Argul focused on her domain. She wanted to build her next floor before she started to immerse herself into something else.
She had left her domain alone for the last month and not taking a quick look had been hard, but she wanted to see all changes at once. Not wanting to stall any longer she started by looking at her first floor.
The fireflies had spread here, accompanied by her mice. Pretty much all of her predators had followed them and Argul could even spot a few of her bats hanging on a tree. Sadly none of her plants had spread here. It would likely stay that way for a bit, because compared to her Erod floors her first floor was a bit cut off.
The rest of her Luna floors had mostly remained the same and only got more populated. The difference in gravity and nutrients in the ground was just too stark for any Erod plants to move there.
Her sixth floor on the other hand was being flooded with other organisms. The lizards of the fifth floor had spread to the volcano lands together with the honeybees. In the center regions of the island Argul’s palm trees were slowly dominated by birch trees and a lot of underwood of the birch forest had started to grow on the sixth floor.
Animals had also come through the portal again and more than Argul would have guessed. There were a lot of small ones like worms, spiders and insects in general, but also a few different small birds and some kind of mice. Most of the birds were tits, though Argul preferred to call them titmice for obvious reasons.
What surprised Argul though were the countless species of oceanic creatures that were in her ocean. It looked like her AI had opened a portal to Erod’s oceans because of the instructions she had given. It would explain why the spread of the mana zone had noticeably slowed down a week ago.
As for her new residents, Argul did not want to search for them on her whole floor, there was just too much ocean to go through. Instead she looked around her center island and used her knowledge domain for the rest.
The variety of organic and animal plankton had risen drastically. A few kinds of fish had moved into Argul’s domain too, but the only one she could tell by name was mackerel. The fish had been followed by a school of dolphins, but they sadly weren’t anywhere near the center right now.
The portal was also responsible for all the small crustaceans, worms and shells on the ground of Argul’s ocean. They weren’t anything larger than crabs, but it was enough to make her ocean ground feel lively instead of dead. Argul was likely the only one who would even notice that for now, at least until some scientists came around and started to do their thing.
There had yet to come any jellyfish through the portal, which was a really good thing in Argul’s opinion. The population and most importantly procreation of most jellyfish depended on the amount of food they had.
On earth there had been a balance between fish and jellyfish, at least until the day human-kind decided that they wanted more fish. Needless to say, jellyfish would have immediately become a plague in Argul’s domain and she would have been forced to create something that preyed on them.
Argul wasn’t really keen on intervening in an ecosystem. It was a bit hypocritical because she was basically doing so every time she created a new species. Still she would hesitate with any creatures that were created by nature and not by her.
They were a lot more fascinating in her opinion, because they were the result of hundreds of millions of years of evolution and not Argul’s magical organisms. It gave them a charm that someone like her could never reproduce.
Argul watched her coral reef for a few minutes while thinking about a few things. She didn’t mind the portal opening to Erod, on the contrary if a few of the larger oceanic creatures would come through it would allow her to create her krakens a bit earlier.
Argul took a quick peek on the seventh floor. The organisms took a lot longer to populate this floor, but considering the harsh environment that wasn’t really surprising. Her 7th floor was the only floor for now that Argul had plans with in the longer term, though that would likely change once she had a bit more floors. She just didn’t have any good ideas for the others for now.
Argul focused back on her sixth floor. She wanted her next floor to be mountain ranges upon mountain ranges and connecting that to her sixth floor was a lot easier to start with. Once she had the floor she could then connect it to the deep sea and had already ideas for that.
She looked at a middle-sized island she had and urged it to grow a mountain range. This really reminded her that she needed to work on her conjuration skills, because right now she was wasting large amounts of mana to do something. The only thing that held her back right now was that conjuring something of the complexity of a mountain range would be incredibly difficult.
Argul wasn’t particularly proud of her conjure water skill. It conjured water mostly after her intention and was impure because of that. She would have to create conjure skills for the different minerals that made it drinkable before she was happy with herself.
Argul watched as a mountain range visibly grew out of the ground. There had been some moongrass on the island before so she didn’t upset a lot of nature. Speaking of moongrass, she could swear she had seen some of that stuff grow under water.
Argul focused back on the island. It might have taken her idea of a mountain range a bit far, but it would work even better for her that way so she skillfully ignored that.
Map
Spoiler [collapse]Now for an entrance to her 8th floor, you would have to walk halfway around a mountain that was north of the largest mountain of the south half of the island. If you were to turn around after that you would start walking inside the entrance to the next floor and enter it, most likely without ever realizing you left the sixth floor.
The 8th floor would house massive mountain ranges. Argul thought of something the size of the Andes. This mountain range was all along the west coast of South America. The mountain ranges would form randomly, but between them had to be a bit of space, something around 50 km. Only the end of one mountain range was allowed to “touch” another mountain range. This way a few enclosed regions could form.
