Treasure hunting in endless ocean

Needlessly OP blueprints

Neil drank a little water to make sure he is not going to be dehydrated. 

He filled the copper barrel to full with sea water, and added more firewood to the fireplace. At the same time, he started research on all the items he could. 

He canceled out the game interface without even reading messages, and started paddling the boat towards the crate. 

Once he stopped the boat near where the crate was, he jumped into the water, carried the crate onto the raft. 

It took some effort to do this entire business. 

Neil laid down on the raft and panted as he tried to catch his breath. 

Ideally, he should go back to water and collect resources, however, this time, he opened the crate. 

[ SSS+ level super building set, 100 Gnome tablets, 100 dwarf tablets ] 

[ Congratulations !!!] 

[ You are the first person to open super resource crate in 1000 Years. ] 

[ Unlocking auto collect feature on resources. ] 

[ Skill : Autocollect ] 

[ Grade : G ] 

[ As long as you touch a resource and collect it, the resource is collected into your inventory box automatically. Subject to a cap of one inventory slot.] 

Simply put, he can put his hands in sand underwater, and just mentally say collect, one hundred kg of sand will be collected into his inventory. 

Similarly, when he cuts the seaweed, all he has to do is put it in inventory directly as soon as he pulls it out. 

That seems to be the limit of an inventory slot. 

He has a total of fifty slots, he can keep a hundred of the same kind of items if they are small, or a single item. 

His paddle board takes one slot. 

The logs are bigger, he can fill hundred logs in each slot. 

So, this skill is fairly practical and useful. 

Each time he jumps into water, he can bring back at best up to fifteen to twenty five kilograms of sand. 

However, he does get tired. 

Now, all he has to do is touch sand and collect. 

Even if it consumes stamina to an extent, he saves the time he spent diving. 

He paddled the raft to the next location. 

He dived in. 

[ Collected a Ocean denizen gem ] 

[ You can not integrate an ocean denizen gem before reaching level twenty ] 

These gems could be integrated into one another? 

Doesn’t that mean after reaching level twenty it’s a free for all between all the people who entered this world ? 

However, he kind of got a head start. 

Neil happily collected the gem, and carried on snorkelling. 

In the sunlight, their luster is eye-catching, in the evening, they emit their own light. 

Perhaps it’s like the diamond that hands upon heads of all players, he thought for a moment as he saw the gem. 

This is after all a fantasy world. They are entered here artificially. Thus, they must die the same way, artificially. 

There are more blue gems here. 

Well, grab ! and grab! 

As he swam, he saw a yellow spot in the bottom of the ocean. 

Hey! Doesn’t that look like a mud swamp? 

He carefully swam around the spot, and poked a spear in there. 

If it was a creature of some kind, it should have reacted by now. 

Then, when there was no reaction, he picked up some of the stuff in the quagmire, and touched it curiously. 

It’s mud!

For a moment, his brain stalled. 

Mud in the ocean? 

How? 

Wait.. 

It’s stickier than mud and extremely fine.. Like playing clay.. 

It’s impossible for it to be Playing clay, so it’s clay? 

Well, he will know when he collects it. 

Neil just dived to the bottom of the ocean, and extended a hand to touch the murky surface. 

Sure enough, it’s clay. 

[ Collected one hundred kilograms of clay into inventory ]

As soon as he collected it, he saw it’s actually a magma effusion. 

The water here is a little warmer than the other places. 

That might have been another source of the lights he has seen. 

All the same, he collected clay ten more times. 

Planter beds called for a mix of clay and sand for the plants to grow. 

Even if the salt content is high, there seems to be few things he can plant in there. 

So, he collected clay almost equal to the amount of sand he collected. 

There seems to be few more ocean gems around this spot. 

Neil snorkeled around to find all the gems. 

These could not be placed in the inventory. 

There is a different type of red weed growing around here. 

When he cut a plant, Neil realized this could be a collectible plant. 

Thus, he collected as much of this seaweed as he could 

Soon, his stamina depleted to ten. He returned to the boat to recuperate. 

