Now let’s speed up mining and figure out what ore is blocking me! As I neared the excavation sites I started feeling a small headache. That got me thinking that whatever is blocking me is either capable of thought or has magical/mental interference capabilities.
By stuffing the nearest “ore” with my mana the thing didn’t seem fazed at any point also since my power allows me to manipulate ANY form of life. I had a confirmation that this thing isn’t alive and either creates passive interference in mana/mental energy.
Whoa, whoa hold the fucken horse, what do you mean by mental energy? Well, since my modern mind couldn’t process that I'm an entirely different being I sorta made up the mental energy as equivalent of stamina for fleshy beings. Why?
Simple I run some experiments and it turns out as I expand my mana reserves I can longer stay awake. Previously I blacked out after the simplest things but now I just made two species and I’m okay.
Next I picked some miners and ordered them to mine some chunks of normal stone. It took them about half an hour but when I allowed them to go back, they significantly slowed down. From that I could guess that the ore is blocking mana inside bodies of dungeon helpers and since I didn’t make specialized miners I should limit their intake of any mana and make them have instinctive teamwork that won’t be stopped by interference.
I got about ten miners gathered near my core and I began working on them. Firstly, I nearly killed them by expelling most of the mana inside them, next thing I made their frames smaller but sturdier and muscles thicker.
Secondly, I made some small canisters out of chitin and placed them throughout their bodies, then I connected those to the respiratory system that was modified to pressurize the gas into these canisters. Allowing them to work in quite hostile environments.
Third, I added an empty layer between muscles and carapace that will later be filled with mana and temperature insulated liquid which will help with stopping the ore interference and allow miners to work near a high heat environment.
Fourth, I made a change to their genome, they won’t grow past a certain point but their structure will improve slightly throughout their entire life. The small changes to their stomach so that they could strengthen themselves with various metals aren’t worth mentioning.
Fifth, the cardiovascular system was reworked with a bigger heart and an additional one placed in the middle of the thorax. The veins were slightly bigger, their blood had a very high content of iron and other materials that were common in plants and did a pretty good job at transporting oxygen.
The last change was in their stages of growth, mainly every stage was made longer to make sure none of them will have any mana inside or will ever need to consume one. Great, now onto their me..
Hmm, Okay let’s cheese this! I pick 1 when my worshippers are fighting against everything other than themselves, I pick 2 when the war has ended or when my worshippers are starving, I pick 3 when my worshipper has a suitable class for it and wants to craft!
My Ideal worshipper will be Calm, Patient, Curious and will be a Hard Worker and a Workaholic in times of peace or when not directly fighting. When fighting directly against everything other than my other worshippers, it will be Calm, Patient, Unstable, Evil, Hard worker, Lazy and Workaholic!
