Civilized Core book 1: Wishes by Bern Dean

Author:Bern Dean [Dean, Bern]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10.

A new normal.

Time passed as Allen watched those above him get used to the changes to his dungeon, that was now starting to feel truly massive as each floor was 25,600 square feet. Though just upgrading everything after he reached level 3 had cost a full 40,000 DP, which included adding enough monsters to make that not feel empty. These changes made it so just getting through the top 13 floors, that only involved ratfolks and obstacles designed to wear out anyone who entered, and back was a full day’s job. Though they only had to do so if they wanted to secure as much seasoning and other goods as they could. The only exception to this setup was on floor ten, where he placed both pigs each day and was working on finding a way to turn a dungeon floor into a farm. The good news on that front was that Cassandra had figured out how to wire the LED lights without frying them. The bad news was large-scale power was still unaffordable for them. Allen wished he had paid more attention to such things, as he knew that there were several ways to harness and store energy as the green power movement had been all around him. The problem was that he only knew of the powers and not how they worked.

Still, he splurged on a few miniature wind turbines, tiny solar panels and small generators, like the one they were using already for Cassandra to look over. Though, even with her elevated intelligence, she kept telling Allen that it would take at least a year before she felt confident in creating something large enough to be efficient. Then that would still have other issues as they didn’t have access to the sun, or a water stream to create and run a water turbine. The best she could do was create something that could be turned manually, as she suggested turning the floor with the goblins and trolls on it into a power station, where they rotated duty on spinning the turbines. At first Allen thought that was a terrible idea as it was sure to cause issues, but then Cassandra convinced him otherwise. She told him that once she solved the problem of converting the voltages and watts to the correct level, such an arrangement should give them twice the power Allen was asking for if run at capacity. The issue was all of that was theoretical, but Allen figured that the lot of them were just existing for free while he wasted 60 DP a week on them.

In preparation for this, Allen had created a few giant hamster wheels for him to practice commanding the goblins and trolls to run in. There was only one for the trolls and they would last all day walking, but running turned out to be a bad idea. They lacked the coordination needed and broke the wheel. Changing it to a wheel with a handle on it didn’t prove much better and, in the end, their walking would just have to be enough to supply power.

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