We worked quick on Bulk making his new body.

We took down his old body to get the parts and materials. He would also have a shift body made to be a knight that would now properly transform between his animal form.

The human form was had the extra plating placed over a second layer like armor. When he transforms the lower and upper plates will shift locations and link as one large plate forming the rhino body.

Weapons his arms can transform into swords, he has the typical pressure fist, and has a hammer form which was for what we had planned later for Bulk.

Once the head was built enough we moved his motherboard and using some computers Brock got busy pulling up all the codes and programs and reading through them.

With him working on that, Victor making the parts and me building the body. We formed a complete production line for clockworks.

Nova gave up on watching and after transforming into a rabbit she put her new body to sleep to focus on the other one outside.

Brock was the first one to finish.

“Ok I made it. It’s a separate program. I can’t install it as a permanent thing since it kind of removes free will. The first time he fights will most likely work but after he finds the program he can and will probably delete it.” Brock explained.

“One time is plenty. All we need is someone nice and close to catch him with their video feed.” Victor says with a grin.

“Me. My upgrades...will help.” I say

My own upgrades is restructuring the gears and adding the gear shift, which Bulk will also have installed.

“Okay with that decided let’s get him finished before he logs in.” Victor says.

We work quicker on the construction to finish up and before the end of the day we finish his body up.

I included smaller miniguns just above his shoulders that only appear in Rhino mode.

With him done we test out the shifting and weapons and with everything good we put him in human form sitting next to Nova and get started on me.

I bring Asura back in and we remove all the arms.

I put all the drones to automatically making the three arms which were already planned out.

The rest of the body be took piece by piece and changed to shift gear with no real second form. It was just to add the technology and because Gear shift worked with this tech.

The only real transforming parts of Asura were the arms which had a hand form, sword form and their respective gun form. The back pair was again the grenade launcher, the middle pair were miniguns and the front pair were shot guns.

We were allowed quite a bit of freedom with this because Asura was made when I was made just before we found Menthol.

For now I was only upgrading Asura so I stopped there.

It was already early morning when I finished and Victor was sleeping on the table.

I picked him up with Yasha and took him to his bed. He was so smashed that he barely noticed, only grunting a bit as I dropped him in bed.

He deserves the rest since we have been up a long time. Because of my race, though I can sleep the mental fatigue will come only on the fifth day which would respond to the end of the real world day ending.

Since I had free time before Bulk and the others log in I go and pick up the electric engine that was laying on the table with my drones already performing scans.

With five drones scanning it took very little time to map out the entire structure of wires and everything. Now the bigger problem was how would I build it.

I let Asura leave and with Yasha I close my eyes and focus. I found a nice feature to the scanned blueprints I make. When closing my eyes I can make a 3d model in my head that corresponds to the real thing.

This makes things easy because I can slowly take it apart while taking into consideration all the bolts and screws holding it since the piece wouldn't come out without be removing each bolt first.

So for two hours I spent my time in my workshop slowly taking the 3d model apart while outside with Asura I tested out the gear shift with my own stats.

It was mainly testing the limits like having Brock make a large boulders for me to lift and check the limit of my strength at gear two or one.

With my stats at this moment looking like this I can more or less figure out how strength works now.

StatusNameTechno Gear (Asura)RaceClockworkClassChaos KnightLevel:86Free stats points[/tds][td2]63[tr]Durability1845/1845Durability RegNoneEnergy400/400Energy Reg:0.2 per/sStrength180Agility180Dexterity161Toughness157Intelligence89Wisdom95Charisma30Leadership20Luck50

It had roughly around a 20 point increase to strength, agility and dexterity. Since I didn’t change the plating toughness remained the same so no changes there.

For strength on gear three I have a limit of around 180 kg I can lift. At gear two it goes up to 207 kilos and gear one it rises to 225. So the difference was around forty kilos in difference taking my stats which were really high. From what I could do after some calculating, it seems each point of strength corresponds to 1 kilo of strength. In other words someone with 1 strength lifts on 1 kilo while someone with 100 str can lift 100 kilos. That said this might correspond only to clockwork and other races might have different calculations.

Then for speed, an obstacle course was made for me to time myself.

At gear three which is natural stats I accomplished the course in 5 minutes and 25 seconds. It wasn’t a hard course but a speed test really. At gear 4 with the 15% boost I finished in 5 minutes 5 seconds and at gear 5 I finished with 4 minutes 45 seconds.

Each speed related gear seems to decrease the time in twenty seconds each which is rather impressive. Suddenly I thought of Nova’s new body and how fast she would get.

I suddenly sent a shiver down my spin thinking of when she activates gear five.

