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Swiping all the notifications away, Alchemy ended up sighing.
"In hindsight… I should have prepared for something like that… When I saw a clean water source, I should have known that animals would be nearby…" She facepalmed, dragging her hand down her face.
Due to her hands still being bloody, she ended up getting wolf blood in her eye, causing her to nearly fall out of her seat as she got it out.
"Urgh… Killing something with my own hands… It's certainly not a pleasant feeling..."
Thanks to the throne, the pain was mostly gone, and every emotion she was feeling hit her at once.
It's not like she was some humanitarian who believed that everything should live and should never be killed. She knew how the food chain worked, and it was simply the same. Those wolves wanted to eat her, but she ended up being slightly stronger, so they got metaphorically eaten instead.
Perhaps literally, later.
Hell, it wasn't even the first time she's killed an animal, but that time was fun. She was bonding with her family! This just felt… Gross.
"Darn it… Now I'm missing Mom and Dad on top of all this…"
Clicking her tongue, she stood up straight and slapped herself, pushing all those useless thoughts away. That was a bandaid she'd need to rip off eventually, even if it would've been nice to go a bit slower. Now, she needed to focus on the items in front of her.
Each one was surrounded by some sort of glow, waiting for Alchemy to grab them.
The two vouchers were tickets, looking like something you'd use to get into a local fair, while the [Insectoid Form Token] took the shape of an arcade coin with a vaguely bug-like creature in the center of it.
"The First Hero Token, huh? Hopefully, the other 2 will fall into my hands soon." Alchemy mused, stashing the token into her pocket for now.
For the vouchers, or at least the [Tier 1 Building Voucher], she gave a mental command to open her status and tapped on the [Build] Option.
In front of her, a new widescreen appeared with 6 structures she could see and nearly a hundred more that were blacked-out silhouettes. Of course, assuming they hadn't changed from the game, she knew what all of them were.
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Even without continuing to look through the rest of the buildings, the descriptions were already causing Alchemy to cringe a little. Although she mained Theocracies, she could never get over that nearly all of the flavor text was hyping up the player, and it only got worse with higher-tier buildings.
"I'll look at the others whenever I can actually build them." She shrugged, selecting the [Verminae Brood]
In front of her, a blue outline of the building appeared… If you could call it a building. It was closer to a hole in the ground than anything else.
Regardless, the system panel had controls to move it around. It turned red if she tried to move it to a place obstructed by a tree or something else.
"Woah… That looks funky in reality."
She placed it near her throne so she didn't have to move around a lot to access it.
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Alchemy selected Yes.
In front of her, a hole started magically digging itself at breakneck speeds; above it, a timer counting down from 10.
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"Do I look like I have a construction crew anywhere, system?" Alchemy rolled her eyes.
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"All these ding sounds… Can I turn off notifications? The unimportant ones, at least."
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"Oh… Why yes, I would."
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Alchemy expected many things from this system. It responding to her words wasn't one of them. Surely, that won't get annoying at any point in the future.
With the current annoyance dealt with, Alchemy glanced at the new mission she received but didn't pay much mind to it. As far as she was concerned, aiming to ascend her civilization was already a top priority, so this being the next mission made sense.
Lightly touching her throne, the quest ended up completing, giving her a second unit voucher. No level up, though, unfortunately.
The poor excuse for a building was a hole in the ground. It had many branching paths to small chambers, which Alchemy couldn't be bothered to investigate any further right now. Instead, she opened up an interface for the units.
"Finally!" She let out a small, victorious cry.
She nearly died for this thing! Probably? She had no way to check her health, and it was hard to gauge how much damage she could actually take.
Maybe she was immortal! Whether she was or not was not something she wanted to gamble and find out.
Currently, only three types of units could be produced. Like the buildings, everything else was little more than a blacked-out silhouette.
Before looking at the individual units, she looked over the interface, looking for the racial traits tab.
"Ah, here it is." She hummed, playfully moving through the interface. This is what she was waiting for before those rude pups tried to eat her.
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Seeing the text, Alchemy got a little giddy despite the pain and danger she was in only a dozen minutes ago.