Chapter 6: Budding Clockwork Engineer.

Over the next few days, Carman continued working at Leschots's Clockwork Workshop, helping Livre with various tasks from sweeping, dusting, and sorting of materials and products in stock.

Every time he finished early he would spend the rest of the day having around Livre as he worked. Livre was happy to teach Carman what he knew regarding clockwork engineering. He explained the concepts of various configurations of gears, some of whitch's utilities were verry similar to that of a computer components.

After a few weeks, haveing run out of things for him to do, Livre let Carman start helping him with building and repairing simple toys. After getting tired of using the simple screwdriver, Carman made a ratcheting screwdriver using some scraps and a few machines in the workshop.

-ding-

Having forgot his quest to complete an engineering project, Carman was surprised by the system window popping up.

[Quest Complete: Complete your First Project]

[Generate Rewards? Yes/No]

Selecting yes, Carman received another notification

[ Congratulations to host for receiving 25 Exp, 15,000 Mora, Generating random F-D Rank blueprint...Congratulations to Host on receiving E Rank Blueprint:[Basic Kinetic to Electric Generator]. Check [Item Storage] for details.]

"Huh interesting, seems that I now have a way to convert kinetic energy into electrical" Carman muttered under his breath.

Carman took his new tool to work the next day, Livre was surprised by the effectiveness of the tool and asked Carman where he had gotten such a device. Chuckling, Carman responded that he had built it himself after getting tired of having a sore wrist from constantly adjusting his grip on the old screwdriver.

Livre saw the potential of such a tool and asked Carman if he could barrow it while Carman was away from the shop. Seeing an opportunity, Carman said, "I could make another one, but it took some time and resources I had gathered myself. I could sell you this one for now and use the Mora to get the materials I need for a new one."

"How much do you want for it?" Asked Livre interested in seeing how reasonable Carman's pricing would be.

"Just 1,500 Mora." Said Carman, he knew this wasn't much compared to the value of this tool that could revolutionize the clockwork assembly industry, but in the other hand that's all he needed for his quest and, Livre had pretty much been taking care of him and teaching him things since day one. Carman had lost track the Humber of snacks Livre had brought to the workshop for Carman and the overalls and shirt he had purchased for Carman under the guise of a store uniform.

Livre was shocked that Carman was offering the tool for such a low price, reaching into his wallet, he took some Mora out and put it into Carman's hands. "I'll have to teach you how to properly price products, here's 3,000 Mora."

-ding-

Carman heard the noise from the system as he exchanged the Mora and screwdriver with Livre.

However as to not interrupt his conversation with Livre, he mentally closed the notification before reading it.

Carman spent the rest of the day learning what he could from Livre and helping with the commissions submitted to the workshop. Livre even showed Carman some trick on how to work on hard to reach areas of Mekas using tools like screwdrivers that ranged from a foot to meter in length and long tweezers.

After finishing for the day and helping Livre tidy up the workshop, Carman left. Using some of the money he had saved up from what Livre paid for his work, Carman bought some chicken skewers and sunsettia juice from a nearby stall on his way home.

His measures to ensure nobody followed him home had become second nature, and no casual pedestrian noticed as Carman Stealthily moved to the usual stack of crates.

Once he was in his home, Carman dropped off the empty juice bottle in the space allocated for glass objects. Moving to his "bed" Carman sat down and opened his system pannel and navigated to the quests tab.

The only quests left avalable were:

[ Main Quest: Achieve Level 1]

[Quest: Earn 1500 Mora]

[Host has completed Quest(s): [Earn 1500 Mora]. Generate rewards?

Yes/No]

Finally clicking the yes button, the system responded with.

