Chapter 293 - Small world (part 1)

Back at the tower, it took me a long while to ditch the idea of trying to get back to the city right away. With only one day passing since I unleashed the toddler-zombie rain on its streets, it was sure to be filled with experts trying to contain the plague, making it nigh impossible for me to roam it without a care in the world.

Even if my chaos mage path made me far stronger than I was before, I wasn't confident in using it to protect myself, not to speak about all the problems connected to using the teleportation.

With that out of my mind, I looked forward to visiting the nearby islands in hopes of finding some resources that I could transform into a new set of equipment that would allow me to utilize my new path, but that road was blocked by the problem of crossing the sea.

The first place I visited in this world was completely landlocked, hence the information I had about the aquatic life was insanely limited, but I still knew enough to be wary of the water.

Just like in any different environment, the seas developed their life and flora in a completely different way than land. Without powerful cultivators from the human race, it was impossible to curb the population of local beasts, making it way harder to venture into these areas just like that.

I could only guess how strong one would have to be to have enough wits to travel through the oceans, but sadly, even if my assumption was far too favourable for me to be true, I was still nowhere strong enough to attempt it!

With the beast that came out of the sea being already far stronger than me, the fact that I had to escape too using my rage and entropy at once showed how difficult it would be for me to fight them fair and square, not to speak about challenging them in their natural environment! At this point, I could only wonder about how strong would that beast be if it was in the water instead of the land!

Since all my options to move around were currently too dangerous to use them, I decided to stick to this island for as long as I could find anything to busy my mind with. When enough time will pass, I knew I had to come back to the arena city, but it would be far better to do so when I'm prepared, instead of rushing there in the spur of a moment when the lonely reality of my current situation dawned on me!

As the problem of deciphering my possibilities as chaos mage could only be cracked down by wasting away loads of time with complete focus on researching this topic, I decided to fully use up all the points that the stronghold could currently accommodate. I would also lie if I would say I wasn't curious how much did killing this insane, aquatic beast increase the limit of the tower's energy!

Immersing my consciousness into the stronghold edition tool, I nodded with a content smile when I saw the proper growth of the limit. I even started to wonder whether the parasitic core required some time to digest all the energy from the corpses of all the beasts I killed because I couldn't believe that I could more than triple the limit by killing just this one beast, no matter how strong it was!

The first thing I did upon bathing in the countless opportunities brought by this insane limit, was increasing the number of floors above the ground to twelve of them.

There was no deeper meaning behind this number. It was only the problem that when I tried to increase it, even more, the cost of every floor jumped from two points to a damn twenty!

Since I have yet to use up the space of the floors I just created, there was no point in wasting my points away only for the sake of making the tower look more badass. It wasn't like there was anyone who could even appreciate how cool it was on this island!

While making the floors was an easy part of the process, finding a way to use them was what caused me some troubles.

Blacksmith site? Sure thing. Alchemy floor? Why not? Trinketer stand? Will do! Cooking floor? Kinda useless with barely any beasts on the island, but heck, why not?

But even with all those four applicancies… I still had eight, completely empty floors!

Even if I used two of them as a recreation area and private chamber, two more for training area and storage… I was still left with four entire floors that I had no use for at all!

Filling the spots from the highest floor, I made sure that my sleeping chamber would be at the very top of the tower, with the recreation space below and the rest of floors mixed in under a random order.

Taking into account the need to use the second floor as a transportation node to and fro from the hibernation chamber and the core room, I was left with first, third and fourth floors without any use.

Scrolling through all the possible appliances, I found a lot of interesting things like spellcrafting array or library, but most of them either required additional tools or items or were simply too costly for me to afford!

That's why when I stumbled upon something called 'Small World', I couldn't help but look through its description. It was a rare occasion to find something that wasn't self-explanatory!

A subspace that expands a single floor into a separate dimension suitable for settling?

A place which size depends on the number of its inhabitants?

A land where the crops can be grown and animals pastured?

For something like this, even the steep price of five hundred coins wasn't too big!

Looking further into the description, I found that I could buy even more expensive version, that would make use of the energy from the core to boost the growth of medicinal herbs planted in it?

With that, I could cast away all my worried about the lack of medicinal herbs that I could use to play around and level up my future alchemy skill!