《Amongst the Stars》Chapter 14
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Walking towards the third hologram he sees that its for pants and vest, Taking his time he scrolls through the selections. After a few minutes he makes up his mind, choosing the material to be made from the leather of an animal called a Fragler. Apparently its hide was strong enough to block knife wounds, and was fairly flexible.
Seeing that there were no more holograms, he walks towards Bianca. “Do you really not have cloaks or robes here? something with a hood?”
The girls face scrunches “No, what do you think this place is? are you ready to check out?”
Seeing the drastic change in attitude Leviathan mood sours, remembering how people treated him after finding out he wouldn't recover. “Yes I’m ready” waving his hand in agitation “Ring it up!”
Bianca types on the computer, pulling up his list of items. “Adding all this together, it totals 87 gold”
Grabbing one of the sacks on the counter he begins to count the gold one by one.
Seeing this the girls eyes narrow “We have a machine to count gold, do you need help?”
“Great! I lost count!” sweeping all the gold back into the bag he begins to count again.
Flustrated the girl begins to slap her leg, getting ready to open her mouth she hesitates before closing it, her little nose scrunches up, and lips turn down into a frown. Uhh is this guy just wearing silver body paint? poor bastard wasting my time!
As he was counting the twentieth gold coin, he suddenly slapped the counter “I think i'll use the silver and copper coins first, can you count them for me!” returning the gold to the bag he pushes the others towers her.
Lips twitch slightly as she reaches for the two bags “Of course...customer.” Taking the bags she moves over to a machine in the corner, untying the bad she pours the coins inside. The machine hums a bit before a card is ejected from a slot, grabbing the card Bianca tosses it onto the counter “4 gold 40 silver and 30 copper.”
Leviathan pick up the card, and as he does a familiar scene flashes before his eyes.
Bank Card: 4g 40s 30c
‘Bank card detected….activating currency withdrawal system…..1 gold = 1 Fed dollar…..Link bank account?’
Leviathan raises his eyebrows in surprises, so I can take money out of the game? Link.
‘Account linked...money withdrawal from bank cards possible….deposit impossible.’
Putting the card back on the table he pushes both it and the bag of gold towards Bianca. “I changed my mind, pull all the gold on the card, then charge the 87 gold”
Narrowing her eyes she stares at Leviathan is this guy messing with me on purpose? “Ok...customer” gnashing her teeth she takes the card and bag, walking back to the machine she inserts a card into the slot, then pours the gold into the top.
Walking back to her computer, she scans the card before returning it to Leviathan.
Bank Card: 57g 40s 30c
“Your Items will be on the first floor with the receptionist there" Just leave, poor scum, dared to get my hopes up for a big commission
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Smiling slightly under the mask, he walks towards the lift. Waiting for the door to open he whispers in his mask “B8 you ready?”
“Master, I'm on my way to the elevator now.”
After waiting for a moment the door open, stepping onto the lift he waits for the door to close. Taking one final look at Bianca, who is staring daggers at him, the door closes.
As the lift descends Leviathan’s eyes wander around the cabin, looking for traces of bots. As the elevator passes the twelfth floor the bots start start descending from the roof, falling onto Leviathan. The bots remerge on his back, a large lump moves over his shoulder, down his arm, and finally settles in his palm. The bots in his hand part, revealing ten pea sized crystals.
Small Laser Focusing Crystal
“Master, I need to get these crystals back to the ship in order for them to be useful.”
“Don't worry B8, we will be going back to the ship soon, But first we need to move to the next step of my plan.” looking at the crystals for a a few seconds “B8, if you can incorporate the lasers into your bots, can you do so for other things? like the ships thrusters?”
The elevator passes the fifth floor in silence, as it reaches the fourth B8 finally responds. “Master, I would have to study it, which would take away a lot of processing power I’m using to make bots.”
“Good, start working on it, Try and add thrust to as many shadow iron bots as possible.”
“Master, count on me.”
*Ding* The elevator arrives at the first floor, stepping off he sees that a box is now next to the receptionist. as he nears the receptionist he sees a strange smile on her face.
He must be the poor bastard Bianca told me about
Walking upon the receptionist he points at the box “Is this mine?”
“Yes it is customer, please do come visit again”
Seeing that she wants nothing to do with him he picks up the box. “Do you know where I can buy a hover car?”
Narrowing her eyes she looks Leviathan up and down. I thought he was poor? “When you leave this building and take a right, head all the way down the street till you see a small bakery, if you take a left from there you will eventually run into Hanks Cars.”
“Thanks” waving his hand he walks towards the exit. After leaving the building he notices that it is starting to get dark. Turning right he begins to walk down the street, as he walks he notices that the soldiers patrol has started to increase. after walking for a while he finally sees the bakery, a simple building made from a dull brown metal, the front of the store is mostly glass allowing one to see inside. The inside had a few dining chairs and a glass counter filled with different types of bread, pausing for a moment, he walks inside.
As he enters the bakery he sees and older lady behind the counter, she has a slightly hunched back, and gray hair tied into a bun. Walking up to the counter he greets the woman “Hi ma’am i'd like some fresh bread, and to use your bathroom, if thats ok.”
