mana channels open this creature only has a tenth of his mana channels open.¡± She said. ¡°WHAT!¡± Mirella shouted standing up. ¡°Then how can he use such powerful magic!¡± She shouted. ¡°It¡¯s obviously his affinity plus his race.¡± Leah said. ¡°Correct!¡± Adal nodded and flew over to the Grimoire pedestal, ¡°His race is naturally that of a Magic beast though one with intelligence and following instincts he can use it but to open his mana channels would take at best a month and if he was super slow a year. That said, seeing as he is a more complex form compared to the others you want to do this to it would mean almost all the others mana channels would be closed resulting in their pathetically small lifespans.¡± She said. The explanation given by the tiny witch was quite an eye opener, not only did it make sense but it even helped the girls think of methods to improve their future servant races. Leah asks for her to teach them how to implement these changes, although she had no plans to actually do the complete cultivating process, the thought of doing the channel opening appealed greatly to all three girls. Leah even thought about helping her brother to give him magic abilities that he has thus far lacked. As for said brother in question, he was currently in the Biolab with Tony. After the girls left he and Tony walked to the lab. The conversation in the kitchen was quite enlightening and it unlocked small magic tech including the nanites which made Tony spawn a few swarms to make a similar metal body with the nanites which was on Pelonius¡¯s shoulder. Currently he had Tony trash the clones he had in the chambers. In the ship there was a total of around 40 clone imps while the Queror clones for some reason or another would die half way resulting in failure. ¡°This truly is the most amatur rank bioengineering lab. No even when I was learning my trade did I use such a low grade lab.¡± He said. ¡°Hey, although I hate it as well it''s what I can do.¡± Tony shouted. ¡°AI please gather all structural information on our ship¡¯s Bioengineering lab and upload to this ships system.¡± Pelonius said. The AI in question was in a drone said, ¡°Yes sir.¡± After a moment the information began streaming and soon it finished. ¡°Fuck! 900 thousand! Are you crazy!¡± Tony shouted. ¡°Calm down, you wouldn¡¯t know this but as long as you have the most basic room you can look at high grade models and purchase each equipment one by one instead of in a package.¡± Pelonius explained. ¡°Seriously!¡± Tony said and frowned, ¡°FUCKING SYSTEM! Why do I have to know about something for it to show me it! Only now this stupid system implemented the separate equipment system!¡± Tony cursed.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. ¡°Seems your Core holder is working fine then. Now seeing as you have a problem with charging your mana you will probably need the holder upgrades ¡®Mana Generator¡¯, ¡®Upgrade Mana Battery¡¯ and ¡®Mana Stabilizer¡¯.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°Why would I need those, I understand the first one but the other two?¡± He said. ¡°You might not know this but you core at its current size can only hold around 5000 mp. The holder naturally has batteries that hold your refined dungeon mana but the most basic, which is what you have, only goes up to 250 thousand.¡± He said. ¡°FUCK!¡± Tony cursed. The big upgrades needed much more and he was still stuck on this. ¡°Would upgrading it have an effect on the codes?¡± Tony asked grumpy. ¡°Of course, the holder was made to upgrade further with each holder upgrade. This is a countermeasure so that the dungeon cores don¡¯t go crazy as they upgrade massively when they have mana as well as hopefully preventing you from going crazy should your ship be wrecked in space.¡± He said. ¡°Crazy?¡± ¡°When a ship with a core is wrecked there is a chance the holder will break, its unlikely but it is there. The ship would break apart but after some time, as long as your core isn¡¯t destroyed, you will get mana and start to ¡®recapture¡¯ your dungeon. The holder is the first thing and upon repairing it even if you don¡¯t want to the system will restrain you once more. This is a safety protocol to keep cores from running wild in space but even then it is hard. Without a captain or anything the holder will have less influence. There are quite a few regions of space dominated by a single core due to it being loose within a ship. It has its own monster crews. Still the common protocol is for the ship to return to the nearest planet so that the authorities can be notified.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°Damn!¡± Tony frowned, ¡°Still, what should I upgrade in this place? I was saving mana to buy a teleportation pad.¡± Tony said. ¡°It is small upgrades, ¡®Bioengineering Chamber Mana Battery¡¯, ¡®Life Force Stabilizer¡¯, ¡®Mana Stabilizer¡¯, ¡®Mana Manipulator¡¯, ¡®Atmospheric Mana Gatherer¡¯ and my own personal program which you should have received named ¡®Biolab Basic programs¡¯.¡± Pelonius said. Tony goes silent for a while before the room begins to ripple and several small changes happen to the cloning chambers and some of the computers. ¡°Quite surprised, that only cost me a total of 24 thousand mp to implement. Though I had 36k before through your sisters feeding but that is beside the point.¡± Tony said. ¡°Good, allow the Atmospheric Mana Gatherer a moment to gather enough mana. I will tutor you in the process.¡± Pelonius said and even then he moved to the computer and began to teach Tony the basics of the program he personally designed. It was the base or so called the foundation of the programming. Obviously he wouldn¡¯t give Tony the full program since he knows it is impossible to implement it into this core established ship without having the data cube with the entire network of the program also this ship¡¯s lab can¡¯t handle or even use half the system so there is no harm with just the foundation program. That said Tony went above and beyond and as soon as he learned the program his hacker instincts kicked in and he analyzed the structure and even found several holes and problems which he pointed out and after a small moment he made a small change showing it to Pelonius who widened his eye since the program seem to function quite well with these structural differences. It is said that when genius¡¯s of different fields join hands to teach each other, even magicless people like these two can make magic happen in their own way. It goes without saying that together they where quite a pair. In Tony¡¯s mind he was shouting, ¡°Why the fuck was I so unlucky to be bought by the fucking retarded sister. If had been with this guy from the get go forget going into a rage, I would have found my calling yet the fucking gods must be laughing from where ever he fucking is at my misfortune!¡± He cursed mentally. Even Pelonius had to admit that, although he was a genius, Tony had his own brand of genius comparable to his own and was even a bit regrettable about getting Adalwolfa since the witch knows next to nothing about magic technology or even basic technology. He would have to have her tutored for a long time before progressing far. All this made for him being even a bit jealous of Leah for having Tony as her ship core but was also happy since he already had a plan to easily resolve this problem. After ten short minutes a small green light on all the cloning chambers lit up. ¡°Seems the ¡®Bioengineering Chamber Mana Battery¡¯ are full good, now let me show you how cloning without failure should be done.¡± Pelonius said and walked to the main computer. Suddenly a screen showing all the genetic material of all the imps that Tony had scanned appeared. Putting their image to one side, in full detail and color, and their genetic signature in a graph style so that as the sequence passes the graph rises and falls he looked and began to pick out ten imps, five male five female form the list of a few hundred. With each he picked he showed Tony how to identify the top qualities of an Imp. Such qualities being a specific glow coming off the horn, a specific point of the genetic sequence being higher then a different spot while another being lower. He called it, selective breeding. This mean selecting specific traits both good and bad and pairing up Imps in a manner where a male imp has several bad traits and several good ones while the female has several different bad and good traits and when mixed the traits would counterbalance forming an Imp with much greater potential. ¡°There, I have set the males on the left and the females on the right. The pairs are on in front of each other one with each other. There are four rooms I believe, you can kill off the clone imps, these would be born within 80 to 90% complete as Clone imps and will birth true imps with high potential for evolving at least to lesser imp stage. Put one pair in each room and a final one with the Lesser demon you possess. Just tell them to ignore it and for him to ignore it. You should be able to successfully breed four Imps from these pairs then kill them before putting them into one room as a clan of Imps where they can breed amongst themselves.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°Wouldn¡¯t it cause chaos again leave them to their own breeding?¡± Tony asked. ¡°Simply put the command, don¡¯t inbreed with siblings, and such problem won¡¯t happen. Within 3 Generations there won¡¯t be problems about inbreeding due to the genetic variability and the dying imps would feed you mana slowly.¡± he explained. ¡°So what would I do after that, considering the potential they would evolve into Lesser Demons who have 9 year lifespans.¡± Tony asked. ¡°Obviously you simply need to purchase genetic information for the feed and clone it for them. Be it your farm animals or monster races they need combat experience and food so breeding small critters for food is a give.¡± Pelonius said. Tony was silent for a long moment before a large series of screens appeared. Pelonius looked at saw it was information that Adalwolfa put into the Grimoire and Tony had scanned. Particularly the first book involving her cultivation and the effect it had on life forms. A video also showed what the witch had explained about the lesser demon having a huge number of mana channels closed. ¡°I am quite certain these girls will begin live experiments with the servants. There will be a magic demon race without a shadow of a doubt soon.¡± Tony said. ¡°You know you could probably unlock your magic with this. Although I can¡¯t scan you I am sure your body is closed up while Leah¡¯s is almost complete open. If you opened yours you could use magic then.¡± Tony asked. ¡°I have grown accustomed to using technology for my research, if I suddenly got magic it would not change my outlook on research and might even mess me up.¡± Pelonius replied. ¡°You don¡¯t need to use it in your experiments, just the simple fact that it can expand your lifespan is a good enough reason to do it you know.¡± Tony said. Pelonius did understand Tony¡¯s point of view, a person''s lifespan is usually set. Humans nowadays have around 150 years of life due to the magic they absorb and proper training but this technique from a different universe when placed in this one could do even more for the humans of this world. To Pelonius, time was most important still seeing the witch say that the demon would take at least a month to open it all and at slowest a year made him question that. If the demon took so little time how long would it take a manaless human like him. He shook his head, ¡°I don¡¯t need to be a wizard to do my experiments.¡± he thought. ¡°I do not need this, it would take too much time I could use for my experiments.¡± He said. ¡°Hmph not like you need it to become a wizard.¡± Tony laughed. ¡°What do you mean?¡± Pelonius asked confused. ¡°You never heard of it? When a virgin reaches 30 they become a wizard and when they reach 40 you will become a sage.¡± Tony joked and laughed loudly as he flew away. Pelonius actually froze before frowning at the joke and glared at Tony. Although as a researcher he did not care much for the worldly pleasures but that did not mean he didn¡¯t think about it. After all he was both a human, a mortal and a male. No matter who the still had instincts and even the controlled person like him had to satisfy his needs once in awhile although it wasn¡¯t comparable to those who lived by their desires. Still poking something like his age with his virginity isn¡¯t a comfortable thing but while he had told a small bit about himself to Tony the same was equal for the other. His glasses seem to shine as he smiled, ¡°So if I am going to become a wizard wouldn¡¯t you, who died after his 40¡¯s, already be a sage.¡± He said. Tony stopped laughing as his most sore point was kicked with a spiked boot. The two looked at each other before starting to laugh at each other like good friends. Truly it was difficult for men and women to have natural conversations like this. The interaction between people of the same gender has always been more natural than with the opposite sex and it shows people with the same interests even with completely different personalities will get along. After laughing the two calmed down and walked to the first chamber where Tony spawned the first Imp and instead of stopping the mana lightning discharge he kept feeding it before he activated the mana stabilizer which released the mana in the battery in a stable flow. Pelonius showed him how to properly manipulate these flows. He showed that in this manner the clone would be born within the hour instead of after 1 day of natural growing. After getting a stable current they went and did the same to the other nine and after the first hour the Imps were fully formed with a slightly duller red than natural dungeon imps. The Clone imps on the other hand were in the hands of the girls which Adal sighed to, ¡°These are worthless and have no Mana channels it''s best to just kill them off and make better ones.¡± She said. At that time the two men came in with the perfected Clones. ¡°Oh so you were here?¡± Pelonius said. ¡°We wanted to see if we could do Adal¡¯s techniques of the Imps but these clones don¡¯t have mana channels.¡± Leah said. ¡°Then try it on these, I taught Tony to make proper clones.¡± He said and put the pair that would remain in this room down. The color attracted their attention. He returned outside and went to get another pair and put it in the next room. Adal flew over and touched their body. ¡°Oh these have it. Its really closed up but the channels are there. If we can open up a small bit these little guys will be even stronger than normal.¡± Adal said. ¡°Let''s do it then.¡± Mirella said excited. Leah nodded and took the book and read the technique. The mana channel opening technique showed a specific pattern of channels that should be opened, its not like it opens them all instead it opens a stream or current through the body and to the outside. She choose one of the simpler one that had ten channels two for each limb and the brain. She touched the Imp¡¯s belly area where the mana pool was and began to slowly move her mana into it. She began to push the mana towards the head first as stated and the channel that was closed opened up naturally. ¡°Does doing this to babies make it easier.¡± She asked. ¡°Yes, their body is more malleable.¡± Adal said and Leah nodded as she kept doing the technique but at one point there was a change in the body. Routes that didn¡¯t exist in the human body but it did in the imps. She adapted and checked what the pathways went and found parts opened going to the horns and so she actually split technique going and connecting to the horns that kept the mana in the imps. Then following that she kept moving through the channel and soon they eat up as they left the brain and returned back to the mana pool. The feeling of mana in the body grew stronger as the imp absorbed more mana naturally. She continued going through all four limbs and finishing. She did the same for the other imp. Besides the head the rest had the same channels mostly with one or two differences. ¡°There.¡± Leah said finishing. ¡°Hey is it me or are their colors much deeper now?¡± Nelim asked. She had been watching standing and although it was subtle she did find the red color skin much brighter and healthy. In fact the babies imps didn¡¯t even look scrawny and instead had begun to form a sort of chubby baby look. ¡°Well it is a magical beast, it is possible that opening its channels allowed it to feed off mana that it is absorbing. Suddenly a glow from their belly drew their attention and they looked as the glow vanished. They looked at each other strangely and Leah changed. ¡°They formed Demon crystals.¡± She said. ¡°What is that?¡± Adal asked. ¡°Demon Crystals is a unique thing more from 1 in 10,000 demon creatures. It is when the mana in the pool of a demon gets so concentrated it crystallizes the entire mana pool. It makes the demon really powerful as well and usually only high ranking demons have it after a long time of training.¡± Nelim explained. ¡°So by opening the channels it formed a crystal meaning it will be a powerful creature.¡± She asked and the girls nodded. ¡°Wow? The creatures of this universe sure have an easy time growing powerful!¡± Adal said. ¡°Not really, although it indeed formed a crystal it just means it has more mana and it¡¯s lifespan is guaranteed to be at least 5 years but it will evolve like crazy if not controlled. Demon crystals sometime have a corrupting effect but these are infant Imps meaning we can easily teach them how they should be.¡± Nelim said. ¡°Hey I want some sparring partners instead of magic idiots. Let me have a pair.¡± Mirella asked. At this time the men boys walked in. ¡°I see you are done.¡± Polonius said and looked down with interest. ¡°Did anything interesting happen to it?¡± He asked. ¡°Yeah!¡± Leah said. She described what happened and it left Pelonius curious. ¡°For now leave the imps alone, don¡¯t do the same thing to the other groups. I am curious about their natural group as well as the effect of doing this later when they are adults. Also they are supposed to breed into greater potential imps so for now let the genetically stronger ones be born.¡± He advised. ¡°Alright brother. It''s quite late to go out to the adventurers association so let''s get an evening meal and rest up today.¡± Leah said. They all agreed and went up. They did a small explanation of what they learned and like Pelonius thought, Leah suggested for him to open his mana channels but he just rejected saying that he didn¡¯t need it. He told them about what he taught Tony. When the food was on the table the ate quickly or slowly depending on the person and once they were relaxed. ¡°So brother, what are you going to do now after leaving home?¡± Leah asked. He smiled and looked at her with a serious look, ¡°Leah, can I join your crew as your chief of Research and Development?¡± He asked. Everyone looked at him and blinked before a collected, ¡°Eh?¡± came out completely stunning everyone. Only after a long time did Leah smile and shout, ¡°Of course!¡± ¡°Wait but why did you buy a ship and core then?¡± Tony asked. ¡°Obviously I planned to be the captain of my own crew but I want to join Leah¡¯s crew in fleet style. I would be on the same planet and all that as you buy I wish to pursue my own research material for myself and being on the same ship would ultimately limit me to the technology on the ship and since this is an explorer class ship¡­¡± he trailed off but everyone understood. A research ship is usually the same size as a Cargo ship and are ones of the largest ones. With more security than normal ships and more manpower they usually search and research material for the crew. Although there can be a R&D group on all ships usually all crews develop and launch a ship dedicated to R&D both for weapons and weapon designs but that doesn¡¯t limit it since there can also be mechanic researchers and robotic specialists. By joining her crew he can hide behind her fame while always being near yet also having no problem going about his own business. ¡°There is also another good feature of making an official fleet which is the fact that the AI and the spawned creatures, or more specifically the ones controlled by the core itself, can survive on other ships of the same fleet for long periods of time without a problem. Since we have both gained¡­ unique cores but they aren¡¯t compatible with the captains it makes things easier for us who feel better with a each other. Ultimately it is just a byproduct of joining up but it is still a good result.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°You mean you can take a small part of Tony to your ship and Adal can stay here with us?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°That is exactly it. I will ultimately have to tutor Wolfy in today¡¯s technology but it is alright, I can simply design my own upgrades and for some things I can use the systems own default things. She can¡¯t build without me choosing unlike Tony who took over the system and you simply need to ask him.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°We should get the recruiting out of the way.¡± Tony said. Everyone nodded and Leah brings up the captain command and recruits her brother.
