I had points to spend and things to spend them on thing being I was being super carfull with what I would spend it on. I had never had as many points as I have now since the beggining, that waranted caution. I had to play this as if I wouldn't get anymore points this large for a year or so. Although I could get 2 MTF Units I wouldn't because,
1. It wasn't necessary
2. What would I assign them to?
3. For my plans with the facility I would need a heck of a lot more personnel
And so I started perusing the shop listing how many people I wanted and debatibg whether I should get only jubior researchers and have SCP-5094 train them. Bite the bullet and get regular reaserchers, or do a mix of both. Another factor I hadn't considered was because of the guards learning with SCP-5094 they were now regarded as an (Elite Strike Force Units) in the (Faction) tab outgrowing their guard status. Most of the scientists were (Senior Researchers) by now because of their scheduling with SCP-5094. I was impressed that my now (Senior Administrators) had so amicably getting anything done with such little personell.
If anything I believed that if I left for an extended period of time they'd do just fine. After I had assembled my list of 800 guards 300 scientists (200 of which were juniors researchers). And I thought about getting medical personell but when I discovered that we still had hundreds of lesser or watered down graded SCP-500s I just assigned everyone a pill to be used in emergency with plans to grow a stockpile. After thinking it all through I was going to press accept, but then I remembered.
(Quest:The Unification)
The cells of the Serpent's Hand have been split up for some time to aid in their guerilla warfare tactics. Unfortunetly this limits them to terror*st like strikes against their enemys. Unite the Serpent's Hand cells under one banner, the Bulwark.
(Rewards)
-50% Discount on all Serpents Hand members from (Recruitment tab),
-Deepened connection with Wanders Libary
-Gain +50 Opinion from the Serpent
Now I can't be the only person in the multiverse that forgot about somethjng like this. But I felt like a stupid fucking idiot. I realised that if I deepened my connection the Library could've forced more energy through the Way and make my gear better. I'm certain I can get it improved after the fact but that didn't change me feeling like a dumbass.
I informed my student the Doctor that I would be out of base for a week or two as I imagined that I would be inside the Library for an extended period of time playing polotics. Thankfully or unfortunetly depending on how you saw it the Serpent had only given me the location of 10 Serpent's Hand cells. And thanks to that I concocted a plan of action. I would
1.Sneak into the seperate bases by using my masks active effect
2.Gather information on the relations between the cells or as the name implies see if they genuinly don't have communication with each other.
3.Do some Tomfuckery to prove that I have been chosen by the Library and that I'm chill
4.Try to either gain leadership or have them come back with me to Site-19 to try to complete the quest.
5.Repeat when needed
There is one problem that could show up though. And that would be if they were outwardly agreesive to me, or were hellbent on causing mayhem and violence. At this point I would try to call up the Serpent through my connection to the Library to denounce them so that way I could complete the quest.
And so I bagan upon entering the Wanderers Library I tried to use the Way to get within a 10 kilometre distance away from the encampment. What I didn't expect was for my tranportation through the Way to fail and displace me 100 kilometres away.
"Fucking hell they have Reality anchors." I said annoyed as when I first got into the Library I was 50 kilometres away.
I tried using the Way to go back to my starting point but it just displaced me 100 killmetres away again just in a seperate direction. Sighing I started my treck to the encampment and realizing I wouldn't get there in some time summoned a book about Reality Bending and its offensive uses.
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At about the 12 kilometre mark I noticed that there was a person that seemed to be patroling. This was worrying but expected as it would be weird for a group of basiclly terrorists to not have people looking for anyone approaching. I began nonchalantly walking towards them, but made it look like I was going in the direction of a bookshelf.
As they spotted me they looked like they were going to call out to me. But as they realized I had my back turned to them they started started walking towards me. Viewing this with my 270 degree vision did not inspire confidence in their intentions. Still playing the fool I pretended to peruse the books before seemingly becoming interested and picking one out. As I pretended to read the back of it the Serpents Hand member realizing they had time started taking more stealthy steps towards me.
When they got behind me they pulled out a rag and moved to put it over my face. As he went to put it on where he thought would be my mouth it hit my mask. Deciding to play with them I slowly turned around and said in the most authoritive voice even I didn't know I could do. "What do you think you're doing?" I said as I grabbed the man. Now there were a few factors to the man infront of me shitting his pants. Mainly a figure (me) that exuded an aura of control and power. And, which he could instictively tell, had some measure of power to manipulate the Library itself.
As he continued staring at me I said, "I have come for peace but it seems I must
re-orientate my approach." If the person infront of me wasn't thoroughly terrified they were now. As I let go of their throat and started walking towards their encampment they wuickly collected themself and rushed towards me. Raising an eyebrow expecting them to attack I stared them down with my golden glowing eyes.
They stopped 2 meters away from me and said, "allow me to escort you keeper of the Library." I sent a questioning feeling through my connection the Way to the Library. Not about the safety of going with them more so why they were callling me a Keeper. To which it responded with assurance like that answered any of my questions.
As the man was waiting for an answer I just continued staring at them bringing further uneasyness. Until they decided to start walking towards were my library card showed the encampment to be.
(This is the extra chapter for reaching 200 stones maybe its early idk because webnovel says my books only has 25 power stones but I know it has more)
IMPORTANT NOTICE
I unfortunetly am going to be moving towards a one chapter per day release schedule because school and shit. I gotta start studying harder and putting more work into that stuff so yeahhhhh. Sorry I like writing but I don't wanna start putting a hobby before my life. Don't worry I will keep writing its just gonna be less. Plus I'm finding that my chapters are getting longer with each chapter anyway so that's a silver lining.