I just hope she can fight properly with the gauntlets i armed her with, they are her only weapons because of the small body.

With the gear checked i focus a bit more on the engine. I was having trouble taking the schematics apart to figure out how to build it.

I need this and the stealth tech done before the assassin robot arrives so i can put him to use.

I know for sure he is near Gaia’s level if he had any upgrades done then he would have gotten a bit stronger.

If so then he should be strong enough to fight the robot's.

I also hope for one of the tanks to come this way since i need serious fire power to deal with this problem.

After a long time i finally have every piece broken down and now understand the structure making it easy to break and rebuild it in moments.

you have gained a new skill.

Schematic BreakdownBasic Level 1After long hours of breaking down a 3d model of some new found technology you have learned basic understanding of how to look and break down technology.

Through your basic level of understand of how to break down a 3d model you can somewhat find where to begin breaking the model and its a bit harder to get stuck.

+2% better understanding of dismantling through 3d models.

1% less chance to get stuck.

You can now find where to begin dismantling easier when examining new technology.

I smile as i read the new skill i acquired. It would definitely be something good to train. I can use to dino robots and break them down completely and learn their method of construction for later use. They would make really good mounts for small workers in the place of horses.

The the know how of making the electric engine i move the scanner drones to the stealth generator and set them to scan every last millimeter of it while i get to building the a few new engines.

Since i had no use for the rusted and ruined engine i grab a core which was filled with 1/8 of lightning core and 3/4 of steel, making a highly conductive steel alloy. I put that on top of the old engine and slowly the core let the engine through the film surrounding it while it absorbed it as the plain metal and core material inside began to rapidly change.

I left it and turned to the small army of tool drones and set up several groups to make each of them build a certain part of the engine.

There were main small pieces and only the smallest i would personally do.

The auto command for the drones lowers the quality of an item if i am not directly giving orders. It drops about one level so if i normally make excellent quality items the drones only make good quality.

I then set clockwork robots to pump out fire steel for several parts that would heat up in the engine while i set up several cores to perfectly mix steel with lightning crystal.

I tried before but i can't forge lightning steel but the cores can force the connection. They work on the molecular level i think but i can't be certain until i see from their perspective when i try out uploading my codes in a motherboard core.

Producing of the parts is quick because i know what each piece is and the only annoying part is the wiring which needs to be done while i build it which is rather obvious.

Still making one engine while using my small production line is way faster then doing it all by myself.

I would maybe take around one week to make one electric engine since i need to make most of the parts but the production line with the drones lowers that to around 11 hours since i can make a small block of metal around the size of the part and let the drones make the piece with the tools which goes much faster with several drones working at once.

By the time the engine was completely built it was already past noon but the new engine was complete.

I scanned it to get the info on it.

Clockwork Electric MotorA lightweight motor that uses electricity to start up and runs on both battery and its own power it produces if the consumption is low enough.

This engine is very silent for running on electricity and was once a mainstream motor used by stealth based classes such as assassins or small close range fighters that focus on speed.

Start up charge required 100 energy

Electric Energy produced: 1 energy regen/m

I was a bit surprised to see how good it was. Obviously the wrecked one didn’t show as much information or and was completely broken. Speaking of that one i look over at the core i left over it and found it had been completely consumed and the core was now an electric engine similar to the one i made. I go over and scan it as well.

Clockwork Electric Core MotorA lightweight motor that uses electricity to start up and runs on both battery and its own power it produces if the consumption is low enough.

Made by using a rare core and mixing lightning reinforced steel all the wires and systems can more efficiently conduct electricity through the motor and will be less likely to experience an electric overload because the core has several outlets built which allow electricity to be released in a pulse to protect the integrity.

Start up charge required 100 energy

Electric Energy produced: 2 energy per/m

My eyes were wide seeing the improvements the lightning core had on the engine. The core didn’t simply just absorb everything and combine the core with the metal. I added it to the material that needed it most mainly the wires. It even set up a system to release electricity to protect itself.

Used properly this could be used as a pulse type weapon if i can figure out how to contain that pulse.

This is very interesting. This one will definitely be what i will equip Nova with. The mainstream one i will hand over but this exceptional one is ours it's a shame the material it takes to make it is so costly but since we don’t need many it should be fine.

I’ll need to make some new engines for Bulk and I, the ones we have are refurbished old ones. Old model that are mainstream and weak so we need to improve it eventually.

Anyway I wake up Nova in her new body and have her let me switch her engine out and i make her a new battery giving her a core batter which is made from five regular batters compacted into a core. This gives her a 2 energy regen/m and 1000 points so it would stockpile the energy she will need for her close range skills she gained.

