“Thank you, Michael, for not forcing into a war,” Michelle said as I polished off another burger. “I need to consider completely redoing how I handle things. Since capturing a level 7 won’t be simple.”
“Impossible in my opinion. A hundred minutes on sothing like the level 7 over there,” I waved my hand in the direction of the moltenlands in front of us. “I don’t have the stats for that. I can’t get close.”
“There has to be a combination, that I am not considering,” she replied.
“It is a step up in power. That is the issue. We have only faced one level 7. There will be others. If anyone can co up with a way to capture one it, is you,” I replied, but she shook her head.
“I am afraid, I won’t be able to get any higher. Without you carrying up the combat levels. It just isn’t possible. Even if I get a massive number of stats, it would need to be as much as you, or more to fight at your level, without you capturing monsters,” Michelle said.
“That’s how it has always been. Don’t sell yourself short. I needed help and support the first ti I fought the monster. Information is half the battle. This tier will just take a lot longer. More ti to get a few percentage points of improvent out of fighting and turning monsters into crafting crystals,” I told her.
“It is nice having a monopoly on level 5 crafting crystals,” she replied. I wasn’t going to ntion that the war was going to keep those high margins coming in. The expansion of the military, bombs, and equipnt would all require high level crafting crystals.
They wouldn’t be used for general grinding. That was too much of a waste. But they would be used in military applications and rich grinding teams. When we returned, Samantha would handle selling off the crafting crystals in bulk. She had been doing good work for , keeping my life running smoothly when I was in the city.
The easiest and the hardest job to have. Easy since I wasn’t around that much. Hard, from how demanding I was. Well, I trusted Samantha to handle the sale of crafting crystals, she had done so in the past. This would be a much larger batch, since we had never spent so much ti grinding before.
“When are we going to other level 6 zones and testing them out?” Michelle asked .
“After the celebration at day 5,005. The upgrade of the city, combined with the farming, will make it a major event. We will grind until then, and after that, we are going to poke other level 7 zones. Maybe. I am tempted to say we should just keep grinding. What do you think?” I asked her as I picked up the last burger and began eating it.
“Grinding would be better. Since we know the power of a level 7. The only reason to test multiple of them out, would be to get more knowledge or upgrade skills. I could use the upgrades, but I suspect the big jump will co from a level 7 zone and a level 8 boss,” she said. That was why I liked Michelle, she reached the sa conclusions that I had.
“Indeed. Well, once the skill point resets, you can take it for one of your skills. No point in letting things go to waste. Also here,” I set my half eaten burger back on the plate and pulled out the level 7 crystal. “Kind of tempted to cash it in, but you can have this one as a backup. Will get more in the near future.” I handed it over to her.
“That is very generous of you. Thank you, Michael,” she replied and held up the spherical light blue point crystal up in front of her. “So much power in such a small thing.”
“Indeed. I suspect that packing in more energy becos more difficult the denser it is. A difficulty to volu relationship. That is why there are less high level monsters and why the point crystals scale as they do,” I explained.
“That could be, or it could be computational resources. The higher-level monsters are more complex. Sa with the higher-level terrain. Perhaps that is the limit of the Almighty System?” Michelle proposed.
“It could very well be. It will either make cry or laugh, not sure which one, when we leave this place and the monsters out there are either impossible, or super easy.”
“Could be both. The only place where there are levels are things that are artificial,” Michelle replied and I smiled at that, picking up my burger again and polishing it off. It was a good point.
I wasn’t sure about this place, but I didn’t like it. I felt hemd in a way I had never felt in the past. That was due to the limited amount of zones and all the void zones out there. The Systemic Lands felt smaller than ever. While I couldn’t see far, I knew the layout of all the zones around for the most part.
But what was beyond the void? That was the real question. There was one possible land bridge to the West, that I hadn’t explored, since we had passed it as a level 5 zone at the ti. A small corner connection, just North of The Abyss and Southwest of the Avatar’s old cities.
