"You are so cringe. Nice 8th grader syndrome dumb ass." Jerald said after a moment of silence.

  "Shut up! So what if I'm cringe?! It's not like it matters." I defend my actions, but Jerald just scoffs.

  "Uh huh. Sure thing 'The Dark Lord Azurath.'" Jerald mocks me.

  "Whatever Jerald. Lower case s system." I get the vague feeling that Jerald is trying to flip me off.

  I make my way out of the bathroom and decide to check on my drone friends. Pulling up the camera feed directly into my helmet let's me see what they are doing outside. I can also see myself from the cameras, and it feels like one of those retro horror games. Like the og resident evils. I spend a little too much time mimicking Leon Kennedy, walking through the room and hall like I had an invisible gun.

  I focused back on the drones outside. They had done a whole lot, getting something like the bones of a factory built. Metal beams stood from the ground, paneling here and there as some drones worked on the building while some others worked on processing the raw ore. It was pretty cool to see them work.

  I watched them for a bit, then got a call from Gill.

  "What's up?" I answered the call.

  "Nothing much. Just wanted to see if you were ready for that meeting yet." Gill still sounded smug, even over the phone.

  "Not really. I was thinking about going to the planets surface for a bit. Have a quick look around." I really didn't want to talk to anyone at the moment.

  "Think you could bring a camera with you? So we can watch with a live feed up here at HQ?" He sounded really interested.

  I didn't respond right away, thinking it over. I wasn't hiding anything, so there was no problem with them watching from afar.

  "Alright, sure. I'll come by for a quick visit to pick up the camera or whatever the equipment is. When will it be ready?"

  "It's ready now. How long will it take for you to fly over?" Gill asked but I had another idea.

  "I actually want to test something. You know that spot behind Fraya's seat? When she called us?"

  "Yeeeaaaah? Why?"

  "Keep it clear. I'm going to teleport there." I said and without waiting for a response, activated my DG skill.

  I focused on the memory of the place I saw. The bland metal wall and the white floor I could just barely see from the screen. The Gate opened in front of me. A black hole the size of a basketball, and a white hole hopefully formed where I wanted it to. There was no cost, which I expected, and I walked through. My body shrinking and folding inward on itself. Only for it to do the action in reverse out of the white hole, my body completing a step in its walk.

  Gill was there with Fraya. Apparently he had called using her computer so I ended up right next to him. There were black question marks above their heads now that I had the identification skill.

  "Oh. Hey." I said, and my voice echoed from the machine since the call was still going. Fraya hung up.

  "What? How did- You know what I don't care. He's all yours Fraya." Gill walked away while shaking his head.

  "He might not, but I do. How'd you do it?" Fraya asked, seeming excited about it.

  "It's one of my skills. Something called Dimensional Gate. I got it to a high enough level so now the System considers the cost null, making it free to cast. So now I can go anywhere in this universe or outside it if I can visualize the destination. And before you ask, no I haven't done the universal travel yet." I was off put by the fact no one was reacting to my new body.

  "That's really interesting! You can go anywhere? Is that how you plan on reaching the surface?" Fraya was pretty giddy about it.

  "I can theoretically go anywhere, and I was actually just going to fly down to it. Let my body adapt to it first. Though I probably could just teleport to the surface. Anyway, camera?" I rubbed my helmets chin.

  "Right! So, we have this little thing here that should be able to send us a visual of what you see. We don't know if the planet will interfere with the signal, so this is an experiment." Fraya handed me a tiny little box with a camera lens on it. It looked just like a GoPro, but with a magnet or suction cup instead.

  "Do we just put it on the side of my helmet or something?" I looked it over, marveling at the simple little cube.

  "I was actually thinking of putting it inside your helmet, so it would connect with your ships interface and giving it a strong enough signal to reach us." Fraya rubbed the back of her head.

  "Hmmm. Well, it should fit." I muttered and took off my helmet.

  Fraya just watched as I fiddled with the camera and my helmet. I found a spot at the very top of the inside that should hold it nicely. It should also be small enough that it doesn't hit my head or block my view. I held my helmet out and looked at my reflection in the visor.

  I was still a mess. My hair was a little longer, my horrible facial hair a bit worse. I even had a unibrow growing. Trying to anyway.

  "You look a bit different than I thought you would." Fraya's words snapped me out of it.

  "What?"

  "I thought you would have scales or be a mass of energy. With how powerful you are, I figured you would be more... monstrous?" Fraya wasn't trying to insult me. She just genuinely thought I was something crazy.

  "Sorry, but I'm a bag of meat and bones." I sighed and put the helmet back on.

