The experiments were rather fruitful, as I have all aspects of my Powers, just not all of my attention. Although I can for example concentrate and use light perception, it feels like I am looking at two things at the same time and is hard to combine both views to make something usable.
The next experiment might be a bit gruesome, but it is needed to understand life in itself. I disassemble the mouse. While it twitches sometimes when I remove parts it is more Instinct than real life, as she (oh by the way the mouse is female) did nothing while my consciousness is not inside it.
Taking it apart was rather easy, as I just have to will it and the mouse came apart where I want. When taking the heart out it stops beating after a few seconds. The core of the size of a grain of sand was right next to the heart, and connected to the blood vessels and nervous system. Strange place to be, as there is nothing it needs from the blood, while the nerves are more understandable.
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I took everything apart. Everything is gone, and still there is something. It is like the framework of the mouse. A kind of ghostly presence. It is nearly imperceptible, were it not for me touching everything in my Realm. It is like a spiritual body of what was or what should be. I do not really understand how it even exists, but I feel it is made out of Mana and more strangely, Miasma.
As it is out of my claimed Mana and Miasma I can move it where I want but am rather careful, as it looks somewhat fragile. I need to study it more to see if it deteriorates, what it can do and how it can benefit me in any way. Maybe I can create Ghosts, or other ethereal beings under my command. This would be interesting.
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The mouse is back. Not another mouse, coming to my Domain, the original mouse is back together and alive. It was just a thought on my part to try to reassemble the mouse with the blueprint of a spirit, but it worked. I noticed even in the reassembly the spirit helps parts click into place when I was not precise enough.
After a while I noticed way more like tethering parts to the spirit leads it to drift to the right place and even imbuing the spirit with more Mana makes the assembly close to automatic.
I can build life. Well not new life, but it is a start.
Now I have to see if anything is wrong with the mouse, as it literally got torn apart and stuck together. The first I inspect is the brain, as the long time of death should have averse effects on it.
Empty. Not that the brain is not there or it does not function, but the memories it had are not there anymore. It seems the framework does not retain those, and leaves the brain blank. Curiously the instincts are still there. Breathing, heartbeat and even instinctual reactions to the senses like reacting to tickles against the whiskers or activating the pain receptors makes instinctual movements. It is fascinating how those are still there but the memories are not. If I want to know something from a taken over creature I have to read it before I put their organs in numbered jars, noted.
The next thing I should try is modifying the Framework or look what would happen if I change parts of it by removing unneeded parts, like the gender specific organs, as I do not think a lobotomized mouse can even get children anymore without forcing it.
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It broke. The spirit body broke and I can not put it back together. Should have known, this fragile and rather complex framework of Mana and Miasma is beyond my realm of editing.
To be honest I was able to change the mouse a bit, as I could take away the Fallopian tubes and the hair follicles. This was all fine and dandy, but after I tried to change it in the spirit to see if I can change the body forever it unraveled and became a mess without any of the patterns surviving.
On the uptake I have found more out of monsters, as all the Miasma I could harvest of the broken spirit is electric Miasma. The spirit seems to only take on Miasma of the specific mutation and reject any other. This explains so much about Monsters being able to use spells sapient species use. They take the remnants and use them like they were spells.
Now I want to add Miasma of different kinds to see if something happened, but as I do not have anything I have to wait for another desperate creature entering the tunnel.
For now I have a new goal: Making traps to catch anything that gets inside!
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The work is not the problem, the problem was thinking how and what to create in form of traps. The first I want to do was a kind of gate, to stop the creatures from escaping. At the same time it had to have holes as Mana needs to get through. Then it had to be deep inside the tunnel where I do not have my Domain right now, as I am on the other end. This will be a rather complex project, I did not have a clue how to start.
I do not have ropes so chains need to be made and gears and pulleys, and wheels and…
I start simple first. While thinking about how to use it I should think about where I want it. The best would be on the other side of the tunnel, so I should start on finding the best place for a door. The Door should be made out of metal, but I do not have enough metal to begin with so it is a no on that. Rock it is.
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Traveling through my tunnel I see what the mouse vaguely noticed and remembered. A hole directly inside of the Bubble. Seems like the Bubble kind of ‘gave up’ fixing it and just sparks a bit at the border. There is kind of a mirage effect around the overlapping line of Mana and Miasma. Light gets bent in interesting ways. Kind of cool to watch, but I have other things to do.
First of a test if I can maybe go further out the hole as the Miasma is pierced.
...and I hate my curiosity. It hurts like hell being peeled like an apple, and worse of, as I seem more like an onion while the World thinks ‘oh neat, another layer’ and works right at the next peeling of agony.
Outside is a no go. I have maybe a one meter space after the wall before I get the worst experience in my life. Although it ‘feels’ lighter, agony is still agony even when it gets lowered form a 10 out of 10 to a 9.9 out of 10.
Well back to what I am here to do. What to create to make the exit not an exit anymore. First of all I go deeper, as I do not trust a gate being helpful right at the entrance. Worst of all something could notice it and think directly of a trap.
The best thing would be an invisible door, but as I am architecturally challenged, I have to live with a compromise. Making the circular hole square. As my Domain has grown considerably, I can now make it bigger as I am far more reaching. The Entrance stays kind of circular and transforms slowly into square to not spook incoming wildlife too much. At 15 meters I start with the shaft on the ceiling for the stone gate.
I have still a few hundred meters to the exit so it should be fine, as I hope nothing can outrun a falling slab of massive Rock. How to lift it and let it fall, I already started to think about, but also am still working on it. Great Idea to create the door without the workings to use said door, but whatever.
Next thing is the massive slab of Gate I have to manifest. As I need to create some kind of way to let the Mana through, I have to work on holes inside the door. And remembering how happy I was, to create some sort of Material, that is impervious to all things magical. Positive thoughts, positive!
The created slab has many holes and has enough throughput right now to keep the stream steady. Great progress. The next thing is, how to lift and how to lower it. For this I came with a great Idea of a gear system. Making it should be not be that hard.