You have invited the captain of another ship. The result of recruiting him will create a Fleet. Do you wish to proceed?
Yes No
¡°Yes.¡± She said. In front of her brother a window appeared.
You have been invited to form a fleet with the crew owned by Leah Biloni. Do you wish to join under her?
Yes No
¡°Yes.¡± He said and once more a window switched over. ¡°Damn this feels like a damned wedding where you exchange vows.¡± Tony joked making Leah blush and slap towards his nanite body which turned into a swamp to dodge. ¡°Shut up!¡± She shouted.
You have formed a Fleet as the General with Pelonius Ulkina Biswal. Please name the fleet. If this is left blank the name of your ship, ¡°Stuss¡± shall be denominated as the Fleet name.
¡°So what should we name our Fleet?¡± Leah asked. They all looked at each other and began to discuss with each other about the name rejecting really stupid ones while building off others. Finally they were able to choose one and Leah typed it in. Chapter 20: Recruitment List ¡°Excuse me miss can you help us?¡± Leah asked a young woman that was passing them wearing a Rokita tower uniform. ¡°Yes, what do you need?¡± She replied. ¡°We are looking to recruit members for a newly formed crew where do we go to see the list?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Ah lets see.¡± he young woman turned and looked around before pointing at the very far left hand side of the tower. ¡°The second to last register is the Recruitment center. Is that all?¡± She asked. ¡°Yes thank you.¡± Leah said and with Mirella, Nelim, Pelonius and the two cores, in their Nanite bodies, walked over. ¡°Good morning how many I help you?¡± The woman at the register asked when they walked up. ¡°Yes we need two medic, a more experienced chief of Security and some guards that can be trusted on a Research ship, two Mechanic, a good Cook, two Farmer, and two technician who are also good space navigators.¡± Leah said as if reading a shopping list. The woman looked at Leah slightly startled and a wry smile as she pulled up five different screens. ¡°By chance is this a fleet recruiting? I see in the files this young man also has a ship?¡± She asked. ¡°Ah well I was able to get a ship before my brother and he got his own but he is more into researching so he joined me and we formed a fleet. I think the system automatically updates, our name is Unbound.¡± Leah explained. ¡°Ah I get it.¡± The woman nodded with a smile not inquiring about personal problems which seem plentiful in this situation. She pushed forth the holograms with a name and information of graduate skills and other specializations including age and time in the field. The first Leah went to find was the Medic while her brother took control of the security screen. The research ship is twice as big as an explorer and it also starts out with twice the number of crew for the sole purpose that at least half the crew is made up of security. The quality and loyalty is something to account for. Still he went the easy way and searched up combat groups willing to join a crew. The number drastically dropped but with a crew information you would need to click on each party to see its members information or you would only see the name profession and the age. One thing to note is that there are no pictures for some reason. Its unknown why they leave it like this but one possibility is identity theft. The others each start to look for themselves while Leah was concentrated on the Medic. She had placed emphasis on a Field medic with both magic and medical knowledge. This was because they needed a healing for their dungeon party and combat groups. It wouldn¡¯t do to have a cowering medic so a Field medic is normally chosen more for adventurer groups while city recruit the hospital type who don¡¯t like fighting. Several options were interesting, Tony had float from Pelonius¡¯s shoulder to hers and looked over her shoulder at the choices and frowned since they all seemed to be boys and pretty boys at that. ¡°Damn it, although I complain about having no men in the ship why does the medic have to be a man!¡± He grumbled. As he looked his eyes suddenly shined as he pointed out, ¡°That one that one!¡± He said. Leah followed his finger to the information of a 20 year old female medic. The information was like most of them but it had its own differences.
Name: Joce Yanagi Age: 20
Profession: Field Medic Specialization: Water, Light and Healing magic
Area¡¯s of expertise - Good at Surgery both magical and non magical. - Good a Large scale AOE healing and support magic. - Due to medical knowledge I am also good at biology and basic bioengineering. - Learned to good degree how to produce potions and medical drugs during school and field training. Type of Crew you would like to join? Preferably a Newly made crew where I can get along with from the start.
Previous work experience - I spent two years within Helionova Military for field training after graduation. - Also do part time dungeon diving selling my services.
¡°She doesn¡¯t seem to bad, Helionova Military must have been rough though she is probably accustomed to fighting then.¡± Leah said and dragged the information off the screen forming one of its own that the woman from the register instantly took and brought up her information. Passing her address and contact number. At the same time Pelonius pulled out the information for a group of 8 directly. The name was Elite Shining Shield Guardian Order. ¡°AHAHAHA! What the hell man! Why the hell did you go with the most chuuni party!¡± Tony laughed as he saw the name of the party. ¡°Because of their occupants.¡± he said grabbing the screen before the young receptionist could and opened it by stretching the screen causing it to open the eight member. The others looked and the names and age appeared. The leader was a 34 year old ex military Magi rifle marksman specialized in mid to long range. With him was their own 22 year old mage healer with Healing, light and fire magic. A 17 year old magic archer which is rare since guns outdo bow and arrow but magic ones are really good at crowd control. There were three close range classes, a 19 year old warrior, a 16 year old Scout which is a class trained in locating enemy and traps and finally 26 year old Tech warrior.Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. This class made everyone shocked because it was a mechanic close range fighter normally using their mechanic skills to make some kind of drone, turret or robot to fight. Some even made robotic suit for them to climb in. The last two were a pair, it was a 20 year old monster trainer and a trained demon companion. The companion wasn¡¯t a combat type and instead a cargo type being a large transport beast who carries their supplies. Checking the information it seems this monster trainer also learned space magic specific to the monster trainer and breeder course known as ¡®Private land¡¯ which creates a personal dimension where monsters can be stored. There was a list and most of them were small creatures and at least half were low level humanoid servant types but they covered a large range of support jobs such as cooking, weapon cleaning, armor repair and then there was combat monsters such as a young war bear or a scout beast that is good at tracking such as a bloodhound wolverine. The list was actually quite interesting. ¡°The variety is quite interesting and it also covers your medical need?¡± Nelim says. ¡°Nope, this is their party mage healer. I need a real medic on my ship incase magic doesn¡¯t work.¡± he said as he pointed out the mage healer specialized in support magic and not healing magic. The others nodded understanding and he gave the information to the woman who brought out the contact information. Giving the security personnel to Leah he took the Medic information. Leah put specifically someone at least 25 years old. The list was obviously long and she started to look. Nelim poked her half way and showed her the information for the Farmer.
Name: Crystal Joplin Age: 24
Profession: Farmer Specialization: - Animal Breeding, Selective Breeding, animal caretaking - Domestic Farm Monster Breeding and Rearing - Magic known, Water, Earth and Nature.
Area¡¯s of expertise - Knowledgeable in the field of breeding and caretaking of normal animals and monsters. - Extensive knowledge in the field of cultivating vegetation and knows plant arrangement to prevent insect invasion. Type of Crew you would like to join? As long as the crew is not violent or extensively reckless or cruel and allows me to work as I please then I am okay.
Previous work experience I have worked for a plant city dungeon owned by the Treant and Dryads in Floria Forest. I aided in teaching the newly made city dungeon in proper plant arrangement and teaching it how to spawn naturally occurring plant monsters including farm type creatures.
