Chapter 61: Magic Revolution

That about does it on that front, moving on to my relationships and how everyone has been doing. There hasn't been a whole lot of change between Alice and I. We've just been going steady as usual and taking a day on the weekend normally every week to have a "date". That isn't necessarily what I would call it since we're basically just hanging out doing some sort of activity, but that's the label she likes to attach to it.

Aside from Alice's, my relationship remaining mostly in the same state because of me not wanting to progress any further until we're both adults. Meanwhile, Bella, her younger sister has remained as cute as ever and has stuck it out with her sister and I like a champ. The squirt has made a lot of progress in these couple of years. It's impressive how far she's come in such a short period of time. I'm pretty sure she's made even more progress than me back when I was her age...

As for Bob and Big Tom, they've stuck it out as well and have made momentous gains over these two years, Bob especially. The once short, string bean, nerdy kid has now bulked up and grown more than a foot in height in just a couple of years. That transformation he's undergone has done wonders for his confidence.

Big Tom, on the other hand, has become even larger in nearly every proportion and is bigger than ever before. The kid is even taller than me, although not anywhere as built as I am, but I'm sure if I set him up on a Buffmax cycle, he'll more than be able to compete with me in terms of physique in a comparatively short number of years. Bob would make a hell of a lot of gains, too. Nevertheless, that time will have to wait till they have built themselves up some more.

Now for my and Alice's family, they've been doing extraordinarily well, mostly because of the magic cultivation technique I gave them way back when. The elderly of our two families actually look decades younger because they've managed to breakthrough to the next mage realm Mage Learner and gained a 100 years of lifespan. Now that I'm thinking of it, I wonder how they explained away their younger appearance to the people they know. I have no doubt that I would have found myself rolling around in the background laughing at their expense had I been there.

Other than those preexisting relationships and our families' progress, I've developed a friendship with one of gramp's old battle buddy's grandchildren, an Asian teen by the name of Yoshimoto Takeshi. The kid is on the quiet side of things, but he has a decent personality and makes good conversation when he actually decides to open his mouth and speak. Because of those traits of his and him having an interest in becoming a wasteland explorer like the rest of his family, I'm thinking of recruiting him. I don't know whether he'll agree, but I think there's a good chance he will.

There's also his beautiful and full figured older sister Yoshimoto Rei, who I've gotten increasingly more acquainted with and have an interest in too, which appears to be mutual from what I can tell. I mean, anytime I encounter her, she gets pretty handsy with me and me alone, so it's pretty obvious what's going on there... I'm not too sure if I want to pursue anything with her as of yet, but she does pique my interest and check several of my boxes, so I'll see what happens.

Thankfully, I've already had the conversation I needed to have with Alice regarding my desire for more women than just her alone. She wasn't too pleased when I initially brought up the topic, understandably so. But I made her see it my way not long after I began listing off reasons like her stamina being incomparable to mine, which would inevitably bring about dissatisfaction in me. The world's human population being an extremely minute percentage of what it once was, and me needing trustworthy people for my distant plans. And who I could I trust more if not the women I decided to spend the rest of my life with and have children with.

The only stipulations that came along with her agreeing was that my first time would be reserved for her, which was already allocated to her in my book to begin with. And that she would be at the top of the pecking order and whoever I wanted to add to the family had to be a good fit with all the women who were already a part of the group.

I didn't have any issue with any of those demands whatsoever since Alice was at least owed the top spot for being with me first for all these years. I also had no interest in introducing someone to my currently non existent harem that would cause strife between myself and all those who may be a part of it one day...

When I agreed to her demands, she asked if I had anyone in mind saying I wouldn't be bringing this up if I didn't. Having no reason to not tell her, I shared with her who I was thinking of that being Rei, Takeshi's older sister that I knew she had a good rapport with. The minute she learned of who I had in mind, she released a sigh of relief and gave me the go ahead, not minding Rei joining as long as none of the barriers that were placed on herself were crossed. Promising that no such thing would ever occur before she and I did them first, I got through that inevitable talk I'd been dreading for a long while, easier than I ever thought I would.

Leaving his touchy feely sister to deal with at a later date, their entire family is filled with people who fall into the dual roles of assassins and snipers, two roles my current squad is sorely missing. Besides myself, of course, since I'm considered an all rounder. Therefore, recruiting the brother and sister would be in my best interest because it would balance out my group quite a bit. So I'll have to see if I can't make that happen here soon enough... Actually, today may not be too bad of an idea. It is Saturday, after all, so they'll probably be free.

Continuing on from recruiting new members for my squad and me potentially getting involved with a busty older sister type, Vritra has transformed massively. The very not so little drake has bulked up muscle wise and grown to enormous proportions with a length of over 50 feet and a height of nearly 15 feet. Along with his increased size, he can now spew forth a poisonous green colored flame. He's really grown to become quite the intimidating and capable monster.

That about does it on that front let me move onto quests for a brief second.

So I've fulfilled the objectives for both my Maxigen Improvement quest and my Pablo Escobar Jr. I just haven't turned them in yet. The reason for that is simply because one, I'm pretty happy with my current capabilities and two, I'm saving them for the time right before I depart from the undercity. I don't really need a couple of levels that bad, hence I'd rather just hold on to them, continue grinding out my attributes, and gain as much exp from the two quests as possible when it's time to depart.

