After Jed left to go explore another universe he wanted to go alone. I immediately started to expand and mine out the walls and shape the rooms to fit in with the future goals, and interests that Jed will do.
First I reshape and mine out the entrance of the gate. I made the entrance/gate camouflage to the terrain, to make sure humans and other creatures in this universe can’t easily find the entrance towards the base. After I built the gate, I started to make hallways from the front, left, and right side of the entrance room. I’ll call this room the Lobby. On the left side will be the kitchen for him, to cook food and whatever humans do in kitchens. On the right side will be his bedroom with a bathroom on the top right side of the bedroom, if you were to look in the hallway. I will build the furniture later. As for the front, I decide to make it into an elevator, having just one floor won’t be enough for future plans, and needs of expanding.
I then started mining up and down, at the same time making the area big enough for an elevator fit in. I did this for 1 hour reaching all the way nearly at the top of the mountain and towards below the mountain. After that mining section, I started to plan out and sketch out where to place the areas to the floors. I then realized that I could utilize the natural temperature that it already has. Then I split the top and bottom into two parts, the Cold Tech Floors and the Melted Manufactured Floors. The Cold Tech Floor, or CTF, is where tech related and research will happen, as the cold will have less chances of overheating caused by the low temperatures. It’s also where data will be stored and I will start making a connection throughout the entire base. The Melted Manufactured Floors, or MMF, is where manufactured and most energy production will take place. That's where energy generators and constructing any technology and item that Jed or me want to start making.
After planning out the floor tiers of each section, I realized how much materials and resources I will need to make it. Although I have some materials that I collected from my mining of the mountain, it won’t be enough. I start thinking of possibilities of what to do, examples being making nanobots to scout out the entire world by using the wild speed of the Antarctic to accelerate themselves to their advantage to hijack planes, boats, and other technology and vehicles, but the only problem with that is humans will definitely notice it. I then came up with an idea of which I would upgrade myself further, allowing myself to not just create a bigger body to myself, by using the minerals I mined. Once I have gotten a reasonable size and upgrade I would start splitting a small piece of my body to make some small liquified robots, to get some resources that I will need for the base. But now that I come up with a plan, I decide to start mining out the mountain's resources.
First I used up all the minerals that I mined and absorbed it, making me able to upgrade myself. First, I increased the area of my body by 2.5x, and made myself able to scan and detect any minerals inside the mountain. In the next few hours of mining to the peak of the mountain, I have gotten lots of silver, copper, gold, iron, zinc, cobalt, molybdenum, and nickel, but didnt get lucky on platinum, chromium, lead, titanium, and uranium. There’s also coal, but not gonna use it for fuel. After I absorbed them, causing myself to increase 3.5x my size this time, I started to prepare to go down towards the mountain, to hopefully get more frequent amounts of resources. This time though, to make mining not very slow for me, I made small robots that follow my commands, built for mining to speed up the process.
I started to split small parts of my main body to make the small robots. Since they are technically miniature versions of myself, without my superior intelligence of course, I made a couple hundred miniature sizes of myself, making my size almost the same as when Jed left, but 2x larger. I then commanded them to start mining out. To make sure I am efficient and actually want to use the leftover space from the mining as future rooms for the base. I made them mine in a rectangular prism, with some hallways in between where the elevator will drop down. After only 1-2 hours of mining, I was able to mine all the way down 2000-3000 ft. All though the temperatures weren’t that extreme, I know that once I start mining after 3000 ft, the average temperatures will start to rise, but of course it will take at least 1-2 miles before my robots will start to go into danger without me upgrading any surface pressure and heat resistance to myself and them. After I mined further down another 1,000 feet, I stopped for now as I have enough minerals to actually start executing my plans now.
I started by climbing up to the future CTF rooms, and established myself nearly at the peak of the mountain, and started to make data storages and servers to give myself enough power to connect and store information inside them. Once I had done that I went up further into the mountain, even closer to the peak point of the mountain, to establish the energy power core that I stole from Captain Eulalia’s destroyed ship and started to reconstruct it like what they did to the ship’s control power room, making it more stable and produce more energy. It took more than a few minutes, 5-10 minutes, to properly rebuild and stabilize it. Now all I need to do is connect and distribute the power that the energy power core is producing towards the servers and storages to make them work.
As I did it, I gained extra storage and control over the base that I have built.
