Just Another Isekai Story

Levelgap · Aug 19, 2024

Since the day I made rice, most of my focus got pointed to my inventory. Experimenting with the genetic structure of the grass within my inventory is fun. With its hidden function of letting me get what I want so long as it is within it, I can pretty much control every object in there.

This hidden function of the Dimensional Storage is what I used and exploited to the best of its capabilities for the selective breeding of the grass around here. With the easy to use modifiers of the inventory like time acceleration, I can make adjustments to the plants within it along with the artificial biomes I made in there.

I got so busy making new crops that I neglected my other projects. It can't be helped because having a variety on my diet is more important.

I have been so engrossed at abusing the time acceleration function on my inventory that without me noticing, my inventory levels up.

And the description on it made me stop, and then jump in excitement at what I can do with it.

Dimensional Storage VII

Click to expand...

Click to shrink...

Opens a pocket dimension that can store inanimate, non-living objects. It has a size comparable to a mountain.

Objects stored within can be suspended in time, accelerate their time, or reverse their time. The amount of time that can be accelerated or reversed on specific objects depends on the Mana score of the user. Modifier is available for accurate timescale usage.

User can duplicate any objects within the inventory through the usage of their Mana.

User can store objects 3 meters away from them.

Duplicating objects? That will help me a lot!

I quickly try it out and find that I can do it indefinitely. I don't know if it is weird but I don't feel like my Mana is running out when I keep duplicating stuff within my inventory. I don't know how to explain it, but whenever I use my Dimensional Storage and its functions, I have this instinctive knowledge within my mind about the amount of Mana being sucked out of me when I use it. I also have this instinctive feeling that the amount flowing out of me whenever I use the time acceleration function of my inventory is like a drop of water to an ocean. I feel it is that vast.

It's just a feeling of course. I don't have a way to measure the amount of Mana I have.

With the duplication function that has been added to my inventory, gathering resources around this land suddenly becomes moot. As to why I said so, it is because there is no need to. I literally have everything in my grasp.

My phone, which has been stored inside my inventory for half a year now, has both aluminum and copper in its contents. I don't want to scavenge it with resources because it is too little, and that is my precious phone filled with all of my precious games and animes. No way I am going to break that one for a meager amount of resources!

But now that I have a duplication in my inventory, I can now use it to duplicate my phone. After duplicating my phone, I will store my original phone and use the duplicated phone to take all the precious rare metals in it.

Copper, silver, gold, platinum, palladium, and many more. All of which only amounts to a thousandth of gram by disassembling it with my inventory's specifications. That doesn't matter though because with duplication, that thousandth of gram can be turned into more.

A day later, and I have all the resources I need.

I can finally create a solar cell to charge my phone!

Both my phone and its charger have been suspended in time for awhile now, so it hasn't deteriorated when I take it from my inventory. I only need to wait for two hours as my charger is my phone's designated fast charger, so it quickly got its battery full.

And then I open it with trembling hands. The feeling of excitement within my heart is already at max when I see my phone opening once more.

And then, the familiar anime lock screen of my phone greets my eyes after it loads. Swiping my finger on the lock pattern to open my phone, I feel like crying as I see the apps on my phone which I haven't seen for a long time.

"My games! My animes!~"

The most important things in my life have finally returned.

All this time, the days of boredom and suffering when I don't have anything to entertain myself, is finally gone. I have my phone!

And with my phone, I can survive anywhere!

"Hahahaha! I don't need to worry anymore! I can satisfy myself with my phone alone! I have 1,000+ offline novels and a lot of offline games downloaded on it, so I can satisfy myself anytime I want!"

This is the best day of my life!~

A large transport had arrived at the shores of the Cursed Continent. Alya Fua Canedis and her hundred remaining followers and citizens took their first step within its ground. The winds were too peaceful. They could only feel a breeze that barely registered on their senses. The land smelled fresh of seashores and crisp sand.

"So this is the Cursed Continent. The rumors are true it seems... there are grasslands as far as the eyes can see..." Alya look beyond the sands of the shore and find grass and still flat lands on the horizon. There were no hints of any landmass as far as her eyes could see.

She shook her head and quickly turned to the others.

"We have now arrived at our new home. I know it is hard for all of you, but I must thank you all for always believing in me. I know you must be tired, but we can't stop yet. We must make shelter posthaste before nightfall comes!"

All of the citizens looked at her with determination in their eyes and then nodded at her. Others replied with a resounding salute or a loud yell of affirmation.

"Well then, I will assign your roles right now."

They had no time to rest. They had to quickly unload their cargo and make preparations for shelter. They also had to find a source of food and clean water. Sea water would be dangerous for drinking based on the scholars of her fallen kingdom, and the fish of the sea might be a good alternative for food, but they had to check first as there were many types of sea lifeforms, and they only knew a few that were edible.

If they became sick, it would be bad. There were only a hundred people within them, and only one of them was from the abbey. She was a newbie healer, so Alya couldn't just rely on her in case someone got sick. They had to be careful.

She quickly gave them their roles. Garoth of the Knight Order would lead their soldiers and knights, which numbered two dozens. They would be in charge of their security, and for escorting important personnel like her and the leaders of each squad she would assign.

Old Eidran, the former royal mage, would lead the remaining mages and scholars in their group. He only had a single apprentice, which was also the other remaining mage other than him, and there were three scholars who survived from the sacking of their capital. Their role would be to analyze the land and find anything that would help them survive on this cursed land.

Sister Clarent would lead the relief team. They would take care of those who were sick, the wounded, the kids, and the old. Only three other women had experience with medicine, but they weren't healers like Sister Clarent, so their job would be harder. Alya had no choice as they were the only ones who had medical knowledge on their group.

The Adventurer Dylan would lead the expedition team along with his group of adventurers. They were the only loyal adventurers who stayed with them, and even helped them escape from the capital as it fell from the Agelard Empire. Being a high rank adventurer team, they had a large knowledge about this type of stuff, so it was obvious they had to be the one to lead the expedition team.

Finally, all domestic and economic management fell to Alya. She would lead the farmers, the masons, and other able men to create their own nation. She had the knowledge, and she had some experience. It might be different, but she just had to do her best.

"Let us begin!" With all the roles settled, she quickly gave her orders to them.

Find a safe spot to settle and secure a source of food and water. If they could find anything that could help them from building their village, it would be better.

Even if they couldn't, they still had a lot of resources. It would last them a few months, but that was enough. They had some crops within that ship, and they could use that to farm on this land. If they ran out of resources, Dylan and his adventurer team could sail back to the Gulf of Andicae. A back and forth trip would take two months, and that was just a trip. Buying all the foodstuff, loading it on the ship, and carrying it to this continent would extend that time more up to three months.

With the remaining wealth they had, Alya calculated that it would take them, at most, a year and a half before they actually ran out of everything. That's not factoring any other complications they might encounter in their life here, or if there were still pursuers from the empire who would sabotage their adventurers when they did have to get resources on the Gulf of Andecai.

So they needed to find a spot that had a rich soil and hope that the crops they brought would grow in the next year, or else it would be the end of their entire nation.

'It will be hard, but we have to endure. For the rise of our new nation!'

She looked forward with a determined gaze, her fist clenched as she swore in her heart once more that they would survive, and the future generation of this budding nation would exact revenge.

So uh... sorry for the long delay, I got distracted by a lot of things...

Here is the next chapter. It is a bit short but I hope you have fun...

See you on the next chapter!~

Levelgap · Aug 19, 2024

It's been two weeks since I made a solar cell to charge my phone. I thought I would simply waste most of my time inside my house, browsing my phone and reading all the backlogs of novels that I saved on my phone storage.

Surprisingly I didn't. Right now I'm outside my home doing busy work like farming, terraforming, engineering, and a lot more.

Why am I doing all of this?

Well, without noticing it, I somehow find more fun doing all of this stuff than just sitting in a room and playing with my phone all day. There is this certain itch within me that wants me to move around instead of wasting my time on my phone.

I don't know. Just reading novels and playing offline games doesn't appeal to me as much as in the past. I have spent a whole day doing just that when I managed to charge my phone, but the following days, I have been itching to make a lot of things.

I want to upgrade the scenery of my house. I don't want it to stay as a grassland and dirt open pit mines. I want to have a farm there for the aesthetics. I want a literal forest and a river beside my home. I want to make a factory, roads, cars, new devices, and many more.

I really want to create something, and so I am indulging myself in that.

Do I have a preference for creating stuff?

I think so? I mean, I find it more fun playing games that have tech trees and nation building aspects to it! So maybe I actually want to create a lot of stuff in real life without me knowing about it?

I am discovering a lot of things about me. I didn't think it would be possible. I thought I was a lazy bum who would become a shut-in or a lowly retail worker in the future.

Or maybe it's because I have this ability that I subconsciously think this is like a game? I mean, this is like what I imagine I would do if a full dive VRMMO game got implemented in our world!

Hmm... that might be it.

With that realization, I simply accept that I am like this and move on. I am more focused on what I am doing right now.

Like changing my scenery while turning my whole area into a modern villa. With my duplicated notebooks, I made a sketch of how I want my place to look like, and then started building them up with a lot of duplicated resources.

My status has accelerated my progress, and it didn't take long before I managed to create a large villa with two floors and a basement in it. A lot of solar panels have been made to support the electricity of my villa, and as for the water system of my house, I expanded the sewer system that I made for my first house so it can accommodate a lot of waste.

It's not like I only have a single house I have to maintain. I also have a factory I want to make. That will be the next one I will do this time.

This week, my project includes making a small farm land, putting my artificial biomes and replacing the grasslands with it, and then creating roads and preparing the land for construction of my factories and under buildings that I can think of.

I am already done digging up a lot of soil and stones all around my territory so I can begin putting my artificial biomes in here. As for what kind of biome, well I simply call it the forest biome.

How did I make a forest biome?

Well, surprisingly it is due to the artificial tropical marsh I created.

I already know that Dimensional Storage doesn't consider plants and bacteria as living things. That should be obvious because if it considers even bacteria as living beings, then I won't be able to make the grass evolve into other plants even with time acceleration.

I might not be able to see bacteria, but I am aware of them through my inventory. By specifically just wanting to see bacteria with my mental map of my inventory, I will know how a bacteria is structured, and then manipulate it to become something else.

It is like what I am doing with the grass, but it's on a microscopic scale. Taking off parts that are useless, and adding genetic markers on the bacteria so it will evolve into something else. It's genetic engineering to the next level, and all of it is possible because I have the Dimensional Storage and its convenient function.

After that, I put those genetically modified bacteria on a duplicated artificial tropical biome within my inventory, and instead of stopping constantly to change things up like what I'm doing with the grass, I simply go all out with time acceleration.

It's not like grass where I have to selectively cut out unnecessary parts and then add other parts so it will evolve into something else. This is a bacteria, and so long as it has the right environment and genetic marker within it, it will evolve on its own.

And there might be the issue of sunlight as it loses it when time is accelerated, but that's not an issue for me because I can duplicate the sunlight within my inventory. So doing both acceleration and duplication of sunlight, that artificial biome has the perfect environment to develop on its own.

By using time acceleration without limiting myself, and feeling a surge of unknown energy being absorbed within my body as I do that, I immediately know that a million years had passed on that single artificial biome.

Looking at the artificial tropical biome with my mental map, I found a small forest. It is small because of the amount of soil I put in it. It's not like it can expand even if I accelerate the time there. It will simply evolve in its original size.

A whole kilometer square of forest land. That's what is inside my inventory, among other things.

That is not all. A forest won't be complete without a river. So I also made a lake full of freshwater that can support forest life. I can't rely on seawater as it has a lot of salt content, which is harmful for forest life. I simply accelerate the time of that fresh water surrounded by an artificial tropical biome into a million years and suddenly a lot of things beneficial for plants and animals are within it.

Talking about stuff that suddenly appears on it, I made some insects. Somehow, while accelerating the forest biome and the lake for the river, some other life forms formed within it. My inventory somehow allowed this, and I can take them out.

I am actually expecting to be freaked out when a bug the size of my fist appears on my inventory, but strangely enough I don't feel that scared. In fact, I found them cute.

These insects are beneficial for the fauna and the eventual life that will settle in the forest I am making. There are the occasional flock of birds that fly on the skies, so I think it will be great if they settle on my forest.

By the way, when I take out the insects within my inventory, I can't put them back. This tells me that life form can be formed within the inventory. I can't just put them in my inventory, but if they are already in the inventory then it is fair play.

That makes me think of making an actual terraria within my inventory. Though that will be a project for the next week. For now, I simply want to make a forest around my territory.

I put all the duplicated forest biomes on the ground that I dug out all around my territory, and then generously put different types of lakes on certain spots of this forest biome. I also connect at least two rivers on the ocean just for the aesthetics, and it won't really affect the forest even if I do that as I made a lot of lakes around it.

All of this has been done in a single week. I got a lot of new skills and the improvements of my other ones after I am done with it.

