Chicken coup is ready, eggs need warmth, but should be OK. For what I know those Chickens are hermaphrodites. They need a partner, but they have only one gender. Who is the female and who is the male might depend on who is the strongest most aggressive or most presentative… or they hump each other day and night, for what I know.
The Insect farm is also in the start. Those things look like big grasshopper but without the massive legs. They eat mostly plants and are rather… clean? Seriously, those buggers are living together and clean their nest themselves. One dedicated corner is their waste disposal place. They keep the floor close to spotless. With some kind of wax they create their own little rooms for their children, and even work in team to grow their offspring. Otherwise they are the dumbest creatures I have ever seen. Throw a little food on the floor and they come. You can just pick them up and bring them to the frying pan, no self preservation at all. I think we had a bird called Dodo like that in my first World.
A long street is in the making for where I want to create the Fields. Planned are four fields, but I start with two. In the middle of the four, or better said the far reaches I create a windless Windmill. It is working with runic circles and uses residual mana.
To create something using Mana in the air needs giant circles. Right now I have multiple stacked. One giant to gather the Mana, three separate circles inside to hold it and inside those three are four for each side of the gear to be kinetically moved.
Now, for what the ‘Manamill’ is for. It uses the rotating shaft from the three Gears to pull Water up for the fields. We do not have rain, and have only slight moisture inside the dirt. By channeling the water up it can irrigate the fields. Those white radishes are hungry for water, as is the rice.
Those two will be the first ones to be cultivated, as they do not need much other than water.
With a tunnel below the road I create a connection to my other cistern for now. With that I can dig further and further down, when I grow my Domain without someone seeing hovering mud.
So how big did I make those fields? Too big. Each one will be 4 km² and that is massive. Right now I create irrigation channels and cut them into four 1 km² Fields. There was something with crop rotation in my head, maybe it will help me somehow. Right now I just build what I want, later I can see if I build too big.
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“Those Fields are massive Lord Null. It would take time for enough Plants to grow on their own.”
“I think I overdid it a bit Leaf… Well nothing I can do for now.”
“For what purpose did you create the fields Lord Null?”
“I… um… to be honest I got carried away. I wanted to bring new Plants to experiment with, but thought of food crop and fields, so I wanted to create fields. So I did.”
chuckle
“What is so funny?”
“Nothing Lord. It is just nice to see you working on creating something you just want. It shows your ambitions.”
“Well… thank you?”
“You are welcome, Lord Null.”
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Growing Food is easy! Well I cheat, so that takes away the accomplishment.
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The whole thing is rather an accident or quite the catastrophe. The Mill I created works too well. Not in the flood kind, but in the Mana kind. The giant Circle to siphon the Mana is working too good as it had needed to start up slowly to reach full potential. While the three capture circles have a rather poor intake they take only a limited amount of Mana, so where does the rest of the Mana go? Right down the shaft into the Cistern I created. The whole water is filled to the brim with concentrated Mana.
The plants grow so fast you hear it. An eerie cracking sound can be heard and the crops grow in fast forward.
The whole dilemma started after a week of the start from the waterworks. The time frame might show how long it took for the circle to need to spin up. Now it is a bit too late. Even if I stop it now, it would be back to the drawing board, so the fields are now experimental places for Mana infused water to grow mutating crops.
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It is another moon cycle, so one month has passed since I came back. What a wild ride to think about how we now have fields and even livestock.
Leafy does not eat any animal products, but uses them for my meals. I had brought them back for fusion testings and to see if they can become monsters, but now I have some bug meat as breakfast, which is nice too. The chicken just hatched, so It needs a bit of time for them to grow to be able to lay their own eggs. I do not even know how long they need to grow, but I feed them daily.
Snow eats a bug everyday too, first raw, but now she wants them cooked too. Leafy indulges her, so that is a nice thing.
Until now, there is no new Scout, who came for a letter. Maybe they wait until I move out again. Right now I am working on multiplying the crops. With Reds body I start working on the crops while Leafy is not looking. Over time they grow how I want them to. As for the seeds, they grow fast too. The strange part is, the soil does not lose nourishment as fast as I would think for the plants to grow that fast.
Taking one apart shows why. The high Mana inside imitates the missing parts. It is like the spirit got real. Maybe over time the spiritual parts inside the physical body get real? I will have some experiments to do.
While that is cooking in my mind, I look at the little chicks eating the Mana infused rice. They gobble it up and nothing bad seems to happen. Hopefully it stays that way.
A few of the radishes will be put away. One dry, one in a glass of water, one out in the sun and one in a freezing room with miasma around to keep it cold. I thought of filling them with Miasma to see their behavior, but they are so filled with Mana, it does not fit in any way. I need new radishes and rice, as those are not usable anymore for miasmic infusion.
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It was too peaceful for my own Good, right? Of course something had to happen, right when I wanted to start a new journey.
Snow is sick. She has some kind of fever and breathes shallow. Temperature is high and her heartbeat is drumming nonstop. With my presence I feel the Miasma and Mana around her whirling like some kind of storm.
As long as she is sick I will not go anywhere. It is strange how this experiment of me got into such a sentimentality for me, but I am not complaining. She is a rather nice pet, even if she is sometimes naughty and tries to sneak into the Insect Farm for a late night snack.
Her bedding is changed to a cloak I have lying around. It is more comfortable as the stray hay and cushions her better from the hard floor. Leafy is sometimes here too, but tends to the garden and fields most of the time. I on the other tendril have not left the body of Ava for the whole time I noticed her fever.
Staying by her side and giving her sometimes something to drink or a bit pureed food. Gently I pet her to let her know, everything is okay. Well I do not know if it is okay, but I hope I can assure her, maybe for the last time on this world.
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The fever is going down a bit and the Mana seems to calm down. It is kind of nice to know the worst seems over. What she has I still don’t know, and taking her apart for looking what is wrong does not even register as a feasible Idea anymore.
While sleeping I guard her for the time. The crops are doing great, as they start to take over the first corners of the fields. Also the Garden has promising changes, but in the Alchemy Book were no references to use variations of plants.
The books helped a little bit but not much. They had mostly Information I already knew. Steel is really made with coal, so I have a nice boon in that aspect. The knack I needed for better metal was not even the composition, it was the heat. By shock cooling metal it gets harder, I should have known that but it evaded me, so stupid.
Masonry has shown more on how to build than how to create bricks. At least I now know how mortar is made. Lime, sand, blood or other additives I have plenty. To be honest I stay with fusion of bricks, as this makes it way easier for me.
Alchemy is a rather boring book. Many chemical reactions are mentioned first, and show more Chemistry than magical Alchemy. Some real alchemical things were strewn into it. I would have loved a Potion Making book, but to get one I need way way more Money, as it is a trade secret for every Potionmaker. So I need to find a Potionmaker, who annoys me and pick his brain clean.
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When I was at the cusp of feeling at ease with Snow, something has happened again. Now I do not know what is happening.