What should I cover now, hmm... I guess I should go over my research real quick. No matter how limited it is due to most of my attention and time being focused mostly on constantly training and improving my skill and stats. So, in addition to the Maxigen improvement project being a major success, I've been performing experiments with other compounds and researching the properties of the various mutated luminescent plants and fungi found throughout the former home of the exterminated molemen to see if they had any medical or scientific value aside from their luminescent traits.

From those experiments, I've made improvements to Medstims, that I've named Medstim Mk II, and figured out the formula for Z-Rox Combat Stims, which I've been producing for a good number of months now. Alongside that, my initial investigation into the plants and fungi from that massive cave system revealed that the 7 species I found were not recorded anywhere in the undercity's databases or libraries.

When I found that out at the time, I immediately started researching the samples I had on hand to see if they had any value. And from that research, I discovered that 4 out of the 7 new species had no remarkable properties other than the dim light they emitted. As for the remaining three, one produced an abnormal amount of oxygen for its size that I currently had no use for. Another had superb healing properties, and the last was a sort of super nutrient, both of which were used in improvement of the Medstim formula.

| Medstim Mk II |

Weight: 0.075

Value: 2,500

Description: A new and improved version of the ubiquitous Medstim injector filled with an improved cocktail of compounds for even faster wound healing.

| Z-Rox Combat Stim |

Weight: 0.025

Value: 1,650

Description: The Z-Rox Combat Stim is a combat drug developed by Gen-4 Pharmaceuticals that dulls pain, improves alertness and overall physical ability for a short period at the cost of a large sudden onset of fatigue when the effects of the drug expire. The drug is delivered via a syringe injector.

I haven't gotten a lot done in this area, but what I have accomplished has been decent enough.

Moving to construction now briefly, there's not a lot to say here since the facility has remained mostly the same. Mainly because most of my construction crew has been wrapped up in the extensive project of making a massive tunnel connected from all the way down here hundreds of meters underground to the surface, so I can bring Vritra along when it's time to set out.

Thankfully, that long project I assigned to my many robots is nearing completion. Thus, a huge amount of workforce will become available in a moment here that I can throw at any number of projects and tasks that need to be completed. The only suitable project I can think of at this second would be assigning them to building and assembling the transport I'm going to require to move the literal innumerable tons of loot and resources I've stockpiled to the Cyberdynamics Robotics Facility. The only issue with that is I don't have a single design ready for them to work on, so I guess that will be the most urgent task I'll need to work on next.

That wraps up that, let me go back to magic for a quick sec. As much as I would love to, I still haven't done much of anything in this area, but with my huge increase in number of thought processes, I did manage to find the time to do a bit of magic cultivation and make 16 variations of the Basic Foundation Technique.

One for each of the elements minus the all element since that wasn't a natural mana element. And with the completion of those 16 techniques, I'm now prepared to reintroduce magic to mankind once again and begin raising human abilities as a whole. Sadly, I have no intention of doing that just yet. I'll probably hold off on introducing the wonderful world of magic to the human race until I at least take a hold of the city of Las Vegas, if not the entire state of Nevada.

[Ding!]

[New Quest Obtained]

Oh, would you look at that, a new quest. It couldn't possibly be related to what I was just thinking about. Definitely not.

I thought sarcastically as I made my system window pop up and show me the new quest details.

| Magic Revolution | Objectives: Reintroduce magic to human kind, build an institution with at least 100,000 students attending it and learning about magic, and have 10,000 humans reach the 5th realm. Rewards: New Perk?, 1,000 Magic, 100 attribute points, 1,000 skill points, 10,000,000 exp.

...That's a colossal amount of work right there. Future me can have fun figuring out how I'll need to go about completing that quest later. Returning to my magic progress again, the only other noteworthy thing in this field that I've yet to mention so far is that I've continued to passively rise through the mage initiate realm, becoming a 5th level mage initiate.

[Mage Initiate 3rd Level]

[+11,600 Max Mana Capacity, +3 Magic Power, and +10 Magic]

[Mage Initiate 4th Level]

[+24,400 Max Mana Capacity, +4 Magic Power, and +10 Magic]

[Mage Initiate 5th Level]

[+48,700 Max Mana Capacity, +5 Magic Power, and +10 Magic]

That fifth mage level increase also brought me a new perk because of it raising my magic power attribute to 101.

| Magic Supremacy Rank 2 | Requirements 101 Magic Power: You've once again surpassed the limitations of magic power. Because of that, you've somehow gained the ability to further surpass normal mage ranks, meaning your max mage realm level limit has doubled. So instead of gaining a +1 to your max mage realm level limit for each point of endurance beyond 10, you will now gain a +2. In addition to that, you will find that your ability to brand new magic circles, magic formations, spell models, and other magic relating things in your mindscape has been improved dramatically. Lastly, your spell cost is reduced by 1% for every 100 magic power you possess. +1,000% to mana regeneration, +10,000 to max mana capacity, +100% to spell casting speed, +200% to magic learning speed, and +200% to magic skill gain.

That should do it for magic and my recap of the last couple of years. I've accomplished more than just what I covered here, but these were the most significant things. Looking back on it all, I've certainly gotten a ton done these previous two years. Thank god for robots. If I didn't have those guys helping me 24/7 around the clock, I would've only gotten an unbelievably tiny fraction of what they've managed to achieve done.

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