Being alone at nighttime can actually make loads of issues shift into perspective generally. Lazing round on the bridge, I discovered myself pondering again on the entire issues I’ve executed and will’ve executed, taking part in hypothetical eventualities in my head as if issues would’ve been totally different if I had executed issues accurately. Effectively, for one, after all, they’d be totally different. And secondly, it was sort of enjoyable to consider random eventualities simply to cross the time.

“I’m wondering…”

With a small breath, I stood up and walked in direction of one of many many huge home windows lining the bridge. Searching into the darkness of the open seas, I let my thoughts wander as I imagined one thing occurring proper right here and now.

What if a large sea monster instantly appeared? There have been these Vermes nonetheless on the market, I believe, and from what I may recall, they lived out in these heat waters the place they may develop huge relying on how lengthy they’ve lived. Then once more, we have already encountered one among their form, they usually have been just about dispatched rapidly and with out a lot of a fuss. So the logical conclusion for such an encounter can be that we would be able to beat it off with out even breaking a sweat.

“Okay? Subsequent state of affairs…”

I let my gaze wander towards one of many many empty kiosks scattered throughout the bridge. Perhaps one among them can be broken or one thing? Or possibly the [Rig] truly had one other operate that we hadn’t found but? Who is aware of? Understanding simply how little we have managed to do one thing about this factor, I am truly sure that we have not totally utilized all the pieces that the [Empire’s Wrath] needed to provide.

Or possibly that was simply because our engine was so dangerous that we have been restricted in what we may do…

“Now we have Nicole and Shen to fret about that now although,” I ruminated to myself, the silence making my voice echo throughout the room. “If there’s something we have missed, they’re going to be those to deal with it.”

Shrugging to myself, I casually paced throughout the bridge. Making my approach again to the primary console, I sat again down and closed my eyes. There was actually nothing I may do aside from to attend for the remainder of the occasion to wake again up. It is not like I may await a solar that can by no means come, and bizarrely sufficient, this world nonetheless ran on the traditional twenty-four-hour clock system like within the previous world. I most likely ought to’ve questioned Steerage about that truly. Like, how would that even work for a world that did not have a solar or a moon to base their day and evening cycle in?

“Then once more, this can be a recreation world,” I mumbled to myself as I replied to my rhetorical query. “Why trouble with frequent sense when it simply works?”

I chuckled on the apparent reply. After all, that was the one conclusion that Occam’s Razor would give anybody that was caught on this world. it was a man-made world, in spite of everything, one that did not need to undergo millennia of trial and error to find new know-how and get issues proper. No, this was a world Steerage made within the span of presumably just a few years, possibly even lower than that as a solution to specific her creative visions and desires. Constructed with nothing greater than sweat, laborious work, and a complete lot of willpower and patchwork, this world was a standing ovation for one girl’s ambition to grow to be one thing greater than she at the moment was.

And naturally, that meant that the world suffered for it.

“Though, the quantity of obvious glitches I’ve seen are beginning to actually peter out,” I mumbled aloud. “That is good for our common well being, however I sort of wish to see extra outlandish stuff occurring once more…”

When was the final time I’ve even seen a obvious error? Effectively, aside from the truth that I one way or the other have a dire predisposition to not getting [EXP] with every struggle? There was that one time your entire port glowed white for some motive till we set foot in it… There was that point that… Hmm…

Yeah… It actually feels just like the world is beginning to really feel increasingly actual as time went on. In reality, when was the final time I even noticed a immediate for each little factor I needed to do? Hell, when was the final I even opened one among my many possibility home windows?

