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Chapter 40 In space with a junkyard ship

In the last nearly three days, I had mostly focused on my two skills. We did have some instructions on how to train them, but I felt myself simply not knowing enough of the basics to feel like I was making proper advancement.

As for advancement in the skills, I did find an interesting quirk: you could actually change in the status display, how you wanted to represent your skills. If you chose to, you could change it to show levels instead of skill aptitude like currently.

Turns ou...

Chapter 39 In space with a junkyard ship

Being alone in the elevator gives me the time to put the briefcase down and open it. It seemed to have an internal mechanism that kept it shut, which took a few moments to click open so that I could see inside.

Inside were bars of metal I was not familiar with, written on them were the number 24 and 1 kg. There weren’t too many of the bars, but they did look extremely expensive, so I hoped that I wasn’t getting fooled.

Closing the briefcase back up, I also took out the atomic ...

Chapter 38 In space with a junkyard ship

We sat there in silence, both looking at each other. It seemed that even here, the first to speak would be on the back foot. Those eyes of his that didn’t seem to blink looked like they were peeling away my secrets one layer at a time.

Something needed to change, so I decided to give up ground and look away. Fortunately, I had something to focus on—and that was all the artefacts placed around this suite.

The darkness might’ve been oppressive at the start, but the light comin...

Chapter 37 In space with a junkyard ship

While the pirates should be gone, the Terran Cooperative might still be keeping track of me, so sticking to the main streets was the way to go.

It was as busy as always and a bit too busy for my liking. Now, while I enjoyed my time alone like any other sane person, what I also enjoyed was a moderate number of other people around to give an area that low hum of conversation.

Entering the skill shop once again reminded me of how my basic affinity allowed so many skills to call out t...

Chapter 36 In space with a junkyard ship

It has been close to three hours since I started with the snail experiments. By the end of it, there were four fully intact bodies and two more or less intact ones.

It was a lot of food to eat at once, and while the taste wasn’t the worst, the texture was too rubbery. But I couldn’t just throw out their bodies like that—it would be a waste and a mockery to their life.

Now I was only left with a few shells and a couple of small beads of iron. Turns out it’s harder for me to...

Chapter 35 In space with a junkyard ship

“Lola, can you figure out, if we detached something from the ship during FTL, would it slow down and return to real space, and would it survive the transition?”

“Is this for your secret plan that you still haven’t shared?”

“Perhaps,” I said while still assembling the gravity generator.

“Then no, I won’t search up anything related to that.”

I stopped working and looked upwards toward her core. It was past a few floors, but I believe she got the messa...

Chapter 34 In space with a junkyard ship

Two days later

“It’s time to take a break from your mad scientist phase. The gravity generator arrived.”

Lola's voice broke my concentration. Then I processed what she said. So it was time to stop for now, but I still needed to finish this missile, as it was in a crucial stage, and I did not want to leave it unfinished and in a dangerous state.

It took me about four minutes to finish assembling it, after which I added it to the stack that was already d...

Chapter 33 In space with a junkyard ship

Looking at my ship always brought me joy, but nothing made me happier than seeing the current unfinished state of it, knowing that it was time to start finalizing the current changes we were making. It was just so much fun to build an actual spaceship.

The armour was almost on. The nano machines also finished destroying all the hardware locks on the first fusion engine. Now I could actually see how it was built, and while it'll take some studying to understand it properly, it also meant...

Chapter 32 In space with a junkyard ship

The elderly couple looked quite scared and pleading, most likely hoping that I would do as the pirates said. Well, I didn't actually know if they really were elderly or perhaps their species looks like that, but they do give me that vibe.

"Does this actually work? Do people really come with you with such threats, putting them in an awful position?"

The seeming amusement of the group disappeared, and the ones close to the couple brandished their weapons. None of them were using fir...

Chapter 31 In space with a junkyard ship

As I was about to leave, I noticed that the Adventure Association’s quantum computer was nearly done initializing. It was at 95%, but it had taken nearly three days to make it this far. My adventurer card is currently in the only card reader. It's apparently needed to complete the setup.

The computer itself is completely sealed off, and breaking that seal would brick the computer. Apparently, they don't want anyone messing with it. It came with a monitor that you also couldn't change,...

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Chapter 30 In space with a junkyard ship

Fortunately, in this hangar there were cranes that suspended from the ceiling. Currently, the entirety of the back of the ship was open as we had to remove basically all of it. It was a bit annoying doing this by myself, but my drones and Bob were a big help.

We still couldn’t lift out the main engine, as it was too securely attached, and the only way to get it out was to cut it out—but it was too tight, as I basically built the ship around it.

Originally, I had dismantled the...

Chapter 29 In space with a junkyard ship

When my foot stepped on the Forward Horizon’s ramp for the first time after the kill, I took a deep breath in and relaxed just a bit.

Lola had been monitoring the station's security, but nothing seemed to be happening. Most likely, I was attacked there not only because I made a mistake and went through there, but also because the security cameras most likely didn’t work there.

Everything had happened so fast, so I finally took the time to just sit down, lay my head against the...

Chapter 28 In space with a junkyard ship

Walking outside the skill shop, I had a few choices to make. Should I continue down the main street towards the city centre, or should I start the next phase of my plan? Perhaps it's best to start making contacts—otherwise, I might run out of time.

So instead of heading further toward the city centre, I crossed the street and entered the non-adventure side of the city. The further I walked, the less crowded the place became, although there were always people. There were more entertain...

Chapter 27 In space with a junkyard ship

There was one thing I needed to do before I left for the city.

“Lola, have you finished the research about the habits of the people of this station and the solar system? What's the verdict?”

“I have not finished it completely, but the current results are promising. There's a good chance that this plan would work if you can find the right buyers.”

