Legendary Shelter Survival Guide

"I am coming with you"

John said and walked past Lucas without even hearing what Lucas had to say.

Lucas just shrugged and walked with him.

"So where do we start?"

John asked after they had walked for around 2 minutes, the silhouette of the shelter could still be seen as most of the bushes, the plants, and small trees were burnt.

In front of the shelter, only the big trees were still there while the small plants, the grass, and the bushes had started to grow back again.

"I don't know… I was just thinking to start digging anywhere. But wait…" Lucas activated his perceptive skill making his right eye glow.

He looked around only to find that the place had fewer colors than before. He just ignored the dead land and looked around that soon helped him find a brownish aura seeping out of the land. Explore stories on My Virtual Library Empire

He deactivated the skill and looked at the land again but it was the same as the other ones, plain and dark in color due to the forest fire.

"Uncle John, stand here. I will go get the equipment in a minute." Lucas dragged John to the land where he saw the brownish aura that usually comes from the rocks and bolted toward the shelter.

In 2 minutes, there were two shovels, two pickaxes in his hand that he was going to use to dig the land.

"So how are we going to continue this?" John asked with curiosity.

He had no idea as to how they were going to get the metal out anyway if they even find it.

"We can just dig and keep digging in a slanting direction."

CLANK!

Lucas moved the shovel and bashed it hardly inside the ground yet it didn't go inside at all other than the loud solid hitting noise.

Lucas scraped as much dirt as he could from the ground. Until the rocky surface could be seen completely.

"Did you know that the land beneath is all rock from your skill?" John asked with marvel, he didn't think it was a coincidence that in all the land that they could have excavated, they found the one that had a lot of rock for the start.

When they all excavated the land near the river to make the canal, there were very small rock pieces that they threw to the side easily but this one was like the whole land was completely made of stone to begin with.

"Yeah, let's use the pickaxe now, you know, with your technique."

"Alright"

Lucas and John took a pickaxe in their hands and readied to hit anytime.

"3… 2… 1… now!"

CLANK!

CLANK!

CLANK!

CLANK!

First Lucas hit with all his might then when he retracted the pickaxe, John hit the next seconds at the same spot and this went on until the rocky surface that they were hitting had broken into many small rocks.

Lucas used his hands after stopping John to get all the debris out in order to hit and break more of the land.

The process went on for a while when they had a 2 meter hole with a depth of only 2 feet beneath them.

Lucas was not at all worried about the sounds they were making as he was actually waiting for some dumb monster to come toward them.

All this while, not once did Lucas try the defense ability of the shelter or the strength-increasing one that he only used when he had to do some extra physical work and it was pissing him off.

"This thing's durability is down to 11, what about you?"

"Mine is at 10." Lucas said with dejection.

"Even if we have the right equipment, it is still pretty crude and not time efficient at all."

"I know, Lucas. But you should also be grateful to have them, we could also have a situation where we don't have this kind of equipment."

"True…"

"We should go back and get this thing repaired before it actually breaks."

Looking at the hole in the ground and all the small rocks and dust at the side, Lucas went back to the shelter with dissatisfaction.

When they reached back, Lucas saw Barney and Sean talking about something at the side and when they saw him coming, they clumsily went to their own ways weirding Lucas out.

"Hey, Barney. I got some work for you." Lucas waved toward Barney and said to stop him.

Lucas went to the guy and gave him his pickaxe and the one that John had given him.

"Damn, the durability is soo low!" Barney said with disbelief clearly showing on his face.

"I know, how long before you can fix it to 20 again?"

After Lucas asked, the guy looked to be in thought for a few seconds, before he showed two fingers in answer.

"2 days"

"No"

"2 hours?"

Lucas was happy enough to hear that they could get the durability back in just 2 hours, it was not efficient but still, better than the 2 days he had expected.

"No, 2 minutes."

"Figures… wait, what?!" Lucas processed what Barney said a second late but he caught up quickly.

"Yeah, this pickaxe is very low grade, it's a miracle it shows a status screen. I can fix it up in 2 minutes, just wait here."

Barney said and without having any more conversations or questions, he went inside Sean's small makeshift workshop and disappeared leaving Lucas alone with his stupid expression.

"What's with your face, I was gone for only a minute you know." John came back after kissing Ella before she went to sleep.

"Apparently, your son can fix the pickaxe in just 2 minutes," Lucas said with a big grin after seeing the same dumb expression on John's face.

"What!?"

"Let me focus!" Barney shouted from inside the workshop pissed to be interrupted when he was doing his work.

Lucas and John stayed quiet for a few minutes until Barney came back with the two pickaxes in his hand.

Lucas could not see even a single chip on the equipment that was present after their work was done.