Chapter 19 - Base upgrades

"Son, I leave everything to you" Jackson woke up from his dreams. Last night Jackson drank too much and ended up passing out. Faith was worried that Jackson and her father had not returned late last night and ran out of Jackson workstation to look for the two but Faith only found Jackson sleeping alone.

When Faith tried to wake Jackson up she found his eyes were swollen from crying. It did not take a genius to figure out why Jackson was crying alone and surrounded by empty jugs of wine. Faith could not help hug Jackson tightly and began sobbing.

She knew that her father did not have much time left but to leave without saying goodbye to them, she knew her father did not want to face a very painful situation and she also did not want to see him off but she wanted to at least hear her father one final time.

After crying for a while Faith knew that she had to move on, to keep going and live well just like what her father wanted. Faith carried the sleeping Jackson up to his work room and placed him on the bed.

The other girls were also gathered there but when they saw Jackson sleeping and Faith with tears in her eyes. The sisters knew that their father was gone. Some of them were prepared but they still ended up crying.

"Don't worry, I will take care of all of them." Jackson responded to Dino's final words in his dreams. Jackson tried to get up and found it hard. Looking around Jackson was hugged by multiple sleeping girls with him each with red swollen eyes.

If it was any other time Jackson would have panicked but after seeing how they looked Jackson began to feel sad. Feeling Jackson waking up, one by one the girls also woke up and got off Jackson with slight blush.

"Morning Ladies, Lets go get freshen up" Jackson smiled and suggested for them to get washed. After crying last night they all look terrible.

"Yes let's go." Lili yawned and got off the bed. Jackson let the girls shower first while he went out to look for Bell. He was looking for her to ask Tool Maker to tell her to get ready to do some upgrades to the base soon.

"Hey Bell, Do me a favor and let Took Maker know that we need to do changes to the base soon" Jackson greeted the floating ball of light flying up in the sky.

"No problem, Master" Bell floated over towards where Tool Maker is stationed.

Jackson moved back to his place to get cleaned up. After getting cleaned Jackson started out his plans.

First he needed Tool Maker to do some experiments with him. He wanted to try out his theory about arrays formation from the other days.

Looking back, Jackson remembered that array formations required some beast bones and blood. Jackson needed to hunt some beast outside the base.

He called Bunker over to do some hunting. 20 minutes out of base Jackson found a group of birds. They were massive and looked similar to eagles with purple scales.

These scaled birds have a wingspan of about 15 feet and would spark electricity every minute or so. Jackson has read about this type of beast before, they are known as elemental beasts. Beast that has elemental spirit energy used for combat.

This was a perfect prey for Jackson to hunt for his experiments. High spirit energy beast blood and bones are used to create stronger array formations and these scaled birds are exactly that.

Jackson wonders if he creates a power plant with arrays formation using the materials from these birds would its effect be far better than what he would expect from a common beast. The scaled bird's body looked like it was very conductive which would be very good at gathering electricity, at least in theory it sounds possible.

Jackson began hunting the bird up in the sky. "Bunker please activate artillery mode and take care of these birds over there, carefully damaging them too much. Only use a single 12.7 mm cannon." Jackson commands Bunker with caution.

Bunker used a 3 shot burst to kill one of the scales birds fly. Jackson looked at the dead animal slowly falling. "I go get it, you continue to shoot them down."

Jackson arrived at where the scaled bird fell and it wasn't long before he found the creature hanging on a branch of a small tree. Bunker shot was very accurate, hitting the head once and twice on the chest.

Bunkers continue to shoot the scaled bird down, seeing their flock die one after another the scaled birds swoop in all together. Jackson saw their attempts in destroying Bunker together and couldn't help but shake his head at their stupidity.

Jackson expected the bird to flee after sometime seeing how easy it was for Bunker to take them down. Well who would turn down free lunch, especially when you needed it.

Bunker just calculated the bird's pattern and shot them all down. Jackson finished his hunting here and took all the scaled birds with him back with Bunker help.

Returning Jackson called Faith and Tool Maker to the field below the rocky mountain. "Let's begin with the experiments to supply power to the base. Tool Maker did you collect all the data from Faith like I told you before leaving?"

Tool Maker was tasked to gather all the information about array formations from Faith just before he left to hunt for materials.

" Of course , Master, I will never disappoint you," Tool Maker said. "I have studied all the data about the formations and ready to assist with your task, please give your instructions master."

"Good then let's begin" hearing Tool Maker was prepared, Jackson turned to Faith and explained to her what to do. "Here is the plan, the Tool Maker will craft the array formation that I want and Faith, please use your spirit energy to supply the crafting of the formation."

"Sure, No problem but I am only able to supply energy on the same level as my cultivation. Which means we can only make level 3 arrays" Faith was ready to help her Husband with his crazy idea but was surprised and attacked by her sisters.

"ahh. Not fair you're hogging him all to yourself again" Lili hugged Faith from the back and pouted in jealousy.

"We want to be of use too," Lulu added.

"agreed, you can't just have him all to yourself Faith. He belongs to all of us and he is not allowed to play favorites with us sisters." Ann joined in the play as well.

Hearing her sister's jealousy towards her, she felt a little guilty she did not mean to hog Jackson all to herself but she was just eager to help him that's all.

Seeing his wives arguing Jackson stops them from further fighting with each other. "ahh don't, don't fight it's my fault I should have asked you girls to come as well. How about this help Faith supply energy to the arrays for this experiment."

"Okay, we'll do our best" The girls smiled and joined in for the experiment.

"Okay then let's begin" Jackson was even more motivated to do this because this time he is not alone but has his wives working with him.

"Tool Maker marks these symbols as.." Jackson pointed at the array symbol that he has decoded earlier but still was not sure if he is 100 percent correct and is the reason why he needed to do this experiment.

"copied Master please you can begin with coding the array I will craft them down for you" Tool Maker said after finishing analyzing and recording Jackson instructions.

"Good everyone please stay in your stations and let's begin. Tool Maker craft s1 followed by s4 then s5." Jackson gave the orders to his team and began to instruct Tool Maker to craft his coding onto the solid ground using beast bones and blood.

Tool Maker melted and crafted the bones, poured blood to cool it and stabilized the spirit energy.

One by one Jackson coded his theory onto the array formation he designed. This array should gather spirit energy and turn it into an electrical power source. Basically making a spirit energy version of a nuclear power plant.

Hours passed one by one the girls slowly feel exhausted but never stop supplying Jackson's array formation.

Then finally Took Maker crafted the last symbol. Then in the center of the formation a small orb formed like a miniature sun it gave off a strong heat and light to the surroundings.