Chapter 4 The Mysterious Mine 1 (1/2)
When the teleportation device was activated, John had to close his eyes because of the strong light that enveloped his body.
He felt like he had no weight for a feel second and everywhere he looked was just a white world.
Soon enough, John was hit by a sudden dizziness.
When he opened his eyes he saw that he had already landed on the planet.
His foot was touching the gentle mat of grass and flowers. Looking in the horizon he could see the voluminous quantity of towering trees on the horizon. Figures of flying creatures traveling through the beautiful and clear blue sky.
John inhaled. Given that the PIPS gave no warning that means the air of the plane can be breath by humans. The air was clean and fresh. The only smell was that of nature itself.
He looked around and saw that the ideal landing spot selected by S.A.I.L was atop a small mount, outside the forest.
John then proceeded to check his belongings and see if he was ready to start the exploration.
'PIPS, flashlight, food, water, pistol, handcuffs, hunting knife, and the Matter Manipulator' He took note of everything he has.
He opened his Inventory and took the Matter Manipulator out.
The Matter Manipulator is completely colored in gold color and looks like a pistol, but it can't fire anything. This tool allows the Protector to dismantle or build with its laser. The laser is capable of slowly absorb the thing the Protector want to retrieve and store it directly inside the PIPS' Inventory. This tool is the symbol of the Terrene Protectorate and is an irreplaceable tool to guarantee the Protector's survival during his travels. The Matter Manipulator is also able to absorb any type of liquid. This incredible tool has a lot of functions but to unlock them the Protector has to use Tech Modules that aren't easy to find now that the Terrene Protectorate Head Quarters in Earth is destroyed.
John went to the forest. When he entered, the first thing he did was test the Matter Manipulator.
He pointed the tool toward a tree and pressed the trigger. The moment he pressed the finger a blue laser left the muzzle of the Matter Manipulator and enveloped a small fraction of the tree trunk and slowly started to encompass the whole tree. After a few minutes, the tree disappeared like it was never there in the first place.
Looking at the Inventory, John was able to see just some wood boards. The PIPS automatically cut the tree and stored it using the most optical possible way. One tree gave John the amount of 20 wood boards relatively large.
”You found some wood” John heard S.A.I.L's voice coming from the PIPS in his wrist, ”My databanks tell me wood is a material with a great many uses. I suggest you kill additional trees for more resources”
John's PIPS is connected to the spaceship, so this way he was able to hear S.A.I.L, monitored the situation of the ship and, when the time comes, he could activate the teleport and beam up to the ship.
He dismissed S.A.I.L's suggestion and looked at his own Status in the PIPS. He saw that the Energy that previously was at the maximum 300 Units of Energy (UE), dropped to 270 Units. His current Energy Regeneration stats is 1200 Units/24 hours or 0.8 units per minute. It is possible to increase the Energy Storage and Regeneration by using Tech Modules.
This show that to absorb the tree, the Matter Manipulator used 30 of energy.
Energy is the most important resources that allow the PIPS' host to use a huge variety of tools, weapons, and armors. The body of a human is constantly generating Energy from heat, kinetic, friction, etc. The PIPS is able to store this Energy and convert it so that other tools that are in direct contact with the host is also able to use this Energy. Some type of Armors or clothes can increase the Energy Regeneration by absorbing energy from outside the host's body and store it inside the PIPS, and some other Armors have a different space that increases the Energy Storage of the host.
Next, John took the Protector Pistol from the Inventory. He looked at the stats of the gun.
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Protector Pistol Mk.1
Type: Semi-Automatic Energy Pistol
Tier 1: Basic range weapon that is able to somewhat pierce armors from the Tier 1, but it will have difficulty piercing Tier 2, and is basically useless against Tiers higher than 2.
Durability: 100%
Energy per shot: 2 UE
Fire Rate: 2.0 (Bullets per second)
Augmentation: None