Ultimate Gamer System: Factory Must Grow!

Chapter 56 Let's abuse the reality some more!

'It's working...'

At first, it was but a single, faint, shy thought that permeated through Theo's mind.

Then, his lips trembled. And next...

"It's working."

A mere statement of fact, as simple as it could get.

But for Theo, this moment couldn't be any more grand!

'SHIT!'

Stunned by the consequences of what he had just witnessed, Theo could hardly swallow his saliva down. For but a few moments, all he could do was struggle to stop his eye from twitching.

It worked.

Meaning, he would never have to worry about iron again. Or rather, rather than focusing on how much of it he had stored, he would have to switch his mindset to its throughput.

But as grand as this single machine working was in Theo's mind, for now...

For now, it was but a single miner, with its ability limited to an output of a standard, medieval mine.

One the size that would make it the crown's jewel of any kingdom, but still, just a single mineral mine.

And by all means and purposes, where Theo's new subsystem shone the best wasn't in just the extraction of raw resources. It did in the field of turning them into ready-made and mass-produced final items that could be used both in expanding the production... and, in the real world, for quite literally anything else Theo could even imagine!

'At this rate, it won't be long before I create a damned palace out of freaking steel plates!'

He grinned to his own thoughts... only for his smile to then sink as he turned his attention first to the next step on his tutorial list before looking closer at its actual requirements.

[Ping!]

A total of four different sounds came. Pretty much at the same time, a ring of light appeared, gently glowing around Theo's hips, with some parts of it glowing brighter than the others.

'Directions?'

Following nothing but his sense of gut, Theo turned his eyes towards the only exceptional part of this ring of light that shone with a much darker, grayed-out light.

And just as he already expected, it pointed directly at the ore patch with Theo's miner already on it!

"So that I was right about, huh?" he muttered to himself before taking a look through all the other items he could currently craft.

Rather than looking at the buildings themselves, however, Theo turned his attention to what they required to be built.

Iron plates were the norm. Copper wire or cables, both of which could be crafted out of copper ore, were just as common. But there was still a third material that Theo would, sooner or later, get his hands on.

And by all means, sooner meant better.

'Concrete, huh?' Theo squinted his eyes, turning his attention back to the stone he excavated earlier. And while the crafting recipe indicated it could be made in a smelter with the very richstone Theo excavated from the area by simply dismantling it...

'It would still be for the best if I could automate it.'

Shaking his head, Theo quickly gathered all the ore his miner had dug out until now before making a quick trip back to his mining base, where he had no other choice but to suffer through another delay of waiting for said ore to smelt through in his blocky-sourced furnaces.

It was annoying to the point that Theo whipped out his axe, dug out a layer of stone off the base's wall, and replaced it all with a whole new array of furnaces, all to speed this smelting process up.

In the end, Theo continued his preparation all the way to the point where he had two more miners and two more storage units at the ready. Then, and only then, did he scan for copper again before turning his head over in the direction of the nearest deposit.

"Well, let's go and abuse some of the perks of using game tools in a real-life scenario," Theo giggled as he changed the settings on the universal tool back to the default before molding the excavation area to be in the shape of a long tunnel, just high and wide enough to let him comfortably walk through.

"A tunnel in a second, going once, twice, and..."