Chapter 11: Shock
Deryn went back to the training room of the shelter, sitting himself down on the bench as his thoughts one more move to his inventory. A dark blue item was floating there, waiting for him to inspect it.
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< Elemental Generator (Prototype) >
DETAILS: One of the first working clean energy prototypes developed by Alzine Lockheart in the doomsday advent world. Left in the tutorial world due to restrictions in carrying items when moving away from the tutorial area. The Elemental Generator harnesses the power of the elements to create clean energy which can power small/medium-sized shelters. If there is a surplus of energy being made it will instead create element mana crystals at a rate of 1 per day.
RARITY: Very rare (Dark Blue)
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Before Deryn could even begin to wrap his head around the sheer usefulness of this generator, a few notifications went off in his head, which further blew his mind.
< DING >
< DOOMSDAY ADVENT SURVIVAL SHELTER LEVEL 3 BLUEPRINT IS EXCHANGED FOR ELEMENTAL POWERED DOOMSDAY ADVENT SURVIVAL SHELTER LEVEL 3 >
< WORLDS FIRST VERY RARE SHELTER BLUEPRINT: REWARD: 1x Random rare shelter building pack / (25) >
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< ELEMENTAL POWERED DOOMSDAY ADVENT SURVIVAL SHELTER LEVEL 3 (EPDASSL3) >
DESCRIPTION: A never before seen combination within the tutorial area. This is a shelter that runs purely off of the elements present in the world. The only waste the shelter produces is element mana crystals. A unique effect has been created during combination which will take specific materials to be activated. Unique effects can be activated at any level.
Due to the elemental generator being present, original systems will be ripped out and replaced except for the water storage. Piping will be redone during the upgrade to accommodate future unique effect upgrades.
The shelter room stays the same size but the shelter itself gains two new floors. Instead of stairs, there will be an airlift installed for ease of transportation between floors. A floor will be added above the ground floor, and below the underground floor. The new floor below ground is only allowed to house the elemental generator along with special unique effect required buildings.
MATERIALS: Wood x100 / Stone x100 / Iron x100 / Elemental Generator (Prototype)
Unique effect 1: By moving the water collector next to the elemental generator it will allow for the automatic gathering of water, without the need for fuel. Due to surging elements, it will allow for a 2x water collection rate. Water will be automatically placed in water storage.
Unique effect 2: By placing 2 fire element mana crystals (level 1) next to the water storage, along with 25x iron and 50x stone, it will allow for a water heater and purifier system to be created. The purifier will reduce wastewater by 50%, in the future wastewater can be directly sent to ?locked?.
RARITY: Very rare (DARK BLUE)
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Deryn froze. This was too much. Even for him, this was insane.
Not only had he gained two extremely rare, unique items. It had also upgraded his shelter blueprint to be even better. He could now gather element mana crystal daily, was ranked 2nd on the world leaderboard with another reward waiting for him.
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< WORLD LEADERBOARD >
1) Keith Lichfield (65)
2) Deryn Adams (60)
3) Sarah O'Neil (45)
4) Cheng Bo (40)
5) May Rose (25)
< NOTE >
The higher the leaderboard rank the better the rewards acquired. Rewards are available every week, available to be claimed every Tuesday at 8 am. Unless you move up in leaderboard rank then you can claim multiple rewards per week. First place receives a unique reward.
< DING: You have moved from 4th place to second place on the world leaderboard. You have received: EQUIPMENT: Wind walker boots.
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< WIND WALKER BOOTS >
DESCRIPTION: Boots are made up of soft smart fibre. They can automatically heal should there be enough mana in an environment.
STAT BOOST: +1 AGI, + 0.2 all other stats.
COMBAT ABILITY: WIND WALKER: An ability that allows the user to walk on air for 30 seconds with an hour cooldown.
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Deryn just froze. A mere few hours ago, he was fighting for his life against the kobold archer. If he had to fight the same archer now, he would completely one-sidedly destroy it in a battle. He couldn't comprehend it. No matter which way he looked at it, this was only day 2 since he got teleported, yet already he was at a point where he had two very rare equips, a godly system and an extremely advanced shelter.
It took Deryn more than 5 minutes to collect himself. Even still he was in a slight daze as he put on his newly gained Windwalker boots before checking his new stats.
