[/Reboot_timer: 00:00:01 0/0/0/0]

[/Rebooting]

[/Low_power: 10%]

[/Construct_ready: Basic steel Container]

[/Construct_ready: Basic steel gate x2.]

The machine awakens once again as its head rises up from its torso, as usual. It has been 5 hours since the fabricator started doing its refining and manufacturing works as ordered by the machine, the steel container and steel gates it needed to improve the colony storage area and security are now ready for the machine to place it down at its desired location.

The machine uses the nanite constructor on its right arm to take the materials needed for the constructs from the fabricator and quickly gets up to look around and plan out the placement location, the gates will be placed right at the entrance obviously, for the container, the machine decides that the container will be placed right next to the fabricator to store the gathered materials and manufactured products.

The machine clears and flattens the surface first before placing down the container's blueprint, the machine creates a 3D holographic image of the container and sprays nanite constructor bots at the blueprint, after a minute of spraying, the container is ready for usage as the machine tries fiddling around with the lid and the mechanical lock of the container, the key is the machine's index finger on its right hand.

[Construction_completed:Basic steel container]

The machine turns around and walks toward the entrances to place down the gate the same way the machine did with the iron container, but this time the machine has to move back and forth between the fabricator and the entrance many times to finish the gates as its nanite constructor's nanite reservoir is not very big. The machine does not have any complaint about it though as it still better than having the machine forging everything by itself.

Now the gates and the container has been built, the machine spends an hour arranging whatever resources it has at that moment in a careful manner into the container. Since the machine has an abundant amount of iron at the moment, the machine decides to construct a weapon for itself as its next move, although the Plasaw on its left arm is indeed very powerful, the machine could not use it freely as the blade consumes quite a lot of power and the range is quite short.

The machine thinks a basic weapon should be enough for now, and the machine considers making a ranged weapon should be a better option than a melee weapon since the machine is too slow for melee duels, and the lifeforms it has met so far are either too powerful for even the sharpest iron sword it can make. A hammer would be hard to use in enclosed environment it is in as some tunnels just big enough for the machine to move in in a careful manner.

The machine runs through its data drive to pull up the list of suggestion of what it should make in that moment, the first thing to appear is a spear, a polearm for thrusting, clubbing and maybe throwing all at the same time without the need to change weapon too many times, the machine thinks of the bug's hard carapace when it inspects the spear's data in its head, as long as the machine keeps its spear sharp and sturdy, a detachable spear made out of steel would be an ideal weapon to defend itself against the monsters in the cave.

But the spear is still more of a melee weapon and an improvised ranged weapon, the machine wants something easier to use in the cave that does not require the machine to take too much preparation to use it at range, a short bow is nice, but the machine has no material flexible enough for it, the old webs hanging here and there could be used for the bowstring though.

A crossbow would be something more ideal as the machine can mount it on its arm for quick firing instead of wielding it like a normal weapon, but then again the machine has no flexible material for the crossbow as well as the machine need the bow and the crossbow to fire heavy, full metal arrow bolts to be effective against the rock golems or the bugs, besides, there have no wood for the machine to use at this point anyways.

The machine then thinks of a pneumatic dart gun, the thing could be made nearly the same size as a crossbow and fires metallic darts or slugs at the enemy, the machine can also adjust the air pressure to make it less lethal to scare off other lifeforms without actually having to come close for a melee rampage against said lifeforms. The dart gun does not need any flexible nor exotic material to be collected as a metal tube for a barrel and a metal reservoir for the pressured gas tank should be enough to launch lethal or nonlethal heavy darts and slugs around. And with the present of electric engines, the machine could possibly make it go fast firing much easier than a crossbow or a bow too.

Thinking that the air gun is more useful, yet cheaper than the bow and the crossbow, the machine decides to make that and the detachable spear along with some darts, slugs and spare spear tips as it puts the plans for them in the fabricator 'to do' queue.

As the machine waits for the new weapons to be produced, the machine puts some effort into redesigning its scaled up thermal converter to make it more efficient and coping with the little resources it can use. The machine also putting some attention into making a power collector to store unused power for later use and a biomass container for repairing materials.

