27. Night falls on the desert.

With the most recent and last attack, it was almost a call to the bounty hunters and the beasts alike, the once safe paths exploding with a near endless amount of nocturnal creatures, bioluminescent scorpions, strange black snakes, and giant desert death worms. And those running along the outer edge are watching the silent desert birth a huge amount of activity, looking more like an endless battle than a wild region. Despite all of the activity, Silver's group is navigating quite well, minimal attacks that get resolved with relative ease. Their goal is a solid shelter of stone or to leave the desert, whichever happens first. With Silver in the atlas truck, running lights off and using her mutated vision to see creatures in their path, her journey so far has been lengthy but largely unexciting, when after a few hours into the dark night,a large stone slab, spanning several hundred feet in length and a few feet off the sand bed making it ideal to rest at once the half dozen creatures are taken care of. After turning the lights on, and using the gravity plate to ride up onto the slab, She spawns all of her turrets, having them shoot and tear the creatures to pieces as she parks near centered of the large rock before dragging her exhausted form from the truck as the others pull up and park, the beasts worn out thrusters hissing as they cool. "Lets rest and reinforce here for the night, lets get something cooking I'm starving, and I need to see what i can do with these vehicles soon." Silver orders, taking charge despite being amongst the youngest here. With that her parents get to work with the help of the two shield bearers to strip down some of the scorpion corpses grilling the soft inner meat over a fire, inthe meantime, Micah jogs over with his own tired smile. "Tell me the good stuff, what's on your mind?" He asked. "Before we start bragging, do me a favor and get in the atlas and bring out that giant rifle, and its case in there, I plan on potentially absorbing it all, though it might Make everything expensive, but it'll have to same effects of pay to win gear." Silver replies waving him on as she walks over taking a seat between the two vehicles, looking now at the two notifications. The first pops up [congratulations for your imaginative use of your abilities skills, giving birth to an inspiration and enlightening, you have gained one ability. (Gun truck creation) review the details in your skill status. The second notification pops up now. Due to your unique use of (mama storm) it has adapted And leveled up to a higher form, congratulations for the enlightenment in acquiring level 3 skill (mana heart) more details in your skill status window. With that, a wicked smile appears on Silvers face as she sees micah walk over, lugging the oversized rifle and case over setting it down in front of her. "Did you see those expensive rounds? That's easily tens of thousands of gold each." He says, still shocked at this fact as he watches Silver spawn her mounted machine gun, looking quite weak and outdated of a machine gun, he watches her attentively. Within seconds her mama covers both the mounted machine gun and the rifle consuming both, and the mounted gun being shrouded in a thick purple mist that last for some time before fading, revealing the huge rifle, with a thick metal plate on either side acting as a shield, and at the receiver, its been modified to take a belt fed box, the rounds are modified, glowing light blue and ark purple, the lights swirling around each giving off a vicious air as Silver giggles excitedly. "You mean to tell me It became a full auto anti tank rifle shooting pay to win ammo like its free?" The consumption having increased significantly, its not an issue, consuming 25 mana per shot with the new ammo. Having never learned the name, she changes the skill name to one of her choice, 'Moonlight Hammer mk. 1' due to the the ammo color and the high damage this can cause earning a strange name for it." Alright, so i managed to upgrade my mana storm skill to mana heart, its also level 3 so it has potential to be even stronger than mana storm, on top of that, due to using my turrets like i did in a driving and spamming motion, my class adapted allowing me to create and save a gun truck now, what that all entails I don't know, but i might be able to use the beast and the atlas truck as donors and make an upgraded version of both...and repair it with mana instead of replacement parts and other expensive things." Silver lays everything out for micah to figure out, afterall she trusts him with her life, whats a few of her class skills? With that, micah sits down beside her, whistling a bit as he looks over her upgraded cannon as well, envious in his own way,stroking his hand over the barrel and reciever. Silver takes a glance at her skill status window reading over the new skills. [Gun truck creation-- use other armed vehicles as donors to create and save your own gun truck,WARNING: consumes mana to summon, repair, and rearm the