Chapter 8: Little exploration
And there went all my hopes, all these months, despite the training to discover my abilities, I have not progressed at all, according to Sarasvi, a god knows immediately what his abilities are, but I have had no revelation, and my quick ability to process information I had when I was a mortal, so it does not count, maybe this has to do with the fact that I am an anomaly.
I wonder what else I can do, although I like the prairie, I won't sleep or live outside. I decided to channel my energy once again, I wanted to create a house, or rather a castle. I've always liked castles, in my life as Zandor, I've always wanted to live in a castle, surrounded by wealth, with thousands of servants to attend to my needs. Maybe the wealth and servants thing won't work, but Sarasvi has noticed that I'm trying to use my powers to create something.
[You know, I shouldn't use energy so much. Remember, you just created your domain, and now you want to create something else]?
"Don't worry Sarasvi, I just want to build a castle like it's the universe."
[okay, but you should take my advice into consideration].
"Yes, yes. Less talk and more action.
First, I want it to be more of a mansion than a castle, because only I will live there, and well, Sarasvi too, but she doesn't even take up any space, just because of that weird tattoo that appeared after Orion gave her to me. With a strong wind from nowhere and a bright light, an imposing wall with battlements and an imposing central tower was created from nowhere, guarding my future home inside. as far as I can see, the wall is made of quartz blocks, perfectly chiseled, carrying runic inscriptions, giving them a faint purple glow.
"But I didn't imagine a wall..."
[he thought I would just sit idly by while he created his home, well mind you, no, these walls with the inscriptions are a gift, they serve to strengthen the defenses in case of a possible attack in the future].
"wow, how generous of you "miss books""
[My name is Sarasvi, given to me by you, why do you call me "Miss Books"?]
"it was a joke. Well, never mind, let's go inside now, even though I don't need to sleep, I feel too tired."
[That's from using your powers too much. You're still an infant as far as divinity is concerned].
"Yeah, yeah. I don't want an "I warned you", better go inside, okay?"
Though I would have liked to carefully appreciate the infrastructure of the mansion, I felt too tired to do so, so I entered through the main doors and found a living room arranged with various furniture, but I wasn't very interested in them at the moment. I went down the central hallway towards one of the rooms on the second floor, I opened the door and found a double bed padded, there was other furniture but as I said I was tired. lying down on the bed I closed my eyes and fell asleep immediately.
"Wake me up in a little while Sarasvi, okay?"
[yes sir]
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[Sir?, I think you slept enough already]
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[SIR, IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP!!!]
"AHH, WHAT? What happened Sarasvi, I told you to wake me up after a while..."
[Sir slept for almost a week]
"What? But it felt like 5 minutes, why didn't you wake me earlier? "
[I tried to wake him up, but he didn't react to any stimulus, finally I got fed up and decided to release a faint sound pulse into his sound receptors]
"So you were screaming in my ears?"
[in simple words, yes].
"Do you have any idea why I slept so much?"
[The main reason was an overload in his powers, but I sense it was more due to a possible aftermath of the anomaly he caused in his domain].
"Hmm, I'll keep that in mind, did anything new happen while I was away?"
[No sir, if anything that in that time, I decided to use my sensors to explore the building to check the things I think. due to you leaving me here, alone and without any mission].
"Hehehe, sorry about that, um anyway, now that I feel more refreshed, why don't we take a walk around the mansion, since I still don't know what you opened?
[Sounds like an excellent idea, sir]
Leaving the room where I slept for a week, the first thing I notice is that the material the walls are made of seems to be cedar along with limestone, giving a finish similar to that of a castle. Moving along the corridor, there are a decent amount of paintings I had never seen before, depicting imposing battles as well as mystical beings, one caught my attention, it looked like a deer, but of albino color, without fur, with severe malnutrition, its limbs were stretched, it had no eyes, and its antlers looked like branches of dead trees, giving a finish in a forest of giant trees withered by winter.
[I didn't know you knew about Zarcalods, I thought there were none in your world].
"No, I've never seen them before, what are they?"
[They are beings created by a god, as he once said, he wanted to create a being capable of giving a first impression that it was prey, to later change that thought and discover the alpha predator of the extinct giant forests. I wanted them to be proof of the twisted side of nature, so they have no souls, they only move based on reflexes and instincts].
Hmm, that left a bad taste in my mouth. As I continue my walk, I notice that there seems to be an extensive amount of rooms, and when I decide to enter one, the first thing I see is that it is completely empty. Well, what did I expect, I only did the superficial, I did not add things like furniture in each of the rooms, in fact, I do not remember having imagined it that way, anyway, continuing, I find another exit that leads to what seems to be an inner garden, in which there is a huge amount of flowers, along with some trees that give a nice shade.
Returning to the place where I entered the villa, I can appreciate more clearly that the living room is decorated with more modern armchairs than the decoration itself, giving a slight contrast in terms of old and new, in the middle of the wall there is a fireplace with a blue fire burning, curious, this also I did not imagine adding it in my order. Walking out the front door, I can see that the exterior of the mansion is composed of natural stone to give it a fortress-like appearance. With large entrance gates adorned with wrought iron as an example of the craftsmanship that went into the mansion, even though it was built from scratch.
"Well, this is it, isn't it?"
[something is still missing my lord]
"And what would that be?"
[the room where your universe will be]
"What?"