Going to phase two of my plan, I start changing the mining robots to parasite robots to hack and get more information on this planet, to be able to start getting resources and information I need to properly make a base. I decided to put these robots into two categories for now, one will be the Collectors and the other one will be Gatherers. The collectors will attach and collect any valuable resources and materials that I will give instructions of what I need. The gatherers will gather information of locations of ships and storages or possible routes that these humans have to be more efficient and time the collect and gather resources from them. All of them are capable of sneaking undetected and are extremely agile and maneuverable, but the downside is they can’t fight back easily.
I first only make 10 of each category as I am running out of myself, and realize I will need a factory and mining area to make more robots and soon other types of them, and also to supply this base for future materials, for future building plans ordered by Jed. I then make them into two groups having 10 teams exploring the entire planet, at the same time I start making an area for the factory and a stable high frequent resources mine, so once I get enough materials I could start creating mining robots again and construction robots, so I can focus on other important things in the base.
2 teams are surveilling and exploring the South Atlantic ocean and bottom parts of the South American and left side of the Africa continent that humans live in. Another 2 teams are surveilling and exploring Australia and the islands and countries near it, also exploring the right side of the Africa continent. Fifth team is surveilling the whole Pacific Ocean and the left side of the North American continent. Sixth team exploring the North Atlantic Ocean and the right side of the North American continent and abit of the European countries and top side of the African Continent.The last 4 teams aren’t near the water but on the air, surveilling most of the Asia and Middle Eastern continent and countries.
I came prepared that Humanity will take notice of their transportation getting hacked and some of their resources getting stolen anomalously. So I came up with something to prevent them being tracked and locate where their origins took place, as they have the technology to do so easily. I made it so when someone tracks one of my teams, the person that was tracking them also gets hacked and has their location leaked and also prevents leaking information of the teams. If another advanced or semi-advanced AI is tracking them…Let’s just say they got a nice welcome gift. Of course I ain’t horrible as I will find the least life threatening possible route to minimize human casualties, as Jed will be mad for hurting and killing almost harmless humans.
At the same time, I created a factory and construction bots to start making more robots and some appliances and decorations for the base. It’s starting slow and not that advanced, as I am not the one making them, just controlling them to make it, as time goes on it will go faster. Mining bots started to be built, and are more specialized in heat resistant and high pressure than previous ones I made.
It’s going smoothly as I estimate I will be done building the base in a couple of weeks or even days if I get lucky on tracking a spaceship transporter to gather from.
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Meanwhile with Humanity…
[“Breaking News from the Galactic News Studious, there have been reports of mysterious liquefied sentient robots or even sentient AI’s that are attaching themselves to ships and aircrafts, getting hacked across planet Earth as we speak and having their products within them getting stolen. Countries and businesses have tried to locate the owner and location where they originated but got themselves hacked and leaked their location on the internet. Even advanced locating AI’s that tried to physically hack into them or from highly secured locations digitally, for some reason stop responding to the people who instructed them and have been loyal. This has been the worst attack on Earth so far in the last 15 years. Back to you Tom] as the screen gets turned off.
“So who do you think is the one doing this,” as a screen lights up with a number 6 speaks up
“I bet it’s those AI Supremacy Legion again, they seem to love to target us ever since what we did to them, or well leaked” as another screen lights up with a number 7 speaks up.
“I will disprove that, as my trusted agents have found them dormant and even caught some of them,” as another screen lights up with a number 4 speaks up.
“Have you interrogated them or gotten information on this matter?” as number 7 speaks up again.
“I actually have, but about this new problem. No.” as number 4 disproves it.
“Well, get them to integrate them, until then we aren’t getting them out of our suspicion,” as number 7 respond back.
“Any more ideas or information would anyone in our meeting like to add more? If not, I’ll allow everyone to leave the meeting,” as number 6 speaks up.
As everyone gives a silent response, right before the permission of leaving a screen lights up.
“I have received some information from one of my trusted subordinates, one of those unidentified bots that all of them have stopped what they were doing and all of them started retreating very quickly and have lost track of them,” as screen 9 lights up.
“What do you mean by, “lost track of them”?” as number 6 speaks back up.
“Well it’s what I stated, they went out of our radar and seem to have completely gone invisible,” as number 9 responds back.
“Did you at least-” as number 6 was speaking they got cut off immediately.
