Daniel thought about it, and since the trixium was in the obsidian-like rock he started digging around it, on the way he collected all the minerals he found, almost putting together what was needed to repair the spacesuit, but even with gold and cobalt he still missed some trixium, as just 3 weren't enough
45 minutes later of digging around he found it, and after another 10 minutes a ship, and not just any ship but a small miner ship, with the obvious shape of a crab, was half unearthed
Daniel happily opened an airlock on the right side of the ship, and entering discovered it was out of energy, he went to the engine room, and luckily found enough spare fuel, three plutonium cells, even better than the uranium one he could make for now in the crafting menu
he swapped the empty cell with one of the 3 he found, and the ship came back to life, then he entered the bridge, and a notification popped up
congratulation you found a spaceship
name: legless crab XXI
type: asteroid miner
rarity: D
defense systems: energy shield basic
weapon systems: mining laser D class, high power phaser basic
propulsion systems: launch thrusters basic, impulse drive basic
specials: two robotic claws D class
status: missing hyperdrive, missing gravity controller, damaged left claw, damaged left anterior hull
item needed for repair: hyperdrive x1, gravity controller x1, gold x30, quartz x20, trixium alloy x200
do you wish to claim this abandoned vessel? Y/N
Daniel thought "so I need to go in the poison area, and take the pieces to fix this ship, I see the finish line" than clicked the, yes, and suddenly remembered that the ship had an inventory too
Daniel entered the backpack menu and selected the ship inventory, in there he found several hundred units of gredium, gold, quartz but when he was hoping, he could fly the ship down the volcano, he noticed only 20 trixium were present, enough to fix the suit but not to fix the ship enough to fly, after all for atmosphere flight he wouldn't need gravity nor a hyperdrive, sadly he needs to fix the hull or the ship
the good news is that not only can he repair the suit, but after finding all this gredium, gold and cobalt he can make fusion cells for it, after mining some uranium in the radioactive zone
Daniel now needed a good plan, not only to go up and down the volcano, since the snakes would be ready in ambush but also to complete the tutorial, since he could finally see the finish line
Daniel had another idea, the plan would start by covering himself with a piece of the tyrant snakeskin, than hope that works while going down the volcano, then go the radioactive zone and mine the uranium for the cells
and at this point, he had to decide, between, putting on the suit, then go salvage the trixium from the broken fighter, walking back up the volcano and flying the crab to the poisonous area, to take the parts and resources, and if all goes as planned lift-off and celebrate
or he could put on the suit, and go to the poisonous area on foot, then bring back the trixium and hardware in the backpack, back up the volcano, fix the ship, and if all goes as planned lift-off and celebrate
while planning Daniel noticed something, normally the first one would be very difficult, because the examiner it's still lurking, and he will try to shift the environment like before, but daniel now knew the trick, so he had no difficulties in that department, and would easily make the trip, obviously counting on the fact that the examiner didn't move the stars too, after all, it's always easy to modify a simulated environment
the thoughts about traps reminded him, that the poisonous zone is a marsh, so finding a place to land will be difficult, one of the worst possibilities is the ship sinking in the mud, and he also thought about grandpa Vincent, he was stuck in the poisonous zone before, because the environment was too treacherous, and he didn't have enough materials to keep repairing the spacesuit
both options obviously had traps, and since daniel couldn't make up his mind, he decided to do the opposite of what Vincent did, even if he didn't find the ship in the volcano, and as a result, was forced to go on foot, it didn't matter, since both were traps, it was better not to repeat the one who failed before
so after making a decision Daniel took all the gredium and most of the gold, leaving only the 30 units necessary to repair the crab, then crafted a crude raincoat out of the tyrant snakeskin, and exited the crack
Daniel started walking down the volcano and saw many snakes, but the tyrant snake coat worked and they didn't attack him, by seeing how many they were, he realized that without this snake coat, he would never be able to reach down alive, not with his fighting abilities, but he didn't need any, because 2 hours later he was back in the safe zone, and not one snake attacked or approached him, this skin was the perfect repellant
he skipped directly inside the radioactive zone for a moment and mined 5 units of uranium before crafting a cell while he was going back to the safezone
then he entered the safezone, and put on Gregosh's spacesuit, as he looked at it he wasn't happy the opaque silver and pale red weren't really his colors, so while the repair function was working its magic, he remembered the great white skin, but as he went to the inventory he failed to find it
Daniel said "I was sure it dropped, where did the skin go? not only this one, the others too, examiner were are the skins?"