[Generating rewards]

-ding-

[Congratulations to host on receiving: 100 System Points, 50 exp, and a pouch containing 50,000 Mora]

"Finally, now I should have enough to level up" Carman said as he finally navigated to the [Status] tab

[ [Status]

Name: Carman [removed]

Titles: [locked]

Level: 0

Exp: 0/100 [+]

Avalable Exp: 100 [+]

Stats:

Str: 5

Dex: 7

Con: 5

Int: 20

Wis: 22

Chr: 4

[Avalable stat points: 5 (locked)]

[Skills: Locked] ]

"Huh so that's what my stats are, kinda weird to see my mental stats are that much higher compared to my physical ones, but I guess it makes sense since I've been reincarnated and have experience and thought processes from my past life." Carman muttered to himself as he observed his stats. "Whelp, let's get this over with"

Clicking the [+] button next to the Exp tank under his level Carman was greeted with another system screen

[Add Exp: 000 [↑] [↑ Max] [↓] [↓ Max]

[Confirm]]

Selecting the [↑ Max] button followed by the conformation button, Carman was greeted with another pop up.

[Host has accumulated the amount of Experience needed to level up to level: (1).

Do you wish to level up now?

[Yes/No]]

Clicking yes, Carman was blissfully unaware of what was coming for him.

Another window popped up. "Damn this is getting annoying," Carman muttered regarding all of the popups.

-Ding-

[Congratulations host for reaching level 1, host has unlocked additional [Status] functions, you have earned 1 Special Gatcha ticket and 3 free stat points]

-Ding-

[Host has earned the title(s): [Descender], [Clockwork Engineer: Trainee], [Clockwork Engineer: Apprentice], [Survivor], [StreetRat]. See [status] pannel for details]

-Ding-

[Host has learned skill(s): [Glass Chipping(E): LV: 0→3], [Stealth(E): LV: 0→ 5], [Hunting(E): LV:0→3], [Clockwork Engineering(D): LV:0→2], [Elemental Sense(S): LV:0→1) [Descender(EX): LV: MAX]. See [Status] for details.]

Having his vision almost completely obstructed and almost deafened by the amount of dinging from the system, Carman swiped all of them away.

-ding-

"F%¢£!!!" Shouted Carman from the sudden pop up, "I thought it was over."

[Congratulations Host for completeing the quest(s):[Main Quest: Achieve Level 1]

Generate rewards?

[Yes/No]]

It's finally over, just one or two more pop ups for now. Thought Carman, half muttering while recovering from the spamming of notifications.

-Ding-

[Congratulations host on receiving: Welcome Package [300 Skill Exp, Skill:[Steady Hands LV: 1], 30,000 Mora, 15 Special Gatcha Tickets.], 300 System Points, 10 Special Gatcha tickets. New quests are avalable in the [Quests]tab.]

"It's finally over." Muttered Carman, "That was exhausting, I wonder what the Special Gatcha is. Might as well pull these in celebration, I'm not really the type of guy who saves up for those things anyway." Said Carman half mocking his past self who was too impatient to save intertwined fates and wished in every new banner he could.

Pulling up the [Gatcha] tab, he found that it was unlocked and navigated from the [Normal Gatcha] which seemed to give him random items from around Teyvat with a cap on 4* items. The [Special Gatcha] only said, "Pulls items, any star or rank, there is no limit to what this Gatcha can draw. Underneath, there was a tag saying.

[First 10 pull, get one free>

Might as well thought Carman as he pressed the 10 pull option.

[Pulling (10)(+1) items from the [Special Gatcha] please wait.]

-Ding-

[Host has received:

[10x small brass cogs (f)]

...

[E Rank Blueprint: Steam Sewing machine]

...

[3* Spear: Black Tassel]

...

[30x 3* Slime Concentrate (Electro)]

...

[30x 3* Condessence Crystal]

...

[40x 3* Iron Ore]

...

[6* Irminsul Resin Receptacle]

...

[5x Greater health Potion]

...

[3x 3* Chaos Circuit]

...

[1* Dull Blade]

...

[Pulling extra Draw]

...

-Ding-

[EX Rank: Initial Y-Series 001 + Containment Unit]

Please refer to [Item Storage] for further details.]

Intial Y-Series, why does that ring a bell... Thought Carman as he dug through what he could remember from his previous life. It wasn't from his memories playing genshin impact that he found his answer though, and after he gave up and was about to go to sleep he got his answer.

Wait... Wasn't that from the first anime I watched. What was it... Bah, it's been so long that I've forgotten the name, but wasn't 001, supposed to be a cold yandere maid? Crud, whelp I'll deal with that tomorrow..

To be continued...