“What direction were they heading? Did they go in the same direction? Did they hold any patterns when they retreated?” as number 2 suddenly speaks out loud out of nowhere.
“Well, those in the northern hemisphere were heading North, and the ones that were in the Southern Hemisphere heading south, and all of them seemed to be rushing back fairly quickly as they were traveling around the speed of Mech 13.1—14.4. Although not that fast it disrupted most infrastructure and most vehicles nearby. As for patterns, I think they are heading towards the same location that they were released from.” as number 9 answers number 2’s questions.
“Thank you for the information,” as number 2 goes back to being silent.
“Thank you for the information number 9, anyone else would like to add into the meeting?” as number 6 speaks up and no one replies back.
“Alright then, everyone has permission to leave now,” as everyone disconnects except number 1 and 6 remain in the meeting.
“So 1, why are you still here? You usually are the few who leave immediately without hesitation,” as number 6 is confused by the sudden change.
“I have some secret excluded information about the threat that humanity was going through,” as number 1 speaks up quietly.
“That’s new of you to do. Usually you just keep all of the information to yourself and only give out information to the meeting when it benefits us. But why tell me and not with the rest?” as number 6 becomes confused and curious.
“Reason is that they will destroy and eliminate the threat without hesitation as we are secretly known for protecting and destroying threats of humanity even if it’s positive or negative.” as number 1 points out the groups role.
“So what does it have to do with the threat?”
“Well, one of my squads I sent out and examine the information and live broadcast that they have gotten and found that, one they did not harm or kill any human life's, two they only targeted AI supported vehicles without any humans managing them, and three they seemed to only targeted minerals and building related resources that vehicles and containers contained.” as number 1 pointed them out.
“Hmm, are you telling me that it’s intentionally to avoid hurting humans as little as possible?” as number 6 raises their voice.
“Precisely, and since we aren’t allowed to interact with disasters unless human deaths are involved, that means it’s possible that we could secretly negotiate with it,” number 1 brings up his main point.
After number 1 stops talking, number 6 thinks for a second and replies back.
“Alright, even if it is intentionally not trying to harm humans, we still need to vote on it even if you are the center point of our group. Plus even if they did agree, they will probably just do it for their secret business to increase their wealth and power across the galaxy. We are still greedy after all, right?” as number 6 brings out the exceptions of their statement.
As number 1 chuckles before replying back,” I didn’t say I’m going to do it or even bring this up to our group
“Huh?” as number 6 gets confused on their statement.
After that, number 1 disconnects leaving 6 confused and intrigued.
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A few days later…
After my Gatherers and Collectors came back on their trip, I was able to start getting decorations and more complex and powerful machinery to be built. I was able to decorate the lobby even more and also parts of the CTF and MMF floors. Also expanded my technology with more and variety of rooms, like being a simulation room or the Element Experimentation, in which different elements or to be more specific, atoms, to see if it’s possible to create a new element. Added resting rooms and a repairing and health floor, just in case Jed would bring people from other universes in. Upgraded my security to make sure the base can’t be detected by any means that I know of. Managed to improve the power connection throughout the base more efficiently and faster. Then finally, I upgraded the internet signal that every AI and technology connects to the digital universe, to be 10% faster. It took a while, but I managed to do it. Now that all the life essentials that I need and what Jed needs, it’s time for me to start progressing towards a way to connect to Jed as he has been gone for a few days now.
“Hmm now that all the essential life problems are out of the way, I am gonna need to find a way to track where and when Jed is, as it has been a few days already since he’s gone,” as Evo starts theorizing.
“Hmm, I could make a clock or some sort of time navigation/conversion for this universe to another different universe. But I also need to find a way to find the universe he’s in, which would mean I need to find a way to locate Jed which universe he’s in, which then branches into more complicated mess and problems,” as Evo becomes frustrated.
”Ahh, having higher intelligence is making me think complicated a lot more and make me develop sapient emotions. I am starting to see why advanced species that are very intelligent still seek companions and help from others,” as Evo calms down
“Well, while I figure out and theorize how I am gonna develop this, I shall continue to evolve my intelligence further and at the same time technology and secret resources routes to further develop myself. Maybe even getting some help?” as Evo starts controlling the entire base to maximize efficiency.
