Vorpal Rabbit and Fortress Uncle

A few days from the start of a major event. We [Shirakukan] continued to search around the first important information record sealing base, which is also close to the base. However, we were still only able to reach the fourth tier, despite the many other investigators working together on our assault.

Ledge!

Leave it to me! [Forced budding]!

Huge bookshelves lined up. It is no longer as intimidating as the walls of a castle, where a book was firmly enclosed without a minute's gap. Throw a seed bottle at a slime about the size of a black, muddy balance ball that appeared from the shadows.

"Python (Wabamidokudami)!"

What sprouted in the jar was a special doggie that drank up the surrounding moisture endlessly. Instantly, it stretches its roots into the slime's body and sucks up the moisture with violent force.

"It's as convenient as ever."

It's got to be the wrong place to use it, though.

In a few seconds, it's covered in mossy leaves, and it dies quickly. The big black slime died without being able to move. Due to the low humidity in the record storage area, it is impossible to grow any further.

Amy and Chiffon leaked their feelings. The two looked around lightly to see that there were no other enemy shadows, and they relaxed their shoulders a little tired.

"The three of you can now walk at your leisure." Point earning is also going well. "

"But I'm getting a little tired of the same place every day..."

Today, Amy and Chiffon were visiting the fourth tier of the first base, together with me and White Moon. Lettie and the others aren't logged in because they're busy with real life.

Even in such a state, the machine security guards began to advance through the fourth level of wandering, which is a considerable advance considering the initial situation.

That said, we are aiming to reach the 35th tier, which is the bottom tier of the first base. I went down the archiving area to the third and fourth floors, but there was still a long way to go.

"It seems that I'm working hard with the focus on the length and sunflower and the observation team." It's hard over there, isn't it? "

The reason why hierarchical tactics don't work as well as they seem to be is because of the systematic nature of the event. Our researchers are working with the Neseca DWARF to capture their base through a mission they will mediate. At that time, the tasks are divided between the combat system under the jurisdiction of the Security Department, the production system under the jurisdiction of the Facilities Department, and the investigation system under the jurisdiction of the General Manager's Department. If any of the three are missing, there is a problem, and if everything is not well-balanced, we cannot go down the hierarchy.

Together with the security department, we defeated the rampant mechanical guard and awakened the dormant dwarf while ensuring the safety of the base.

The facility department and the surveyors of the production staff will fix the base functions that have been damaged due to aging.

The library department then checks the collection and repairs the defaced material.

Records storage areas are separated by sturdy walls, called “records protection barriers”, on a hierarchical basis. We need to work together to activate it and unlock it.

"There is also a great bulkhead in the sixth level." Most of all, it's faster to ask Letty and the others to open a big hole for you. "

While stretching out her body, Amy says something outrageous.

According to Niseka, who is familiar with the base structure, the record storage area is obstructed by a bulkhead that is even larger than the usual "record protection bulkhead" for each of the four layers. To free it, we need to defeat a special mechanical guard known as the Library Guard.

By the way, the Dwarves are telling us to stop destroying the bulkhead with our material abilities. When the bulkhead was destroyed, it was automatically determined that the base was on the verge of collapse, and machine guards from all levels were swarming in. In that case, the DWARFs would be attacked without any help, and they might even be destroyed at once.

Yu, let's go slowly and steadily

The chiffon trembled and faded. That's her, but she can survive the battle even if she's surrounded by dozens of enemies.

"Anyway, now I have all the items." Let's go back to the central control area. "

Get the gray powder that was deposited under the withered dust and get up. Black slime --- officially, "mob suppression autonomous gel" --- is composed mostly of water, but a certain percentage of nanomachine powder is mixed. Difficultly, it is different from the nanomachine powder used by the survey team for arts, etc., but it seems that DWARF uses it for various things. Our task this time was to gather the right amount.

However, when I think of dwarves, I think of fantastical races, but Neseka and the others seem to have quite advanced technical systems. Same goes for their suspended life support system, but the mechanical guards, and the base itself, are spectacular.

What was it like to be a full-blown civilization?

As you walk toward the center of the fourth tier, you suddenly fall in love. And it came to pass, that before the children of Nesecah slept in the earth, they rejoiced in the glory of the earth. What kind of landscape did the Golden Age - or the White Light Age - have when it should have been?

In order to confirm that, we have to proceed with the hierarchy strategy.