weapons. The larger the vehicle the more it costs to summon, repair, and rearm.] With this a plan for the two new vehicles starts shaping in Silvers mind while looking over mana heart. [Mana Heart lvl. 3-- gives you access to all of your mana, the ability to annex all mana in the environment and living beings, only beings much stronger than you can fully protect themselves from you. Ability allows one to control mana, destroy things housing mana, annex mana, and power mana required devices.] So this gives me absolute control of my mana making a mana devouring shield, or power a machine up or many options."lets get crackin' I have two donor vehicles now for a guntruck and I would like it by morning" Silver says, and before anyone can speak, she covers both trucks in mana, for a small chain to link the two, then forming a third chain to silver, giving her a small plane with two holographic images of the vehicles, making her raiseher brows. "Oh this is nifty!" She gets to work stripping out the thrust packs on the vehicles, the gravity plates, all steering thrusters and breaking thrusters, cutting the two vehicles cockpits off and moving them out of the way, not bothering with them yet as she focuses on the parts of the two vehicles she likes, bisecting the altar hull and splitting it to allow for door ramps and a rear hatch from the beast truck, giving it tons of access points, then ripping the ladder off the atlas rear piece to fuse it to the rear openable hatch. After all this, Silver takes the chain guns that were shoddily welded to the beast and forms it into a turret on the top of the new hull, tossing one of the new rounds from the gun case into the chain link, to watch it fuse into the turret, making the chain belts light up in the night with a sinister light. Before carving space for all the new thrust packs and steering thrusters, making sure to add all the braking thrusters. Now taking the time, silver forms the beast cockpit over the atlas one, carving out the antiquated controls and military seats, only keeping the aggressive armor look and outer hull theme, while carving the atlas hull to sit a bit lower in the front, and have more leg room, with this she carves out the wieldshield, instead of the short flat piece of glass, choosing to have a half moon shape giving a panaramic view around the vehicle, though not having enough glass to form it, she puts her design there to rest as she focuses on making a comfortable and spacious pilots station, with the screen further forward than directly in between the seats, and shifting all the redundant power cores over, fusing the most powerful one with the atlas core area, and the rest tucked away and fused into the system as extra power for everything. After several hours, its almost done silver calls of the fire child, having chosen to call her Lil Phoenix. "Hey Lil Phoenix, come over here,I need your help to finish up." Seeing her walk over with a confused look. "What can I help with?I am not much of a mechanic like you?" She says being bit sassy though obviously tired. "Nothing like that, i need you to melt some sand into glass, like a solid amount do it on the edge of the slab, and I will grab it with my mana and shape it to form quickly, then we will have a new tool to our arsenal haha." Nodding as she form a ball of fire, condensing it slowly as she walks over to the edge, Silver takes the time looking over the leftover alloys before smashing them together, fusing them into solid pieces of armor, taking some, she makes a large metal ram plow in the front with a blade like center, before securing it, the mad max theme only growing with it, before adding the rest of the spare allow inside as bunks and seats inside the spacious inside, and a single sealable turret with no weapon mounts as she making a descending seat for it. An hour later, silver walks over to look down, only to see a small pool of molten glass, way more than necessary making her laugh at it. "Good good, that's plenty! Thank you!" Silver says before waving her hand, mana swiftly picking up and shaping it over the panoramic windshield using her mana to purify it, causing it to gain a purple tint, that she doesn't mind in the slightest, looking at the now massive vehicle, covered in tough armor, she cant be happier as she pours her mana over the vehicle.As it slowly breaks down consuming her mana in the process, a new menu pops up, allowing her to name her new guntruck. After a few moments thoughts, silver names it the 'Stryker mk. 1' before watching it vanish. A moment later with a wave of her hand, it reappears consuming nearly 11000 mana in one go, fully loading the turret, repairing the armor, the worn thrusters now better than new, the gravity plates working at peak, and having a well built and armored vessel, unique to her, will definitely stand out, but not like she was trying to fit in anyway. Climbing in, Silver turns some music on real low on the console, and gets comfortable in one of the bunks, enjoying the working ac of her new ride in the desert.