Mana - VII
Physique - VI
Finesse - VII
Wisdom - VI
Mystic - VII
Luck - III

Mana Regeneration II

Dark Vision III
Fatigue Resistance II
Temperature Resistance III

Archery II
Axe Mastery II
Cooking IV
Crafting VI
Digging VI
Diving III
Farming II
Fishing IV
Knife Mastery V
Mining V
Photography II
Smithing VI
Swordsmanship II
Taming III
Unarmed Combat V

Architect V
Cartography IV
Geological Knowledge III
Scientific Knowledge V
Survival Knowledge V
Technological Knowledge V

Dimensional Storage VII

Transcendence
Unlimited Potential
Unrestricted Savant

My primary concern when I first found myself in this world is to improve my skills, get out of this land, and find a way back home. Lately it changes into something else.

I don't want to leave this place.

I still want to go back to my world, but I want this place to come along with me if that happens.

This is my little world. A place that I made with my own hands. I built it up with all of my skills and cheat abilities.

I want to show all of these to my parents. I want to use this place as our vacation house.

So that is why, my new plan is to build up this whole land, change everything until it looks like a proper continent instead of a lifeless grassland with nothing else in it.

I will still build that ship, but it will be something I will do if I have spare time. I want to make a whole world with my hands. I think it will be fun!~

I climbed the trees and then took a picture of the whole forest I made with my phone while thinking about my plans.

I have a lot of things I want to do in this place!

Within these two weeks, Alya's group made shelter near the shores of this continent where they landed. They used the logs stored on their cargo to make their homes, and while most of them shared huts made of these logs, it was enough for all of them.

They had shelter. They had dried fruits and other rations that wouldn't spoil for at least three months. They also had some livestock that now were inside the fences, all of which ate the grass that grew on this land.

Despite that, they still had a lot of problems. Water was an issue. Even with their masons trying to dig the ground for well water, the only thing they found were hard stones. These stones became bigger and numerous as they got deeper. They couldn't find ground water even if they wanted to.

There were no animals in the vicinity, or even trees that could be cut down. Their lumberjacks had nothing to do but help with other chores, and their hunters could only join the adventurers on their expedition.

"Your Highness, our water reserves are running low. If this goes on, we won't be able to drink, much less use those to water our crops." Old Eidran stated with a grim expression.

They were inside her personal hut, created personally for her so she could rest easily. She was the top priority, along with the leaders of each squad. They couldn't do their work properly without a roof above their heads.

"How about the weather? Will the rain arrive?" Alya hoped that the rain would arrive sooner.

Old Eidran shook his head. "I have been trying to divine the weather, but it only shows me nothing. Hendricks also guessed that rain won't come for the foreseeable future based on the cloud formation of the skies." He said.

"So even our scholars said that rain won't come..." Alya looked depressed. She bit her lips as she felt a sense of hopelessness with this.

Their timeline for their survival had shortened with this revelation. Ground water was nonexistent, and rain doesn't fall on this land.

"So it truly is cursed..." She muttered under her breath, but then she shook her head. "We don't have a choice then..."

The old man widened his eyes when he heard that.

"Do you mean...?"

"Yes... we have to rely on that."

"... Are you sure about that, Your Highness? That tool drains out a lot of Mana!"

She could get where he was coming from. This land, other than its lack of rain and lack of ground water, had no natural mana. With life, there were also magical particles within it. Magic Particles were simply called Mana in this world, and Mana came from life itself. It was the essence of the soul, and every living being, even plants had it. They released Mana in the air, which enriched the world and made it thrive with more life.

Without any natural Mana on the surroundings, those who used magic would had a hard time recovering their mana.

This land which had grass all over lacked Mana. It was a miracle that these plants survived without ground water and Mana.

'But that is to be expected, because this land is the tomb of that God!'

This land was the resting grounds of the God of Life, Aurus. He fell during the Age of Apocalypse. It was also known as the End of the Age of the Gods, as it was the time when Ragnarok occured. The battle between each pantheons from diffefent beliefs caused the supercontinent to become the eight continents of this world. Aurus was one who fell on this apocalyptic war, and when he fell on the ocean, it turned into this land. That was based on the Creation Myth of Manateria.

She only knew this because she was taught their religion since she was young. The Creation Myth was passed along from generation to generation. While the illiterate and those who had no access to church were unaware of this, almost anyone knew of this tale. It was a cautionary tale to everyone, not just mortals but for gods, to be at peace with each other.

That was already forgotten though, as most countries disregard this myth as urban legend. War was waged over land, resources, and fame. The Gods don't do anything to quell this madness.

The death of a god caused this land to be cursed. It symbolized his domain, and his demise from that devastating battlefield.

"Yes, we will use it!"

She said with determination. If they didn't, everyone would be in danger.

"... I see. I understand..." Eidran lowered his head, a sad frown on his wrinkled face before he stood up.

She followed along with him, her decision already made.

'With the Ring of Manakyte, I can still salvage this! I won't let it end like this!'

This was the only way to continue on.

Next chapter will start with this group of settlers. Hope you have fun in this chapter!~

See you later!~

ptbptb · Aug 19, 2024

Levelgap said:
It's been two weeks since I made a solar cell to charge my phone

What sort of crazy crafting system does the MC have, btw? I don't remember.

Levelgap · Aug 19, 2024

ptbptb said:
What sort of crazy crafting system does the MC have, btw? I don't remember.

She used Scientific Knowledge, Technological Knowledge, Crafting, Smithing, and Architect along with the OPness of her Dimensional Storage.

ptbptb · Aug 19, 2024

Levelgap said:
She used Scientific Knowledge, Technological Knowledge, Crafting, Smithing, and Architect along with the OPness of her Dimensional Storage.

So, what, if she knows how it works and has the chemical elements required she can 3D print it?

Levelgap · Aug 19, 2024

ptbptb said:
So, what, if she knows how it works and has the chemical elements required she can 3D print it?

Yes, she can

Levelgap · Aug 19, 2024

The next morning, the people of the fallen Canedis Kingdom gathered in the center of their settlement. In the middle was their young princess among the other workers of their group. In front of the princess was a bunch of barrels filled with seawater.

"That is every barrel we have, Princess Alya!" Garoth, the imposing tall knight said after his men were done carrying the barrels to this spot.

"Thank you for your work." She nodded, and Garoth along with his few remaining knight orders lowered their head, some flattered at her words.

Alya moved forward, and then stretched her hand forward. The others gasped in awe as they saw her glow with ephemeral blue light. A few notice the aquamarine ring with a serpentine shape worn on her finger from her outstretched hand.

"Is that the Ring of Manakyte?" Garoth whispered to the old man beside him.

"That is right... Our situation is dire that Her Highness decided to use it." Eidran replied.

Garoth had an inkling that it would be the case. They were suddenly ordered to fill all their empty barrels with seawater. He knew of the situation of the lack of water, but this was too much. It would be dangerous for their princess.

Though even if that was the case, the only people who could use it were three people within this camp. The mage of Dylan's adventurer party, the Canedis Royal Mage Eidran, and then the last royalty of Canedis, Alya Fua Canedis.

Alya Fua Canedis was the most qualified out of the three, as compared to the two, Alya had the most Mana score. Unlike the two who had ascended from their initial Mana score and became part of a few exceptional humans in this world, Alya was more special, because she had achieved the Mana score of three in her young age of sixteen. Along with that was a Mystic score of two, making her one of the most exceptional people in Lescatie.

Even without the boost, her soul was vast. She could contain a lot of Mana within her. Compared to normal mages, hers was like a lake. She simply had a lot of Mana.

And now she was going to use the Ring of Manakyte. A ring that could purify everything.

"[Purification]"

A wave of blue light passed through the barrels. The blue glow that covered the form of their princess immediately vanished after that, as if it was sucked out. Wisps of ethereal light clung to the water on the barrels while the people gasped in amazement at the sight.

"Ugh..."

The princess wobbled on where she stood, and quickly her knight responded. Garoth quickly moved beside her and held her shoulders to support her.

"Princess Alya, are you alright?" He asked in worry.

"I am fine..." Alya smiled softly at the guy before she straightened her posture and turned to the people around her. "My people, I have used the miracle of our kingdom to purify these contaminated water. There is no need to worry about water, I will take care of it when the time comes!"

The others cheered at that. They really thought that everything would be over.

"As expected of the Bright Princess!"

"Thank you for your generosity, Princess Alya!"

"Long live the Princess Canedis!"

""Long live the Princess Canedis!""

Alya smiled softly as she heard the words of her followers. It might have been dangerous, but as their leader she always had to make sure she eased their worries. All of their problems were her problem, and even if it would be dangerous for her, she knew it was worth it for her followers.

Eidran glanced at the princess before he let out a tired sigh.

'No matter how much mana you have... it won't be enough to sustain this. Recovering our mana here is impossible!'

Eidran thought. He already knew that this was simply a false hope. If they couldn't find another source of water, they would have to keep using the Ring of Manakyte. This national treasure might be able to purify anything, but it was extremely demanding on mana.

If the mana wasn't enough, their life force would be the next alternative.

Alya would die if this continues on.

'And I can't even afford to aid her with that...' He felt dejected and guilty at that.

He was one of the exceptional humans of his generation. He had achieved the next level of Mana earlier compared to his peers. Though that was in his prime. As he grew old, even when he still had the same amount of Mana in his prime, his body was deteriorating. If he tried to use the Ring of Manakyte, it would kill him instantly.

There was nothing he could do but watch the sacrifice of their princess.

'But when the time comes... I will do it...'

He swore to the late king that he would protect the princess at all cost. Right now, the princess could handle the cost of the ring, but in the future it will be dangerous.

When that time comes, he swore he would take that cost.

For the survival of the Last Princess of Canedis.

Dylan's adventurer party consists of six people. Dylan was the leader and specialized in dual wielding swords. The giant man who wielded the axe and buckler was their frontline specialist, Fors. Their ranger was the half-elf Sylca. Their mage was one of the prodigies of the magical academy, Ultera. Then there were the twins, Kura and Koro, both beastkin who were their all rounders.

It was a party of exceptional people. All of them had at least one status with an additional score. It was due to their diligence, their repeated brush against life and death scenarios, and their talent on their specialties.

They were also loyal to the Canedis crown. All of them were born on Canedis. Their hometowns might be separate, but all of them were raised in the Canedis Kingdom. It was a small kingdom, and it was friendly towards their neighboring countries. It was a welcoming kingdom that doesn't discriminate between races and stations of life. Everyone had an opportunity to rise from their life.

So when they heard that the Agelard Empire invaded the Canedis Kingdom unprovoked, they quickly returned to their country to defend it. There were other adventurers and mercenaries who originated from this country who came back to also defend it along with them.

All of these people perished amongst the incredible power of the Imperial Army. They had exceptional knights, wyvern riders, and even arch mages amongst their ranks. Along with that were battalions of knights who were fully clad in magical gears. It was the most expensive and powerful force on the continent. No one knew where the empire hid those army. They only knew that they had been building up forces for the past twenty years until now.

With the fall of Canedis, his adventurer party escaped with their lives along with the princess and the remaining followers that she had. Using their connection, they managed to escape the pursuit of the empire, and left the mainland.

It was a hectic few months, and now it was more dire than ever.

They might have escaped to this land, but this land doesn't offer anything to them. If they couldn't find anything in this expedition, then they would have to come back from the camp and sail back to the Gulf of Andecai.

"It's been a week since we started this long expedition. Nothing is here other than grass... don't you think we should go back?" Ultera calmly said with a bored expression on her face.

"I think Ultera is right. My Nature Sense is only telling me that no life exists beyond this path." Sylca added in support.

Dylan stopped and turned to his female members with a complex look. He wanted to be disappointed at the two for throwing the towel after they got this far, but at the same time he also understood where they were coming from.

There was nothing in this land. They heard the rumors. They knew the legend about this continent. It was a cursed continent where no natural mana flows. There was not even an insect in this land. This landmass was simply a grassland with nothing in it. A fitting tomb to a deity whose domain is life itself.

It would be foolish to continue on something that had nothing in it.

Even so...

"One week... let's continue on for one week and if we still don't find anything, then we will go back to the camp." He said.

He didn't want to let the princess down. They gambled everything they had to live in this land. If this land couldn't become their new utopia, then it would be over to Canedis as a whole.

"... Fine." Ultera sighed, but didn't complain anymore as she followed along.

Their half elf also nodded with a somber expression.

With that, the expedition team continued on. Along with Dylan, they also had three hunters with them. They had nothing to do in the camp, so they helped along with the expedition.

They resumed on their expedition with Dylan's stubbornness.

On the depths of the continent, within the deepest part of the land where only grass grew, a small cave formation thousands of meters below the ground suddenly lit up. In the center of this small cave formation were rotten vines and a strange orb that suddenly shone brightly.

The orb pulsed, and it echoed around the small cave formation. It was a slow pulse, its beat was like that of a heart. The dead and rotten vines that surrounded this orb slowly came back to life, their blackened husk became full of life. It became thick, and the husk turned into lively green vines. Leaves stretched out of these vines, and they grew slowly within the confines of this subterranean cave.

