Chapter 10: Supplies Obtained
They had just finished straightening their uniforms and touching up their makeup when a female soldier entered the ladies room and sighed in relief.
"The others were becoming concerned that something might have happened to you."
"Nothing dangerous, I assure you. Are they still training?" Kalli asked.
"Yeah, they’re still practicing. And it appears that there are healers in the group. Someone managed to cut themselves with their own sword, and they closed it like nothing."
Kalli laughed, and Yara smiled. "I am also a healer. I should likely get out there."
The soldier nodded and turned to Kalli. "What is your awakened ability?"
"My class is Coordinator. Apparently, I get rewards for helping others find the right way to complete quests? I don’t really know how valuable it is yet."
The soldier simply nodded, dismissing her as irrelevant to the situation.
There were dozens of known Classes, and not all of them were equally useful. Some were purely life skill classes, ones that were either impossible to use for lack of resources, or ones which had skills that served no purpose outside of administration, like the one Kalli had.
The government had more than enough intelligence officers. They didn’t need some university student with a class thinking they knew better just because they got rewards for doing it.
Already the soldiers could feel the gap growing between them and their colleagues who had awakened.
Those soldiers weren’t worried about how long the supplies would hold out, they knew that they could use their new skills to defend themselves.
They weren’t worried about logistics.
They had the power to protect a group, so others would help them get anything that they needed.
And with that knowledge, the discipline needed to keep a military running was beginning to break down, and the power structure was stratifying with every request to be moved between units, separating the Awakened from the rest.
That was the same position that the life skill classes would find themselves in.
If they couldn’t prove that they were useful, if they couldn’t provide value beyond what anyone else could, they would be discarded as rabble. Deadweight that nobody could afford to support.
That was the fate the soldiers knew would befall them if they weren’t able to obtain more munitions.
However, they had been promised that the Government was working on a way to spread the Awakening to their loyal forces. If they made good on that promise, things would change for the better.
Once Yara was back outside, the soldier left, not concerned about what Kalli was doing as she was neither a combat nor a healing class.
That left her free to inspect her gains for the day.
Her backpack was now safely stowed in her [Storage Realm], and she had an entire drugstore worth of goods. Everything from hygiene supplies to snacks, basic and restricted medicine, even the contents of the frozen food section.
That was what she was concerned about.
However, it all appeared to have remained frozen, just as cold as when it went in, and the storage space had automatically organized it into coolers.
Everything was neatly stacked on shelves, and simply thinking about it was enough to bring it to her attention, so she could remove it at will. It was exactly what they needed. The problem was that she needed to get out of the Academy grounds if she was going to get supplies.
And that was both dangerous and impractical.
The whole city would be going insane, looting everything that they could get their hands on. If she went out there now, she was as likely to get herself killed as anything.
She might be desperate to get supplies, but she wasn’t dumb enough to walk out into a riot to do it.
She would just have to wait and volunteer to go with salvage and scavenging groups after whatever happened tomorrow.
Once she had verified that her storage space had enough supplies to last her and the class at least a few weeks if the army gave up on them or proved useless, she started to examine her only other skill.
The System Points Store
She now had two hundred fifty points, enough that she should be able to buy supplies.
The first page of the weapons section had the same selection of weapons that she remembered, all priced at one point each. All of them were simple, primitive weapons. Swords, axes, clubs, bows that sold the arrows separately.
The second page of the weapons section was modern weapons, and cases of ammunition sorted by price. That was more like it. If she wasn’t suited to using a sword, she could still try shooting at whatever those things were.
The third page was various types of armour, which gave Kalli a good enough idea of what was available for purchase.
So, she retreated to the next tab, the one marked with a motorcycle.
The first item on the list simply blew her mind.
[Disaster Survival Vehicle] This armoured recreational vehicle comes with four mounted laser turrets and a defensive barrier that can resist enemy attacks up to Level 20. Requires 200 mana per hour to travel at maximum speed. Additional mana needed for weapons turrets.
Cost: 500,000 System Points
Kalli laughed out loud as she read the description. What sort of doomsday vehicle was that? And how powerful were level 20 enemies to start with that a vehicle to survive them cost half a million points?
Immediately, Kalli scrolled down the list to the bottom, and sighed as she saw the options at the lower price points.
[Mountain Bike] Available in red or black.
Cost: 2 System Points
[Dirt Bike] takes 5 mana per hour to operate at full speed.
Cost: 25 System Points
[Armoured Troop Carrier] Resistant to enemies up to level 10. Available in sand or olive green. Top turret mount, weapons sold separately.
Cost: 500 System Points
Well, that was a big gap in the transport category. Everything else was just variations of personal transports at two to three hundred points each. But they all ran on gasoline, which was one point per twenty liter jug.
So, she left the transport category and went to the tent symbol.
This one had much more variety.
There were sleeping bags, tents, blankets, full beds, furniture, and even a purchasable log cabin. Sure, it was fifty thousand points, but it was available. Most of the items were one or two points, reasonable enough that they could be replaced if her future rewards kept up something close to the rate she had been getting them at.
With two hundred fifty points, she could get enough gear to outfit her whole class, had they not managed to get the starter boxes from the Quest reward.
That brought her to the buffet symbol, the one that was most likely to affect their immediate survival if the army’s rations ran out.
[Case of military rations] Contains 12 assorted meals consisting of four each breakfast, lunch and dinner menu options. Flavours may vary. Meals are standardized at 1200 calories each.
Cost: 1 System Point
So, that was four days food for one person for one point. Though, if you were eating like a student, and not a soldier on an active battlefield, that could definitely be stretched to a whole week.
[Case of nutrition bars] 500 calories each. Unflavoured. Case of 1000.
Cost: 1 System Point
Well, that sounded horrific. However, it was a lot of nutrition bars for one point. If things got really desperate, they would always be an option. They might actually not be horrible, but the warning that they were unflavoured did not bode well for their edibility.
Realistically, a person could survive a year off of a case of nutrition bars, but Kalli strongly suspected it would not be a pleasant experience.
[Bag of rice] 25kg, jasmine, basmati, wild and short grain bags available.
Cost: 2 System Points
[Beef Side] 150kg bone in full side of beef. Local Grade AAA
Cost: 50 System Points
Now, there was only one category left. The mystery box.
