(Robin's POV):
After the invasion of the Eye of Cthulhu hitting upon us... We returned to our simple daily lives. There were some minor issues like small raids coming here and there but we never had something major occurring after finishing the entire castle.
It few days have passed after the Eye of Cthulhu invaded our castle. We had initiated another meeting towards our game progress.
The contents of the meeting was about finding a way to continue progress into the game while leisurely finding a way to keep watch over all the enemies.
The way to do that is spreading out very nicely towards each biome. We had planned to create bases everywhere and have pretty much decided quickly.
The ones who are still undecided are Michael, Ross, Julius, and Mitch... Some others are sticking together while some are staying by Seymour's castle. All of them are called in whenever there is something occurring.
Denzel has decided and actually began building in the snow biome. He was a cunning guy at some things, specially if it involves monopoly of location... By the looks of things he has a grand-scale structure planned in there. He was using ice magic a lot more than an average cryomancer. It's a severe training to further push his limits as he continues building at extreme paces.
"Karl, you're gonna be staying in the ocean huh?"
"Yep, it has a decent stockpile of mana and is definitely a comfortable place to both stay and possibly collect information." - Karl
I'm currently talking to Karl who I followed to the enchanting tower for some improvements to my current selection of weapons.
"Besides, there's an entire town in the middle of the ocean that could give me a major advantage. Using the ocean directly to create possible attacks towards the enemy gives me a nice chance to keep myself distant." - Karl
"I see, you'll be back with more friends huh?"
"Well, who knows... I might stay alone because I'm not really sociable or whatnot..." - Karl
"Well, I think you are pretty intelligent and subjective. You'll definitely find a few good friends there."
"Ahaha~ We shouldn't forget our main objective though. Ah, it's done! Here..." - Karl
Karl handed me a broadsword with runes embedded into the blade. It's a large two-handed sword that could be difficult to use without training. The sword has a pristine white color that somewhat similar to a beacon of light that shines nicely in the dark. It lights up the entire room as I fill it up with mana, changing the gloomy atmosphere within the enchanting tower to become a stable and bright place.
"Damn that's bright... The effects alone are partly broken already. What if I use this on combat?"
"Well, you can blind targets temporarily. Lightcasters should be immune to the blind effect and... You could sear someone with that light." - Karl
"Holy crap... Aight, I forgot whether I should give you a nice payment or so."
"Nah forget it, I leveled up like five times during the enchanting session so it's no biggie!" - Karl
"Really? Then I'll provide you with information about more possibility of magic."
Karl is what we would initially call a genius. After finding out that the virtual world we're in allows us to study various kinds of magic. He took a short lesson from Seymour and started to create various kinds of magic formulas that could be a major way to improve in our lives in here.
I then bid him a short farewell and gratefulness before I left the tower after testing out the magic sword inside. I immediately went to the keep and met Seymour right at the entrance.
"Oh? Robin, do you have a good place in mind now?" - Seymour
I had selected a nice place where I could scout out for enemies whenever I want and stay safe every night guaranteed.
"I'm gonna take my game to the skies."
"A sky-base? Interesting... I was expecting you to get a nice place to live on but that seems like you had something up higher in mind. So? Where's the biome this skyland is located?" - Seymour
"I think it's above the swampy biome. It's not that much of an issue since I got an item that prevents fall damage as a whole. It's not just that but I have extra gravitation potions that I will use for aerial combat."
I don't really have much issues on combat in mid air except for air resistance and asphyxiation on higher altitudes.
"I think you'll need this more than me here..." - Seymour
Seymour starts taking out some item from an item bag that he owns. It's something that I would've never expected him to give me.
A bubble item that contained a pair of wings.
"You'll be able to fly infinitely with this. The speed starts slow but it's better since you can just train it until you have perfect mastery. Some wings have set speeds but aren't really useful since they have a cooldown after a set duration in flying." - Seymour
I just gained myself a free ticket to flying forever here. I'm not sure how I should react to it.
"Thanks, I'll definitely make use of this very well!"
"You're welcome, notify me if your base is finished up." - Seymour
I left the castle and spread out the pair of wings. It's like an angel's wings but eh, if I can fly with it forever then I might as well enjoy it.
Just getting a pair of wings alone could give me major advantage in attacking. I could just fly up permanently and avoid any attackers.
I then started flying which is somewhat a little faster than normal running speed. I immediately flew towards the swamp while gradually training to fly faster.
After about an hour and a half, I had finally arrived to the skyland where I had explored one time before.
This skyland was disguised as it appears as a cloud from below. Under this, is a wide area swamp that I know well that it's a good place to be observed from enemy movement.
I turned towards the house and saw that it's pretty much completely built already.
"Well, I don't really have that much of a choice except to expand this."
The current state of the house is that it's a single story building with blue and yellow color scheme. At least it ain't made up of wood, it'll be troublesome if some fire breathing dragon spawns somewhere and burns it down.
I went inside the house and saw the decent designing already. It gives me a feeling of a house being built for me and having decent lights and other necessities in a home excluding food and other things.
"Just need to buy food and voila! I can live here for the next week now!"
I unpacked my items first thing and hid them in various rooms to act as storage. The current place is large enough for a single person like me to lodge in.
I entered one of the rooms that contained a bed and a few drawers. It contained a smaller room which is probably a shower. I wonder why those are implemented... Eh, it's probably there to allow us to keep our hygiene in check.
I took out my weapons and hanged them on a wall. I currently have four of which and are somewhat powerful weapons. Two of which are custom made and the other half was taken from various places, one came from this very house.
From the left I organized them pretty well. It starts from the Starfury I had collected some time ago, this actually makes stars fall towards a target that is hit by this weapon.. Then the other collected weapon was a simple Enchanted Sword. It fires an enchanted sword towards the angle you slashed. After that, my first runic sword I used which has the ability to negate all magic effects. Then lastly, the Light Piercer... It was recently completed by Karl's enchantments from the tower. I gave it a temporary name for now because it might be a pain in the ass if I ponder about it too much.
After packing all the things for the bedroom, I went to another room which has a table and a few chairs. It contains the essentials of a kitchen, the equipment are laid out but not particularly organized. I unpacked and organized another item bag that contains various cooking equipment.
After an hour or two of tending up the house, I simply just sat down and filled myself with pride of completely organizing a house all alone.
"Jeez, that was a difficult one. It feels pretty fulfilling doing it alone so I managed to really make it work out this time."
While talking to myself, I felt some presences inbound to this location. A single presence that is probably trying to explore only.
I simply sighed in exasperation and took out both the Enchanted Sword and the Starfury in respective hands. Dual wielding isn't really my forte, but if it's only one person then I might as well just scare him off.
I went to the entrance of the house and saw one person that is somewhat inexperienced with using gravitation potions.
He was squirming around and has major issues with controlling himself. He ended up faceplanting on the cloud at the edge of the grass.
"Uhh, you okay there?"
When I got a good look of the person, it looks like a kid trying to enjoy with some of his friends. When he heard me, he removed his face and saw me holding both swords down.
"Ah! I'm sorry! I didn't know someone had been here before us..." - ???
"I see, do you have a group with you?"
"Yes, they're waiting for me down there..." - ???
"How many are you down there?"
"About four or so, we're complete newbies please don't kill me!" - ???
Ah well, poor sap... I'll let him go this time.
"What's your name?"
"My name's Jay, nice to meet you..." - Jay
He immediately offered his hand to me.
"The name's Robin... Likewise."
He seemed to want to ask me something so I invited him in to the house a bit for some tea.