"..."

A small consciousness appeared within the core of this mysterious orb. It was an essence so small that none could notice it, but to those who could witness this, only one thing would come to their mind.

Divine.

In the depths of the Cursed Continent, a divine entity woke up from their long slumber.

So... I tried experimenting with those large slabs of stone below the ground.

I am curious what will happen if I accelerate time on then without stopping. My first assumption is that it will crumble into dust. There are no other elements within my inventory that can turn it into a diamond or something else. I don't have a lava in my hand, and I don't feel like digging to the bottom of this land just to get one.

I felt a bit lightheaded after using all of my mana on that stone. It seems like it makes me lethargic if I use my mana until it is exhausted. It is slowly recovering within me, and I think if I sleep it off I will have full mana again.

Its not a big deal. I'm just experimenting anyway.

Still... it is surprising.

Just what the hell is this large glowing crystal that I made?

I think at least tens of billions of years had passed on my time acceleration with that stone. That is more than the age of the planet Earth, but its not like I care. I simply want to see the limit of my Mana, and what will happen to the rock.

This rock turned into a crystal even though there are no outside factors to turn it like that.

As I did it into the largest slab of rock within my inventory, it turns into a very large crystal. Well, it shrunk a lot after that time acceleration, but it is still as big as my house.

You achieve the next level for Mana!

You achieve the next level for Mystic!

You achieve the next level for Mana Regeneration!

You achieve the next level for Dimensional Storage!

Well, whatever.

I decided to put that large slab of purple crystal somewhere on the forest. It looks aesthetically pleasing, so I think I will just leave it there.

Anyway, my Dimensional Storage has leveled up!

I wonder what will I get next this time?

Dimensional Storage VIII

Click to expand...

Click to shrink...

Opens a pocket dimension that can store living and non-living things. It has a size comparable to an island.

Objects stored within can be suspended in time, accelerate their time, or reverse their time. The amount of time that can be accelerated or reversed on specific objects depends on the Mana score of the user. Modifier is available for accurate timescale usage.

User can duplicate any objects within the inventory through the usage of their Mana.

User can store objects 4 meters away from them.

... I can store living beings now!?

This will be it for now. I hope you have fun with this chapter!~

See you next time!~

ulkapind · Aug 19, 2024

Opens a pocket dimension that can store inanimate, non-living objects. It has a 50,000,000 cubic feet length.

It should be volume, or maybe even size instead of length.

Length is used for 1 dimensional measurements, a stick can have 10 cm length. But a table can have 100 cm length x 40 cm width = 4000 cubic cm area, and a box 100cm length x 100cm width x 50cm height = 500,000 cubic cm volume.

With duplication she has finally broken every resource limit. And her dimensional storage continues being utterly overpowered, as it should be at level VII.

The refugees look like they are in a bad spot and are about to do something drastic. I hope they encounter our MC before they do something drastic and irreversible.

Edit : looks like another chapter was posted before I could finish this.

Thise refugees sure are courageous people. Even the young royalty.

For diamond, one only needs to put pressure on some carbon. If she has access to graphite, I'm pretty sure she can casually crush it hard enough that diamonds form.

I see that the dead god merely slumbers, ready to wake up. Maybe the massive use of magic is feeding him. The continent might be barren because the god of life is sucking all mana away to sustain himself.

As for being able to keep living things in her storage, looks like she will soon be making her own realm. Surely, she cannot escape allegations of godhood.

Levelgap · Aug 19, 2024

ulkapind said:
It should be volume, or maybe even size instead of length.

Well, time to edit it into size then. I always thought using length is the right term for it xD

EDIT: I'll just do it on the future chapters if I am going to show the Dimensional Storage again...

ulkapind said:
For diamond, one only needs to put pressure on some carbon. If she has access to graphite, I'm pretty sure she can casually crush it hard enough that diamonds form.

She knows that. Hibiki just wants to do it with time acceleration because she have fun watching what happens on the object she is accelerating the time of.

Levelgap · Aug 20, 2024

A week quickly passed. I modernized my territory for a bit, while spreading more nature in the vicinity of my territory. After that, I dig a large chain of trenches on the majority of this continent to make a large river system. I am making the foundation for the forest that I will be making in this continent.

Just making a forest will be dull, so I also decide to make caves and marshes. With my inventory making it possible for me to control everything on a microscopic scale, I modify the bacteria and insects genetically by separating parts I don't like from them, and then adding or replacing genetic parts that will make them evolve into what I want them to be.

With the creation of many faunas within my inventory, I have a nature rich environment for animals to thrive.

My current project after the forestation of a large plot of this land is to create the living beings that will inhabit it.

That sounds like what a god would do, but my inventory lets me do it so I might as well. Having some animals in my vicinity will be great too. I am feeling lonely!

With the new function of my inventory, I decide to make my own sea life. I took a dive on the ocean and then captured some of the fishes on it with my modern net, before dumping them in my inventory. Then I combine them with the different water-based biomes I have within my inventory like lakes and swamps, before messing with some of their genetic makeup so they can quickly adapt and then evolve on their new environments.

With my inventory, I also take seawater filled with different types of microscopic organisms within it so I can mess around with them.

After that, to complete the set possible for me, I catch a few birds that occasionally fly in flocks on the skies. I acquired a new ability after catching them with a thrown net. I don't really want to try and jump into the sky. It is scary for me.

Watching them slowly evolve as I accelerate time is fun. After the initial changes I made with all of these creatures, I let them run wild with my time acceleration. It seems like the biomes I made for them are not enough to contain them. Just a hundred years of time acceleration already caused them to spill out of the designated biomes I made for them.

I need a bigger land for them. So I duplicated those artificial biomes and made them as large as my territory. My whole territory can be compared to the size of a modern city. That is a vague comparison, but I can't really say the exact size of my territory as I constantly change whatever borders my territory. I still don't know how large this land is because I'm too fast, and I haven't measured how fast I am.

I just have to be satisfied with the comparison that my territory is as big as a typical modern city, and the biome I made is equal to that.

A hundred years is not enough for the living organisms to evolve. I need millions of years before they can evolve into something else.

So with the expansion of the land, I resumed with my experiment.

I have to stop again after managing to accelerate them up to a thousand years though. Their breeding cycle is simply too fast for my city size biomes to contain them for a thousand years.

I don't know what to do with these fishes and birds. Should I just give up?

No, I won't give up! I want to create a diverse ecosystem in this continent!

I barely used 1% of my inventory, so I still have a lot of room to do my experiments. I didn't shy away and decided to duplicate all of my watery biomes until they are equal to a single country. I based their size on the total landmass of Japan. Somehow, I can still feel that it barely reaches 1% of my inventory's limit.

With these humongous artificial biomes, I feel confident enough that I accelerate them without limit.

I look at something beautiful as I accelerate their time by millennia. With enough land, they still have enough room even when they breed aggressively. Later on, some of the living organisms within my artificial biomes diverge from their original appearance.

Some fishes became predators, while other fishes became specialized to escape these predators. The little organisms, with my initial tweaks on their genetic makeup, slowly evolve and turn into something that can compete in this ecosystem. Sea lifeforms slowly turns into reptiles and amphibians, and then these lifeforms slowly turn into mammals.

Millions of years quickly passed by on those biomes. My personal terraria became a diverse ecosystem full of life both docile and hostile. It was a fascinating sight. Seeing the evolution of the ecosystem right in front of my eyes.

Well, it is within my mental map of the inventory, but it is still fascinating. My scientific knowledge tells me about it, but seeing it in action is very different than just browsing the knowledge in my mind.

It's like a very realistic simulation game.

Dimensional Storage is so OP. It's very fortunate I got this when I found myself in this world.

Accelerating these mega biomes for a few hundreds of million years later, my own little world acquired diverse life within it. Other types of aquatic creatures slowly evolve into land creatures. The birds that I put in the tropical and other types of biomes have acquired different traits and they evolved into different types of birds.

The next thing I have to do is to introduce this ecosystem on this continent. I think I'll have to dig spots of this continent randomly and then put these mega biomes. This continent is pretty large, larger than the biomes I made. I can confidently say that this continent is larger than the whole landmass of Japan several times over.

It also made me vaguely aware how fast I am if I think about it.

Finesse is pretty broken if that is the case.

Anyway, I'll be doing that later after I am done eating.

Midnight. Dylan's expedition group was currently asleep in the middle of the grassland. A small patch of land had been cut off so they could make a campfire, which was still lit though it was weak now as it had been awhile after they slept.

Sylca's sharp ears suddenly perked up when she felt subtle vibrations on the ground.

"Hm...?" She opened her eyes drowsily, and raised her body from her prone posture from their sleeping bag.

And then they were suddenly startled awake as a strong tremor occurred. Everyone quickly stood up while the fire that had already gone weak was snuff out by the sudden earthquake.

"What's happening!?"

"I don't know!"

Dylan looked around as his teammate yelled, confused and distressed at the sudden occurrence of this event. A strong wave of breeze suddenly hit them as the distant sound of eruption echoed on the still silent night.

"This is impossible... my Nature Sense has sensed something!" Sylca yelled in shock.

"What!?" Dylan turned to their half elf ranger.

"It's true! I can feel a strong magic signature in the distance!"

All of them looked forward and peered in the distance. Though it was no use. Even when this was a flat plains of grass, and the moon illuminates their immediate vicinity, the sight beyond that was too blurry for them to see clearly.

"How far?" Dylan asked.

"... I don't know. My Nature Sense is saying that something full of life and nature is just there. It suddenly appears in my senses when this tremor occurs!"

It didn't take long before the tremor stop. The others quickly checked their belongings first before they looked at Sylca. The half elf ranger nodded before she left the group, scouting their surroundings for anything.

It took awhile before their ranger came back. Her expression was a mixture of confusion and hope.

"So... what is it?"

The half elf ranger turned to him before she spoke.

"I don't know how it happened but it seems like... an ancient forest emerges from that direction!"

"An ancient forest!?" Ultera exclaimed.

The others were also baffled. They knew of an Ancient Forest. It was a term used to forests where the ancients lives. It was part of the remnants of the Age of Gods, and only one Ancient Forest was known to exist on their continent.

Dylan wouldn't question Sylca's prior judgement. She was a half elf, and elves were known to be incredibly sensitive to nature. They could easily guess how old the plants were with a single glance.

Their half elf ranger told them that the distance was too far, but her senses couldn't be wrong. They couldn't see it in their eyes as it was too far and the surroundings were dark, but in the morning they were sure to see its silhouette.

"A three day trek from the horse then..." Ultera stated.

"That means if we have to walk, it will take a week before we arrive there..." Dylan muttered under his breathe.

The others thought about it. Then they heard the excited noise from their twin all rounders.

"If it is a forest, then there will be a lot of meat in there right!?"

"I miss hunting our game! Can we go there now?"

Kura and Koro might be young, but they were exceptional when it came to combat. So even when they haven't gotten of age, Dylan let them join their party and became successful beastkins who became exceptional after they raised one of their status score into two.

These two beastkin were also their primary hunters for their meals. Since the time they becae fugitives of the empire, they had to lie low and quickly get to the Gulf of Andecai. They couldn't stay as much and enjoy their hunts, which made the twins a bit restless.

Dylan stared at the two, before he shook his head.

"We are too far from the camp. The others are waiting for us." He turned to Sylca. "We have to be sure that the forest is there in the morning, and then we will report this to the princess."

The beastkin duo looks sad, but it couldn't be helped. It's been two weeks since they started the expedition, and if they took another week, they would had to walked back for three weeks to get back to their camp. That would be bad.

It might be unfortunate, but it couldn't be helped. They had to come back soon.

When the sun rose, Sylca couldn't help but sigh in amazement.

With her sharpened eyesight, even if it looked small in her eyes, she could see the trees a few millions of years old. It was too far, and she couldn't see the total height of those trees, but she could surmise it was vast.

She tried to take a closer look, but knew that it would be impossible. It would be a shame but they had to return to the camp.

Though this was good news. It might be far, but it was worth it for them if they told the princess. If it was an ancient forest, then she was sure its blessings would be useful for the rise of the Canedis.

And she would finally be able to live in an ancestral land. It had been her dream to live within an Ancient Forest. It was preposterous for someone like her who was a half elf, as only high elves were allowed to live within it.

"Next time..." She muttered under her breath.

Another day later, and they felt a subtle rumble on the ground which woke them up while they tried to return to their camp. The next day, in the middle of their trip to go back, they suddenly found something baffling on the distance.

"A river!?" Dylan exclaimed in shock.

All were baffled as they were sure that there was no river in this part when they walked pass it. Sylca knew there was no river here, and she knew they weren't lost. She couldn't get lost on a land because of her Nature Sense, and she was the one who mostly lead them so the others also couldn't get lose on this vast plains of grassland.

"What is happening... I feel a subtle hint of magic around here?" Ultera said, her bored expression had a hint of worry within it.