¡°Joplin? Is this your family?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Yep, this is my blood sister, she is my actual sister.¡± Nelim smiled clearly convoying her intent of wanting to travel with her big sister. ¡°Floria Forest, that is one of the Sentient plant people towns within the 5000 km radius of Rokita. Its supposed to be 2400 km to the south west right?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°Thats right, sister is living there at the moment because the city is still new and the dungeon is supposed to have only 2 floors at the moment. That said I received a letter from her two months ago saying that the dungeon is stable and the city is attracting lots of people so the dungeon so soon the population will reach a point where it can expand to three floor.¡± Nelim said with a bright smile. ¡°Oh she seems good! If you want to recruit her then I am fine. Since she is Nelim¡¯s sister we can only expect someone kind and another great cook.¡± Mirella said. ¡°No! No! No! No! No! No! Please don¡¯t let sister get behind the stove it will only end in disaster!¡± Nelim instantly shook her head making them all look at her in surprise. ¡°Why not?¡± Tony asked confused. ¡°Why do you think I trained so hard to be a cook.¡± She said sadly letting her head fall dejected. Hearing her words it suddenly dawned on them what she mean making them wonder what kind of monster her sister actually cooked up to make this girl so depressed. ¡°I-it''s alright, we will tell her not to cook unless she proves she can cook without making anything dangerous. After all you can¡¯t expect someone to remain bad at something there entire life, they just need to practice more.¡± Leah said to Nelim who smiled wryly. ¡°At least with Tony scanning the food it will help us make sure she mixed in actual spices instead of poison.¡± Nelim said and everyone within the surrounding that heard her looked at her strangely since the words that came out mixed with smile on her face did not seem to mix yet the way to acted gave a weird feeling. ¡°O-okay.¡± leah said and passed the info for Leah¡¯s sister to the young woman who returned the contact info with a wry smile. All that was left now for her crew was a Mechanic. Tony could learn to use the navigation system from the technician that joined her brothers crew. Pelonius passed the information to a medic then took the farmer one while Leah looked at the recruit information for a mechanic with experience in magic and magicless tech. It''s actually quite hard to find someone who knew both because magic tech is prevalent so most people specialize in both with only those rare people who can¡¯t use magic so well learning both and usually using magic tech to improve their magical output or working on ships that focus more on non magic technology. After looking with Nelim and Mirella they found several mechanics that fit her requested needs. The girls looked through the men and women and discussed for a while, even opening a second window for Pelonius who was ready to choose, before they finally choose one mainly because his name was a bit easier to remember and seemed nicer. 17 year old male with average magical ability who learn how to make both magical and non magical. He is also trained in support class for combat. With him it made 7 crew but Tony filled in for the eighth being the technician and Bioengineer since he was learning from her brother. After that she helped her brother choose and finish up the list and finally thanked the young woman and left. ¡°Alright, let us return to the ship so that we can map out these locations.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°AI, teleport us back.¡± He said. ¡°Yes sir.¡± A robotic voice said from Pelonius¡¯s communicator on his wrist and suddenly particles of light gathered around them all and a flash of light followed before they all vanished. They appeared inside Pelonius¡¯s research ship and the man himself stretched and sighed. ¡°Its still early so lets go to the bridge so that we can map out all the location and work out a route that will save us the most time to try and hire these people. It won¡¯t take long for the Adventurer¡¯s Association to contact them and tell them about us being interested. They will be expecting us so we should plan ahead.¡± He said. The others followed him to the bridge where a similarly looking AI to the one on Leah¡¯s ship was present. He uploaded all the coordinates and told the AI to upload this information to Leah¡¯s ship and also connect their ships so they can track each other. The lights began to blink as the map zoomed out showing an area of 4000 km around Rokita. It was almost space view map and on it were lots of dots. One set of seven were pink for Leah and the other blue for Pelonius. ¡°The pink one is yours Leah, now let''s see.¡± Pelonius said and began to examine all the spots as he tried to think of a good route. ¡°AI please map the shortest most efficient route from Rokita through all the pink points then returning back to Rokita.¡± Leah said. ¡°Calculating now.¡± The AI replied. Tony laughed at the genius researcher that forgot to use the machine with an even faster calculating capacity than human. He asked the same and soon two lines went from the closest town aiming to make the quickest and efficient route before it came back to Rokita. ¡°We have two different routes.¡± Nelim said. ¡°Yeah but that isn¡¯t a problem, it will take probably two or three days maybe four since we need to move their things in and such.¡± Leah said. ¡°Hey what if they don¡¯t accept? After all this is recruiting but it doesn¡¯t mean we will get someone.¡± Mirella asked. ¡°The recruitment rate for those on the list at the AA is around 75%. Most people on it are those who either are trying to go to space but can¡¯t build up the money for it even the smallest ships are hard to get even if you want to finance it at the banks since the taxes are ridiculous for this kind of financing.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°Mostly it is the personality of the captain and crew that matter.¡± Leah said. ¡°AI upload the maps to my ship.¡± Leah said. ¡°Action already complete.¡± The AI said. ¡°Alright brother, we will be going. Will you go now or later?¡± Leah asked. ¡°I will go in a little while.¡± He said and saw them out from the teleporter which sent them directly to their ship. Soon Leah had Tony head off to the first city which happened to be Spenolif which they hadn¡¯t gone to and had the mechanic strangely enough. Chapter 21: Gathering recruits As Leah and the others flew off, Pelonius stood up and walked out of the teleportation pad room. Tony¡¯s nanite body had remained as a means to keep them connected and was sitting on Pelonius¡¯s shoulder while he looked around. He watched as the man returned to the bridge and ordered the AI to take off. ¡°Hey!¡± Tony called out. ¡°Do you need something?¡± Pelonius asked as he kept working with the computers. ¡°Well it¡¯s a personal question really though not sure how personal it will be.¡± Tony said. ¡°Have you ever really cared about such a thing?¡± ¡°Not really but I¡¯m not totally insensitive to a touchy subject.¡± Tony replied. ¡°Alright, go ahead and ask then, if I can¡¯t then I will tell you so.¡± Tony nodded and took a breath, ¡°Okay then. Why do your parents hate magic so much.¡± He asked bluntly. The question made Pelonius almost mess up his thinking process. It clearly showed that he wasn¡¯t expecting ¡®this¡¯ kind of question. He looked at Tony serious, ¡°Is there a reason for asking this?¡± He asked. ¡°Well when Leah finally told us about some of her past she mentioned how when she was born her magic ran wild. I had some doubts as to that being the sole reason that your parents hate magic but since she is young and doesn¡¯t really know much else she took that as the only reason so seeing you I had to ask.¡± Tony said. Pelonius sighed as he took Tony and put him in front of him on the console before sitting back. ¡°It¡¯s a bit more complicated than what Leah knows. I only want you to not tell her since I am not sure of her reaction to it.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°Sure, although I¡¯m blunt I know limits.¡± Tony said. Nodding Pelonius begins to type and soon brings up an image of his parents, ¡°These are my parents, renowned pure technology researchers. Although they are only lower ranked noble they are quite high in the planet''s standard of technological research. I was the lead in weapons development though.¡± He said. ¡°Anyways the world usually knows them for their lack and hate of mana and magic but in truth it wasn¡¯t always like this. It was actually surprising when I discovered it and it is one of the reasons I treat Leah so well.¡± ¡°What?¡± Tony asked confused. ¡°My parents, in their youth, where exceptional magician. The reason they had so much money for their initial capital is their connection to a nearby space station which they worked in and later they supplied new weaponry to the station while they received research material. But that is beside the point. On to your question, this was erased from all the systems on the solar system so you can¡¯t find it but before my own birth, my parents had a fight with an archmage. He wanted them to develop a unique magitech staff that could greatly amplify his power and not only that he wanted it to be a living weapon. At the time they weren¡¯t as good as they are today but they did know how to work with magic technology but when they told him that such living weapons required bioengineering and that they didn¡¯t specialize in it, the archmage did something even others would find repulsive.¡± He sighed and shook his head. ¡°He attacked them?¡± Tony asked. ¡°Not so much attacked, he originally left after having an argument but two days later my parents crew had them leave because of the pressure from the archmage¡¯s connections. After they had lost their ¡®protection¡¯ he appeared once more and before they could react he struck them both on the chest and crippled their mana pool. They lost all their magical abilities after that and held resentment to such degree that they settled down and using some few remaining connections to get the aid of a mage they invented a magic tech machine that I despise to this day.¡± He said. He removed and very small disk and put it into the ship¡¯s system and an image appeared. ¡°This was named the neutralizer, it can effectively close anyone¡¯s mana channels without crippling the person. It is like a machine made to remove talent from a mage. I did not know of this until my fourth sibling, my second sister, was born. When I first saw her I saw she had incredible magical talent and the doctors were complimenting her but after we got home they took us to a basement below and put her in the machine. She came out completely without magical talent. The same happened to Leah but probably because of her immense magical power they neutralizer was destroyed as it tried to close them. It succeeded in closing only a few of them but it barely reduced her talent for magic. The thing about her powers running wild, that is a load of bull. In truth the powers went wild while it was being closed. They were quite resentful of that since the machine is very expensive.¡± He said and laughed. ¡°Wow¡­¡± Tony said in shock and Adal appeared slackjawed. ¡°What kind of monsters are these!¡± She shouted. ¡°Adal! You''re forbidden from telling Leah of this, she already has a bad relation with our family so if you''re say this then it will be even worse.¡± Pelonius said. ¡°Hmph! They wrecked a natural talent, if what you say is true then the small number of closed mana channels in her body are a result of this machine! They are unforgivable! Now I see why her magic is so rampaging! I need to clear out those mana channels as soon as possible, although her control depends on her it will allow her mana to flow naturally! How dare those two ruin a naturally born witch disciple! GRRR!¡± Adal growled in rage before vanishing. ¡°Well this won¡¯t end well for your parents.¡± Tony said. ¡°You can call it karma I guess. I haven¡¯t felt real love from them since ever, when I originally entered for the first time I asked if they did that to me and I asked them how much talent I had and they said ¡®You ¡®had¡¯ the talent of an archmage I guess, maybe a bit more who knows but we cured you of taking such a pathetic route in life.¡¯ is how they said it to me.¡± He replied. Adal appeared with her eyes sparkling. ¡°IS THAT TRUE! If you have talent for magic then we have to open your mana channels, if your talent is similar to Leah even by 10% then your mana channels should be very flexible no matter how old you are. It will just take Leah putting mana into your body and you working the mana into a few cracks to break the first few open then slowly working. I have a few foundation techniques that can even improve your physical condition.¡± Adal said giddy. ¡°Give it up, I don¡¯t need that.¡± He said. ¡°But you want to make this magic technology thingy so if you opened your mana channels then you can directly manipulate that mana from your machines. Won¡¯t the precision be higher!¡± she asked. ¡°No, it will be world¡¯s lower because I never trained with magic.¡± He replied. ¡°Come on, it¡¯s bound to be at least easier than Leah¡¯s current control.¡± Adal said. ¡°Pff! Gyahahahaha! Oh man that¡¯s rich!¡± Tony laughed. Pelonius just sighed before Alad suddenly grabbed a screen and then a technique appeared, ¡°See see! This is an advanced level foundation building technique for Wizards! You will definitely get better physical form unlike common techniques.¡± She said. Pelonius took one look at it then frowned, ¡°What is that section about feeling intensive muscle pain as I do this?¡± He said. ¡°Oh that? Well you are opening your channels all the way to the smallest ones unlike common techniques that only open the main artery of the mana channels. It goes right into the muscles so yeah, you get muscle pain but that is secondary, similar to exercise.¡± She said. ¡°No thanks, I¡¯m more of a mental person anyway.¡± he said. ¡°Tsk, so hard headed.¡± She muttered, ¡°With that scrawny look I doubt any woman would want you.¡± She cursed. His brow twitched upon hearing that but he simply closed the file and turned to the laughing Tony. ¡°Anyway Tony, does that satisfy your curiosity?¡± He asked.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. ¡°Gyahaha! Yeah Gyahaha! It does.¡± he said though his laughs. With them flying off they soon arrived at their first destination. At the same time Leah was already on to her second destination and with a new addition. ¡°Oi dungeon! Is this really what you call high tech! My bed is more advanced this these hunk of junk!¡± an arrogant voice said to the hologram. ¡°FUCK YOU MIDGET!¡± Tony shouted. ¡°These are all I can spawn anyway. Blame the fucking system.¡± Tony complained. The current argument came from the new member who was quite excited to join. His name is Victor Halloway and he is the mechanic that was living in Spenolif. The move for this man was quite quick unlike they expected. He already lived alone and because of the notice from the AA he had already packed up. In truth from the start he wanted to leave and obviously the record of the crew was handed over and he was quite excited to be the first mechanic meaning he was the chief of staff for that section when the crew grew. His things were also stored quickly, due to his job as a mechanic with knowledge of magic tech, he had space storage and a few tools that were quick to store. His tools in particular were placed within a storage cube and he was arranging it now while looking pissed at the low grade drones. He pulled out a datacube, ¡°You should be glad I am so great. These shitty models you used, I used them for my warm up when I was in school and have long since upgraded their systems and kept it stored in case I got my own ship or on someone else''s. He walked to the computer and uploaded his information. ¡°Now feast your eyes on my genius dungeon!¡± He said. Tony just stood to the side and closed his eyes while leaning on the wall while Victor grinned at him waiting for the compliments. ¡°Well¡­¡± Tony begin, ¡°... I can say the model is impressive more than a 30% improvement over their overall performance¡­¡± Tony said. ¡°Oh someone can even notice that?! Good good! I changed a few pieces off the main weapons or shield and some of them I made my own parts.¡± he said proud. ¡°Yeah, I noticed.¡± Tony replied not opening his eyes, ¡°There are several new parts that work to improve the lasers from the fighter drone and a stabilizer to make the shield stronger. Even ten separate antenna with a unique scanning machine for the scout¡± Tony said. ¡°To point it out! You must be good yourself¡­¡± He begain. ¡°But you coding sucks.