Chapter 18: The Pavilion's Summit part 3

Solo's tiny shack's purpose was to deceive players into believing that the owner was just an amateur and had no valuable items. Most of the players and guilds built a majestic edifice on the surface to show their status and power, but Solo's only goal was to have fun, which is another reason why he was content with that small shack.

The tiny run-down house is connected to vastly larger floors. Solo tried to keep everything organised, so each floor had a single purpose but was efficient at that one particular objective.

The very first floor was used for logging. In the centre of the city-sized floor was a logging camp; the majority of the floor was made of a seemingly endless forest. Just like in every game, there were different types of materials. Thus the floor was divided into sixteen parts, as there were sixteen tiers of wood which could be used for crafting. Despite having maxed every possible stat, Solo still kept even the most basic types of trees.

The logging camp was used to store the sixteen types of wood; for that reason, there were sixteen racks which could hold an unimaginable number of logs. Of course, seemingly, they were capable of holding only a few, but Solo enchanted them to have a much larger inventory capacity.

The second and the third were very similar, as they were designed to be used as farms. The second floor was used to farm ordinary ingredients used for cooking. This floor also had a tiny house in the middle, and a single chest outside, which was used as the inventory.

Every possible ordinary plant was farmed on this level; fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, everything. Since there were no tier differences between ordinary plants, they were organised differently, based on which is used more for different sorts of meals.

The third floor also contained plants, but they were plants used for alchemy. These plants were organised just like the trees; since there were different tiers, Solo kept the same amount from each one. Unlike the trees, here, multiple plants were in every tier.

The fourth level was nothing special, just a large lake used for fishing. The fifth floor was a bit different; that one was used for mining. The surface of the fifth level was just a simple field, but not far from the centre, there was a cave.

The sixth and seventh level was one giant building with many smaller rooms. The sixth level was used for activities such as enchanting, smithing, crafting, cooking and alchemy. As for the seventh floor, it was used as Solo's residence; there was his room, his study, and much more room for leisure activities; even a library was placed on that floor.

The eighth and the floors below, all the way to the tenth floor, were never really developed; they were in a giant empty room. Out of the last three floors, only the eighth had some minor use; that was the room Solo used to create his followers.

Solo used to tend to each of his floors to level up his traits, even after he was maxed out. He spent many hours grinding and upgrading his floors which were painstakingly long; at the beginning, everything was so slow; the growth of the plants and trees was slow, and the yield was also quite poor. Now everything grows at an incredible rate; even the rarest and highest-tiered plant or tree can mature under a day. And their yield and quality are incredibly high. As for the mine, it only takes a whole day to regenerate fully.

Ever since Solo found himself in the new world, he was not able to tend to his floors, but since his NPCs gained consciousness, they all started to work on the first five floors, and the production increased drastically.

"This is the gist of it; This is what SOlo built all by himself. I do hope I don't have to explain more; it is clearly visible that his level of progression and production is considerable!" Stated Ardion after a brief explanation and presentation.

As Ardion was previously explaining, the structure of Solo's base, an over table, a floating three-dimensional blueprint, was orbiting so that everyone could take a look at it.

"Yes..." Replied the red figure hesitantly.

"If we want to win, we must give Solo our blessings; otherwise, it will be quite a difficult predicament!" Declared Ardion.

"This is all nice and great, BUT... How can we know for sure that he will stay on our side, OR how can you be sure that he will not go after the other mortals and just eradicate them?! Those are quite strong IFs!" I spoke up arrogantly the blue character.

"For a greater good, their sacrifices are unavoidable! If Solo decided to massacre humanity, then that would mean a considerable boost to his power, and he would have an easier time dealing with the invading forces. After all, we can always bring back the mortals or create more. My goal is to provide a peaceful life to the mortals under our wings, but it is unachievable so long as my brother is still attacking the world!"

"If we fail, they will be conquered by him and will most definitely suffer more than if they were just killed. Sometimes there are decisions which you have to make in order to survive, or in our case, to keep our world from destruction!" Ended his explanation Ardion.

The atmosphere once again returned to being tense, but not due to any new event which had transpired, but due to the fact that Ardion was glaring at the two gods sitting in front of him, who were unsure of what to say. The silence and tension were finally broken by the red one.

"We understand... We will inform the others of our consensus, and we will abide by your request, but the others, even if they gave us the right to speak in their stead, we need to hear their reaction as well since..." Replied the red one but was interrupted

"They were asked to come here and decided; that was the whole purpose of coming here; since they didn't care, and the four of us have come to an agreement, they will have to accept; it was THEM who made this decision!" Exclaimed Ardion, and then hit the table with his palm.