It is hard! I forgot some important factor. Trying to pull the gate up by the right side only with a gear system, as I forgot how a heavy object only pulled up by one side makes it near impossible to even move. Back to the drawing board and redo everything I just did for a new method.

The new method uses both sides to heave it, so I sincerely hope it helps. The way to use both at the same time is through a chain. Not a normal chain, but a one with plates held by a rivet and made into a circular chain without end. I made a bike chain! Great for moving gears, I hope it works with this contraption. On both sides the gears are in place and now I can try to use kinetic power with my miasma to spin it… and the chain broke. Back to the drawing board again.

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I hate it. All the thought about how I want the Door so deep inside the Tunnel I have to put it near the exit inside the Crater. No chain I can make can handle the strain of 500 meters and even then, they can not handle the tons of rock holding it.

I hid my shame of workmanship by pasting Rock over the Places I hollowed out and forgot all about it, now back to what I wanted to do, namely a gate.

First of all I have made a wall out of Bricks I have still laying around by processing the sand, as a Rock gate the size of a house is a bit too heavy to move. Creating a smaller Entrance will make everything a whole lot easier for me. The wall needs to be thick, as I do not know how strong some of the Monsters are, reinforcing it by melding the Bricks together. I did not forget the holes for Mana to go through. Everywhere are beehive like holes in the bricks to let the Mana flow. The biggest hole is the entrance around 2 meters width and height.

The gate is a simple rock wheel. It is held in place by a metal chain and handled by a pulley. Maybe I can later use water to pull it rather than my miasma… or maybe I can create something more sophisticated as a door, than the kind used by ancient tombs, beforehand.

The next thing I do is create a pitfall trap, right in front of the gate. The release is easily created and works unexpected without a hitch. The best thing is, as I paved the place beforehand, I can hide it perfectly, as I use the same stones just melded together in a plate that falls away after the chain is pulled. Resetting it needs manual labor, but whatever, I have my base here and will not move for the foreseeable future.

Why do I have a feeling I jinxed myself?

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Nothing much happened. While making more and more Mana, I have not seen one animal the whole time. To pass the time a bit, I pave the places I can reach while I grow more and more. It shows my achievements quite good, as I can now use my essence in a 50 meter radius just by itself.

While it is impressive to have so much space to myself it is more impressive, that I have now more control of my Domain. Training to form it on a daily basis made it now possible to hold it in place where I want it to permanently.

With this I should be able to not let the World touch me again, hopefully.

More new things that happened is a storage house I made. My first house I build and it looks rather neat. The only aspect, that makes it less impressive is it has no roof, as it is purposely made that way. I might not be able to break the aura with either Essence, Miasma or Mana I have, but a heavy object from above is not in that category. If something dangerous gets inside and I am sneaky enough, it should be dead in a few rocks. Different kind of Rocks got made too. Balls, spikes, bricks everything I can drop and hope to hit my target.

Now I wonder, what about things, that are smarter or faster, than this. I will think about that for later.

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Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

While building a frame for my Portal, something came through the Gate. It is some kind of pack of Wolves. Rather mangy and no one has no scars. Evidently they were the losers of some territory dispute. So they found this tunnel and thought it a cave to make a new hideout. The first thing I did was changing my vision to light and pulled my essence back to not spook them.

Sniffing around they seem to look for danger and find luckily nothing. Scratching at the floor does nothing buddy, as the bricks are hard as… well rock.

After a bit of time more came through. Those are the least impressive, as the one limps and the other has no tail anymore. Kudos to their solidarity for letting the weak stay behind while the strong investigate.

All in all they are now seven and seem to look for a nice place to rest and lick their wounds. Noticing the black orb they are extremely wary of my Portal, but seem not to disturbed, as it does nothing. Yeah guys, it is rather harmless, as the whole area around you is the predator, heh heh.

Now that all seem to be inside I should start my great trap and close the door. The noise lets them perk up right away and look for what makes it. Realizing the gate closes they run directly in front of it, luckily too late to escape as it is already closed. While scratching at it, all were there except the one with the limp, as it was too shocked right now and did not react with the others.

