Wasteland Conqueror

Chapter 58: Time To Collect

Date Thursday, July 3rd, 2262

Slightly more than a month later, once again at the Genesis Foundry.

"You're doing good, Vritra. Keep it up!" I encouraged my scaly pet, who was currently in the midst of the weighted cardio.

*Graw* (I won't give up.)

Silver Tongue is so useful. I wish I had figured out how to use it back when Vritra first hatched. It would have saved me from quite a number of headaches, but it is what it is. Thankfully, I know how to use it nowadays.

"Haa... haa... What about us?" Bob asked, barely hanging on.

"You guys are doing great, too. Keep it up!"

With my companions doing their respective assigned exercises, I returned to grinding my agility that has yet to breach into level 11 territory.

This past month has been hard, with no improvement in my agility. I was hoping I would've raised it that very last point I needed at the beginning of the previous month. However, I had no such luck, sadly. At least the entire month wasn't a waste. My robots finished constructing Vritra's much needed habitat for the not so little fella who has now reached a length of 21 feet and a height of five or so feet.

It's a good thing I got that area constructed because he was getting much too big to continue transporting him back and forth in my SUV, not to mention keeping him at home. The place wasn't exactly designed to house a reptile that was basically a massive saltwater crocodile on steroids that could run at speeds of 40 miles an hour. And that was with him, being not even a year old yet, I can only imagine where he'll be at when it's time for me to depart for the wasteland.

I'm also gonna have to figure out how I'm going to bring him along and accommodate him because I doubt he'll want to be left here alone in the facility... Yeah, I'll leave figuring that out for the future since I have no idea how big he'll be until it starts nearing time to leave. But since I'm on this topic, I should probably start expanding the halls, the mine tunnels, digging out tunnels through that expansive cave system and building an exit to the wasteland, so he'll have room to move and leave the undercity with me later on.

If he's anything comparable to the size his mother achieved, prior to her meeting her death at my hands, I got quite the job ahead of me. Thankfully, I had the foresight to put his area in the mine tunnels, so I won't have to dismantle and rebuild entire sections of the facility to meet his increasing size. Looks like I'll have to return to assembling robots to make this expansion happen in a reasonable time frame.

Besides, Vritra getting too big to keep anywhere else besides here, the Maxigen trials I have been putting the molemen guards through have gone overall pretty well. Only two of them have lost their minds thus far, both of which have been disposed of slash turned into exp since they lost what little value they had to me.

Although not before testing out my Medical Genius perk on them to see how long it would take for a limb to be regrown. What I discovered from those tests was that the perk wasn't able to regrow limbs instantly, unfortunately. Nonetheless, it was still able to regrow them at a decently quick pace. Fast enough that I should be able to utilize it in combat as long as I can get away to take a breather. Moving on from those moles, the other two appear to be going strong without any undesirable side effects, propping up.

If it wasn't a bit too early to say those variations were safe, I would've hopped onto one of the two formulas. But I can't guarantee that just yet, thus I'll continue the trials for a couple more months with increasing dosages to see if anything negative comes about. And if nothing occurs, I'll put the one of amongst them that produces the most benefits into production. Hopefully, everything goes well, but if they both end up being duds, I'll put the other ones I've created since all this started into trials. Maybe I should get some new test subjects ahead of time...