I smile, or well, I don't have a face. Haha. I pretend to smile. I can make this little freak get me food! Go! Bring! Me! More!!!!

The little Lichen Golem waddles off. well now what. I'm full, maybe I can try pushing my power into other things WORM. Bam. A worm explodes into a tiny shower of wormy gore. Uuuuuhh. I groan, as my crystal brain tries to process what just happened. Did... I put to much power in? I try again, and push about half as much mana as before. Well it didn't explode this time, but its literal just a big worm. Maybe... Its about how fast I put in mana? I try again, with the same amount of mana as I originally did, but slower. Huh. It worked this time. Its still just a worm. But its glowing for some reason. Huh. I try again on another worm. This worm literally just turned into a rock. Maybe there are different types of mana. That would fit with the fantasy setting vibes I'm getting from this place. I try to channel mana once again into another worm, this time I really focus on making a glowing worm. Oh. It worked.

Thunk. The Lichen Golem pushes a hunk of granite the size of a baseball into my hole. Pause, that sounds wrong. Into my mini-cave? Still sounds wrong. Lair? Ill workshop the idea. Anyway. Should I eat the lichen, or make another Golem. I guess Golem. The more I have, the more food I get! I channel my mana into the rock, and focus on making another Golem. The Lichen writhes and writhes, and squeezes, my mana runs down. That's weird. I ran out of mana before the Lichen could turn to a Golem. Maybe its because the Rock is made of Granite, and the other Golem was made of, what is it made of. I focus in on the Golem, and using my mana try to asses what it is. Somehow in my brain I realize it is a conglomerate of shale, and tuff. Oh! Both of those are very weak. That makes sense. Huh. I peer back at the Lichen on the granite. Its still squirming, and rolling, on the rock, trying, its best to break it. Maybe if I channel more mana into it - poof - the Lichen starts to smoke before lighting on fire, and withering away. ooh. That felt nice. Okay, so even if I don't kill it directly as long as its in my domain it will give me its mana? Huh. I send the Golem off to collect more food. This time I specify not just rocks, but plants, wood, as well as any small animals or bugs it can catch.

The Golem wanders off into the forest, and I return my attention to the worms. I flinch as something lands on the worm. A leaf. I look up, and it appears that the Golem has ripped a weed out of the ground, and is throwing it into my cave. I need to come up with a name for it. I cant keep calling it the Lichen Golem. How about Lychee. Because Lichen, I don't know man. Anyway Lychee wanders off into the forest. Ok... I turn back, and quickly eat the leaves the Golem brought me. I return my focus to the worm. I'm just gonna eat it. All the worms seem useless, and I'm bored.

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All of a sudden I hear rustling above me. Outside of my cave I can hear leaves moving. Then I notice a squirrel peer into my cave. It crawls into my cave, and quickly notices the worms, which it eats, before returning its attention to me. Huh. That's scary. Maybe I should make my Golem come back... The squirrel walks up to me, and grabs me with its grubby little squirrel paws. Let go of me you fuck! I try to squirm, and escape. Oh wait. I'm a rock. I cant squirm. Or escape. I start to panic. Uh oh. Then, Thud. My Golem hops down into the cave. It is smaller than the squirrel but its hands are made of sharp river rock. It swings one hand, and the squirrel gets cut. It screeches loudly before turning back around, and trying to claw the Golem. But Lychee cant feel pain, so it swings again, and cuts the squirrel again, and again, before eventually the squirrel stops moving, and comes to a rest, bleeding on the floor of my cave.

That was fucking scary. From now on, I cant be left alone. Especially if a squirrel almost did me in. I wonder what would happen if I channeled my energy into the squirrel. Ii begin to pump my mana into the squirrel, and all of a sudden I understand it. I understand the squirrel. How It reproduces, and so on. As my mana continues to pump into the dead squirrel it begins to rouse, and all of a sudden, it doesn't do shit. Oh. Right. It's dead. Maybe I can use its remains, to lure in other animals. I sigh, and in boredom I wonder what happens if I try to just shape my mana without a conduit. I begin to try to push my mana into the shape of a squirrel, but with a bigger, tail, and I make the bones bigger. Maybe I can make it stand on two legs. I smile, and look at my blueprint of a weird fucking monster squirrel. Maybe oh. What's happening. The remains of the dead squirrel is twisting, and shredding. Bits of the squirrel float over, and assimilate with my blueprint filling them out. I chunk of rock tears out of the ground to form, The squirrels bones, and claws. Whoa. It's done. I have weird monster squirrel in front of me. Maybe I can call it, a rock squirrel because its bits are made of rock. Why isn't it moving. Is it dead. Maybe I need to give it a soul. How do I do that. I try to channel mana into the creature but it doesn't work. Maybe. I just killed that squirrel, maybe its soul is floating around somewhere. Wait a second. I ate the energy that came out of it when it died. Than is the mana the soul? But I tried using that, and it didn't work. I look inside of me, and notice a smaller weaker force residing in my core. Lights, A Hazel colored light is swirling in my soul. In my core. Is this the squirrels soul? I try to pull the soul, and I can move it. I can twist, and turn it. I try to put the soul into the squirrel, and... IT WORKS. The squirrel starts walking around. it's supposed to walk on two legs, but it seems to still have the consciousness, of the original squirrel, and is still trying to walk on 4 legs. Huh. But it follows my orders. So thats something. PROGRESS!!!!