“Hopefully that won't be too hard. Do you also have the correct format for a storage device?”

“Yes, I’ll sen...

Chapter 26 In space with a junkyard ship

I had thrown everything I had at the new nano machines, and they survived it all. The metal that the new armor plates are made out of is just too good.

The only problem is everything I have is not anywhere close enough to the forces those nano machines need to survive if I want them to contain the power of fusion and actually be able to make power out of that.

Because of this, I’ve ordered one kilogram of both helium-3 and deuterium. There were more combinations of substances th...

Chapter 25 In space with a junkyard ship

As I re-entered our berth, the sight of the drones working on my ship was incredibly nice to see.

Beside the ship were two large pieces of basic armour plating—at least basic for the rest of the universe. Now that I was close, I had full access to the ship’s database, so I could see the results of the tests conducted on this armour plating.

They were, simply said, incredible. Of course, we were running off of models from the small tests we did, but they should be relatively ac...

Chapter 24 In space with a junkyard ship

I was already sitting in the same station security office I visited previously. There was still about an hour until the interview, but it was better to be here before than to be late.

Before, we had been a bit too reckless. I shouldn’t have let Lola figure out my last affinity, as we didn’t know how safe the communication relays we were using were. Fortunately, we might have a fix for that. The adventurer card had its own NFC that allowed it to confirm my identity to any device near...

Chapter 23 In space with a junkyard ship

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An early chapter for today :)

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“So let’s begin with just explaining the basic looting ability,” the tester said after we made ourselves comfortable on his chairs. He didn't have an AR system to show me his name, but he did have a name tag—even with it seemingly being translated into my language, the name simply didn't make any sense to me.

“There are different categories that abilities fall into. The looting ability is in one of those categories that...

Chapter 22 In space with a junkyard ship

It didn’t take me too long to make it to the elevator. It seems like there was no way to enter this floor of the station with my current permissions. This arm where my ship was docked at was apparently connected to Floor 13, which seemed to be a warehouse floor of some sort.

Now that we had more access to the web of this station, we got even more information. Mostly, I let Lola handle it, but the general information on the station itself was incredibly interesting.

Apparently, t...

Chapter 21 In space with a junkyard ship

I had only walked in this crowd a few minutes before a memory flashed in my eyes. For a moment, I was back on Earth before my accident, with my family as we went to a convention. It was mostly fantasy and sci-fi. Right now, where I currently was, kinda reminds me of that time.

The only difference was that back then, it was modified humans who kinda looked like animals, but now there were people around me that looked fully like upright animals, and some who just looked like animals with ...

Chapter 327 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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Epilogue

247,056 years. That’s how long it’s been since I first achieved emerald rank. It has been a truly wonderful story, but now it is coming to an end. Below me, I watched as the strongest beings in this universe tried to fight the coming doom. 2025-04-18 06:14:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 326 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

While I needed two solar systems of celestial cores for me to not lose mana, the mana generation they offered was well above what my diamond ranks were currently giving me. This meant that I had plenty of mana to throw around for all the projects I wanted to complete.

So by the time I captured my fourth solar system, I was done making all the required real materials and having my monsters finish placing them, that I could now make permanent mana channels through t...

Chapter 325 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov The Captain of the 82nd Surveillance Division

We approached the three representatives of this world. All of them gave me shivers. They felt different—somehow more dense. Even the people behind them.

They tried to speak, but we didn't understand their language, so I showed them the bracelets and then pointed at my mouth, mimicking speech.

They seemed to understand, and I felt a force try to pull the bracelets away from me—and I let it do so. The human was the one who ...

Chapter 324 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov The Leader of the 82nd Surveillance Division

It was annoying that there were so many papers on my table. I still can’t believe they’re making me do this job as a punishment. That bastard disrespected my honor by cutting me off when I was walking on my shopping trip, and now me, who had reached the red realm, needs to do government work instead of continuing to advance. Disgusting.

At least it was funny to read about rogues who tried—and always failed—to evade the Celes...

Chapter 323 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

Pov Dungeon Core

The next solar system I was going to steal was not the next closest one. The reason was quite simple: that sun was bigger than the one I stole, and I had no confidence in actually being able to teleport it into one of my floors. The trip wouldn't be too much longer, only about 6 months, but that sun was smaller, which means that we shouldn't have a problem taking it.

Once again, I started to accelerate, leaving the area a solar system used to be in. Sometimes I qu...

Chapter 322 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

I was the happiest I’ve ever been, and all of it was because I finally finished expanding the 100th floor to the new size it could be. This floor, before I reached my new rank, was 27,000 kilometres in radius.

It took me a whole year to expand, which was significantly longer than I wanted to take, because my plan was to have all of the top 10 floors meant for planets expanded—or at least as many as I could manage.

Now, thanks to my Space Expansion skill and, more importantly, ...

Chapter 20 In space with a junkyard ship

“Your species' nation, the Terran Cooperative?”

My AR was showing that he was confused, and so were the others—even the ones checking the gold and platinum had stopped going over the bars.

“I will see if I can find out what this means.” Lola informed me through our connection. While I tried to remain as calm as possible.

“So I’m assuming you don't have a valid reason. There are situations when we do not side on behalf of nations.”

“One is when that na...

Chapter 321 Dungeon Core: “The Eternal Training Ground”

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No in space chapter today. It's a bit too much to write both of the stories at the same time right now. So I hope it's okay if tomorrow we only get in space and no dungeon core because of the cliff that story is hanging from?

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Pov Dungeon Core

Currently, I was feeling a bit weird. It feels like half of my life has been on a rush, and now that I am so close to the end of this stage of my life, everything seemed to have sort of slowed down—even if it hadn't. 2025-04-09 09:55:36 +0000 UTC View Post

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