Chapter 152 No Sleep

"Before we go for that fun, I need to stop by Firaga's shop to collect all the systeminium. If you don't mind, I will meet you at your new place?" I asked, and Victoria nodded with a smile.

"I don't mind waiting. We don't have to do it today either. I know that you have plans with the girls later, and I don't want to take away from that," Victoria explained, and I laughed.

"Don't worry about that! I am no longer what you would call fully human, and I can go as much as I want. I just have a ton of things to take care of first, like getting us to safety," I explained as the elevator descended.

I would have loved for nothing more than to have just stepped outside of the tree and fallen to the ground, but I knew Victoria didn't like that. She was doing good now, so this was the least I could do, and I felt bad about asking her to wait, but I had too much to do to be backtracking.

"Are we ever going to be safe? Even if we get away now, won't they still try chasing us?" Victoria asked, and that was a valid concern.

It was one that I had given great thought to over the last week.

"Completely safe? Not as long as other races are alive that work with different agendas, but I am working on a design that will allow us to be able to live safely. The world is going to go through a big change, but this is just the start. The plan is to move below the surface and live there until we harvest enough material to create a dome around the world. The goal is to turn the planet into a portable Dyson Sphere. That is something that requires more material than we can find on earth," I explained.

"A Dyson Sphere? Don't you need a star for that?" Victoria asked, and I nodded.

"Yup, but it is too much work to try and put one inside the earth. Even the smallest star would be multitudes bigger than our planet. I plan on creating a system that can birth small stars. Possibly something that can create a mini-version of our sun, but there is a ton of boring stuff that I need to figure out. Either we do that, or I find someone else with a better idea for infinite power. The biggest problem we are facing right now is that we can't use electricity," I explained.

"That sounds far above what I get paid," Victoria laughed, and it was nice to hear.

"You don't get paid," I smiled back.

Best

"Exactly!" Victoria giggled, and I kissed her.

"So you are fine with me coming to see you after?" I asked, and Victoria nodded.

"Yes, but how do I get to this house? And please don't tell me it is at the top of a tree!" Victoria complained, and I chuckled.

"No, not on top of a tree, I love you more than that, and I know you like to be on the ground. Mr. Tree will take you to it, so you don't need to worry. I am not sure how long I will be with Firaga, but I will fly over after I am done," I said and set Victoria down as the elevator slowed.

"Good. I didn't think that you would, but you have been distracted," Victoria teased, and I nodded.

"Yes, but not that distracted," I said and gave her a kiss as we were pulled to the exit of the tree. "I love you, and I will see you in a bit."

"Love you too. Thank you for letting me come and cuddle with you. It made me feel better," Victoria said and then kissed me back, and the grass took her away.

I turned and faced Firaga's shop and walked over.

I could have taken the grass, flown, crawled on roots, or even swung like spiderman, but I wanted to walk like normal. I was so used to taking the grass everywhere, or flying, that it felt weird to use my legs.

Even though I didn't need to do this anymore or even do any exercise, I didn't want to stop doing things like this. There was something relaxing about using my own two legs, and the shop wasn't far.

Once I got there, I walked inside and was hit with a blast of heat. Next was the sounds of metal being hit, filling the air with the roar of other things coming in behind the sharp clanking.

I walked in to find Firaga in the center of the pounding on a red hot sword, but she had little effect. The sword also looked like it would still need a lot of strikes before it even got close to a usable shape.

"What are you working on?" I yelled, and Firaga looked up at me with a sour look on her face but smiled when she saw me.

"This damn metal is nearly impossible to work with! Three days! That's how long I have been trying to bang it into shape!" Firaga complained as she took the sword back over to stick in the forge.

"Are you trying to use the mutainium?" I asked, assuming that had to be what she was working with.

"Yes, but I am not sure why. As far as I can tell, there is nothing I can do to affect it, but the metal is extremely strong. I don't know for sure, but I think this might be effective against the Drakar. Not that I can test the damn thing! Even if we had one of them here, I still have another week before I am going to get this thing ready for sharpening! I think that I should be working on other things, but I keep getting pulled back to this thing!" Firaga complained, and I nodded.

"While I agree with you that you could be doing other things, I think you might be onto something," I said, and Firaga sighed.

"I have been working on other projects in between, but I get tired, and I have to go take pool breaks," Firaga grumbled, but I frowned.

"When was the last time that you slept?" I asked, and Firaga raised an eyebrow.

"I don't need to. Normally I would just have to sit still for a few hours, and my body will recharge on its own. Thankfully, you made that pool, and now I spend twenty minutes twice a day, and I am good," Firaga explained, and I sighed.

"If that is really good for you, then I won't argue," I said.

"Sleeping is something humans need to do to let their bodies recharge, but we aren't the same as everyone else. Even if you look human, you are an Annokale, just like us. You are a ghost in a shell, just like me," Firaga explained, and I nodded.

"I know I don't have to sleep, but the girls still have to. I would like to not sleep, but some of the girls require me to when I stay with them. I never realized that you are the same way," I said and then asked, "Does that mean that all Annokale don't require sleep?"

"Yes, with the exception of the ones with hosts. Because they are still human Hosts, the Annokale running the System has to rest when the host does," Firaga explained.

"Interesting. Well, besides this, what do you have to show me?" I asked, and Firaga nodded, opened up her menu, and pushed the screen that only we could see over to me.

Character: Firaga,

Sex: Female

Height: 5'2

Age: 7000000, give or take

Hair Color: Silver

Eye Color: Rainbow

System: System Smith Forger

Abilities:

The Forge System: Consume metals to create weapons and armor

System Gacha: Consume 10 Systems to create 1 rare System| Consume 100 Systems to create 1 Unique System of a selected type.

System Eater: Consume Systeminium to gain Systems to give out or forge.

System Runes: Consume 5 Systems to create System Runes to change attributes of a Weapon or Armor forged System.

System Forger: Forge consumed Systems into weapons and armor.

"Hey, you really got some stuff now! Have you tried out the runes yet?" I asked, but Firaga shook her head.

"No, I wanted to wait for you because I didn't want to waste any of the Systems," Firaga explained, and I nodded.

"Fair point. I can't make unlimited Systems, so we should be careful how many of them we cannibalize with the runes. I think that you should be good for now to try them out, but let's try with some minor Systems for now. I want to see what it does to the weapons that we use it on. If you give me a minute, I will bring Kratos over, and we can try it out on the Chimera blade. I wanted to mess around with the Max Power System anyways, so this gives me an excuse to do it while you are working," I explained, and Firaga nodded.

"That sounds like a good plan. While you are retrieving him, I will work on this annoying piece of metal!" Firaga growled and turned to her forge to grab the mutainium sword as I closed my eyes.