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Back to Jed
As I began the instructions of how to take in mana into my body, I realized that it’s not working. It’s to be expected as I ain’t from this universe, or actually part of this story at all, making it so I am not able to take in mana since I ain’t built to store it. So I decided to force my body to evolve and adapt to this world by forcefully doing it, causing a bit of pain but of course it worked. Since it’s forceful, I was able to control how my whole body can obtain it, including my suit as well. Instead of thinking that mana is around me, I just made very small holes, about the size of a nanometer, to only absorb and prioritize mana. I also made my whole body a mana container, I meant everything, to be more efficient and effective. Of course I prioritized that I would become weak without mana, so I just made it so I can create or well synthesize mana within my cells, like a plant doing photosynthesis.
“Alright, since the “traditional” way of gathering mana doesn’t work for me, how about actually inhaling it through my body instead, actually maybe more like absorbing is the right thing to describe it,” as I start getting mana around me.
As Jed starts absorbing the mana all around him, very quickly, his body starts to make a mana aura around him ranging from dark and light blue, to light purple or even mixed together. As he continues to do it, it makes him feel more refreshed and alive.
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“Huh, I don’t think they mentioned anything about mana surrounding my whole body, and that mana can be different color gradient? Eh, I'll ask about that later. Right now I really wanna test out if chemistry and even my mind can change how a spell or element would look like, like its shape, size, and stage of matter,” as I stand up from the tree and stretch.” But first I think I need to go somewhere secluded to not wake up the group here,” as I turn invisible and start flying away.
“Alright let’s see, according to Linnetia’s explanation she said that there aren’t any limitations on what spell or element you could cast. That actually sounds chaotic in this world as anyone can just switch to another spell if they wanted to. But I think what she also meant is, you need the knowledge and information to cast a specific element and spell to do it, which would balance it out. Interesting world if I say so myself.” as I see a flat rocky mountain in my view.
As I land there I change back to a more experimental suit, that I used when experimenting that blackhole/gravity grenade with Evo, and put down Sally on the ground floor to evaluate me.
“Alright Sally, I want you to watch and see me cast, and also to make sure you don’t get hurt from my very unstable magic that I will perform.” as Sally nods and cheers at me happily.
“Awww, thank you Sally,” as I stand back away from Sally to not get her from my hitting view.
“Alright, I think I should do water first as it is abundant in the atmosphere and also I have already seen one in action,” as I start to experiment.
As Jed began trying to use the instructions of basic casting of magic, surprisingly it worked. He made a very small water bubble. So then he releases it and tries something out. He starts thinking of the water molecules in the atmosphere and imagines them in his mind as they are gravitating towards each other. Then once he got a reasonable size water bubble, he changed the shape of the bubble to the shape of a cone.
“Huh, that was easier than I thought. Probably because I don’t follow the limitations of this universe, but at least it was easy to understand. Wonder how big and heavy I can make this bubble be?” as I put more mana and water into the bubble, increasing its size by a lot.
“Ok that’s very big, if I were to estimate it’s probably 6-12x bigger than previously, still not heavy to me” as I admired it for a bit before another idea came up.
“What if I were to condense the size of the water bubble cone, and its mass and all other variables didn’t change at all?” After I started decreasing the size of the bubble, it was getting difficult the more I made it smaller. I struggled a bit but managed to make it back to its small size where I started my experiment.
“Alright, seems to be the same weight and mass that's good, and it’s dark blue, very dark actually. Now the exciting part is actually throwing it onto a surface.” as I look around for a surface to be hit.
“Maybe that very suspicious mountain that is very covered in a dark mist with dark heavy clouds on top, very far away,” as I get my suit to zoom in.
“Don’t you agree, Sally?” as she nods and cheers even happier, maybe even excited.
“Alright here we go, time to boost my strength abit,” as I up the physical straight abit.” and instead of floating above my hand, I'll let it sit on top,” as I make the bubble cone stop floating on my hand and now grip it.
“Alright 3,” as I prepare my hand, “2,” as I power up,”1!” as I throw it as hard as I can towards the direction of that mountain. It actually made a lot of force once I threw it, and the sound went out for a second there.
“Hmm, I think I threw it a bit too hard,” as I watch it become very small, almost nearly invisible to a hormonal human eye without a pair of binoculars.
After I threw it, I waited for a couple of seconds, I saw the mountain get flooded and see the wind and everything around it destroyed and pushed away from the force and water the small cone released.