It was around this time that Bulk logged in and tested a bit of his body.

The three of us were ready as can be so we called the others and finally headed to the gate.

We needed test subjects and the dino were just what we needed.

I made sure to explain to Bulk how the gear shift work and he made a grin. The face was now very malleable and showed expressions vividly like any person.

“This is so OP! Yet it feels oddly balanced, the danger of doing the shift wrong is really a dangerous balance though.” He says while he checks out his systems and the skills.

He tested his Body shift skill which came with the shift tech and saw all the weapons.

Soon the others arrived and see Nova, Bulk and Asura upgraded or with a totally new body.

The GM’s examined Bulk momentarily taking a scan or too before they assaulted Nova for being such a cutie and both gave me a thumbs up with a large grin while hugging her.

I could only shake my head at the two who were petting Nova like a real pet rabbit and much to all our amazement she liked it.

I let out a sigh and tell the others we are going to test out our bodies and we should give support fire from above.

Everyone nodded and giving some orders to the knights who were still walking around we tell them to get ready. The day's second assault was about to start.

While we all waited, i explained to Nova how to use her gauntlets i built into her arm. I give her all the stuff required to make it work properly and then pull up a saved video of where i pulled the inspiration and showed it to her.

I couldn’t help but watch as well because it was really cool. Nova was super excited and as soon as the video started she activated the shift to the gauntlets and set them up and tried out. She was gitty to get fighting.

I made sure to calm her down and teach her how to use the gear shift properly.

Unsurprisingly she set it to Gear 5 boosting her speed. I didn’t find it surprising because I showed her a video once of a rabbit outrun two dogs bred for speed so being a rabbit she simply thought speed was best.

Though i doubt she knows about adding speed to her punch to make up for the lack of strength i tell her before punching any monster to run first because it was cooler.

It will be a few years before she can properly understand it even with the school we set up to teach all the kids of the next generation.

Well after a while we began hearing the shots and so we got the signal to run out.

With Asura i bring out the two mid and long range weapons and with the grenade launcher from the doorway i shoot right at the door of the cave and cause a chain explosion on the many of the dinos.

Still from the cloud of dust and smoke several still appeared running rapidly towards us but Bulk ran out, slowly due to being in gear 1, and got ready to punch when suddenly his blue glowing eyes turned green as Brock’s program take over.

“GRAAHHHHH!!!” He shouts just and lets loose a full power punch right into the face of one dino causing it to bend inwards and slowly crushing the neck pushing it all into the chest.

Suddenly his left hand turned into the hammer and brought it down in the back of the already dead drone crushing it even more then in a swift motion he pulled it out and slammed it on the right side of a second raptor drone that jumped at him catching it on the leg making it turn in the air and leaving it wide open which he finished with a crushing punch to the face breaking it.

He then jumped up high at least seven meters up as both hands turned into hammers.

The drones looked up following him and all of them circled around him.

As he started to descend he activated the skill we saw back during the beta phase when he fought Victor. [Overload] activated with the program probably.

I grab Nova and crouch around her and hide hurt just as Bulk landed.

I kept looking because i knew what was going to come.

Half way down he finally said it.

“BULK!! SMASH!!”

The instant he said it his eyes returned to blue and he brought his arms down and slammed the ground.

The impact was no joke, with 25% of his agility boosting his already high strength the impact caused a shockwave as well as making a crater with a 3 meter radius around Bulk.

The shockwave seems to have caused a bit of damage because several of the drones legs were in strange angles while broken.

Bulk released a lot of steam as Overload shut off before the duration which allowed him to stop the heavy backlash but we will need to examine him to make sure.

He gets up and looks at me who was looking his way and then up at Victor who was rolling around while laughing.

“YOU ASSHOLES REALLY DID IT!!!!” He shouted and started running towards the wall and amazingly he activated the program himself and jumped all the way up the wall and deactivated the program just as he landed near Victor.

“You asked for this Midget!” He says in a someone deep and nearly emotionless voice.

He grabs Victor by his stubby legs and dangles him over the wall inside the scrapyard.

It was then that i heard the sound of the swarm coming as well.

Not wanting to test my luck with just me and Nova I grab her while she complains and run back in.

I switch to Yasha who was up with the rest and see what was happening.

“AHAHAHA!! You think i didn’t prepare you idiot! “Safety command, Ignore Ally” Victor says and suddenly Bulk tosses Victor straight up. Victor falls with a thud on the wall losing some HP but still not inside the scrap yard which was now filling up with drones.

“BASTARD WHAT DID YOU DO!” Bulk shouted.

