Chapter 113. Another day another shovel

The next morning came with the sun warming up the Clan, and I was back at the crafting table hitting the hammer to get another golden shovel.

Over the night the furnace was non-stop working and it managed to go through a double chest while I slept.

I tried to be as efficient as possible with the repetitive tasks, I also liked switching to organizing around once I was getting bored of hammering in one place.

After a few hours, it was noon, and I decided to take a break and eat something.

"Ugh, my hand is getting sore from all those vibrations. At least no one was waiting for me this time around."

Speaking of this, I should go down to my secret base to get some gunpowder.

It's amazing how much stuff they stored in those ruins, and it was one of the smaller ones.

I can't even imagine what a huge ruin will hold.

With my breakfast done, I looked around once more before jumping into the dirty water.

After I arrived at my base I heard some pistons moving in the other room.

This made me curious so I looked at Violet's room, and I was shocked by what I saw.

Every block in the room had Redstone dust or a Redstone machine.

A piston was throwing up some gravel, a minecart was running over a rail with a pressure plate that activated a dispenser that shot nothing, but on top of the dispenser was a hopper which made me think she managed to actually use the dispenser.

Some other weird contractions were all over the place, and all of them surrounded a massive Enderwoman in the middle of the room not even realizing that I was there.

She looked tired from her small eyes, and I didn't even know that a monster could get tired.

Looks like she's been going at this since yesterday.

That's more than a whole day!

And here I thought I was a bad workaholic.

"Violet! You're too tired to do any other contraptions, get some rest, then you can go back, nobody will take anything from here."

The Enderwoman was startled by the sudden noise before seeing me and calming down.

She started blinking rapidly and looked around the room one more time.

Then she made an Enderman noise before teleportation to a corner of the room sat down and closed her eyes.

The noises didn't seem to bother her as soon she was breathing ritually already asleep.

She was tired and already asleep, with the constant noise in the room I could sneak up to her and cut her head with one swing.

If I wanted to get rid of her, this was my chance.

I looked at her for a few moments before leaving the room.

While she's a monster obsessed with me, she didn't do anything bad to me, actually, she helped me more often than not.

This made me rethink if monsters have a path of redemption but I didn't give them the chance.

Or was she a special case?

She is different than others after all.

In the end, I could only sigh as I took a stack of gunpowder, sugarcane and filled the rest of my inventory with golden blocks.

I haven't finished my gold yet, but if I can avoid a trip down here and get soaked why not do it?

I looked around once more in case I was forgetting something and then went to the surface.

Once in my house, I quickly took a shower and went back to the crafting table.

First I made some pages with the sugar cane, then I used those pages together with gunpowder to make three fireworks.

The recipe itself wasn't too hard to remember and the materials were a little hard to get, but even with all of these they weren't crafted that often since they had very little uses.

Maybe that would change soon since people saw me use them as a weapons.

After an hour I managed to craft the two stacks with no problems, so I decided to deliver the package now before I forget about it once I'm too preoccupied with the shovels.

With a light jog, I arrived pretty quickly at the huge house, there I knocked on the wooden door with force.

A few seconds later the door was opened and the butler greeted me.

"Ah, Sir Trader, Madam Flora told me about your arrival. Are you here to deliver the package?"

"Yes, do I go and meet with her or is it enough for me to give them to you?"

"You can leave the items with me, here is the token that madam told me to give you."

He then took a wooden token out of his inventory and gave it to me.

I looked closer at the wooden token in my hand.

It was made with dark wood which made the Enchantment more obvious to see. Now that I knew a little more about enchantment I could tell that it was written with high-level language enchantment, and I could finally see what was the enchantment.

-Guidance

The System wrote it in big bright letters for me to see.

It was interesting to see and for sure I will be checking it later to see if I can replicate it.

"Thank you, here are the fireworks, have a great day!"

I gave him my part of the deal and left to finish my next course of action, which was to talk with Froggy and see how he was doing.

He wasn't at his house once I checked, so I had to ask around until someone told me he was at the bar, taking me by surprise since I didn't expect him to go there of all places.

I arrived there and got my answer as to why he was there in the first place.

Froggy was sitting comfortably at a table and happily ate some green jello.

Soon he saw me as well and waved for me to come to him.

"Hey Froggy, no training for today?"

"Yeah, the leader said we don't have any mission for a while so we would only train two times a week. Rest of the days we are free to do whatever we want. How's your project going?"

"It's going slow but pretty well, and I don't even want to think about what items I would have to make once I get to the next level. From my calculations, I should finish this level in two weeks."