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< CHARACTER SHEET >
Name: Deryn Adams
Race: Human
Health: 143/180(140) (0.18 Regen per minute)
Mana points: 79(30) (0.27 Regen per minute)
Strength: 1.7(1.3) < SYSTEM REMARK: STRENGTH INFLUENCES ATTACK STRENGTH AND WEIGHT CARRYING ABILITY >
Vitality: 1.8(1.4) < SYSTEM REMARK : VITALITY INFLUENCES HEALTH (100X1.8) AND RECOVERY OF HEALTH (1.1/10) >
Agility: 2.5(1.3) < SYSTEM REMARK : INFLUENCES SPEED, NIMBLENESS AND REACTION SPEED >
Intelligence: 2.7(1.5) < SYSTEM REMARK: INTELLIGENCE INFLUENCES MANA (2.7x20), MANA REGEN (2.7/10), THOUGHT SPEED, AND PROBLEM-SOLVING >
< CLASS >
Spearman (Trainee)
< COMABAT SKILLS >
Spearman skill: Phantom Lunge
< OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS >
< NONE >
< SYSTEM REMARK, HOST HAS GAINED: 0.2 STR / 0.2 VIT / 1 AGI / 0.2 INT / >
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Deryn walked forward.
*Whoosh*
*BANG*
Unable to control his newfound speed he ran straight into the opposite wall a few metres away. Rubbing his head as he got up he realised how insanely fast he was now. If an average human had 1 in each stat, then this was to say Deryn was now faster than the average human by 2.5 times. This was discounting his higher than average strength which also had a small impact upon his speed.
He knew further training was in order so he could get the hang of this speed. He wasn't worried, however; this was because his mind was sufficiently developed enough to control such a body. He would only need to actively learn the new speeds and limits before being back to 100% control.
Well, that's what the system had told him anyway. Deryn had a lot to do now. First on his list was to upgrade the water collector with the upgrade stones he had gathered. He would use the time he spent moving between tasks to gain a better understanding of his strength and to control it better.
Arriving at the collector he held 4 upgrade stones in his hand.
< DING >
CONSUME 1 UPGRADE STONE FOR LEVEL 2 COLLECTOR: Y / N
CONSUME 3 UPGRADE STONES FOR LEVEL 3 COLLECTOR: Y/N
"Yes".
With the 2x system reward Deryn managed to gather 4 stones, which was able to take his level 1 water collector and upgrade it directly to level 3.
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< WATER COLLECTOR LEVEL 3 >
DESCRIPTION: The rate of production is 2.5 litres of water an hour, costing 5 wood per hour to maintain production.
UPGRADE CONDITION: LEVEL 4 Requires 5 Upgrade stones.
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Deryn stopped for a moment before planning what he needed to do for the rest of the day, lest he accidentally forgets to do anything.
1) Upgrade the shelter.
2) Claim the random rare shelter building packs (2 from 2x system rewards).
3) Claim a random shelter defence blueprint and fortify the valley his shelter was in with the blueprint for walls.
4) Craft the barbeque and cook the raw meat.
5) Craft any blueprints he gained from rewards (e.g. weights blueprint)
6) Discuss with the system the information he gained from the elemental generator (prototype) blueprint.
The tasks should be able to be completed today. With that in mind, although he wanted to talk to the system about the information that was on his mind, he knew there were more important things to be done. While he may have just gotten an extreme windfall, he didn't know what the doomsday advent world would throw at him.
Plus, there were still the kobold camps, mere kilometres away from him that he needed to take care of. First though were the tasks he had set himself, and with no time like the present, he began to get started.
The shelter once more began the automatic process of being expanded. The materials flying out of his inventory in that same constant flow, like a dance that was synchronised to perfection. This time the system gave Deryn a notification that the base would take half an hour and after deducting the resources from him, he was told to come back in 30 minutes once it had finished.
It cost him a total of 100x Wood / 150x Stone / 125x IRON / 2 Level 1 fire element mana crystals for the upgrade to level 3 along with the two unique effect upgrades.
Not wanting to just stand around for an hour he decided to claim the random rare shelter building pack.
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< RANDOM RARE SHELTER BUILDING PACK >
DESCRIPTION: Summons a roulette wheel that will randomly give the host a pre-built room for the shelter.
RARITY: Light Blue (Rare)
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< CONSUMED 2x RANDOM RARE SHELTER BUILDING PACK >
< RECEIVED: LEVEL 1 GARAGE BUILDING AND LEVEL 1 VEHICLE MAINTENANCE BUILDING >
NOTE: ROOMS HAVE BEEN COMBINED TO FORM LARGE ROOM VEHICLE WORKSHOPS AND PARKING BAYS.
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< LARGE ROOM VEHICLE WORKSHOP AND PARKING BAY >
DESCRIPTION: A 20m by 10m vehicle workshop with a parking bay. The building can only be placed on the ground level and will come with a fully functional garage door. If the shelter has power will be automated, if the shelter is unpowered, comes with a chain to manually open and close the garage door.
RARITY: Light blue (Rare)
NOTE: This is one of the required buildings needed for the level 4 shelter upgrade.