“Oh wow, hope no one important was there because there’s a high chance they are dead. Probably not since it’s midnight, actually what time is it anyway?” as I check up on the time.
“Oh wait, I ain’t from this universe this isn’t the right time,” as I close the time off.
“Eh it’s probably 2-3am ish, I can probably experiment on one more kind of spell before going back,” as I go back to looking at the mountain, to see it more destroyed.
“Ok, I think that throw made a landslide as well, ok now that I think about it forcing hundreds of pounds of water or even metric tons onto maybe a 2-5 inch cone was more of a horrible idea, that I thought of. I mean it’s probably trying to push back very hard to equalize its mass and energy built up inside. So releasing and at the same time throwing it very fast and far added more force and energy into it, causing more damage.” as I stand there in silence for a few seconds before trying out the next element I wanted to try out.
“Anyways, moving away from that existential dread, time to try out the wind magic element. Since I think most living things in this universe need oxygen to survive, controlling the wind and making an empty vacuum of no oxygen sure is effective. It’s probably unfair, painful, and slow death but it gets the job done.” as I start doing the same process again.
“Alright let’s see, I’d imagine a place filled with oxygen and other same breathable gasses inside, then I make the center of the place have some sort of vacuum barrier that prevents any gasses inside and near it causing a gasless bubble.” as I get out of my mind to witness a transparent bubble.
“Hmm, let me try to go inside it and see what it feels” as I walk up to it and put my head inside.
“Oh wait, I forgot that my suit is supplying me with oxygen, so this was useless. But it feels very weird, I can't even describe it.” as I get out of the gasless bubble.
“Eh, I’ll presume it works.” as I come up with ways to use wind magic.” Wait, can’t I just use wind itself around me, and accelerate it causing it to push and injure opponents and objects away from me? That would actually be very strong, I am gonna try it. But first, Sally! Come here and wrap around me, you might get caught in this next experiment I might do.” as Sally nods in response and starts to crawl on the floor.
“Ok I’ll just pick you up, makes me feel bad for making you crawl on the ground, even though you are supposed to be in water,” as I go up to Sally and pick her up and gently put on my shoulder and wrapped around my neck after.
“Alright, you will also get some protection as well Sally,” as I get a part of my suit and wrap around Sally to protect her.
“Time to speed up the wind,” as I start using a lot of my mana to control and speed up the wind.
“I think to be able to speed up the wind, I have to make the air pressure uneven as possible, can’t remember. But if that’s correct that means I need to make one side have high pressure and the other side low pressure,” as I imagine the winds around me change pressure.
After I changed the air pressure, by a tiny bit the winds started to only speed up abit, and I realized that the temperature also changed. I then remembered that it depends on the temperature, or actually heat, and since it’s still midnight and there’s no heat. The wind is very calm and there is almost no win.
"Alright since there isn’t any heat from the sun, guess I'll have to force the change of pressure of the wind around me instead, but using mana. Oh boy this is gonna take a lot.” as I start consuming a lot of mana.
As I reimagine the air pressure changes unevenly and at the same time forcing the wind to speed up. After a few minutes of complicated calculation and thinking, I managed to make human-made wind. It actually made me feel sick for the first time. But it sure made me feel proud.
“Woo nice, now that the actual wind is now flowing, time to actually make it dangerous,” as I start imagining the wind around me and forcing it to speed up.
“Alright, I can feel it trying to push me. Hmm, wait now that I think about it isn’t a tornado just a bunch of wind? Wonder if I can remember how a tornado is made.” as I try to remember what I researched in my free time and what my teachers tried to teach me.
“Ok I can barely remember its formation, but I think something about up and downdrafts from the ground to the atmosphere, like cold and hot air spinning around itself. Probably got that wrong, but it was pretty useless to me,” as I try to recreate it in my head.
“Let’s see, hot air going up and cold air going down, and at the same time the sky starts getting clouds around it, causing more cold air to be made. I think warm air is also mixing outside and at the same time cold air comes out.” as I feel the wind pick up speed and feel bits of rain and water start to pour down.
“Ok, I need to do this quick, I think I just force the 2 opposite air to mix together by making them spin and go up and down,” as the wind gets faster and stronger.
“Ok almost done, keep making it spin and making the air circulate around itself.” as I see the sky get even darker and a spinning vortex of air starts to come down.
