Shovels In Spades

Daz quickly stored all of the corpses in his Industrial Item Box. He had considered just burying them then and there in the Grave of The Mammals he'd used to hide from the sniper but decided against it.

'They attacked me with intent to kill, true, but they are still fellow survivors of Earth. The least I can do is give them respect in death and give them proper graves,' Daz thought as he controlled their souls and pushed them into one of Earth's many circles of reincarnation.

'One of these days I need to take a good look at all of the places a soul can go here on Earth and curate it. Since I cut-off the chance for non-Earthians to fuck with our souls, I should really try my best to make that seem like a good thing for us and not like a prison. Well, that's a far-reaching issue since it will be a very long time before someone reincarnates and actually recovers memories of their past life if that's even possible. I assume that would need some system-aided set-up if it is,' Daz thought.

He quickly scanned the memories he'd obtained from Beta and shook his head in disappointment when he learned the sniper's weapon was entirely useless without the right skillset to utilise it.

A weapon strong enough to kill his clone instantly would have been a great boon. Sadly, he couldn't have his cake and eat it too.

Before long, he had returned to Guishan Island and found Hsiao-han sat in front of the teleportation portal just staring at it.

She turned around upon hearing the heavy footsteps of Rimmy. "An impressive summon now that I see it up close."

She said nothing else and resumed looking at the teleporter. Clearly, she wasn't in the mood for an exchange of information today which Daz was fine with.

"I'll unsummon you now, Rimmy," Daz stated.

"Rimmy," the towering giant of crystal replied.

A moment later, Rimmy vanished. Daz casually walked through the teleporter and perhaps five or six minutes later he returned with a much smaller crystal man stood by his side.

Hsiao-han cocked her head to the side in confusion. "You didn't return him?"

Daz smiled wryly. "He wanted to help me here, and since he only needs his main body to heal people and considering Fort Home hasn't been attacked in a while, he thought he could be helpful here," he explained.

Hsiao-han nodded. "I see. My preparations are almost complete," she said in exchange for the information Daz had given her.

He nodded. "Good."

Daz and Rimmy's core then left the island and returned to Yilan City. The former was waiting for Beta's swift return from his scouting mission while the latter was happily taking in the new sights as it floated by Daz's side.

Not much later, Daz felt some Death Energy return to him. He wasn't in an angered state like with the sniper situation, meaning he didn't bother resummoning Beta and asking what he knew. Instead, he sifted through the newly added memories his clone had delivered to him.

He nodded softly. "I see. They have an underground base right beneath the town that's recently developed in the heart of Taipei? That was going to be my second last city to take over today just before Keelung City but I suppose I can change my plans..."

He summoned Beta again and then said, "Tell Crusher to meet me at the outskirts of Taipei just before 10PM. Once you've done that you can return to Fort Home. I'll unsummon and resummon you again if I need you."

The clone nodded. "Of course, Original."

The clone then repeatedly used Crystallisation on his boots until they finally turned into diamonds. He then used Astral Crystal Control to fly away.

Daz didn't waste any time and immediately went on a rampage of sorts, though not a violent one. He moved from city to city purchasing the mostly abandoned ones and 'convincing' the owners of the occupied ones to hand them over.

It wasn't very long before a message from the system popped up in front of his eyes, one that he was expecting.