Ultimate Gamer System: Factory Must Grow!

Chapter 74 Chief Voiderling!

The bone-chilling cry filled every nook and cranny of the tunnel Theo was in. Then, it filled Theo's entire body with a dangerous dose of adrenaline, allowing him to spring into action right away.

'Crap!'

Wasting no time, he switched his universal tool into build mode, hastily blocking the upward tunnel with just a bunch of stone from his inventory...

Only for the placement of the stone to fail, as the projection turned red!

'Shit, it's already inside?!'

Thankfully, when running on an equal amount of oxygen and adrenaline, Theo's brain connected the dots before he could consciously do so himself.

That didn't mean he could just fix the issue right away, though.

'Faster!'

Screaming out in his thoughts, Theo switched right back to the excavation setting of the tool, only to turn the projection around and aim it downward instead, hurriedly pressing the button to excavate even more of the stone.

By now, the bone-chilling cry had died down, replaced by the brushing sound of something sliding against the stone.

A sound that only served to hurry Theo even more than he already was, as he pressed the button and waited for the progress bar to fill up before a whole slew of stone finally vanished, allowing him to finally move on to actually blocking the tunnel again.

'Faster!'

Crying out in his thoughts, Theo twisted the universal tool again, pushing it straight back into build mode. Then, with just his thoughts alone, he started to shift the projection of what he wanted to build from the upward tunnel he excavated just a few moments ago down to the shaft he created just now.

For the next terribly long few seconds, the projection kept its red color... all the way until the point where it finally turned green.

'Now!'

Screaming out in his thoughts, Theo pressed the button of his universal tool down... yet in the short moment it took him to do so, whatever was coming managed to encroach upon the projection, turning it red again!

'SCREW IT!'

Startled, Theo jumped up to his feet, only to then sense the walls of stone around him now vibrate, confirming the worst possible scenario he didn't even dare to imagine.

'IT'S DIGGING DOWN?!'

A single look at the system confirmed Theo's fears.

[Chief Voiderling (level 1442): Chasing the claimant]

"Not letting me off that easily, huh?" Theo muttered under his nose as he took a step back into the tunnel he used to get to this place to begin with. Then, he took another step.

Yet, before he could make the third, Theo gritted his teeth and opted to stay his ground instead.

'For just the voiderling's legs to fall off when I first removed the stone, could it be...' Ignoring the noise of the digging beast and the shaking of the stone its digging caused, Theo looked down at his universal tool.

'Could it be... am I still underestimating just how stupidly overpowered this tool... No, how stupidly overpowered my system is?'

Following this thought, Theo gulped his saliva before switching the universal tool straight back to excavation mode and then morphing its sphere of influence right back to the same thing he used to dig the upward tunnel to begin with. Yet, pretty much as soon as he brought it up, eager to dig the same tunnel again—just this time, by digging through the angered boss monster rather than just the stone...

For the very first time when it came to excavation... The sphere of influence Theo could see overlaying his normal vision turned red, only for an alert to be displayed all across Theo's vision.

[Action Blocked: Level of the tool insufficient to mine through: "Chitinous Armor of the Chief Voiderling"]

"Well, crap..." Theo whispered, his body involuntarily taking the third step back into the tunnel.

By now, the digging noises grew so loud, they appeared to be coming from behind just a thin layer of wood, rather than a several-meter-deep layer of stone. Even the vibrations Theo could sense by touching the walls had now turned into outright shaking, akin to what he expected to experience by spending an earthquake event underground.

In other words, Theo's time to figure out a solution to the problem he invited was now running out.

'If I retreat, I'm only going to lead it straight back to the factory. And even if I had those guns I wanted so much,' he gulped his saliva down, 'the chances are, they would be useless against an armor even my tool cannot penetrate! And that means...'

Rather than taking another step to the back, Theo took a deep breath before raising his tool up to the emptiness ahead.

'I need to make sure it won't follow me back to my claim!'