The Greenhouse is coming along. Over a small area all the plants run wild and between the Monster there is no problem. They eat each other, but just hold the balance for now. Cockatrice eat sometimes Burrower and sometimes Bladehopper, but stay in their own lanes mostly, as each of them can really hurt a Cockatrice, if they are in Numbers. For now five Cockatrice, around 20 Bladehopper and a dozen Burrower work together in that small jungle to make their homes.
By flooding the place with their favorite Miasma I notice changes in the foliage. The Plants seem to adapt to their surrounding Miasma and make a nice jungle, but why now and not earlier by the tests? The reason I come up with just solidifies my thinking of me being dumb.
The Miasma is a combination of different kinds of Miasma. While Monsters evolve by getting one kind, Plants might not care about that rule. I am a total idiot to believe everything has the same way to change. Why am I this blind, when it comes to such simple solutions?
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Right now I have dug a sizable dungeon under the ground and am working on an experiment chamber. To put it mildly it looks extremely like a dungeon, as I have created cells, chains and separate rooms with the vats for holding nutritious fluids. Everything gets hardened and dimensional locked in place.
Remembering the nice trick of the statues makes the building extremely stable and strong. The whole area are leveled into three floors below the ground level. The lowest is the holding cells for… noisy creatures, so it does not travel too far, while I test things. The middle section is holding cells with a moderate comfort and lesser chains. Bigger experimental rooms were calculated as there might be extensive workings later.
The upper part is a simple jail. Nothing much to see, just that the cells are rather neatly aligned and have in some of them hidden doors for taking someone to the lower levels via tunnel, as I think it better to not be openly visible, that there are some more nefariously chambers below. The main entrance to the lower levels are in a Storage room right before the guard post of the upper jails. Keeping appearance.
Why that convoluted system? Just because I want to. As a child I was enamored with secret doors and hidden passages, why not living it through my creation of my place of work? Sounds fun and I can always just go through the walls with my Portal, if needed.
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The Foyer is finished. I can’t believe how many bricks I made. I never stopped with them and just let them run. Now I can plaster all of it down right away without any semblance of waste. So much rock was harvested by the sewers, cisterns, tunnels, crevice and now the giant Dungeon, I have no problem to create a giant welcoming chamber.
To the Left of the Chamber entrance is a small two Story barracks for resting guards and soldiers, albeit I do not have any. On the right is the guard post for the entrance in preparation to hold the main door if attacked. I even made some weapons, albeit crappy ones as decoration for it. The beds in the barracks are also just wooden and have nothing resembling comfort. Fabrics and bedding is still rare, so maybe later.
The entrance are three doors. Two to each side to enter the Barracks and guard post and the huge middle one which goes right into the foyer. As it is quite a bit away from the Wall as on the left is the Greenhouse I might make a Fountain in the middle of the way. Just for flexing, but that will come later.
The Foyer is huge, as the ceiling is six meters up and the place could be used as a small ballroom, but I will make a ballroom later. This is just the foyer to bring a bit of awe into the people.
I found a way to create infused candles with Miasma. They just pull Mana and burn forever. Nice way to light the place, albeit the flames are blue, and have a cold feeling with that light. It can be changed by using my Presence into warmer light, by adding special flame Miasma, but needs attention, so if not for special occasions it stays cold.
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I can not believe how efficient I got. This whole build of three floors down and the audience hall took me two weeks. Just two weeks to create this place, and right now the Farmers start to prepare for the new Year festival next Month. I even suggested to Belk to have the festivals in my Foyer, but he declined, as this would be too much grace.
Later I found out they are a bit scared by how fast I build while I am not even being near the place where it got build. Well true, Ava is not there on the workplace, but I am getting better at multitasking. I still can not control two bodies at the same time, but can be working on Crater things while walking with a body somewhere else.
In this World a new Year is at the beginning of Spring. Way more logical in my opinion. The people say goodbye to the last year decaying away while welcoming the new year getting born. Sounds somehow like Easter. Well no eggs, bunnies or some carpenter nailed to a piece of Wood, so maybe not really like it.
