Reincarnation of Audemars - Who Am I...?

Replicate, Duplicate, Manipulate

In the middle of the night, while I was fast asleep, I heard the tinkle of the announcements rang in my head and I woke up with a start. I rubbed my eyes and there wasn't any indication of what time it was so u checked my interface.

"Hmm... Not bad. I've gotten another +20,000% progress, which means another jump of 200 levels that makes my personal level to be Level: 1007/100,000. I also earned +2000 allocation points and had raised to Advanced Crafter 161/1000." I said to myself as I sat up cross-legged and meditated and went to the Realm of Mind. There, I removed the amulet of strength and the porcelain jewel case with the drawing on it and reset the whole machine.

I placed the smallest wicker basket in the fusion chamber and closed the door and made 1 first. The same goes to the medium wicker basket after I placed a large bow on its handle. It went into the second chamber and closed the door and made 1 as well. Both machines announced the success of completion and I checked the result from my duplication and the medium-sized basket had a similar ribbon tied to its handle.

I then proceeded to duplicate 1000 for the small one, 500 for the medium one. Now I've got a ton of porcelain jewel case meant for the X4Li8 face scrub and I won't be able to log off and appeared in my room at Beauty World. So instead I logged off and appeared in my room at the Great Hall. I put on my shoes and went outside in the chill of the night, wearing just my pyjamas.

I saw a patrol guard walking in my direction and I asked him the time and he said it was just 3 am. He asked me where I am heading and I answered my intended direction and he waved me off as I head behind the Great Hall. It was weird walking around without my armour and only dressed up in my PJ as I entered Beauty World and I arranged the empty porcelain jewel cases inside the empty wooden crates.

Once I had done so, I went back to the Great Hall, entered my room and tried to continue my slumber. It had been about 2 weeks since I've met Pointus after he had acquired such wealth from the sales of MR P that I had churned out from 'Pills Through Mind Control' and wondered if there are more things to learn about herbs in this part of an era.

I was about to fall asleep when I heard another announcement indicating that the wicker baskets are ready. I sat up cross-legged and meditated once more and took the initial wicker baskets out from the fusion chamber.

I took the large basket, tied one bow around the rim of the basket and then another bow at the handle and inserted it into the slot. I changed it to 250 pieces and shut the door and cranked the handle. At an advanced level, I could do without sampling and I wonder how many levels I could level up...

I remembered the bronze amulet of strength and I realised that I could actually duplicate bronze in this era. I was also able to duplicate legendary steel pieces of accessories before with Matilda, Stef and John Lethal. I weighed the piece in front of me and decided to try something out.

A piece of the iron ingot was taken out from the Blacksmithing Zone and into the Fusing Zone. I placed the iron ingot in the slot and reset the counter to 1, as I closed the door and cranked the lever. It took a while before I received the announcement.

*Ding* Duplication Success. 1 no of iron ingot attained. Progress +1%

"HOT DAMN... I could duplicate iron ingots now. Hmm... If I could duplicate iron ingots it means I could upgrade these bronze amulet of strength and sell it at a much higher price. So, one machine to duplicate the amulet and the other machine to fuse."

"Either way, I could earn 20,000 experience points, and 2000 allocation points as well as raise another 200 on both profession and combat level. Let me see if this fuses well and I could determine how much it would be sold as an iron piece."

"Since bronze piece earned 5 credits, I'm sure the iron ones would cost higher. Let me ask NoOne for both the iron ingot and the iron amulet." I said to myself as I place a bronze amulet in the other machine, push the slider to FUSE/MULTIPLE and set the counter to 1. I then closed the door and cranked the handle and I received a new announcement.

*Ding* Duplication Success. 1 no of Iron Amulet Of Strength. Strength +8 Progress +1%

"Heh heh heh... It is a success, dammit...!!! It is considered as a life hack and not a cheat even though it feels like cheating. Hurr hurr hurr... No worries lah. No one is going to get hurt. Sorry dear readers, this is not an OP machine that I've got... Since I really have a long way to go from here."

I removed the Iron Amulet Of Strength and reset the machine to 9999 and places it on standby as I removed all the bronze amulet of strength from my storage and dumped it in there. This would be made into iron once I have the ingots ready and once I have completed this, both machines would be able to duplicate iron pieces next.

Even though what I was doing was rather dumb as it looks, I can't be disposing them but instead, I could get them to work for me while I sleep. Ain't that, right? The second run would be much better than this. I could make use of the added points.

During this time of pondering in the Realm of Mind, the large basket was ready and I slipped them all into my storage. I got another piece of an iron ingot, reset the counter to 9999 and restart the replication.

So one Fusion chamber was replicating the iron ingot while the other was on standby to be turned from bronze to iron amulet. I logged off and went back to the real world and exited my room to head to Beauty World to place the baskets there and at the meantime head for shower and change.

I really need to make the fullest advantage of the situation as I knew the only way to levelling up is not just by grinding alone. I went to the kitchen and was preparing the ingredients for breakfast when everyone had stirred awake and I planned to make oatmeal with ladyfinger bananas on top as garnishing.

Becky arrived early and I showed her the ingredients for lunch and dinner as I prepared the rest of the items. "Lunch would be garlic butter fried rice with smoked fish and dinner it would be with minced pork. Here's a slab of pork chop, you can use all of these, no problem. Just don't forget the birds eye chilli later.

Becky nodded as she watched at the sidelines with a Virginia slim in her hands as she puffed the smoke as if she was fumigating the place to get rid of mosquitoes. "Oh yes, no smoking while preparing food and wash your hands when handling them. I'm a smoker too... I only to smoke and anger the director. Hehehehe."

I looked at Rebecca and offscreen she had a kind of demeanour like an arrogant person while in a script and on set she looked so demure. Hmm, can't blame them since people have their own characters right?

Rebecca washed her hands and she proceeded to prepare the ingredients and I took a bowl and went to Beauty World as I get a few green apples, strawberries, apricots and mandarin orange and brought them back to the Great Hall and places it on the table after giving them a quick rinse. At least we could savour the fruits of our labour.

Patricia was up and about after her shower and watched the bowl of fruits as she came down from her room. She saw me that had awoken early and asked, "Good morning Audemars, what time did you wake up this morning? Oh Hello, Becky... You're here early too. Wow... Oatmeals and ladyfinger bananas? This banana is really sweet on its own."

"I keep in waking up because of the things that I need to do. Well, right now what we could do is to process the essences while the children continue to make the X4Li8 face scrubs. Since there are 15 scents, it would take some time for them to make their own right after this."

"Yes, what an odd number to make. 465 of them per batch?" Patricia asked as she referred back to her clipboard that she had written down all the details.

"Yep... And once we had made about 5 of these, Prius can head down to Aermagh and wait for his return which would take about 6 days in total."

"By the time, he did say that he would be gathering the travelling merchants there and the locals here to help distribute our products. At the meantime, I would be busy heading to the meet NoOne since he is like sitting on a gold mine." I explained when I wanted to make a trip there ever so often so she wouldn't be thinking I'd be visiting the working ladies instead like the last time.

"Do you really need to make daily trips there, Audemars? By the way, how about the operation for the production here? It's going to be somehow automated and let the children handle it while I just supervise it?" Patricia asked about the status and I told her she could do abit of marketing around and inform the customers about our products.

"If they wanted to purchase it, just inform them it would be open in 15 days time. At the meantime the shopfront there is just a store or some kind of advertising. No worries, everything would work out from word of mouth."

I explained fully the purpose and Patricia understood it. There is no hurry since we are not running a full-fledged production, just yet.