Ultimate Gamer System: Factory Must Grow!

Chapter 63 While the machines work...

When it came to the construction of the equipment crafter, Theo faced exactly the same issues that made what could be a quick building process into a drag of constantly moving back and forth between where he was building and where he was getting his resources from.

Which is why, as soon as he was done bringing over all the items to one place, rather than investing in the equipment crafter or the higher levels of production right away...

Theo left the mines, putting it all behind himself.

'It's time to do something else.'

This was the secret to keeping the factory-building games fun. A secret that Theo had to put aside as he worked to get the earliest possible set of items all automated. And it was all about... knowing when to put a stop to all the building and go do something else.

By the very nature of how it worked, the factory would continue to pour items into infinity... Or, until the accessible storage would last. And while this growth was too slow to satisfy Theo's immediate needs as he worked, with how he could build quicker than those items could get produced... Once left aside for just a little bit of time, they would accumulate, finally removing at least one kind of delay from the picture.

"And it just so happens, there's one project I had in mind for quite a while..."

Stepping out to the surface brought Theo the kind of surprise he was slowly getting used to, even though he had long since stopped making the same mistake back in his original world. For by the time he reached the end of his stairs... The world was already dark, with just the very last rays of the sun fighting a losing battle against the shadows of the night.

"Ugh..." Rising up in the near total darkness of the place, Theo suddenly came to face one issue he didn't expect.

'How am I going to do the remodeling I wanted if I cannot even see what I'm doing?'

Unable to see, he wouldn't be able to properly judge the distances, shapes, or directions.

"Still, for a good thing to happen, I need to work hard for it!" Screaming out into the air, Theo then... removed another layer from the bottom of the ditch... and then another... and then just one more. In the end, this turned the ditch from a moat slightly deeper than an average man would be high into a formidable hole, stretching a whopping ten meters down into the ground, just a few meters away from reaching the layer of rocks.

"Whew..." Jumping down from the wall directly to the outside, Theo moved over to the hole before looking down while resting his hands on his hips. "That sure is deep..." he muttered before shaking his head and then moving along the edge of the hole, all the way to the point where it randomly ended. "Now, I just need to do it how much... a few hundred times more?"

The universal tool already in his hand, Theo quickly removed the next stretch of the ground, adjusting the angle just a little bit to make the middle of his hole perpendicular to the circle of his wooden wall. Three excavations later, both holes matched in depth, allowing Theo to move on to the next stretch.

'By the time I'm done, I should have enough materials to make all the other machines I need, the equipment crafter, whatever equipment is there to craft and maybe... maybe even a few of those gun turrets,' Theo thought, excavating away as he allowed his thoughts to wander to the not-so-distant future.

"And once there's a ring of those turrets on the inside marked by this ditch..." Whispering to himself, Theo momentarily stopped as he looked back at the three stretches reaching as far as sixty meters to the back that he unearthed.

Then, rather than moving along, he looked down into the ditch, imagining a monster like the Wrathhound from the last attack falling into it... only to find itself within the cross-fire of several automated turrets at once.

An image that would be terrifying to that Wrathhound yet quite impressive from Theo's perspective.

"I guess this will finally allow me to graduate from the fear of those challengers, huh?" Staring down the hole for just a little bit longer, Theo sighed before moving along and pointing his universal tool at the next stretch of forested land he was more than eager to turn into just an empty ditch.

'Later on, I will still have to go and reinforce it with something. But rather than using stone... I'm going to excavate enough richstone to go for days, so why not fill it up with concrete instead?'

Thinking about the steps ahead, Theo continued to excavate half a thousand cubic meters of dirt, stone, and trees, one after the other, with as much effort as one would need to use the remote to change the program on their TV. And as the numbers in his inventory grew and the ditch expanded further and further, Theo's eyelids started to grow heavier and heavier.

"That's it..." he muttered, soon struggling to keep himself awake. "As soon as I'm done here, Imma screw it all and just go get some well-deserved sleep!"