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Deryn didn't have much of a reaction to receiving this, merely using the next reward of the random shelter defence blueprint and receiving the pitfall spike trap blueprint. With the two rewards claimed he decided to begin with building the defences for the valley he was in.
"System what time is it," Deryn asked
< IT IS NOW 2.49PM >
"Remind me when it's 9 pm please".
< YES HOST >
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< HOST, IT IS NOW 9 PM >
Deryn seemingly not hearing this finished digging the hole he was working on. After a few minutes, he finished digging and began placing the wooden sharpened spikes into the pitfall trap.
"That's most of them finished Kev, we will do the last few tomorrow".
*Woof*
Smiling at Kev, Deryn looked towards his shelter. The entrance to the shelter was no longer a wide-open space between two of the giant hills. Instead, there was now a 4m high and 2m thick stone wall, with a giant gate made out of wood in the middle of it.
On the outside of the wall, nearly directly underneath it, were a few tens of pitfall spike traps, each dug 3m x 3m x 3m deep with 1.5m tall sharp wooden spikes. These were nearly completed all along the wall with only a couple left before it was 100% done.
Walking into the valley, Deryn closed the gate behind him with a lever. This had been connected to his shelters power lines at the cost of some iron and had made the gates automatically open/close, which saved a lot of potential time-consuming effort on Deryn behalf.
The valley hadn't changed much, besides a slight path formed from the constant walking forwards and backwards from Kev who had gathered a sizeable amount of resources for Deryn. Which he then spent on upgrading the defences around the valley and putting more furniture inside the shelter.
As Deryn walked towards the shelter, the most noticeable thing about it was the giant 3m x 4m garage door that was next to his front door. Upon giving a mental command, the necklace he was wearing glowed twice before the garage door began to open.
The necklace was called a control key and was bound to Deryn, only droppable after he died. It could control the functions of the shelter while he was within a 1 km range of his shelter. This made it handy to have for controlling the garage door.
Upon the garage door opening the first noticeable thing was how empty the giant room was. There was a car lift and a workstation with tools on it, but besides that the rest of the place was empty. Well, besides the back wall of the room which had two doors. The door on the left would lead into the training hall, while the door on the right was the airlift that was included in his new upgraded shelter.
The airlift had 4 buttons, corresponding to the four floors of the shelter. Upon clicking the fourth button Deryn stepped into the hole in front of him and was pushed upwards at a speedy yet stable pace. Not even a few seconds later Deryn was pushed forward into the new above ground floor.
This was renovated by Deryn to be the living floor of the shelter. It had multiple rooms, multiple bathrooms, a large kitchen area, a moderate training area and a living room area. The rooms were all furnished in a similar style as to downstairs except for the living room which had large sofa-like seats, made out of fur and hide which became available with the level 3 workbench.
The first floor of the aboveground floors was almost exactly the same, except the water storage had been increased to 6x 1000litre storage barrels, the maximum amount that was allowed to be stored for a level 3 shelter. The water heater and purification plant were also available here. The water collector could be seen in the corner of this room, as it turned out when placed next to the elemental generator (prototype) it would be teleported here.
The underground floor 1 hadn't changed much besides materials being stocked on the shelves and the workbench being upgraded to level 3. The level 3 upgrade unlocked more home-like features such as sofas and table cloths, but nothing particularly valuable towards Deryns current situation.
Upon reaching the lowest floor of the base it was apparent to see how fortified this was. A metallic sheen shone, and an automatic door needed Deryn to input his mana into a button on the wall before the door opened. He was just as shocked to see it this time as the first time, as this seem much too advanced for his current shelter, but no harm no foul so he went with it.
Inside of this vault-like room was a machine that looked like an alien device from the future. It had four different glows which represent the four main basic elements and numerous other glow, Deryn assumed were the other elements. The generator had an ethereal kind of beauty, one which he felt may make him blind if he stared at it too long.
Deryn didn't need to be down here but he couldn't resist looking at it another time. The generator, according to the system would never break down and could be easily used as the sole power source for his shelter well into the later levels of his base, should he get there of course.
Going back to the kitchen on the top floor Deryn went to cook some meat using the barbeque before he laughed at himself.
"haha, damn... I forgot I used the mana crystals on the water purifier and heater... there's none left for the barbeque," he said mockingly.
Pulling out the rations from his inventory he tossed Kev some raw meat before beginning to dig into his meal. Upon finishing, Deryn decided to have a shower before going to the living room and reading the chat from the comfort of his new sofa, while waiting for the daily advent points to come in at 10 pm, which was only 15 minutes from now.
< WORLD ANNOUNCEMENT: DOOMSDAY ADVENT SURVIVAL TUTORIAL: TEST 1 STARTS IN 36 HOURS >