  "Right, well when we initiate another call we should see the camera feed here. Are you going to the planet now?" Fraya asked as she leaned back in her chair.

  "Yeah. I'll probably stop by my ship first and check on my drones in person." To my surprise Fraya seemed to be very interested in that.

  "Drones? You have drones? The autonomous kind?" Her massive black eyes practically shining.

  "Yup. The best I could buy. 20 of them are specialized for Construction and Factory work, I call them the Jeff's. 10 are Lab workers, I call them the Sally's. The last 10 are for mining, and I call them the Newman's. I got 5 gallons of the new nanomachine goo stuff as well but I haven't found a use for them quite yet. I think I'll call the swarm Annie. Or Nanny. I don't know yet." I spoke while getting excited myself. I had found another robot lover.

  "You gave them names?!"

  My heart sunk. No one likes the names after all.

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  "That's so cute!"

  Now I was just confused.

  "It's not cute! It's awesome!" I retorted.

  Fraya just giggled and petted my helmet. I hated being treated like a kid.

  "Whatever. I'll show you just how awesome my drones are! You'll see that they deserve to be named!" I huffed and pointed at Fraya before teleporting back to my ship.

  This time I spawned the blackhole inside me, so I wouldn't need to walk into it and it would just instantly deposit me. Of course, it still wasn't instant as the black hole needed to eat me to spit me back out somewhere else. The delay, no matter how small, was still noticeable.

  I grumbled as I walked down the cargo bay ramp. I had selected a random location on my ship and got lucky like usual. I was observing my drones when I got a call from Fraya.

  "How is it? Can you see how awesome my drones are?" I gloated as I showed off my bot army.

  "Yes, yes, they're great Azurath." Fraya giggled as she teased me.

  No one treated me like an adult when I talked about my drones. Or anytime really. That was going to change. I could get XP from monsters now, so I was going to level up a bunch soon. I was a little worried about reaching the next milestone, but it should be okay.

  "Fine. Be that way. Remain ignorant to their greatness. I'm going down to the planet now." I turned and looked at the planet.

  "Alright! I'm going to record this. None of our drones we sent came back, so we don't really know what to expect. We can only see so much by zooming in." Fraya spoke a horrifying statement.

  "You sent drones to their deaths?! You monster!" I wasn't really upset. They weren't my drones after all.

  I used my DG skill and appeared in low orbit around the planet.

  "So that's how it looks from your end... Isn't it scary to fold inward on yourself?" Fraya sounded unnerved by the skill.

  "I used to be. I got over it." I started my descent. Letting the gravity assist my Telekinesis as I flew down.

  I had thought that I would feel the gravity or something as I fell, but I didn't feel any different than the last time I did this. It was just a good old free fall above the clouds.

  "How are you feeling?" Fraya asked, sounding slightly worried.

  "Fine. A bit bored actually. I think I'll tick up the speed. I need to find out how fast I can go now." I smirked as I started using more Energy in the fall.

  My speedometer was clocking in at around mach 6. It was around this speed that things became harder to see, but my increased Int stat must have made my processing faster because I could see everything clearly. Once I reached the clouds, I was going mach 15. Which is insane because I should have burned up. My EA skill is absolutely broken and I would have it no other way.

  "...Uh... Azurath, how fast are you going?" Fraya sounded nervous.

  "Around mach 16, and increasing. Don't worry, I'll stop when I feel like I'm in danger."

  "...okay." Fraya responded quietly.

  I shrugged to myself as I kept going. Once I reached a low enough altitude that I could see below the clouds, I slowed down to give her a good view of the planet. The shockwave I left behind caught up to me but my mental hold was strong enough to shrug it off. It only gave some minor turbulence. It didn't even feel like I was going that fast. My high Int making it much easier to see and understand what was happening around me while flying allowed me to fly much faster. My higher Energy also allowed me to accelerate much faster while my EA skill kept my body and suit from disintegrating. I was a living extinction event asteroid now.

  I really wanted to test that theory. All I needed to do was fly around at a some what low altitude at mach 50 or so and the world would turn into ash from the air friction alone. That's not even mentioning the plasma that would be created from the air as well. I wasn't going to do that though. This was my new home for the moment. I would keep that trump card to myself until I needed to wipe a planet clean of life.

  I floated down closer to the ground, looking around. A monster jumped up from the forest below, 3 black question marks above it's head. I barely gave it a look before letting my mental hands grab it and simply free it's molecular bonding from holding it together. A pile of glittery dust floated down through the air. I was still pretty high up, so it had been pretty strong.

  I stared at the window.

  That was a lot of XP.

  Sadly it was turned into Soul Cultivation. Whatever that mess was.

  I sighed as I dismissed the window.

