Argul chatted a bit longer with Luna about the dangers of owning that pole. While she didn't want it to be known that she was not only able to create spells with relative ease, but could now also enchant objects with them, she didn't want the innkeeper to get into trouble for it. If Luna should ever get asked about it and not answering would lead to dangerous consequences she was free to give the knowledge away. As far as Argul was concerned she could just take her family and leave if someone decided to annoy her, believing themselves to have the right to order her around.
After that she went to her room together with Aina and took an old European coin to enchant. Argul was still on a high and might as well continue to train while she was still motivated. Enchanting the coin with a light spell turned out to be quite challenging, because it wasn't able to hold as much mana as the lamp pole. This forced Argul to reduce the size of the light ball by a lot, resulting in a glowing sphere the size of a marble.
She flicked the now enchanted coin into the air when she was done and catched it again before she let herself fall on the bed. Even for her this was quite mentally exhausting and she needed a break.
Argul was pretty sure she had a bunch of system messages waiting for her anyway so she decided that she might as well check them.
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Skill created:
- Mana liquifying
- You are able to combine intent and mana, creating essentially what is liquid mana. This spell will help you in doing so and reduce the training time that is needed for improvements.
System note: Your skill mana manipulation has received a major enhancement due to the integration of the skill mana liquifying.
- Mana manipulation
- You are able to control mana and the correlating force of intent. By combining the two of them the creation of liquid mana is possible for you. This skill will improve your ability in this and reduce the training time needed to implement and learn improvements.
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That skills could be essentially integrated into each other was already known to Argul, the system doing this on itself and notifying you about the change was new however. It looked like Alyra was still improving and working on the way it operated.
Argul closed the two screens mentally and made place for more of them.
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Skill created:
- Enchanting:
- Utilizing liquid mana you are able to create spells attached to objects that can be used by other people. This skill will help improve your ability and save enchantments you did at least once in a mental library. Note that only the best version of an enchantment will be kept and iterations which are worse will be discarded.
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That skill was extremely useful. Always being able to do enchantments was a gamechanger and would make enchanting a lot easier, at least for humans. Argul was able to remember pretty much everything since she became a mana core flawlessly, so the saving function wasn't of that much use to her.
Speaking of memory, this should have been the 22nd skill she had ever created which meant she was likely close to another milestone of the skill creator achievement. Seeing how achievements were her main method of getting stats lately, she should keep track of them.
Argul looked at the other two screens that were left.
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Achievement title made:
- Pioneer enchantress
- You are a pioneer of enchanting and even more, you are the creator of the entire field of science. Due to this feat the system will show your name in the item description and you are able to permanently name your creations. Only the best of craftspeople get this privilege in the system of Lotusriver.
- All stats +10
- Skill: artifact creation
- Artifact creation
- For every Artifact you create you get +5 to all stats. Artifacts are special creations and are chosen after characteristics such as historical value, overwhelming power compared to the standard of the time and other similar characteristics. Creations can attain the status of artifact any time if they are considered as such in common knowledge. Artifacts are valued by the system, making mana shield them from the wear of time and try to maintain them.
- Artifacts created: 1
- Lamp pole of light
For major contributions to the universe and system you get rewarded with +5 to all stats.
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Argul could only sigh in defeat. The skill and achievement were incredible, but why was it that her first ever artifact had to be the Lamp pole of light and why did it need to have that name!
Well, she did name it, but that didn’t mean she was aware of the consequences at that time!
This was totally embarrassing and it was an embarrassment that would be maintained by mana for eternity as long as nothing forcefully destroyed it. Couldn't her first times be less awkward or was that too much to ask for?
She clicked her tongue in annoyance. Argul knew just too well that she would accept it for the stats alone and that just because of this someone would come to her in a thousand years to present her the first enchantment she had ever done with a smug smile of victory.
She closed the screens and opened her status to check the changes.