After all, it's there, isn't it?

Amy tells me to shrug my shoulders. The base contains various materials on the lives of people called "White Light Bearers (White Ray)." I wonder if I will ever know if I can keep them.

I have no idea when it will be.

"Phew, I'm home..."

At the center of each hierarchy, the doughnut hole penetrates an area called the central control area. There's a couple of large shafts in there, and we can come down here from the second level.

The central control area is equipped with a collection point for supplies provided by the reclamation team, various workshops, and a medical NPC clinic for examining sleeping dwarfs. This was a stepping stone in the process of attacking the base.

In a corner of the space illuminated by countless makeshift large lights, find a small old man buried in a bunch of papers. Dressed in a dark blue uniform, he was busily moving his pen while sending instructions to his men.

Neseca, I'm finishing my job.

"Ledge, thank you. Show me the contract."

Neseka stops the pen and raises her face as she calls out. Give him the contract for the mission and the grey powder you collected at the dwarf in the security department next door. They checked each and nodded firmly.

Yes, I did. It's a reward.

Neseka pulls a piece of paper from the bundle of documents and offers it, acknowledging that the conditions for fulfilling the request have been met. Mission accomplishment report. When this is added to the inventory, the “read cooperation reward”, or PP, is automatically added.

By establishing a cooperative relationship between the Survey and Reclamation Team and DWARF, we have earned PPs by fulfilling requests from DWARF, allowing the Survey and Reclamation Team to redeem items of their choice.

"But it's tough, because the security department doesn't do desk work."

It can't be helped, because the information processing terminal is almost damaged and we haven't been able to reach the hierarchy with the information processing enclosure.

Currently, orders for tasks with DWARF are made through paper-based and analog exchanges. This inconvenience is one of the reasons why the work of the Librarian's Department has not progressed well.

DWARF also possesses advanced technology, which does not mean that it does not know computer equipment. The energy lines themselves have not been restored. The power went out due to an earthquake, etc., and the cashier could not be used, so it was like taking out a calculator.

In order to access advanced information processing terminals and systems, it is necessary to move further down the hierarchy. To do that, we need to do a lot of work, and it's very difficult.

"Hey, Ledge, there's a DWARF from the food department cooking up there."

When she separates from Neseca as she returns to work, Amy points to a corner of the block. There, the dwarves in split clothes were scratching large pots with the cooks of the pioneers.

"The fourth tier had a food vault." She even found DWARF's own recipe on the bookshelf. "

"Huh. Let's take a look."

They called Chiffon, who was stroking the fur of the white moon, and the three of them headed to a large-scale cooking area. The fourth tier consisted of a cooking factory that produced meals for dwarfs to eat when they were awake and nutritional liquids to replenish when they were sleeping, and the DWARFs in the food department that worked there. Awakening them has unlocked base functions.

As we approach, a dwarf with an oar-like helix cheerfully calls out, scaffolding on the edge of a large pot.

Welcome! Would you like something to eat?

What kind of things are there?

"There are many things! This is a boiled potato." There are also steamed, crushed, baked, and fried potatoes over there!

"Oh, oh..."

If you take a closer look at the cooking area, you can see that there are all kinds of dishes made with potatoes. A wooden box full of potatoes is piled up.

"Do you eat only dwarf potatoes?"

Amy's face, who has been studying nutrition lately, is twitching.

"But that's french fries, isn't it?" They said it was fried potatoes. "

However, Chiffon is a bit stiff. She seems to be herself and has eaten a lot of junk food such as french fries and hamburgers lately.

"There are some places where the translation hasn't worked yet." It'll be fixed soon, though. "

Originally, the Dwarves and we speak different languages. It seems like they are constantly translating it in the language package of the dwarves. Most conversations are fine at the moment, but sometimes literal expressions pop up.

"If Letty comes, she'll be happy."

"Here, take one."

Amy gazes at the cooking area where the smell of potatoes rises. The French fries I bought from the Dwarves surprised me.

Virtual Reality is zero-calorie, no matter how much you eat.

That's true, too.

She doesn't seem to eat much of these oils in real life, but I don't mind the various problems here. You realize what I mean, Amy laughs and picks up a french fries.

"Uncle--mr. Ledge, amazing!" This half-ripened fried potato is so delicious! "

Chiffon came back with a paper cup with potatoes.