Ok…third floor. I needed something cool. Maybe a town? But who would reside in it? Uhhhh…maybe it could be an abandoned town? Throw in some bones in stuff, ruin all the houses, and call it a day? Well, obviously it wouldn't be just a town. There would be a forest surrounding it, with all the shit, you know? My tree guys, elementals and…animals.

…I really want forest animals. The forest feels so…empty, considering all the enemies hide in the trees. Hell, some of them are the trees. And, honestly? The animals I want would probably be mostly normal animals too. There's enough enemies. Honestly, maybe I should lower the enemy count, as I have no idea how strong a newbie adventurer is. Are there even any adventurers in this world? I haven't even seen a trace of one. Well, i guess i shouldn't be complaining, as I can’t see that much of the outside. Actually, let's go fix that. I made a few mana tendrils, strengthened them with mana, and lashed at the barriers that confine me to this small bubble. After a few seconds, my domain expands again. I grew excited, hoping to see some animals, considering I now essentially owned around 20% of this forest.

Nothing.

No animals, critters, or bugs. Hell, there wasn't even a sound. I scanned the entire ground closely, hooping to see something. Well, something other than grass. And, you get what you wish for, I guess. I found an ancient looking deer skull that was 90% in the ground. Cracks and holes had formed on the skull from the seemingly many years it had been left here to rot for.

Why hello there… I thought, as I summoned a wind spirit. Hopefully, crushing skulls counted as killing something. Probably not, though. The elemental simply took the skull in its hands, and crushed it like there was nothing there.

…I guess 5 body is pretty strong, then. Sadly, though, there was no blue screen. Whatever. How the hell am I gonna get a deer then? Or a bird? Because for some fuck-all reason, those little shitters don’t exist. Or bugs. No worms, cockroaches, ants, nothing! So fucking annoying.

…is this entire forest empty? Not my forest, obviously, but everything is so…silent up here. I kept expanding my domain.

Nothing.

Nothing.

Still…nothing

Why? Why is everything gone? Is it my fault? No. it can't be. So why is every single living being here gone? Except the trees, of course. Let me reiterate, there aren't any sentient or sapient beings here.

…but, you know what I do see a lot of? Skulls. Well, there's not a lot of them, but there's enough. I don't really know how much of the forest I own now. But, from what I can see, I'm pretty sure I own most of it. Which makes it even weirder how there is nothing. Not even an ant. Why? What happened? I don't know. I have no one to ask but myself.

I silently expanded my domain more, more, and more. Until I covered the entire forest.

Nothing. Damn. The entire forest was silent, the only sound being the trees rustling from the wind.

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…I should work on my dungeon some more, I thought, somberly.

If I can't get the template, could I just imagine it into existence? Like how I imagined the ent? I wondered.

…i guess there's only one way to find out i thought. I wanted to start with…let's say a rabbit, yeah? So, I imagined. I forced my will unto this world, demanding this specific creature exist here, and now.

And after what felt like ages…nothing happened. Had I failed? It's plausible. But why? Why can I create that ent, even though I had almost nothing to work with, but I can't create a simple rabbit? I tried again and again a few times, but nothing worked.

…what if instead of doing the entire thing at once, I started with one thing at a time? Like, what if I make the skeleton, the muscles, and then the organs and fur. Make it layer by layer, there, that's easier to say.

…what does a rabbit skeleton look like?

Whatever. I'll just imagine what I think it might look like. And so I did. After a few minutes, I felt a drain. And, before my eyes…wait, hol’ up, I don't have eyes. Ok, basically, there's a rabbit skeleton now. That was easy enough. Next, I imagined the muscles. Or should I have done the organs? Whatever. I felt a considerable drain this time. Like, a real considerable drain. So now I have a rabbit with nothing but muscles and a skeletal system.

…it was not a pretty sight. Next, I did the fur. I'll do the organs last. Should I do the organs last? Fuck, i dont know, im not a biologist or whatever the fuck. Ok. whatever. I just have to hope this works. Now, I had a furry meat-sack. At Least it resembles a rabbit, now. I added in all the organs, afterwards. At least, I think I added all the organs in the right places. You know, the heart, nerves, the entire show. Now, I need to get the heart pumping.

…how. Uhh. chest compressions? No. magic? Yeah. let's try that, I'll shove in a bunch of magic, add in a magic core, and hope it works.

I concentrated on creating a link with the rabbit. Could I make a link with it? It wasn't alive, after all.

…whatever. I imagined a mana tendril passing into the body, and then I shoved a bunch of mana into the rabbit. After I did so, a familiar blue screen popped up.

[ERROR. SEVERAL MISSING COMPONENTS. RECONSTRUCTING.]

Well fuck you then. I tried my bes- what the FUCK?! i cut myself off as the rabbit began twitching. Lumps appeared and disappeared all over its body rapidly, and at some point it's veins started glowing blue. All the while, my mana was being drained into the rabbit.

After a few minutes, the rabbit stopped having a seizure. And then, after a few moments, it blinked, and got up.

[RECONSTRUCTION COMPLETE.]

You’ve unlocked the [common rabbit] template

I wanted to celebrate. I would have been, even. But, the next two screens stopped me dead in my tracks.

Congratulations! You have unlocked the [WILL] stat!

[WILL] is what allows you to manipulate your domain! The higher you [WILL] is, the more you will be able to do.

That was cool and all, but it was mostly the last screen that freaked me out a little.

Congratulations! You’ve brought a once extinct species back to life!

Fucking. what.