Chapter 12: Improvisation Part 4

I took a good chunk of the nearest crawler's flesh and put it in my mouth. I rapidly chewed the meat. It's hard texture would give me a little hard time chewing it. A few moments later, the flesh are all crushed and I slowly swallowed the meat.

I waited anxiously for the result...God, I hope this works...

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I can feel it. The same feeling whenever I ate a zombie. The same feeling whenever I would get a boost. Yes!

Alright, so I can still get some boosts if I ate those monsters. However, I couldn't help but frown when I noticed that it was not that much like before. It felt like I was only given a 7 percent boosts.

I grabbed the head of the crawler and ripped it out from its body. I took a bite but this time I didn't felt any boosts again...

What the?

I quickly devoured the entire body but I still didn't felt anything. Ok, what the hell is going on? I'm getting a little confused at this sudden turn of events. But I'm starting to get something here...

I took a limb from the next crawler and took a bite from it...

I can feel it again. The boosts, the power but it's bare a quarter I get unlike before. I took a bite again but I didn't get a boosts this time.

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So that's how it is. I can only get a boosts with a single bite of this things. Each bite per each crawlers. Doing more so even if I devour them completely would no longer provide me more boosts. That's a bit of a bummer but at least I don't have to eat more than I need to.

Though I'm a bit curious of the low boosts percentage I got. I feel like this is one of the downsides when I got the black breath. Does this means that the stronger I get, the amount of meal I hunt would slowly rise up in terms of level of their species? Hmm. This things feels like the ones on the video games. It would have been helpful if I got a system instead. Those things would provide me info in situations like this. Now it feels like I'm running in blind. I look at the last corpse and decides to eat a chunk of it. I felt the boosts again but like before, it's too small percentage to even consider it a boosts.

But what about the other ones? I know the regular zombies are no longer available for me but what about the other types? The crawler sure gave me a boosts, though quite low for my taste but it's still there but what about when I ate one of those diggers. Better yet, what about the ones that live inside the mansion?

I have to look into this more but now, I already got what I need. Man, this is an eye opening for sure. With nothing else to do, I decided to went home.

Once I got there, Whity greeted me with his barks. I went to the barn and decided to finish my battle drone as early as possible.

Despite this small step back, I would not let it stop me from raiding that mansion. This world is a very dangerous place and in order for me to survive, I have to step up my game.

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It took me 6 nights but I'm finally finished with my battle drone. Not gonna lie, I have to sacrifice my training time to finish this big boy. I have to put a variety of artillery to make this one a great supporter in combat. I also have to put some voice command for easy cooperation. Now putting this one might be a little hard because one of the reasons is I can't speak clearly. Sure all those books about languages helped me develop my speaking patterns back but I still need to further improve it. Now though? I can speak as easily as before. Communication in case of possible encounter with hannis is possible now. Anyway, back to the matter at hand. I could have put some AI in it but I lack the necessary resources. The place where I collect some machine parts are getting too thin. Venturing further would also be stupid on my part. I still have little knowledge about this place and I might encounter something that I can't either kill or escape from.

That's why I'll create an assistant in combat that is incredibly versatile. Whity is good and all but sometimes, I need to prepare for the worse.

The drone got a little bigger than last time. It's now as big as bass drum. It has 4 thrusters, has two sets of camera scope, black in color, and this baby is covered by a strong element that's similar to steel armor.

Now to test this once again. I turned the power on and the three camera scope glowed bright green. The thrusters slowly let out some heat. The table below started shaking from the pressure and soon enough, the battle drone is now floating in front of me.

Alright, then now for the voice command...

" Follow me", I ordered.

The drone let out a beeping sound and fulfilled my orders. I went outside and walk to the training ground. The battle drone followed right behind me. Whity saw the drone and tilted his head in wonder.

We are now at the center of the training ground. Right in front of us is a singular training dummy that was covered in Iron armor. Today, I will only focus on my battle drone's test drive. Now to see if all my nights of labor bare fruit.

"Initiate attack on target." I ordered. The drone beeped again and let out a mini gun from it's back. It pointed at the training dummy and fired out a rain of bullets.

The training dummy's armor was caved in. The bullets left a dent in each side of the armor but not enough to penetrate through it. Seeing this, the drone put the mini gun back inside its back and let out a mini rocket launcher. The drone fired the weapon and the training dummy is now nothing but a pile of ashes.

Success. I nodded in satisfaction. I designed this thing to be able to adapt to certain enemies. The weapons I put in its small body has at least 6 types of weapons. The first one being a mini gun, the next one being a rocket launcher, then a laser cannon, missile launcher, guided missile launcher, and my favorite one, the electric-pulse bomb launchers.

The last one is extremely hard to make. The materials required to make this one is extremely hard to find in this planet. Due to the fact that I cannot venture further into the unknown world unprepared, my resources are pretty much limited.

The electric-pulse bomb is pretty much a bomb that would explode a high amount of voltage around the blast zone. I tested one myself a day ago when I throw the bomb at an open field. Suffice to say, the explosion itself made me launch away from the ground at least a few feet. Despite the distance I threw the bomb, the shock is still enough to push me back. I look at the field I threw it and I could see a decent size crater in the ground. The plant life inside the blast zone was completely vaporized. Only the soil was left and I could still see smoke coming out of the crater. With this fire power, I could make through the horde of those zombies and crawlers without any difficulty.

Sadly though, I can only make 20 bombs but I think it should be enough for those things. Now for another test...

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I spent a whole day testing out the battle drone. I gotta admit, I feel proud of myself. The battle drone is a big success. Now the only thing left to do is to train our combat capabilities and make Whity and I some armor and weapons.

Building Whity's armor is not as hard as building the battle drone itself but I still got a hard time due to making it as big as my big drakier friend. The amount of work I did took me 2 weeks but I finally finished it. The armor is made from the same material as the battle drone. It covered most of its body except his legs. It was designed like a scale so it would not hinder his mobility when attacking those flesh eaters. His helmet covered most of his head except his lower jaw.

When Whity first saw the armor, he immediately took a liking to it. I put it on him and I just gotta say...he looks so freakin' badass.

I made my own armor soon after. Though when you look at it, you could probably mistake it for a mecha suit. It's still the same element as the battle drone. My helmet can make itself open in half, making me able to bite those monsters with no difficulty. Around the table are the weapons I made. Gone is my occasional machete, knives, and scalpels. I threw those trashes out of my barn. Now I have a set of REAL weapons. I have two guns that works like a mini gun, 4 9mm electric pistols, a big sword, and 15 radioactive bombs. The armor might be heavy for regular human standard but with my strength, I can lift it as easily as paper. It felt like I'm simply wearing normal clothes. I put my weapons on and made my way out of the barn. Whity was outside along with the battle drone. Whity had a look of anticipation and barks at me in greeting. I let out a smile that's hidden by my helmet.

Now...it's time for war...