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Chapter 45: Cleared

  Date Tuesday, August 27th, 2261

  A little more than two weeks ter.

  Waking in the wee hours of the night as I normally did, I id there for a bit, thinking ba what we've aplished over the st 15 days.

  Gramps and I spent August 12th colpsing the st of the exits and tinued clearing the cave of molemen while Alice did her thing ba the foundry. Over the wo weeks after that, I gramps, and Alice, who joined us on the sed day when her armor was ready, spent most of our time clearing the cave system of all remaining molemen.

  We didn't get a whole hell of a lot of things aplished in this period, the molemeermination mission being the exception, which is finally out of the way. However, si's no longer occupying most of my time and focus any longer, I start sending my robots into the mine and cave to start mining. In addition to that, I initiate my pns of expanding the foundry into the mine for the extra ste space that I'm getting very close to needing for all the shit I'm accumuting.

  While the robots are taking care of most of that, I return t on my projects and tasks such as designing the neons and robots to further build out my growing force. Establishing drug and medie produ, and seeing if those lumi pnts I discovered have any worth.

  Furthermore, I o deliver the st shipment of ons and ammo to both Alice's father and my own, not to mention all the other things I want to put time into, so I got a monstrous amount to do in the ing days.

  And if that wasn't enough, I also have that leveling I o take care of since I'm no longer being held back by the molemaermination, which is the sole reason why I haven't used any of the huge amount of exp I've earned.

  I probably could have leveled without issue, however I don't believe it would've been worth the risk, at least in my eyes when I could already handle basically everything we entered in the cave. Hence, why boing through something that could fuck with my bat ability and accuracy when I simply dey the leveling till a ter date where I'm n to remove a looming threat.

  Speaking of whiow that I'm not dealing with the molemen anymore, with them all dead, even the newborn pups I came across. I think I'll undergo that leveling today, though it will have to wait until gramps drops Alid I at the facility, so in the meantime I'mma go hit the gym and keep grinding and building my physique.

  [ Loot Gained ]| ons |7.62mm Hunting Rifles (576) - Colt Python .357 Magnum Revolvers (934) - CSG10 Submae Guns (699) - DMG-15 Double Barrel Mae Gun (1) - M240 Mae Guns (15) - Pickaxes (4,121) - Remington Model 870 Shotguns (1,765) - Sawed-off Double Barreled 12 Gauge Shotguns (2) - STAR-25 Assault Rifles (24)

  | on Magazines |5.56 STANAG 30 Round Magazines (189) - 7.62 STANAG 10 Round Magazines (2,757) - CSG10 Submae Gun 30 Round Magazines (2,651) - DMG-15 Double Barrel Mae Gun 75 Round Box Magazines (6) - M240 Mae Gun 100 Round Box Magazines (44)

  | Ammo |.357 Rounds (27,813) - 10mm Rounds (76,334) - 12 Gauge Shotgun Shells (53,843) - 5.56x45mm Rounds (4,812) - 7.62x51mm Rounds (31,735)

  | Miseous |Metal (98,794) - Stealth Pack (1) - Other Misc Items (88,111)

  [ Creatures Killed & EXP Gained ]Colossal Gi Monster (1) exp 22,500 - Giant Gi Monsters (5) exp 5,063 - Molemen (6,435) exp 1,082,486 - Molemen Guards (39) exp 21,938 - Moleman King (1) exp 2,250 - Total exp 1,134,237

  Dohinking for the moment, I got up out of bed and headed off downstairs and got to work. A good many hours ter, I arrived at the Genesis Foundry with Alid gramps although gramps took off since he didn't o hang around with us stantly with the molemen threat dealt with. As the old ma off to do whatever he had pnned for the day, Alid I went on inside and to the pnning aion area so I could inform her of what I had pnned for us today.

  Walking in, the two of us sat down together on one of the several couches before I started givihe lowdown. "So here's the pn for today. First, I've gathered a ton of exp from the molemeermination mission and have two quests to turn, so I o undergo another level up."

  "Shouldn't grandpa John be here in case something happens?"

  "Nothing major happe time, so we should be alright without him."

  "As to what we're going to do after the level up, we're going to go hit the gym here and when we're done, we'll work on the ideas we came up with retly ahe designs and necessary paperwork drawn up. We'll do that for a few hours before you have to go work on your studying while I tio work on designs aing robots assembled. Sound good?"

  "I don't have any issue as long as I get to study o you."

  "Fine by me."

  The two of us discussed several other things and as soon as we were ready, we departed the pnniion area for the small room I used not too long ago for my level up. Arriving there quickly, I was about to head in but before I could, my Alice turned me around and gave me a kiss on the lips.

  "Good luck, Dom."

  Grabbing hold of her, I pnted a kiss of my own and said while looking into her beautiful and glimmering blue eyes. "I'll see you in a bit, Alice."

  With a good luck kiss from my girl, I proceeded into the small spad begarieving the medstims and p-dex syringes I was going to use for this event. Drugs in hand, I spent the several minutes filling myself up full with the medstims' cocktail of chemicals and super nutrients. The instant I was finished with the medstims, I moved onto the p-dex and ied two doses, the same as the previous time.

  Ready to level up once again, I sat down in the fy chair that I partially destroyed previously due to the pain I was feeling then. Opening the holographic system window, I looked at all the stats that have increased in the short period since I've st leveled up. More satisfied with the pretty huge progress I've made, I navigated over to the level up se of the system menu and right before I was about to initiate it I had a thought.

  Hold up, I got that Molemen Removal quest ready to turn in and with it rewarding three attribute points, I could myself well above a hundred additional skill points if I dump them into intelligence. Do I really want those extra skill points etting luck to 11 and using the remaining two points on charisma...

  No, the extra skill points aren't really worth it when pared to getting a new perk and if I dey turning in the quest further until I get charisma to nine I'll get two new skill perks at the same time.

  That actually doesn't seem like too bad of a pn. It'll save me from having to waste perk points on Growth to raise my attributes on both lud charisma, both of which are a kind of problematic to raise. Yeah, I'll dey turning it in for now and wait till I've raised my charisma attribute to nine.

  With that decided, what do I want to do with my Master All Trades quest, I could turn it in now and gain one more level up a everything done in one go or do so after my level up and hope my intelligeribute increases in the leveling process so I might get a wee bit extra exp from the quest turn in.

  Well, every little bit ts, so might as well put it off, and besides, redug the amount of knowledge being stuffed into my head all at once, even by a miniscule amount, is definitely worth it to me.

  My quest turn ins pnned out, the effects of the pain suppressant I ied moments ago began kig in.

  Time to face that excruciating pain again.

  [Do you wish to level up?]

  [Yes] - [No]

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