The Pitfall was perfect and got nearly all, but it was close as some had clawed on the floor before skidding down the hole. Did I mention It was 6 Meters deep? I was more wary of things jumping out of the Pit than dying of the fall, so I overdid it a bit. There is a small tunnel down there that goes to nowhere but winds a bit around, as I can not stretch my Portal that wide of a Pitfall for taking anything, so I thought about making an ‘escape route’ where I have it easier to capture an animal at the end.

Up to my next step. I take my Portal and hover over the Pitfall and every Wolf growled. Next I use every Essence, Mana and Miasma I have at the ready to try to overtake the Animals, but their Aura keeps me totally at bay. My ruse worked as everyone panicked and slowly shrunk back. Sadly no one seems to back away completely. I get closer with my Sphere and start to stretch it in the biggest oval I could. Finally the tailless one could not take it anymore and ran into the hole. After one fled the others followed while the Alpha who seems to be the biggest of the bunch waited for all to be inside before running inside itself.

Onto the next step. As I can stretch my Portal only as far as the small tunnel is I cover the whole outline with it. The Tunnel is around 20 meters long, so It takes time, but at the end there were all the Wolves. Some seem to bite each other as they could neither go back or forward and nobody knows what to do. One after the other I take them into my Realm and there they hover in Darkness. The last was the tailless one, who I have to thank for its cowardly, as otherwise I would not be able to take them inside. The Wolves were over a Meter standing up and would not fit without crouching down and squeezing.

The first I took over was the last I captured. It was tailless, as he had the lowest Aura of them all. It took me still 10 minutes to do it and had to transfer my Portal inside my Realm at the other end, as they learned how to swim inside and knew somehow my Portal was the exit.

Taking him over he stopped struggling and I go to the next one.

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Two hours. It took me two hours to take over the alpha. He was the hardest of them all and had only started to give up as I took away the Oxygen in the air to make him unconscious. Even then, it was still harder than taking over tailless. Now that I have all of them I have time to get the last one, limpy.

...Nothing I can do for limpy, as he ran away from my domain and out in the crater. Yes, the crater is deadly even for things like wolves. He has already leaked everything that is liquid and the flesh is mummifying. I take him in anyway as it would be sad to have any material I can use turn to dust.

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Alpha had an outing with the other storm wolves, as I call them. It seems like the place got too small for their pack, as they explosively multiplied over the last months, triggered by the ebb of Miasma. Every female was pregnant and used this calm time to have cubs. Alpha was one of the ones who were on the branch side and expendable, so they got less and less of the hunt as the most got to the females to bring healthy cubs into the world. Finally Alpha challenged the true pack leader to have a chance for more food and miserably lost. As he was thrown out the others rebelled too, and it got bloody fast. Desperation of the old unruly who were tolerated until the time got better, had thrown them into the World where they found maybe their best hope in the danger zone they always feared. A hole and Mana that soothed their acing scars made it possible for a rest and maybe a refight with a way better outcome. Sadly they found their way back blocked and then hunted by eternal darkness. Never to give up again Alpha fought with everything, even if he died, he will make his flesh taste the worst possible.

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Well, what a story. The most interesting was the ebb of the Miasma, as I think the creation of the Portal was the reason of it all. If it takes so much magic to create a rift into the Void, how much to create one through it? So much to do, hopefully everyone will be delighted to see me back.

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Reassembling tailless I take possession of its body. I have something to try, that either loses me the wolf or gives me new hope. Walking through the tunnel on four paws I have the knack out rather fast, as I still know how move like the heroic mouse that opened the first door to me. I should never forget this mouse as I have much to thank her for.

In front of me is the hole and outside is the World, that does not want me. It is strange, I feel nothing really, but tailless seems to respond to my dampened feelings by shaking a little bit. Well I am a bit scared but also anticipate something good happening, so a light shiver should be appropriate.

Stepping out of the Tunnel I slowly go to the place familiar to tailless but alien to me, hoping my idea turns out to be right.