Wasteland Conqueror

Chapter 32: Armor

Almost eight months later.

"Ahh, I need a break." I thought aloud, walking over and spreading out on the couch.

As I lay there, I let my mind wander and at some point I began looking over what I've gotten done in the last year.

It's been nearly a whole ass year since I've taken this facility as my own. I honestly find it unbelievable how fast time has flown by this year. I suppose it's because of all the accomplishments I have made in this period.

Over these many months, I kept busting my ass grinding slowly but surely towards my goals, spending just about every bit of time I had available productively, building more and more robots and automating the various machines I had at my disposal.

For my efforts, I no longer needed to assemble them by hand and could pass the task off to my minions to assemble their kin. I even got that blast door up on the mine tunnel entrance and cemented my grasp on this place sooner than I had initially expected.

Even though I had control of the entrance, I still couldn't utilize the mine with the molemen awaiting beyond the rubble. I did get some mining done at the public mines to gather resources for production and other projects.

However, that didn't last all that long and eventually, I stopped that and just sold off some of my bulk stock to Alice's father David, and my father Robert to gather the funds I needed to purchase the resources I required to run my operations here.

The reason as to why I did that instead of just spending my time and effort continuing to mine was simple: it was just too lucrative selling ammunition, turrets, and weapons. It's not something I can do forever since I've already supplied the two of them with a ton of weapons, ammo, and all the other related attachments and weapon magazines.

I only have one more shipment to make, and then that's it. So all of my weapon and most of my ammo selling will be discontinued after I get the mine cleared of molemen and restart my mining operation to collect resources. Although this time around in my very own personnel mine.

And in the event I need more funds in the future, I can expand my business into selling ammo and weapons to the various wasteland explorers and whatever groups they are associated with. Though I'll be sure to sell none of the powerful weapons I'm producing, I don't need the weapons I made that can take out power armor and tanks pointed at me if some sort of conflict erupts between myself and them.

Actually scratch that, I have other avenues I can explore that don't have the possibility of being used against me. The only issue with them is they require more space, which is something I'll be severely lacking in the next 5-6 months at the rate I'm pumping items and resources at.

Besides all that and my business with my dad and future father-in-in-law, I hooked gramps up with an arsenal to pay back at least a small portion of the help I'd gotten from him. I did the same for his battle brothers, the men he used to explore the wasteland with once I found out they'd been keeping an eye on that little rat, William. They didn't need to since I was already keeping my own tabs on him and his activities. Nonetheless, I appreciated the help even though it was unneeded.

Stuff regarding the facility and paying my gramps and his buddies back aside, I didn't skimp on other areas in this period and have continued my brutal training and studying regime alongside Alice. Thanks to that, the two of us have grown even closer somehow and have raised our physical abilities a ton. Besides that, her little sister Bella has been going through everything alongside us as well and has improved a ton across the board compared to when she first joined our small group.

The little squirt has grown quite a bit in this period. I hope she continues to stick with it. But seeing how the determination in her eyes continues to grow day by day, I don't believe I'll have any concerns about whether she'll truck on through everything for much longer.