“[SS1]”

[STATS SCREEN 1][SS2][SS3]

[Somatic: Moriya]

[Level 36/99]

[HP: 347/347]

[MP: 276/276]

[STR: 5+3]

[AGI: 18]

[DEX: 27-4]

[VIT: 40+3]

[INT: 8+3]

[LUK: 5]

[AVAILABLE STATS: 0]

Absently, I made a decision to open my stat display, cracking my eyes open simply to see if something had modified from what I remembered. Certain sufficient, it has been so lengthy since I opened it that I even had unspent factors that I needed to allocate to. With a lazy finger, I dumped all of it to [VIT] as was per typical. It was just about the one stat I even cared about at this level, and it wasn’t like I used to be going to wish the opposite stuff in right here. They have been just about simply taste textual content to me now.

[VIT: 40+3]

With that executed, I closed the window and checked out my HUD. It wasn’t a lot, however not less than my well being went again up once more.

[Moriya: Level 36]

[EXP TO NEXT LEVEL: 1,551,040/5,734,400]

[HP: 347/347]

[MP: 276/276]

[0 STAT POINTS AVAILABLE FOR ALLOCATION]

The large quantities of [EXP] I needed to get to even degree up did not faze me anymore as I stared at one of many few reminders that I wasn’t again within the previous world anymore. The HUD itself hadn’t modified within the slightest. Solely the numbers remained ever-changing, and even they did not actually change a lot until the world arbitrarily wished to offer me a few of the [EXP] it owed me. Effectively, I may needle Steerage once more to offer me [EXP], however I doubt that will work if it hadn’t already executed so the primary time, so I used to be actually caught with nothing however the shirt off my again and some of the [Moves] I’ve already unlocked.

“Is that this even a recreation anymore?”

I sighed as I closed my eyes as soon as extra. Perhaps a little bit of relaxation will get me out of this spiral of random ideas. God is aware of I had an inclination of pondering myself right into a nook, and I actually did not wish to greet all people feeling like sh1t. I needed to be presentable on the very least, particularly now that we had what was primarily a mercenary couple solely eager to really feel protected. One flawed transfer they usually’ll most likely leap ship and go away us for lifeless. And whereas I revered their sort of life-style, I nonetheless did not wish to be on the receiving finish of their eventual backstab.

That was until we get their daughter to get hooked up to us?

[*creak…*]

I used to be shaken out of my ideas as I heard the door to the bridge open. I did not suppose that anyone can be awake presently of evening although…

“Moriya.”

“Steerage?” I known as out, craning my head again to see my girlfriend strolling in direction of me. “Cannot sleep?”

“Sure,” she scoffed. “And I am not the one one.”

Blinking, I turned my head to the opposite individual standing proper beside her. To my shock, Shizu greeted me with a radiant smile, removed from the doom and gloom that she had just some hours in the past.

“That occurs, I suppose,” I chuckled as I turned my chair round to face them. “So, what can I do for you two?”

As if figuring out greater than she let on, Steerage smirked as she replied, “I will let Shizu go first. I believe that’ll be for the most effective anyway.”

Ookay? “And the way about you?”

“I will clarify as soon as we have each heard what Shizu has to say to us,” Steerage vaguely replied, the mischief in her tone a welcome change from her earlier despair. “I’ve a sense we’ll each be wanted right here.”

“Proper…” I skeptically trailed off earlier than turning my gaze to the princess in query. “Alright then. Let’s hear it. Steerage right here says you have got one thing to say to us, so we would as properly get it over with.”

I waited with a smile as Shizu shuffled on her ft. Her gaze held a kind of longing to it as she stared at us, her lips parting ever so barely as if she was hesitating.

“Effectively, keep in mind after I stated I wasn’t going to take no for a solution anymore?”

I blinked at her phrases. Impulsively, I remembered the promise Steerage and I gave to her that we’d… let her share our mattress…

Turning to Steerage, I nearly glared at her as quickly as I noticed the smug look on her face. She had anticipated this, and I am positive that she would additionally like for it to occur.

“You deliberate for this, did not you,” I sighed at my girlfriend.

“Not solely did I plan, however I used to be additionally even wanting ahead to it,” Steerage chuckled. “Moreover, you even have a little bit of stuff you promised to do for me. Particularly, me.”

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