Dylan couldn't answer that. They just knew that something was happening, and it was beyond them to know that.

Hmm... I think I am done randomly digging and placing rivers and forest around this continent. I feel like changing it up and making something else.

Digging is pretty strong too if I think about it. It made it easier for me to clear a lot of land in a single swoop. Just putting a country sized mega biome in a certain spot only takes me an hour. Its pretty amazing!

Anyway, I really want to make a cave next with my inventory. I need some raw materials from Earth to do that. I want to form different types of ores with time acceleration only, so I need lava, or even something that can act as a miniature core.

Should I actually make a fusion core and make it a replacement for a miniature planetary core?

Decisions, decisions...

I spent my whole afternoon making my plans for natural caves.

Uh... well... with the exponential increase of each score from a status, Hibiki's finesse made her very fast that she can move around without anyone noticing it.

Well, I did say in the introduction that the MC will be very overpowered quickly...

Also yeah, the MC hasn't spotted the other people living in this continent. She is busy digging pathways for her rivers and destroying land to replace it with her mega fauna that they slipped out of her gaze.

That's my explanation anyway...

Hope you have fun here, see you next time!~

ulkapind · Aug 20, 2024

Ha! I wonder if they are going to mistake her for the God(ess) of life. The land has suddenly turned fertile and full of life! Truly the goddess is pleased with us!

She could miss them while running around the continent despite her ridiculous eyesight. If the planet is curved like Earth is, then she should not be able to see more than a few km away (depending on the terrain), so if she passes 10km away from the other people, which is very possible on a continent of this size, she might just miss the presence of others.

So she is using fusion to make new elements? Then pressure, heat, and time acceleration to mimic the planetary processes that form the minerals she needs?

Levelgap · Aug 20, 2024

ulkapind said:
So she is using fusion to make new elements? Then pressure, heat, and time acceleration to mimic the planetary processes that form the minerals she needs?

Yes, she is trying to think what to do with that for raw metals and ores to naturally form. She wants it to be authentic.

Levelgap · Aug 20, 2024

Magic Crystal.

An object that was formed due to long exposure to mana. It usually originated from normal stone, but sometimes it also occurred on jewelry and other earthly gems.

There were parts of the world that had strong concentrations of mana. These were called powerspots or leylines. Powerspots were those who naturally produce mana through their surroundings in their own environment, with the best example being a World Tree that high elves usually protected with their lives, or Dungeons. Leylines were those that originated from the depths of Manateria. They were ground based mana wells that gushed out from the cracks of the earth, which spreads mana on the surface and made life thrive all over.

Naturally, magical objects like Magic Crystal form on places near leylines most of the time, as the Magic Crystals were originally rocks.

Of course, just like every magic metal in this world, they were incredibly rare. Every nation in this world would hoard any spots that had Magic Crystals, as they could be used for many things.

Arcane tools, enchantments, alchemy, it was comparable to how humans from Earth saw oil. It was a fundamental part of their lives. Without Magic Crystals, most of their technology wouldn't work, and most civilizations would stagnate.

Magic crystals were graded based on the color and purity of their structure. Low level magic crystals were pale light blue, and were usually used for small magical tools and cantrips. Top grade magic crystals had a deep purple color, and they were used for massive industries like tactical weapons, mass magical equipment manufacturing, or fuel for large vehicles like airships.

Deep purple magic crystals were incredibly rare. If they could even find one, it would be only a shard the size of a thumb. Even that costs millions of liz. That size alone could power up all the magical tools of the Dungeon City in a whole month.

Today, Yuki had just gotten that kind of magic crystal. A deep purple shard that was the same size as her fist. She managed to get this on the deeper parts of the dungeon. It was hard as she had gotten too deep, and it was fortunate that she managed to escape with her life along with this crystal.

She quickly walked through the western district in the second ring until she arrived at a large establishment called the Hellfire Forge.

"... Hm?" A stout old looking man with a beard all over his lower half of face gazed at her for a moment. "You again? What do you want?"

She opened her inventory, and then placed the crystal on the counter with a calm look on her face.

"Use it on my staff." She said as she laid her staff next.

The guy narrowed his eyes as he peered onto the crystal.

"... That's a top quality crystal. You sure you want to use it for your staff?"

It was normal for him to question it. This crystal costs more than the entire wealth of a nation. If she sold this on the Dungeon Association, she would acquire enough money to settle down and not worry for a penny in her entire life.

"Yes." Yuki simply answered.

The dwarf simply shrugged and then took her staff and the crystal. He didn't question her anymore.

After he goes to the back of the shop, the other dwarven workers of this forge replace him on the counter. Yuki walked around the shop for some time as she waited. Her eyes glanced at the array of magical weapons inlaid with runes and other magical equipment.

She was loathed to say it but her skills weren't enough to finish the dungeon. There were monsters within that were heavily resistant or were outright immune to magic. Getting past the thirtieth floor, her magic became unreliable as some traps couldn't be detected. Other monsters could hide from her detection magic and ambush her without her notice.

And she still hadn't reached the final floor of the dungeon. Most of her near death experience was avoided by pure luck. She doesn't want to rely on luck. She had to be better.

'It seems like I don't have a choice... I'll have to find people I can team up with...'

It was a shame as she doesn't feel like befriending anyone. Currently she was the rising star of the Dungeon City, and she became a celebrity during her stay here because of her unprecedented progress. She was already equal to the top tiers of this city. If she had a party, she would be able to confidently explore without worrying about stealthy enemies and hidden traps.

That was a problem though, because she doesn't trust anyone in this place. They were strangers, and she felt like she would be stabbed if she ever turned her back on them.

So she was holding onto that thought. She knew she couldn't advance deeper on the dungeon without anyone helping her, but she didn't have the heart to trust anyone.

Her experience in this world in her earlier days doesn't help her perception of this world. People of this world couldn't be trusted fully. She could be their acquiantance, but she couldn't trust her life with them.

Not when her very first party in the dungeon left her to die at that time.

It would take a long time before she could recover from that trauma.

I have been thinking of just getting lava because I got it from my scientific knowledge, specifically on the knowledge detailing how magma are naturally the cause of many precious minerals that forms beneath the earth.

Now that I read about it carefully, I discover that its not really the lava I need. I just need an extremely hot area and cook these minerals for a long time so they become something else. Its not just heat really. I need a pressurized area and many more that will cause the rock cycles after leaving them for millions of years.

If that is the case, then I simply have to create a very hot interior for the miniature subterranean area I am thinking of.

The hottest thing I can think of is the sun.

So I made a miniature sun. I can store sunlight, so it's not farfetched to also store other types of gas. Sun is just a giant ball of hydrogen and helium, and I can simply get those elements on the sea and on my crude oil.

Separating them with the specification function of my inventory, and then duplicating them in a single point will let me create a miniature sun. I think having a miniature sun will be a good alternative for a planetary core!

That's what I think for the first time. I should have read about it more.

By duplicating hydrogen and helium in the same point on the space, and not suspending them in time, I made a sun. It is still small, and it barely used any space on my inventory, but it is pretty hot.

I combine it with the duplicated large slabs of rocks that I combine until it becomes as large as an island and then cover the miniature sun with it. Then I introduce a lot of sunlight, a miniature sea, and even elements that will cause wind to move around this miniature island. Then I added more necessary elements that are needed for it.

After feeling like it is enough, I started speeding up its time.

It seems like my earlier assumptions are wrong. Just a thousand years later, and instead of showing signs of changes, it got cooked. No, everything was melted and then sucked by the gravitational pull of the miniature sun after they became melted sludge.

Ah... even though it was just a miniature sun, I did replicate how a star is made 1/1. Its heat is tremendous enough that common earth materials will melt.

I need the right amount of temperature then, it seems.

As for the sun, it might look dangerous, but I think I can use it for a simulated day and night envinronment on each of my environments. Though that will demand a lot of work on me as I have to artificially move the sun in my inventory while accelerating the time.

... Yeah, I'll do that next time. I can make a sun again, so I reversed its time as I have no need for it right now. That miniature sun ceased to exist after reversing its time to the limit.

I don't even need to simulate day and night cycle. Stable inclusion of sunlight is enough for the biomes when I'm accelerating their time.

It seems like the next thing I have to do is make a fusion core as an alternative planetary core. I think that will be fine.

I just want to see how stones turns into other ores as time passes. That's the point of my experiments here. Also it would be great if I have caves and mountains containing a lot of resources within it. It will complete the image of this continent with mountains in it.

Okay, lets do fusion cores next. I know how to do it too!

Two weeks had passed since Dylan discovered the Ancient Forest. They had finally returned on the camp and quickly go straight to the princess to report about this.

Within the personal hut of their leader, they saw Alya who sat on the side of the bed with a pale expession. Dylan was immediately alarmed. Though the former royal mage quickly explained to him what happened.

"Please don't worry about it. This is nothing. I just felt a bit lightheaded..."

"Princess..."

Dylan looked at the princess in worry. She had been using the national treasure to purify seawater. That was eating up at her. This land had no natural mana in it based on Ultera, so it would be impossible for them to recover their mana naturally.

"So... you said there is something important you have to report? Did you find anything that can help us in this land?"

He quickly put his worry behind his mind and then returned his focus on the topic at hand.

"It is more than that, Princess Alya... we found an Ancient Forest and rivers with clean water!"

Silence reigned as the royal mage and the princess stared at him.

"What!?" Alya stood up, and then wobbled as her feet still felt weak.

"Princess, calm down!" Eidran quickly supported the princess, though his tone had clearly shown his shock.

After calming down, Alya listened to Dylan's report and felt hope blossomed within her heart. The half elf of their party even voted to live in there. It seemed like the half elf ranger didn't detect any elves living within that forest, and she guaranteed that it would be fine if they used the blessing of the forest as they were in a dire crisis right now.

The forest was pretty far, but the river was near. They needed to make a week and a half trek before they arrived at the nearest river. That would be fine for them. They still had enough food and water to survive before they arrived on the river.

So, even though they already made a foundation in this spot, she made the bold decision to leave it and migrate to the nearest river.

"Everyone, we will now migrate to our future! Please don't lose heart, and follow my lead!"

Everyone was united when they cheered for her. They fully believed in her capabilities. Even if it was a waste to leave the crops they planted, they had no future in this place. They had to migrate or they would sooner run out of resources.

So none of her hundred followers complained.

They quickly made preparations to migrate to another place. From there, they would begin anew.

A day later, Eidran widened his eyes in surprised as he felt it. It was subtle and weak, but he could feel it.

"I can feel mana...?"

Natural mana, though weak, were spreading out from the grass. A land that was supposed to be dead suddenly seemed to had gained life of its own.

"Did you feel it?" Her Highness Alya asked the old man, a tone of surprised on her soft voice.

"Yes... I can feel it."

They wondered how it happened. How did natural mana suddenly occured on this dead land?

It confused them until morning, though at the same time welcomed it. Because with the natural mana, they could finally recover magic that they had spent since coming here.

Alya made the prayer sign for the cardinal pantheons, the one specifically for the forgotten God of Life Aurus. Even if the faith became obscure since their fall, there were those who preserved the faith of the god. One of them being Sister Clarent, who still held the Book of Cardinal Pantheons that detailed all of the twelve cardinal gods and the faith born out of their existence.

"Thank you for the blessing you gave us, Lord Aurus!" She silently prayed as she fully believed that all of this unbelievable events were done by a higher power like him.

The pulse of the core in the small cave formation grew strong. It became rhythmical as vines continue to spread around. It broke through the solid walls of the cave formation, and unknown bluish fruits bloomed on the leaves that grew besides these thick green vines.

The divine consciousness within the pulsing orb drank the mana source it could feel on the surface of the land.

They were still half awake, and couldn't recognized their surroundings that much. It simply did actions that would recover it until it could recover its cognitive capabilities.

As it does that, it suddenly got jolted awake as a sincere prayer flowed through their very existence. Faith that a god needed for them to manifest.

An orb of light left the large orb, and along with it was the divine consciousness. The orb of light wobbled around for a moment, before it suddenly shoot above the cave ceilings.

It passes through the solid obstacle, and the rock suddenly turned into clear blue liquid. It illuminated the cave more with its pristine shine, much beautiful than the ocean itself as the divine entity left the depths of the land.

Its destination was the humongous source of magic that it could feel.

There were groups of insects that gained consciousness after they got exposed with enough magic due to their nest being near the large purple slab their creator put in there.

With consciousness, they gained intelligence enough to recognized who their creator was.

Ants, bees, bugs, and many more. All of them recognized the diminutive hermit that changed the very land itself as their goddess. The one who made small worlds for them to thrive and propagate their kind.

Since they gained their intelligence, these insects had decided on something.

They wanted to help their creator. They don't know how they would start with it, but they wanted to be of help to her.

All of this and Urano Hibiki was unaware of this as she messed around with her Dimensional Storage.

This one took long, so this will be the chapter for today. I'll update again tomorrow if I have time...

Thank you for reading this everyone!~

Levelgap · Aug 21, 2024

I succeeded in making it!

