I Can Program My Body?

A month later, after defending the shelter and clearing all the invading dark beasts, it was finally over.

Heading straight to lie and rest on their respective quarters, they didn't even have the energy remaining for a celebration.

Besides the seeded talents permanently stationed to defend, the special response team also stayed busy.

Although they didn't encounter another lord-level dark beast, the endless powerful dark beast still demanded their attention.

Too tired and exhausted, the only thing they wanted was to sleep.

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Meanwhile, in his residence, Nash lay in bed beside Camilla.

Unlike the others, drained physically and mentally, he was still full of energy.

Even after calming Camilla's raging fire, his eyes still burned as he studied the shelter panel.

"Now, what should I choose…"

After the shelter advanced to level three, he had another chance to pick a buff.

Turning toward the soul enhancement buff, Nash sighed in disappointment.

"As expected, even the Void Administrator knew I could no longer take another level."

Another level, and the soul enhancement buff would reach 1000 times soul amplification.

Though his soul could handle it, such amplification would shatter his physical body from the inside out.

Unable to upgrade the soul enhancement buff, Nash could only turn to the other options.

From Void Training, Soul Training, Void Enhancement, Merits Multiplier, Luck, Law Comprehension, and more.

Among the various buffs, Nash liked two: Soul Training and Merits Multiplier.

Soul Training would speed up his soul's development.

The Merits Multiplier, on the other hand, could multiply the merits they earned from killing beasts.

The former would accelerate his personal growth, while the latter would ease the shelter's advancement.

Deep in thought, Nash ultimately chose the Soul Training buff.

The Merits Multiplier might benefit the shelter as a whole, but Nash prioritized his personal improvement.

With greater strength, they could simply kill more dark beasts to make up for it.

Furthermore, the soul was the primary factor slowing the seeded talents' advancement to higher realms.

With the Soul Training buff, more Void Venerates and Void Generals might emerge in the coming competition.

Activating the buff, Nash felt a sudden surge of energy in his soul!

[Soul Training: Increases Soul Training Speed by 10 times (Level 1)]

"As expected, it's ten times!" Nash muttered, buzzing with excitement.

Opening the training module panel, he saw the massive improvement the soul training buff provided.

[Training Module System: Infinite Soul Tempering Manual

Current Soul Tempering: 22,606%

Efficiency: 1,000,000 Attributeless Elemental Crystals/Percentage

Absorption Speed: 9,000 (900) Attributeless Elemental Crystals/second]

From the initial 900 elemental crystals per second that the new and improved [Training Module System] provided, it was then amplified to ten times!

This meant he could advance by 1% every two minutes.

To reach 100,000% fortification, he would need only about 100 days!

A hundred days to achieve 100,000% soul fortification, it was too fast that Nash could hardly believe his calculations.

"Strong! This shelter buff is too strong!"

The 100,000% soul fortification, once an unreachable dream, was now within arm's reach.

"I need to hurry and deduce the perfect version of the soul tempering manual…" Nash thought.

With training speed no longer a concern, he could focus on quality without sacrificing pace.

After choosing the buff from the shelter's advancement, Nash drifted into sleep.

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The next day.

After everyone was well-rested, they gathered for a meeting and celebration.

First, they discussed the battle's toll.

Thanks to thorough preparation and the efficiency of the special team Nash and the others formed, there were no casualties.

Though some severe injuries occurred, it was nothing that a few healing potions could not fix.

As for the materials they mined, most were depleted after expanding the walls, defensive forts, and other buildings.

The shelter's resource points were also nearly exhausted.

Though they would regenerate, the pace was too slow for their rapid shelter expansion.

Their mining efficiency also needed improvement. Despite Nora creating various resource-collecting devices, it wasn't enough.

To have a chance at levelling the shelter to 5 within the next year, they had to boost their efforts and efficiency.

Once Nash finished modifying the soul fortification manual, he planned to join Nora to explore more efficient resource collection.

Finally, turning to their harvest, their worries melted into bright smiles.

From mere billions of merits, the dark beast tide they faced earlier yielded 156 trillion merits, more than Nash spent to upgrade the shelter!

Hearing such a number, all their fatigue and tiredness vanished.

If they could earn such a massive amount of merits, they wouldn't mind the dark beast tide lasting one or two more months.

They also gained a lot of perfect armors, weapons, items, pet eggs, materials, and more.

If sold in reality, they could easily earn hundreds of trillions of nova credits.

With some processing, they might even rake in a few quadrillion nova credits!

Even if it was split equally among them, each could still claim a few trillion.

This was only the second wave of dark beasts. What about the third and fourth?

With such an earning speed, Nash thought he might not even need a loan to buy enough resources.

Of course, with the new buff, he needed more money than ever.

If 10,000% to 100,000% fortification requires a million elemental crystals per percentage, what about 1,000,000%?

By then, he might need 10 million or even 100 million elemental crystals for each percentage!

Thinking about his need for massive resources, Nash began discussing the clearance of the Lord-Level Dark Beast.

In this venture, only the previous special response team would go, while the rest would continue their usual tasks.

Nash also couldn't join them.

As the leader and coordinator of the shelter, he couldn't be away for long.

Furthermore, if something happened to him, their progress in the shelter would collapse.

The shelter leader selection could only take place once a year.

If anything happened to him during this time, they couldn't elect a new leader.

Thus, for the sake of the shelter's smooth progress, Nash had to stay at the base.

To this, he had no complaints.