Chapter 3: Tier Up

After a good night sleep Shaya woke up and did her daily routine. As she went downstairs she saw a note from her mother at the counter written on it.

'Good morning Sweety, I will be at work for the rest of the week. While on my way back I bought some food and put it in the fridge. If you need anything else just phone me at afternoon or evening. Have a good weekend

-Mother

Shaya grabbed some serial with milk from the fridge for breakfast, sitting down to eat AURA said to her.

[Now that you woke up and ate, you should either go out to exercise or try to find material for me to tier up.]

"Now that you mention it where do I find material for you." said Shaya while eating.

[Go buy some electrical or technical stuff for me to extract the material of them or go out at night and sneak in a scrap yard.]

"But that illegal."

[It is for now but it won't be for long, so better go now before some 'IRIS' goes and devours everything. For now i would advise you to go and buy some dark flexable clothes to sneak out at night.]

"When did we agree to that?"

[Right now, go get ready.]

*sigh*

"Ok ok. I'll go get ready in a while."

After Shaya finished eating she left the kitchen and went back to her bedroom to change and get some money to buy the stuff they wanted. She put on some high waisted slim jeans, a white crop top and sneakers. Before going to put her glasses on she was interupted by AURA.

[You don't need those anymore, you should have noticed that your eye sight is better now I fixed it for you.]

"Now that you said it, I can see better. When did you do it"

[Last night when you where asleep.]

"Thank you I guess."

Searching for a bit, she found her saving and took about 150€ from them. Taking her keys, she left the house.

Heading towards the bus stop she got a call from her friend.

"Good morning Shaya, what are you doing right now?"

"Morning Erica, I'm just taking the bus to the mall to stroll around and spent sometime. You?"

"The usual spending my time on the pc, are you gonna log-in in the afternoon? Our guild will be doing a dungeon raid."

"Yeah sure, when do i need to log-in?"

"I'm not sure just log-in around 6. Bye"

"Talk later, grinder."

Boarding the bus, she took out her earphones from her pocket and listened to music until reaching the mall.

###

Adorting the bus after reaching her stop, she asked AURA what she needed the most.

[First, go and buy a set of dark clothes, then go strolling around and I'll tell you when I find something I want.]

"OK. Then I'll go to a sports store to take the clothes and probably go an eletrical store."

Shaya went to a nearby sports store and bought a black a set sports wear and wondered around the mall until AURA told her to buy something.

She wondered until around 2PM before taking the bus back home.

Buying some food for lunch on her way back home.

Reaching her home, she sat at the dinning table and ate before heading to her room to take a nap.

"AURA can you wake me up at 5:30."

[Alright, but just to let you know we need to leave the house around 11PM to reach the scrapyard and have plenty of time for me to consume enough materials.]

###

Waking up at 5:30, she went to the bathroom and took a quick shower to wash away the bit of dirtness she had.

Getting in a call with Erica and logging in to her main character a human ranger/fighter and Erica played a feline assassin.

Grouping up with their guild, they all went to raid a dungeon. Spending around 4 hours playng the game, she looged out and went downstairs to grab somethink to eat.

Going back to her room to dress up in the dark clothes, she looked at the time its was 10:52.

[Better get going now and get the knife as well with you.]

"Okay, do youknow the way there?"

[Yes, just listen to my commands and you will be fine]

Leaving the house Shaya listened to AURA's navigation, she reached the scrapyard after 45 minutes.

AURA told Shaya to enter by the east side of the yard. When she entered, she asked AURA what to do.

[For now you just simply go near the wrecks and touch them so i can start consuming them.]

'Ok' Shaya said and went close to the wreckes, she turned her back to them and AURA started her process.

'How much time will you need to consume the stuff?'

[Around 1 to 1:30 hour to process one. From the stuff before the tier up is about 25% done. If I can consume stuff till 6AM I will be able to tier up.]

###

Finally getting up and fleeing from the scrapyard, she returned home undressed and went to the bathroom opened the valve and waited for the bathtub to fill. Dipping in the warm water she relax for more than 30 minutes.

"Now that you have enough materials whatwill happen?"

[I will progress down you spine and occupy 2 more bones, it will hurt a little.]

"Ok, I'll go sleep so please make it hurt as little as possible."

[Sure I'll try minimize pain as much as possible.]

"Thanks"

While Shaya was sleeping AURA started her process to upgrade.

###

After Shaya woke up, she felt her neck to be sore. She reached her hand behind and touched her neck a surging wave of pain came.

[Don't touch me yet, it will hurt like hell like now.]

Springing her hand off her neck Shaya calmed down and asked.

"Why did that hurt so much. Didn't I tell you to make it hurt less."

[I did make it hurt less when you where sleeping, now that you woke up and touch me it your nerves took all the shook instanly.]

"Ohh.. can you tell me what hour is it."

[It's 1:32 right now.]

Shaya went to the kitchen to eat something.

Getting a call from her friend telling her to come to her house to chill.

Shaya agreeing to meet with at the afternoon, she went to her room after her lunch. She pushed away her hair and looked at the mirror and saw 3 nodes of AURA.

Dressing in some comfortable clothes, she sat at her pc and browsed the internet while listening to music until it was afternoon.