Salem awoke to Alina calling his name.
"Salem. We have a problem."
Making his mech around his body again, he drained 350 psyche and slid out of the lean-to.
"We have no water." She said.
Salem looked at her and made a shovel.
"You want to dig a well?" She asked, surprised. "Did you already search for nearby water sources?"
Salem nodded and went to the center of their little village and started digging.
While he dug, he checked on the bugged Alec. Alec was standing in a mostly destroyed room, breathing heavily. "How could I have been so careless? If I had put more men there, this wouldn't have happened"
'So he blames himself? Good. Suffer you sick f**k.' Since he couldn't manipulate his bug from so far away, he decided to kill Alec when he was closer.
Alec's physical strength was what Salem was worried about. But, gauging the destruction in the room, he wasn't particularly strong.
When Salem finished digging, it was almost lunch time. Looking up the hole he marveled at how easy it was to dig all the way down to the water table with his mech. Clambering out, he saw another large boar and marveled at Alina's ability to hunt. He gestured For Alina to come over, made a bucket and rope, lowered it down the massive hole, and pulled up water.
"Wow, you're efficient." She remarked, impressed. "I'll have a few people build a frame around it."
She turned and led him to the line to get food from their cook. The cook was a very young blood elf who went by Ellie. Ellie silently handed Alina and Salem their food when it was their turn in line. As the went and sat down together, Alina explained why Ellie was like that. "Her mother was..used to death the day before you broke us out."
Salem understood that if he had any family in this world who died, he'd act the same.
Finishing his meal, he let Alina know he'd be back and left towards Alec's mansion.
On the way he checked his status.
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Name: Salem Argenti
Race: Void (Humanoid form)
Class: Nanomancer, Second class available
Psyche: 800/800
Health: 300/300
Intelligence: 40
Strength: 5
Insight: 21
Agility:13
Vitality: 10
Luck: 7
Status: Nerve damage: Until you've fully rehabilitated your nerves, you will be unable to function without outside assistance.
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'Wow my stats shot up. And my psyche regen rate stayed at 0.5%.' He thought, but he was troubled by something else. 'No s**t my nerves are damaged. Looks like I need to either make some permanent nanobots to replace parts of my nerves, (Which would be far into the future) or do it the old-fashioned way.'
He recycled the left arm of his mech and began moving it, exercising it to try and rehabilitate it. Doing so until he reached Alec's mansion, a while later. Upon reaching the mansion, he didn't even enter. Using Eyes of the Machinist, he verified Alec was alone and beheaded him with his mini guillotine.