The First Legendary Beast Master

Chapter 1145: Slightly Less Tiny World

Unaware of the scale of the wedding being planned, and confident in his companions to come to a decision that would make Dana happy, Karl focused on improving the selection of goods in the Alliance store.

They had an organizational system now. One of the Lala bunnies and two of the Dragonkin Runecrafters were on sales duty at the Alliance house, while Karl moved between houses as needed, but mostly worked in the Drodh house, while Sapphire worked in the basement of the Zilaz Alliance House with the others and her two grandchildren.

Some of them were getting eager to find out when Remi would be able to help them advance, but she was busy with the others, planning the wedding, so Karl had no idea when she would be able to make more potions.

The reagents were growing well, though.

But today was a big day for both Karl and Remi, though Remi hadn’t realized it yet. Today was the day that the hippies were coming to decide if Karl’s Tiny World was a suitable spot to live, or if they should move somewhere else.

They would be the last of the additional crafters that were needed to keep everything running when the beasts were busy, but there was one last step that Karl needed to finish before they arrived.

The Tiny World had been made at Overlord Rank, and he hadn’t expanded it, nor had he added the powers of the Fundamental Rules of the universe to the space. At least some level of Fundamental Rules would be needed to properly grow Totem Ranked resources, and Karl intended to focus on adding Mana Manipulation to the space.

There currently wasn’t anyone in it, which was perfect for his needs.

After finishing a whole batch of warrior focused skill damage and attack speed increasing accessories, Karl moved himself into the Tiny World and closed the entrance so that nothing would unbalance the area as he worked.

The first thing he needed to do was improve the area of the Tiny World.

It was already massive for their purposes, but compared to what he knew it could be, it felt lacking.

With a thought, the world began to reshape, and Karl focused on all of the myriad ways that mana could be altered or manipulated to create, destroy, and even simulate life.

The last was the most complex of them all, but the basis of the Tiny World was mana manipulation, and the Illusionary Domain that Opal used was a pure expression of the Fundamental Rule.

Taken to extremes, Karl knew that he could improve even Opal’s prodigious skills with this ability. But for now, he was weaving it into the nature of the Tiny World as he carefully remade the spell without allowing it to collapse or damage any of the rare plants that they were growing.

That was possibly the most important part.

Some of the plants were literally irreplaceable, as the anomalies they had come from no longer existed. Unless Remi or the others had a viable copy in their spaces, these could very well be the last ones in existence.

The area covered by the Tiny World soared, and Karl found himself with an irresistible urge to transform.

[Avatar] shifted him into the image of a world dragon, and suddenly the manipulation of the Tiny World became effortless. The reshaping of nature was the greatest innate skill of the species, and even as an Avatar, Karl had no issues mimicking their creation skills.

{Skill Master 5 Activation} Golem Duplication ⇒ Golem Duplication 2

Karl smiled as he worked. That was what he expected. Mana Manipulation and illusion combined to create the Golems. So, the more he understood about the concept, the more easily he would be able to create more of them.

He wouldn’t be shocked if other skills advanced soon as well.

Karl sat with his eyes closed, using his other senses to let him know how the plants were doing as he mentally envisioned an expansion to the Tiny World.

Not just simple grasslands.

No, he expanded the mountain range at the edge of the space behind him, then added a village within the mountain, complete with everything that Dwarven Crafters could ask for.

He had practice with that, after all.

Then, he expanded the forests, including some taller, denser sections, which would be perpetually dark at the base, perfect for Rae and those with her sensibilities.

The swamp was expanded, the fields, Karl even added a few smaller lakes and a winding river to the space.

Through it all, he wove the Fundamental Rule of Mana Manipulation as he struggled to comprehend it. The Tiny World was becoming more realistic by the second, and the mana storage crystals he had created were pulsing not just with energy, but with something that almost felt like the Haint, just before it gained sentience.

So, that was Mana.

Karl had misunderstood at first, but now the lessons about the dark times and resurgences began to make more sense to him. Mana wasn’t alive, it was pure energy. But it had a pulse of its own, like a living thing.

To truly master manipulating mana, you didn’t master using massive amounts of it. You merged the pulse of the mana with your spells until the two were inseparable, and then you could bend reality to your will without using a skill at all.

You didn’t need to use Mana from your body, just shape what was around you and make it solid.

In a way, it was similar to what you did with illusions, but a basic illusion was a crude layer on top of the flow of mana. The purest of illusions were living, breathing constructs that nobody would recognize as an illusion at all.

Only the most adept would realize that they weren’t a living person.

Karl opened the Tiny World to draw in more mana to work with, as he had expanded the space too far for what he had available without depleting the beast spaces. Then he continued to remake the space into the perfect paradise for magical beasts and plants.

It was going to be glorious when he finished.

Perhaps he should build a city, so they could move more people in?

No, that could wait until he was a Myth, and he needed to go on longer trips than a day in the Dungeons for crafting materials.