Chapter 2: Chapter 2

Parent Achievements

Becoming a parent is always an achievement. Reward depends on the person.

 

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“So humankind got punished with me and is going to live on that planet, if they survive the chaos that is going to descend on them. I feel kinda bad for them as this is basically my fault.”

 

“Yeah, but it’s not like you can do anything for them right now and if you are honest you don’t want any attachments to your last life, don’t you?”

 

“You don’t sound like someone who has known me for only a few hours, Alyra and not wanting any attachments doesn’t mean I would like to be the reason for countless deaths.”

 

“I have known you for all of your life dad!”

 

She said while blinking her status window as if winking to Argul. He really wanted to groan right now. Also doesn’t it sound weird if your daughter has known you for all of your life? No? Not in the slightest you say? Well then, let's not question that one.

As if to distract himself from a certain ethical problem he opened his skill menu.

 

Skills

Active: uniphone, rapid intend based mutation (ribm)

Passive: Knowledge domain, core regeneration

 

Knowledge domain and core regeneration Argul could guess. Core regeneration is his version of passive healing and knowledge domain he got from his father of the archives achievement, but what the heck his active skills were supposed to do he couldn’t tell.

 

“Hey Alyra can you help me for a second?”

The chat box appeared nearly instantly.

“And please stop reading my thoughts or I’m going to have to ground you!”

“As if you ever would do something like that.” 

She said knowing Argul too well.

 “Hehe”

“Hey!” 

That little–

“Okay I will stop. Back to your question. Uniphone is your ability to call the universe, you may praise me for my naming sense!”

“Maybe in your next life, dear.” 

He thought sweetly.

“You’re mean! Hmph!”

 It must be really hard to convey her emotions as a box.

“Please continue, would you?”

“Fiiine. The next skill allows you to push mana as well as intent into one point, causing a rapid mutation of an organism that would be able to survive in the chosen environment. It takes 100 mana for a level 1 organism and then follows what the development of your Mana capacity would be without quests, achievements and evolutions. Organisms on your first floor can normally only attain level one. To get them to a higher level you would need to pump mana into them or somehow get them to go to a lower floor. It is in my opinion only worth doing so in an emergency.”

“I hereby vow to try not to create some horrible abominations, that sounds like a skill that could go very wrong and isn’t very exact.”

Argul could see the wriggling mass of flesh he would create one day. If creatures would level passively depending on the mana concentration, he had to agree with his daughter about creating higher leveled organisms.

“Jinx it a bit more would you? I can already see it, some kind of weird walking rock grass.”

“And that is one for my not to do list.”

And so the Not To Do List, that contained all things Argul would someday somehow create, was born.

 

Now that Argul knew that he could create plants and animals, he only needed to fill the nothingness around him somehow.

“Hey Alyra, how do I work exactly? Like am I a normal dungeon that creates monsters and traps to protect its heart from filthy and greedy sapients or not? Also how do I level?”

“Oh! Finally you ask about something important!” 

How a box could look this excited he would never know.

“Hey, let a lady have her fun!” 

 “You are not even a day old…Not that I am.”

 

“Ahem! Anyways, you get environment templates from the planets and other objects in space your portal is on, as long as they are somewhat natural, so no going to space stations for now. There will be an indirect way around that later on, but I will let you know. Your portal represents your sphere of influence. Normally you could grow your domain, but then you wouldn’t be able to create a dungeon and floors. Portals will appear everywhere where a somewhat intelligent creature, like a wolf, that has incorporated Mana, lives for at least a month. As you, your mana and your creatures can’t leave your prison that is going to be rather hard for now.

Back to the templates, for now you only have a moon template with gray ground and craters and such. Also not a lot of gravity there, but enough that it would be somewhat hard to leave.

As for your level, you level with each new floor you build. A floor is ‘finished’ when it is inhabited by at least 5 plants and 3 animals, one small, one herbivore and a predator. One of the plants has to be dangerous in at least a small kind of way like having thorns. I know it doesn’t sound like an ecosystem, but the rest will likely evolve in a natural way from the existing organisms that are already there to fill in any gaps. Also your inhabitants can move between floors, so they might later settle somewhere else then where you created them at first. You are always free to create more than required.

You don’t do traps. You provide an environment that is a lot more dangerous than one without mana, that also has resources that would be impossible without mana. So it is more like you give any would-be adventurers something else than you to focus on.

As for your safety, your core will always be on the lowest floor, the furthest away from the entrance, while also being surrounded by rock or earth or something else, one never knows what is possible.”