¡± Tony said opening his eyes. ¡°Eh?¡± Victor said. ¡°Your¡­ coding¡­ ability¡­ sucks!¡± Tony said word for word slowly and pulled up to screens and pulled up several long sequence and turned that section red. ¡°This part is wrong and making the power leak, if you change like this¡­¡± he said and on the one on the right it changed in some sections and grew more before turning green, ¡°... the laser output will rise all the way to 50% improvement. If you change this¡­¡± codes fly and another section changed. ¡°The speed of the scouts and fighters will improve from 30 to 60% and this¡­¡± Another section appeared and changed, ¡°Will make the shields of your model shield drones evolve from hexagon shield sections to octagon and improve power output by 70% while energy consumption reduced by 30%.¡± Tony finished and crossed his arms. The eyes on the mechanic were wide as he examined all the screens showing the changes before he slumped down. ¡°My coding, I conceded!¡± He said. ¡°What are you two idiots doing?¡± Mirella asked while looking dumbly at the two men putting on a comedy act. ¡°Just putting this guy in his place.¡± Tony said. ¡°Looks to me like you¡¯re doing a comedy act to me.¡± She replied bluntly. Nelim smiled wryly, ¡°Don¡¯t make fun of them Mire, Tony finally got someone to talk to and compete with.¡± She said trying to be the peacekeeper. ¡°Mirella, just leave the two to there own things. I already checked Victors things when he showed me a few of them, he has several new robot''s that Tony doesn¡¯t have including magic tech ones. As long as they enjoy a week or two together the power of the ship will rise.¡± Leah said from behind. ¡°True enough.¡± Mirella said leaving for the gym. ¡°Things are getting so exciting. Who is the next one leah?¡± Nelim asked. ¡°It¡¯s your sister at Floria Forest, did you already inform her?¡± Leah asked. Nelim nodded, ¡°She was really excited about it and she had already gotten information about the recruit request and she was even more excited when she knew I was on it. She said, ¡®Hooray I get to eat little sisters food again¡¯ first thing after I said it was my captain wanting to recruit her.¡± she said with a smile. Leah¡¯s smile was a bit forced since she didn¡¯t know if she should laugh or not. The girls left the two boys who had calmed down after the initial drama and Victor was now setting up his workshop in the room. Once his equipment was out, it would trigger a unique effect of the dungeon ship where the ship will scan the room and change the empty room that was made into the mechanic workshop and will open and connect all the machines and computers that were simply set down in different places. This is the magic of dungeons, if you have the equipment, the dungeon will automatically reconstruct to house the room properly using little mana to do the changes. As for the new robot''s those would take longer to spawn due to the mana needed, at the moment Tony was storing to expand once more and reach expansion two where he will be a true space class ship and will have enough space to put down all the systems needed. After an hour they landed at Floria Forest landing port and Nelim walked out and contacted her sister. It wasn¡¯t surprising that the girl had a crowd of ¡®family¡¯ but what made Leah freeze were the countless monsters in cage. ¡°Sister¡­ are these¡­¡± Nelim asked with a twitching smile. ¡°Yep! These are my personal breeding animals!¡± She said with a smile. ¡°Oh and don¡¯t worry if you need space the people of Floria gave me a 55 thousand mana crystal to help the expansion. With you here I¡¯m sure you have a farm already so all you need is to expand.¡± Crystal said cheerfully. They laughed wryly and greeted the friends of the Naiad, with the crystal, Tony had more than 100 thousand mana which was enough for the expansion and he used everything. The expansion pushed the ship almost 50% larger than it was before and it kept the half explorer half fighter look with a pointed front but now it had some turret stations and five floors. The rooms were separated further with the captain room at the top, the crew rooms with on that next floor the bridge and everything else was from the center down. The farm indeed expanded to have corrals for most of the animals with room to spare. The four rooms for the imps had expanded to eight rooms and now there were actual sleeping quarters there. All the other stuff also upgraded by a small margin of 10-20% but not enough to make the ship survive in space. Still the ship now had a larger crew capacity and but most of it could be filled with monsters. The sentient crew capacity increased to 20 but there were rooms for monster races now so the capacity easily reached 100 or so. It took a few hours to put everything in place for Crystal before they set off to get their final member, the field medic Joce Yanagi. However, after they arrived and found her address and began to speak with her there was quite a surprise. ¡°No thanks.¡± She said. The japanese like beauty with refined looks, a perfect face showed a cold expression. ¡°Is there something you don¡¯t like about our crew?¡± Leah asked ¡°I wonder, do you remember the type of crew I had on my signup page?¡± She asked. ¡°Umm¡­¡± leah thought. ¡°¡±Preferably a Newly made crew where I can get along with from the start.¡± That is what was written.¡± Tony said sitting on Leah¡¯s shoulder. ¡°Exactly, although the girls I can most definitely get along with, your dungeon is, unfortunately, someone I am unable to accept. His crude mannerism is so unrefined that it is like a rabid dog.¡± She said with a sigh. ¡°Just that?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°Yes, just that.¡± Joce replied. ¡°Well, he is annoying for sure.¡± Leah muttered, ¡°But¡­¡± She was trying to find the words to come up with an excuse. ¡°With the fleet made between his stupid captain and her brother I will probably spend more time on his ship through a nanite body. Or I would be with the mechanic. I don¡¯t really care much about these annoying women in my crew.¡± Tony said. ¡°Oh? And who, by chance, is this brother.¡± Joce asked curious. Obviously she would be since it was a crew that formed a fleet so they at least had some capital or connections. ¡°Pelonius Ulkina Biswal¡± Tony replied. ¡°Hey Tony it''s Pelodius Binoli now!¡± Leah said. ¡°P¡­ Pelodius¡­¡± Joce said in shock and slowly a blush appeared and she walked over to a cabinet and pulled out a picture of him. ¡°Is this him?¡± She asked putting it in front of them. ¡°Yes that is my brother? Do you know him?¡± Leah asked ¡°Know him?! Of course I know him! I was in school when I saw him dominate the school wide research tournament and when I was in the military he appeared with several new weapons that made life so much easier! Not only that but several medical gear we used were improved by him making administering medical aid much better.¡± She said and pulled out a pistol. ¡°This is my heal gun, it was something he designed for mass production and it can only shoot healing magic but it has a unique setting that allows us to control the spell and the mana capacity is really high.¡± She said with shining eyes. ¡°If I could meet him once I could die happy!¡± She said. ¡°Well¡­ he is our research and development chief so¡­¡± Leah said. ¡°Really!¡± Joce said with a passionate shine in her eyes. ¡°Even if I have to tolerate that annoying dungeon core I will join as long as I can meet your brother! If I can get meet him, learn from him and obtain things developed by him, I would even go to hell and back just for this!¡± She said in a daze. Leah just forced a laugh as she had forgotten about her brothers fame though she never thought it was to this degree. Joce didn¡¯t lag after this and quickly packed up. Similar to Victor they made an empty room and moved her things, it wasn¡¯t enough to make an infirmary but the tools she had were enough to cut the cost by half. It wasn¡¯t enough for Tony to buy the real infirmary since he used all his mana on the expansion but the ship was already at the basic size for when they are ready to go to space where they can mine minerals and make what was required to cut all the costs. With all of them gathered, the crew of six returned to Rokita to await for Pelonius. Chapter 22 ¡°Oh my god this is the real person! God i have lived for this day! Please an autograph and maybe an upgrade on my standard field medic gun as well!¡± Joce said to Pelodius with an excitement like a fan meeting her idol. He looked at her and then at Leah, ¡°You actually found a fan of mine?¡± He asked. ¡°Coincidence.¡± Leah said wryly. After Joce was picked up the crew flew back to Rokita and waited almost a day and a half for Pelodius to return and that left Joce on edge when she found out when he was going to arrive and it lead to this. Now she was circling him like a little puppy around her master wanting to be pet. Leah giggles and introduces her, ¡°Anyway, this is Joce Yanagi. She is our Field Medic and overall medic on the ship. She was in the military and she is younger than you and she went to school when you were there as well and also received military standard field medic magic guns.¡± Leah introduced the girl. ¡°Oh that explains it.¡± he said understanding something and turned to her and pulled out a pen and looked around the weapon before finding a place that wouldn¡¯t wear off and wrote his signature and gave it back to the girl. ¡°For an upgrade it will take a while, if you can prepare the preliminary scans and send it to my ship i will see what i can prepare. Since i have my own field medic in the crew i will also be doing that for them.¡± he sad. As for Joce, she looked like she was on cloud nine while holding her gun in a daze. ¡°As for the others, this is Victor, he is our mechanic and seems to get along well enough with Tony, you may or may not have been informed since Tony is in your left breast pocket.¡± Leah said pointing to the young man with the robotic parts in his hand. ¡°Yes i was informed, i took a look at the schematics, not bad your model. For someone so young.¡± Pelodius said rather casually. ¡°Oh it¡¯s a pleasure, to get complimented by a genius like the best of weapon development is an honor in of itself.¡± Victor said. ¡°And this is Crystal, Nelim¡¯s sister she is our farmer.¡± ¡°Ah so now there are two Naiads on the ship. At least there is someone responsible there now. Please take care of my sister.¡± Pelodius said. ¡°As for my crew, this is the Elite Shining Shield Guardian Order.¡± He said pointing behind him. From his pocket and from Leah¡¯s shoulder the two Tony Nanites simultaneously laughed. The leader of the group walked forward. The woman was tanned and looked a veteran but was also youthful. She low weight armor and currently covering her eyes were a pair of transparent glasses but you could see things passing over them the glass like a computer screen. ¡°I am Lorelei Trivkovic, the leader of this group and were hired into your fleet. We will be in your care but¡­ i did not expect the commander of this flee to be so young.¡± She said. ¡°I got lucky in a lottery while brother had his own money. Since he doesn¡¯t like the commanding role and i am captain as well so i was left as the commander.¡± Leah replied. The woman understood the reasoning and turned, ¡°This is Tris Golbin my vice and our Mage Healer.¡± The woman was wearing a robe and held a staff but her sky blue hair flowed naturally through the wind and her smile was kind. ¡°This is Rose Wells, she is a magic archer.¡± She pointed to the The next is the Blonde haired young woman dressed in heavy armor. ¡°That is Bozes Palesti she is our little meat shield.¡± The captain laughed. ¡°Captain, could you not say it like that!¡± Bozes said pouting. ¡°But Bozes, you have those two air bags, what else would others think.¡± Rose said and smiled at her. ¡°It¡¯s better than being a cutting board like you.¡± She replied as sparks flew. Lorelei walked between them and pushed them back away from each other, ¡°Alright alright! Jokes aside she is our vanguard and quite good at what she does. Next is our little scout, Juniper Akiba.¡± The ¡®little¡¯ scout appeared and made Rose look a bit more pitiful. The scarlet haired girl was small, smaller than most actually and instead of looking 16 she looked at least 12 but she had a very vague aura that seemed like it was fading as they looked at her. Also her breasts were actually matching her size and, although not big, for her size they stood out more pronounced. ¡°The Tech Warrior beside her is her older sister Jasmine Akiba.¡± Lorelei pointed to a mechanic looking woman but on her back was a large machine rifle and on her legs were small bags with tools. On her waist were more tools and there were some machines hanging on her side. ¡°The last on is our only male member, Momo.¡± Lorelei said. ¡°Boss please call me properly!¡± he complained, ¡°My name is Morris Haruno, I¡¯m a monster trainer and i have a number of monster but they never let me train them to fight.¡± he sighed. The girls from Leah¡¯s crew looked at him in surprise and the two Tony nanite robot''s flew over and slowly circled him for a while before floating up near Lorelei. ¡°Is he really a boy? Its gotta be a lie right? He is even more girly than the scout!¡± Tony blurted out. ¡°Yes he is, when he first joined he was 16 and there were fewer members and i also thought he was a girl and i dragged him to the bath.¡± She said without blushing. ¡°Oh my!¡± a few of the people present said. ¡°Please don¡¯t bring that back up boss.¡± he said sighing. ¡°Well besides them there is Pristine White, our ship doctor.¡± Pelodius said pointing to a young woman in her mid twenty. ¡°Rick Quinn Wreck our mechanic¡­¡± He pointed to an older man he nodded which everyone returned. ¡°And finally our farmer, John Slow.¡± He pointed to a young man. He he waved and fiddled with his communicator for a moment before a screen appeared. ¡°Greetings.¡± it said. ¡°Do not mind John, he told me about his situation. He is born mute and his body rejects any kind of replacement that is surgically implanted so he is forced to type but that made him quite skilled in typing. Besides farming he is quite good on a computer.¡± Pelodius said. After that a tiny bit of small talk happened before Lorelei came over, ¡°So Leah, what exactly are your objectives?¡± ¡°I¡­ don¡¯t really have any. I always wanted to explore space as a Space Cadet. Go to strange new worlds and explore the universe.¡± She replied. ¡°Well do you have any short term goals?¡± she asked. Leah thought for awhile and shook her head, ¡°Well i did want to visit Helionova¡¯s three moons. I have seen them from afar but i was always curious about them close up.¡± She said.Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. ¡°That works as a short term goal. Simply travelling casually is also good.¡± Lorelei said with a gentle smile on her face. ¡°What do you plan to do at the moment?¡± She asked. ¡°For now we need to start doing intensive dungeon diving to gather mana and properly build our ship. We just got our second expansion and now need a lot of mana to make many of the important ship systems to go into space. I know brother will probably ask you to help him in that regard so we may or may not stay in the same city and there is a chance he will go someplace to get research material for his experiments.¡± Leah said. ¡°You''re not staying together?¡± She asked. ¡°He said he would follow us as we travel but when on planetside having two ships would allow us to do different things more freely.¡± Leah explained. ¡°Ah i see.¡± Lorelei muttered nodding. She turned and walked off into Pelodius¡¯s ship in thought and Leah didn¡¯t really understand much of what was up with her so she let it be. Leah turned to her brother and walked over. ¡°So what do you plan?¡± Leah asked. ¡°I was thinking to go to a simpler dungeon then Rokita so that i can obtain the first expansion, i still have not begun to expand the ship and i require the two basic expansions as well as start to see what i can make with Adal.¡± he said. ¡°Are you going to leave immediately?¡± Leah asked. ¡°I still need to see the security team in action so probably not today.¡± He said. Leah brightened up, ¡°Great!¡± She said and happily skipped off leaving her brother confused by her strange actions. Each crew returned to their ships and went about their own work. In Leah¡¯s ship she gathered Mirella and Nelim quietly and muttered her idea leaving the two shocked before they chuckled. ¡°I am not sure he will be happy about this.¡± Mirella said. ¡°Yeah, Leah. He might become resentful.