Ultimate Gamer System: Factory Must Grow!

Chapter 31 New day, new points on the agenda

'Who could've thought that just opening my eyes could be such a challenge...!'

Lying down in his simple bed and covered with a blanket made out of crushed leaves and the system's magically-sourced material of some kind, Theo simply didn't feel like leaving.

The projects could wait. The further development would come with time anyway. For now, just lifting his eyelids seemed like a herculean task, not to speak about escaping the warm embrace of his crude blanket.

His bed couldn't be more crude. His blankets less comfortable.

To be perfectly honest, his living conditions were hardly better than those of the cavemen who managed to score a suitable cave for living.

And yet, after several days of sleeping in literal holes he dug out from the dirt or stone, even something as simple as this crude bedding was surprisingly effective.

"Omh-kay..." moaning out through his drowsiness, Theo brought his hands up to his eyes, wiping the nightly oils away before blinking a few times and then finally pulling his eyes open.

Looking up, all Theo could see was the nice texture of straight beams of thin stone running across the otherwise wooden roof.

'Stone, huh...'

Still not quite properly woken up, Theo stared mindlessly at this small detail, taking a considerable moment for it to flower into a fruit of realization.

'Stone?!'

Theo's morning exhaustion vanished as if by the touch of a magic wand, sending him flying out of his bed, rushing out of his sleeping chamber, and then to the outside of his mansion.

There was a distinct beauty in staying occupied throughout the day, all the while being able to watch with his very own eyes as his labor bore fruit.

'Should I go back to cutting trees?' Theo thought once he stretched the last of his muscles. 'I mean, I still have to clear the perimeter out, but...'

Before his attention could lock on the nearby trees hiding behind his lousy palisade, Theo's eyes drew over to something as simple as the empty ground of his manor's insides. He then turned his focus over to the stone walls of his mansion, weirdly charmed by their uniform, natural glister likely caused by the morning dew settling on the surface of the walls.

Next, rather than turning around or roaming his place to search for all his chests, Theo simply summoned his inventory window... only to then bite down on his lip, realizing what crucial element of developing his manor he had missed.

'My inventory is full of wood... But contrary to what happens when I'm upgrading the place, I cannot really access my stuff,' he thought, quickly coming to realize the true worth of one of the upgrades the system had already introduced him to.

"I wonder if I can afford it..." he thought out loud, switching the system pop-ups around with nothing more than a sliver of his will.

Thankfully, just like the rest of the upgrades of the first tier, the storage room extension came at a hefty but reasonable price. And while it would sap most of the wood he had left after already splurging on the bedroom extension... he could still afford it!

'Allows remote access to all my chests within the claimed zone, and remote access to said storage through the manor, huh?' Theo thought as he scanned the lore of the expansion before rolling his eyes and simply willing for it to come to be.

And just like the few times before, that alone was enough for a surge of light to shoot out from the middle of his chest, only for it to quickly turn into a stream of small projections of tiny blocks.

"Well, now that's settled, it's time to finally tackle the next main issue on the agenda," Theo muttered to himself, slowly growing quite weirdly used to narrating his life to himself.

'Is it a coping mechanism aimed at shielding me from going insane from being all alone, I wonder?' he thought before rolling his eyes again and whipping out his shovel as he moved to one of the unoccupied parts of his manor's inner courtyard.

'For now, though, it's time to diggy diggy hole,' the young man sang a little in his thoughts, a weirdly comfortable smile growing up on his lips as his stone shovel dug into the dirt. 'I wonder just what sort of resource vein is hiding in the underground. And beyond that,' he thought, his eyes darting over to the pop-up window with all the possible tier 1 upgrades left, 'I still need enough iron ore to smelt out enough nails to buy both the drawing room and the workshop!'