# Ch.4: How not to create a world

The trio felt like they were thrown into a blender for a few seconds.

It didn't feel as painful a one would expect,

but it was really disorienting all the same.

After that, they were all alone.

G: Ugh, what just happened?

Z: I can't see anything! What are you doing in my head?

J: What are you doing in MY head? Oh wait.

J: Hold on a second...

Jack lit a match. He could be seen in his fluffy, cute form.

Z: What? we are in the same place?

J: I don't think so. The demon is gone.

G: Oh I know, this must be one of those "Imaginary rooms".

A can of club soda appeared in Guy's hand. He opened it up and drank it.

G: Mmm... This doesn't feel really substantial.

It's tasteless even for water.

Z: What are we doing here then? We specifically chose our new body.

J: I think that we were in our body a moment ago,

but this room was created when I imagined it.

G: Man, this is really confusing, and I'm getting hungry.

Z: Me too. If I remember right,

we will starve to death if we don't eat anything within five minutes.

G: Huh?! Why did you choose something like that?!

J: Well, it did save us some resources.

G: And why would that matter if we die within 5 minutes?!

J: Relax. All we need to do is acquire some biomass.

That should be easy inside a forest.

G: Well ok, how do we do that?

Z: Our body can digest pretty much anything,

so we would just need to spread out some roots, like a fungus.

G: And how exactly do we do that?

I don't have much experience being anything other than human.

J: I think that we should leave this room and go back to our body first.

Jack turned off his match. It has all darkness again.

Z: This is really confusing.

G: Hey! who invited you into my mind?

Z: I think that we are sharing the same brain.

G: Oh, ok.

J: Enough. I think it's time to acquire some food. Can you feel our body?

G: Probably. Are we just some large puddle of flesh?

Z: I think that is more or less correct.

J: Alright. Our body is capable of shapeshifting,

so I want you to imagine roots coming down and through the sides of your body.

Z: Where is down anyways? Oh, I think I've got it.

G: I'm facing more resistance to this side, so I guess that's the floor.

J: I think that we are really spreading some roots somewhere,

so now we should just make the digestive juices flow...

They immediately felt less hungry.

G: What a relief! We're totally naturals at this!

Z: I think that is the point. We should try to get a look at our body.

J: Oh I know! Let's just make an eyeball!

A small tendril grew out from the body. On its tip an eyeball started forming.

From the eyeball, what appeared to be

a huge ocean of turquoise liquid could be seen.

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Above it, there was a blue sky with seven small suns, and a larger one.

On the horizon, large mountains could be seen to all sides.

G: So this is our body?

J: Yep. Now let's go back to the drawing board.

Jack turned on a light switch. They were back on the dark realm,

but with studio lights.

J: Let's recapitulate so that we can better plan our next move.

Right now,

we are a huge lake of living slime somewhere within the fifth continent.

All we know is that this continent is of quintessence,

that it is an archipelago with terrible weather,

and that it is very dangerous, so it was cheaper.

We don't know much other than that there

probably are many more kingdoms ruled by jackasses.

Z: Hold on. Let's just check the map.

A map appeared on Zack's hands.

On it, a continent in the shape of an inverse pentagram could be seen.

Jack budged in.

J: Wait, that worked? Let me see.

Several country borders were visible.

On the archipelago, a large island with a big lake could be seen.

It was labeled as "Your kingdom." The south side pointed up on the map.

G: So we're really far from the mainland, huh.

J: Wait Zack, this is really silly from you.

You are holding the map upside down! Everybody knows that north is up,

and that the point goes at the top, not the bottom!

Jack took and flipped the map. To his bewilderment, the continents didn't flip,

and south was still up.

J: W-what?

Jack continued trying to flip the map.

Z: I think that's one of the "basic items", you cannot change-

J: AAHHHHH! MOTHERFUCKERS!

Jack tore the map to pieces. Zack summoned another map.

G: Uh, Jack?

J: I'm fine... I just don't want to see that piece of paper right now.

Jack wanted to save his energy;

there would be many more frustrations to come.

J: Anyways, I think that our first step should be scanning the terrain,

and then figuring out how to have all the other king slai-

G: Hold on! According to the lore, the gods are always watching,

and I don't think that was some metaphor.

If we go around mincing people we will get turned into dust!

J: Did you really read all of those lore books? (RN)Gesus...

Z: I think that we should try to figure

out a way to avoid their divine sight.

Apparently, kings have some sort of extra privacy

at doing things when compared to the average person.

J: How exactly?

Z: I do not remember the exact information. Give me a second.

Zack put the map on his pocket and summoned a document,

then put on his goggles.

Z: Oh, wait.

Zack took off his goggles. Now he could actually see what he was doing.

Z: 'For KING and KING+ users, the target of a spell may not be evident,

even to superior classes. DIVINE OVERSIGHT still applies.'

J: Oh I get it. So we can do that magic nonsense but the go... The guh.. The-

G: You mean gods-

J: Deceivers, Heathens, Devils.

The deceivers can still look at the material effects of a spell.

G: Isn't the point of magic to affect reality? That doesn't seem very useful.

J: Well maybe... Wait. What if we use mind control?

Zack checked the document again.

Z: I think that is and option.

J: That's great!

J: ...

J: By the way, how do you summon information?

There are some things I want to check.

Z: Oh, it is very simple.

There is a list of special items and data you can fetch into the mind realm.

Zack summoned a document onto Jack's hands.

J: You know? I think it would be better if you

just summoned the whole collection of documents right now.

Z: If you say so...

A stack of documents the size of your average McMansion fell onto Jack's head.

Fortunately, death didn't work the same way inside the mind realm.

G: Hahaha! You sure got him!

Jack emerged from within the papers. With an M2HB.

J: YOU MOTHERFUCKERS DARE LAUGH AT ME?!

LET'S SEE YOU LAUGH WHEN I REMOVE YOUR TEETH!

His friends soon experienced that first hand.