A Collection Of Other Adventures

Gear Upgrade Time

A Collection Of Other Adventures

Gear Upgrade Time

Date: December 9th, 2023

This is a day in my interdimensional life. I didn't sleep again. I drank a sleep replacement potion so I don't need to sleep again just yet. Before starting my morning routine, I returned to the base in bad shape. Let me rewind to that. Why? Because it was the final straw that pushed me to insist on getting my armor upgraded with futuristic technology. You see, I had narrowly escaped the obliteration of an entire solar system. It was an intense and painful battle. I was completely drained of mana not to mention physically exhausted with my armor banged up and my body covered in wounds. War hurts like hell, the pain of it is something I don't have the skill to come even close to truly describe. Some of my comrades happened to be near the spot I ended up in the base. They hear the faint teleport sound that is usually not even audible. They turn and give concerned looks. I beat them to speaking first: "I am as dead as a zombie like me can get without my body parts scattered all over the place. Everything hurts. I need help for dealing with all of this. I am not okay." Barla replies: "Swiftdrawer! You look horrible!" "If I weren't still undead, I'd have died from the injuries I have by now.." Without another word, Barla starts trying her best to help me out by healing me. With the help of a few others, I was pretty much restored to normal. Even my armor was repaired. I end up hugging all of them because what I went through was excruciating beyond words and I just needed to do that.

Bray looks at me in concern: "Swiftdrawer, you're much better now but are you really okay on the inside?" "I don't know. At this point, I just want to experience my normal routine. But at the same time, I think it's time for my gear as well as even my cape to get upgraded with advanced technology and magic. Our enemies keep getting tougher and tougher. And the rate at which my stats increase currently isn't fast enough to keep up." "Then, you must become the next BRAINS member to have their gear upgraded. I shall inform the others who are also involved in the process of making that happen. Let's head to the space station in a little while." "Okay. Thank you. I'm still processing what happened to me. There's no way I can go back there to fight considering how beat up I was after narrowing escaping with my form in some semblance of a good shape. I'm going to need a little time alone before we go there." "I see. Everyone, please return to whatever you were planning on doing. I shall take things from here." They nod and split up. Meanwhile, Bray stays in place and pulls out her phone. Meanwhile, I head to the library for some peace and quiet. Instead of picking up a book, I just pull out my sword, hug it tightly, and think to myself. "It's a good thing we have all kinds of things that allow me to do things like sleep in my armor without any problems. No beds getting broken by the weight of my armor. No uncomfortably hot nights of sleep. No rust on my gear. I'm one of the only individuals who wears armor almost all the time at this point."

"It's not something I do in my world given how long it takes to put on my armor there as well as other things such as the fact that I don't know exactly how to keep all of my metal armor as well as steel swords in superb shape when I'm in my original body yet." After some time, Bray finds me in the library and asks: "Swiftdrawer, are you ready to go?" I nod and stand up while continuing to hug Graceful Protector: "Aye. I've sorted things out enough now. Let's waste no time." She nods. And so, we teleport to the space station which is currently orbiting Tomapie of all places. Once there, we both knew where to go: the laboratory. There, various high level mages as well as many of the brightest minds in BRAINS are already gathered. They're currently in the process of upgrading someone else's gear. Dominic spots us and waves us in. We enter. Dr. K speaks first: "Nice of you to drop in at a very good time. We're almost finished with this set of gear. I was surprised when I was asked to help upgrade gear I had only ever seen before in fantasy media before not even that long ago! Who knew that my mind was considered crucial to the process of upgrading this gear. Now who does it belong to again? Let me think.. Oh right, that Integrity Knight. Alice. I find her to be quite charming, I must admit." Gelina speaks: "Bray, you've brought Swiftdrawer I see. Good. Once we're finished with Alice's gear, we'll start on theirs. I hope you'd be willing to join us in helping upgrade their gear as well as the gear of others. After all, we're now beginning to really advance everyone's gears now."