“Ok Sally, I think we need to see this far away,” as I concentrate on making the tornado and wind go hotter and colder and making them spin even faster, while also flying away.
“Alright, I can feel the tornado trying to suck us in, and also that the tornado I just made is very big,” as I stop casting and controlling the wind.
“Huh, it’s not slowing down or even going down in size. It’s increasing in size and speed,” as I start to see rocks from the ground start getting pulled out and also start moving off the mountain.
“Ok this is not good at all! Maybe if I force the tornado to stop by using mana, maybe it will stop?” as I put mana into it and tried to slow down the tornado, but only made it stronger.
“Ok, I think I just made it worse, it’s a lot bigger now and I think it’s glowing slightly blue. Huh is that lightning?” as it starts spewing out lightning all around, and some nearly hitting me.
“Welp, this has gone chaotic. Good thing I did this far away, hope it doesn’t follow me or how much magic works,” as I fly away very quickly away from the tornado.
As Jed and Sally left quickly, Jed didn’t know that there was another thing about spells and mana he didn’t know about. It’s that spells that are casted or actually mana given to a spell, still follow around. That’s how most teleporting, summoning, and support spells work, as long as the user doesn’t deactivate or forcefully take out the mana, it will continue to exist and follow the user around. But of course Jed doesn’t know that, and he is about to have a reunion soon.
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Meanwhile…
“Huh, this Jed human impressed and terrifies me a bit,” as the being that controls the orb shows it to the other being.
“I can see what you mean, being able to cast water magic and condensing it to a small pebble having the power of a water elemental when self destructing itself,” as the being that was sitting on nothing watches as well
“That’s not what terrifies me,” as the being zooms into Jed.
“Huh, strange armor, I’ve seen weirder armor types developed by mortals. What about it?” as the being now sits upside down.
“Not the armor, but his mana. His entire body seems to be capable of producing mana and also every part of him can store it as well, as if he was one of those Enchanted Mana trees and flowers.” as the being that controls the orb impressed.
“Well that is true, it’s rare for a creature to be able to utilize its entire body as a mana reserve storage and produce pure mana on top of that. But most high tier creatures in this world can do that too. What really terrifies you? It’s very hard for you to be terrified very simply,” as the being sitting now gets closer to the being that controls the orb.
“Well, one he summoned a very dangerous spell, an Enhanced Mana Tornado to be exact, and that all the spells he cast doesn’t get notified by me!” as the being that controls the orb tells the truth.
“Wait what? How’s that even possible? You are the Elemental Champion! Every element that has ever been made and casted goes to you and checked out. That raises some concern to me as well,” as the being that was sitting down, now stands up.
“Same here, but I am still going back to slumber. Go do some research or what you always do. Currently not in full danger as 50% of the population in this world can cast that kind of level of magic, plus he didn’t cancel it out of property and is about to face some backlash. Still terrifies me though.” as the Elemental Champion shows the tornado hastily follows and stalks the direction of Jed, right before going back to sleep.
“I will be right back, I will just go somewhere real quick,” as the being makes a circle gesture with very fast symbols in between before disappearing.
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Back to Jed…
“Hope they didn’t notice that I left,” as I landed quietly back to the tree I was relaxing on, and went back to being visible and back to my disguise clothing.
As I relaxed for abit, I heard someone clear their throat at the bottom of the tree. As I look down, I see Linnetia waiting, looking not that impressed. As I go down, by slowly climbing down, I land softly and speak to her.
“I have several questions that I want to ask you, before going back to sleep,” as she says in a quiet voice.
“Hmm, I think I know what questions you are probably gonna ask me, go ahead.” as I sigh and listen up.
“First off, how did you get so much mana stored in you? I can see your body leaking lots of mana to the point, I don’t even need to use mana sensing to detect it and can see it with my normal vision.” as she walks around me and points it out.
“Oh um,ah crap I did not prepare for this, come on me think! You are kind of good at lying, ah well while I was watching for any danger, I thought about what you said of getting mana around you, and well I did it because I was bored and I didn’t really know how to stop it before I started to leak mana.” as I try my best to mix truths in the lies.
“Alright… Ok next question, how did you even leave the camp without anyone us noticing you. Even without your abundant amount of mana you have inside you, there is no way you didn’t make sound, unless you have other ways to sneak out?” as she becomes even more suspicious of me.