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Status
Name: Argul Agren
Race: Mana core
Age: 7 months
Level: 10
Structural integrity: 100%
Mana: 203.14/267.80
Mana generation: 2.73/min
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Stats
Str: 100
Int: 100
Wis: 102
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Active skills
core special
mana manipulation
magic missile
identify (4)
water magic
emergency portal
fate contract
cleaning
increase heat (solid)
space manipulation
light magic
earth magic
enchanting
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Passive skills
domain skills
learning (3)
sense skills
mental fortitude
curse of harmlessness (s)
aspect clothes
magic gunning
- neutral magic sniper bullet
hidden might
Stat growth boost (1)
currently:
- Str +2
- Int +2
- Wis +4
artifact creation
- Artifacts: 1 (all +5)
- Lamp pole of light
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Floor 1
Template: Luna (moon), surface
Size (radius): 1010 km
Area/ Volume: 7.2 M km²
Floor 8
Template: Erod, Mountain ranges
Size (radius): 1090 km
Area/ Volume: 8.4 M km²
Floor 9
Template: Erod, rainforest
Size (radius): 1100 km
Area/ Volume: 8.6 M km²
Floor 10
Template: Erod, deep forest
Size (radius): 1110 km
Area/ Volume: 8.7 M km²
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Argul looked surprised at the area of her floors. She had gotten 21 stat points for intelligenz and it had doubled the possible surface area of her small planets. Hopefully that change wasn't noticeable inside of her domain.
She took a quick peek and watched the activities of the mana AI. The thing tried to be careful and hide the growth of the planet behind tectonic activities. There were a few small earthquakes in some places, but it wasn't something that wouldn't happen on a natural planet.
Looking at the planets from the edge of the domain made things quite obvious however. On the sixth floor for example, it looked like some of the islands were moving away from each other at a fast pace while new ones appeared in some of the new space. The planet was honestly mostly blue and without her knowledge domain Argul wouldn't be able to tell the location of the archipelagos.
She was quite interested to see the reaction of sapients to this once they lived there. Imagine borders of kingdoms being laid out only for the land to grow and completely change to how it was. It actually made living inside her domain quite difficult, but that wasn't her problem to worry about. Ideally the mana AI would add area to regions that weren't inhabited. This way infrastructure wouldn't get completely destroyed because of her.
Thinking about it she actually added that instruction to the behavior of the AI. There was no need to be unnecessarily rude.
Argul changed into her avatar again and noticed that Aina had hopped onto the bed. She smiled and petted the slime gently. Aina responded by making that cute popping sound and began massaging the blanket. It was a very enticing offer for Argul. "Give me a second and then you can do that if you want."
She took off her shirt and laid down on her belly before she opened the clip of her bra. Then she helped Aina to get on her back. Argul wouldn't say no to a massage by the slime and it would take some time for Luna to make dinner so she might as well enjoy Aina's ability.
A minute later the content purring of the pioneer enchantress sounded out and it continued for some time.
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An impressive achievement but... Damn... 60 attribute points in one go... Most people probably don't have that many as a whole!
Yaay slime massages. Why can't they be real?!
Even if the AI tries to avoid destroying infrastructure, it'll still be noticed, and damage roads and large buildings. The planet's radius increasing means that structures that are flush against the earth will feel the pressure, as the ground beneath them becomes more "flat", when the structures were built to a ground with more curvature. Will become more noticeable as stone and metal structures are laid out across long distances, like roads and pipes. Buildings will slowly accumulate stress on their foundation, and regular maintenance will be a thing.
21 stat points for intelligenz
I don’t think I need to state what’s wrong wrong with this.
a platypus....
perry the platypus!
Mana generation: 2.68/min
Shouldn't this be 2.77/min if this is 1% per 1 wis?
Mana: 203.14/267.80
And this at 271.83 at 1% per 1 int.
e^(0.01wis) & 100e^(0.01int)
the mana is right you have to take one stat point away as they just represent what had been there from the beginning without improvement. messed up the regen though, thanks for pointing it out.
@Otjag still is 269.12 in that case
e^(0.01(wis-1)) & 100e^(0.01(int-1))
But thnx for the chap anyways
@AbyssalArray why e though, am I missing something?
It was a starting 100 and increases per 1% per additional int so 100*1.01^(int-1)=100*1.01^99=267.80
@Otjag it's Euler's number, which is the base rate of growth, and it can accurately show you a exponential growth rate. But I guess your method works in this case.
@AbyssalArray yeah, well I know the number actually, but kinda forgot the use of it so thanks for the refresher. It kind of gets more accurate the more stats you have if you use your method, can that be?