Pioneer of the Abyss - Book 2 - Chapter 38

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Aqua

In the end, I find quite a few portable home and home appliances in the sponsorships. With the appliances all being far better than anything I can find here on Oceana.

There’s regular every day appliances like TVs that connect to the Alliance without the need for internet, toasters, refrigerators, and even video game consoles. Then there’s also regular house specific technology that aren’t appliances. Like extremely fancy showers that pretty much act like rain and read your brainwaves to determine how you would like the water to spray. With it being able to spray from any angle and location in the shower.

There are also secret doors to enter the homes, portable homes that can be stored in storage devices, and even underground homes.

None of them are incredibly large though.

But the most important thing I find amongst them are the Pioneer Broadcast Blocker.

It’s something made with the help of the System that can be placed in a home, making it so that the Pioneer Broadcast cannot be turned on while the Pioneer is inside of that home.

Of course, the thing can’t actually be moved. So it doesn’t work for portable homes.

The Pioneer Broadcast Blocker must be placed in one location and made stationary. If it’s moved after being placed, it won’t work again until an entire day after it’s set in place again.

All to make sure the thing can’t be abused and just brought with the Pioneer wherever they go.

Although, at this point, not many Pioneers would abuse that. Since you have to be level three hundred to get the thing.

And if someone is level three hundred, then there’s a good chance they’re not really struggling with the broadcast anymore. They’ve most likely gotten used to it.

That said, it doesn’t change the fact that I don’t want to always be broadcast in my own home.

As for the portable homes themselves? They’re probably about four or five times the size of a trailer home.

So they’re not very large for homes. Or, rather, not very large in the eyes of the chat watching me.

They’re still larger than any home I’ve ever had back on Equeter.

I purse my lips at that before letting out a sigh and just smiling at the idea of getting a home. Then I head towards the city where the construction company is. Where I share the technology with them so that they can learn how to install it in the house they’re designing.

As for the company itself?

They’re overjoyed and shocked at the same time when they see the technology. Although they have no idea what the Pioneer Broadcast Blocker does. But I don’t care as long as they design a good place to install it.

The company, and even the Guild after they catch word of it, constantly ask me how I got this technology and where it’s from. But eventually they give up when they see me ignoring their questions entirely.

Although part of why they give up is fear. Specifically after the construction starts, and they see me summoning dozens of massive abyssal servants all around the construction site.

It’s rather amusing, in fact.

Some of the construction workers actually faint immediately. Just at the sight of my servants.

Then again, I don’t really blame them. Not when my servants are so large they block out the sight of the ocean around us.

And that’s not all as my servants are also over a hundred levels above them. Over two hundred levels above them in fact, for a lot of the servants.

Just an accidental smack can end up killing these construction workers.

So they’re really like ants looking up at giants.

I blink at that thought before tilting my head.

Actually, considering their sizes, they really are just ants looking up at giants.

I glance at the chat.

[Everyone’s shocked by Aqua. Yep yep.]

[As expected.]

[They should’ve been prepared to see it when they followed her.]

Yeah, they’re enjoying this too.

Anyway, I unfortunately have to stay here until construction is complete. Which will delay my leveling by quite a bit.

The bright side though is that I have no competition here. At all.

From what I can tell, at least.

I’m not sure about those clans that I’ve heard people talking about. The ones people keep assuming I’m from. But I don’t see anyone other than the tour guide on the leaderboards, and I’m rank one.

I know there are ways to hide yourself from the leaderboards for level. Not many people do it, but some do.

That said, there’s no way to hide yourself from the leaderboards from the person ranked first on the leaderboards.

After all, the first ranked person gets a trait.

And since I have that trait, that means I really am the highest level human on the planet.

Still. I don’t know if these clans are real or not. In fact, I don’t know anything about them.

At all.

I frown at that thought as I sit on top of the massive dead maw. Just supervising the construction job.

Eventually though, my thoughts are interrupted by the construction team needing my help with digging. At which point the chat goes wild spamming that damn hashtag.

I just ignore them as I begin digging out a vast amount of space for the house. Spending days doing it rather carefully with the construction team using their own skills to solidify and condense the ground around the dug-out parts for the underground home. Whether it’s the walls, floors, or ceiling.

After that is all finished, they begin to lay out the foundation using a special metal. Following which they start work on the home itself.

And I just watch the entire thing from start to finish.

As for the Pioneer Broadcast? People kind of taper off and don’t watch much over the course of the next weeks.

Which makes sense. Watching a house being built isn’t very interesting.

The only reason I’m watching from start to finish is because I have to protect them.

Although there is one point during the construction job where I do actually have to defend the construction crew from some monsters. A migration at that.

But the migration is easily slaughtered by my enormous abyssal servants.

Although the migration doesn’t really give me much in terms of EXP. Since the elevation we’re at is only just barely in the deep layer.

So the monsters are too low level to actually give me much of anything.

It is amusing to see the shocked expressions on the construction workers when they see me slaughtering the migration though. Since that migration was still strong enough to destroy a Hunter’s City.

The chat finds their reactions amusing as well. But things return to normal after that, with them refocusing on building my house.

So time begins to pass again all the way until my house is finally completed, with the construction team moving outside of my house to pack up as I inspect it.

And I immediately find myself loving the new house.

The house itself is camouflaged for its entrance, with a mana barrier around said entrance making it defended against attacks. Not to mention a mana disruptor that I got from the sponsorships that makes monsters naturally want to avoid the area.

And when I approach with the intention of wanting to enter my base, the entrance automatically opens up.

Or to be specific, the ocean floor opens up, revealing a fancy looking metal wall made out of a deep black metal with glowing blue lines running through it. Clearly made to look similar to my general style.

I feel rather impressed at the sight of the entrance alone.

Because it’s beautiful and cool at the same time.

The chat seems to agree too.

I smile as I approach the entrance, following which the door separates to form two different doors that enter the sides of the ocean floor. Revealing a water separator barrier just like the barrier around the cities. One meant to keep water from getting inside.

Then I just swim into the base with my smile growing wider by the second.

Time to check out my new home.