Techno PoV

We were looking all with our mouths hanging. The giant sky whale swimming over the sea of clouds couldn’t help but startle all of us.

I put the ship on high speed to catch up to the whale.

All the while that i controlled the ship i had my other robot, which i called Asura because of the model i used, scan the area.

The scanners we had were greatly upgraded compared to the old ones. The engines, mainframe, coding everything i remade. I was allowed to repair 75% of the codes. It seems the level restricts it. Anymore and it will add a level restriction to our motherboard which is kind of crazy.

Still the massive coding repairs helped greatly to reduce fuel consumption, made the systems work better, opened processing space for several new programs as well.

After i finished my first body i even had to create a new software system to aid me in using the extra arms. I’m still perfecting it but i can already use four arms at one time. It would help a lot since Asura has six arms all armed with different weapons on the arms, shoulders, and chest.

My two new bodies are actually really unique compared to all the others we made. They work like a set so both of them were built with motherboards. Because of this I’m able to switch to which robot i manually control. For the most part i plan on staying with my Yasha body (four arms) since it’s more what I’m into but if needed i will manually take on Asura if the occasion calls for it.

I also needed to make a new system for Bulk.

When he logged back in to find his new body made so it had a secondary mode, which lets him go on all fours like a rhino, he asked for some auxiliary systems to help him control himself while like that.

Bulks body had several new heavy weapons that fit the heavy armored robot.

First off, in his hands i installed a minigun. It’s not like the protectors which has many barrels. This one could be compared with a high caliber automatic rifle. Besides that there are actual miniguns on his back which work when he is in rhino mode which lets him ram into his targets if he wanted to go animal.

I left several empty slot zones on Bulks body because there are many weapons we still don’t have like rockets which can be added.

For now i can only add the automatic rifle and miniguns. I didn’t give him a grenade launcher, even though it would work nicely, because i have better plans for what to add in its place.

While we flew closer to the sky whale we were searching for a place to hook the ship. The while was constantly moving so we needed to attach hooks someplace.

The back of the whale was like an untouched forest with high trees, cliffs, plateaus and so on. If we weren’t so high up you would think this was a regular forest.

As we flew around it looking for a spot to make a stop we noticed hundreds of sky fish and several large birds.

Scanning all of them i saw they were levels 160-200. I frowned because this whale seems to be a high level zone. Still i wasn’t about let a goldmine like this fly away.

Nova’s upgraded sniper rifle could probably kill them if she it properly. I gave her my best targeting system which now even takes the wind speed and direction into account before showing her the target.

I steered away from the flying monster areas and made my way to a high mountain near the center of the back.

The mountain didn’t have many trees at the top and it was a bit flat which would allow us to hook up.

I have Nova and bulk prepare some large metal spikes used for *sigh* sky fishing, which nova wouldn’t stop pestering me to make, and had them aim at the center area. I turned the ship enough to let her aim the canning loaded with the roped shot and she get it dead center. I kept the ship close enough so we wouldn’t be dragged and turned the other way and had her do the same thing.

With both sides of the ship hooked i had bulk, Asura and Brock pull the ropes in while i slowly moved close before lowering the ships built in “feet” which lower for landing. It was a nice attachment already built into the ship.

Landing the ropes were fastened tight so the ship won’t be thrown around and a few other ropes dropped to keep the other parts of the ship loose.

With the ship landed we threw down drones and began scouting.

Victor was inside working finishing the upgrades i drew up for his battle suit. I already built a new engine for his battle suit so he just needed to make the improvements.

He would then prepare several smithing tools and stuff and load it on the blast turtle before having it exit and be ready to leave.

He was our healer and support, as well as our ammo depot.

Most of the guns have pellet bullet but the barrels are engraved to make them spin. The only long bullet was Nova’s metal drill shot and metal stakes.

We set up camp and with a few robots i set up sentries. If I was going to make this a safe zone so i would need to add weapons at and make a perimeter.

It would need to be military style more or less but because of the height we were mostly safe from any land predators.

For now we will scout and map the area out before doing any kind of exploring. With Brock bringing up iron and any other kind of metal the area holds we will have plenty of materials to work with as we set up a base.

Nova PoV

THIS IS SO AWESOME!!

We landed on a big flying fish and now bro was helping the midget fix the toys and setting up the other robots to keep watch. It’s like being in one of those cool action movies me and bro used to watch.

I have Proto help move some of the bigger toys since now he is really strong after bro fixed him.

I tried playing with him before and it was really cool. He is so fast and was much cooler.

Bro didn’t let me test out the new toys he made for me but told me that we needed to make this place safe before i could play.

We were looking for some targets right now so he would let me play when we were ready.