“Well, I jumped between the trees carefully?” as I try to make myself not suspicious at all.
“Ok then?” as she becomes even more suspicious
“Ok ya she definitely knows I am lying from that answer, goddammit,”
“Ok another question, where did you go after you left?” as she starts getting serious.
“Oh, I went to explore our surrounding area,” as I answered it easily.
“Alright then, lastly, how did you cast that high tier casting that enabled you to speed up the actual wind?” as she now casts magic with her hands and prepares to attack me.
“Ahhh…Oh screw this I am just gonna tell her the truth, there is no way I am getting out of this when lying. I could just know her and leave, but that’s boring and I am here to explore the mysterious things in this universe. Ok you got me,” as I raise my hands.
“I knew you were lying, actually you suck at coming up with lies,” as she uncast the spell she was about to cast at me.
“I am aware,” as I lean on one of the trees.
“But actually, tell me how you are even able to do this? I am aware you are from another world like Devan is, but he’s not even that powerful and easily able to gain that much mana and cast something powerful,” as she gets curious.
“That is true what you said, me being from another world. But the thing is, I ain't affected by the rules and limitations of this world.” as I spill half of the truth.
“Wait what? Not even Devan can do that, well he can, but he even has limitations on mana and what to cast and even needs practice. But you somehow obtain an endless amount of mana and are able to cast powerful casts, that takes even years or decades to practice and perform,” as she gets louder with each word.
“Well, first I’ll answer your previous questions properly now. First question is that I am able to store high amounts of mana into me without feeling anything. You sound surprised when I hold a lot of mana inside me?”
“Well, like I said there are negative effects when you don’t have little or none mana inside your body. But there are all things called Overherdaction, it just means over filling yourself with mana that your body can hold. First signs of effects are dizziness, headaches, pain near your stomach and head, fainting, and mana slowly going out of your body, as if you have an aura around you.” as she lists them out on her hands.
“Huh, sounds like Overhydration, but I haven’t felt those signs of effects when storing mana inside me, what my body can hold,” as I point it out.
“Strange, and the mana you are leaking is more pure and even enchanted. As if an enchanted mana plant species would make. Since the mana you are leaking out is darker and lighter than the average normal mana, and some of your mana is turning…Purple? That’s never happened before, well from my experience so far, I will be analyzing you for abit” as her fingers lit up and her lights glowed abit.
“Oh crap, I forgot to hide that. Guessing only plants do that. Wait, there's plants that can make mana more pure?” as I get confused
“There is, to be more specific, the Enchanted Mana Forest,” as she continues to walk around me while still doing the same thing.
“What’s that?” as I decided to just relax.
“It’s a very high resourceful but dangerous place, as it contains high concentration and purified mana but since there’s lots of mana, plants and animals evolved and mutated to be able to be more efficient and dangerous of using the mana around the place, causing them to be able to defend and even attack trespassers that don’t live in the forest,” as she finishes what she was doing.
“So what’s in there that is so valuable that everyone would risk themselves to go in?”
“Well of course, powerful artifacts, high quantities of purified mana, the useful plants that grow there that are used for making magic books, tomes, scrolls, and potions, powerful minerals and materials used for making weapons and armor, mana crystals and mana infused minerals, and lastly the animals themselves of course,” as she stretches out.
“Oh wow, that’s pretty interesting. So did you find anything about me? Because I hope not,”
“Sadly no, for some reason something is preventing me from trying to analyze and look into your mana or even your body. As if something or someone is intentionally doing it.” as she theorize and thinks about it.
“Well, I wasn’t preventing you from accessing my information and about my mana, so I don’t know either, oh thank gosh. Thank you suit and probably StoryMaker,” as I become relieved
“Well I would have noticed if you were casting a spell to prevent me from analyzing you, but as you tell from my reaction, no. Now how about the other questions you lied about answering.” as she listens back up.
“Well the last three questions are pretty easy to answer. How I managed to not make any noise is that, found out that you can just use wind magic to envelop yourself entirely, and just control it by where to go. That’s half true but I need to experiment to see if I can combine it with my suit’s flight speed with a cast being able to fly faster? At the same time I don't need to switch to my suit every time I need to fly somewhere. As for the place I went to go exploring is from a rocky mountain place,” as I point the direction I headed to.
