3 Base Building – 2 (2/2)
(Suna): ”Yes! Everybody is doing well since we left Hara Kingdom.”
She said, remembering the running away from the slave dealers. They ran for days, traveled for long, avoiding towns and villages. Eventually they settled here after stealing supplies from humans, as well tools for farming and construction. By luck, they found an iron ore deposit near the surface where they get their metal.
There are some dangers, like the Lonely Peak, where a lot of Mana Crystals grow, attracting a lot of monsters. The father of both girls, the village chief, is out at the moment, checking out the area. He should be back in two days time after making sure that the monsters won't invade, and if they do, to prepare to defend the small town.
(at the same time, in the Command Center, Vladmir's POV)
The giant block of metal slowly goes to the ground, landing softly., it should weight at least half a ton. My psychic powers are growing at alarming speed. A few hours ago, I could barely lift fifty kilos, but now I can lift ten times that weight. This is amazing.
It's hard, it feels like my mind is about to explode when I get to my limits. Well, every time that happens, my limits expand. Even my precision is great, I can use five assault rifles at the same time purely with my mind.
This training room is also awesome, it can create everything that I need to train. At distance, five wooden scarecrows are standing one hundred meters away from me. I move my hand in their general direction, and they shatter as if rammed by something powerful. The pieces fell to the ground, being collected by spider cleaner robots.
I sigh. I can already kill a person easily. I've also dabbed into precognition and sensing my surroundings. I can somewhat make out objects behind me, as well feel if something is moving in a certain radius that has yet to be fully tested, with the minimum of 500 meters.
I also can instinctively feel projectiles coming to me in any direction. It happened naturally during the training with some robots capable of shooting soft balls at high speeds. I can most likely avoid the first five bullet without needing to focus at all.
I want to learn astral projection as soon as possible to be able to explore the world outside without getting out of the base at all. I raise my right hand and look at it, focusing as hard as I can. My head starts to ache, and after a few minutes, the cracking sound of electricity is faintly audible, as small blue rays of electricity appear between my fingers.
I stop, my nose bleeding. Alright, time for a break now. This is sign that my head won't last long if I continue. I stagger to the medical bay in search of some painkillers for my head that feels like exploding. I finally started to dabble into electrokinesis, but it's still too taxing.
As I gobble down two pills, Lexa's voice sounds off from the loudspeakers.
(Lexa): ”Commander, we are approaching the location. Several hostiles in the vicinity, recommending caution.”
I take a quick bath before going to my room while speaking.
(Vladmir): ”Any way to differentiate them? Any kind of energy signature?”
(Lexa): ”The bigger signals contain larger amounts of mana, and the small ones have lesser amounts of mana.”
(Vladmir): ”Show me in units in the screens.”
She quickly calculates my wish and shows the results in screen. Let me see… the ones of the size of wolves have fifty units and the bigger ones have more than a hundred, even some with more than seven hundred.
(Vladmir): ”Start a classification, I want the ones with fifty or less to be classified as class zero, no marine should face more than five alone until we secure the danger that they pose to them. Above that to one hundred as class one and there forward for every one hundred points.
For each class, add two marines as basic to face the creature. Until we know the actual threat, I don't want any injuries. Lexa, keep an eye for any signatures above class seven. If so, warn me immediately, we are going to land. Put me on open communication with the marines.”
She opens the communication, sounding of fan alarm in the barracks.
(Vladmir): ”Attention all troops, to you suits. We will engage on combat as soon as we land. The enemies are hostile monsters of unknown power. They will be classified and send to your HUDs. Stick to your partners and don't die. If you're injured, immediately retreat behind friendly lines. Unit one, all of you will be following me as bodyguard, two three and four, you will be send to patrol around and clear anything that you can. That's all till further orders.”
I say as I press a button to end the communication. Taking the cue, I also take the gauntlet that was lying on the console. It has a scree on the forearm, it will serve as a control for my units as well communication with Lexa and my army. I put it on my left arm.
With that, from the gauntlet, touching the screen, I order the landing of the buildings. I should take a few more cartridges. I have the sensation that I will need the extra ammo.