Chapter 333: Just A Small Guard Shack

A small bunkhouse, by Marimgar standards, not as large as the scouting towers, and only one story tall, but with laser defence turrets on all four corners, was what Kalli decided on.

It wasn’t designed as a place to live, and there was very little privacy, but you could pull curtains between all the bunk beds to sleep during the day, and there was room for two full teams, twenty people in total.

Or, four teams, as the dungeon was only for five.

Kalli nodded in satisfaction as she surveyed the interior, which came complete with a large communal kitchen, and decided that she had done just enough that the building wouldn’t attract unwanted attention, while still being able to defend itself and the portal to the dungeon.

They were in the same clearing, and two of the lasers had a clear line of sight.

The others were blocked by the roof, but Kalli had wanted to install some solar power for the lights and basic functions, instead of requiring the teams to keep the building supplied with mana all the time.

They would need to top the lasers off if they were shooting at something, and use their own mana for the stove, but other than that, the building should be mostly self sustaining.

It didn’t take much to power a handful of lightbulbs.

The teams who had just finished the dungeon stepped inside to explore the simple building, and then came back out with a satisfied look.

Sanchez patted her on the shoulder. "That should do just fine. The windows are all skylights, no vulnerability from the sides, and the lasers will defend the place. Plus, it’s got the basics, and its own water supply. I like it."

Kalli laughed. "I should add a well to it, since the whole thing runs on a cistern and a water purifier. But rainfall will top it off, or the teams will when they activate the showers, since the two systems are linked.

As far as rural homesteads go, it’s not bad.

Actually, I think that this style, but made in a more family manner, would be good as farm houses outside the city walls. We currently have the defence towers, and that’s the safe space to retreat to. But from what I hear inside the city, plenty of people wouldn’t mind moving to a farm house and working there full time.

They might have to come into town for some things, but they can stack daily quests, and as long as they’re getting a proper workout, I don’t see the harm.

Just the risk of being attacked in their sleep if something makes it by the towers."

Esmeralda examined the building from the back of her mount, and then smiled.

"Actually, I think that farm houses is a great idea. We can move families who want to be farmers, or who were farmers before, out to them, and expand the city limits in a way that the System won’t ignore.

It will give us a larger footprint, and not just a larger population for the calculation.

Plus, if we find another dungeon, we can make another bunk house to defend the location, and set up a speeder transit route, going in a loop from one to the other. Like a public transit bus for the rural areas.

That’s an extra scout in the rotation, with moving heroes as a side effect.

It’s not like we were going to let the dungeons go unsupervised anyhow. No matter how many we find, we’re definitely going to keep an eye on them," she declared.

"She makes a good point." Yara agreed. "I am assuming that we will find more dungeons eventually, and that we’re going to be able to clear them. So, we’re going to have people making a rotation of them.

With the energy that it takes, they might only do the two closest to their own level, and then the daily workout and hourly job quests. Or the fishing quest. But with the loot from the dungeons, I don’t think that will make them fall behind.

We’re all doing pretty decently on System Points now, at least at the top of the power charts. I’m waiting on a higher level to unlock the next few skills.

But after that, I don’t know what we’re going to do other than level up and buy better gear.

Unless the System unlocks new skills for us once we reach level twenty, that is. That’s the last skill available to me, and I don’t know what it is. Just that it says it only unlocks after level twenty.

But for now, my assumption is that it’s the end of my skill tree."

Kalli nodded. If that was as good as it got for the healers, then everything that came after was just dependent upon their ability to grow their powers, instead of their skills. And that meant they were going to have a lot of extra System Points available.

Was that what you called "generational wealth" in this new era? If they had years of built up points, their kids would be starting off with the best of the best.

That would be a difficult advantage to overcome, but gear would only get you so far. The rest had to come from hard work, and a bit of either luck or more hard work to get the class that you wanted.

"You look like you’re planning something far in the future," Yara noted.

"Just wondering how much of an advantage the children of the top heroes will have when they are ready to form their Classes. All those extra points and the accumulated loot will be a huge advantage.

Especially as you get higher level, and the higher level gear with improved base stats on it. In fact, I should likely trade in some of the guns that the team is using, for Rare Grade ones newly purchased.

The older ones will not have the same bonus on them as ones purchased now."

Sanchez shrugged. "Wait until we’re level twenty, and then try. It might have a proper change at that point, since we’re all waiting on the same level to unlock the last of our skills."