Chapter 24: Chapter 22

Also this chapter is Argul working on her domain for multiple nights. Last time I had a time limit and the chapter was in my opinion not as good as it could have been because of that. Just sayin so that the time frame will make sense for you. Thanks for reading!

 

“The ultimate goal you ask me? I don’t know for me anymore. When I was young I of course wanted to evolve as much as possible so I may become immortal, but now I know some of the cost to achieve this goal and I’m not even halfway there.”

The term youth possibly means something else for the man in front of me, who is recorded to be at least 2000 years old.

 

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For her next floor Argul had chosen a deep sea theme. She added a small chance for the appearance of oceanic trenches to form between large islands on her sixth floor. Of course one was located near her start island, she had everything there. Argul thought it was a bit too much, so the trench would close once another had formed.

 

Through these oceanic trenches one could go to the 7th floor, the deep sea. Argul did something special here. There would be no ground on this floor and everything would be a dark ocean. Instead of one ground large rocks would float through the water like asteroids through space.

 

Some of these asteroids would have little mini volcanoes, enabling the growth of special plants and creatures that would be unable to survive without the heat. The deep sea was a cold place, so you had to be special to survive here.

 

Argul also added what she called resource lakes. Due to pressure conditions sometimes lakes of extremely rare liquid ressources would form. Near or in these lakes would be asteroids that had geysers instead of volcanoes. The hot water of the geysers would contain some of the ressource type of the lake they were near or in.

 

Having successfully added acidic and alkaline lakes, Argul also heightened the pressure to make living here even worse. She would have to create a special kind of plankton and algae for this floor to survive and procreate here or there would be no food for the freaky things living there.

 

Before giving the floor time to grow she also added some freaky events, one of which was likely to birth something Argul would regret ever having seen.

 

Floor 6

Deep Sea

Rock size: medium to large

Eternal night

temperature: around 2°C

Events:

Sea currents:

There is a small chance of sea currents occurring in a region for a few days. These can lead through resource lakes and take on their characteristics and in case of different chemicals combining cause chemical reactions

 

PUT. THE PLUG. BACK. IN!!!

There is a small chance each month for large amounts of water to be sucked in oceanic trenches. We highly advise not to go swimming during this time. This event will lead to multiple sea currents happening on the 7th floor. After 1 to 3 days the suction force will reverse, returning lost water to the 6th floor. This will likely cause tsunamis and the appearance of deep sea denizens on the 6th floor.

 

See? The currents will likely cause the mutation of something and the other event makes sure that people will know about it!

 

Argul let her floor start growing and put some things on her sixth floor. She would need to create some whales. They would enable her to also have some larger predators and maybe krakens in the deep sea or swimming cthulhu eyes or something. After that she got some sleep.

 

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The next night Argul got her first view of the 7th floor. It was black, who would have thought? Now she got to feel her floor. It had mostly finished growing and living here would be hell, at least for creatures of the surface.

 

A lot of rocks were drifting around and any vehicle without light or sonar was bound to crash into something. Those with sonar or light were likely going to be eaten once Argul was finished with the floor. No, she was not malicious. It was the deep sea! There had to be horrors there or why would people fear it so much. And it’s not like Argul was forcing anyone to come here. (Let’s just ignore the resource lakes…)

 

Said lakes were still rare. There were a few here and there on the large floor, but they were often on the smaller side than on the larger one. The geysers on the rocks in their location were happily spewing out their payloads.

 

To quickstart her ecosystem Argul got to work and created a small algae that needed all its mana to survive on the floor and was only able to procreate once it had reached level 5. Luckily they were very tiny and got there rather fast. After waiting for her mana to regenerate Argul did the same with plankton and got about the same result as with the algae, creating some nice deep sea plankton.

 

To give them time to spread, Argul created two more corals and two more random fish. One of them was actually a predator and looked a bit like a mini manta, which was also the name she gave them.

 

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Mini manta

This is a small animal. This fish is specialized in speed and venom. While they prey on mostly crabs and small fish, mini mantas always try to poison and prey on larger creatures if they hunt as a pack.

 

Quest completed: Don’t eat that! (3)

You created 25 new species of animals. Species you create are more likely to procreate during the first 3 days after their creation and hatching speed or pregnancies are sped up, so that offspring will be born in about one day. Str+1

 

New Quest: Don’t eat that! (4)

Requirements: Don’t eat that! (3)

Create 50 creatures! (25/50)

 

Right, that quest also existed. Argul wondered why it wasn’t an endless quest as she slowly fell to sleep.

 

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Today was the night! The night of glowing ocean plants. Argul had no idea if the weird things filtering plankton out of the water were plants or something else, likely the letter though. Thinking about it there wouldn’t be many plants on this floor, but Argul needed 5 of them. So what if these weird things scientifically weren’t plants, she would make them plants and solve that problem.

 

Argul then did just that for the night and created 5 different plants. They all looked weird and fleshy, but who was she to judge right? Three of them looked similar to her weeping pink hair on the 4th floor and the other two were more like corals. Wait, corals are not plants, which meant Argul had messed up her coral reef! She had created plant corals, but corals should be animals. Ahh who cares, at least they grow faster as plants!

 

After creating the plants Argul created some kind of small shell on the 6th floor. No ocean without shells! Then she got herself a little bit of sleep.

 

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Tonight Argul would finish the floor. Really, it would be anything but finished, but the system didn’t care. 

The first thing she created was of course a shell. It was a large one though and would form pearls up to the size of a fist. Argul by no means forced sapients to come to the floor… Then she created shrimps that fed off the plants and the small algae, maybe even the plankton, but Argul didn’t care. Shrimps! Why they were so damn large though she had no idea. Let's remind ourselves that nobody is forced to come to the 7th floor.

 

She ignored the notifications for now and created two more small crusteacens. There was something about crabs in the deep sea that just sat right with Argul. Then she created her first fish. While she still couldn’t see, due to her domain she still knew everything about them.

 

The fish was white and had the form of a bird, just without the feet and wings. Even the mouth looked like a small beak, though it was still white. Why the thing had fins that looked like stylish eyebrows Argul didn’t know. From where the belly of a bird would be another two fins protruded. These looked like a bad imitation of drake wings you couldn’t close. They were still white, like everything on the fish. It had a tail she would give a tadpole. The fish couldn’t do all that much, but it did look special in a good kind of way. That was likely the last time she would create something on the beautiful side.

 

The next fish she created hadn’t even considered the concept of color. You would be able to see through it, at least if you were able to see anything down here. It looked a lot like a gigantic water flea and ate the algae and plankton. You could see its organs, but all in all it had okay looks.

 

That was the end of Argul’s luck though, as the next fish was a predator. It looked like somebody had decided to displace the fish’s face with a mouth, a mouth that had all too many teeth and too large teeth. The thing wasn’t even able to close it fully, not that it was required to do so to kill its prey. To lure in said prey it had a glowing tongue and while that made it even more terrifying to look at for those who could see, the creatures down here would mostly not be able to discern between the light of one of the plants or big mouth. Luckily it was only the size of a human head, so you couldn’t accidentally enter its mouth.

 

Argul watched her new horror and decided to take a break for now. While she had BIG plans for her deep sea, she would have to make preparations first and rushing creatures wouldn’t help her. She also had all the time she could want, so there was no need to rush anything.

 

Argul checked her status before she would get an hour of sleep.

 

You finished the floor

Level up!

 

Status

 

Skills

Floor size

Status (humanoid)

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