I have to use the majority of my inventory's space, but I finally did it!

An entire natural cave system with different types of ore veins and minerals!

Fusion core is the right alternative for creating a planetary core. Then after putting nickel and iron and duplicating them until they cover the whole core, I made an actual core for a terrestrial planet.

With this pseudo planetary core, I made my own lava. By duplicating lava and connecting them on the pseudo core, I made an artificial mantle. Then adding all the relevant objects for it, I made all the layers of crust. This completes the basics for my plan.

As it uses the majority of the space of my inventory, I can only store one of this miniature world. I can't duplicate it as it exceeds the size of what my inventory can store.

So, with no choice in the matter, I use this artificial pocket world and accelerated its time without tweaking anything else from it. My calculations are a bit off, but a billion years later and the whole area has mountains, volcanoes, and a deep underground ecosystem within.

I thought I only put the bare minimum elements needed so proper rock cycle will occur during time acceleration, but it seems like a billion years is still enough for these elements to wildly shift and mutate into bacterias, which later turned into multi-celled organisms.

Another billion years had passed and something baffling occurs in my miniature world.

"Uh... why are those creatures a lot more bigger than my calculations, and why are there some type of monsters that formed in there?"

Somehow, those multi-celled organisms didn't evolve into cave insects or other subterrenean organisms. Instead, they turned into something else.

Giant bugs, giant spiders, some moving rocks, mushroom people, some moving water, some moving magma, and even some unidentifiable moving lights.

Another weird thing is that the fusion core I made as an alternative planetary core changes into something weird. The inner core of the miniature planet turns into a very dark crystal of some sorts, and it turned the inner crust near the mantle into crystals with shimmering rainbow colors and deep purple ones. There are also ore veins that got this weird changes, like how silver suddenly turns into a shimmering light blue metal, or how some gold veins suddenly become very shiny and lustrous even when light is not reflecting on it.

... The heck? What is happening here!?

You achieve the next level for Mana!

You achieve the next level for Mystic!

You achieve the next level for Mana Regeneration!

You achieve the next level for Dimensional Storage!

I accelerated it until ten billion years had passed on that miniature world, and somehow that world suddenly acquires a large diverse ecosystem filled with weird creatures.

The most notable being the creatures on the surface world. Even though I didn't put any natural elements for plants to thrive as I simply want to create mountains and caves, plant somehow grew around it with some weird plants and a gigantic tree that covered at least 1% of my inventory space.

Why is there a tree in there that is more humongous than the combined landmass of Japan? How did it even grow to be that big!? The amount of water I put in that miniature world couldn't handle that kind of tree! Where did it even get all its nutrients?

Along with that are the various races that crops up around my miniature world. There are a lot, but sadly no humanoid ones formed. Though that doesn't matter as I feel icky trying to create humans anyway.

Going back on topic, new creatures. There is a gigantic bird entirely made of flames that suddenly popped up in the middle of the largest volcano in my miniature world. Its entire anatomy is something unexplanaible even with my scientific knowledge, and I only know it is a bird because of its shape and its feathers that creates this fiery effect around it.

On the only sea of my miniature world, a giant serpent roams on its depths. Its anatomy looks like that of a snake, but my scientific knowledge tells me those flesh are also impossible taut and thick, and its rainbow colored scales are made of unknown materials.

On a weirdly shaped land where mountain valleys encircled a large rocky pit, there was a reptilian creature I can only consider as a western dragon. It has full black scales, sharp claws, and a ferocious looking appearance. Its pretty large too, at least as large as Mt. Fuji if my calculations can be believed.

The egg it was born into was actually, what I thought at that time, was a suspciously rounded mountain when I first accelerated time. I don't know how a dragon was born out of a literal mountain, but it did.

Those were the notable creatures that was born from my miniature world. I don't even want to talk about the many weird creatures that suddenly made themselves known, like those moving elements with humanoid shapes, or the gigantic insects that crawled all over the ground, or even those gigantic beasts that made the literal mantle of the world as their own homebase.

No, all of them are unscientific. My scientific knowledge doesn't have info about all of them!

The world itself is a literal mess. My geological knowledge says that this is impossible. It should have only evolved and turn stuff into what I want them to be. Not this entire mess that can't be explained by science!

Well, I am panicking, but at the same time I will admit it is fascinating. Seeing a literal world form in front of my eyes, and the progress it will undergo for billions of years. It might be smaller than Earth, but it is older than my planet.

I decided to put my miniature world into my second inventory.

What is the second inventory? Well, my Dimensional Storage leveled up and that is the newest function it has!

Dimensional Storage IX

Click to expand...

Click to shrink...

Opens a pocket dimension that can store living and non-living things. Each pocket dimension has a size comparable to a country.

Objects stored within can be suspended in time, accelerate their time, or reverse their time. The amount of time that can be accelerated or reversed on specific objects depends on the Mana score of the user. Modifier is available for accurate timescale usage.

User can duplicate any objects within the inventory through the usage of their Mana.

User can store objects 5 meters away from them.

User has two separate Dimensional Storages. Anything stored on Dimensional Storage can be put on the other available Dimensional Storage instantly.

Thanks to the upgrade on my Dimensional Storage, I have more space now and I can arrange a lot of stuff. I decide to put all my mega biomes and my miniature world in my second inventory while anything else stays on my first inventory.

My inventories are still pretty small, so I can't really expand the miniature world that much. Though I think that is fine. They are just experiments anyway.

With enough space, I duplicate the mountains and cave systems without the living creatures in it. Then I duplicate these mountains and cave systems as preparation for adding them to this continent.

But for now, I want to check something before I start terraforming the land again.

"Uh....?"

There is an orb of light orbiting around the giant slab of purple crystal in my forest biome. In addition to that, I can see honey bees the size of my whole upper body floating around that crystal along with many insects like a darwin bark spider, rainforest ants, and even giant butterflies.

This should have scared me, but somehow I don't feel like they are dangerous at all.

I see one of the giant honey bees coming closer to me with something on its mandibles and forelegs. Looking at it carefully, I recognize what it is handing me as it waits for me.

"... Thanks, I guess?" I take the solid looking honey liquid from its forelegs and is it just me, or is it preening in joy?

Immediately after I accepted its gift to me, all of the insects suddenly gathered around me with one of the large lady bugs pushing my foot away and forcing me to sit on its hard shell.

"Ah... wow... I didn't think large insects would be this friendly..." Maybe I am just feeling incredibly lonely, but I welcome their enthusiasm to please me.

Well, I think they are trying to please me and being friendly if the way they are gathering around carrying a lot of stuff in their mandibles or other limbs they have can be considered like that.

I originally want to come here and check this giant slab of purple crystal and compare it to what formed in my miniature world. I am pretty close to the crystal now, so even when these insects are trying to take my attention, I already got what I came here for.

I have some hypothesis about how it happens. The enlarged insects and whatever this floating orb of light could be were proof that my hypothesis is likely correct.

This large crystal slab might be some sort of magical rock. Maybe this world calls this piece of supernatural gem something uninspiring like a Magic Crystal. If that is the case, then maybe my usage of time acceleration spreads some magical particles that turns these rocks into this thing?

Though if that is the case, how come my mega biomes and the living organisms within them don't evolve when I accelerate their time? Why does it only affect rocks?

Whatever. I will call these as magic crystals for simplicity's sake. I don't want to give it something fancy like naming it as sedimentus magicae or some other scientific nonsense.

Next, I have to go and start my terraforming... is what I would say but these insects don't seem to want me to leave...

I don't know how but when I stand up, they somehow have this stare that conveys their unwillingness for me to leave. It's like they are close to crying if they even have tear glands to produce tears at all.

"... Well, just for a bit. I will play with you all for a bit, and then I will leave later. Is that okay?"

Literally every insect flies around in joy, which I somehow get. I don't know how I can understand their emotions at all.

You achieve the next level for Taming!

What, am I taming them? I don't think I even do anything though?

I spent my time playing with the insects before I had to leave. Before I left, they gave me a lot of gifts and somehow managed to convey to me to visit them again.

Well, it doesn't hurt me and they are friendly so I think that will be fine. They are a fun bunch.

Two weeks had passed since their migration. They had arrived at the river, and were in the process of making their new village beside this river while some of their people made an expedition to the Ancient Forest to survey its resources and any hazards they had to expect from it.

With their water secured, many people had relaxed considerably. They still needed to find food, but they were sure that it wouldn't take long before they could secure a food source.

Alya felt secured. She thought everything would be fine right now.

And then a massive tremor occurred. Everyone screamed as the world itself shook. Distant explosions could be heard, and strong shockwaves slammed against the people outside the house.

"What is happening!?" Alya screamed in distress.

She stood up from her temporary tent. She was just making plans about the village when this crisis happened.

"Princess Alya!" Garoth entered the tent with wobbly movements. Even with the tremor, he tried to move towards his princess and escort her out of the tent.

"Sir Garoth!?"

"Princess... please hold onto me, I will lead you out!"

She didn't hesitate and reached out to him. Then he pulled her closer to him as he supported her out of the place while the shaking of the ground made them wobble around.

Thankfully the tent didn't fall on top of their heads, though even if it wouldn't hurt, Garoth doesn't want the princess to be hurt at all so he covered her body with his own while he escorted her outside.

When they got outside, he held onto her while they lowered their stance for stabilization. Others were sitting on the ground, and there were some who knelt on the floor and prayed for their gods. Alya could see that and felt scared.

'Have we done something to anger Lord Aurus!?' She thought.

"Look!"

She turned towards the direction of the voice and saw one of their farmers pointing at the distance. She looked at where he was pointing, and then gasped as she saw something truly unbelievable.

A giant plume of smoke covered the entirety of the horizon in the distance. It was extremely terrifying that the others screamed out in horror.

'Ah... I see... we have forgotten to pray on his name despite using his land. How foolish are we!' She thought in despair, and thought that this would be the end.

Despite that, she clasped her hands together in a strong prayer.

"Please, Lord Aurus. Forgive us from our transgression! We will not forget to celebrate your name starting to this day! Please don't destroy us...!"

She prayed sincerely with her heart. She could hear the others following her while her knight supported her balance with his hands.

Land disasters weren't part of Aurus' punishments, and she knew that. Still it's not like they knew how gods work, and it was entirely possible that he could do something like this in his anger. It was better to pray and ask for his forgiveness to be safe than not doing anything.

Surprisingly, the tremors slowly came to a halt and the smoke that covered the horizon slowly vanished. From there, she gaped in awe as she saw what was beyond the smoke.

"... A mountain!?"

In a place where nothing existed at all, a mountain suddenly occurred. It was pretty far as they could only see half of its silhouette, but their eyes didn't lie to them. It wasn't an illusion. There truly was a mountain in the far distance.

"A miracle..." She muttered, gazing at the mountain in great wonder.

She doesn't know who it was, but she would put this feat on Aurus' name. He was the only god documented to have fallen here, so it would be right to dedicate this miracle to his name.

After they recovered from their shock, Alya quickly ordered the others to build a statue of the God of Life with their remaining wood.

Starting on this day, Alya decided that their main faith would become the Aurus Faith.

So uh... that happened... it just became like that while I'm writing this chapter...

I hope you have fun!~

ulkapind · Aug 21, 2024

So she made a small planet inside her inventory!

The life and minerals of that pocket planet seem to have been transformed by mana, which she had not accounted for. Those poor living beings there would be mystified and utterly baffled if they were to learn about their creation.

She also gets to finally meet her first worshippers, the insects, at that crystal stone slab (magic crystal). She certainly enjoyed being fawned over, so good news for future worshippers, the goddess is not going to go hide under her blankets in a room.

The consciousness of the fallen god of life was also present as an orb of light. I think in the previous chapters when it was mentioned, it did not show much consciousness. So, either it will absorb the mana from the magic crystal and regain his memory as the God of life, or perhaps mistake itself as another creation of Hibiki.

The princess Alya keeps mistaking Hibiki's actions for the actions of the God of life. I look forward to ho that develops.

Each pocket dimension has a 5,000,000,000 cubic feet size.

That would be a very very small inventory space to hold a small planet, or even an average mountain. 5,000,000,000 cubic feet (= 5 x 10^9 cubic feet, i.e. 5 followed by nine zeroes) means approximately 1700 feet x 1700 feet x 1700 feet. So it could fit in a small hillock, but nothing more than that.

For comparison, the volume of planet Earth is 1,083,206,916,846 cubic km (= 1.083 x 10^12 cubic km), which is approximately 4 x 10^22 cubic feet, i.e. 4 followed by twenty two zeroes! Hibiki would need 10 trillion dimensional storages of 5 billion cubic feet capacity to fit in the planet Earth

I am imagining the small planetary body Hibiki made in her dimensional storage to be the size of our moon if it can have trees comparable in size to Japan (the surface area of Japan is about 1% the surface area of our moon). Our moon has a volume of 21,971,669,064 cubic km (= 2.197 x 10^10 cubic km) which is 775,922,170,310,010,200,000 cubic feet, i.e. 7.75 x 10^20 cubic feet.