He searched the research station first. 

Seems many of the things are researched. 

He checked items he received through the super resource crate. 

[ Gnome tablet : Add to the research station to level up. ] 

[ Dwarf tablet - Add to the workstation to level up. ] 

Oh! 

That’s great. 

He immediately added all the gnome tablets in his hand to the research station. 

[ Research station upgraded! ] 

…

There were way too many messages, so he just scrolled to the end. 

[ Research station is now level 103. ] 

[ You can add any blueprints to the research station. ] 

He added all the blueprints he received to the research station. 

[ Added SSS+ level blueprint mana generator to the research station ]

[ Added SSS+ level blueprint raft city to the research station ] 

[ Added SSS+ level blueprint floating island to the research station ] 

[ Added SSS+ level blueprint leviathan submarine to the research station ]

[ Added SSS+ level blueprint subspace storage to the research station. ] 

[ Added SSS+ level blueprint bio fuel plant to the research station ] 

[ Added SSS+ level blueprint satellite communication array to the research station ] 

[ Added SSS+ level blueprint biome spawning point to the research station ] 

…

[ You are the first person to upgrade research station to level 100. ] 

[ Skill ‘ auto research ‘ has been activated. ] 

[ Skill : Auto Research ] 

[ Rating : G ] 

[ Automatically researches all available basic blueprints as long as sufficient resources are available. You can set this skill to active or passive with your ocean denizen console. 

In active mode, the skill automatically uses any and all resources to do the basic research. 

In passive mode, the skill asks permission for each resource. ] 

Neil stared at it. 

This kind of thing could also be called a reward? 

When active, it steals without your permission. 

When passive, it keeps pestering you like an overactive advertisement program. 

However, beggars can’t be choosers. 

So, he set the skill to active. 

After all, basic items need to be researched as soon as possible. 

Otherwise, he would be stuck doing too many chores, and he has too little time for the time being, what’s with sharks coming out to play in twelve more hours. 

By now, it’s evening and the sky is visibly darkening. 

He is beginning to make out the glow he has seen all around. 

He leveled up the workstation with dwarf tablets. 

[ You are the first person to upgrade workstation to level 100. ] 

[ As long as a research is completed, the items could be automatically built. ]

[ Any items made as part of research only consume half the resources ] 

Oh! That’s a good one. 

Neil is happy. 

For now, he could have dinner. 

The seaweed first to fill the stomach, and potato chips later to wash away the bad taste. 

He drank enough water beforehand. 

The dehydrated feeling of being thirsty completely vanished. 

For now, just drive to the next lighted up marker and collect. 

He found a few more crates, but none of them were worth noting, save for a fishing rod. 

Instead, there were thousands of logs, and banana leaves. 

They kept vanishing into the research station, so Neil just let them be. 

Looking at the way things around him are floating, logs and leaves could be collected any time. 

He would rather they get used than his inventory being full. 

Every place he reached out, there were skill orbs. 

[ Skill : World’s second best swordsman ] 

[ Rating : S ] 

[ Your swordsmanship will only ever be second best to one person in the world. ]

Neil immediately tried to acquire the skill. 

What if it’s second best? How many chances did he have of meeting the world's best swordsman? 

One in million, or even less. 

He is happy to be second best for the time being. 

[ You can not acquire a fighting skill greater than your main fighting skill ] 

What? 

Are you kidding me? 

I am a rower. In which way is that a fighting skill? What is he supposed to fight with? A paddle? 

He retrieved another barrel and tossed the orb in it carelessly. 

All the same, he followed the lights, and kept collecting as far as his stamina allowed. 

He had hundreds of red, blue, brown and green seaweed. 

By the time he finished, the workstation was ready to make many things. 

He could make a ‘super light processed gel raft plank‘ which grew seaweed under its bottom, integrated into the rafts besides it through a gel. Once integrated like this, the planks worked as a single piece. 

[ Convert your raft to safety rating sss+ with ‘super light fine processed gel raft plank’ ? ] (yes)(no)