 

“That was somewhat of an infodump there you know?”

Argul didn’t want to complain as this was really important information for him.

“Yeah, but it would have been annoying to do it step by step and I might have forgotten something that way.”

He had to agree.

“I have just one problem with this right now before I want to try it out. Will I still be able to vary what I do with the template like only caves?”

That was important, as Argul would hate to only have surface moon floors.

“That should still be possible. Oh, I almost forgot! Every floor will be in somewhat of a new plane of existence, so that they don't impede one another.

I would recommend that you start with trying to manipulate Mana and then go with a normal surface and ground for now and start slow. You should also check your quests, they will help.”

“Okay, thanks for the tip! Who makes quests and achievements anyways?”

“Ahh, well mana is really a lot intent based. The quests and achievements are created from mana and your subconsciousness, to motivate mortals to discover new knowledge and to strive to better oneself. Be that good or bad, mana does not judge.” 

 

Good to know, Argul would bet there were achievements for resentment and similar things. But that again was a worry for the growing later list, as he had quests to check and floors to build.

 

Quests

 

Flooring away (1)

Requirements: It grows! (1) | Don’t eat that! (1)

Finish the first floor!

 

It grows! (1)

Requirements: Mana is power!

Create a plant!

 

Don’t eat that! (1)

Requirements: It grows! (1) | Mana is power!

Create an animal!

 

Sweet freedom!

Find a way to escape or leave your prison!

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Mana is power!

Learn how to manipulate mana!

 

To talk back

Requirements: Sweet freedom! | Prodigy outcast (1)

Your home universe banished you for no reason ‘cough’. How about you show it some of those shiny and sharp things, eh?!

 

Like a weed (1)

Requirements: Sweet freedom!

Spread your influence to the planet your moon orbits.

 

How Argul would manage to hurt a universe with sharp shiny things would likely remain a mystery for eternity. Otherwise he seemed to have long term quests and quests for the immediate future. Argul just hoped sensing and manipulating mana wouldn’t be all that hard as he started to focus on himself.

 

Something clicked and he could sense mana as if he was always meant to be able to do it in the first way. It was everywhere except on the other side of the portal and if Argul focused enough his mana would slowly do what he wanted. It was not like seeing a different color, as is often described in litrpg novels, mana was more of a feeling. Argul might have started playing with mana without noticing the passing of time, but he came out of his trance after he tried to form a little ball of mana and pressed it away from himself. He succeeded and the ball of mana shot away from himself. Argul opened his annoying notifications again.

 

Congratulations 

You created the skill Mana Manipulation

You can control mana.

This skill will help to make it somewhat easier to control and command mana.

 

Congratulations

You created the skill/spell Magic missile

You can form mana into a sphere and command it to shoot away from you at a rapid pace.

This skill will help you with the spell creation.

 

Achievement made: Skill Creator (1)

You created a skill unknown to the archives and enriched the universe. Skills will be easier to learn and you understand some information better. (skill learning (1) acquired)

 INT +1

 

Quest completed: Mana is power!

You have learned how to manipulate mana. Would have been embarrassing if not, I mean you are basically mana.

You can now build floors. Floor menu unlocked. Moon (unnamed) template unlocked. You can set rules for how finished floors should grow if your STR increases.

 

“Huh, you can create skills?”

Argul asked even though it made sense for him. 

“Well of course you idiot! Mana and I are new and as the representative and operator of the archives I might know everything that has happened where mana is, but I can’t invent things myself. There are only a few skills that I acquired from your memories of your first life and yes I have those memories too. All the other skills someone else will have to create. Me being new is also the cause of your status sheet changing a bit here and there, I am still working on optimizing this system.”

“Sorry Alyra, I should have thought of that.”

Another mystery solved, Alyra was creating the system.

“And of course you apologize, not like you could give yourself some slack for getting thrown in this situation and not going bat shit crazy!”

Algur had no idea what was wrong with him apologizing for asking stupid questions, as he himself hated getting asked those. In the end he just put it down to Alyra wanting to complain about something. He checked his status again.

 

Status

 

Name	Argul Agren		Stats
Race	Mana core		Str	2
Age	23h		Int	4
Level	1		Wis	4
Structural integrity	100%
Mana	101/101
Mana regeneration	1,03/min

 

Skills	Active	Passiv
	uniphone	Knowledge domain
	ribm	Core regeneration
	Mana manipulation	Learning (1)
	Magic missile

 

Floor	Template	Size (radius)
1	none	40km

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