It takes some time, but eventually Faellen makes its way over to the portal and back to my Dungeon. At last, everything is more or less back to normal.

While that was happening I studied the enchantment blueprint I received a bit more.

On a basic surface level it sort of looked like the mana gathering enchantment. But just barely. It’s essence was much more complex, as well as useful.

Rather than gathering mana from the environment and pulling it to one spot to create an area of higher concentration, this one only affected energy that came relatively close to it. And instead of only gathering the energy, it immediately put it to use. Specifically, it used the energy to reinforce itself and the material around it. As for the energy it used… it wasn’t mana. It was Divine energy.

This enchantment was practically tailor made to contain a deity.

Before doing anything else, I worked with Faellen to inscribe it onto Zemis’s cage. Better to be safe than sorry, and I wasn’t going to risk letting the deity stew inside the time chamber for too long. Otherwise they might figure out a way to deal with it.

Either way, once that was all done we were free to do whatever we wished. Well, not really. There was still work to be done.

“Alright, what was the issue?” my fairy assistant asked after we had rested for a bit from the enchanting work.

“Right, yes. A lot of the Sipaloons seem to be awakening to my blessing and I’m worried about the consequences that might have. The System recommended that since they already treat me as a god I should give them a proper doctrine to follow. That should supposedly help guide them to not wreak destruction with my blessing.”

“And how am I supposed to help with that?”

“Weeeeeell,” I drew the word out, “I thought that my amazing, awesome, absolutely super-duper cool and magnificent assistant could help me draft something up? Pretty please?” if I had a face and eyes to do so, I would’ve been making puppy dog eyes.

The fairy sighed, “Fine, but you are the one who’s going to tell them the rules. I’m not going to be your ‘divine messenger’ anymore, got it?”

“Awesome! Yes!” Happy with that taken care of, I proceeded with the good news. “As for the other thing, my new Ability… Why don’t you go to my Core.”

Faellen, curious about what I was up to now, flew towards the centre of the Dungeon moon. But when it arrived, it didn’t find what it was looking for.

Where before floated the Core it was Bonded to, now floated a swirling portal. In the middle of the portal was an area about the size of a human head through which one could see to the other side. And on that other side was another tunnel like the others in the Dungeon, and at the end of that tunnel finally floated the Core.

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“What the…” Faellen muttered.

“Ta-da! Surprised? I got a pocked dimension Ability!”

The fairy flew a couple of laps around the portal, examining it from all angles, before finally flying in. From its perspective, it simply flew straight ahead. But I saw something much stranger.

Usually, in a classic 3-dimensional space there are only three ways to go. There’s width, height, and depth. Or altitude, longitude, and latitude. In which one can move up, down, east, west, south, and north.

But that’s not where my Mystic Realm was. It was located in another layer of reality, a fourth dimension. And when moving through a fourth dimension, one can move either ana or kata*.

(*this is a true fact. That’s how it’s called, look it up)

So, that is a long-winded way to say that while for Faellen it appeared as if it moved straight ahead through the portal, or north, I saw it move ana. Or kata. Either one of those. I’m not sure, I’m still new to this this whole layers of reality thing.

“You’ve made your own layer of reality…” Faellen spoke in bewilderment.

“Yes! The Ability is called Mystic Realm. I haven’t explored what all it can do just yet, but it looks awesome. I didn’t want to rush, since this basically gave me the opportunity to make my Dungeon from scratch. And good this time, not just expansion for the sake of expansion.”

“Mystic Realm… are you sure it’s called that?”

“Yeah, I can read my own Status,” I scoffed.

“You don’t get it, do you?” suddenly, it was much more serious. I didn’t understand, what was the big deal? So I stayed silent until it continued. “If it’s really called a Realm, then- just- you’re- sigh. The Wyld is a Realm. And if you have an Ability that’s called a Realm then that means you’re on the level of the Wyld, or will be eventually. You at least have the potential.”

I was silent, shocked. Surely that can’t be true. Just because of the name of an Ability?

“You’ve gotta be joking. Right?”

“No. The System doesn’t just randomly assign names and it for sure knows what a true Realm is. It wouldn’t just call it that for nothing.”

“Well then… does it change anything?” I asked.

“What do you mean if it changes anything? How could it not?”

“I mean, does the knowledge give us something new? Will our actions somehow change by knowing this? Our plans shift? I don’t think so. It’s not like this gives us a new threat, or even a huge power up.”

“That’s… probably true, yeah.”

“Great! Now then, any ideas for my Dungeon version two point oh?”

We spent the rest of the (metaphorical (since there’s not really a day inside the Dungeon, especially not inside the Mystic Realm)) day brainstorming idea for the new section of my Dungeon. With my portals to Lapis finally functional, I would not longer need to be limited by the few materials and monsters I managed to acquire over my voyage through space. With all the new options, there’s no telling what we could construct.

But all that is for another time.