With my help, and especially two Lanterns at my behest to aid me too, the terraformation of Venus accelerated greatly.
Magic clones worked tirelessly to transmute the abundant sulfuric acid in more useful stuff like soil, and create magic wood by dissolving the cell barriers in wood pulp and then press the material together into a new material.
I thought of naming it E-steel, but this was not steel at all. In the end, we went with V-plate, for Venusian plate armor.
Having Pamela to help as also a great boon, as bamboo could be grown even faster and generate millions tons of wood pulp, which we could use to make V-plate. And don't dismiss it, just because you hear wood. Bamboo was already twice stronger and lighter than steel, but when remolded into V-plate it became 100 times stronger.
I finally had a material strong and abundant enough to create spaceships, and giant skyscrapers 5 miles tall.
Other types of wood, like Apple, orange, lemon and peach wood were used to create suspended gardens going up for miles and even wider.
I had an entire planet to play with, might as well create something legendary. A hundred granite mountains were raised and then sliced up into giant bricks to create a Babel tower reaching the low orbit, with a reinforcing skeleton made of V-plate.
Soon enough, the creation of mega-structures and the presence of Argo City brought the four Green Lanterns from Earth into a visit, as well as other big heroes like Superman and the Green Martian.
"You actually did it, mad wizard!" Hal Jordon muttered in a slightly awed voice.
I knew already that Lanterns were stupid by choice, but I just sighed. "Any Lantern can make nicer stuff than this. Orbital megastructures that can dwarf entire suns. A Dyson sphere lined with mirrors on the inside can power a beam powerful enough to evaporate planets at inter-stellar range." I said in a gentle voice, making the four Lanterns shudder.
"You're not doing this to our Sun, right?" Guy Gardener asked in a loud voice.
"Not to our Sun, of course." I allowed in a soft voice. A Nicoll-Dyson beam was far stronger than a stick, after all. There were other places where I will create my Death Stars, with a Nicoll-Dyson_beam powered by mirror arrays.
Even systems that had no life could be used by a Dyson_sphere to support life inside a shell, when calculated properly. Or simply for energy, like galactic-scale transport networks and advanced computation demands. Sure, the Guardians of Oa were billions of years more advanced and could miniaturize all this inside a simply ring, but I was not a Guardian. I wasn't even a real hero, after all.
Superman grabbed a V-plate beam and struggled a little to bend it into a circle. "Quite durable, yet made of wood? Is there something on Venus that makes wood this strong?" he asked after using his X-ray vision on the poor wood beam.
"Sulfuric acid, mostly. It helps it is still abundant for now. Until I use it all up, for more Venusian plate." I explained in a patient voice, and drew out from inventory a newly crafted spaceship, made of V-plate and then covered with a thin layer of Nth metal.
"Did you get that Harun El from Argo?" Hal Jordan asked more to the point, ignoring the ship as weak. And it was, compared to a Power Ring.
"Sure did. Miracles require ingredients. Right, J'oon?" I asked the silent martian.
"When Venus is done, we can move the terraformer engine to Mars, right?" J'oon asked in a hopeful voice.
I nodded and patted his shoulder lightly. "We can already do that. But you will need the Lanterns to help you with the planet core. Venus already has a hot metal core, Mars does not. I can solve the water problem with ice comets though." I spoke in a confident voice.
Hal Jordan glanced at his green ring, then right towards the red Mars in the sky. "It can be done, it some effort. But another livable planet, it would be worth it."
J'oon let out a big sigh, then nodded towards me. "Limited immigration though. I can't afford my planet to become the Wild West of the Sol system."
"Of course. But 'Mars for Martians only' will not stand either. Mars will be an UEF project, and a base for the UEF fleet and depots. And the fleet already has thousands of members from multiple countries, and a few alien planets too." I noted in a warning voice.
"While Venus has millions of Kryptonians and a few dozen humans already." Hal Jordan observed as he scanned Venus with his ring.
"I will open Venus for American immigration once the sulfuric acid is gone. Normal people might even melt if they step into a pool of that." I added in helpful voice, and scooped a handful of acid in my palms to prove the point.
Acid wasn't able to pass through my 100% All Resist, but people were fragile.
"...Normal people." Hal Jordan whispered and poked a finger into the acid in my palms, then frowned and flicked the acid off before his finger dissolved. The Lantern was strong, the human wielding it, not so much.
"Could have used your ring to scan if it was really acid, Hal." J'oon spoke with a sarcastic voice.
"Yeah, I could have. But then, I would still wonder if I was tricked by a wizard. Now I know." the Green Lantern mused thoughtfully, then flew up and away.
The other Lanterns declined to stick their fingers into acid, and flew away too, leaving me with Superman and the Martian Hunter.
"Anything else?" I asked in a curious voice.
"Alura Zor-EL will come here soon. Likely take the lead for Argo City." Superman said in sad voice.
"Hmmm. I think not. I need someone to take care of Paul Wizard. His grandmother will do, as Kara wants to return to heroics once more." I spoke with a careless voice.
Alura was indeed the type to meddle and ruin stuff, which I didn't want for Venus. Earth was still a slum, so she couldn't do more damage than she normally did, by punching villains through buildings and smashing cars.
Superman nodded thoughtfully, then exchanged a glance with J'oon. "And Wonder Woman?"
"Diana has about a month left of pregnancy. Then she'll be back too, for duty. Orange as well, maybe sooner. I guess they were bored sitting on the bench for so long, but that's the human condition. Maybe more universal than that, seeing I'm the only human here." I mused in a wise voice.
"Are you human, though? Someone killed Larfleeze, the holder of the Orange Power Battery. Looted his valuable stash too, worth a hundred galaxies or more." J'oon asked in a gentle voice, then eyed the two N'th metal rings on my hand.
