Shovels In Spades

Daz spent the next hour crafting simple items that the base might be able to use like chairs and tables. His Basic Crafting skill had levelled up three times, surprising Daz, so it was now at a respectable level five.

"I guess Lyle should have had enough time to find some decent things from the base upgrade shop. I'd better go find him and upgrade the base before I leave today," Daz mumbled as he patted himself down to remove any dirt, and he then left to find Lyle.

It didn't take him long to find his target. Lyle was practising injecting the dummies at the training ground while Heather was also busy practising her aim on a few of the other dummies with her fishing rod.

Lyle noticed Daz's approach so he stopped his training and put a smile on his face. "My Lord, have you finished your crafting?"

"Hmm? You knew I was crafting?" Daz asked curiously as he sat down on the training area's bench.

"Of course, my Lord. As soon as I was done selecting possible upgrades for the base, I went to find you, but I could clearly see that you were busy with your crafting, so I thought it would be best if I made myself productive and waited for you finish since you seemed to be enjoying yourself," Lyle happily explained before he took a seat next to Daz.

"Ah sorry about that," Daz replied with a slightly embarrassed expression on his usually expressionless face.

"Not at all, my Lord. You're more than allowed to enjoy yourself considering the amazing job you did today." Lyle couldn't help but admire Daz even more. It would seem that his angry attitude from yesterday had mostly mellowed out. Lyle had to wonder what might have caused such a rapid change in his Lord, but he chose not to pry.

"Anyway," Daz said with a slight stretch of his back. "What upgrades caught your eye today, Lyle?"

Lyle took a few minutes to tell Daz exactly what upgrades he personally felt Fort Skip needed urgently before Daz thanked him and began inspecting them one by one. During this, Lyle returned to his injection practice.

"Huu... Lyle really picked out quite a few good ones... well, no point buying any now until I make Fort Skip bigger. There's all this grassland around us, no point in wasting it. System, how many base points do I have and please show me how much the next base size upgrade will cost me?" Daz asked politely.