Earthquakes would be something occasionally happening inside a mountain range, but would seldom reach the enclosed regions. To simulate tectonic activities, earthquakes would either cause a mountain range to grow or shrink and if they were especially strong, could cause the appearance of active volcanoes.
Just to be safe she added caves as an option for the mountains and looked at her options a last time.
Argul liked how her goats had turned out. For all that she was the origin of all mana there weren’t a lot of creatures around that could cast anything, so these finally gave her a bit of the magic beasts vibe.
For her winged creature Argul changed her view to the top of the mountain. There had grown a few more mountains since she had started the floor, but this one was the largest one still.
Argul thought about creating wyverns for a bit, but ultimately decided against it. Sure giant flying lizards were fearsome, but so was also any gigantic bird of prey and in Argul’s opinion birds had a lot more potential to look dangerously cute than wyverns, a very important point.
The bird she got had feathers of a dark azure blue on their backside and a very light azure blue on their front. Argul guessed they had a wingspan of maybe six meters. Their feet were adorned by large sharp-looking claws and they had a long tail that trailed after them.
The oddest thing in Argul’s opinion though was the absence of a beak. Instead they had a maw full of dangerous looking teeth and their head looked similar in form to that of a snake.
One of the three opened its wings, flapped them and then roared out majestically. Argul was in love and really wanted one as a pet, but she promised herself to wait for a bit until her avatar got here.
Argul liked the name and didn’t care that it was the japanese name for an already existing bird.
She let herself fantasize about her riding one of these birds, but ultimately decided to check her status before she had to get up.
Argul hadn’t gotten quite as many quests as before. By her guess you got more quests for the first level potential and the quests would get harder afterwards. You needed more mana to upgrade that part of the body, so it made sense that it would get harder with time or endless quests wouldn’t be quite as special.
Now for the rest!
Her stats were coming along nicely and the growth slowly started to really kick in. Argul would have to grow more before she could start with a few of her crazier ideas and she had to invent one thing or the other.
With that thought she sent her consciousness back to her avatar.
Otjag I am not going to lie, I love doing these domain chapters, but this one really went a bit far. Took me nearly 7 hours to write...For the interested of you, Hebiwashi is japanese for snake eagle I believe.
Announcement SpoilerFor all the interested souls out there, the following link contains a list of all identify screens and all the plants and animals that were only mentioned. Have fun and thanks for reading! (I still update the list, so you might not want to look at it if there are more domain chapters, that's why this is a spoiler.) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CpJhAcSYmWc-qsTv31qCs3R9v4Fz84p4vmdrVD7qVeM/edit?usp=sharing
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Argul focused on her domain. She wanted to build her next floor before she started to immerse herself into something else.
She had left her domain alone for the last month and not taking a quick look had been hard, but she wanted to see all changes at once. Not wanting to stall any longer she started by looking at her first floor.
The fireflies had spread here, accompanied by her mice. Pretty much all of her predators had followed them and Argul could even spot a few of her bats hanging on a tree. Sadly none of her plants had spread here. It would likely stay that way for a bit, because compared to her Erod floors her first floor was a bit cut off.
The rest of her Luna floors had mostly remained the same and only got more populated. The difference in gravity and nutrients in the ground was just too stark for any Erod plants to move there.
Her sixth floor on the other hand was being flooded with other organisms. The lizards of the fifth floor had spread to the volcano lands together with the honeybees. In the center regions of the island Argul’s palm trees were slowly dominated by birch trees and a lot of underwood of the birch forest had started to grow on the sixth floor.
Animals had also come through the portal again and more than Argul would have guessed. There were a lot of small ones like worms, spiders and insects in general, but also a few different small birds and some kind of mice. Most of the birds were tits, though Argul preferred to call them titmice for obvious reasons.
What surprised Argul though were the countless species of oceanic creatures that were in her ocean. It looked like her AI had opened a portal to Erod’s oceans because of the instructions she had given. It would explain why the spread of the mana zone had noticeably slowed down a week ago.
As for her new residents, Argul did not want to search for them on her whole floor, there was just too much ocean to go through. Instead she looked around her center island and used her knowledge domain for the rest.
The variety of organic and animal plankton had risen drastically. A few kinds of fish had moved into Argul’s domain too, but the only one she could tell by name was mackerel. The fish had been followed by a school of dolphins, but they sadly weren’t anywhere near the center right now.
The portal was also responsible for all the small crustaceans, worms and shells on the ground of Argul’s ocean. They weren’t anything larger than crabs, but it was enough to make her ocean ground feel lively instead of dead. Argul was likely the only one who would even notice that for now, at least until some scientists came around and started to do their thing.
There had yet to come any jellyfish through the portal, which was a really good thing in Argul’s opinion. The population and most importantly procreation of most jellyfish depended on the amount of food they had.
On earth there had been a balance between fish and jellyfish, at least until the day human-kind decided that they wanted more fish. Needless to say, jellyfish would have immediately become a plague in Argul’s domain and she would have been forced to create something that preyed on them.
