Wasteland Conqueror

Chapter 52: Weapon Shipment

Date Friday, November 1st, 2261

Two months later.

Back once again at the Genesis Foundry, I found myself taking a short breather from my workout.

Man, I've been hard at work these last couple of months and the progress I've made really shows it.

Pulling up my stats, I couldn't be any happier looking at all the increases my stats have undergone in this short period. Throwing that to the back of my mind, I began thinking about the other areas that have experienced improvement.

Besides, my stats steadily increasing, the robots and I got that firing range built we'd been constructing for some time in the mine. With its completion, I can finally put the many weapons I manufactured for pops and father-in-law through a multitude of trials to ensure that they'll be more than satisfied with this final shipment. Guess Alice, Bella, and I will be having a range day... might as well call gramps and have him come over too. I'm sure he'll enjoy letting off some steam by firing off a bit of lead down range.

Going back to my progress, I've been keeping an extra close eye on my All Element Core Technique to see if any issues would pop up with it. But nothing has occurred, thus I suppose it's time I impart the magical technique unto Alice as well as all the magical knowledge I've acquired through my magic skill rising. That girl is sure to be more than a little stoked when I give her the news since she has asked more than a few times about how things were coming along, so...

Adding to the magical stuff that cross necklace of mine that my girl gifted me ended up being something pretty amazing. If it wasn't for me taking the mage class, I doubt I would've discovered its effects until much later.

| Ancient Runic Cross Necklace Of Protection |
Ability: Bubble Shield
Class: Light
Weight: 0.15
Value: 100,000,000
Item Description: A magical cross of protection from a long dead civilization. This cross is inscribed with magical runes of protection and when the wearer's life is in danger, the cross will activate and enclose its wearer in a bubble shield that will protect them from harm. The bubble shield can provide a protection of 500 DT for 3 minutes before it is depleted and requires 24 hours to recharge.

The effects are honestly pretty busted. I'm actually half tempted to start pursuing magic right this second, just so I can replicate it and give each one of my family members and friends an item of protection. Aside from that, because of this discovery, it got my creative juices flowing and got me thinking about the possibility of combining magic with technology.

I can already envision myself adding and stacking all sorts of enchantments onto a heavily armored suit of power armor. It would be pretty sick to trick out my robots with it too. However, as useful as this piece of jewelry is and all those ideas of my sound, my plate is already more than full enough, hence I'll have to delay those projects until later, unfortunately. Nonetheless, I can't wait for that day to come. I will certainly see a huge power up when the time comes.

Moving on from magic to the skill books I've accumulated. So I was going to spend them, but on second thought, I decided to delay it for a couple of reasons. One, I've been making decent progress in all of my skills, generally, so why increase that difficulty even a smidge when it's totally unnecessary. And two, why spend them when I can just wait till it's time to depart from the undercity. It probably won't make that big of a difference, but every little bit of advantage I can eke out wherever I can is worth it in my book.

Other than the progress I've been making alongside Alice and her little sister, I've been spending a bit more time recently with my two buddies, Big Tom and the little genius Bob. The two of them both appear to have good characters and with how things are progressing, I've been thinking more and more about adding them to my little group, I got going on over here.