FAIL. This squirrel is stupid. It still has a squirrel brain, it's skittish, I made it a carnivore, but it doesn't want to eat meat, and it won't walk on 2 legs, so it's way slower than it was before.

Maybe, I can try altering the soul of a creature. I wonder if I can kill this rock squirrel and regain its soul. Let's try to get another animal first. GO MY MINIONS! I chuckle, one day. I send out my Rock squirrel failure, as well as Lychee. The command I gave them was.

Bring me a small animal alive.

The squirrel, and Lychee seem to separate early on. Oh well.

I'm boooooored. I moan, and groan as I sit in my cave. Alone. Nothing to do. Bored out my mind. I'VE BEEN SITTING HERE FOR FOREVER.

*Thud*

I jump. Oh. It's Lychee. He seems to have acquired some sort of venomous snake. It seems the snake tried to bite Lychee, but seeing as he is made out of literally stone, the snake was unable to use his venom. I smile at Lychee.

Kill it…

*Thud*

*Thud*

*Thud*

I chuckle as Lychee pins the snake down, and beheads him, with his sharp hands. I frown as I notice Lychee chipping. You might be outliving the stone you’re in bud. Oh well. I peer inside my soul again, and smile, at the dreamy green soul swirling around inside of my core. I use my mana, and begin to shape my body. Nothing special, just a simple snake, with all of its original reproductive organs, and so on. Then I take the snake, and I try to use my mana to twist, and shape the snake's soul. It's working. I find myself inside of the creature's mind, viewing its memories, and simplistic thoughts. I begin to twist his mind, and erase anything unnecessary as I only want it to retain its basic functions, as well as the knowledge that I am its master, and that it must protect my core.

I smile, and leave the snake's mind. To find the Soul to be altered. It is still green, but it appears to have changed. I wonder what happens if I push specific types of mana into it. Like fire. I smirk in my mind. Might as well try it. When I discovered the Souls in my body I realized the space they were floating in was the inside of my soul. The material they were floating through in my soul, was mana, a vast nebulae of different colors, the mana in my soul is disorganized but i can consciously filter it, and remove only certain types of mana, that's what i was doing when i was thinking of changing the worms, with certain intentions, I was using different mana types. This time I consciously use red fire mana, to make the snake fiery, aggressive, and spiteful.

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Finally, As I finish with my project of transforming the snake's soul I realize, once again its soul is now a beautiful mix of red, and green. I smile, and begin the process of filling the mana blueprint with material. I smile as I watch the snake's body be dismantled, and fill the space of the snake. All of a sudden, I frown. It's taking fire mana directly from me, and into the snake. More than just what is necessary to fill the blueprint. Enough to give this snake possibly some special abilities. Sweet.

The snake finished forming, making a snake that is mostly black, but with splotches of red, and green on it. I smile. The snake flickers its tongue, and when it does so, a small gout of flame puffs out of the snake's mouth. I smile. This is fun.

I smile, as I hear rustling in the leaves at the entrance of my cave once again. Perfect. Test subject. Into the cave climbs another snake. Oh even better.

Kill it!

My snake slithers forward, before jumping at the other snake, it dives forward, and latches its teeth onto the other snake. I smile as I hear a sizzling sound, and the other snake starts screeching, and thrashing. The other snake screams, and twists biting fire snake on the side. I frown. I guess we lost it.

*sizzle.*

My imaginary eyebrows raise. Woah. How does that work? Smoke rises from the bite wound in the fire snake, and the venom evaporates into the air, before the invader snake collapses, and dies. The fire snake pulls away, and begins nursing its wound. I smile. I will call you Heracles.

I turn, and inspect the dead snake. The bite wound is charred. Heracles probably bit it, and then breathed fire onto the open wound. It seems that the fire is very small, but hot, and can be held for long periods of time. Perfect for the way Heracles used it. I smile. Let's make a second fire snake, and have them breed with Heracles. I'm curious what happens if something is birthed in my domain. On that note, I should make my domain bigger, as well as finding a species that I can use as cattle, for souls, and spare body parts. I smile, and do the mana version of tapping my chin.

Maybe a mouse? I don't think that Lychee could catch a mouse, so I'll keep him here to protect me, and have Heracles, and his Wifey go try to catch mice.

Crap, off task again, I need to make Heracles his wifey, before I can send them off together. I begin to recreate the blueprint of Heracles but make sure to alter it to be female. Then I alter its mind, again, same as I altered Heracles' mind. Just, in general, a whole repeat of the process with Heracles. Boom. All done. What should I call you? What was Heracles' wife's name… I don't know man. So you get the name!... Julia! Okie doke.

Holy bologna I'm hungry. I turn to the granite rock, covered in Lichen that Lychee brought me, and I begin to devour, Oh delicious. I devour, and-Oh. It's already dead. I'm not even a quarter full!!

*Skitter*

My rock squirrel drops back into the cave.

It's getting way too crowded here. I definitely need to expand. I look at the Rock squirrel. I don't like you…

Kill it.

I order Heracles, and Lychee to team up, and kill the rock squirrel. It shakes, but it cannot disobey my order to stay still, and so it sits patiently, as it is attacked by both Heracles, and Lychee, before it is Killed by Heracles. I smile in surprise as Heracles seems to grow bigger after killing the squirrel. My eyes grow wide as I realize that It's because Heracles ate a portion of the energy that was released when the rock squirrel died. The soul is still ok though.

I shrug.