¡± Nelim said. ¡°Doesn¡¯t matter, since my brother left the Biswal for me, i will pay him back by giving his magical talent back. We already checked with Adal when she said he spoke about his supposed talent. His mana channels should be flexible enough.¡± Leah said. ¡°What about your own? Didn¡¯t you have blocked channels? Did you open them yet?¡± Mirella said. ¡°Their hard to open so i will do brother before i focus on myself.¡± Leah said. ¡°This will end badly.¡± Mirella said. ¡°We already tried out several of the stronger technique on the imps so what is the worry?¡± Leah said. The two signed and nodded before going about their daily routine. With the 1st generation of the imps coming being born recently without the genetic defects as planned by Pelodius, they were perfectly healthy and going into the room, Leah took her time to use Adal¡¯s techniques to open their mana channels and so that they would grow quickly. The parent imps were still useful since they could breed the healthy ones while the new ones were left to grow up after having their infant and malleable mana channels opened. When night came, Leah had Adals nanite body watch Pelodius until he was completely asleep and far into the night. Soon, Leah, Nelim and Mirella snuck out of the ship and walked across to Pelodius¡¯ ship where Leah¡¯s own command as commander of the Fleet allowed her to enter undisturbed and they quickly go to the captains floor. Since the ship was new unlike what her own ship had been and was several times better, the elevator was also very silent and sound isolating made it impossible for others to hear the sound of the elevator. The three quietly get off and Adal was waiting in front of his door. Putting their finger over their lips, Leah signaled to remain quiet and they quietly opened the door and slowly crept to his bed. Mirella was charged with holding his arms while Nelim was to secure his feet. On the count of three, signaled by Leah¡¯s fingers, they jumped on him and they grabbed him causing him to shout and wake up. ¡°Finally we caught you!¡± Mirella said after securing Pelodius¡¯ arms and legs. ¡°Leah¡­ what are you doing in the dead of night?¡± He asked coldly. In his mind, rather inappropriate thoughts were happening. ¡°Brother, stop being stubborn, this is for your own good.¡± Leah said as she mounted him just above the waist. ¡°What are you going to do¡­?¡± he asked. Leah started to remove his shirt and his face turned bright red. ¡°Leah! Siblings should not do this! No matter how much I love you, this is crossing the line!¡± He said. ¡°What are you talking about? We are going to unblock your mana channels. Stop with your vivid imagination.¡± Leah said blushing scarlet. This obviously required him removing his shirt but because it was so sudden and he didn¡¯t even notice the little wolf witch watching his every movement, he was seriously caught off guard and even his calm couldn¡¯t keep his face from blushing bright red from embarressment. ¡°Stop this already! I said i don¡¯t need magic!¡± He shouted. ¡°This isn¡¯t about having magic or not! Mother and father took away something that was your and should have been from when we were born. I am giving it back as well as a lot of your health! Don¡¯t think i don¡¯t know you suffer from several health problems just like all our brothers and sisters.¡± Leah said as she placed her hand next to his heart where the human mana pool is. Monsters have it either in their brain or lower belly area but humans and humanoids have it next to the heart. Leah took out her cursed wand to not make her mana go out of control and began to flood it into his chest. He felt a burning feeling in his chest making him shout out in pain as his compressed mana pool, that wasn¡¯t completely closed, was slowly forced opened. The mana pool that was closed to the size of a marble was slowly filled with Leah¡¯s mana that was rotating inside him soon forced it to its natural size that was the size of his heart. ¡°Careful Leah, be very careful. The first channel is to his brain so be extra careful!¡± Adal said. ¡°S-Stop!¡± Pelodius said through the pain but it didn¡¯t stop. Leah followed the main artery of mana channel going up and very slowly she unblocked only the main channel until it returned to his mana pool. He was trembling in pain but it didn¡¯t stop, left arm, right arm and legs, each one followed naturally along the flow until every main artery was opened. ¡°Good, now slowly begin to open his secondary artery.¡± She said. Leah was sweating by now and took a breather and drank a potion. It had been over three hours to open the main channels. She got motivated after drinking Nelim¡¯s energy drink and kept going, secondary were all opened by the time the sun began to rise and in the brain, Leah was carefully opening the capillary channels in the brain while the already too weak to move Pelodius wasn¡¯t able to resist due to the pain. This was the technique that Adal had suggested so that his physical condition would grow stronger. It was no wonder that he felt so much pain. Nelim was helping with the legs while Mirella was just holding his arms. As the two girls finished those places, they quickly finished off the arms and torso just before 8 am and finally let the poor researching go. ¡°Finally, Brother really did have flexible mana channels, his are much better than my own.¡± Leah said. ¡°It''s because yours grew up open while his were undeveloped, that said, he might feel sore for awhile.¡± Adal said just a little worried. ¡°We should get back to the ship before the others worry.¡± Nelim said getting up and walking to the door. ¡°Yeah, it would be bad if the others overreact.¡± Mirella laughed. ¡°AI, lock the flood¡­¡± A cold voice said. ¡°Affirmative, flood lockdown complete.¡± the AI replied. The three felt a shiver run down their spine. They slowly turn and look at Pelodius who was on the bed slowly get and twist his neck causing clear cracking sounds. ¡°This isn¡¯t going to end this soon.¡± He said, ¡°AI, administer disciplinary action on the Dungeon core.¡± Pelodius said. ¡°Affirmative, administering disciplinary actions.¡± the AI replied. ¡°Aahhhhh!¡± Adal suddenly collapsed as her Nanite swarm undid itself and fell down like sand. ¡°You three, get over here! Let¡¯s have a nice long chat!¡± He said coldly. The three were trembling and suddenly Mirella tried to leave only to find the room door locked and tried to punch it but failed. Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! At that time, they all turned to look at him as his hair was flowing and his mana was flowing and his mana pool was thumping in a motion of the heartbeat but it was deafening to the girls. At that moment, they were shocked as they saw this messy brown hair slow flow with the mysterious wind as it gained a purple hue that was no weaker than Leah¡¯s. He puts his hand into his coat and quickly shoots out a small item that hits the ground near the girls and suddenly the gravity around them intensifies and makes them drop to their knees, ¡°Now girls, lets have a chat.¡± He said looking down at them. The three were like leaves but couldn¡¯t escape and their screams didn¡¯t reach the lower floors. Idea Well, you saw that i was able to do the previous chapter but that was actually a bit of momentary insperation, was hoping for ideas for the future since i frankly don''t have any ideas. I don''t mean simple ideas of what to hunt or what could be done, i was hoping for some kind of plot development idea (like a main plot that could extend for 5-10 or more chapters) if anyone has anything please throw around ideas.Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon. if you can''t think of main plot ideas, it would gladly take simplier ideas, insperation comes in many forms and with how dry mine is at the moment, i am not sure if i will be able to remain extremely active with this fic without jumpstarting my ''desire'' to write it. (writers block is a bitch) Chapter 23 Sitting in a kneeling positions, three tear filled girls with a swelling on their head each from a firm hit on the head showed how annoyed the person who made that was. Of course these three are Leah, Mirella and Nelim and Pelodius looked at them from his bed, ¡°Alright, you¡¯re not allowed to heal those bumps through magic, this is your punishment.¡± he said and at that time, Pristine walked in and saw what had happened. ¡°What happened here?¡± she asked. ¡°Nothing, I need some healing because of the shit these three pulled.¡± Pelodius said in a tone far from his common calm tone. His voice was a tone deeper and his was groaning. Pristine nodded and ran over before pulling out a scanner and passed it over him. ¡°What! Your mana channels are all open! Wait¡­ your muscles are stressed and the nerves are currently over reacting, it''s like you went on a marathon.¡± She said. ¡°Just heal me already!¡± Pelodius said. Seeing that he was not in the mood to know what was going on, she pulled out a military grade healer gun and set the proper settings. ¡°This will sting momentarily.¡± She said and pulled his arm and pulled the clothes back before shooting directly into his arm causing him to flinch before the glow spread throughout his body. ¡°Now this is a nutritional supplement, drink this now¡­¡± She said and handed him a yellow medicine in a 150 ml cup. "In one hour, you drink this¡­¡± she pulled out a health potion, ¡°After that you should just rest for a short while and your body should be all back to full health.¡± She said. ¡°Thank you¡­¡± He said, his voice visibly less tense. Pristine looked at the girls and frowned, ¡°There is a swelling on their heads, do you want me to heal it as well?¡± She asked. ¡°No, also get in contact with the field medic of my sisters ship and tell her not to heal that on these three because it¡¯s punishment.¡± Pelodius said. ¡°Understood captain.¡± She said and picked up her things, "If you require anything or feel any kind of strange pain or uncomfortable feeling, please come to my room immediately.¡± She said. ¡°Of course.¡± Pelodius said and let her leave. ¡°Alright, you three will leave with just this, if any of you dare to try anything like that again¡­¡± He stopped there making them gulp. ¡°Now get out of here, I''m going to leave to gather mana and material to arm my ship, we can meet when we are prepared to leave for space. We can keep in contact through the Planet net.¡± He said. ¡°Okay.¡± the three said and got up. ¡°Be careful.¡± Leah said before leaving. Pelodius sighed as he fell back, his body trembling from the pain pulsing in his body. He could feel his body filling with mana unlike what he felt before where he never felt its presence. That said, it was stranger then what he knew about mana. ¡°Adal.¡± he said and her hologram appeared fearfully. ¡°Tell me about this Opening technique Leah used on me.¡± He said. ¡°O-Okay, j-just don¡¯t hurt me again.¡± She said fearfully. He turned to look at her making her jump and vanish. ¡°Gather up your nanite swarm and start talking. I won¡¯t hurt you anymore then you deserved, I want to know why it feels so painful when mana flows through my body and why does it feel like it is filling my body.¡± He asked. Slowly the nanites activate and turn into a small vortex before turning into a timid tiny wolf girl who floated over. ¡°Okay, it''s called the Savage Bear Channel Opening Technique. It''s one of the rare techniques that helps strengthen the body besides using the trick of eating a magic beast.¡± She said. ¡°What is a magic beast?¡± he asked. "It''s like a monster but one following the cultivating system similar to my own. Those imp creatures, if left alone and taught basic meditation won¡¯t become a Magic beast but if those chicken in Leah¡¯s ship the¡­ the¡­¡± She muttered. ¡°Cockatice.¡± Pelodius said. ¡°Yeah! That! If they had their channels opened, they would become magic beasts and would grow naturally becoming bigger and stronger as they grow.¡± She said. ¡°Above that is the King beast when the Magic Beast starts to form the mana ocean.¡± she said. ¡°Okay, back to me, how long does this go on?¡± She asked. ¡°Um¡­ you''re still stabilizing, there are ten levels to the Opening which corresponds with the number of channels opened, then ten levels to the mana absorptions where you fill all ten main artery of the mana channels and all the branches and finally the mana pool. Since Leah forcefully opened your channels, the pain shouldn¡¯t take long to stop with your healer present, if it was when I was alive, it would take more than a month of careful meditation to have it safely healed.¡± she said. ¡°Okay, so how do you use magic?¡± He asked. ¡°Do you want your universe or mine?¡± she asked. She already had all the scanned knowledge the Grimoire had pulled out of her and that included her magical knowledge and her universes methods which fit with this ones. Pelodius thought a moment, ¡°Before I see it, teach me basic manipulation and meditation or else the mana will just keep moving around wildly without my control.¡± He said. She nodded. *** The two ships soon took off in different directions but when the crew asked what happened for the three to get hit it left Tony laughing on the ground. ¡°Gyahaha! Captain bitch and vice captain green Slut really got it handed to you this time! Gyahahaa!¡± Tony shouted. The two stomped on him but regretfully he didn¡¯t flinch. ¡°We are going to Bordon, a Mining city next.¡± Leah said after arguing. ¡°What is there?¡± Nelim asked. "It''s a dungeon set up by dwarves and earth elementals, Golems. The dungeon is filled with powerful earth and metal type monsters but the walls are great mineral deposits and perfect for us to gather the material for Tony to absorb, build drones and all drop the price of many of the buildings and projects we need to complete.¡± Leah said and took out the list that Chroma, Mirella¡¯s mother, made for them.
- Main AI Supercomputer Capable of holding D rank AI Expansion Two, 160,000
- 1.3 G Force gravity generator Expansion Two, 55,000
- Mark I Interplanetary Hyperdrive Expansion Two, 150,00
- Expansion Two Expansion One, 100,000 ~
- Space Fighter Drone Hanger Expansion Two, 95,000
- Turret Slot 30,000
- Gun Turrets/Plasma Turret 50,000 minimum
- Lazer Beam 45,000 minimum
- Space Grade Life Support unit 10,000
- Ship Respawn Zone/InfirmaryIf you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. 80,000
- Teleportation Station 95,000
- Space Ship Shield Generator (Tech or Magic) Expansion Two, 120,000
- Mining Drone 1,400
- Mining Drone Station 60,000
- Mineral Refiner 90,000
- Outer Shell of the ship 15,000
Expansion 1 40,000 ~
¡°Thats a big ass list.¡± Victor said. ¡°We should get the Mining Drone station and Mineral refiner first then.¡± He said. ¡°Yeah I thought the same, these are also Space worthy mining drone.¡± Leah said. ¡°Aye, they should be pulse engine and possess storage space of around 100 kilo of brute mineral ore.¡± Victor replied. ¡°Dungeon, you have my personal blueprints right?¡± ¡°Yeah, damn thing, after my genius touched up on the shitty coding, cost 2,000 Mp to make 1 damn thing.¡± He said. ¡°How much better is it?¡± Leah asked. "If Mining drone is the default name that comes with the system, the improved mining drone would be around 1,700 mp, the current one he have can easily be ranked as a Mark 2 Mining Drone.¡± Tony said. ¡°Damn thing cost five times normal Mark two and is in the price range of Mark 3!¡± Victor said. ¡°Yeah but like captain bitch said, they are space worthy mining drones. It''s normal for space grade tech to cost much more.¡± Tony said without batting an eye. ¡°Alright alright! Tony, how much mana do you have?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Since you, the demon and the two Naiad have been feeding me, I have around 12,000, I can make 6 mining drone if that is what you want to know.¡± He said. ¡°We need the Drone station to control and store them don¡¯t we?¡± Joce asked. ¡°Yeah.¡± Victor confirmed. ¡°Let¡¯s prepare to hunt for now, earth beasts have strong bodies and are really hard on technology type minions like drones, it''s going to be an uphill battle.¡± Leah said to Mirella and Joce who were the combat group. ¡°We should have looked for a few more combatants.¡± Mirella said. Leah sighed for her own forgetfulness. ¡°OI!¡± Tony suddenly shouted. ¡°Forgot to mention but I also need a lot of mana to upgrade the core holder, it''s three upgrades only.¡± Tony said. ¡°Upgrading the Holder will improve the suppression coding, since you have control of the ship, upgrading it could lead to aiding the AI to suppressing you.¡± Victor said with a grin. "I already figured as much but I doubt she could do much and the Holder is still too weak so I don¡¯t care for now. Here is the list¡­¡± Tony said.
