New house and creations

In all these years Nico had made a great fortune by hunting magical monsters in the forest, the price was high but it was not enough for him to worry too much. Even though he spent on the house, he still had about hundreds of gold coins and several magic cores stored in his space rings. The following days were used to furnish the house and transform it into its new laboratory.

The ground floor remained the same, he just updated the basic needs as he had done in the cave, bringing running water and other basic utilities made with magic cores. The house had a temperature cooling system and air exchange made through matrices that used water and wind cores.

The first floor was completely renovated to house his room and transformed into a kind of laboratory-greenhouse some walls and part of the ceiling was replaced by glass plates where they allowed the light to bathe the plants and herbs he kept with him, the rest The environment was transformed into a replica of a laboratory of the earth. Plates of a white stone covered the floor and benches and shelves filled with alchemical equipment and materials were placed.

The basement was where the biggest job happened, he built a bigger workshop than the previous one so that it would house all of his remaining professions, Crafts, Blacksmithing and Jewelry. The same white stone used on the upper floor was used here as well, and this time even covered the walls, the lighting was done through lamps that used a fire core as fuel. In addition, he left a free space for new research he intended to carry out.

Thus, a year passed between carrying out missions and research, the number of magic herbs he cataloged increased and some of them were brought to the greenhouse for use in later studies.

In some missions he found different monsters like harpies and insect monsters, a giant spider monster with triple affinity for darkness, sound and poison was his most difficult fight, even more than the manticore previously, she threw webs that prevented Nicola from moving and fight against it. Her way out was to use the fire to blind her and cut her legs one by one, causing him to suffer various injuries and poisoning because of that.

The triple core was very useful in his battles, as he replaced the old dark core of his sword with this one, causing the almost instant death of monsters below level 15. His efforts in researching the different cores also brought a result, the sound cores he managed to acquire were transformed into two types of equipment, the first was a kind of recorder that could repeat the recorded sound for a few minutes and the second was a kind of weapon that could release sound waves at a higher frequency creating a kind of rudimentary sound bomb.

The wood core, on the other hand, had a strong vitality and allowed the herbs to grow in one year, which would be expected in ten or twenty years.

With all the mechanical and technological development he managed to reproduce equipment from the earth, such as a microscope, stirrers and thermometers. He spent all this time developing his professional skills and increasing his level.