After the meeting with Yuri and Arthur, Obadiah immediately began reaching out to the other seven masters across the world, telling them to train as quickly and efficiently as possible.
"If what they said was true..." Obadiah laid down on his wool bed. "...we may already be too late."
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Five months passed by quickly as nothing really went on at the new base. John stood atop his first temple and smiled down at the villagers and four ARC Troopers. He kept his squad of commando droids, and let the ARCs keep theirs, but they left every other one to be found one day... hopefully soon.
During these months, John received a quest to earn over 50,000 gold coins by any means.
Gaffer building the temple, he had accumulated 40,000 over the last 5 months, and after building the temple for three months, his remainder was...
76,000 gold coins.
During this time, Fix also finished the GAR gunship blueprint and gave it to John, allowing him to build those in the future. Each gunship take 4,000 gold and 2 weeks to construct.
John decided to go ahead and build the two free clone barracks, setting up the area where they would put clones in the future.
He looked out over the forest of white and pink trees, the temple towering above them.
He also went to the kingdom to their south to buy a lot of materials for clothing and weapons using the gold the bandits had. He was able to buy a lot of fine leather and cloth, allowing everyone to have a uniform of black.
Hosea was in charge of farming, while Indigo led the remaining loyal bandits to hunt and spy in other kingdoms. They learned that the kingdom to the south had a prince and two princesses, overshadowed by their eldest brother, the crowned prince.
The empire controlling most of the territory to their right was a peaceful land, but had many who wished to go back to their warrior nature. They would be a problem.
As John thought about many things, a system notification popped up.
[You still have quest rewards to accept from quest: The First Temple. Would you like to accept them?]
John jumped a bit as he was focused on his thoughts. "Yes, system."
[Rewards: 1x Sith Lord Kit, Lightsaber Hilt Blueprint, Synthetic Crystal Furnace Blueprint.]
John looked at his blueprints first. "System, explain."
[Lighstaber Hilt Blueprint: The default blueprint for a lightsaber hilt. Owner may add custom features. Cost: 50,000 gold per hilt.]
"Bit expensive."
[Synthetic Crystal Furnace Blueprint: Used to make synthetic crystals, usually red, but through manipulation in the force, can be any color. Also found to be an unusual silver. Cost: 100,000 per furnace. 25,000 per crystal. Three days to construct the furnace. For the Crystal, time varies based on user.]
John backed up a bit. "Very expensive." He sighed. "Show me what the Kit gives."
[Sith Lord Kit: Guaranteed 1x lightsaber hilt, 1x helmet, 1x Sith Armor Set, ?x Random item]
John turned from the edge of the temple. "Open it, I need a new helmet."
A crate appeared out of thin air in front of John. He opened it and was told of the items.
[Lightsaber hilt duplicate, Sith Recluse Armor Set(helmet included), 3x random item.]
John used the force to take it all out. The Sith recluse was a nice sleek, black armor that had a larger right shoulder, and a black Kama that reached down to just above the ankles of the wearer. (The Kama is the black cloth like stuff around Captain Rex's legs.)
He looked at the equipment, putting it in his inventory for now. What he was interested in was the random items, since the name still didn't pop up.
He looked in the crate, barely able to make the outline of a closed black pouch. Grabbing it, he opened it and dumped the contents into his left hand.
[Obtained: 2x Kyber Crystals, 1x Cracked Crystal]
John became confused. "System, shouldn't it be hard to get these?"
[Yes, but it is the only actual Kyber crystals you won't have to work for.]
Looking at the crystals, one had a hue of blue while the other had one of green. The cracked one looked unstable and had the color of crimson red. He sighed, putting the crystals into his inventory. "So it'll be much harder from now on."
He decided to go inside, and his droids followed him. He went up the elevate in the center to a small hallway before coming to a door. He turned to the droids, who separated into five on each side of the hall, standing at attention.
"Let no one in unless they have a mission report."
"Yes, Lord Thane." 01 responded.
As he began to close the door behind him, he stopped. "Once Chris returns, have him sent here. I have something for him." With that, the door shut and 01 told all commando droids to get the message to Chris.
John took off all his clothes as he walked into his bathroom, intending to take a bath. As he did, his clothes cleaned themselves and a woman chained to the wall watched him with disgust.
"Do not worry, Charlotte. Nothing will happen to you while your brother is gone..." he looked at her. "...oh, you carry a lot of malicious intent for me, don't you?"
She nodded. "You've blinded my brother, who has begun to strive for a power he won't be able to have!"
John sat silently in the bath for the next few minutes, but he was really just using the attribute and skill points he got over the past 5 months.
[John] [Lord Thane]
Age: 19
Level: 35
HP: 1,750/1,750
Vitality: 14 -> 24
Strength: 18 -> 28
Agility: 16 -> 26
Intelligence: 12 -> 22
Dexterity: 14 -> 24
Endurance: 13 -> 23
Experience to next level: 0/3,600
Unspent Attribute Points: 60 -> 0
Unspent Skill Points: 38 -> 37
Skills:
[Force Manipulation: Level Max]
[Experience Gain: Level Max]
[Force Lightning: 14/15 -> Level Max]