I grinned and nodded. That's right! For the Unlimited Growth skill, I had used a little trick to save some [EC]. I thought—what if an animal could grow like a plant, but without ever stopping?
And the final result was… perfect!
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Skill: Unlimited Plant Growth
Explanation: Like a plant, the being requires water and sunlight. The warmer the environment and the more water and sunlight it receives, the faster it grows. It has no natural growth limit, so if it survives long enough, it can grow to a size where even the world itself cannot contain this… plant?
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Age: 0 years, 8 months, 1 week, 1 day, 1 hour
EC: 1500/1500
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I shook my head. "Time passes too fast!" The counter for my own age ticked away like a clock—marking the days since the birth of Schildegard.
A cold shiver ran down my spine when I thought about how long it had taken me to finish the second floors foundation.
Even though [EC] regenerated fully in about two days—and with mana generation on the second floor, it would refill even faster—it still wasn't enough.
That might sound quick, but [EC] was drained far more quickly than it was replenished.
"Haaa…" I sighed, staring at the planet in front of me as I continued my work on one of the three continents—the Black Desert.
This project, much like the Giant Turtle project, was one of my favorites. I felt a restless excitement in my chest, urging me to finish quickly.
Again and again, I had to force myself to calm down, to cultivate patience—the patience I'd learned over twenty years of waiting in silence, relying on others to help me.
Over the last week, I had been laying the foundations by creating ocean currents—so costly that I had needed several refills just to finish.
I designed four major currents and one central one that connected everything together.
The Superficiales and Profundus currents ran through the northern and southern hemispheres of the planet—which I had also equipped with a magnetic field, forming two poles.
With the planetary core, the ocean currents, and the magnetic field working together in symbiosis, I could now shape an equator and design climate zones exactly as I wished.
And now, finally, I had finished everything! I rubbed my hands together, licked my lips, and raised my arms into the air.
[Requirements achieved]
[Climate Zone Control is now available]
I raised my eyebrows and read the glowing message in front of me. My lips curled into a grin as I checked the floor creation overview—where a new icon had appeared.
When I clicked it, the whole planet spread out before me like a map, a thin glowing line marking the equator in the center.
"Looks like I can redirect winds, add weather phenomena, and make zone-specific changes!"
The possibilities made my heart throb. It was even more powerful than carefully placing currents—endless possibilities!
"But first… let's build!" I laughed into the silent room. Flying closer, I shaped the continent's edges, which at this stage looked like nothing more than a smooth stone plate.
I carved the edges rough and jagged, adventurous and wild, then gradually smoothed the interior. The continent itself was larger than all of Earth's landmasses combined—easily the size of sixty Earths' continents.
Two-thirds in, I raised a shallow mountain ridge full of caves, but never more than 4 kilometers in height. I scattered smaller formations randomly across the vast expanse, until it looked rugged but natural. In the center, I left behind a deep, yawning pit.
Rubbing my hands, I laughed with a hint of hysteria. Just imagining what I would put in the middle made me tremble with excitement.
"That's going to be huge! But first—let's add some canyons, ravines, and more!"
If I hadn't been in ghost form, my teeth would have sparkled in the cold light.
I didn't open the material configuration. Instead, I opened the Catastrophe Menu.
The plan was to shape it all naturally! The mountains I had already placed would change, yes—but that was part of the vision.
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Chronoseismic Quakes
Description: Quakes that ripple violently through space, time, and the physical ground simultaneously. Ravines, canyons, and other phenomena appear. Time itself accelerates in some places, creating unique and possibly never-before-seen landscapes.
Cost: 50 [EC]
Cost (one-time use): 5 [EC]
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"Nice!" I exclaimed, and without a second thought, I triggered it a hundred times across random areas—avoiding only the center and a 500km radius around it.
The results varied—sometimes weaker, sometimes stronger than described—but I suspected that was due to the influence of Zeitraumium.
Now, deep cuts and shallow scars ran across the stone plate, leaving it far rougher than before.
"But… I'll check on that later. First…" My hands rubbed together again as I turned my gaze to the center. "I'm going to build the big one!"
My laugh carried a nervous edge, but my eyes glittered with determination. This would be the centerpiece of the land.
"He will be the evil god… and the bringer of life at the same time."
My heart pounded like I was stepping into the octagon for the first time. My fingers tingled, ready to create—and so I began.
The pit deepened until it nearly touched the magma layer. Around its edges, I raised stone walls higher and higher—thousands of kilometers into the sky and spreading outward. The ground shook, masses of rock shifting, appearing, and vanishing at my command.
Heat shimmered from below, distorting the air into watery waves. The colossal mountain that rose from the depths looked more like an idol than a volcano—an evil god carved from the earth itself.
From afar, it loomed like a titan, its jagged ridges forming the crooked limbs of a slumbering giant. The crater yawned like a mouth, belching black smoke that twisted into the shape of a dreadful breath—hunched, watching, waiting.
If my hands could sweat, they would have. I poured every shred of focus into this creation. But as my [EC] plummeted, I knew patience was my only option.
"Again…" I whispered, shaking my head as I turned to the next step on my list—the magma chamber and the core I planned to place within it.
"Too bad it looks kind of expensive for what it does…" I shrugged, confident it would pay off in the long run.
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Nightheart of the Deadly Volcano
Magma Chamber: Vast and nearly infinite in depth, directly connected to the planet's core. It pulses in rhythm with it, like a living organ—as though the volcano itself has a heartbeat.
Byproducts:
• Obsidian ChronAsh
• Ammonia Vapors
• Rare volcanic materials, gemstones, and more
Vulcan Storm: When it erupts, a never-before-seen storm of space and time forms within the ash clouds. Lightning warped by reality itself annihilates everything caught near it.
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Cost: 1000 [EC]
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