Core holder upgrades
¡®Mana Generator¡¯ 50,000
¡®Upgrade Mana Battery (250,000 mp) 62,500
¡®Mana Stabilizer¡¯ 6,000
¡°Mana generator? Ah! I see, the combination of the generator and stabilizer will let you produce and stabilize more mana at a higher speed allowing your 1 mana per day to increase to around 5 mana per hour or 120 mana per day.¡± Victor said. ¡°Really!¡± Leah said shocked but was quite happy about this but frowned at the prices. "It''s expensive.¡± "IT''S A FUCKING INVESTMENT YOU FUCKING BRAT!¡± Tony suddenly appeared and roared in her face. ¡°So stingy.¡± She muttered. ¡°YOU~!¡± Tony growled in anger. ¡°So what do you guys think?¡± Leah turned the question to the others. ¡°Priority to the mining drone and station is more important right now because from them we can gather minerals to decrease the prices of everything else.¡± Victor said. ¡°Agreed!¡± Everyone but Tony said making him scoff and vanish. Everyone dispersed to get ready to go to the dungeon, including Nelim who was preparing their lunch. *** In Pelodius¡¯ ship, he had left the AI in charge of flight and after drinking the potion, his muscles began to feel less pain and was in position to breath. ¡°Deep breath, feel the mana around you making a cycle. The cycle has to go to the ends of your channels and back to the mana pool. The head, right arm, right leg, left leg, left arm, this is the cycle pattern, start slow and careful.¡± Adal said. The dense mana in the air was flowing steadily towards Pelodius as his control was slowly growing as he kept training and flowed the mana through his body. His ¡®affinity¡¯ that he possessed was pure Mystic magic affinity, before it had actually not been stable because his talent had been affected by his parents Neutralizer but as he slowly breathed in mana, his body attracted mystic mana that came from the mystic moon, Shenmi, and slowly fixed itself into his body and slowly his affinity began to stabilize. The faint hue was rather strange on his lanky body but a healthy color covered his skin now unlike the more sickly color he had before. Even the bags under his eyes began to had vanished as his body was strangely vitalized by the mana in a strange means. When he breathed out the final time, a string of smog was expelled from his lungs and he opened his eyes and looked at the floating wolf girl. ¡°Great! You finally finished your first meditation!¡± Adal said. "It¡¯s enough that my mana is stable now.¡± Pelodius said and turned on the holo projector on his watch and did a corporal scan to see the data about himself. When he got the results, he was shocked by how much mana he obtained. It should be known that his magically trained sister has a value of 600 mana, he had 400 off the bat. It made him feel something was off. ¡°My mana pool is far from being the same size as Leah, how do I have more mana than her?¡± Pelodius asked. ¡°Well you''re storing mana in the mana channels as well. Also, what is that contraption? Does it give a number to the amount of mana you have?¡± She asked curiously. ¡°This is one of mankind''s best invention, each person is given one after their 5th birthday and it tells them their physical proficiency depending on their race. It took countless years of research to reach the procession the current model possesses and scanning of hundreds of thousands of people of the same race just to build an average of each race. As for the ¡®value¡¯ of mana. One point of mana is designated by the similar amount of the same mana within a 1 cubic meter of air.¡± He said. As he said that he told the AI to make a hologram cube of that size. ¡°The fact that I have a max of 400 mana power in my body means that absorbed an equivalent of 400 cubic meters of mana.¡± Pelodius said. Getting up he looked at his hand and felt the mana flowing and slowly he gathered it above his hand and formed a small ball and began to manipulate it in a simple manner. "I will probably have to get some lessons on magic now.¡± He muttered and sighed but he was engrossed by the mystical energy and wondered what his parents were thinking when they got rid of it when just because of an archmage who attacked them. If they were true scientists they would have studied how to make magical living weapons just to hire an even more influential Archmage to ruin their enemy. ¡°Since he is the source¡­¡± Pelodius muttered before withdrawing the mana, ¡°Let¡¯s go Adal, I need to get back to my research and have wasted enough time.¡± He said. *** "I-I wholly apologize sir!¡± a man said bowing to another one. ¡°So Pelodius left this place huh?¡± the man said. The person talking was none other than Leah and Pelodius¡¯ father and the man who was in front of him was a military commander who sponsored research and development from Pelodius. "I truly am sorry! He left so suddenly we could do nothing about it!¡± Professor Biswal said. ¡°Yes, he at least left his final work for us.¡± the military commander said and corressed the weapon that Pelodius had finished before leaving. It equipped like a gauntlet and possessed pulse technology that was part of a battle suit project. Besides pulse tech, there was also a laser weapon with a very high level penetration power. Of course, this is all technology based and not magitech. Most of this technology goes to regions with low mana quantity but is built here for the safety and several unique magical materials that are used to build the pure tech weapon. ¡°Since Pelodius is no longer here, it also means our weapon development sponsor is also terminated.¡± the man said. ¡°S-Sir! Please! We can still develop for you!¡± professor Biswal said. ¡°No, I don¡¯t believe you can, not at the development speed of your son at least. The field of you and your children are different from Pelodius¡¯ weapon development.¡± He replied and got up with the gauntlet. "I bid you farewell. If your family wishes to continue cooperation, you can come to the Helionova Military Space center and we can work out different research projects we require.¡± he said and gave a nod before turning and leaving. The family was in shock by how cold the man that they have worked with for years was. It was clear as day that they favored Pelodius only, still they had several other contracts. When the man was gone the professor roared, "IT¡¯S ALL THAT ABOMINATION¡¯S FAULT!¡± he roared. The already adult children just sat there not talking as their father roared, they looked from one to the other with a blank expression. They knew the house was falling on their head and if their father did something extremely bad. ¡°Whats with that look.¡± An extremely cold voice said. ¡°By chance are you thinking of being like your brother? Jump ship as it starts sinking?¡± their father said. In total he had seven children, Leah was the youngest of three daughters and Pelodius was the 3rd born boy of four boys. With the two not there, there was five of them left and their mother. "It''s all because of that abomination! I should have killed it when I still had the chance.¡± He roared. ¡°Father, that is going to far!¡± His eldest son said standing, ¡°Although you taught us to hate magic and we do agree with that to a point, your taking it too far with this madness of anti magic! We¡¯re in a magic world after all!¡± He said. ¡°So you¡¯re one of them? Those idiot half beats who say they are anti magic but are just saying that to appease me.¡± He roared at his son. The face of all five turned to scowl, the twitching of the face of his first son showed his anger, ¡°Yes! Yes I am! I''ve always fucking hated how you made us treat Leah and I''ve hated everything about how you treat everyone I know and tried to make friends with as trash! There is no one in the universe that has no magic!¡± He shouted. ¡°THERE IS! You¡­ and you¡­ and all of you!¡± their father said. ¡°Because of your sick experiment!¡± the first son said. "I¡¯ve had it!¡± He said removing his lab coat and throwing it at their father, "I¡¯m going to live my life and the first thing I will research is how to unblock my mana channels, I don¡¯t deserve your selfishness! Was a real man, he is the only one with the courage to openly defy you and treat Leah nice and even more...¡± he shouted. ¡°... he had the courage to leave your shadow without having to listen to your bullshit.¡± He said and walked out slamming the door behind him. A moment later, the other four each took their own coat off and walked out as well. After they all left, the man¡¯s face turned bright red, "I¡¯LL KILL HER! BECAUSE OF HER SHE RUINED MY FAMILY!¡± He roared. His wife was sitting calmly and watched her husband, "If you want to kill her, it would be too easy, why not destroy her biggest dream. She has always wanted to become a Space Cadet, let¡¯s just take that dream away from her. Her ¡®little¡¯ funds were all by lottery so her luck is just as much of a lottery that won¡¯t last.¡± She said ¡°Yes, we need to make sure to leave no traces but I will also teach those six to behave as they should have from the start!¡± He said and walked out as well to go deal with this.¡± Chapter 24 In a blink of an eye two week quickly passed and investing initially on Tony¡¯s Dungeon Core Holder, 108,500 mp was invested into his three upgrades causing his 1 mp per day to increase to 120 mp per day. Helped in the overall mana increase though not as much as the gathered mana per body. The dungeon was setup by the Dwarf and Golem race. Similar to Goblins, Golem were once magical elemental monster born from stone without much conscious thought. After selective breeding by countless breeders and tamers, a sentient race was born among them. Natural golem are rough and rather bulky but these sentient golem were perfectly humanoid shaped like walking statues. The dungeon was set up with a golem city lord and a huge amount of the corridors were filled with rare minerals and gemstones which drew in a great deal of people to these cities for the metal industry. Of course, everything is with it¡¯s risks. As an authorized defense mechanism to keep up the dungeon element, when mining of the walls happen, monsters begin to gather at the mining zone. Most monsters don¡¯t actually appear during travel but after mining begins making these kinds of dungeon be referred to as Mine Diving dungeons. Rarely would a stay monster be in the corridors. Every month the corridors are restored from the gathered mana from dungeon ship owners and what is extracted, unlike other dungeons, Mineral producing dungeons charge money and mana for both corpses and minerals extracted. That said, after buying Tony¡¯s upgrades, everything went into the 60k mp Mine Drone Station and the 90k Mineral Refinery. A total of 150,000 for it was obtained with an extremely hard grinding pace that left everyone sore. Leah, Mirella and Tony were the main combat force. That said, monsters in this dungeon were made of stone, it was incredibly hard to kill them because even mobs were tedious. Victor was the miner, with machines he and Tony built by paying mana during the time they were without mining drones so he wasn¡¯t a fighter and Joce, Nelim and Crystal were non combatants, Crystal remained at the ship while Nelim came for support and Joce for healing. Still, the monsters are incredibly hard to kill even when they were on the 1st floor where copper ore and small veins of iron was located. On the other hand, the return was similarly as great as the difficulty.
Rock Doll 40 mp
Gem rock Spider 70 mp
Rock Spider 25 mp
Mud Golem 80 mp
Dust Bunny 15 mp
The list above were all floor 1 and 2 monsters which is how far the party reached. Obviously as a mining town, it¡¯s population is huge and thus Bordon developed quite deeply allowing his upper floors to grow stronger. Rock Spider and Dust Bunny are the most abundant creature and come in swarms like Imps and Bullet fish. Gem Rock spiders are similar to the Winged Imp of their species. They are a rank higher after leader sized spiders. Mud Golem are the strongest creature in the first two floors but Rock Dolls are just behind it because one is a strange fluid golem making them even harder to kill while the other is hard. As such, with these five creatures, after two weeks, helped gather the over 200,000 needed to make the five upgrades and purchase ten of Victor and Tony¡¯s Mark 2 Mining Drone. ¡°Is it safe to bring so many?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Of fucking course!¡± Tony shouted. The drones were about 50 cm in diameter, much smaller than was expected, they had levitation technology that kept it airborne planetside and pulse tech for space. They had a circular black colored section on the front which were actually the mining laser and possibly the storage space. No one could understand where these small things would store up to 100 kilo of mineral. In fact, because of the upgrade from the dungeon on the already upgraded blueprints of the mechanic, they can actually carry 250 kilo of metal ore. With us were nine shield drone and seven Mark 1, or default, fighter drones, four laser drones and two Mark 2 Fighters controlled by Tony and the AI. ¡°We are coming up on the 2nd floor Iron vein.¡± Victor said as he looked at a map he purchased. We reached the wide space with red colored walls. Floating out was a drone with a small scanner under it which shot out a laser on the wall. Beep! Beep! ¡°Vein size, small, max weight ranging from 20 tons remaining.¡± it said. ¡°Perfect.¡± Victor said and gestured to Leah who took out several dozen machine parts that he pieced together into a large laser weapon. It was a heavy Pulse Laser meant for taking down large targets. ¡°Ahahaha! Now this is what i am talking about!¡± He laughed as he finished putting on the energy pack which turned on the motor that began to produce energy to supply the pulse laser. ¡°Shield drones, form three groups of triangle formation barriers in the back. Make sure all shields combine at the edge!¡± Leah shouted. The drones in question moved into formation and activated the barriers. ¡°Get in battle positions!¡± Leah shouted and quickly the others began to hide behind the barriers while Mirella got out and ready while Leah pulled out her Cursed wand so that she can use magic freely since the earth beasts can appear from anywhere. ¡°Mining drones, commence mining on the walls behind the barriers!¡± Leah commanded. Beep! Beep! They beeped once and flew along the wall at least a meter away from each other. Everyone watched curiously as the black disk on their front began to spin rapidly and glow red before it shot red beams that gathered before shooting forward and striking the wall before expanding like a bubble of energy which began to vaporize the rock. A kind of returning beam withdrew to the centermost red dot releasing a laser. ¡°Ahahaha! It¡¯s working!¡± Victor laughed. ¡°What is happening?¡± Leah asked. ¡°A common default or Mark 1 Mining drone can¡¯t do this! The laser was specially created so that it gathers only minerals and not rock. This means that all the Iron grains as well as all the other ¡®impure¡¯ metals are rapidly being gathered after the rock is vaporized!¡± He laughed. ¡°How long does it take to min then?¡± Joce asked. ¡°Around 10 minutes and it¡¯s battery will soon run out so after that we can move to a different node of material.¡± he said happily. VRRRR! His weapon began to vibrate while the rest noticed the ground began to vibrate as well. Suddenly a burst from a huge swarm coming through came from the corridor. ¡°Dust Bunny swarm!¡± Mirella shouted as she quickly ran into the barrier before the swarm slammed it. They were weak and couldn¡¯t break it but it was suicide to face it along. ¡°Fall with gentle winds of the sky, [Rainfall]!¡± Leah chanted and suddenly, in the air above, rain clouds formed and suddenly began to fall causing the dust rabbits to screech and run away but several dozen were caught and their dust absorbed the water and fell apart. She pointed at the mud forming and started to spin the wand around causing the mud to gather into a ball. ¡°Scanner drone, how many dust rabbits comprise this mudball?¡± Leah asked. A scan later the robot beeped, ¡°78¡± it replied. ¡°Hmm¡­ not a bad number.¡± she mutter as she stored it while the dust rabbits were fearful of approaching but this is the reason mud golem exists in the dungeon. BLOOP! ¡°It¡¯s coming!¡± Joce said. Slowly the water began to flow towards the back of the room and slowly gathered the dirt around it as several glowing stones shined in the center and gathered mud and formed their droopy bodies. ¡°Heh, the dust rabbits evolved into mud golems, this dungeon is quite smart when it created this creature since it uses the rabbit¡¯s own natural weakness to form a monster that counters its own weakness.¡± Tony commented. ¡°Since it¡¯s more beneficial¡­¡± Leah said and the rabbits suddenly flooded the room again with the slow moving mud golems behind them. Suddenly an even larger rain cloud appeared and began to rain from the back first and with even more water since Leah had used more mana rapidly dissolving all the monsters including the current mud golems but their cores were there and with Joce, Leah and Nelim using telekinesis, the ripped five out quickly and brought it into the barrier. ¡°After you know their weakness, it becomes boring to hunt them.¡± Joce said. ¡°Well¡­ it makes easy mana at least.¡± Nelim said. Everyone laughed as countless other Mud golem began to sprout out and the golems started to form. ¡°Alright, i counted 42!¡± Tony shouted as he flew overhead. ¡°Good enough.¡± Leah said and suddenly she pointed her wand up and two balls formed. One of powerful fire and one of strong light. She sighed and got ready as she pushed the two balls out of the barrier, ¡°Be careful!¡± Leah said. Everyone quickly diverted their eyes. The two balls overlapped and suddenly a huge drain of mana from Leah was felt as suddenly the two balls formed a what seemed like a miniature Sun. A massive heat wave spread out, ¡°Mixed magic! [Solar Flare]!¡± Leah shouted and instantly the Mud golems was blasted with the heatwave and completely dried. The ball died out a second later leaving Leah drained but drinking a mana potion quickly her dizziness slowly faded. ¡°Good job kid, it¡¯s not everyday you can find a 15 year old that can used mixed magic like that.¡± Joce said at her captains talent. ¡°Thanks, it¡¯s hard to support the spell though.¡± Leah said as she walked out and stored the 42 dead bodies of the dried up mud golems. ¡°After mud golem is¡­?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Two waves of rabbits and Mud golems before Rock spiders come. If that doesn¡¯t work then the Rock dolls appear.¡± Tony chuckled. They nod but after checking the progress of the drones, it showed that there was only five minutes left so it was easy enough to wait for the next wave that came soon after. Taking out the dirt ball as they appear, the cave is swarmed once more and we follow the procedure once more. Throwing the ball at the incoming rabbits, Leah cast the water magic again. The ball was simply to cause mayhem because there is much less reward cashing in Dust rabbits compared to mud golems.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. With the water, even more golems appeared and using mostly fire magic this time, it takes much longer to dry them but we accomplish it and store them just as the drones finish up and signal a lack of power. ¡°How boring, floor two is too boring now.¡± Tony complained. ¡°Yeah but floor three is overkill.¡± Leah replied. The reason is the full grown Rock Golems. Their power is three times the already hard to kill rock dolls and the rabbits also get a huge upgrade after that as well. Several hours later, the party was roughed up while storing the many stone bodies of the Rock Spiders, ¡°I think we should return back. I¡¯m exhausted!¡± Leah said. ¡°The Drones are just about full.¡± Victor said equally tired. At that moment the drones finished up and signaled their max capacity being full. Leaving the mining zone, the encounter rate instantly dropped to an all time low and they soon returned to the surface and had to pay for removing the 900+ Mud golems and the 1,420 rock spiders as well as the 2,500 kilo of raw metal which summed up to over 2,000 credits and several mana stones. After filling them up, we were exhausted and headed back to the ship. Dropping all the bodies into the cargo and filling it up, the drones headed to the drop zone and a space under them opened up and an outward vortex formed and suddenly perfectly box shaped metal began to pour out and pile up. ¡°Metal deposited, proceeding the Drone station!¡± they all said and they flew off to the Mining drone station while the party looked at the results of the mining. ¡°It¡¯s quite interesting, although they mixed everything up, it¡¯s in perfectly solid blocks ready to smelt.¡± Leah said. ¡°Yep, each block should weigh around 20 kilo so be careful with our feet.¡± Victor said and the others chuckled a bit before they headed up tired to take a bath and head up to eat some of Nelim¡¯s food while Tony took care of starting up the Mineral refiner and processing the metal while absorbing the corpses. When everyone was gathered the AI gave the overview of the catch.
