The Discarded, Half-Eaten Apple Core New Life

What? The Discarded, Half-Eaten Apple Core is Evolving?

I fired the Galactic Defender iCombiner's jump jets and soared five hundred feet in the air. There, the combiner Mecha exploded just because its suicide mission had reached its end. I flew up due to my ejection seat Perk, thankful that the human (and Aesir) pilots were safely back home. Larry was in my temple in Speranza, being petted by some gorgeous blonde priestess. Not. He was in the first wagon of the... grounded train that no longer has wheels or balloons.

I needed to renovate my inner world. It was a bleeping mess.

Anyway. There I was, a crystalline apple soaring fifteen hundred feet above the ground. Steel shrapnel rained on the ruins of Darwin, even more, ruined now. I Replicated five blimps and sent them to secure the front lines. Then I created a Steals Bras and Panties human-sized android Mecha for me to pilot.

The fail is strong with this one. I refuse to keep using this model. Design mode! I took advantage of my advanced enchanting Skills and upgraded the shields, and made the android buffier. It was now seven feet tall and had 30% more actuators and polymer tendons to give it more strength and speed. I also added a permanent backpack with a turbojet engine and a transformation mode into a small-scale fighter jet. It was rather similar to those unmanned drones the military liked to fly but more streamlined. The wings were folded into three parts and stored in the back to the sides of the engine.

I named it. "Rise Sky Kindred, Round Orb Urn Let Time Tell."

There, much better. I absorbed the Mecha that shall not be remembered and Replicated my new model. I entered my Cockpit and flew down to collect the Mana stones of the dead dragons. As usual, Infernali flesh gave me zero resources.

I looked around and to the north. I had to improve my blimp network, improve my weapons, and analyze the new telemetry data. With the Cores safely in my Mecha's dimensional storage box, I flew up, transformed it into fighter mode, and flew back home, breaking the sound barrier because why not. The same Attribute the giant robot gained, this one also did. Which meant a forty-something speed multiplier. I think I could reach Mach 15 or more with this baby easily if I tried.

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The Christmas trees had red glass apples hanging from them, and most children prayed in front of the tree. So cute. After they ended the prayer, I cast Bless on them. Customer service is the key to retention, after all. They went to bed, and I wish I could give them nice dreams. I hadn't figured out how yet.

I let Dungeon automation take hold of a few dozen thousand songbirds and have them trill Christmas carols all around Speranza. Being a Demiplane, it had the weather I felt like having so I had a light snow shower near midnight.

The Christmas party was a blast. All the Guardians gained a new type of power armor that was compact and futuristic, granting them awesome protection. The hardened device casing gave the armor an armor rating of (29/75%) from Hardened Device Casing. That was for damaging the item. The armor rating it granted the wearer was smaller than that but very close. Something like 20 or 25 points of armor. While much weaker than the Dungeon Walls, they could take it anywhere they wanted. They weren't restricted to staying in range of qDCSC or anything.

Some Guardians also took Classes that allowed them to use weapons, like the Heavy Gunner Class that was offered to me. They also gained Vulcan autocannons, and in a few cases, even the Avenger autocannon, if they had Perks that allowed them to use vehicular guns. They came with a gyro stabilizer harness.

What? Do you think a guy carrying an A-10 cannon around (and using it in combat) is weird?

Look, almost all of these level 150+ guys could bench press 20 tons. A Strength score above 2,000 was required, depending on the physical build. They had no trouble holding the autocannon steady. Especially with the gyro stabilizer harnesses.

People also gave me gifts, which were worth more because of the Devotion points I gained than the actual physical objects.

Interestingly enough, some cultures handed presents after the Christmas eve feast, and not on the 25th. Also, I didn't care if this was a holiday of another culture. It was my culture too, from before Ragnarok.

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A few days after Christmas, several earthquakes shook everything. The ocean was going bonkers and massive 100-foot-tall waves were common. Whatever was causing this, I hoped it was far, far away. New year's eve was coming. I hoped nothing would come to ruin my evolution.

And then it came. I gained 5 deferred levels again, and all the Guardians also advanced one level.

Before making a choice, I checked the upgrades for my Dungeon Side.

Now, what should I pick?