Chapter 5: Chapter 5

Mana x Magic

Natural Mana debuffs magic of the contrary element up to 2% more mana usage, but does not buff the magic of the same element as the mana of the magician and the natural mana are still different. To find a region with pure enough mana for a debuff one has to be exceptionally lucky or unlucky.

 

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“Why would one want to level if you can just get stronger through quests?”

“Well by my estimation your body should have absorbed enough mana at level 25 to cause an evolution. I don’t know what that evolution will do, but it could be anything, even enhancing your basis and making your stats much stronger in the long run. The mana needed for evolution is different from species to species, but species that were never in contact with mana should have at least a minor one at level one.”

“Okay, but isn’t that kind of unfair for those who always lived with mana?”

“Nope, mana makes a creature a lot stronger in comparison to one without, so the level one evolution is more to give them a chance. They will still be weaker than your creatures, but don’t get too full of yourself because they don’t need as much mana for their next evolution. Also some of the traits of evolution can be passed on to your descendents.” 

“Oh it’s going to be fun to watch important human families trying to breed the best children only for some adventurer to get something better.”

Alyra could swear she could smell Argul’s amusement through their connection.

“Has anyone ever told you that your sense of humor is weird?”

“Well thank you!”

“No comment”

 

Having successfully made fun of his former people Argul got back to finishing his first floor. He already knew that he wanted slimes and maybe mosquitos that preyed on the slimes. There was only one problem, that magic only goes so far. His slimes had to make at least some kind of sense.

 

Slimes were in a sense a ball of digestive tract, but to make that work Argul had to add other necessary things to a living being somewhere. He added a thick membrane and stuffed breathing and thinking and all the other needed stuff in there. Around that membrane they were going to have a second one focused on protection. They perceive their surroundings through sense mana and small vibrations. That should work for the slimes, leaving Argul to regenerate his mana again.

 

After waiting for about one hour, Argul got to work near one of his bushes. 3 cat sized silver slimes mutated into existence and started to happily wobble around. They were damn cute and Argul really wanted to take some kind of picture of them, but then he remembered his trees and immediately identified them to make sure he didn’t create another monster of nature.

 

Slime

This is a mid-sized animal. Slimes might not look like much, but compared to other animals they are smart and really good at understanding the emotions of other beings. Slimes are naturally curious and like to explore and because of their body can live anywhere as long as they have food.

Slimes usually divide at least once a month, but can do it more often if their population is small.

 

One of the slimes jumped and god damn was that cute. Argul couldn’t hold it in anymore.

“Goodness why are they so cute, they look like the perfect responsive cuddle pillows!”

“Are you sure you were male in your last life? But you’re right they are cute, a bit like kittens.”

“Hey, that's sexist! And I’m not sure if I have a gender right now, for all I know you could call me mom.”

“Heeh”

“No please don’t!”

“Do not fret mom, everything is going to be alright.”

“What have I done? You won't ever call me something else again will you?”

“Nope, not ever even if it means being stuck in your dungeon forever.”

It was silent for a few minutes.

“Sniff. You would stay with me for such a small thing?”

“Right, can’t leave you alone. Also you can’t cry, you are crystal.”

Alyra tried to distract her mom from her insecurities. 

“I can, just look at my core!”

 Argul said indignant and also looked at his core for the first time.

 

He saw his core hovering in nothingness and was shocked, as he might have forgotten that his floor will only continue growing after he finishes it. The core was a colorless sphere that had swirls of different colors appearing, moving around and disappearing again. Argul would have started a bit at the gem that he was himself, but he had a job to do. He copied the movement of mana that occured around the Lunagrass seeds and created water drops on his core. Then he made the drops move in a tear like manner to the bottom of his core, where he let them drop off and reversed the movement of the mana of his first spell, dispersing the drops that left the surface of his core back into mana.

 

Congratulations

You learned the skill/spell conjure Water

You can conjure Water! This skill helps with the spell formation and will let you conjure more water.

 

Congratulations

You created the skill/spell Water manipulation

You can manipulate water! This skill will increase your efficiency in doing so.

 

Congratulations

You created the skill/spell banish Water

You can banish water, returning it to mana! This skill will help with the spell formation and your efficiency.

 

Congratulations, you combined the skills conjure Water, Water manipulation and banish Water

You created the skill/spell fake Tears

No matter who you are, what you are and how you feel, you can cry! You can even make others cry if you want. This skill helps to make making eyes all watery even easier.

 

Achievement made: Skill Creator (2)

You created 5 or more skills unknown to the archives and enriched the universe. Your skill learning got a moderate upgrade. Your skill identify got a minor upgrade. WIS +1

 

Learning (3)

Skills will be a lot easier to learn and you will understand most information better.

 

Identify (2)

The skill displays everything you know about your target. Even knowledge you forgot will be shown. The skill does not display false knowledge.

