When I finished exchanging clothes, I went back to Jake and saw him putting Howard's corpse into the hole. I presumed that he dug it up with his Floor Owner's power.
"So, did you read the guide yet?" (Leonard)
"Yes, I did, it's pretty easy to understand." Jake turned back to see us, his eyes narrowed for a while until he continued, "So we are basically gods of this floor now, huh? That's pretty nice."
"So yeah, we need to know what the extent of your shapeshifting is now that we are in a relatively safe location." (Eliza)
"Okay, I can do this." Jake said, and from his hand, a line of flesh wrapped in skin pumped out. It took the shape of a shovel, and it hardened and colored itself into an actual shovel.
"I can make things out of my body and change my body's properties."
I was dumbfounded, this ability would greatly help us in many ways.
"Can you give us the shovel?" (Leonard)
"Sadly, no, check what happened when it was removed from my hand," Jake said, and he threw the shovel at us only for it to bend midair and fly right back at him.
"I got half of the vigor I spent on it on the return, however, if I undo it while still in contact with it, my vigor would go back to before I used the ability."
"That's pretty neat, though a bit limited." (Eliza)
"I know, right? I wonder why you guys have such overpowered abilities and I only have shapeshifting."
"I mean, your shapeshifting ability is strong and versatile, ours is currently very limited in what we can do. Can you make some sci-fi weapons with that shapeshifting ability?" (Leonard)
"Now that you talk about it, I think I can try to make a lightsaber." Jake said, and another bar of flesh pumped out of his hand, and the flesh shaped into a lightsaber's handle, but in the middle of hardening, Jake fell down to the ground, the flesh went back to his body, and he stood up again.
"What happened?" (Eliza) I said before remembering the time I overused my abilities, "Oh right."(Leonard)
"It used too much vigor."
"Maybe you should refrain from making sci-fi stuff that you don't understand with your shapeshifting." (Eliza)
"I think we should start making a house here." (Leonard)
I pointed at the empty land that's somewhat near the river.
Using the floor Owners' power, I cut down some trees to get logs. I mean, I've seen survival in the wild videos from the internet, what wrong could happen?
Well, something came up when I was building the house with Jake, 4 people appeared close to where we were when this was the white room, aka Howard's current grave. Well, I said 4 peopeople,t there were actually 3 people and a corpse.
I was a bit far away, so I couldn't see them properly to assess their appearance, so I asked Jake to stay there and continue building with Leonard while I made Eliza go to where those people were.
There were 2 women and a man, the corpse beside them looks like a man. One of the women was crying over the corpse of the man, and the other just sat there.
"Do you guys need help?" (Eliza)
The moment I asked the question, only the guy responded with a nod and asked.
"Aren't you the girl that got into the tower with a boy after my brother? Do you know where he is?"
"Is your brother named Jake?"
"No, My brother is Howard Johnson."
"Oh? If that's the case, then he's over there." I said, pointing at the grave beside Howard's brother, and his face cumbled.
"No, no, no, this can't be happening, why does it have to be you, brother?" The man had a breakdown and started crying over Howard's grave, and I left him there on his own.
"Can you tell me what happened? Do you need help?" I asked the only person who is not crying at the moment, she looked traumatized, though. At a closer look, I can see that her clothes are torn here and there, but a jacket covered them up.
"I survived, I survived, I survived." The woman mumbles at random intervals.
'Yep, it looks like all of them are not okay at the moment.' I thought to myself and went back to the log cabin I built with Jake.
The log cabin was only a simple one, wooden planks were used for the cabin's foundation, and it was basically a shoebox-type house you see in a sandbox game where you mine and craft.
What did Jake do? Well, not heavy stuff, for sure. I have inventory for that. I just asked Jake to make some vine ropes to bind the wood tightly together. Props to that guy on the internet who made a rope-making tutorial using vines that I watched in case of the slim chance I go outside and get stranded in the wild.
Since the cabin was practically finished, I moved on to making furniture, which we made inside the house.
It was quite easy using the Floor owner's perk to make simple things, but after we finished making everything, we only had half of our vigor left. Suddenly, we heard a knock on the wall at the entrance. There is no door to our log cabin at the moment since we don't have enough vines and are too lazy to get more.
"You three made this? How?"
"Well, look at the guide in your menu, it would tell you why. Of course, how can we help you?" (Leonard)
"I need to ask you how and when my brother died, was it by those creatures?"
"Well, before that, can you come in here and have a seat, please?" (Leonard)
"Oh alright"
"Actually, I only know roughly how he died, it was something heavy smashing his head and cracking it open from the back. I was making some sharp rocks to make some tools for survival, and when I turned back, I couldn't see him anywhere, and those goblins started to attack me. When we managed to kill all the goblins, the system notified us that he had died and teleported us here with his corpse." (Leonard)
"Is that so? Thank you for telling me. Let me introduce myself. I'm Haden Johnson. I'm a karate teacher for a Dojo."
"Wow, you two have very different occupations." (Eliza)
"What was Mr. Howard's job?"
"He was a medical student, and We get that a lot, I can't believe he is gone now."
"Let us introduce ourselves, My name is Leonard Kevler."
"I'm Eliza Chrona."
"And I'm Jake Merten."
"We are the current owners of this safe zone after being the party that beat the floor first." (Eliza)
"In theory, you should also have that title because there are currently two vacant slots for this floor's ownership."