The machine was in a high focused mode when a loud bang caused its CPU to interrupt the flow of data and change its attention to the gate, something just hit it very hard as the gate can be seen bulging backward slightly, the gate is not thick, but for something to damage a plate of basic steel easily like that should not be underestimated. The machine pauses the fabricator as it removes the power and data wiring before getting up and carefully moves toward the gate. And at that moment the machine notices the one who just banged on the door previously, a bug dug and created a tunnel goes under the gate as it emerges from the ground and starts attacking the machine immediately. This scorpion alike bug seems more ferocious than the last one, and to make things worse, this one has 2 sets of strong and sharp pincers instead of one set of 2 pincers.

The machine thought that the bug who fled previously has informed other bugs about the event and the bugs want their revenge for their fallen brethren. The machine has underestimated the bug's intelligence.

As the bug screeches loudly as it about to ram the machine, the machine replies with its deformed voice.

"Brzzzzzztztrrtrt"

[/New_objective: Eliminate all threats and protect the colony.]

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Khan, the Fifth Demon King.

The Demonic Empire was, and still at war with the human's Kingdom despite the appearance of the Azuria Empire. If you ask a wise elder about the country's history, most will say that nothing has really changed since the day the demonic race migrated out of the Dark Land of Arconis, survival of the fittest is still the theme and the dogma that everyone follows, the so-called 'noble' are rude and has no etiquette sense, demon lords are just overrated sidekicks, and the demon king is a jackass who worships the Demon God with a zealotic manner and only want to spread death and destruction by his name.

In reality, the place is indeed like that, the government is nonexistent and only there for someone to blame when the human becomes the winning side of the war, its citizen lives the way they want to in a carefree manner, but yet responsible of their own words and actions, therefore individualism is highly regarded in the country in its own special way. As a reincarnator once commented about the country's messy daily life view "Freedom of speech means you can say whatever you want whenever you like, but it also mean the listen can ignore and knock your tooth off if you are not smart or strong enough to 'persuade' him"

The Demonic Kingdom is open-minded and readily to accept proposals and ideas from all classes in the society as long as the creator of that idea could prove his point and convince the listeners. As a result, the country spawned a lot of literature and culture works, some of them are famously known by all races, some of them are controversial and just a box of idiocy. Simply speaking, the place can be called the internet in real life with some twists and turns.

Khan, the Demon King who rule the Demonic Empire, is like his citizen, the fearful leader one of the strongest and most cunning demon in the council, at the same time he is also a lazy and irresponsible one in his daily life as the demon king, the man often neglects his duty to the demon lords as he spends most of his time fighting with the demon god or idling around by taking a walk from one place to another in incognito. The Demon King often rumored to encourage his people and pushing them to thrive by themselves from behind the scene instead of carefully planning out a way to improve his country with the demon lords. But as the people knows little about their muscle head king, misunderstanding is bound to happen all the times.

Today Khan comes to the temple of the Demon God's to play around with the lonesome trickster, and as the usual, the two greets each other with insults and their fists, sometimes they even use their foot to spice things up.

But today Khan also noticed something odd in the Demon God's actions, as someone who got beaten by the Demon God ever since he was a prince and still got beaten by the prideful trickster every now and then, Khan knows his God very well, he probably knows the Demon God better than he know how to lick his elbow properly.

"What's wrong, has fifteen thousand years of using your right hand too much worn it out?"-Says Khan as he smirks devilishly while looking at the Demon God.

"Indeed, this hand satisfied me well, but whooping your butt today to restore my stamina is not a bad idea, don't you think?."-The Demon God replies as he gets in his normal relaxed stance while scratching his head slowly

"Speaking of worning out, I just remembered that I once had a pet since I was young, I wonder how he is doing right now."

"Probably successful in life unlike you."

The two looks at each other for a moment before they slowly smile and continue their fight happily in the temple, meanwhile, the demon lords are running left and right in the meeting room to discuss the sudden increase of magical anomaly in the Dark Land of Arcanis and matters regarding the Norska Imperium, the kingdom of dwarven, secretly helping the Empire of Azuria to monopolize the resources in the area for themselves and the 3 way battle between the Human Kingdom, the Elven Forest and the Demonic Kingdom, seems like they aren't gonna finish their works anytime soon.