You can upgrade the skill through quests.

 

“You had more than 50 hours of time to create spells and now you created a party trick just to prove a point?”

“Cough. Well yeah, I thought I could be lazy and let people create or use the skills inside my domain and then have the knowledge to do it myself…”

“You just forgot mom!”

“A manacrystel can have dreams!”

“Delusions not dreams.”

“Rub it in a bit more will you?”

“That’s what I’m here for.”

Argul really wanted to shake his head, but he would have to grow one first and that would take it a step too far for him. Fact is though he needed more slimes.

 

Argul watched the slimes for three days and one of them split, so he now had 4. There was a lot more silver on the floor now then the gray of the ground. It was a good thing too, because the slimes had to eat now. The rest of the plants took longer to spread.

Argul watched for another 5 days. In truth he took a nap, but he would never confess that to his hard working daughter. Nothing much happened in these 5 days. He had 8 slimes now and one of them had developed some kind of friendship with the Negators.

 

With a refreshed mind Argul got to work on his mosquitos. He hadn’t really slept, as he had still been able to perceive everything on his floor, but it was his version of sleeping and resting the mind. Back to the mosquitos, they are going to be the size of a Negator and would prey on the slimes. Their poison was going to make the slimes really relaxed so that they won’t fight back. As that should have been enough, he now really got to work.

Argul created 3 mostly mosquitos, their rear was split in two and a bit larger then he would have thought. Oh and they flew silently. Argul named and identified them.

 

Silent Mosquito (rename?)

This is a small animal. This insect preys on slimes in low gravity regions. Silent mosquitos fly silently to hide themself from their prey, They have developed a special kind of poison, which is very relaxing for the slime and can be addicting when the slime is often exposed to the poison. 

After ingesting the stomach fluids of the slime, they divide these fluids in the acidic and nutrius ones. The acidic fluids are stored extra and can be released when the mosquito is attacked to distract the offender. 

 

“The day I created mosquitos that drug slimes to suck them dry… It’s like succubi for men.”

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 Argul got distracted by notifications and left the mosquitos to themselves.

 

You finished floor 1. Your floor can continue to grow and you can decide placement and design for the way to the next floor.

 

Quest completed! Flooring away (1)

You created your first floor. The future looks bright!

Growing speed of your floors is doubled. Str +1, Wis +1

 

New quest: Flooring away (2)

Requirements: Flooring away (1)

Have 5 finished floors!

 

Please decide further floor growth!

 

Argul just wanted to let the floor grow like before.

 

Accepted

Please decide placement and design for the way to the next floor.

 

Now came the interesting part, because Argul wasn’t sure if it was possible to reposition the entrance to the second floor upon gaining strength. He requested the entrance to always be randomly placed in the outer 10 kilometers of his floor. As for the design, a natural downwards sloping cave would do it for this floor and it should be big enough for multiple 3 meter tall humans to walk side by side. Argul would likely change the settings later.

 

Request acceptable, design accepted, waiting for the floor to grow…

 

“Hey Aly, how does the system manage all these things in my dungeon?”

“The system takes some of your intelligence and wisdom to create something you could describe as AI that manages these things for you. The AI is connected to you so you can update it should the need arrive. This design will help give you more time to do more important things such as discovering new knowledge. I made a similar system for kingdoms, other kinds of states and organizations, though they are a bit different and not really refined as I lack the knowledge to create something better for now.”

“Huh, that’s pretty smart you know? Just imagine being able to be king and still having time for your hobby! I still don’t want to be king. I would break under the responsibility.”

“Thanks mom! I noticed from the memories of your last life that people often got stuck with paperwork after succeeding and that they didn't have time for the things they really wanted to do anymore. I thought it was a flaw and mana can negate some of it so why not.”

“You are smarter than me, I surrender!”

“Hehe”

 

Argul had to wait for another 5 day until his floor reached its current maximum size. It took another 2 day for the first Lunagrass to reach his cave system entrance. You had to walk about 2km before the system ended, where Argul guessed his next floor would begin. He checked his status before creating his second floor and leaving his first behind.

 

Status

 

Name	Argul Agren		Stats
Race	Mana core		Str	5
Age	16,6d		Int	5
Level	1		Wis	9
Structural integrity	100%
Mana	104,06/104,06
Mana regeneration	1,08/min

 

Skills	Active	Passiv
	uniphone	Knowledge domain
	ribm	Core regeneration
	Mana manipulation	Learning (3)
	Magic missile	Sense Mana
	Identify (2)	Accelerated [m] growth (small)
	conjure Water	Accelerated [s] growth (all)
	Water manipulation
	banish Water
	fake Tears

 

Floor	Template	Size (radius)	Area or Volume
1	Luna (moon) surface	70km	14500km²
2	none	—	—

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