Chapter 32: Land of Beasts
I honestly hadn’t had any particular plans for what kind of species to make in Downside back when I divided the world in two. It was only after I’d seen some of...
2025-10-15 22:06:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31: Guardians of the End
t was time to move to the other half of my world, and finally deal with intelligence there.
I glanced at my Reality Points and frowned.
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2025-10-14 17:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30: Upside Down
I stared at the notification for a long while.
The elves and dwarves went about their business… building, shaping, and spreading their civilizations… while I...
2025-10-13 22:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostThese are just simple AI-generated images that my beta reader created. Not really planning on using these long-term, but I did promise special perks here, and the images came out surprisingly close...
2025-10-12 18:58:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29: The People of Stone
So, my first species was ready… or rather, my first species that used my new system. The dragons didn’t really count. They weren’t there to provide energ...
2025-10-12 17:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28: Splintering
I now had a good start for the species.
After a few hours of thought and running some simple simulations, I took a step back and did a little more work before fi...
2025-10-11 14:06:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27: The First People
I set the pencil down and slid the notebook away.
I wasn’t sure exactly how long I’d been working, but I knew I’d slept for at least eight hours sever...
2025-10-10 16:12:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26: Foundation Classes
Orpheus stared at me like I’d just grown two heads.
Actually… maybe that wasn’t a good comparison. For all I knew, Orpheus in her real form did<...
2025-10-09 23:07:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25: The Fine Print
“– give your inhabitants any access to your interface!” Orpheus finished, sounding alarmed.
I double-checked that I had turned the mutation rate back do...
2025-10-09 23:04:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24: The Great Game
Vistaka flexed her wings, lazily working some of the soreness out of them.
Her recent ascension to Elder had left her far more powerful, but her infrequent fl...
2025-10-09 22:07:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23: The Children of the Moon
Orpheus flew around in a slow circle, but clapped her hands together.
“Be aware that shortly after your first intelligent species, you will likely...
2025-10-08 17:33:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22: Finished Prototype
The first thing I did was look for any creatures that had monster cores. I wanted to see how the monsters were faring, and whether they’d taken over the world...
2025-10-07 20:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21: The Diversity of Life
I was almost ready.
Now that the new changes had been installed, I knew I had a lot more work ahead of me later… but for now, I could leave things be...
2025-10-06 16:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20: Don't Worry, I Have A System
These small mistakes were getting annoying. I really wanted to take a break and let the universe run by itself for a while. But first, I had to make s...
2025-10-05 16:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19: The Origin of Species
Once again, with the time dilation sped up, I could watch months pass in just a few minutes. Not that this world had a conception of months yet… but who kn...
2025-10-04 16:12:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: The Grand Experiment
I crossed one more thing off my to‑do list with the creation of disease and infection. I wasn't proud of it, but I knew a life without that sort of pressure...
2025-10-03 22:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostVolume I Epilogue
Byron folded his hands together and looked at Turner as the door closed, leaving him alone with only Turner and Nikandros in the room.
Turner glanced at the butler, th...
2025-10-03 04:37:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17: The Second Horseman
A lot of what I had just done wasn’t all that expensive, since I wasn’t directly manipulating things currently in the world. Sure, there had been several t...
2025-10-02 22:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16: Node Network
Now that I had the various essences of Mana to work with, I had to see if they would properly fit into the conception of the world. Fortunately, I had kept <...
2025-10-02 03:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15: The Essence of Elements
I went ahead and placed the new animals and plants.
Now that I’d actually done it, I found myself wondering about some of the assumptions I’d mad...
2025-10-02 03:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14: Core Concept
I was very pleased, because the moment I named my new organ, Orpheus was actually curious.
“I have only limited understanding of your old world,” she said. ...
2025-10-02 03:02:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13: High Fiber
After another few hours of browsing menus and prototyping ideas, I finally settled on something for the plants.
Putting restrictions on living things wasn’t tha...
2025-10-02 03:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12: Cohesion
The 1:10 ratio gave me time.
If I’d been a scientist trying to resolve everything, even with that dilation, the work likely would’ve taken so l...
2025-10-02 02:59:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11: Mistakes Were Made
I pulled up the interface that showed me the world and zoomed out as much as I could.
It thankfully allowed for options like cutaway views and region over...
2025-10-02 02:58:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10: Emerald Blanket
FIRST EPOCH
You have started the flow of time in a new universe. The First Epoch has begun.
SECOND EPOCH
Your universe has become host to a stabl...
2025-10-02 02:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9: Tea Time
I took a deep breath. Functionally, I knew I didn’t have to, but for some reason it still felt calming.
Briefly, I wondered how far this modeling of my personality...
2025-10-02 01:47:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8: Night and Day
The first thing I had to do, of course, was add some atmosphere.
This was a lot easier than I expected. I could simply select it from a list and determine the d...
2025-10-02 01:47:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7: Landscaping
The interface could sometimes be overwhelming, but I was starting to get how it was customized to me. To make a cylinder, I just set the parameters – wall thickness, ...
2025-10-02 01:46:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6: A Whole New World
I flipped back to the Matter and Energy tab.
I couldn’t help but speak aloud to Orpheus behind me… after all, what was the point of having a great idea ...
2025-10-01 23:44:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5: A Magical Place
I considered the updated interface. Making my Sanctuary more comfortable seemed like an easy choice, but as I thought about it, I realized I wasn’t really tired. ...
2025-10-01 21:35:06 +0000 UTC View Post