“I knew you would do something like that since we would be watching. So with a little help from Brock i set up a command that will make the arm that was holding me either release me depending on the situation or lurch up and release me away from danger.” Victor explained.

I remember there was a law against controlling the free will of players but considering this was a simple command for a robot to release with voice activation it was only partially against his will kind of like a mind control spell but with codes.

“I’M GOING TO FUCKING REPORT YOU YOU BASTARD!!” He shouts.

“Don’t go bitching about it! You let us upgrade you so we did, it’s not our fault a fucking riajuu who had a harem at his fingertips and lost it all, has to depend on others to upgrade you.” Victor replies.

I look towards the GM’s as they were sweating at where this conversation was going.

I connect to both of them.

”Was that command against the rules?” I asked them.

They look my way and nod.

”It took his free will away and we can’t allow that for anyone. At best it would give him a warning since it’s the first time but if done again he would get a penalty like levels deducted or banning for a certain amount of time with lose of skill or levels.” Annabeth explains through the text only to me and Greer.

”We are more fearful that he will call the GM’s and we will have to show ourselves.” Greer said.

”I would send the warning before he sends the report saying that the system detected a breach in rules and you are getting a warning.” I told them.

They looked at each other then me and nodded with a smile.

Moments later, Victor who was insulting Bulk by not giving a shit about what was going on suddenly looked into space and then grew pale before turning red with anger.

“GOD DAMNIT EVEN SUCH A SIMPLE COMMAND GOT ME A FUCKING WARNING FROM THE FUCKING AI!” He shouted in rage.

Bulk was surprised and because of it calmed down. The next moment Bulk started laughing himself at Victor's expense.

“Ahahahah You deserve it you stupid midget. Since brock helped out he should have gotten on as well.” Bulk says and smiled towards Brock.

“Don’t look at me, i only made the hulk program to play a joke on you. You fought how you wanted but you just acted a bit more savage from the program that is all. As for the command, it was actually supposed to be a safety measure in case the program caused a bug and you went berserk so it was there for safety and not escape like Victor used it for.” He replied nonchalantly.

“Oh i see, so it was only the midgets stupidity that got him a warning. Still remove this crap right now!” He shouts.

“Come on. Release your wild side!” Brock says laughing.

Bulk just sighed making me chuckle. I can’t help it, any man like Bulk should suffer for his own stupidity and denseness since no one should be that dense.

Nova was complaining but then i took her and let her try out her weapons on some combat drones. I made it clear to her that she can’t fight with them in the city so i locked them so she would only be able to use them when i let her.

At the end of the week the ship from South gate city arrived and with it the assassin clockwork Venus arrived and with him a platoon of knights and many small low class warrior class clockwork.

“So, how have you been mechanic?” Venus said as he got near Yasha and stuck his hand out while looking at Asura behind me noticing the shift tech.

I take his hand since i should at least be courteous to someone that can snap my neck.

“Is that a robot you built to fight for you?” He asked.

”Set body. Don’t go spreading it around but Gaia knows.” I say bluntly making him wide eyed. ”Did you bring the Sylph core?”

“Ah yes, Gaia made sure to examine it well and it was made from a higher class Sylph so if you purify the air it will use to make its body properly then you can make a royal class Sylph maybe. I don’t know if there is already one because they are elusive so it's best to try and aim high. If it doesn’t work then a higher rank Sylph will appear.” He said.

”So exactly what are the conditions for purifying them?” I ask.

“You will need to speak to Delta or Gaia for that. Now for what i need, obviously i would require the Stealth gear as well as the electric motor you stayed with and about half of those newbies i need to turn into rogue class. I have the model here.” He said pointing to his head. “Let me upload it.”

A download appeared and i accepted. What appeared after it was done was a worker sized clockwork but without tool gears and instead his hands were shift gears. The feet were remade to soften the step making it more quiet but overall it remained pretty much the same.

”Not much changes but considering it’s a basic class and it already uses the stealth gear it is rather high specs for a beginner class.” I say.

“Oh you’re wrong. The shift gear is basic level tech for our class but the stealth gear and electric engine are much higher tier. I presume you have remade my previous body?” He asked.

I nod and suddenly something shimmered into existence to my left.

”Your body is really high specs so it's hard to repair it completely and since i don’t know what material it previously was i wouldn’t know if it was 100% repaired.” I say.

“Wow, even i didn’t notice it. Also is this alchemy metal...earth steel?” he asked and i nod. “Yes, it would take a bit more to return to full strength but i am amazed it is nearly up to 85%. You really are an amazing mechanic.” He says.

