Reincarnated as a mana core

Universes

It is unknown where universes come from, but you have never seen them all. Scientists believe that universes just get randomly born, which still leaves a lot of questions open. When was the first universe born? What had come before? Who created the rules for the existence of a universe?

Sometimes traces of a higher existence than a universe can be found, but publishing such knowledge and findings always leads to said traces disappearing and with them the researchers often do too.

Excerpt of Mysteries of the multiverse

 

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Argul closed her eyes and got ready to work on her next floor. They would have to wait until the corrupted calmed down and then likely had a day of running before themselves.

First though, came rule changes for her dungeon and portals. You had to have access to the first floor portal to be able to go to Luna. For Erod you had to have access to the sixth floor. That way the sapients of Erod would have a bit more time until strange wild life would come through her portal.

Back to the floor! Argul was excited as she had a, in her opinion, really nice idea. All the floors after the sixth she would connect together and would use biomes to do so as that would make that easy. 

She had decided that her sixth floor would have an ocean with islands theme. Each island would represent a biome, that way Argul could sneak entrances to other floors on the islands that you wouldn’t notice. There would be small to large islands on the floor.

The small islands could be anything from just a rock looking out of the water to something you could build a small village on. They would always surround large and medium sized islands, forming archipelagos. 

Medium sized islands would be obviously larger than small islands, somewhere around 25.000 km². They could be around large islands and had a small possibility to be in the ocean between large islands. There would be a 5% chance for medium islands to have an active volcano.

 

Large islands would have 100,000km² to 200,000km² of area. Nothing the size of Greenland, as that would somewhat destroy the island vibe. Between large islands there had to be at least 2.000 km of ocean. There was a need to have some ocean to call it an ocean and islands theme.

Large islands have a 20% chance to have an active volcano and small and medium islands will form around them in a 50km to 100km radius. Argul would always put an entrance to another floor on the large islands.

Her first island had an active volcano that was connected to the fifth floor. Every other active volcano would have a 25% chance to have a connection to the fifth floor and their activity would influence the region they connected to on the fifth floor.

 

Argul added another rule, that portals would form randomly, with at least 5000km distance between each other in the future and her sixth floor would have two portal zones that were independent from each other. One zone would be the islands and the other the ocean ground.

The ocean could be up to 10km deep between the large islands, but would normally be somewhere around 5km deep.

Argul took a look at what she had set in place during their travel time. She had made sure that such things as ocean currents and coral reefs could form. Coral reefs were nice.

 

Floor 6

• Ocean and islands
• island size: small to large
• Ocean depth: up to 10.000m
• Temperature: 10°C to 35°C
• Ocean temperature: -5°C to 35°C
• Daytime: 14 hours
• Nighttime: 10 hours
• Events:
  • Earthquake and tsunami.
    • There is a chance of 50% of small localized earthquakes to happen each month. They can cause tsunamis if they occur somewhere near islands.
  • Volcanic eruptions
    • There is a chance for volcanoes to erupt if they are active.
  • Storms
    • All sorts of storms can naturally occur if the conditions are right.

 

Her starting island was slightly curved. The middle was a lot wider than the ends giving it a bit of a moon shape. The only thing disrupting the moon's shape was a large bay with beautiful white beaches and clear blue water. The volcano was at the western side of the island and the beach near it was completely black, though still sandy. There were two other small mountains on the island and a few hills. The ground of the island had a slight upwards slope to the east, where it ended in white cliffs and a thin rocky beach.

 Argul moved her portal to the bay. People now had a bit of a walk before they would get there. Then she made herself ready to create a bit of life for the wasteland before her.

The first thing she created was a large fern. It wasn’t special in any way so Argul just waited until her Mana was full again to create the next plant.

Plant

This is a mid-sized plant. This fern grows in humid and warm environments. They grow a bit larger to catch more sun during the day.

She then created something that looked a bit like a coconut tree, yes very creative. The trees would actively drop their especially hard fruits to protect themselves. The coconut milk had a refreshing effect and that might have been her fault, but who would flame her.

Skull breaker coconut tree

This is a large plant. This tree grows on islands with warm environments. Their fruits have an especially hard shell containing a liquid and their seeds. The trees will drop the fruits on anything that tries to do them harm which often leads to smashed skulls.

The liquid is sweet and has a refreshing effect when consumed.

Argul was satisfied. Holiday location check, now we need a bit of nightmare! She created a flower the size of a tree. The blossoms had a humanoid shape and were colored blood red. That wasn’t the problem though. During the night some parts of the blossoms glowed making it look as if blood crying humanoid shapes were moving around a tree. Some of them even looked as if they had grievous wounds.

Blood crying cultist

This is a large plant. This flower grows on warm islands. Their blossoms, while beautiful and blood red during the day, look like some crazy humanoid cultists, who are crying blood and dancing around a tree during the night. The blossoms glow to achieve this and will add more wounds to the shapes the longer they haven't been fertilized.

See, nightmare! Though Argul had no idea what the flower achieved by doing this other than spooking innocent hermaphrodites during the night. At least they looked nice during the day, just don’t go out during the night.

Her third plant was some kind of salad. Argul needed salad, because she wanted turtles.

Turtle prime

This is a small plant. This is a salad that grows in warm environment. It tastes especially fresh

In the two hours afterwards Argul created plants for the ocean. They were doing mostly plant things, so she again didn’t bother naming them. She sadly didn’t have as much time as before, as she wanted to get done before the girl woke up.

Plant

This is a small plant. This seaweed likes to grow in warmer waters.

Plant

This is a small plant. This algae likes to grow in warmer waters. It uses the currents of the ocean to spread.

So on to the turtles she went. They were about one and a half meters tall and their shell looked more like a metal than any kind of keratin. Salad would not be able to feed these things alone. While they looked more like land turtles, they were able to swim and dive for long durations.

Metal shellok

This is a large animal. These turtles live in the ocean around land masses or on land masses near the ocean. They use mana to infuse and strengthen their shells for optimal defense, but can also bite to defend themselves. Shelloks are naturally inclined to learn some kind of water magic during their lives.

After the turtles Argul created some fish and a bird. The fish was some kind of generic swarm fish and the bird looked a bit like a green pelagornis, so basically a large seagull that thought teeth were cool. During the creation of the bird the girl woke up, so Argul hurriedly checked her status and then returned his mind to her avatar.

Quest completed:

•  A sleepless night
  • You discovered the reason for the howling. Now you wish you hadn’t. Int +1

Quest completed:

• Ambush!
  • You killed all of the corrupted that have attacked you. Str +2

Quest completed:

• Infiltration
  • You managed to get inside the village and still live, at least for now. Wis +1

Subquest completed:

• Village ahoy!
  • You were too late, but still managed to save a girl. Str +1

That had been a rewarding night, though also not without its risks.

New Quest:

• A failed invade is always followed by a messy flight.
  • Get out of the village without dying and preferable before you die of anything else.

Wise words in Argul’s opinion. Their flight would be dangerous, so much was clear.

You finished the floor

 

Level up!

Status

Gah, she had forgotten to create some plankton for the ocean! How could she forget them, and crabs! She would have to remember that later, the girl was more important right now.