Daily income
Mud Golem 80 x 934 = 74,720
Rock Spider 25 x 1,489 = 37,229
Raw mineral Iron = 2258 kilo Zinc = 22 kilo Copper = 180 kilo Lead = 50
Seeing the results, they were surprised to find such a large amount of impurities clearly marked out. ¡°How did it mark out perfect?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Duh! We made the machines so that it would show that stupid!¡± tony scornfully said. Sighing, Victor explained, ¡°The Mining drones were made to get rid of Rock or in other words silica impurities which require Limestone during the forging process to remove. Prematurely getting rid of it increase the quality and production speed allowing us to produce better metal at a quicker pace. With that, the drones target only the actual metals in the wall while attacking non-metals.¡± Victor said. Understanding the detailed explanation, they felt the drones were even more impressive now. Although the mining speed was slow, it was clearly much better. ¡°So how much MP do you have stored?¡± Leah asked. ¡°With the leftover from the previous hunts, 125,000 or so.¡± Tony said. The crew opened up the list of upgrades given by Chroma and began a long discussion on which item to focus on. Thanks to the iron and copper, the price for everything had dropped about double the weight of iron and three times the weight of copper. That means the iron had a value reducing capability of 2 mp for 1 kilo of iron and copper had a 3:1 capability due to their purpose. ¡°If we could only find silver or mithril, those are the two best conductive materials.¡± Victor scowled. ¡°If i remember correctly, silver has the best electric conductivity and Mithril the best mana right?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Yeah, Mithril is a mana saturated and mutated isotope of Silver, if silver was to become radioactive in a planet with little to no mana, it would simply break down like a common metal but when mana is present, the metal stabilizes by absorbing huge quantities of mana and mutates to this magical metal.¡± Victor explained the science behind the magic metal. ¡°Equipment like hyperdrive, Gravity tech, shield tech, respawn tech, and more, all of this requires mithril. Especially the Dungeon core holder.¡± Victor explained. As the going says, one cannot underestimate any trade, a learned person would be incredibly useful when the time comes. ¡°Should we move to the 3rd floor soon?¡± Mirella asked. ¡°Hmm¡­ it will be much harder down there, we will need to upgrade our weaponry and arm soon.¡± Leah said looking at their armor. Most of it was gained from the 3rd floor of a goblin dungeon but the difference gained in a Golem dungeon was huge especially with the high level industry in this town. ¡°If your worried about equipment, don¡¯t be. We have plenty of space in the ship so rust bucket, can build me a Forgery soon.¡± Victor said confusing everyone. ¡°You can forge?¡± Tony asked. ¡°Blast it! I¡¯m a fucking mechanic! Of course i fucking can! If i couldn¡¯t how the hell would i make the fucking parts for my own gear!¡± Victor said annoyed. It made sense, in fact, the trade blacksmith wasn¡¯t by itself anymore but was absorbed into several other trades of heavy industry. Although mass production took a large amount of it, hand made equipment was still always better than mass produced goods. An example was Pelodius¡¯ own magically formed weapons but he still needed magical materials. ¡°So we agree on the infirmary?¡± Leah asked. ¡°Yes!¡± Everyone said together. Tony got to building it quickly turned the room with all of Joce¡¯s tools into a large infirmary which contained all the necessities found in a hospital as well as medical research center since the room was split into several sections and had an isolated room with a single entrance with an isolation room where hazmat suits were hanging for when something dangerous was inside. The isolation room was military grade and all the walls were made without a single crack and it wasn¡¯t near the outer side of the ship. The most important part of this was the respawn pad. After dinner, everyone headed down and found the room and Joce quickly got to work to adding the binding to everyone¡¯s crystal and called all the imps and Queror for a medical check up. The imps weren¡¯t given crystals but Queror¡¯s own crystal was bound so that he wouldn¡¯t die in the ship. The plans to come was to keep upgrading the ship until all the systems were built and to complete what was remaining to get the ship in space. When the check up was complete, everyone went to do there own thing. *** WOOSH! Pelodius and his crew watched as the research ship rapidly grew as their 60,000 mp were rapidly used with a triangle shaped body, the research vessel gained one more floor and all the exterior was now part of the ship. ¡°Let us go inside.¡± Pelodius said and entered to see. The cargo had increased and the vessel looked much cleaner and better. ¡°The increase is impressive.¡± Lorelei said. ¡°Everyone is dismissed, tomorrow we will go another round of hunting.¡± Pelodius said and everyone soon spread out. Walking through the ship, Pelodius eventually reached one particular room at the center was a pillar that kept humming and mana was particularly dense in this room. Pelodius frowned, ¡°¡®A room that cost a lot and has little return.¡¯, why do you have to insist on this room?¡± Pelodius asked Adal. ¡°Because~! You won¡¯t be able to even access my universes magic if you don¡¯t train enough!¡± She said pouting. ¡°Did you get Leah to start training already?¡± He asked. ¡°She is¡­ she is even using the same opening technique as you so that she can make up for the weakness that mages generally have.¡± Adal said nodding approvingly. Obviously the body is the weakness of the mage, they are slow and weak so one hit can kill them but training that technique would let her close that gap as well as allow her to access heavy magical artillery weapons perfectly suited for someone with such high magical talent. ¡°From the sound of your voice, it¡¯s not going well.¡± Pelodius said. ¡°Um¡­ well¡­ it¡¯s like this, although she is gaining really good control, she has over twenty important blockades along her body that concentrates most of the energy from that neutralizer thingy you said. They could only close completely a very small section but because her body rejected the energy, all that excess energy focused on these points and it is taking a huge amount of mana and energy to grind down that energy to open the channel.¡± She explained. Sighing in a tired manner, Pelodius walked around as he saw floating wispy creatures. ¡°So these are the magical creatures you found you could naturally spawn?¡± Pelodius asked. ¡°Yep!¡± She said excited.
Magic Creature Spawn page
Nanite Swarm (1000x) 20 mp
Basic Elemental Spirit 30 mp
Barrier Spirit 100 mp
Sprite 60 mp
Warrior Sprite 150 mp
Plant Spirit 200 mp
(Further creatures are locked until later expansions, or discovery)
¡°You do have the default drones right?¡± Pelodius asked worried. ¡°Yes¡­¡± Adal said annoyed.
Tech Spawn page
Default Rank
Laser Drone 30 mp
Sentry 60 mp
Shield 100 mp
Fighter 120 mp
Crab 200 mp
Mark 1
Improved Laser Drone 40
Improved Sentry 80
Improved Shield 150
Improved Fighter 180
Improved Crab 300
(Further creatures are locked until later expansions, or discovery)
Looking at the more reliable drones, of which he obtained from Tony who had uploaded the blueprints of the basic drones to his ship. Still, this Magic Spawner Chamber had it¡¯s undoubtable advantage. About it guzzled up mana faster then was produced, even after having upgraded Adal¡¯s Holder even before upgrading her size, it was important to secure a training location for his magic. Training with magic and control was partly what he focused on after daily improvements and research he did. The only reason was that he had touched upon Adal¡¯s magic system which revolved around countless unknown runes. The magic runes are no mystery to mankind, they have existed and were formed from an early era and have long since been the means to forming magic circles and were used for magical programming that many magitech weapons were built with. The reason why Pelodius had decided to train more was because of the power behind the simplest rune. While training basic Fire Ball spell, he had focused intensely once to form and shoot quicker and inexplicably, in his mind, a strange glowing rune had appeared and aided him in forming a fire ball four times stronger and many times more stable than he had ever made during his two weeks of training. It was a single rune that did that so how could he not have instantly realised the power behind it. As a researcher, discovering something new by accident was one of the things he aspired for and even more so as a Weapons developer. As such, in his mind the idea came, ¡®If i could discover more and figure out how these runes worked for real, it would instantly improve all my magic technology production and power!¡¯ That said, his biggest desire at the moment, after hearing Adal talk about Leah¡¯s problem, was how to help her solve it. As he sat down and began to meditate slowly, his thoughts were simple and clear, ¡°I¡¯ve got to make something like the Neutralizer but that counters the effect of father¡¯s own. I¡¯ve seen all the blueprints and even know that he built an even better and more efficient one after the first one blew up in hopes to finally seal up Leah.¡± As he was still getting into the state of meditating the door opened to the room, ¡°C-captain, there are some people on the intercom wishing to speak with you. They say they are your brothers and sisters.¡± Morris, the monster trainer, said. ¡°Brothers?¡± Pelodius thought. Since he had not begun, he stood up and followed the boy to the bridge where a holoscreen had opened up and indeed, all his sickly looking brothers and sisters that he has known for 27 years, were there. ¡°Brother!¡± the leading one said. It was his eldest brother. ¡°Big brother¡­ what do you need? And do not say that you are in behalf of father because i don¡¯t give a damn.¡± Pelodius said. They all scowled, ¡°Don¡¯t mention him, we are also fed up with him.¡± he said. Pelodius was confused because his brothers and sisters were much more submissive to their father then Pelodius. ¡°Did something happen?¡± he asked. ¡°Yes, after you left, the Commander of the Helionova Military defense army in the space station came and picked up the combat gauntlet you had finished before dissolving the contract with us. After that father went crazy and like everything bad that happens, he blamed it all on Leah. Frankly, we had enough at this point.¡± his eldest sister said. ¡°What did you want from me?¡± Pelodius asked. ¡°Um¡­¡± his eldest brother scratched his head and sighed, ¡°We were hoping that you could accept us as part of your research crew. We know that you purchased an F343 Research Cruiser from the Recruit ship line. We all, frankly, don¡¯t have money for even the simplest research ship since all of them all cost over 150,000. We were never chief of our own research like you and you gained your own money separate from father but we don¡¯t have your talent¡­¡± He said. ¡°I¡¯ll say it now, I joined Leah in a fleet format. If it were any random person, i would have simply recruited if their skills were good enough but this goes back too far for her, I¡¯ll only let you aboard when you go directly to Leah and ask her directly and not through holo transmission. Also¡­ you had better apologize for every last little thing you did to her since she was little just because father said so!¡± Pelodius said. His crew was shocked by the cold tone that came from him when he was talking to them all and about their father. None of them butted in though, it wasn¡¯t in their right or place to butt into such an internal family problem like this. The faces of the five turned bright red from shame and avoided their eyes. ¡°W¡­ okay¡­¡± He said in shame but Pelodius formed a small smile. ¡°I am currently busy planning a new project to help Leah¡¯s out of control mana.¡± he said and narrowed his eyes at them. They realized that it was to get rid of the side effects of the machine they equally hated. ¡°Alright, we will not keep you brother.¡± the eldest said and the holo screen shut off. No one talked with Pelodius because he quickly left for the room he was in to start meditation. Chapter 25 In the city of Bordon, in a ship that had passed through two expansions, an extremely tense and awkward and tense atmosphere filled the room. Leah gulped as she saw five of the people she held either fear or some hate for. ¡°W-We are extremely sorry for everything we have done to you Leah! We only did it because of father!¡± the lead figure said while each of them had actually kneeled down. The crew was there but were startled by what was happening. Only Mirella and Nelim knew best about some of her personal life but the newer members were much less informed about the details and the problems or even her real name. ¡°You bastards, although i hate captain bitch, I know her even better than you assholes and even know about some of what you assholes did to her! You think just bowing and begging is enough!¡± Tony said veins appearing on his face. Unlike his common outbursts, this face was very calm but veins were appearing. This was probably the most angry anyone had seen Tony. Besides Mirella, Nelim and Leah, Joce, Victor and Crystal didn¡¯t understand his anger but the fact that several fighters were outside the window. The five did not know who he was but they knew the situation was far from good as they truly wished it to be. Leah herself wanted to stop him but she had her own troubles in this situation. Her entire life when she was with her family had been one bad memory. Although her brothers and sisters had frowns whenever they frowned, of which sometimes she knew they even said stuff only to not anger their father, a lot of what was said was extremely painful to hear. In fact, she knew they weren¡¯t as bad as they had shown but it was still hard for he to openly accept this apology. Several times they had said insults which had greatly hurt her. ¡°Just say the word and i will dispose of this trash!¡± Tony said. Sounds of weapons being armed outside was heard but it required Leah¡¯s order to dislodge and open the windows into the top floor. ¡°No.