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"Of course I am human, J'oon. More than human by now, but still a human. Do you want a new Miracle?" I answered in a melancholic voice.
J'oon shook his head. "Yes, but no. I want Mars green and blue, just like Earth. I suspect more blue at first, as you melt ice comets on the surface."
"Lanterns do not work on me, if that's your worry. I am immune to mind-control, after all." I whispered in a secretive voice, the flew up again to finish creating a space dock and a dozen orbital elevators for the expected immigrants.
J'oon shook his head and teleported away, back to Earth.
While I had teleportation technology from a dozen species already, I preferred ship travel for others. Less easy to sneak an atomic bomb onto Venus that way. Or poison gases, bioweapons or nanoplagues. The villains of Earth were quite inventive, especially if their home planet wasn't the one which would die. Not that they all cared about that either.
Some people simply wanted to watch the world burn, and laugh at the flames.
Luckily, I had my clairvoyance now, and sent those who tried to kill my world straight to Hell, in good company with devils and demons.
I looked at Superman, and saw he was worried anyway. "That girl Raven, from the Titans. Her father is a strong Demon from Hell. About as strong as me, I would say." I told him and threw a bolt of Dark Magic his way.
Superman burst into his own Light of the Soul, but lost the fight pretty fast. "You're saying I need that Radiance. Urgently." he realized a bit later.
"I saw you die, Kal El. The whole world mourned the loss of their brightest hero, but it was a dark day, and made Kara sad. And Metropolis was a big crater." I said with a harsh voice, then just ignored him.
Even for me, mater reconstruction and creating linear engines for the elevators wasn't easy. Not hard either, if I focused.
"Who did it?" Superman asked hours later, when the first elevator departed towards the surface, in a test run.
"Who cares? You were weak, and still afraid of pain. Kara can barely wait for tonight to receive her Radiance. She will beat you with one hand, and feel it was too easy. And I will cheer for her loudly." I said in a wry voice, then teleported down into my cave to see about Mei and the other kids.
Psi and Imra had also arrived, and watched the kids learn magic from Fortuna. Like I said before, strength was no substitute for experience and skill, and the ancient shaman was even better than Ruh in many aspects.
"Pef, I see you didn't need to beat up any curious heroes." Psi observed in a bored voice.
Imra slapped her ass and came to kiss me sweetly. "Ignore that. Gayle just wants kids of her own." she disclosed in a secretive voice.
I measured Psi for Affection and saw it was still barely 81. Good enough for kids, not anything else.
Suddenly, the Starheart inside the Green Lantern reacted, and popped out a Green Power Ring. Then another. Then another.
Three power rings, and three lovers of mine, with Mei having gifted me 200 children already. And they flew on the ring fingers by themselves, targets already chosen by the Starheart.
"Yes! I'll marry you!" Saturn Girl yelled and jumped in my arms, although I haven't said anything.
"I guess I could do it too. It's not like I could find another man immune to my power, to love and make babies with." Psi muttered in a low voice.
*Gayle Wizard, Affection +9, 90/100. Further Affection growth locked, until she births 10 children for you. She wants 100 kids though.
*Mei Wizard, Affection + 14. 100/100. She really wanted a husband. Only one.
*Imra Wizard, Affection +22. 99/100. She really wants a baby. Only one.
What the hell Starheart? Don't marry me off! At least ask me...
"Thank you, lord husband. I will never betray you." Mei whispered as she played with her new ring, and made green balloons for her kids.
"Balloons!" Yay!" the 25 kids yelled and began chasing them.
My ears started ringing for some reasons.
"Come, you two. Let's visit the Lovecave and make sweet love and a baby for each. Shouldn't have shown you the picture of Paul..." I muttered and lead my new wives to my Lovecave.
I didn't have a Batcave or an Arrowcave. But I had to call my cavernous bedroom something, so a Lovecave it is.
As I plunged my dick down Gayle's throat and kissed Imra, she glanced at me knowingly. 'I see you didn't give Pamela a ring.'
"Her work on Venus will be over in a month or two. Then Poison Ivy leaves for Mars, and won't be in my charge." I answered in a gentle voice, and began undressing my new telepathic wives for a love-making threesome.
"She did wonderful work on Titan...ooops!" Imra blurted and froze with a guilty face. A hero from 1000 years in the future making a timeline changing mistake like this? My Wisdom wasn't below 10 anymore.
I took out my dick and plunged it down Imra's throat. "She can't shut up, our Saturn Girl, can she?" I asked Gayle while kissing her boobs.
"Hmmm. To be fair, you don't have another plant manipulator among your women. Pamela it is, right?" Gayle asked a bit rhetorical.
"The future isn't written yet, Gayle. After Mars, I wanted to focus on cleaning up Earth and expand our colonies, and not worry about the gas giants yet. But Imra tried to manipulate me into terraforming Titan sooner, perhaps as a naval base for the fleet. Which means an incoming invasion can be fought farther away..." I inferred from a simply sentence out of turn.
"Oh? You read that much from her words...You really are a genius, my dear Wizard." Gayle whispered in a loving voice, then dove down to suck my balls and kiss Imra as well.
Watching my new wives kiss over my tools, I felt a bit like genius. Then I held Imra's head tight and burst my nuts, while using Peffy's trick to let my wife breathe through a magic dick straw.
*Imra Wizard, +1 MAG. By drawing on the Seven Brothers Perk, you can gift her 6 more MAG points per day.
Ah, thanks System! I will be sure to do this, right now.
And then Gayle and Mei too. Maybe even Pamela, certainly Pamela too. I had plenty of juice.
The Starheart interest had grown by 3 more percents. And Pamela was connected to The_Green , an elemental magic force with plant powers. It might attract the magic Starheart even more.