The whole festival will be held in the Mansion. My experimental equipment is already moved and has so much room, so why not. At first they wanted to do it at the house of Belk, but that house is way too small and I was adamant to let them at least use the Mansion, as I work right now at a way bigger house and this will become later the main building for festivities anyway.
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This shows how I need a Mayor for this little Village, so he can organize everything and calculate the full amount of taxes later. The whole thing is still too complicated for poor Belk.
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Petal is back, but has some interesting news for me. Search teams roaming the imaginary border. Some brave ones already have gone further, but ran right away, when one of their furthest scouts were found bursting into a tree. People never learn it seems.
Right now the places that get searched are on the lower east side where Meldek seems to be. Maybe they search for some kind of treasure? They should be more adept at killing the Monster, as they start to multiply from what I have heard of Petal. Stampedes might happen in the future.
Well that can mean a wide area of time for a race stretching millennia in their lifetime. They just told me, as it is near some places they start to clean with my Mana dew. Smalltalk is always nice to understand the World around you.
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“And the Castle you are right now creating is needed why?”
Petal is inquiring of the big building far behind the Fields. Nothing I really need to keep secret.
“I just want to look into things before going back to where I came from. For this I need a place to work on things to be prepared. All the while I search for Portal magic to see if I can make the travel easier.”
Well, to make it possible at all, as I am not from this World, but Petal does not need to know that.
“And when do you think you will go back?”
She seems eager to know that. Well if I am gone, Leafy will go back to the Forest obviously, so she has her best friend back.
“This will take time. I would love to go back the earliest I can, but before ten Years might be impossible, without finding some things. Fifty to a hundred years at worst, but I still hope to be back before they forgot me, as I want to meet all the people I really miss.”
I want to be back smiling at them, even if they might not smile.
“Then it is for a short while longer. And you will remove the danger from the Crater when you leave, right?”
To be honest I first did not want to take it with me, but might be a fun tool to see the other World burn.
“Taking it, destroying it, whatever I can do, I will do it. It might be the key for my travel back.”
“I still do not understand, why you not go there with your own feet, but it seems far away. As you are so beneficial to the Forest we Root will be helping you on your search. What do you need?”
This is nice. Never thought about it but…
“To be honest I need to find ancient ruins or places where people traveled far distances. Maybe even to different Worlds, as this might have the Magic I am searching for.”
“World travel? That is really far. You are from a different World?”
Oh, shi…
“Kinda, I do not know directly, as I was accidentally teleported here and the place looks so different. I might be put here, because of the thing brewing below the earth. Might be fate.”
Fate my arse. I came here, because it was the only rift I could go into. But telling them that might give me a better disposition for the Populace.
“Yes, this might be so. Mighty beings might get summoned by the World, if it is at risk. Some Gods and Goddesses have done that in legends, too.”
Wait, HOLD ON! There are legends of Summoning Heroes? If there are, then there should be Rituals written down. I need that!
“Oh? Never thought such legends are believed. Do you have some anecdotes or which countries might have some Fables about that? Could help finding an old gate back to where I came from.”
Keep it cool, not too nervous, just ask casually, do not let her see you needing those things.
“I remember some Fairytales about a Kingdom, which needed a champion and made a plea to their gods to send someone.”
No, please no god again. Those bastards are complicated.
“As he took pity their Gods gave them the way to call for their Champion, but it had cost them so much, as their fertile Land got barren and their mages lost all their strengths.”
Yes! Right, that means it uses a massive amount of Mana, but that is not the problem. I have enough Mana for a whole Kingdom anyway.
“The Kingdom won against their enemy, but only slowly crawled back to their position in the World. Then the Starfall happened and it got eradicated.”
NO! Why is this Legend that old? Dang super old Creatures! Maybe Ruins are still intact somewhere?
“Sad story. Where was that Kingdom, and what was the morale of this story?”
“Ah, the Moral was that humans are like bark beetle. They can ruin their own realm and still survive to ruin it again. The Kingdom was told to be in the southwestern area, where the animal people live.”
So southwest. There might be a possibility to be still something there. Wait, what was the moral? Those Root are really skewed with their perception of external people.