  "...What did you just do?" Fraya asked, sounding scared.

  'Aaahh right I had used a bunch of Energy just now.' That must be why she got scared.

  "Sorry, I used my Telekinesis to deal with the monster. Whenever I use too much Energy it freaks people out." I explained helpfully.

  I didn't get a response so I just kept floating around. I wasn't really paying all that much attention to my surroundings. I was focused on looking for a vein of raw metal, using my Identification skill on everything. I got names of trees and several plants. Some rocks here and there.

  Then I reached an absolutely massive mountain. I cast the skill and got a ping back from Adamantium somewhere along a cliff side. So I flew over and started looking there. That's where I found the first vein of the metal, but there was more. The whole mountain seemed to contain it.

  "You've been staring at that rock for a while. What's in it?" Gill asked from the call.

  "Gill? Oh, are you guys watching from a couch or something?" I asked but moved on before they could answer. "It's an Adamantium vein. I think this mountain is full of it."

  "Nice! Yeah, we're all watching together after Fraya said that we should see what you were doing." Gill responded.

  "Alright, well enjoy the show. It's about to get interesting." I smirked and floated away from the mountain.

  I focused on my Telekinesis, letting my invisible mental hands reach out and feel the rock. My range was insane, and I could feel the rocks texture as the hands felt around. Another monster leapt at me but I paid it no mind. The extra hands I had around me turned it into dusty glitter before it even got close. It was behind me so the camera didn't catch it. I heard Gill ask something but I tuned it out. I was too focused on my task.

  I felt it. The mountain. I had it in my grasp. I had IT. THE WHOLE FUCKING THING.

  My smirk grew into a full smile as I moved my hands in front of me. Putting on a dramatic show for the camera. I flexed my fingers, mimicking the action of scooping soil while my mental hands dug into the rock and earth. It didn't look any different, but I felt the hold become stronger. More stable. I didn't have to focus as hard anymore but it was still taxing. I let my mental hands merge into bigger hands, the strain lessening more and more.

  "What are you doing? Can he not hear me?" Gill asked, sounding annoyed.

  "RISE." Was my only response as I lifted my hands, mental and physical.

  The mountain shuddered. I heard gasps of shock as they saw it. They saw the mountain move just like I had. It was slow. So agonizingly slow, but it moved. I put 3 million points into the effort and it moved faster. I couldn't make move at ludicrous speeds right away because of it's sheer size, but I could eventually make it go something dumb like mach 1 or even higher.

  I laughed as it surged upwards, small rocks and boulders falling off but not leaving my mental grasp. I lowered my hands and just watched it ascend. Another monster came at me, this time flying out of the mountain I was lifting and it came right at me. A bit more than a thought and it too turned into glitter. I giggled as the cloud dispersed, allowing me to view the massive hole I left behind when I ripped the mountain out of the ground.

  I ascended with it, and we eventually reached the clouds. Various monsters were attracted to the situation, somehow singling me out. I erased their molecular bonds as I they approached. I was drowning in XP, I'd have to see what level I am now later. My Guild mates were silent on the other side of the line. Either speechless or disconnected.

  It was taking too long to fly it back to the moon, so I tried something. I thought of an empty crater roughly the same size of the mountain near my ship, and used my DG skill. I experimented and found I could make the Gate bigger, just not the size of the mountain. However, it was about half of it's size and big enough that it consumed the rock and raw metals. The massive mountain folded inward on itself and simply vanished into a black hole. Once it vanished, I lost my grip on it.

  I closed that Gate and made another Gate to my ship. I appeared under it and I looked around. Finding a new mountain with rapidly freezing plant life on it. I floated over to it.

  It was a bit bigger than the crater I dropped it into, so the base was like a sheer cliff. A cliff glittering in minerals. My ship could scan it better than my identification could, and it was filled with the metal.

  "How's that? Now we have Adamantium to mine safely~!" I teased over the call after checking that it was still connected.

  Silence.

  "Hello? Anyone there?" I called out.

  "We're on the way." Christinia responded before the call ended abruptly.

  'Wow. Rude.' I chuckled to myself as I looked at my handiwork. It had taken pretty much all of my Energy, and the regen was still less than 600,000 points a second. It would take me a long time to get back to full. Like 20 seconds, maximum.

  I sent an order for some of my mining drones to start mining the mountain, and five little bots flew over. They started digging into the cliff on the bottom, rapidly creating a tunnel but not getting very deep before reaching the metal. I got closer and saw that they couldn't really mine it that well. The drills didn't do much, so they had to rely on the lasers. Which also didn't do much.

  I sighed as I watched their attempts do barely anything at all. At least it did something... It would just take a long time.