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Location: Cave Entrence

Day 1, Week 0

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The tide soon pushes me onto the cave where my next adventure awaits.

The feeling of washing ashore with in the small dimly lit cave brought with it many emotion I didn’t realize I was suppressing the main ones were both relief and fear.

I no longer had to worry about the waves picking me up and crashing me in to a rocky coastline before dragged and grinding me across the sharp rocky shore.

The other feeling I had was a sense of disorientation and confusion as the 360-degree vision that I had once relied upon was no more as the sand I had been so lucky to be deposited on was now blocking my view bellow.

Simultaneously as I settled into the black sand of my new home. My obsidian core pulsed with a sudden and unexpected force, like watching a explosion hit the sound barrier a ripple of otherworldly power explode outward stripping my core of its black colouration and splattering it across the walls and ceiling of the cave. Penetrating every animal and plant in its way, revealing a mesmerizing sapphire sphere, swirling with shades of azure, aquamarine, and cerulean evoking the vastness and tranquillity of the open ocean.

Much like a butterfly I had shed my cocoon to reveal my beautiful true form.

I was finally able to see just how tiny my vision was up until now. I was no longer adrift at sea, no longer rocking back and forth with the waves unable to determine the size of the animals and objects around me appeared and disappeared in the ocean haze.

The fact that the light was no longer being absorbed and reflected all around, tricking me into thinking things were larger and much more further away than they were also helped.

CORE ESTABLISHED

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Unlocking racial trait’s

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CONGRAULATION YOU ARE LEVEL ONE

A blue translucent message appears in front of my vision before blinking out.

with the ability to see everything happening all around me, I focus my vision in on a large red crab that was feeding in a rock pool at the back of the cave near me, As I do my new cores colours begin slowly swirling like a whirlpool.

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I watch as the crab now trying scuttling away after being struck by the now black liquid, into a crack within the rocks.

But even here within this tiny crack I could still see it and as the black inky substance slowly seeped in, I could observe it from all directions if I paid enough attention. And after a few minutes. I could perceive every inch of the walls surrounding me simultaneously.

I felt and new the location of each plant and animal within the cave,

within MY cave.

I reached out with my will like I had done last time, this time with the extent to make the animals move closer towards me.

And just as I thought they did.

After a couple of hours and some more experimenting I was able to figure out that I could give them orders and they would follow them until I stopped focusing on them then they would revert of being normal animals again after completing that task I had set for them unless I ordered them again.

I had deduced that the black liquid that exploded out of me was my mana and that I had control over them due them being infused with it.

Having had some time now to also observe my surrounding. I could see that ambient mana from outside had slowly been drawn into the caves entrance. It was as if I were a black hole and my cave entrance was the event horizon once It passed the threshold there was no escape for it.

At first, I thought it would slow down but after the first couple of hours I had a feeling that I was getting more and more mana each hour.

I was acting more like weather system. By absorbing the ambient mana around me, I had in a sense created a low-pressure system, by stripped the environment of its mana the more mana rich air rushed in to fill it the void I have created just like a high-pressure system but of cause it too would also be stripped of mana hence repeating the cycle.

My core had also starting to grow in size where once I was just above the water line now I was starting to sink back down due to my weight. Lucky my growth rate seems to be slower the larger I become however this event did weight on my mind,

Just how big was I going to be?

But with no way to stop the process now that it had started, the mana naturally would be drawn to me and as my dungeon grew deeper and had more space to fill the rate at which it would rush in to fill the void left behind would only grow more intense.

In that regard it was an unstoppable force and even more concerning.

As I had drifted across the ocean I had seen the sign of sapient life even interacted with an undead skeleton and it had reacted to my mana and therefore I could conclude that it was only a matter of time before somebody or something somewhere sense my mana. if not now then later but eventually they would notice the mana storm that I had brewing outside.

The greatest tool in my arsenal was my mind, I used to be an adventurer an explorer back on earth. I knew how these people would think and what they would do and I could use that knowledge against, them. It was simple all I had to do was wear down their equipment and dwindle there supply forcing them to abort the expedition.

The coastline outside already work to my advantage it made it so that anyone who wanted to find me would not be able set up shop right outside my entrance instead they would either have to camp on top of the cliff face and risk the step climb down each trip or they would have to walk along the beach which while it would be safer it would allow sand and salt water to effect their equipment. My remote location and access would also make them have limited access to resupplies, meaning they would have to bring everything with them. Which would slow them down.

I knew enough from reading all the story’s back on earth that I had to also have an incentive to make adventures want to delver into my depths. I would need boss, treasure, traps and most importantly a theme for each level or perhaps the dungeon itself.

I needed to prepare. I need to build up my defences and hide my core as quick as possible.

There was so much to do but were to begin.