Chapter 13: Sandbox PDA II
Shennong and Yenissa sat in stunned silence, staring at the glowing system screen in front of them. The soft, blue light cast an otherworldly glow over their faces. Yenissa, still feeling the effects of the integration, took deep, steadying breaths. Shennong, on the other hand, was filled with bubbling excitement.
"This system... it's incredible," Shennong muttered, his eyes scanning over the different menus. "It's way more detailed than I expected."
Yenissa, still a little dazed, frowned slightly. "This 'Sandboxer' class... It's weird how I know what it means even though I'm not supposed to. I've never heard of this word."
Shennong nodded. "Well, it is something from my original world. It is not a term familiar to this word."
Yenissa smirked. "If I understand correctly, you're basically a walking god of creation? That's kind of hot and proud. You make me a proud mother."
Shennong rolled his eyes. "I wouldn't go that far. At least not yet. But it does mean I have the potential to manipulate materials however I want. That could be extremely useful for building... or even combat."
Yenissa's eyes gleamed with curiosity as she scrolled through more options. "These skills... 'Scannable,' 'Inventory'... and this list of materials. You've already gathered so much stuff. Palm wood, stone, clay... and even something called an 'Arcane Web?'"
Shennong scratched his chin. "Yeah, I found that from some weird magical spiders a while back. I kept it, thinking it might be useful."
He then complained. "I've always wondered why I can't put more than 15 items in my backpack and this is the reason. It is only level 1. How do I even upgrade this?"
Yenissa thought for a second. "No information available. Please explore!"
She said in a professional tone, which caught both of them off guard. It was almost as if she didn't have control over her mouth.
Yenissa hummed in thought. "And what's this 'Golden Pick Axe?'"
Shennong's expression turned serious. "That's my most important tool. I don't know why, but I feel an unexplainable connection to it. Ever since I reincarnated, that pickaxe has been with me. It's not just an ordinary tool... it's special. I am glad you didn't leave it when you picked me up as a kid."
Yenissa's face suddenly went sour, when she was reminded that she kidnapped Shennong, but Shennong quickly changed the topic.
As they continued to explore the system, they noticed something else—an option for 'Crafting Rank.'
Shennong clicked on it, and another screen appeared.
[Crafting Rank: 1]
[You are currently at the beginner level of crafting. Improve your craftsmanship by creating, refining, and mastering different materials.]
"Yenissa, explain this to me," Shennong requested.
Yenissa tilted her head. "You're still at crafting rank 1. You have two types of ways to acquire blueprints which is scanning using your skill [Scannable] or increasing your crafting rank or you could just simply make things without any of this like a normal person but why would you do that when you have this amazing skill."
Shennong's eyes sparkled. "It's actually crazy how I didn't know about any of these skills, but I still used them. I knew I had some special effect in my eyes that I can see details about several different things but I didn't know it was my skill [Scannable]"
Yenissa leaned against him. "What do you want to build first? Do you need to see the blueprints you already have?"
Shennong looked at Yenissa in a strange way. "Before all that," he muttered, then looked at Yenissa again. His eyes began to shine with a blue hue, and suddenly, a system interface similar to his own appeared, displaying details about Yenissa.
Name: Yenissa
Age: 128
Class: True Succubus, PDA Handler
Power Rank: Please scan ten more individuals to identify the power levels
Sex: Female
Skills: [Succubus Fume: Level 4], [Hypnosis: Level 4], [Limit Break: Level 5], [Life Essence Conversion], [Affinity Link: Level 1], [Drain Regulation], [Transformation: Level 1]
"Woah! You have a lot of skills!" Shennong was surprised, but not too much.
"Haha! I am old, so of course," Yenissa muttered with a dejected look. But Shennong looked at her seriously.
"Have you seen yourself in a mirror? Stop degrading yourself, or else..."
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"Or else..." Yenissa looked at Shennong with a grin.
"Stop thinking everything is about sex! Damn succubi. Do you have anything besides sex in your brain?" Shennong asked.
Yenissa just shrugged her shoulders with a smile and went back to what she was looking at. "I knew I had [Succubus Fume]. [Hypnosis], [Limit Break] but I never heard of transformation."
"Well, we have all the time in the world to see what that is and we need to find somewhere we can settle down and really start building." Shennong said looking at the old depecreated wooden hut.
He had to wonder what he had been doing all these years, living in a hut like this, when he had the skills to build his own paradise. He could only blame his own hesitation for that.
Yenissa smirked. "Good thing you have me. With my strength and your abilities, we can carve out a place for ourselves easily."
Shennong glanced at her inventory and thought for a moment. "We have enough resources to get started. I could shape a simple house using the materials I've gathered."
Yenissa's eyes gleamed. "Then let's do it. Let's find a place to settle down but before all that."
Suddenly, Shennong's belly started to grumble as if he hadn't eaten anything for a few years. It was the loudest sound that had ever come from his body, and Yenissa couldn't help but find it both cute and funny at the same time.
"If I remember correctly, I collected some fruits for you to eat. I'll bring them," Yenissa muttered before heading inside.
Back in the present, Shennong was eating the fruits Yenissa had brought while staring at the tied up, silver-haired girl. Yenissa, Rilith, and Velara stood by his side.
"Isn't it dangerous to keep her here?" Rilith questioned.
"Yes! She almost killed us. We don't know when she might turn into that fire monster again," Velara added, making Yenissa's concern skyrocket.
The woman had her eyes slightly open, her face faintly flushed from everything she had witnessed. However, she had no intention of speaking to the three demon-like women staring at her. She was so terrified that she was on the verge of wetting herself.
Shennong kept staring at her and asked two simple question. "Are you human? Will you harm us?"
The woman understood Shennong because he was speaking human tongue. The same way, most of the succubus were able to do that because they hunted humans for their food.
"Please...don't kill...me," She managed to mutter those words with last of her strength before collpasing again.
Shennong kept looking at her and tried to use his skill [Scannable] on her, but he failed to do so.
"Shennong, your skill is not powerful enough to do that. You need to level up," Yenissa said.
"Is that so?" He kept looking around until his eyes fell on the loot they had gathered from the men who had been hunting the woman. "I've got an idea."