“Hmm, I think I know where those rocky mountains you went to, and being able to make yourself fly is pretty impressive. You need a lot of mana to do it and not even me can make myself stay up in the sky for less than 1-2 minutes.” as she gives a single soft clap.
“As for how I was able to make the wind accelerate, I just used my knowledge of how wind works, since what Devan said, as long as I have the knowledge then I can do it.” as I realize the wind feels a bit stronger.
“That’s impressive. So what did you do to make it so you need to speed up the wind itself?” as she becomes curious again.
“Does this world get tornadoes?
“Ya we do, why?” as she becomes a bit worried.
“Well, I made one, and couldn’t really stop it, and it’s also shooting lightning and glowing blue, like it has mana,” as I describe what I saw
“Oh you gotta be kidding me, no wonder the wind is suddenly getting faster. Here’s a fun fact about long lasting spell casts,” as she sits down on the ground.
“Huh what are those?”
“Those kinds of spells casted last a long time, usually up from 1 hour to 1 week or more depending on how long you casted it for and how much mana you put in it. Which is usually good for clearing hordes of enemies, but there is a benefit and at the same time problem. Any spell you cast will link to you and follow you. Now this doesn’t really happen to most spells casted, as it lasts only a few seconds, but for long lasting spells it becomes a problem. Anything from tornadoes, to earthquakes to even summons. But of course the more mana and time you put into a spell the longer and stronger it lasts. So here’s the question, how long did you and how much mana did you put in?” as she becomes worried and concerned.
“Um well, time isn’t a problem as it took for more than 2-5 minutes but with how much mana I put in, it made me tired and dizzy as if I emptied out all of my mana,” as I became also worried.
“Oh that’s not good, judging by the fact you are leaking mana, on top of that enhanced and purified kind of mana, I think that tornado you summoned is a Enhanced Mana Tornado, that can attack any living creature using it’s mana reserve in the sky, clouds to be more specific, to defeat them, and since you put too much mana into it, it will make itself stronger the longer it exists.” as she becomes more worried.
“Well, that doesn’t sound good, ah crap I am now regretting this, so how do I deactivate my own spell that I casted?”
“You can do it by deactivating the spell you casted or by just removing the mana in it. The first one is safe but will take time, since it will take a few minutes to do it while it goes towards you. But the other option is faster but would risk yourself from the tornado and the tornado itself sucking you in and potentially killing you, of course you dying also makes the spell you casted disappear as well,” as she points out the options.
“Well I know what I am definitely gonna choose,” as I get up, ”I’ll be right back,” as I get up.
“Are you seriously going to do the second option? Although I slightly don’t care, I want you to be alive so I can answer more questions and the limitations you can do,” as she also gets up.
“Eh, won’t take too long, probably will be back before you guys pack up and depart,” as I stretch a bit.” Just keep this a secret please,” as I run into the forest.
“Alright then, guess I’ll keep this secret for now,” as she yawns,” Forgot it’s still midnight, time for some sleep,” as Linnetia falls asleep quickly.
“Alright time to go invisible and straight into that tornado mess I created,” as I switched back to my explore suit and started flying towards it.
“Hmm wonder if there were any changes on the liking towards the Viewers. I’ll check it out,” as I bring up specifically only that section instead of the entire universe's information.
Story Changed: 75%
Reason: You destroyed and caused mayhem on 2 separate places. One being damaging an important mountain the MC needed to travel to and overcome, it will be harder and abit of delay for the MC to go to. Second being, you have casted powerful magic and in doing so caused damage. If you were to stop it, the story will not be delayed and the Viewers will give more liking to you. On the bright side, the Viewers are impressed by how powerful and different you are compared to the MC of this story, giving an increase of liking.
Popularity:10.5%
“Oh neat, I still don’t know how this would be useful, but hey at least some otherworldly beings like what I am doing, and I shall keep doing it. Probably can increase again if I can stop the tornado in the most best and fastest way possible,” as I close it
“I think I am getting close to it as I can definitely feel the wind trying to pull in the direction where the tornado is heading to,” as after I said that it appeared.
“Ok then, that’s terrifying and bigger than last time, seems to have gotten more mana inside it causing it to grow bigger and stronger,” as I begin my preparation to head it on.
“Alright, Sally hold on tight!” as I fly towards it.