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The old lady is surprised for a moment, hearing such a deep voice from a man entirely encased in silver, and wearing tattered robes. Looking at him for a moment the smile returns to her face “Well dear, you can't go surprising old people like that, now what kind of bread would you want sweety?”
As the old lady was talking to him he picked up a thought from outside the store, that has barley entered his range.
That bastard makes a fool out of me in front of Bianca?? wait till I find out where he's going, I'll fucking kill him.
Opening his eyes a little wider from the surprise Leviathan hesitates, almost looking in the direction of the man but manages to stop himself. Taking a breath he activates his psi field to its max range.
Why did the boss bring us here...Isn't it just one guy?
God can we just kill this fucker and go home? I bought that bitch the other day and still need to give her a test drive.
The bosses arm was pretty messed up, hope we have enough guys.
Maybe the boss will die, and i'll get to take over!
Fuck man I almost beat that level, but nooo here I am!
A total of six guys including the one from earlier, have surrounded the building. Coming to kill me? you’re three tech levels to low to even try! Looking at the old lady “Granny, i'll just have a muffin”
Taking the box he heads into the bathroom, while still listening to the thoughts of the men. Besides being upset about having to stalk some guy, their thoughts weren't very complex.
Arriving in the bathroom he locks the door. Opening the box he finds his goods inside. Before taking anything out, he sets the bank card and crystals on the sink. He strips off all his clothes, and throws everything into the bin, besides the white robes.
Setting it aside, he reaches into the box. The first thing he pulls out is the black body suit, as he does a screen appears in his vision.
Trimnium Bodysuit
Durability: 20/20
Effect: Tech lvl 1 slash/piercing damage -15%
Leviathan brows raise as he looks at the clothes in his hand a screen never appeared for the other clothes, is it because the system never recognized it as an item? Grabbing the suit he begins stretching the neck area, the body suit looks like those worn by divers and surfers. Sitting on the toilet he slides both feet into the suit, standing up he pulls it onto his body.
Looking in the mirror he sees his metallic body is now mostly covered by the black suit. The leg area extends down to his ankles, the sleeves extend to right before his wrist, and the top stops right at the top of his collarbone. Since the bots are hugging his body so tightly, he looks ripped. Turning his body a few times in the mirror, he reaches for the next item.
Digging in the box, he picks up a grey pair of pants, causes another screen to appear.
Fragler Leather Pants
Durability: 20/20
Effect: Tech lvl 1 slash/piercing damage -5%
Nodding his head, he decides to put on the boots next, so he wouldn't have to stand on the bathroom floor barefoot anymore.
As he reaches for the boots his psi finally runs out, besides them being impatient, he learned nothing else.
Psi 0/200
Int +20
Psi 20/220
Leviathan pauses for a moment even though my int gain was halved, I'm starting to make a lot of progress again. Smiling he picks up the black boots.
Trimnium Hiking Boots
Durability: 20/20
Effect: Great flexibility, increase movement speed 2%
“Oh, this is better than I expected” slipping the boots on he jumps a few times, to test them out. Satisfied by their sturdiness, lightness, and flexibility he reaches for the last item.
Picking up the vest, the last screen appears.
Fragler Leather Vest
Durability: 30/30
Effect: Tech lvl 1 slash/piercing damage -25%
The vest looked like a bulky bullet proof vest. The middle area had buckles, so you can chose to fasten it, or leave it open. The inside if the vest has two pockets, one in each breast area. Picking up the card and crystals, he places them in a pocket each.
Fastening the vest close, he looks in the mirror. The only part of his silver skin showing were from the wrist down, and from the neck up. Without the baggy robes, he looked ridiculous. A silver skinned man wearing a full face helmet, grey pants and vest, black bodysuit and boots, if there was a fashion police he'd already be in jail.
Grabbing the robes, he puts them on to cover his shame. The robes were badly burnt, the original white was covered in black soot, and was still kind of sticky. The sleeves had multiple burn holes in them and around ? of the front section was missing. But strangely enough, now that you couldn't see his silver skin underneath, the robes actually improved his image, especially so since the hood remained undamaged.
“Hmm not that bad after all” satisfied, he walks over to the vent. “B8, time for the next part of the plan. I want you to infiltrate the rocket launchers on top of the walls near the gate that we entered. Make sure you are not caught"
“Master, do you want me to make bots out of them?”
“No, just try to gain access to them.”
“Master, I will try my best"
After receiving his comply Leviathan places his hand on the wall, as he does silver bots brake off from his hand and move up the wall, entering the vents. The area where the bots left, new ones quickly fill the gap to cover his blue skin.
Seeing that B8 is making its move, Leviathan exits the bathroom. As he does the man enters his 100ft radius again.
He's finally back, fuck he bought an entire set of new gear! Well good! I can steal it from his corpse!
Looking around he sees a muffin sitting on a table. Sitting down, he waits for night fall. Looking at the muffin, he furrows his brows.
“How am I supposed to eat this?”
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