Shuu's POV:

I gripped the iron tree and activated my skill [Crush]

[Iron Tree] takes 12 damage, [Iron Tree] takes 10 damage, and other damage numbers flew up for the duration of [Crush] and it finally crumbled into drop materials.

You have picked up the following materials

Iron Log x 2

Metal Shards x4

Iron branch

Bark x10

You have gained enough materials to craft the following tools:

Iron Hatchet

Iron Pick

Iron Hoe

Iron Saw

Iron Hammer

All items listed will have combat penalty of [-50% Damage] [+25% corrosion rate]

I smiled at the *extra* text after the Items, but I discarded the notice and chose to craft the [Iron Hatchet]

Crafting Failed. Materials Consumed: Metal Shard, Iron Branch, Bark x4

Time to hug more trees, I thought to myself and after an hour of gathering and failed crafting I finally produced my first tool

Iron HatchetType:ToolDurability:23 / 35Quality:CrudeAn item created by the [Iron Puppets]. They are mainly used for gathering and are bad in combat, making them break easily.

I laughed at the flavored text and took a couple of swings with it. I put all the failed attempts into a separate window that converted objects into Evolution Points.

I looked at my Evolution Tab to see how much the [Weapon Creation] skill cost and saw it was 200 points. Looking back at the points I got about 24 points for 20 failed attempts so I guessed quality matters. I had to many logs in my inventory with my current strength value made me unable to move. Deciding to convert some for points, I decided to gather materials to create the other tools.

On a small break I went into an Species tab, I saw various options that were lit up.

[Duplicate]: Copy the current [Beast] in the exact same conditions [Points required: 100]

[Revert] Go back to a prior evolution line, 50% of your items will be lost as well has skills going back by 1-2 stages. [Points required: 500]

[Spawn] Spawn a creature of your species [50]

[Birth] Spawn the lowest tier creature of your species [Points required: 50]

[Enhance] Improve parts of your species by blessing or genetic code [Points required 1000]

[Evolve] Rank Up your species to the next level, if you have a new rank up then other members of your species can auto/manual evolve into the new rank up when the prerequisites are met [Points required: 10,000]

If I had them, my jaws would have dropped to the ground. 10,000 points to Evolve my species to the next level, and an individual had to gather that. Considering the 120 points I got from the failed crafts and the logs, the number was astronomically high. I sighed as the other options were not as good. 1,000 points to enhance.

I shook my head and then chose to spawn twice, making two more puppets to appear in front of me. They did not have their 100 points distributed yet, so I chose for both of them to have the [Crush] Ability, but I left one with their 75 Points remaining, and the other with the ability [Iron Casing]

Back on the Species tab, some new option was lit up.

[Auto-Distribute Points] All newly spawned [Iron Puppets] will now choose to either get the [Iron Casing] or the [Tool Creation] skill. The chance that the puppet will keep their points is also high. (Current Status: Disabled)

[Lock Abilities] From now on, all [Iron Puppets] are required to get the ability [Crush] (Current Status: Disabled)

I enabled both of them and gave both of the puppets [Iron Hatchets] and the three of us went to gather more materials. A couple more hours later and my skills for [Crush] and [Tool Creation] leveled up a couple of times. I have finally gathered 200 points.

Opening my Evolution Tab, I looked at my skills and looked over the details of the skill I wanted

[Weapon Creation] The ability to create weapons by crafting, Weapons made will not suffer from combat penalties, and will have raised stats the further this is mastered. [Points Required: 200]

I didn't hesitate to exchange for the skill, and after a couple of attempts, finally made my first weapon

Iron SpearType:WeaponDurability:18 / 35Quality:CrudeAttack:5A spear made by an [Iron Puppet]. They are dull but enough to deal quite a bit of damage. They break easily when constantly used in a short period of time.

I made a couple of more and handed them out to the other two puppets.

The puppet with the saved points, I got the skill [Detachable Joints],and [Tool Creation] leaving it with 37 points remaining, On the other hand, the second puppet got the skills [Tool Creation] and [Unrelentless] as well as the upgraded version of [Iron Casing], which was [Armor Cocoon] which surrounded the puppet in an impenetrable cocoon, but sacrificed movement and remaining evolution points at 13.

In the [Lock Abilites], I enabled the option that [Tool Creation] and [Weapon Creation] were a must

I used the 40 points to spawn another [Iron Puppets] and his points distributed themselves to [Crush] and [Tool Creation]

On the way to gather more materials, a growling was heard and a pack of wolves surrounded the four of us.

Wither WolvesLEvel2Health:105 / 105Stats:Attack: ??? Defense: ???[td2] Faction[/tds][tb2]Beasts of the Wild[/tds]The origins of the Wither wolves belong to the Drain Wolves. They are fearsome foes that drain the life out of surrounding items. They are renowned for prolonging fights to cripple their prey before moving in high speeds to deal a finishing blow.[td2] Skills know[/tds][td2]Decay Aura, Drain Fang, Ballistic Charge[/tds]

There was a pack of 6 surrounding us. Puppet #2 charged forward and aggro the pack onto him, and activated the skill [Armor Cocoon]. the rest of us took this opportunity to attack. At first it seemed to be going well, but as time went on, I could feel my spear getting heavier. Together we finished the second wolf,before the [Armor Coccoon] went down. instantly taking multiple hits for the 4 remaining wolves, despite our high defense and health, almost instantly killed him.

I despaired at the sight of losing him. I had puppet #1 use [Unrelentless] to bash in another wolf wild Puppet #3 and I took care of another one.

At that moment, Puppet #3 fell to the ground, it's legs corroded and splintered. Another Wilther wolf took one of my arms and ripped it off. Puppet #1 lost his spear, and [Unrelentless] wore off, and took a nasty blow to the torso.

Looking at the grim situation, I took my spear and impaled one of the wolves that jumped toward me. Puppet #3 fell to the other wolf and Puppet #! took this time to initiate [Crush] to finish off the last wolf.

What a loss, 100 points down the drain. but the 2 level 1 wolves I killed had leveled my character up to level 2 with 54% to the next level. Splitting the two wolves between the two of us, I set him on auto after getting a couple more [Iron Puppets] and log out, saving the points for next time I log in.