This is so messed up.
I am at the border of the Miasma bubble and outside is Miasma too. Not as much as inside the bubble and not in a Storm, raging without care in the World, but still rather strong. The bubble absorbs slowly the Miasma around and I bet it filters it right into the crater. I have still no idea what in the Void is going on here.
Escape was my first thought, but right outside the dome of horribleness my tendril got intercepted with enough rage, that I felt for the first time in my new state pain, that made me scared of my existence.
The Mana of the World I took over was ripped out of it like it was an affront to even be near my own Mana while the rest was hammered back into my Domain with enough hate it made my Mana unable to move for a time.
My Domain has fared even worse. It felt like I was skinned alive as the part of it got shaved of me from where I poked out of the miasmic bubble.
Note to self: this World does not like me… at all!
Now I am stuck here. Escape is futile and staying will be scary too. I have made many stupid conclusions but I can say with certainty this crater wants to invade this World.
A crater of some kind of meteorite, Miasma to numb the Rules that apply here, a gigantic dome drawing more and more Miasma into this shell and a Hole into the Void, that happened to just appear right in the CENTER of this place as if summoned… Yeah, even I can read the writings on the wall without explanation. The thing, that wanted to connect with the rift inside the Void should be the original invader, and if the first hole did not work I can suspect they, whoever ‘they’ might even be, will try a second or even a third time.
While drawing back into the miasmic wall I think of my options. The wall is rather thick and has so much Miasma that it is scary, but the inside has way less, even if it is a deadly amount. It draws even more inside this giant bubble and should be even more dense in the future. The reason why it would need so much Miasma, should be evident by the black hole it punctured into the World, and am now using. So, to stop whatever unthinkable horror tries to link itself into this place, I can call my prison, clearing out Miasma should be the proper response.
Absorbing Miasma into my Realm and grinding it down is one of the first things I learned and it would be nice to improve on that anyways.
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First realization while filtering the Miasma into Mana and pushing it out of the Bubble of Doom, is free Mana reacts violently with the Miasma. I have seen lightning, blue fire, sudden frost, light in whatever color it might be, as I still can not see color, and black fog. It is like a war zone where the Mana flows out, so I have to stretch myself really close to the end of the bubble wall and push it out right there with gusto so it has the least possible time to react much with the Miasma.
The second realization is a good, but painful one. The more cleansed Mana I push out the more my Domain grows. Why in the Void this happens, I have no Idea, as I am just releasing something and not claiming anything. It is like my overtaken domain just decides now is the time to relax and expand. Painful was it because the first few times I thought my concentration slipped and I overstretched myself too far and got shaved by the World by my own lack of control.
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Staying here on this cliff is rather futile, as I should go back down. But back down I can not push the Mana out of the crater. There is a solution, I just have to work a little bit, and at the same time I get more stuff for me to fiddle with.
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Crawling down the rim I plan the coming project. The first thing I have to do is create a tunnel. Not only will I have access to the outside later, I will have a great pipeline to shove the Mana right out the front door. While I keep my Domain locked on the crater opening side I should be able to keep the unclaimed Miasma out and only the released Mana in. What happens on the other side with the miasmic wall will not be my problem as I am far away from any explosion or cataclysmic light show to care. Just push everything out and do not care, yup.
The place I chose is right where I land when I am down this cliff, as I am neither picky nor smart enough to know where I should just bore my pipeline into the rock.
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Finally back down I start the processing of the cliff wall and remove it with a new Idea I came up with. There is rather much decomposition Miasma I can filter out and touching the Stone with it creates dust. It shreds it down to tiny particles and with a bit of Wind Miasma I can draw it right into my black Sphere. The Portal seems to still grow and I have no Idea if it will stop growing, or maybe someday devour the whole Planet, but by this time I should be gone, and with me, maybe even the hole itself. Maybe in a year it will be around 4 Meters in Diameter, while right now it is still just around 20 centimeters.
Digging into the wall I find interesting things like small iron ore pockets and even copper. The sad thing is, they are not entire veins, as I believe the impact of the Meteorite just threw everything everywhere and whatever Power is working created those walls as a kind of barbed wire to make it undesirable.
The dig is rather mundane as I just drag myself a little bit forward, the Miasma does it job by creating a deeper indent and shoving me full with dust, but as I stated I am beyond boredom in my state. I even appreciate the rather smooth walls I leave inside this circular tunnel.
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Breaking the wall I realize now how big the trees are. When I was up on the cliffs I should be up around 500 meters and thought nothing of seeing the treetops at the same height, but 500 meter trees are huge!
The trees themselves are rather far away with the miasmic wall and such, but I can clearly see how big their trunks are. I would not fit one through my created tunnel even if the diameter is 4 meters. What monstrous trees they are, able to grow that massive.
How I wish I could go outside and take one for testing. Sadly It will not be.
Now for my most anticipated experiment. I carefully make the domain reaching to the forest filled with only Mana, while I create a border with my own Mana…
New Synonym:
My Essence: Mana and Miasma that came with me and is fully mine will be now named Essence. I make myself crazy to think of Mana and my Mana otherwise.
Again! I carefully put Mana on the side to the Forest and stretch a film of Essence as a border, so it does not mix with any unclaimed Miasma on the other side. Then I let it loose and push more Mana inside to push it out as fast as I can. Repeat until forever.
Oh, Fireworks! It seems to work but the Miasmic bubble is very angry, that it works, so I retreat slowly while pushing more and more Mana into the pipeline to eject it out of the tunnel and therefore the Crater. Hopefully I can do this now without being disturbed by accidentally touching the outside World and being reminded what it means to feel pain.
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Back at the Entrance into the crater I can see some lights working and I bet it is quite loud, I should work on sensing sound next to be sure about this.
Right now my domain is only slightly bigger than the tunnel without deforming it, so unless I want to let Miasma inside, I am stuck. The good thing is, the Domain grows rather quickly now. Taking over Space gets somehow easier too. With this all working, I can wait and watch myself grow.