Argul wasn’t really keen on intervening in an ecosystem. It was a bit hypocritical because she was basically doing so every time she created a new species. Still she would hesitate with any creatures that were created by nature and not by her.
They were a lot more fascinating in her opinion, because they were the result of hundreds of millions of years of evolution and not Argul’s magical organisms. It gave them a charm that someone like her could never reproduce.
Argul watched her coral reef for a few minutes while thinking about a few things. She didn’t mind the portal opening to Erod, on the contrary if a few of the larger oceanic creatures would come through it would allow her to create her krakens a bit earlier.
Argul took a quick peek on the seventh floor. The organisms took a lot longer to populate this floor, but considering the harsh environment that wasn’t really surprising. Her 7th floor was the only floor for now that Argul had plans with in the longer term, though that would likely change once she had a bit more floors. She just didn’t have any good ideas for the others for now.
Argul focused back on her sixth floor. She wanted her next floor to be mountain ranges upon mountain ranges and connecting that to her sixth floor was a lot easier to start with. Once she had the floor she could then connect it to the deep sea and had already ideas for that.
She looked at a middle-sized island she had and urged it to grow a mountain range. This really reminded her that she needed to work on her conjuration skills, because right now she was wasting large amounts of mana to do something. The only thing that held her back right now was that conjuring something of the complexity of a mountain range would be incredibly difficult.
Argul wasn’t particularly proud of her conjure water skill. It conjured water mostly after her intention and was impure because of that. She would have to create conjure skills for the different minerals that made it drinkable before she was happy with herself.
Argul watched as a mountain range visibly grew out of the ground. There had been some moongrass on the island before so she didn’t upset a lot of nature. Speaking of moongrass, she could swear she had seen some of that stuff grow under water.
Argul focused back on the island. It might have taken her idea of a mountain range a bit far, but it would work even better for her that way so she skillfully ignored that.
Map
Spoiler [collapse]Now for an entrance to her 8th floor, you would have to walk halfway around a mountain that was north of the largest mountain of the south half of the island. If you were to turn around after that you would start walking inside the entrance to the next floor and enter it, most likely without ever realizing you left the sixth floor.
The 8th floor would house massive mountain ranges. Argul thought of something the size of the Andes. This mountain range was all along the west coast of South America. The mountain ranges would form randomly, but between them had to be a bit of space, something around 50 km. Only the end of one mountain range was allowed to “touch” another mountain range. This way a few enclosed regions could form.
Earthquakes would be something occasionally happening inside a mountain range, but would seldom reach the enclosed regions. To simulate tectonic activities, earthquakes would either cause a mountain range to grow or shrink and if they were especially strong, could cause the appearance of active volcanoes.
Just to be safe she added caves as an option for the mountains and looked at her options a last time.
Argul liked how her goats had turned out. For all that she was the origin of all mana there weren’t a lot of creatures around that could cast anything, so these finally gave her a bit of the magic beasts vibe.
For her winged creature Argul changed her view to the top of the mountain. There had grown a few more mountains since she had started the floor, but this one was the largest one still.
Argul thought about creating wyverns for a bit, but ultimately decided against it. Sure giant flying lizards were fearsome, but so was also any gigantic bird of prey and in Argul’s opinion birds had a lot more potential to look dangerously cute than wyverns, a very important point.
The bird she got had feathers of a dark azure blue on their backside and a very light azure blue on their front. Argul guessed they had a wingspan of maybe six meters. Their feet were adorned by large sharp-looking claws and they had a long tail that trailed after them.
The oddest thing in Argul’s opinion though was the absence of a beak. Instead they had a maw full of dangerous looking teeth and their head looked similar in form to that of a snake.
One of the three opened its wings, flapped them and then roared out majestically. Argul was in love and really wanted one as a pet, but she promised herself to wait for a bit until her avatar got here.
Argul liked the name and didn’t care that it was the japanese name for an already existing bird.
She let herself fantasize about her riding one of these birds, but ultimately decided to check her status before she had to get up.
Argul hadn’t gotten quite as many quests as before. By her guess you got more quests for the first level potential and the quests would get harder afterwards. You needed more mana to upgrade that part of the body, so it made sense that it would get harder with time or endless quests wouldn’t be quite as special.
Now for the rest!
Her stats were coming along nicely and the growth slowly started to really kick in. Argul would have to grow more before she could start with a few of her crazier ideas and she had to invent one thing or the other.
With that thought she sent her consciousness back to her avatar.
Otjag I am not going to lie, I love doing these domain chapters, but this one really went a bit far. Took me nearly 7 hours to write...For the interested of you, Hebiwashi is japanese for snake eagle I believe.
Announcement SpoilerFor all the interested souls out there, the following link contains a list of all identify screens and all the plants and animals that were only mentioned. Have fun and thanks for reading! (I still update the list, so you might not want to look at it if there are more domain chapters, that's why this is a spoiler.) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CpJhAcSYmWc-qsTv31qCs3R9v4Fz84p4vmdrVD7qVeM/edit?usp=sharing
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