"With your work ethic that's actually a lot of time just hammering in one place. Why do you even want to urgently be a grandmaster? You know people work for years to level a skill, not weeks."

"I know, but I don't want to be limited on what I can craft anymore. It's driving me insane that every time I have a big project to do, I have to go to the Nether and ask for help. Usually, that wouldn't be a problem, but most of the time I'm not even at my base, and I can't make a portal whenever. It's so frustrating but I'll solve all of those problems with time."

We kept talking like this for a while until an idea came to me all of a sudden.

"Do you by any chance have a speed potion on you?"

"Speed potions? Unfortunately no, I don't even have the ingredients to make one. I have to go shopping sometime soon to get some items as well. But you can ask the barman since he is usually the one that sells potions."

Did he?

That's a weird side job to have.

I turned to see a huge man with a purple apron cleaning a wooden cup like I'd seen in the movies.

"Hi there, do you sell potions by any chance?"

He only gave me a nod.

"Cool, do you have a speed boost, invisibility, and fire resistance?"

He stopped cleaning the cup and went in the back for a few seconds before coming back and placing the potions that I requested on the table.

"60 emeralds."

Cheap as always, but unfortunately I didn't have emeralds on me so instead I placed two gold bars on top of his table.

A gold bar was roughly 40 emeralds, so I was overpaying.

The man was shocked which was an amusing sight to see.

"You can keep the change, thanks for the potions."

I took them and said my goodbyes to Froggy and left the bar.

The sun was slowly getting down, but I still had a few good hours until the night came so I walked back to my house.

Once I arrived there, I placed some more shovels to get smelted and began my experiment.

I chugged the speed potion, suddenly feeling like everything was moving much slower around me.

I then took the hammer and placed the recipe of the shovel on the crafting table, thank I started to hit it rapidly.

To my pleasant surprise, this seemed to work as I finished the shovel much faster than normal.

"I can't believe this actually works! If I continue like this I should be finished in a week!"

With this, I continued to make shovel after shovel.

An hour passed, then two, then a day, and like that five days passed.

The only thing I did was buy speed potions, craft shovels, eat, sleep, and repeat.

But on the fifth day, I had to stop crafting, not because I leveled up, but for problems I did not expect to have.

"How did I not have enough gold? I can't believe I went through the whole storage in only five days."

Even with me melting the shovels into nuggets and then crafting those into Ingots, it still wasn't enough.

Luckily I wasn't too far from my next level, only a little under two stacks should be enough, and then I'll be free from such limited resources.

Once I finished with those, I'd have more than enough Redstone to get to the final level, I only needed to find the most optimal item to craft.

With a sigh, I could only go buy some night vision potions and more speed boost, who knows it might be useful at mining as well.

I didn't plan to use my Luck potion since it would've been very wasteful without preparations.

I could theoretically make a pickaxe with silk touch on it now if I tried really hard, there were some books in the ruins that thought System made Enchantments and I could copy from them.

But if I was going to use it was going to be used on a diamond pickaxe made by my hand.

Is it stupid to put such limitations on me?

Probably, but I also didn't want to go to the Coral Kingdom only to buy a pickaxe, otherwise, I'd have to visit every auction house in the other kingdoms to hope and get lucky on getting an overpriced pick.

Or I could go and rob the Sandstone Kingdome?

I did have the tools to break those walls now.

No, it was too much risk only for petty revenge. I'm going to do that when I want to rob their Royal vault.

Finally, I arrived in front of my tunnel in the mine, and as always I had company.

"Listen, Violet, I want to make this mining trip as short as possible, no distractions no nothing. I only want the gold, and for that, I won't be able to make the tunnel four blocks tall for you to fit. Sorry, you can't come with me this time."

Violet was very displeased with this, she started to yell at me, but I didn't back down on this.

She either was going to leave, or she was going to uncomfortably crawl through the small tunnels like last time.

After she saw my lack of reaction, she just narrowed her eyes and teleported away.

I could only give a sigh of relief that this didn't escalate further.

Then I turned towards the wall that I was going to mine and chugged the speed potion.

The world started to slow down around me and I started to hit the wall right in front of me, and as I expected the work was getting done much faster.

"I should use the speed potion for everything in my life, this is too useful not to use, how did nobody else try to do this?"

I mined for the rest of the day until finally, I got the gold that I wanted. I ignored all the other ores as I promised with the exception of one.

Redstone.

I probably had enough already at home, but that's what I thought with the gold as well, so better to be safe than sorry.