World Seed

Author’s Corner: Curse you sleep, for making me unable to write until late!

After confirming that the message was sent to everyone, I began looking for other important news. What I found made me quite angry. It turns out, every home in the world now had at least one Seed in it, more for larger families. There was no explanation about where they came from, they were just suddenly installed in the room when nobody was looking.

I spent three month’s worth of money to get that damn Seed, and now I find out everyone gets it for free?! What was the point of the preorders then? I grumbled under my breath as I continued reading the news. There weren’t any reports of monsters appearing yet, but I was sure that was only a matter of time. Naturally, my first priority was to protect my house from monsters spawning in, and I had just one way of doing it(at least, it should work).

Gathering my mana, I attuned myself to the Void Affinity, and began gathering my mana to begin the process of refining a Seed of Void. Since magic doesn’t function properly within a void field, there was a fairly good chance that monsters would not spawn normally inside of one. Unfortunately, there was hardly any void mana in Earth’s atmosphere, so I had to rely entirely on what I could personally produce. This made the first seed take a full eight hours to be completed, after which I began working on a field energy spell with runes.

It wasn’t uncommon for area effect spells to be included in enchantments, so naturally I knew about the runes to do this. And after seeing that large runic circle that had summoned me from another world, I had an idea on how to do this. Simply writing the runes isn’t enough, I also need to power them with mana to activate them.

In my room, I walked over to one of the wooden walls and activated my Plant Manipulation, engraving the pattern of runes in a circular formation. When I had seen Jacobs drawing a circle with his staff, it made me think that he was doing so to contain the energy from the enchantment. However, I didn’t want the energy contained for this, so I excluded an outer circle.

The instructions I wrote into the runes were quite simple, they would take energy from the air, pull it in, and then match that energy to the strongest mana type already inside the formation. With that done, in the absence of a restraining circle the energy should naturally dissipate into the air in its new form. As the final touch, I made a small socket at the center of the runic spell, and placed the Seed of Void inside, essentially guaranteeing that the strongest mana type would be void mana.

Thanks to my Void Manipulation power, I could suppress the effects around myself, letting the mana return to its natural state. Otherwise, I was worried that breathing would become quite a problem if there wasn’t any wind mana. However, this was still the safest method of protecting my house.