William for the first time since arriving at Eden solidified his courage and decided to step out of his small yet luxurious throne room. As he stepped out of the main hall and pushed past the metallic doors, he was greeted by the pleasant sight of a 3-meter high metallic wall carefully creating a secure perimeter of around 150 meters.
Although the walls were relatively high, William knew that such things are useless against the beasts and unknown dangers encompassing his surroundings. His 'civilization' was also quite barren, he noted that within a corner of the base stood a group of 100 or so humans, mostly middle-aged muscular men clearly distraught by the modern-day type uniforms they were wearing. William realized that the activation of his talent also affected the initial populous under him.
As he approached the group of civilians they quickly quieted down and nearly in unison fell to one knee, expressing all at once, "We greet his lordship!" A slight trace of fanatical reverence or faith could be seen on their faces. Although William was startled by such an abrupt action, he remained unaffected on the outside. He glanced at the collective once more before opening his 'Status'.
[Ding!]
Monarch Name: William Erikson
Level: [1/10] | [Body Training Realm] | [100/1000] Energy
Civilization Level: [F]
Tech Lines: [Class F Weapons], [Class F Infrastructure]
Population: 100 [Civilians]
Loyalty: 100% [Absolute Loyalty]
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Absolute Loyalty! Suddenly one of the biggest worries that were lingering in William's heart suddenly dissipated. He could now improve himself and his civilization without the worry of betrayal and schemes from within. William ordered half the civilians to prepare tools for basic resource collection and the other half to stand on guard around the base until he cleared a reasonable distance.
Walking away from the group of civilians that hurriedly followed his orders, William arrived at a relatively open space and started activating his new rewards. With the arrival of a dazzling bright light that covered around a 20-meter range the land beneath slightly trembled before humanoid figures slowly appeared from the light as it receded. Once it was fully dispersed William stood before a large group of around 35 people, some wearing white coats down to their knees, some covered in modern-day armour, carrying modified assault rifles with black masks covering their faces, and finally at the back a large menacing all-black armoured jeep with a mounted gatling gun. Without delay, all the figures dropped to one knee and greeted William in a similar manner.
Two figures stepped forward from the group, obviously being the leaders of both the soldiers and scientists. The soldier simply saluted and identified himself as squad leader Henry, whilst the scientist bowed in a similar fashion and identified himself as the 'Equipment Research' team leader Xavier Kilson. William nodded slightly at the two before ordering the scientist group to go research necessities to improve the defense of the base and also acquire more weaponry, with his special talent he had the modern-day moveable cooking camp and it was constructed instantly before everyone's eyes, leaving even the well-educated scientists in awe and reverence.
William after leaving 10 soldiers to patrol the base, borrowed a basic combat pistol from a soldier before getting in the armoured jeep and leaving the base to secure around a kilometer of the surrounding base with the remaining 15 soldiers. Henry insisted on William staying inside the base, but William needed to get a better understanding of his situation and power level as a Body Training first realm, so he decided to join in. (Remember that the basic soldiers right now only have modern equipment and standard good physiques, no gene enhancement or cultivation realm).
After traversing around 400 meters of forestry, no dangers were encountered by William's small escort, other than the system identifying several valuable ore deposits and plants the trip was going smoothly. Just as William was about to step out to try his speed as a cultivator a large claw rushed towards his head, breaking the wind as it traveled, William barely managed to dodge a fatal strike with his boosted speed. Immediately Henry rushed in front of William before spraying bullets into the blurry figure in front of him, the soldiers did the same, creating a perimeter around William who was still slightly amazed by what he saw. After missing a full round of bullets the gatling gun was put into play and with a single second, only a dark green corpse resembling that of a modern wolf, yet at least 4 times as large remained, riddled with bullet holes.
William approached the corpse and the system identified it as a Class E forest wolf with 1100 combat power. Surprisingly William's first encounter was not a Class F, but a Class E beast! William also remembered that Class E beasts dropped at least 1 spirit energy core. William had the beast stored and the core was stored in a secure container before they continued creating a perimeter. After 4 hours of thorough searching, William's escort returned to base after clearing 13 Class F forest wolves, 2 more Class E forest Wolves, and creating a secure area of around 3 kilometers. After distributing tasks to the civilians for cooking and dismantling corpses as well as collecting resources using the new tools the scientist group managed to produce William sent the armoured jeep and everyone but Henry back and also called Xavier.
After the 3 were together, William pulled out the 3 energy cores and attempted to absorb one, just as expected when he did a system notification appeared.
[Ding! Core data obtained. Obtained Grade 1 Gene System production line!]
William was quite delighted hearing this, he knew the importance of progressing one's life level and power, especially in Eden, where most civilizations are usually cultivation civilizations. He immediately ordered Xavier to analyse the blueprint of the Gene System and also ordered everyone to acquire the materials needed for construction. The production line itself required 300 wood, 500 stone, and 100 metal alloy. The wood and stone were already present, what required William's attention was the alloy, he lacked the manpower currently to set up a full mining site due to the lack of proper ore extraction tools, so the process was slow. He needed to wait for Xavier to come up with a blueprint so his system can analyse and unlock it or find another method. (System can analyse self-made plans and realize them into blueprints if sufficient data is provided). As William was planning to go into seclusion and finally try his cultivation manual, which was now an energy absorption manual, the system released a worldwide announcement.
[Ding! The first day on Eden is coming to a close! Currently, 12,387 Monarchs have died. Congratulations on surviving! The basic functions are now active, and with it, the rewards chest system will appear! The chests follow the class system and anything from resources and cultivation manuals to blueprints for your civilization can be acquired! Chests have a high chance of being acquired during monster hunting and can appear randomly all around Eden! Best of luck Monarchs!]
Basic Soldiers Concept: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/496170083952409394/
Xavier Kilson Concept: https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/564990715759752093/