If the dimensional storage is smaller than our moon, I imagine it to be a thousand times smaller volume at around 10^18 cubic feet.

Levelgap · Aug 21, 2024

ulkapind said:
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Right... I am using the wrong measurements...

Measurements always made me confused. It slips in my mind that whatever I am comparing things for is a lot larger than the numbers I am using. I forgot to actually specify that I am looking for cubic km instead of cubic meter when I am converting cubic feet to it. Now I thought it is actually large...

Give me a moment, I will edit all the dimensional storage description about it. It will be a small correction.

Cubic feet will be changed into cubic meter just to make things simpler.

EDIT: I'm done editing, and let's just say she just made a very tiny planet. She did say it was a miniature world.

Levelgap · Aug 21, 2024

I only need two days to put five mountains on the whole continent, and along with that are multiple caves on different parts of the continent. I also put a single volcano on this land just for spring water.

Then I connect a long river straight to my territory so I can make my own hot spring. It has been so long, and while I initially want to only put mountains and caves around this continent, having spring water is a happy coincidence that I will gladly take.

A single day is needed for me to create a biome specifically for growing cypress wood, and other materials that will make up my onsen, and then building the onsen itself.

"Ah! This is bliss!~"

And with the creation of an onsen near my villa, I think my life is complete!~

... Well, not really, but it has been so long!

I am alone in my own open air onsen, just looking at the night sky and feeling comforted at the warm spring water. I am not doing anything but just relaxing.

I need days like these after having fun terraforming a whole continent. It's a good time to reflect on myself and just think about things.

"... Hmm... Aren't I amazing?"

No, think about it. I have been terraforming the whole land like it was nothing. Aren't I pretty strong?

Generally, Isekai worlds don't reach this kind of power scale unless they are high tier ones. If I can move so fast that I can roam around this continent many times over, gouge out large amounts of land for recreation, and make all these wondrous technological wonders and mega biomes, then doesn't that mean I am very strong?

Do I have something to fear in this world at all?

Maybe I might be the strongest in this world? Can I do what I want in this world?

... Uh no, Hibiki. That is a dangerous thought!

Let's not be so sure of ourselves. I still don't know what is out there. There might actually be no humans in this world but rather super powerful monsters that can wipe out the entire civilization with a sneeze. Maybe this continent is just a small patch of land from the inhabitants of this world, and humans are simply nonexistent?

That is right. I shouldn't be too complacent and think I am strong. If I am on Earth, then I can confidently say I am the strongest, but this is not Earth. This is another world!

Everything is possible in this world.

In fact, if I think about it, I am very fortunate to have been transported into a world where I can breathe. Isn't our Earth unique that it can support life unlike other planets in the universe?

I think Earth itself is extremely rare in the universe. My scientific knowledge supports that theory.

I should just thank whatever higher power out there that I got transported somewhere safe, without any hostile life around me. I managed to build myself up until I became strong like this because of this fact.

I also should be thankful that I got these cheat abilities. It made it easier for me to survive.

I don't have anyone to compare to, so maybe I am actually just mediocre when it comes to learning skills. Regardless, it helps me a lot.

I leaned on the edge of the hot spring pool, letting out a sigh of contentment as I felt my muscles loosen on the comfortable warmth of the spring water.

I look at the stars, and immediately notice the different star alignment on the skies. I am definitely not anywhere in my universe as they are incredibly different. None of the constellations above are familiar to my world.

Am I in another universe then? Or maybe in a different galaxy?

I don't know. Those questions can't be answered.

Will I be able to come back to my world? Maybe?

It's all questions that always run in my mind whenever I have the time to relax and just think about things.

I really hope I find a way to go back to Earth. Even if I have this kind of power, I am still unsure whether it is enough or I'm actually fodder to the inhabitants of this world. I feel nervous.

... Well, let's get out then. I think I already did enough self-reflection.

The next thing I should do is to eat. I have a lot of variety right now thanks to my mega biomes. What should I cook I wonder?

I spent my time looking and then deciding what I should eat next. Making a feast for myself and then passing my time just having fun with myself.

The next day, I am on that magic crystal slab sitting on a throne made of that same crystal slab by the giant ants around me. I notice that there are some missing parts on the crystal slab, and it seems like the giant ants are using it as their nest.

I don't mind. It's a result of an experiment. I can make a lot of it if I want to.

As to why I am here, it is simple. It's because these insects want me to visit them again so I am here. I might just decide to actually make another villa here if they keep wanting me to visit here.

All of the enlarged, and mutated insects are gathering around me in a line, all of them carrying offerings for me to accept. I don't have a reason to decline so I simply accept and put them in my first inventory.

The things they give me are varied. There is silk, honey, some metals, or even dead animals they hunted themselves.

Normally I would be screaming right now if I see a dead animal but having lived off of hunting fishes for a long time made me desensitized to dead animals. Also, seeing their anatomy within my inventory just made me used to the display.

That doesn't mean I am not disturbed. An animal corpse is still creepy regardless if I am used to seeing one.

I can reluctantly accept them without being able to say no. Their earnest gaze, or well as earnest as they can look with those insectile eyes, looks so cute. How can they look so cute even though they are insects?

While I am indulging these insects and playing around with them, I have been using my inventory to accelerate the time of different types of minerals and metals. I am running another experiment, and it just so happens that I am not doing anything other than sitting here and taking whatever the insects gives me.

Also, I want to upgrade my inventory. My miniature world is very small. It's literally the fourth of the size of the moon. Every being there might be able to live with those weird energy that the crystal releases en masse, but I think it will be uncomfortable for them if they are living in something that small.

I mean, they have been living there for ten billion years, but I only thought it would be a barren area with only caves and mountains in it! How did these creatures even form in that miniature world!?

Also, they grew incredibly large!

It feels like I am torturing them just letting them live in such a small world with artificial sunlight. They don't even have a day and night cycle.

So I am hitting three birds with one stone here. I am playing with these intelligent giant insects, and at the same time learning the results of just accelerating time on different minerals and then leveling up my inventory.

This will take long, so I am using most of my mana and abusing the time acceleration function.

You learned Multitasking!

... I am surprised it took this long before I learned that. I thought I am always multitasking since I found myself in this world.

I heard the sound of buzzing and looked up when I noticed my surroundings had gotten darker. I saw a honey bee larger than me whose forelegs and the gap between its head and thorax has some pollen-like coating that looks incredibly fluffy. It also has an incredibly large abdomen.

Quickly, I recognized its form as the queen of these monsterized honey bees. It handed something to me. Surprisingly it is contained inside a wooden jar. I don't know where they got this wooden jar.

I opened it to look inside and heard myself gasping as I felt surprised when a blinding light flashes before my eyes.

You learned Light Intensity Tolerance!

... Yeah, whatever. I'll just take that.

Anyway, I looked carefully at what was inside and saw a golden gooey liquid within the wooden container. A sweet syrupy smell tickled my nose, and feeling curious, I dip my finger in it and taste it.

Wow!? Isn't this too sweet!?

No, it's not sweet. It just has a rich taste that spreads on my taste buds.

"Mhm... it tastes so good. Thank you, Ms. Queen Bee." I simply just complimented the honey bee queen because its gift is truly delicious.

Suddenly its body shakes, before it quickly flies away and into wherever its nest was. I don't know what came to it.

Also, is it just me or did I feel a slight decrease in my mana?

Whatever, the next one who comes forward is a large rainforest ant with a large abdomen... ah right, another queen.

It gives me a small figurine of myself made from the purple slab of crystal beside us. It looks skillfully made. Just how did they make this?

"Uh... thank you, Ms. Queen Ant."

Somehow, I feel another drain on my mana after I said that, and the queen ant's body trembles for a moment. I feel curious but it seems like it quickly turns its body away from me and leaves before I can even ask what is wrong with it.

"Hmm...?"

I am getting curious, but there are other insects I have to take care of so whatever.

I am curious about the orb of light. Out of every mutated insect here, that orb of light isn't coming closer to me. It is just orbiting around the crystal slab. Is it just a light of some sort, or is it sentuent and it just loves to be close to the crystal?

... Whatever. It looks scenic watching it orbit around the crystal. It adds to the mystique of this spot.

I'll just take a picture to commemorate it. It looks pretty magical after all. I am sure my parents will love it when I show them these pictures.

A week quickly passes while I am forcefully depleting my mana with time acceleration. It has taken very long, but I am sure always accelerating these minerals by hundreds of billions of years is worth it because after this whole week, I finally got another level up prompt. Dimensional Storage, Mana, and Mystic has been elevated to the tenth score.

Along with that is a new function from my inventory! I wonder what it is?

Dimensional Storage X

Click to expand...

Click to shrink...

Opens a pocket dimension that can store anything in the physical world. Each pocket dimension has a size comparable to a continent.

Objects stored within can be suspended in time, accelerate their time, or reverse their time. The amount of time that can be accelerated or reversed on specific objects depends on the Mana score of the user. Modifier is available for accurate timescale usage.

User can duplicate any objects within the inventory through the usage of their Mana.

User can store objects 10 meters away from them.

User has four separate Dimensional Storages. Anything stored on Dimensional Storage can be put on the other available Dimensional Storage instantly.

.... I can store anything in the physical world!?

And wait, did it just say a size comparable to a continent!? That's a large upgrade!

With that size, it will be enough for the inhabitants of my miniature world to move around.

Talking about the miniature world, I put it in one of the empty dimensional storage I have and then start expanding that world by duplicating the land it has.

I hope the inhabitants of that world like the addition to the landscape.

The Great Phoenix had been alive for a long time. This small world of eternal sunlight had been its whole world since it was born. There was a hidden temporal barrier that prevented it from soaring high on the skies. It couldn't even breach through it with its mythical body.

It could only nestle and watch the small landscape where many lower creatures bowed and worshipped it. It was one of the three mythical beings of this small world. Limited they may be, but they were the absolute overlords of every being lived on the surface.

It doesn't expect anything to change for the next millions or billions of years. This was always the case in this world limbo where their small world resided.

It was a surprise when the whole landscape of the world suddenly expanded, and along with it was the skies. It felt the temporal barrier that covered this whole small world retreated, the miniature world expanding its reach ten times more than its former size.

It looked up and stared at the being it couldn't see. It doesn't know the purpose of the sudden increase in land. It thought they had been neglected for a long time.

It lowered its head to the higher entity that controlled everything in this world. Regardless of its curiosity, the Great Phoenix was thankful that the absolute creator of this world saw it fit to bless this small world with more land and space.

It spread its lustrous wings as it stood up from its long time roosting on its volcanic nest. It wanted to explore the skies once more. So it swung its wings forcefully. Fiery winds burst forth from its surroundings with its flap as it jumped into the skies, and then it flew.

It was a small change, but it was enough for it to be satisfied for more airspace. It could spread its wings without feeling too stifled with the smallness of the world.

So, I mess up a lot. I have been botching the measurements since I started writing the story.

I don't know how large is a cubic feet. I already researched the internet, and it always gives me vague comparisons or images that only gives me headache. I made a mistake when I compare it to cubic meter, and then somehow thought whatever size I am looking awhem searching for the size of the earth is also cubic meter when it is actually cubic kilometer.

I am so blind and stupid, and I am so sorry about that!

If I have to fix all of that, I essentially have to rewrite the story as most of the things she did is impossible with the size limitation of her inventory.

Ugh... I feel like giving up... I just want to continue writing and progressing with the story, but this mess up is so bad it is bothering me a lot.

... Sorry again... I'll take a rest for now and think things through whether I will rewrite the story or just continue on while ignoring those glaring errors on those details...

See you next time...

xenondestroyer · Aug 21, 2024

eh, it doesn't matter, i'd say to just ignore the numbers- write what you want to write.

Roxas902 · Aug 22, 2024

You really don't need to get so worked up over messing up the measurements. For me, at least, they're just flavor, and have no bearing on my enjoyment of the story. With that said, I've been really enjoying this story of yours. It's just the kind of slightly silly self-indulgent fun that I like to read. I'm looking forward to the next chapter!

ulkapind · Aug 22, 2024

Levelgap said:
... Uh no, Hibiki. That is a dangerous thought!

Phew! Just escaped getting a big head. Finishing her current work did give her some time to reflect.

Her insect worshippers made her a throne. By naming them and spending mana did she give those insect queens some form of a blessing? Or is it some ability related to taming?

Regarding the pain of juggling numbers while writing a story, I feel your pain. I would say not to worry overmuch about it. Visualising volumes are indeed a massive pain. Very very unintuitive.

This story does not use numbers in a way other than to show that she is becoming more and more overpowered. Overall you have done a fine job of showing that she is indeed becoming rapidly more and more powerful.

Since the numbers are not really that relevant to the story, I suggest vagueness is the better way. But this story uses some LitTPG mechanics, some reference is needed to show numbers going up. So instead of using numbers that gives a suggestion of accuracy, use vague comparisons.

As an example something like :

Dimensional Storage I : Has enough space to store a human.

