I woke up and walked down to the campfire where the others were eating the same breakfast we always had. Meat. I sighed and picked up a piece. I looked up at Twon. "Hey guys, we are gonna be harvesting as much as possible today. We need a lot of flint, stone, sticks, stone, crystal, oil, sulfur, and especially metal. You may need to fill the base with chests, even upstairs, but that is fine because we can salvage them and create better ones after we are done.
Regardless, all of you guys will be in charge of gathering all of those things in extreme excess. All of them except for sulfur, crystal, and oil. I will be getting those myself. Someone give me two pickaxes and I will leave you all in charge of the other things."
Zint walked to a chest and then tossed me two pickaxes. I thanked her and then quickly headed out the door. There was only one day until my position was made known all across the island. At that time, things would devolve into a great war. In that war, my stats would surely increase greatly.
I amped my body with mana and took off at a monstrous speed towards the mountain where we found crystal and where Zint and I had spent some quality time together. It had taken me an hour to reach the summit of the mountain.
There were about forty crystal nodes on top of the mountain. They had since respawned since the time I had come before. I harvested every single one of them. I quickly looked at my inventory.
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Status Screen:
*WARNING: Weight capacity is near its limit*
You have 7,594,800/8,000,000 experience needed for level 26.
Health → 670/670. Stamina → 487/510. Speed → 225. Weight → 1,139.8/1,140. Strength → 500. Combat Sense → 225. Mana capacity → 32/94+. Mana sense → 83. Soul Willpower → 37.
Inventory: Soulstone, mana map, 4 bolas, 1 makeshift set, 1 laced arrow, compound bow, 18 metal arrows, 1 steel broadsword, 1 combat knife, 1 Ascendant sigil, 1 Barrett M82 (Rare), and 377 crystal.
Skills: Transcendent → Murder Maniac's Soul Almanac. Ascendant → Soul Flayer and Extension of Will. Magic → Aura Implementation.
Soulbound items: Ascendant → Water Maniac's Trident. Magic → Ring of the Training Maniac.
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I nodded and then I began a mad dash down the mountain. I would put all the crystal in chests and then take two trips, one for sulfur and one for oil. After that, I would begin to craft.
It took me about another hour to get to the base. As I opened the door, Tizi was just walking out. She had a hatchet in her hand. I nodded to her. "Cutting down wood?"
She nodded. "Yeah, see you later."
She walked past me and through the door. I liked her mentality.
I threw my crystal in a chest and I dashed from the house. I sped past Tizi in a flash. I glanced behind my shoulder. She had fallen on her ass. I began to laugh as I ran. "HAHAha."
I laughed until I swallowed up an enormous mosquito. I stopped dead in my tracks. "AH FAWK."
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Status Screen:
*You have killed an elephant mosquito (level 5). You have gained 500 experience.*
You have 7,595,300/8,000,000 experience needed for level 26.
Health → 670/670. Stamina → 461/510. Speed → 225. Weight → 348.8/1,140. Strength → 500. Combat Sense → 225. Mana capacity → 32/94+. Mana sense → 83. Soul Willpower → 37.
Inventory: Soulstone, mana map, 4 bolas, 1 makeshift set, 1 laced arrow, compound bow, 18 metal arrows, 1 steel broadsword, 1 combat knife, 1 Ascendant sigil, and 1 Barrett M82 (Rare).
Skills: Transcendent → Murder Maniac's Soul Almanac. Ascendant → Soul Flayer and Extension of Will. Magic → Aura Implementation.
Soulbound items: Ascendant → Water Maniac's Trident. Magic → Ring of the Training Maniac.
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After coughing for a moment and disregarding the window, I continued on. I ran all the way to the sulfur node area in the space of two hours. I mined a full inventory of sulfur and then ran back to the base. I quickly deposited the sulfur and ran back out the door in a flash.
I amped my body even more with an excessive amount of mana. I had an even better time. I arrived at the same area and began to mine clumps of gooey, unrefined oil.
After gathering the oil, I unequipped my clothes and covered my whole body in black aura. The oils and impurities on my body were burned off to a fine ash. It felt like I had baby powder all over my body. I re-equipped my clothes.
I took off at a dead run back towards my base. I again reached my base and threw the door open. Zint was throwing some things in a chest. I walked up beside her and deposited the oil.
She looked up at me. "Are you done?"
I nodded. "Yeah, tell the others to come back. It's time to refurbish our base. She nodded and ran out the door.
I turned back to the chests, and I began to remove the materials to make building items one by one. I made 5,000 cementing paste, 25 diesel, 800 electronics, 30 small stone dinosaur gates, 16 metal foundations, 63 metal walls, 1 metal doorway, 16 metal roofs, 2 electrical automatic turrets, 20 electrical cables, 1 generator, 1 fridge, and 1 computer system mainframe.
As I slowly made all of those items, I put them in a chest and withdrew more materials, so I didn't die from being overweight. After crafting all the items, a system screen popped up.
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Status Screen:
*You have finished your crafting stream. You have received 1,500,000 experience.*
*You have leveled up!"
You have 1,595,300/10,000,000 experience needed for level 27.
Health → 670/670. Stamina → 363/510. Speed → 225. Weight → 348.8/1,140. Strength → 500. Combat Sense → 225. Mana capacity → 32/94+. Mana sense → 83. Soul Willpower → 37.
Inventory: Soulstone, mana map, 4 bolas, 1 makeshift set, 1 laced arrow, compound bow, 18 metal arrows, 1 steel broadsword, 1 combat knife, 1 Ascendant sigil, and 1 Barrett M82 (Rare).
Skills: Transcendent → Murder Maniac's Soul Almanac. Ascendant → Soul Flayer and Extension of Will. Magic → Aura Implementation.
Soulbound items: Ascendant → Water Maniac's Trident. Magic → Ring of the Training Maniac.
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I started to place all of the structures I had made, slowly this time.