After months of living in this realm, the little hole made by the side of a mountain is now a fortress. The Variants are now moving through the bunker, each with an objective to help develop their home and grow stronger than they are. The variants as their name states are mutations of monsters caused by Nytri infusing her blood and soul into summoned eggs to make new beings. Nytri is in the research room with the Variants as they work hard to manufacture weapons and tools, the Variants now take part in hunting and research as they could be seen testing some of the inventions.
Nytri sits at a corner of the room as runes starts to appear before her, "Runes are really awesome. Each rune has a meaning and an activation symbol, I can write all these down but without activation it won't be any different from ordinary text. There's even rune to delay spells, strengthen the body permanently and even make a runic being."
The runes around her takes shape as it forms a cat, the cat moves and sits on her lap. "The runes use to make it determines its abilities." She pets the runic cat. "If I set it to blow up with a condition, it'll do it as imprinted. But the EP consumption is too much, it only works on EP supplied by me. It's tasking but it also shows that it's completely under my control."
Nytri stares ahead as the runic cat falls apart and the runes fly and appear before her. "Even runic weapons are possible." The runes move and form a saber in her hands. "The runes' effect can be made permanent so even if it dissipates it'll still work." Nytri removes a sword from her storage space, the sword is broken with cracks over it. The saber turns into runes and covers the sword as the sword shines, it's fixed and becomes stronger and with the effect of throwing ice swords. But all the runes vanish from the sword.
"The sword is better than before. Can't I do the same for my body? Though I raised my SoP so I can level up painlessly, my body still feels weak. Or is it that the monsters around me seem too strong. No matter, I'll do it now." She closes her eyes as runes appear before her, "I'll focus on strength, agility and endurance. My intelligence and wisdom increases based on level and the skills I have." The runes before her changes as it forms words, sentences, paragraph and entire essays.
"This should be all that I need, I'll add pain nullification just in case." Another sentence appears below the essay of runes before her. "Now, activation rune." The first rune rotates as it's crossed out, then the runes fly into her body. Nytri giggles throughout the experience as the pain is changed to tickle her. "Eheheh hehehe. Maybe I shouldn't have set it to tickles. Hehehe." She is that way for a few minutes before it ends. "Now, to see the improvements. APPRAISAL." A screen appears before her as she marvels at the changes.
[INFORMATION MAGIC DISPLAY
Name: Nytri
Race: Unknown
Level: 98
Title: Champion of the Abyss
Base Stats:
HP: 101000
EP: 110200
SP: 108100
SoP: 47000
Physical Stats:
Strength: 12500
Agility: 14000
Endurance: 13000
Intelligence: 9800
Wisdom: 10600
END]
"Haahh. Everything went up by a lot except intelligence and wisdom. Well, my skill proficiency didn't increase and I didn't find new ways to use them. But still, dang. What a power up, I'll post an announcement to the DATA LAKE for everyone to come for a boost."
Nytri closes her eyes and she now appears in the DATA LAKE, now having buildings and roads like a village. "Waaoow. This place is starting to look like a society, the number is still low though. Only the Variants are making these changes, the automata seem to only stay still here." Nytri waves her hands in the sky as a board appears, it shows the procedure and the location where it happens.
Nytri opens her eyes then stretches a bit. "Since the golem set were remade, they've really reduced my work. They lead the hunting teams and help with the research." Nytri opens her palms as a runic ball appears. "I wonder, can I stuff all the runes I used here, it'll save the time of having to do it to everyone myself." The runic ball spins as runes appear inside and shrinks as more appear. "I guess I can do anything with runes, pretty nifty trick." The runes needed for the boost are stuffed inside, then she tosses the ball into her storage space.
"A few hundreds of these won't hurt." Nytri stays there and makes more runic balls. The research clones have access to her storage space so they take the balls and start to distribute them to the Variants. A little black lion cub walks into the room, it walks up to a clone as the clone gives it one of the runic balls. The lion cub takes it to a platform that is just made and it starts to breathe the runic ball into its body. The little lion cub's muscle twitches as it gets tougher and its claws get sharper and gives a loud roar *MEEOOOWWW!!*
On the surface of the bunker, it now has turrets layer over the place as panzers are parked around the place. Tesla tower automata are manning the turrets and cannons, they're humanoid in shape but their bodies can produce lightening as it sparks around them. The engine of the panzers are cuboid with runes layered inside as a turbine is seen followed by pumps which is pushed by EP up and it causes parts to move in the panzer. EP comes from the steer held by the driver as he sends EP into it, EP moves through tubes to the engine as the turbine speeds its movement into the shaft for the EP to push the pumps. The turbine also causes the EP to expand in the shaft pushing the pumps to a valve that leaves the engine. The waste EP is then channeled into weapons to power it up, if EP is still not used then the waste EP moves to an EP chamber at the back of the panzer for storage.
Nytri's clones are seen boarding a panzer as they're off on an expedition, the Variants aren't with them since the clones often move deeper into the forest. Clone1 moves to the driver seat as the others strap in, the driver seat is the only seat ahead of the panzer and controls everything in it. The automata also join as golems board other panzers making a total of 5 panzers for this hunt.
Clone one briefs them, "Alright everyone, we've seen a water source but it's polluted, blood red. We're to find out what's the cause and fix it. Got that?" they all reply, "Yes sir!" Clone1 smiles, "Good." She starts it up and drives away from the bunker. Her thoughts, "This Noble Craft's military tactics is exceptional." With that the 5 panzers disappear into the forest.
The defenses of the bunker have floating platforms with heavy canons on them, electric mine field, and a sonic blast weapon. Automata and golems keep moving in and out of the bunker like a camp as some moved parts and others took positions or went on patrol.
.....
Beyond the bunker on the other side of the mountain, a smaller mountain which looks just like this one. The mountain stands up, it's actually a monster of height 65 meters. It stretches its tail then slams it onto the ground.
[INFORMATION MAGIC
TARGET: Infant Alpha Titanosaurian
THREAT LEVEL: #@*&&$#@*~
END]
It turns to the forest as it starts to walk slowly into it disappearing from sight.
[AU:INFO
AU: .....No one saw the infant leave.
- Clone1 will be referred to as Nytri for the expedition on next chapter.
END]