I wanted to test it out now but when bro saw that i was going to try and test he locked all my toys so i can’t use any of them until he says so. Even when i cried bro simply turned his ears off and i had to text to make him listen.

Since i didn’t know how well to work this thing so well i typed slow and soon gave up.

Bro is so mean. First he makes two awesome robots for himself and leaves me with just fixing me up and getting me new toys.

They did look really cool though. The one with six arms had a slight red color to its body making it look really scarier and it was really tall. The eyes weren’t that cool v shaped helmet we got from those bugs before. They were two normal looking eyes that always shined red and were long and when his face was normal he looked like he frowned.

The one with four arms looked like the bro i knew but with two extra arms. He was a bit more muscular looking but that was so all the stuff bro put in would fit. His eyes were also two normal eyes but they shined blue and instead of an angry look all the time he had a calm look. Both of them had lots of pieces making up their face. Bro made it special so that the face would show expressions like a normal person.

He did the same for me and Bulk.

We could now show expressions unlike before which our faces were almost frozen the same. Way and moved very little.

It was nice to move my face like normal though i still couldn’t feel anything. It felt strange to touch something without feeling it or needed to eat.

Still i help out and in 2 boring days of getting all the toys set up we finally make our cool action movie base.

Bro also says he found lots of interesting places. One place he calls a dungeon had lots of targets and i was jumping to have fun.

Bro unlocked the toys in my arms so i can protect myself and the new ones on Proto.

I wanted to have fun. We leave behind Ena and Blaze because we need someone to watch the ship. With Victor and Brock coming with us, we head down a path Brock makes with magic. It circles around the hill we were on.

Techno PoV

With two days of preparations the base was set up. Thankfully Nova was easily deterred from whining since i turned off my ears right after i locked her weapons. She isn’t good with texting so it was slow with it and eventually gave up.

Still she was good help because she was strangely good at building the weapons in place.

We put stationary weapons like miniguns and rifles on simple tripods.

If we could i would have set up cannons but those on the top deck of the ship were enough for now.

I activated all the clockwork robots that were stocked up inside the ship and left them all on in position. Several were put to watch and were all in my view.

We head down a slowly growing path Brock was making as we walk. The group was everyone but the fire elementals who were left behind to watch the ship.

Victor was riding on the back of the blast turtle which, for some reason, he installed a tripod support for a weapon. The seat built just behind it was made for his size and his suits engine as well as the turtles fed the steam for a high powered minigun placed onto the tripod.

To his side Victor had his trusty war hammer. I also had the war hammer he gave me but mine was in my inventory.

Would pull it out but since i have six swords in my Asura and four in the Yasha bodies.

The dungeon i scouted was small and seems to be the lowest leveled one in the area. The range was level 65 - 90 and had earth monsters in it. I was going to take this chance to power up Brock who was currently lacking. The toughest upgrade was the fire elementals. Maybe i can change their race by feeding them an earth core making them magma golems.

Well it doesn’t really matter. We will simply have them leach of the fire from the ship engine for a bit. It’s slow but it should work for now. When we encounter a forest fire or a fire monster, maybe a dragon, they can eat its flames and getting a quick boost.

After thirty minutes and several breaks to let Brock gather mana we finally reached the forest floor. Waiting at the base of the mountain were all our drones. We picked all of them up and stored them away. We really needed flying ones to carry these up. Still with the path that wouldn’t be a worry any more.

I lead the guys through the forest and like before, brock was moving the earth along with all the trees creating a packed dirt road.

It was a straight shot to the east of the plateau we settled in we didn’t find monsters but the sound of birds was clear. Sometimes we spotted a flying fish overhead as it blocked the sunlight for a moment. The same sky sharks Gaia “fished” with Nova back during the beta phase were found here but bigger in size.

I was sure that her shots would take at least 60% of the HP but it wouldn’t kill it. It was simply too big compared to the other one.

We could probably kill it if i shot some grenades into its mouth and but i don’t know how many it would take to make it blow up from the inside.

We soon reach the cave entrance. It was quite large. About 5 meters high 7 long and it continued that size inside.

The blast turtle fit easily inside.

Techno: ”Careful guys. The dungeon monsters are double our level. Don’t get cocky, we have weapons but we also have limited ammo. Victor, you be prepared to start making more if the fight drags on. I will use the Yasha body to help if needed.”

Victor: ‘Got it captain.’

Techno: ”The rest are fighting. Get ready.”

I make Asura’s grenade launcher and minigun arms open up revealing the large weapons. I see Proto’s arm guns appear and Nova’s as well. She works well with that thing since she fires guns making the protector copy her actions sometimes.

Bulk readied the rifles on his arms and we finally enter the dungeon.