Dimensional Storage II : Has the storage capacity of a house.

Dimensional Storage III: can store a large warehouse.

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Dimensional Storage VI : Can store a mountain

Dimensional Storage VII : Has enough space for a large asteroid.

Dimensional Storage VIII : Can store a truly massive asteroid.

Dimensional Storage IX : stores a small moon

Dimensional Storage X : A large moon fits comfortably.

Dimensional Storage XI : Can fit a terrestrial planet like Earth.

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Dimensional Storage ??? : Just larger and larger objects (A gas giant, A small star, A medium star (like the Sun) , a large star, a stellar system, a galaxy, a cluster of galaxies, the universe! multiple universes! etc )

Levelgap · Aug 22, 2024

So about that new function from my inventory, I quickly discover what it means.

You see, I can't put anything stuck on the ground to my inventory. I have to pry them out of the solid ground before I can take them. This is also the case to every solid objects that aren't inside my inventory. I can't just take half of a specific solid object to put it in my inventory. I actually have to cut it off before I can put them in my inventory.

Liquid or gaseous materials are fine. Its only solid objects that I can't possibly store.

Because if I could, instead of digging I will simply use my inventory for my terraforming project. My inventory consider dirt as part of the whole ground as a whole, and I have to make an effort to separate them from the ground before I can put them in my inventory.

That's not the case anymore. One aspect of it enabling me to get anything is that I can get anything with my inventory, regardless if it stuck to the ground or a solid object.

Like for example, I can specify I just want to take all iron content on the soil and anything that is in range of my inventory will instantly be transported within my first storage. If I want to take the ground itself around me, it will be easily gouged out and be put on my inventory instantly.

And it is not limited to non-living things. I can do it to anyone!

It suddenly becomes a terrifying ability. If I want to, I can simply extract the brain or the heart of a person with my inventory so long as they are within my range. I already tried it to some of the non-sapient animals from the other forest biomes I planted on this continent.

I decided not to use it on living beings after that experiment. It disturbs me that I can actually do that instantly.

The good thing is that I don't have to dig stuff manually. I just have to bring them inside my inventory while moving around. I am pretty fast, so my job will be done quickly.

I remember that I still have some areas that I haven't filled with other biomes. i originally plan to leave them as grasslands, but I think that will be dull.

Right, I should plant some trees on the remaining grasslands.

Before I go, I am bonding with the friendly monstrous insects. Lately I haven't seen the queen ant and queen bee. Its been a week since they suddenly return to their nest. I wonder what happened to them?

The giant darwin bark spider has been clinging to me lately. I don't mind, but it is trying to convey something to me like it wants something from me. I wonder what it wants from me?

I have to apologize to it. It made it sad, but its not like I fully understand them. I only get their general emotions through their body language. I can't actually speak to them or understand what they are saying.

The orb of light... it is still orbiting around the crystal slab. I can see some changes in it like the changes of its color into light greenish, or that it has become larger than the last time I see it. It is still a moving orb of light though.

Maybe it will turn into something?

I'd like to put it in my inventory, but I feel like it will be a bad idea as I don't know where this orb of light comes from so I just let it be.

After the emergence of the mountain near their settlement, the new Canedis Village residents became worshippers of the Aurus Faith. It was the first time they had witnessed a miraculous event like that so it was natural they would immediately worshipped the god that they assumed was the caused of the mountain's emergence.

As expected, it was far. A week of travel by foot before they got to the foot of the mountain. They only had two veterans with experience to mining, so it would be hard to start right now when they still had a lot of things they had to worry about.

Their focus was on building more houses, planting crops, and letting their livestock thrive for their sustainment. After they managed to achieved that, they would move on to other problems.

Currently, a crowd had formed in the center of the village as they looked at a wild horse that the expedition group had tamed. It was thanks to their half elf ranger that the wild horse native to the ancient forest became docile.

"We are fortunate to tame this one. Our travel time to the ancient forest will become shorter." Garoth said while he carressed the mane of the docile horse.

"It's thanks to Sylca's Taming skill. Without that, it might still be rampaging along with its herd." Dylan answered. Scratching the back of his head as he recalled what happened when they were at the ancient forest.

They only wanted to travel around the forest and feel out the environments. Any areas where they could hunt, dangerous beasts that might be lurking somewhere, hidden spots with lots of precious resources, those were the kind they were looking for. It was a surprised when they found a herd of wild horses on the large clearing within the forest, and along with that was a large lake where they drank.

They immediately honed on to the horses and tried to capture some. It was inefficient just walking back and forth from their settlement to this forest. It took a total of two weeks doing that. A horse would shorten that into a single week.

Sadly, the horses had been startled, and they had gone on a rampage whicu caused some to be injured. As they didn't want to kill the horses, almost every horses except one escaped. Sylca's Taming skill was very helpful at calming down the captured horse.

The children of the village looked at the horse in wonder. All of them were full of smiles while the adults talked to themselves.

It was a peaceful sight on the village... and then they heard someone screamed.

"WHAT IS THAT!?"

Its the guard from the watchtower. They heard his shout, which quickly made them alert and tense. Garoth quickly move to the entrance of their village where the watchtower was located and looked up.

"What's happening?"

The guy gazed at him, before he pointed a finger on the outskirts of their village. Garoth glanced where he was pointing his fingers, and then froze as he saw an unbelievable sight.

At the far distance, trees were suddenly appearing on the ground. They slowly grew numerous until they became a forest.

He felt a chill came to his spine as he saw the silhouette of those trees getting closer. They were forming out of nowhere, and if it continued, this village would be overrun with trees. It was approaching them fast.

He was already on the verge of calling out for an evacuation when the emergence of the trees suddenly stopped. The nearest tree was still far, but it could be seen if they peered their eyes on that direction.

"... What happened?" Dylan asked, and then stopped when he saw what they were looking at. "Where did that come from!?"

"Lord Aurus must have done it..."

They all turned to their princess who walked alongside Eidran and his female apprentice. The princess stared at the trees on the distance, before she returned her gaze back at them.

"It was the blessing of our lord. My people, thank the lord for his benevolence! He had given us trees accessible to us!"

The other villages who was disturbed at first by the guard's alarm relaxed, with others quickly clasping their hands and saying their prayers. Alya followed along with them.

Dylan watched that, a bit dumbfounded. He had seen the mountain, but its not like he saw how it was formed as they were busy with their expedition on the ancient forest.

... Ah... I am not hallucinating, right?

Aren't those humans? Since when did humans live in this empty continent?

Actually, where did they come from!?

I have to stop planting the trees after I notice their settlement. I can see that there are approximately eighty people with them. There might be others that I might not be seeing in my vantage point.

What to do with this. It has been so long since I encounter another human. Should I greet them?

Wait, maybe they are bad people and they might attempt to do something bad at me after I show myself to them?

... Ugh, I don't know. I should check them out first before trying to show myself.

Still... I feel nervous. It has been so long since I talk to someone.

Can I hold a proper conversation? What if I embarrassed myself?

No wait... I shouldn't think about that!

I stayed on top of the tree I planted near the village while thinking what to do with them.

You learned Stealth!

Oh look, I learned a new ability!

You acquired Divinity!

You acquired Domain: Creation!

You acquired Domain: Life!

Uh... what?

Near the pure magic crystal slab, there was a certain part of the forest filled with honeycombs. An entire structure reminiscent of a castle made of honey combs was located here. Deep within this castle was a large chamber where a large cocoon was located.

That large cocoon pulsed. It expanded and contracted constantly as it pulsed. Many worker bees worked hard to care for the cocoon, while others skillfully moved their forelegs to smoothen the walls of the castle or create other designs that would please their queen.

It had been a week since a name was bestowed upon their queen by their creator. They waited eagerly for the rebirth of their queen.

And the time had finally come as the cocoon made its final pulse, before it parted in the middle automatically. From there, delicate fingers emerged from the gaps of the opening of the cocoon, and then a face of a beautiful woman was the next thing to emerge.

A tall woman with long yellow hair with stripes of black emerged from the cocoon. Long creamy legs step on the solid honey floor as two pairs of glass-like prismatic wings flowed gently like a cape behind her back. Connected to what could be considered her spine was a large abdomen of a honey bee.

She stood still for a moment, looking at her limbs and clotheless body for a moment before she turned to her followers.

At the same time, beneath the large crystal slab, a large cocoon also parted ways within as another beauty emerged from there. Obsidian colored hair flowed freely from her back and crimson red eyes settled on the workers that worked tirelessly on her chambers. Unlike the Queen Bee, Queen Ant only had the upper half of a beautiful woman. Her human half was connected to a large thorax of an ant queen, and along with that was a large abdomen that carried many eggs for her children.

Both glanced around their workers as most of their colony gathered on their rooms. Then the two declared at the same time.

""Today is a new era for our kind! Praise the Goddess for her blessings!""

Both monstrous bees and ants chittered excitedly. Their devotion to their diminutive creator increasing a lot more.

While that happened, the large spider sulked on top of the trees. She wants to have a name too.

In the Divine Realm...

The blonde woman in a toga dress looked as if she had undergone several marathons. Her eyes was dark with exhaustion and stress as her hands moved at speeds impossible for humans to comprehend. It gave an illusion that she had million hands in each instance of her movements.

She perked up when she felt something within the world.

"... A new divinity?" She tried to glance at the direction of a certain continent, before a sudden alarm pulled her attention away from it. "Ack! Another Invasion!? Why does these cosmic parasites doesn't give up! I said this world is not your food, dammit!"

She had to put most of her attention to a dimension spanning invasion of incredibly large insects that easily outsized galaxies. At the same time, she had to manage other errors that kept occuring at random on the world itself.

"Goddamit! What is the problem of the Gods of this world! Why do they keep messing around with the fate of the mortals!? Just leave them alone, dammit!"

She was overworked, and she couldn't even take a rest because many problems kept taking her attention.

Outside the world where different invaders intent on either conquering or destroying creation itself or just sating whatever desire they had. On the world itself, Gods played around with mortals and make their 'champions' to battle evil, which also were champions of other Gods who called themselves Demon Gods. There were also the local inhabitants who had broken the limits of the world system a long time ago, causing trouble everywhere and creating errors on the fabric of reality just because they could!

Tears flowed from her eyes as she continued sending multiple avatars of herself to deal with all of this nonsense.

"I am serious, please someone help me!"

The sobs of a woman echoed on the Divine Realm.

After a long rest and thinking things through, I finally decided to just change the description of dimensional storage and make its size generally vague. It saves with the headache, and I can focus more on writing with that.

That will be all for now. Thank you for reading!~

meloa789 · Aug 22, 2024

Even with absolute power, she succeeds in failing upwards.

ulkapind · Aug 22, 2024

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It suddenly becomes a terrifying ability. If I want to, I can simply extract the brain or the heart of a person with my inventory so long as they are within my range.

Hibiki, facing a terrifying enemy, squeaks out : "You are already dead.". Then she tries very hard to forget about the heart in her dimensional storage.

Levelgap said:
The giant darwin bark spider has been clinging to me lately. I don't mind, but it is trying to convey something to me like it wants something from me. I wonder what it wants from me?

Poor spider wants to be blessed. It shall perform penance for whatever sins it has committed, for what other reason could there be for the Goddess to ignore it so? Does the Goddess not understand the hearts of mortal spiders? Spiders do have weird hearts.

Perhaps the Goddess is biased towards eusocial insects? Dislikes anarchids? Maybe it has to go for a quest for the spider queen's crown?

Levelgap said:
He was already on the verge of calling out for an evacuation when the emergence of the trees suddenly stopped. The nearest tree was still far, but it could be seen if they peered their eyes on that direction.

And thus meet the refugees a terrifying terraforming goddess.

Levelgap said:
... Ah... I am not hallucinating, right?

Aren't those humans? Since when did humans live in this empty continent?

And thus meets the Goddess weird refugees who mistake her for another dead god.

Levelgap said:
Oh look, I learned a new ability!

You acquired Divinity!

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You acquired Domain: Creation!

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You acquired Domain: Life!

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Uh... what?

So the refugees had to mistake her for the god of life for divinity to be acquired.

Poor little orb of light, Hibiki is the Goddess of Life now. Will the prayers nourish it anymore? She had noticed this chapter that it was growing. Perhaps it might never gain its memories as the god of life back, or mistake itself as a part of the Goddess of Life, Hibiki. Surely, it has faint memories of being a divinity of life, and here there is a Goddess of Life right next to it being worshipped, it must thus be a small part of this Goddess. Mystery solved for the poor orb of light, now a servant for the very Goddess that replaced it.

Levelgap said:
""Today is a new era for our kind! Praise the Goddess for her blessings!""

Both monstrous bees and ants chittered excitedly. Their devotion to their diminutive creator increasing a lot more.

While that happened, the large spider sulked on top of the trees. She wants to have a name too.

So the right hand and the left hand of the Goddess! Perhaps they shall be priestess-queens. (and poor spider)

Levelgap said:
"I am serious, please someone help me!"