I thank him with a nod and look down at the light green core in my hand wondering how we would purify air.

”I must be going, search for a dwarf named Victor, he is the leader of the blacksmiths in town. I will tell him about you and what you need, you can trust him to put you back in your old body and to make the shift gear.” I tell him and turn to leave.

I hear him shout orders and the knights disperse probably reinforcements.

I call Victor and warn him then finally i contact Delta while splitting up with Asura making him look around mainly where the new knights were moving around.

”So the core finally arrived huh? So now we need pure enough air that it won’t corrupt the core.” He says.

”So exactly how pure are we talking?” I asked.

Suddenly i felt a dense calculation get uploaded and i knew just how it should be.

”I supplied the proper equation. If you have anyone that uses wind magic it would be easy but since few races in the clockwork nation use magic since technology is more present that is hard to do.” He says.

I was trying to refocus while my head was going through the information.

It came with an exact number of how big of a room i should have and how much of each kind of air molecule should be in the air when this was activated.

The numbers hurt and i had to shut it out because it was starting to overwhelm me.

”I guess it wasn’t wise to upload it directly, my bad. Anyway you should know how to make it now, the core would become either Royal or Higher rank. Royals are rare but they are smarter so the closer you get to the proper percentage the higher the chance of one appearing.” Delta says.

”Yeah...I get that already. Brock should be able to help, his rock body can probably filter the air if he sets it up properly.” I say and cut the connection.

I go to Brock and as instructed he tests my theory and makes an closed off bubble and then makes a filter like structure with his body and absorbs the air into it.

With a few tests making the filter better and finer we finally reach a 98% perfect quality of air.

I make Brock make a large room and filter it and after about half an hour it was ready so i put the core against his rock and he tosses it into the room and activates the core.

Without knowing what was going on I wait.

After a bit i hear a heavy wind from inside and suddenly the walls of the room that the core was thrown in blew open.

Inside was the glowing core and around it the winds seem to come out of but soon it all converges over the core and forms such a powerful gust that a white body made of wind is formed.

Brock appears next to me as the Sylph descends stopping before us both.

“Greetings Great Earth Spirit! I must thank you for awakening me in such a powerful form.” The Sylph said.

“I only helped, the one who ordered it was this man.” Brock says and pointed to me.

“I must thank you as well then Clockwork. Now Great spirit, I feel the presence of several other elementals. Have you gathered others?” He asked.

“You are the last of the four basic elements that remained to gather. I was hoping you would travel along with us.” Brock said.

“Yes, it would be my honor to follow one of such power as you. Your body and the powerful mana crystals growing within have a powerful ability to purify the air so those i create from my own core shall not be corrupted.” He says.

You have been awarded 1000 fame for gathering all four basic elemental races, including those that failed the initial beta test.

With the four gathered elementals you shall soon know the connection of these magic beings and the connection between your race.

I frowned at this message. There was a rather foreboding feeling to the second part after the fame part.

“I shall do as i please though, should the need of defending you arise i shall help but my race is free and we wish to remain as such.” The Sylph said.

Before we said anything the body of Sylph spread out rapidly and he left the while. We couldn’t even see the core inside the wind.

“Wow, that was a strong level one.” Brock said and i nodded.

Seems royal class elementals will always be OP for a reason or another huh. Speaking of that only the will-o-wisp lack a true royal don’t they. Maybe one of the two familiars will discover that race eventually. I wonder if there is a mana refining method we need for them to learn to get them to turn into something better.

For the rest of the month we work on the construction of the town and training of the rogue class. Venus was deployed to this town by Gaia to help end the dungeon so we can get things rolling.

We had already scouted out the entire compound of the dungeon and brought back an image of the boss. It was a massive T rex type monster. Surprisingly the drones are born in metal shells. They are fed the metal which makes the drone.

In the dungeon there are several types of dinos.

The collectors which i have captured one and am currently trying to dismantle with my skill, the drone, which is what always swarms out, the defender which is a bulky drone with capability to shoot out fire for a short moment, and lastly the Juggernaut. This last one is like a group of miniboss, they are strangely like triceratops but about 2 meters big and 5 long and can move as fast as bulk on gear 5 in his rhino form and the three horns are capable of releasing static shock and when it is allowed to concentrate it they can fire a weak bolt of lightning.

The defenders range from levels 170-180 and the Juggernaut are level 190-200 with the boss at level 240.

It was clear that we would need the tanks so the request was sent to bring all three so we could muscle through it.

The request went out just before we logged out so they will still be on the way when we log back in.

I put all my robot's on guard to keep more trash from snooping and finally logout to spend time with Nova and our parents.