the examiner said "not in the inventory, just say skins menu and it will open, the skins will be tied to the account, if you survive, obviously if you die now, this instance will be erased and goodbye unique skins"
Daniel said "you sound different, are you experimenting?"
the examiner said "yes, you're too good, psychological traps don't work with you, so I wanted to try something new"
Daniel smiled and said "you noticed how close I am to winning, can't blame you for panicking a little"
the examiner went silent, but he wasn't offended, on the contrary, he quite liked this challenger, he was fearless and smart but most of all lucky, he went in a random direction and found the bear den, then went to the volcano and easily reached the burrow by following the snake, of course, the trixium was put there on purpose to suggest a ship was buried, and he also didn't find the ship nor the better weapon hidden in the cold zone, but killing the tyrant snake, less than a 100 people managed to do that, obviously there are still traps, but looking at how it went till now, it didn't seem like the hell difficulty he programmed "the kid will probably win and receive the proposal if he keeps having so much luck"
Daniel said "skin's menu" and a list appeared in front of him, he selected spacesuit, then great white skin, and as soon as the words, in use, appeared, the spacesuit changed drastically in appearance
on both the wrist's, ankle's and on the belt area white soft and long fur appeared, the metal took a platinum shade, that with the well-defined details, created a very high tech knight armor with fluff, honestly a bit conservative for Daniel's taste (after the tech dragonewt avatar), but better than the bland thing it was before
at this point, he saw the notification that appeared when the spacesuit finished being repaired
congratulation you found, a spacesuit
name: Gregosh's spacesuit
type: reinforced battle spacesuit
rarity: C
defense: 100 +20
specials: vital support basic, environmental protection basic, composite plates D class (+20 def)
afterward, he took out the old consumed fusion cell and put in the new one, and an avalanche of notifications appeared in front of him
congratulation you completed the mission, join the sea of stars part 1 of 4: retrieve a working and charged spacesuit
reward: damaged ss class spacesuit (current rank D)
congratulation you completed the mission, join the sea of stars part 2 of 4: find a backpack, equip it and use it to repair at least two things
reward: complete set of B rarity tools and weapons (mineral extractor excluded)
congratulation you completed the mission, join the sea of stars part 3 of 4: find and repair a mineral extractor
reward: damaged ss class mineral extractor (current rank D)
mission updated, join the sea of stars part 4 of 4: find and repair a spaceship, then escape the planet
reward: ss class version of the ship used to escape
Daniel said "just like the comments said, they deliver only after you win"
the examiner said "of course, it's useless to generate rewards if they lose anyway in the end"
Daniel laughed and said "sounds right enough, of course, it's not because the rewards are overpowered"
the examine said "you win kid, indeed with that suit and especially with the complete set of tools, the tutorial would be too easy"
Daniel was now ready, he looked in the direction of the radioactive zone, and knew, that it would take twenty minutes to half an hour to reach the wreckage, but he was still worried that the stars would move
but at this point the nanites sent him a solution, putting together, the trip going and the one coming back they created a rudimentary solution based on steps, instead of using landmarks or the stars all he had to do was count the steps and he would reach the wreckage
with his newfound confidence and the nanites solution, Daniel started jogging happily towards the wreckage, and indeed many things had changed again, but not the stars, only the landscape, like the first time
and also like the first time, there were many roars and strange shadows, trying to scare him, but he wasn't easily scared, and half an hour later Daniel reached the wreckage
just like the comments and his previous experience said, no monsters were present, just a scary ambiance, so he got to work, and with the mineral extractor in 20 minutes he had enough trixium, but he thought about how rare and valuable it was, and since he didn't have enough time to go back up the volcano before breakfast, he kept mining for more
Daniel thought "after all I don't have enough playtime left to complete it today, I'll just fill my inventory with materials to sell later"
after salvaging materials for an entire hour, he found something different from the rest, this piece didn't look broken or bent like the rest, so he took it and a notification appeared
congratulation, you found a gravity controller (spare part)
the examiner wanted to be able to spit on the ground when he said "this luck"
Daniel said "I don't think luck exists"
if the examiner could, he would have vomited blood right now, he was thinking "if you are not lucky, what are you?"
as soon as Daniel put the spare part in the backpack, there was a slight change, the roars became more realistic, and the shadows too
Daniel immediately understood that his happy times salvaging materials had ended, when the creepy malformed trees started to change slowly into a humanoid shape