While trying to expand I feel the pressure of the World rise more and more. It seems not to like me being here and makes it apparent. If there is no way to remove this pressure I will not be able to grow my Domain further.

Now that I am a bit stuck and try to push myself getting my presence bigger, I should go back to my roots, or my Portal.

New Synonym:

- The Portal – Connection between my Realm and the World. It can let through Miasma, Mana and Matter. What it can do more, I have to experiment with it.

Being able to more or less see with light I can say, I do not see the portal. It is there, but it is a sphere of pure darkness. Nothing seems to reflect, and I do not understand how it works. It is a stable hole right in the middle of the air. I would say it hovers around 20 centimeters over the Floor, if the leaf I found is around 10 centimeters.

I know it is a kind of Portal since the first time I touched it. But when did I first touch it?

How it works is a definite must to know. I have to work on that, so I know how stable it is and how much I can rely on it being there. What I really want is being able to open a hole back to where I was banished from.

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My ego is rather too big, thinking I can control the miasmic Storm. It is not that it is lowering rather some kind of windstorm is raging behind the rim of the crater and throwing leafs all over the place. What there is I do not know, but I see many flying leafs falling down. The fact, that I have caught some of them is just the weather. Great to know, how I can still miss simple things like that.

On the bright site, the miasmic Storm DID slow to a crawl in my presence. Just with my new created ‘mana sight’ I see it is just here where I am. Oh I have mana sight now. After understanding how there is Miasma for light, it was easy to find Miasma reacting to Mana by letting different kinds near the grindstones until one flips out.

Although I was mistaken with the scale I have on the world, I am still right with nothing survives inside the crater. I can see leafs right out of my bubble wrinkling up in fast forward.

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I have to leave this place. Not that there is any danger right now, I am just in a horrible position, where a miasmic storm rages around me, I am in the middle of nowhere and right below me is something definitely wrong, as there is this strange thing, more alien than me, forcing such a storm for unknown reasons to rage and destroy any living thing in a radius of at least five kilometers.

Before thinking about where, I should rather think about HOW to leave. This hole in the world is rather perplexing, but still I did not try to move it for now. And now that I try it is not possible for everything I shove against it, it goes through or makes the Portal itself intangible. A new discovery, If something bigger than the Portal tries to shove against it, it just lets it through without moving it to the other side. Neat, party trick, but nothing I can use.

I am a genius! Or maybe, I am an idiot, not trying it further, but using a tendril of Mana fixed against something heavy outside and dragging it inside my own Realm I can drag the Portal slowly. It is not more than a snails pace but I move. Now the question where to.

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It is a risk, but I decided to move in the direction from where the leafs are coming. The other way are more Mountains anyway, so I think I choose life rather than rock. While dragging my Portal through the wasteland I still keep up with absorbing and converting Miasma into controllable Mana. The pressure is still hard on my Domain, but maybe it helps in some way to have a more solid presence? Keeping up the positive attitude and trying to remember my goals.

To be honest my goals should be put in line of priority, so I do that while I drag myself through the soil like a spiritual snail with a black hole for a shell. My priorities should be simple and understandable.

First I should get more powerful. I have an own Realm, but nothing to do with it. While it is rather fascinating, there is nothing inside, so what should I do with it? Putting in all the things I find is nice and dandy, but the only thing I find is soil and remnants of leafs.

The second should be a body. While I do not find it necessary to be human I need something to at least ‘VOID SMASH’ something when I am in need to. Well I can throw magma, but that is not something I should use as an attack. Unless I have prep time, the enemy is very close and does not notice the glowing mud flying directly into the direction of them, I would have more of an uphill battle to fight.

Third point is a base… Or maybe this should be the second point in my list, as I still do not know how fragile I or even this Portal is. What I need is a place to experiment. This World is different, but similar to my last. There are same principles like Mana, Miasma, Sun, Moon(s), and even Lifeforms, but what it entails more, must be looked into. What kind of materials are in this world and what can be made to help my overall goals would be really helpful.

Fourth point is going back. This will be tricky, but as I have a hole in reality already, I should be able to get some insights in how to do this. I really want to see my ‘friends’ again and show them the same hospitality they gave me. And not forgetting the Kingdom and the Gods.

Jeez, my list is rather dramatic with ‘beat up GOD’ on the list, but what can I do? It is one of the points I really want to do, but if I can traverse entire Dimensions this should be possible, too. They are not all mighty like some religions name them to be, it seems.

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I must again reiterate, that I am an idiot. I drag myself like a Snail over the floor and not even considered for hours to use a second tendril to improve the motion. The only thing, that lets me look less dumb is the fact, that it heightens the speed not that much, as the drag of that hole is more of an exponential rise type. Wait, that is bad, too.

On the really positive side, dragging myself through the dirt like that pushes things trough the hole. The more I collect, the more I can use later. For what I do not know, as I am still working on finding out more about the Portal. What I can say is it grows. Not much, but it does.

I am a Genius, this time for real!

The Portal is malleable, and can be formed into different forms. The trick is rather strange, as if I form the Portal inside my world It does nothing as the Portal outside my Realm is the reference what can go through. The outside Portal can not be changed strangely so I tried to use my Mana to stretch out while it is between both Portals and it changes the form on the other side, too! There is heavy pressure and wants to go back to being a ball, but I can stretch it now to a flat portal if I use enough power. The pressure just does not let me hold it in place for long. But if I can make a frame I should be able to hold it bigger.

While I am working on this conundrum about how to use the Portal efficiently a day is gone and I have moved to the rim about… 5 percent. The Obsidian thing I burned is not far from me and I suspect I will be there in two weeks. Oh boy…

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The strange thing about not being… a literal being, is boredom does not exist. I just crawl in the dirt and don't get annoyed or bored or anything. This can be good and bad. The good part is, I can do mundane things for long, without resting, getting annoyed or needing to do something else to keep my morale. The bad thing is, I could fall into an endless loop without noticing and doing one thing for weeks without realizing. There were old Stories in my original World about abominations beyond our reality, that are eons old and just… exist. Is it maybe those ‘old ones’ are not doing much, not because they are older than time itself but they do not get bored of doing nothing and just existing? One even slept for millennia under the ocean and uses star positions as the wake up call.

Remembering to never idle and always look what I do and can do on a regular basis. I want to be back in a reasonable time, and not in a million years.

While I am philosophizing about time and existence I got close to the rim. The rim itself is completely rock. Spiking up like shark teeth and interestingly extremely sharp edges and spikes. Nothing problematic for me but extremely dangerous for anyone who would want to go over to the other side. Breaking some of it apart was rather hard, but after I got a piece broken of I could absorb it into my Realm.

This is no ordinary rock. It is imbued with a scary amount of Miasma over the years. On the other tendril the soil I deem uninhabitable is rather tame. So many questions about how that is even possible.

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Now I do not know if the travel to the rim was really the best Idea. Over the rim is more Miasma as inside of the crater. The sheer amount is enough to tell me this is not natural. It is some kind of shell or bubble to keep the World from interfering of whatever happens inside the crater.

And suddenly I have a new number one on my to do list: Survive this messed up situation.