The sobs of a woman echoed on the Divine Realm.

> Is the over-diety of a world.
> Has shitty subordinates.
> Everything is on fire.
> Has a zerg-tyranid infestation.
> Subordinates are shitty role-players.
> Is too stressed.
> Might have solved her problems accidentality, will have to pretend that it was her plan all along to preserve her reputation.

Poor, poor top boss Goddess.

Levelgap · Aug 23, 2024

Divinity I

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Acquire a boost from the faith of other sapient beings. All status has an additive bonus to every status for each follower gained, and each level of divinity adds a hidden multiplier to experience gain on skills related to the User's Authorities.

Beliefs towards you and your imagery will become Divine Energy. Accumulation of Divine Energy depends on the intensity of the follower's belief and level of this skill.

Domain: Creation I

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You have absolute authority over the Concept of Creation.

You can create, change, and improve everything in creation with Divine Energy. Every creation you make is immune to tampering.

You may declare an area as your sanctuary/territory/domain. Declaring an area as yours will turn it into a holy land where your authority is absolute. The size of this divine area depends on the level of your Divinity.

You can only declare a single area as your holy land.

Domain: Life I

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You have absolute authority over the Concept of Life.

You can create, change, and improve every sentient and sapient being with Divine Energy. You can turn everything into sentient and sapient beings with Divine Energy. Every life you make or improve is immune to tampering.

You may declare an area as your sanctuary/territory/domain. Declaring an area as yours will turn it into a holy land where your authority is absolute. The size of this divine area depends on the level of your Divinity.

You can only declare a single area as your holy land.

I have returned to my house, and am looking at the description of my new skills.

Lets see... I can feel a new warm feeling flowing through me. It's a mysterious something that is somewhat similar to mana, but at the same time completely different.

I can't really explain it properly. The only way I can differentiate between the two is that Mana feels like a gentle flow of warm water, while Divine Energy feels like a warm hot spring enveloping my whole body.

Yeah, it is that vague. It's not like I have any way to compare supernatural phenomena to my own experience. I am still new to this!

Anyway, it seems like I am being worshipped. I also have a new sense within me that gives me sight to those who are devoted to me. It seems like it is a hidden function of Divinity.

So about the followers. It all leads to a swarm of large ants and large honey bees. Leading them are a duo of beautiful monster girls.

Really, I have monster girls as my worshippers. I am truly living the Isekai life now!

Sadly, even if I become some sort of divine being based on my skills, I still don't have a way to get back to my world.

Divine Energy is flowing through me, gathering around and becoming a solid light that rests within myself. I don't know how I know that and how I can feel it within myself. It just works like that.

I also know how to use it, though sadly I can't use it to get back to my world.

To create something, I need to know what I am creating first. Even the general idea of what I want to create is fine.

Sadly, I don't know anything that will help me get back to my world. Portal is not part of creation it seems. I already tried and it just doesn't work.

At least I have a powerful ability right now. I can literally create everything!

I also decided where I will put my holy land!

I mean, where else should I put my holy land other than my very own world?

Your Holy Land has been established!

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It has been detected that you are the sole faith in this world. Your Holy Land extends to this whole world!

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You met the requirements to learn an Origin Skill.

You learned Another World!

Uh... excuse me?

Another World I

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You have your own personal world. You can open a portal to enter your own world.

You can control everything in the world you own. You can create rules in your own world.

... I got another broken ability.

Would you like the 'Miniature World' to be a part of (Another World)?

Yes

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Even the prompt calls my miniature world as a miniature world.

Well, I don't mind so I accept it.

After picking 'Yes' on the prompt, the miniature world within my inventory vanishes. In exchange I can now feel it connected to me somewhere. I also have another sense added to my sight where I can see everything in my own world. I just have to think about it and then I will suddenly have a second vision where I can see that entire world.

I also have a lot of options which enabled me to modify that world to my own desires, and the only thing I need is Mana for me to change it. I can also use Divine Energy, but I don't feel like doing so as I don't have a lot of it. So I will only use my Mana. I have a lot of it.

This is a lot of new things for today. I also need to observe those people living on the other side of the continent. I also need to go to my insect worshippers near that crystal slab and talk to them. I think they know a lot more than me.

They can talk right? I mean I can see that the Queen Ant and Queen Bee have humanoid features, so isn't it right to think that they can also talk like a person?

I have to try and talk to them tomorrow.

Please give a name to your new world!

"... I need to name it too?"

I keep calling it Miniature World so isn't it fine to just call it like that?

Are you fine with the name 'Miniature World'?

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... Okay, that just sounds sad.

I quickly cancel that and think about it for a moment...

Hmm... what would be a good name for that world...?

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The Goddess 'Urano Hibiki' has given its official name. This world will be now known as Fusion!

Everyone who inhabits this unnamed world felt it in their soul. This whole world that had been in limbo for billions of years had left its original space, and the world itself became alive.

The artificial light that acted as their sunlight vanished. In exchange, a true sun was formed on their new reality. Along with that, a single moon formed to create balance in this world.

They could feel it was done by the creator of this world.

It was a glorious day for them. A new era had begun after the Goddess released them from that temporal limbo. Though more than that, they were ecstatic as they learned the name of their dear Creator.

The Three Great Beasts memorized the name of their Creator. The mythical bird beasts who followed The Great Phoenix celebrated the revelation of their Creator's name. The dragons and lizardmen that worshipped The Black Dragon had started to build idols for their great Creator. The Sahuagins and Mermaids who worshipped The Emperor Sea Serpent composed great hymns and dances for their Creator.

The Primordial Golem and its kin moved along with the Spirit Queen and the elementals that followed them. They would create glorious structures that would impress the Goddess all over the world with the golems as the guardians of said structures.

Every Primordial Beast that lived in the world celebrated on their own. Some of them made what they could make, while others would simply worship them in silence.

The Abyss Creatures that lived on the core of the world were silent. They simply stayed on the hot lava and clumps of rainbow magical crystals. They waited for their Creator to call upon them.

The world itself pulsed in excitement. A budding ego forming as it was recognized as a proper world. It wouldn't take long before it acquired its own will, and by then it would make the necessary steps for life to thrive on.

All of this, and Urano Hibiki was unaware of it. She simply knew she acquired a large amount of followers, but doesn't know what they were thinking or how they perceived her.

Tomorrow morning, I immediately move to the crystal slab where my insect followers are living. When I got there, I was surprised to see a large statue of me made with the crystal slab. It's a high quality recreation of my appearance.

It feels a bit weird seeing my own face in a statue...

"Ah! The Great Goddess has returned!"

Did I hear it wrong? That ant actually spoke, and his voice sounds deep!

All of the insects stop whatever they are doing around the crystal slab, and quickly move to kneel at me.

"Her Almighty Hibiki! These lowly ants are glad to be visited by your greatness!"

"The honey bees welcome the Great Goddess on our humble territory!"

Honey bees and rainforest ants are somehow talking to me. Their voices are so clear and fluent in my ears. Also, they speak Japanese!?

How come their voices sound a lot beautiful? It's like they are in a play or something!

"Uh... hi, I guess?"

I was a bit startled when all of them suddenly hollered in excitement. Why do they sound so happy!?

It took awhile but I am now sitting on the magic crystal throne once more after they calm down. The Queen Ant and Queen Bee are there in their glorious monster girl forms.

"You called for us, Our Great Almighty?"

The Queen Bee sounded so regal. She has a beautiful voice, but it's pretty calm that makes her sound elegant.

Anyway, as to why I called them?

There is no reason really. I just want to see them. Though I think that will be a bad reason to interrupt them on their work, so I should give something valid at least.

"First of all, please just call me Hibiki. It feels weird being called the Great Goddess or the Great Almighty." It made me cringe just hearing them call me that.

"T-that's..." They looked at me with their faces scrunching up and eyes looking as if I just kicked them.

"... Nevermind then." Right. I think I will just let them be. "Anyway, I would like to know if anyone knows how to use magic?"

Right. I think that is a good excuse. It's not like I am expecting them to know. They are originally normal insects after all.

"Ah... we apologize. None of our colonies know how to use magic..."

See? They don't know anything!

As I am thinking about that, the Queen Ant added something.

"But we have a recent addition that might know how to do it..."

"Huh...?"

They step to the side and give way to someone who quickly runs towards me. I got a bit alert and quickly trailed the figure rushing towards me as the world around me slowed down.

Right... I have a high finesse score so everything is incredibly slow around me when I try to actually get serious.

Anyway, looking at the person rushing towards me, I see it is a kid.

... Huh? A kid?

I got a bit distracted that I just let him rush at me with his head first. His arms wrap around my waist as he exclaims loudly.

"Oneechan! Aurus has been waiting for you!"

Oneechan? What?

I look at the green haired kid carefully. He is hugging me while burying his head on my belly. Then he looks up at me, pure golden eyes gazing at me innocently as he flashes a bright smile at me. He is very small, I think at least he is still six years old or something, and he only wears a white garb that feels a bit weird to my senses.

He looks incredibly happy to see me. Why is it, I wonder?

"Oneechan, thank you for letting Aurus use the purple magic crystal! Aurus finally regained some of Aurus' powers because of it!"

Ah... I see?

Wait, don't tell me...

"... Are you that orb of light from a few days ago?"

"Un! Aurus' name is Aurus!"

I just noticed, but this kid is referring to himself in third person!

Holy crap, that is so cute!~

"Aha... So your name is Aurus, huh?" I am quickly lightening up to this kid.

Also, he keeps calling me Oneechan! I always wanted to have a little sibling for a long time!

But anyway, I heard something interesting.

"Wait... regained some power? Did something happen to you?" This child got harmed by someone? Who the heck did it?

"... Aurus doesn't remember..."

I see. He has amnesia I think?

Whatever. I didn't come here for that.

"Well that is fine... so you know how to use magic?" With his nod, that makes me a bit hopeful. "That sounds great! Please tell me what you know!"

"Okay, Oneechan!"

"Before you start though..." I look behind me, seeing the darwin bark spider and some other insects staring intently at me. "Uh... do you need something?"

They raised their limbs or any parts that can be considered their hands as they try to convey something to me. Even the large butterflies are trying to convey something to me.

"You!" I was a bit startled when the Queen Bee suddenly shouted. "Such insolence! Demanding a name so callously! I ought to punish you with the death penalty!"

"Oi... I think that is going too far." I quickly intervene before something bad happens.

"Ah! I apologize for stepping out of line, Our Great Goddess! Please forgive my transgressions!" Then the Queen Bee immediately kneeled as if her life depended on it.

"... That's a bit much. I just want to know what they want... I can't actually understand them..."

They gasped for a moment, before the Queen Ant took a step forward.

"Our fellow faithful insects also want to be blessed with a Name, Great Almighty. P-please forgive their insolence, they don't mean any offense!" The Queen Ant said as she bowed her upper human body.

"Name? If they just want a name, then that can be easily done!"

Really, what's the big deal about it? It's just a name!

"Oooh! Such magnanimity! To even name those who were rude in your presence!" The Queen Bee exclaimed.

They are being overdramatic. It's just a name.

Ignoring the two monster girls, I stand up, leaving the embrace of the kid who quickly disengages from the hug and I feel him sticking close behind me as I walk towards the other insects.

"Do you want me to name all of you?" The insects nodded enthusiastically. "Well, fine. Let me think about it."

It takes me a bit of contemplation before I finally named them one by one. For the spider, I call them Orbweaver. The ladybug is simply called Red. Then the three butterflies are called by the color of their wings like Opal, Ruby, and Amethyst.

All of them preened happily after that, and at the same time I feel a bit of my mana being drained away from me.

... Wait, I think I recall something like this happening when I talk to the Queen Bee and Queen Ant.

"Uh... Aurus. Is there a special meaning for naming monsters?"

"Ah? Does Oneechan not know?" I shake my head. "Yes! Naming a Monster that follows you will make them evolve and turn closer into the form of the one naming them!"

Turn closer? Wait, so the Queen Ant and the Queen Bee thought I named them!?

"Uh... what's the requirement for a monster to evolve when naming them?"

"Requirement? They have to be the follower of the one naming them, and accept the name given to them before they can absorb a certain amount of mana from the one who names them for them to evolve!"

So, these two accepted those names!?

Oh crap... I feel like I did something to the Queen Ant and the Queen Bee.

"... Can I change the name of someone I already named?"

He shakes his head. "It's impossible! Names given to them are already bound to their soul! Even if you call them something else, the names they receive will always be their true name in the eyes of the world!"

Its over. I didn't think there was something like this in this world!

"Uh... it might be an accident, but I am sorry you two..."

The two queens of their respective colonies tilt their head at my words. It just makes me more guilty looking at their innocent expression.

It is getting long, so I decided to end this chapter here for now.

Thank you for reading this everyone!~

P.S. You can ignore this, but I am just here to say that if you'd like to support me with my hobbies, I have a Kofi account HERE.

Sorry for the shameless self promotion...
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xenondestroyer · Aug 23, 2024

poor queen bee and queen ant

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