It was the one level 5 zone I had not poked yet. I had been holding off. But it might be worthwhile, going on a trip to the other half and exploring myself. Getting a lay of the land before any invasion. Kind of like an adventure slash vacation.
While there was talk of city upgrades and other asures to spy, the quickest, easiest, and simplest way was to go over there myself. “What do you think about poking the other nations with ?” I asked Michelle.
“Probably not. I will support the airship if you need to. But I prefer fighting monsters, not starting wars,” she replied. She was giving a look.
“I was just thinking that it would be the best way to gather information. There would be new monster types,” I tempted her with what I knew she enjoyed. That actually made her hesitate.
“Level 5 and level 6 zones?” she asked.
“At least level 5. We might find sothing you want captured,” I added.
“That would be a good reason to explore. All right. But don’t use as a strategic weapon,” she replied.
“I won’t. At most just a show of force. Throw out a level 7 and make all the locals scream. A good way to draw out anyone strong,” I added.
“I will have to side with Doctor Katz on this one. Don’t start sothing unless you need to. If we travel, we aren’t looking to pick a fight,” Michelle told .
“Alright, alright. Just fights with monsters and if people give a hard ti. Then we drop a level 7 on their head,” I replied with a grin and she rolled her eyes.
“You are impossible, but fine. I am curious about the scope of this place myself. It will be nice to explore the other portions of the Systemic Lands. See how other people and nations are handling everything,” she replied.
“It will be a disaster. Don’t doubt that. The fact we have more towers, and they don’t have a level 6 city, is not a good sign for them. That is why I am not too worried. Oh, that reminds , have you checked out the battery idea from Jacob?” I asked her.
“I am considering it, but it isn’t sothing I think I would want to risk easily. I can already pri my summons if I need to. A larger energy pool is useful for upkeep. I need to think about it so more,” she replied.
“That is fine. Let’s plan to head out after the celebration. With our firepower, and here, I am not worried,” I said. It might be famous last words, but I wanted to know if there really was another Divine Empress out there. The more my thoughts drifted to her, the more I was worried there was soone completely crazy, pouring crystals down their throat to empower themselves.
At 150 million points per day, I doubted anyone would be outpacing , but with a ta-point, the risk was real. Better to take a look for myself and get a handle on the situation. We could park the Crystal Vortex in a level 3 zone, the mistlands. No one would spot us and we could be close enough to the ground without issue.
From there I would go about and check out the local cities. I would have to work on the trick that was used to hide stats. Putting a layer of energy over and altering it. It was a massive headache I didn’t bother with. Since one couldn’t use skills and one had to focus on keeping the deception up.
It just wasn’t worth it most of the ti. But checking out another nation ant I should practice that technique to look like soone who would be grinding in a level 3 or an easy level 4 zone. Poke around, get so information, check out the local warlord.
Maybe they had a democracy, now that would be hilarious. I could imagine myself, going in and declaring my candidacy, winning, and then revealing I really was the leader of another nation. Surprise! That was the kind of thing Clarissa didn’t want doing. It would lead to headaches. Still, it would be another nation.
It can’t be any worse than Truth and the Dragon Empire. I didn’t think it was possible to have worse nations, but I was willing to be surprised. That was what would be fun about the entire thing. A real adventure, with subterfuge.
Not that it would matter with how powerful I was, but that would be the fun part. Like a high level professional gar, going into a noob lobby and crushing everyone for the laughs they could get. It was bullying, but between nations I could call it spying, or sothing like that.
That was the crazy part of having a nation, where the leader was also the strongest person. If they traveled about it could create so very interesting scenarios. I had to ntally promise myself, that I wouldn’t scream out about having a nation behind . No giving information away. I had to go there to collect it.
With an airship and Michelle in support, it would be great. I would also bring Doctor Katz along for moral guidance. He had llowed out a lot due to the Divine Empress and her pure evil. Another nice thing about her was that I could point at her and go, ‘At least I am not that bad. Am I right?’
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