¡± She said making Tony stop. She was looking nervously at them for what they were doing, ¡°Why are you doing this?¡± She asked. ¡°We¡­ we wanted to join little brothers crew but because he was in your fleet¡­¡± her eldest brother said, ¡°... even as he made us do this, we all are extremely regretful of it. We just feared father to much. We aren¡¯t like Palodius who is a monster talent who does contracts separate from the family business. We only left because we could not take it any longer with fathers madness¡­¡± He said. Even as he said that, he didn¡¯t look up and instead, seemed to shrink more. Leah¡¯s heart was heavy, she wasn¡¯t sure if they were doing this just to enter her brothers ship. He heart was beating heavily because she really didn¡¯t know how to deal with this. She only felt bad being with her family and seeing how they were now wasn¡¯t exactly a relief, she felt even more awkward. BANG! Suddenly the door was smashed open and to the shock of everyone, a robot running on steam and gears walked in. Tony vanished and the robot stomped over and grabbed Leah¡¯s eldest brother by the shirt and lifted him up. ¡°Before anything else, you asshole, how much do you know about the shit your parents did!¡± He said shaking them. They all looked up to the dungeon conscious in shock. They became even paler then their sickly faces were. This was plenty to show him that they knew everything. ¡°We¡­ we want to fix his mistakes!¡± the eldest brother groaned. Tony snorted, ¡°And how the fuck will manaless idiots like you even do something like that! Do you know that even with the unique method we found to cure Pelodius, it doesn¡¯t work on Leah because of the shit those idiot asshole parents did!¡± he roared. They turned pure white and Leah became confused. ¡°What are you talking about?¡± Leah suddenly said. Tony turned around while holding her brother with one arm. ¡°When you were born, you didn¡¯t randomly blow up with magic. Just like your brothers and sisters, you asshole parents invented a machine to close mana channels.¡± the blockades in your body is all the concentrated energy that would be in your entire body instead of one space.¡± he said completely ignoring Pelodius¡¯s desire to hide it from her. Leah trembled and became pale as she heard that. ¡°W-What?!¡± She said ¡°I-Is that true?!¡± She asked her brothers. They were sitting up and all of them scowled and their eyes turned red, ¡°We all have suffered the same process. We all ¡®had¡¯ magical potential.¡± her eldest sister said. ¡°Even when we knew, we still feared fathers retaliation.¡± she said. That said, Leah was trembling, he heart beat was pounding harder. ¡°Unknown alteration in captains heart rate. Irregular palpitations.¡± the AI suddenly said and everyone suddenly turned to look at her only to find her holding her chest. She was sweating intensely and trembling. ¡°She¡¯s having anxiety attack!¡± Joce suddenly shouted in shock before quickly running over and pulling out her scanner and medical gun. She forced Leah down and removed he vest before scanning her quickly and applying the proper healing magic. The irregular breaths calmed down but Leah was dizzy and coming in and out of conscious while a fever had formed. ¡°She had to large of a shock, tony, help me take he to the infirmary.¡± Joce said. The robot controlled by tony let go of Leah¡¯s eldest brother and picked her up and with Joce, they ran out. The rest of the crew and guests were left in shock and panic of what happened but the newer crew frowned with glares at he sibling. ¡°The hell you bastards do to her?¡± Victor shouted. The face of the siblings became extremely dark but they didn¡¯t keep any secrets and directly told the crew what they all went through as children and discovered only later in life. Only Leah, the youngest child, didn¡¯t know about it until now. They slowly explained about the ¡®methods¡¯ of rearing their parents did and what had happened to them the few times they were nice to Leah leaving them aghast. ¡°These aren¡¯t parents, their fucking monsters. Even dungeon monsters are more humane than them.¡± Mirella said shocked by the secrets she didn¡¯t know about. ¡°It¡¯s no wonder Leah had an attack like that.¡± Victor said coldly. They didn¡¯t look at the five badly anymore but didn¡¯t look favorably because they still said what shouldn¡¯t have been said, even if forced. Joce had returned after putting Leah to sleep, ¡°This is going to be troublesome to deal with but i don¡¯t think Leah will completely hate you. She isn¡¯t such a closed minded person. It might take he a long time to completely forgive and forget but she isn¡¯t an unforgiving person.¡± Joce said.If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. ¡°True, she is a very caring person.¡± Nelim nodded. They all agreed but the five only showed expressions of self hate. Her current personality was only because of how Pelodius was behind her backing her even though he had passed through the same treatment but had a totally different personality and didn¡¯t fear their parents. That said, the hate towards their parents only deepened. The five were allowed in the extra bunks that had formed in crew dorm while Leah recovered which was just the night. She woke up very early and Tony showed her the video he took of them speaking after she had her attack. She didn¡¯t respond but at breakfast, it was incredibly awkward to say the least. She breathed in deeply and walked over to their table, ¡°Elder brothers and sisters, tony showed me what you said after i had¡­ i had that anxiety attack. I didn¡¯t know your side of the story, in particular what you all passed for the times when i was little that you acted nice. If i had known, i might not have hesitated, I¡¯m sorry for judging.¡± She said. ¡°You don¡¯t need to apologize, we were just cowards in front of him.¡± her eldest sister. Leah looked sad, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, i really am unable to let you stay on my ship. I¡­ i just feel to distressed. I can buy you a new ship and you be a third ship in our fleet.¡± She said. ¡°No need, really¡­ as long as you forgive us, little brother would allow us as his research crew on his ship.¡± her eldest brother said. She smiled weakly and nodded, ¡°I will tell brother.¡± she said and walked away but hugged herself before going to the office and had Nelim bring her food there. Leah paid for a ship to take her siblings to where her brother was because she didn¡¯t have a teleport pad. She really only calmed down after her siblings weren¡¯t there. Nelim held he in her arms, ¡°I hope i can become like real siblings with them.¡± She said. ¡°Don¡¯t worry Leah, you just never had the chance, now you will have all the chance in the world.¡± Nelim consoled her captain. *** Pelodius looked at his three brothers and two sisters with no real emotions. ¡°I really didn¡¯t expect it to be any different from this.¡± he said. They looked ashamed at his words but did not deny it. ¡°As i promised, you can be my research crew, i really won¡¯t stop you from doing your own research though.¡± he said. ¡°We want to make a machine to open Mana channels!¡± his eldest brother said. ¡°You started something like that right?!¡± Pelodius stopped and looked at his brothers. ¡°I¡¯m not making a machine to unblock mana channels. I¡¯m making something to unblock Leah¡¯s mana channels. If you all want to regain you lost magical talent, as the Ship¡¯s dungeon and some of the magic users on the crew, if your willing to risk suffering a lot of pain, they can help you.¡± He said dismissively. The five were confused and shocked but watched him enter the elevator. ¡°We¡­¡± the eldest brother sighed. ¡°Leon, you don¡¯t have to feel bad about what we are facing.¡± the eldest sister said, they were close in years so had spent most time together. ¡°Yeah¡­¡± he said. The Biswel had seven children, Leon is the 1st born boy followed by the Beatrix who is the first daughter. They are 34 and 33 respectively. From there was Wilson at 30, Pelodius at 27, Helen at 24, Gregory at 20 and Leah at 16. They walked to the elevator and went to meet the crew and actually ask about what Pelodius had said. As for Pelodius himself, he was in his bioengineer lab and was using his machines to slowly improve some weapon parts. Like before, he did not mind in his siblings business if it didn¡¯t have to do with Leah. Hours later the sound of the door opened and an excited face appeared, his hair deep blue. ¡°Pelodius, I¡­!¡± just as Leon opened his lips, his jaw dropped as he looked at the lab. With his new magical sense, having read records of it, he felt the radiation coming off each and every piece. ¡°Pelodius¡­ these are Cursed weapons!¡± Leon said. Pelodius frowned but did not look away as he was in the middle of adjustments, ¡°They are, I¡¯ve been researching it for the better part of 6 or 7 years now.¡± He said. ¡°6 or 7 years! Wasn¡¯t that the same time you did the several military contracts including even making the prototype for a new generation of non-magical Space mining suit!¡± he said. ¡°It is, these were all to help Leah improve her control of her magic. Now i am making each and every part into an anti-neutralizer. I am using father''s latest model and reverse engineering it so that i can used focus energy to nullify the original Neutralizers energy in Leah¡¯s body.¡± He said ¡°You know if you made a general energy mana channel opening Neutralizer, you would become the most famous person in the galaxy!¡± He said. ¡°I am not interested, i won¡¯t stop you all though.¡± he said and finished his adjustments before looking at his brother, ¡°My worry is with Leah, if she has the ability to become the greatest mage in his history with her affinity, then i will help her.¡± He said. Leon was shocked by his younger brothers devotion and smiled wryly. He looked at the lab and saw ten empty Bioengineer containers. ¡°What are you preparing those for?¡± Leon asked. ¡°Soon to decide which kind of humanoid monster we shall produce to fill in for crew.¡± Pelodius said. ¡°Oh! I can deal with the bioengineering, i majored in genetic research and machine cybernetics.¡± He said. ¡°I don¡¯t need cyborg monsters, it would obstruct Adal¡¯s mana channel opening art, its more effective for fixing the last defects in clones. I just need time to breed them.¡± Pelodius said. Leon scratched his head, ¡°Is there anything I can help with?¡± He asked. Pelodius was looking at another part and paused and began to think, ¡°You could help the rancher, your major in genetics can help breed better creatures with selective breeding.¡± He said. Leon nodded wryly and agreed that it was a field he might fit into. Cybernetics isn¡¯t a promising career path since few people want to mechanize their bodies. Just as he was about to leave he suddenly stopped and looked at the cursed weapon pieces. ¡°Ah¡­¡± he muttered. ¡°Brother, can i look at your Cursed weapon research, i think might have thought of a good path.¡± Leon said. Hearing the uncommon enthusiasm in his brothers voice, he looked back and saw the sparkling eyes of his elder brother who looked at the parts and slowly pieced together what he could be planning. ¡°AI, allow Leon to access the research file for browsing but not modifying.¡± Pelodius said. He left his older brother alone making him leave so he can get to work. Leon happily left and went to the top floor diner and began to read and read. The others were having their channels opened and suffering from the appearance of their affinity traits which was their bodies adapting to it by absorbing mana into their vacant bodies. *** A week after the event, Leah purchased a teleportation station which connected hers and her brothers ship no matter how far but it made Tony go crazy as he kept pestering them to get one of his low leveled 4 layered firewall programs. It was to expensive though. They could get only his 2 layered Firewall program for 40,000 MP installed and he was no happy but it was enough to form encryptions and alert him of hacking. This obviously meant he also had the station locked down unless Pelodius called saying he was coming over. Tony wasn¡¯t convinced of the safety though but could only deal with it as it was. They also bought the space grade life support unit. They still needed a 1.3 G Force gravity generator, Mark I Interplanetary Hyperdrive, Space Fighter Drone Hanger, Main AI Supercomputer Capable of holding D rank AI, Space Ship Shield Generator, Gun or Plasma Turret and Laser beam. The lowest amount needed was 675,000 mp to produce everything, if they used only mana without any extra extracted materials. They were a ways from going into space but they already had a good amount of basic metals for decreasing lots of prices. An event happened that caused them to desire to go to the 3rd floor of Bordon. In the Imp habit, there have been three generations already born and each and every one of them Leah would go and kill the parents while switching the males and females with other groups to breed. Before switching, they would always open the mana channels of the Imps and it finally bore fruit. When they went to see the groups, they found a pair of winged Imps in each habit. This was a great progress because the imps born of Winged Imps had much greater potential. Leah order the imps to be killed and switched the females of each habit and opened their mana channels and made a Demon crystal in each of them. They would become the breeding vessels to who she would finally breed Lesser demons who were the desired base creature for crew. Queror had also had his channels opened and formed his Demon Crystal and he had even grown his horns as his mana was growing. He had unexpectedly begun to train Adal¡¯s mana cultivation of absorbing mana, as does Nelim and the other magic users. That said, he had formed a method for demons instead of human or humanoids. It was recorded and very interesting. Because of the advancement of the Imps, they believed it was a good time to begin going deeper and securing the right of the 3rd floor and head to the 3rd floor shops and upgrading their gear. Armor was different from weapons so they made all the plans to be fully ready for mining in the 3rd floor against fully grown Rock Golems.