Currently I was playing the student of demon lord Leon alongside the assistance of Nox and Orion. Huh I guess I'll forever be the student of a demon lord.
Right now with the help of Leon, Nox and Orion. I began to understand the next piece of study I wanted to understand: spiritrons and natural energy.
Even Shizu stayed for the lesson, although she didn't get a lot of it because her brain didn't process as fast as mine did.
Also the lesson didn't go on for too long because Leon didn't have enough time…
…And he didn't want to do it. He told me the only reason he was helping me is because he was curious about what I was going to do with this knowledge.
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"Uncle Simon, what are you gonna do. Lord Leon said you might do something world changing." Shizu inquired with curiosity.
"Is that why you're here?" I asked with a knowing smile.
"Well lord Leon said I should stay by your side. Not to spy on you or anything!" Shizu was waving her hands frantically, "…He was very adamant about the fact that I could learn something from you."
"I doubt it, I work fast and alone. Not to mention my work process is something tailored to me while using my own unique skill. What you learn from me, you won't be able to apply and replicate in anyway."
"That's ok. It will still be cool to see."
" Ok then." I looked to Nyx and Amanises, " Are you two ok staying here while I return back to the lab, or you wanna come too?"
Amanises replied quickly for the both of them, "Hell no, we wanna see what you're gonna do too!" Nyx also showed signs of curiosity.
I just sighed and clapped my hands causing a portal to form.
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Shizu found herself in a forest clearing with a mansion-sized lab. The lab was covered by a giant barrier, she looked to her right and found a bunch of feral monsters trying desperately to break through the barrier, but it just kept repairing itself.
Simon and Nyx didn't seem to mind it, but Amanises rushed out of the barrier and towards the monster. She began ripping them apart, her body and shadow fighting them simultaneously. She seemed to viciously enjoying her meal.
"Welcome Shizu to my fortress of solitude."
"What's a fortress of solitude?" Shizu raised her eyebrow.
"It's nothing." I immediately waved off her inquiry. I began clearing out the area next to the lab for excavation.
"What are you doing?!" I looked behind me to the source of the voice. Treyni was looking at me as if I was some sort of chainsaw-wielding maniac… well I guess I was.
"I'm simply clearing out an area to support my next big project."
"May I know what this next project is?" Treyni huffed at me.
"No spoilers, but if it works out then you'll be getting some new friends." I left Treyni confused and Shizu bewildered by the new arrival.
" By the way, Shizu meet Treyni, she is a Dryad and the caretaker of this forest. Treyni, this is Shizu, I'm currently babysitting and teaching at the request of a friend." I said while chopping down a tree.
Shizu looked up to the mature women with awe, "Um hello miss Treyni." Shizu stammered over her words. Treyni smiled down at the little girl, " Don't worry, I won't do anything bad to you…" Treyni's expression turned blank, "…cause frankly if I did, Simon would make sure that didn't exist anymore."
"HUH!"
" Yeah, Simon is very protective of those under him. He has a very… fatherly aura." They both looked at the demolishinised. The warm aura between them was instantly shattered when they saw an entire ecosystem of trees and plant life cleared out and the area flattened, creating a suitable foundation for whatever hulking invention he was going to create.
" WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!!!" Treyni was pulling her hair out at my act of eco-terrorism.
Treyni was patting the already established foundation in a desperate attempt to find some remnant of plant life.
" This is just getting sad." I said to the disheveled Treyni while building the frame of the building I was making.
When Treyni finally came too from her depressed state. She found herself encased in a glass dome, "WHAT IS THIS!?"
"Can you please get out, I have to retrofit the inside of this place." I said annoyed to the distraught Treyni.
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I terraformed the inside into segmented semi-artificial sections that each represents different environments tailored to different elements.
"This better be worth it." Treyni grumbled in the corner of the room while Trya, Doris and Shizu were looking out of the observation deck, seeing all of the different environments. Nyx was currently helping me build a new machine.
Using the knowledge I got from Leon I retrofitted the mana reactor to absorb, multiply and release natural energy instead of magicules.
" It should be done." Everyone reacted to my voice and saw I held a slightly different sphere from the mana reactor.
" Um, Simon what is this?" Treyni popped up with wariness.
"This is a spirit reactor. It's like the mana reactor but for natural energy instead of magical energy."
The Dryads were stunned with my new invention, Trya asked what was all of their minds, "What do you intend to do with… this?"
"Well if you see down there at the dome. I'm basically going to create an artificial environment to breed and cultivate elementals. Basically the way it functions is that from the top, a natural lure will attract egoless lesser spirits, when they get close enough. They will be sucked into the the dome and hopefully be attracted to the environment that best suits their respective element. A spirit reactor will be put into every environment to cultivate them into medium spirits or maybe even greater spirits. I could even make dryads or golems"
Doris put her hand up, " Um I want to ask, what exactly are you going to do with the spirits?"
" I don't know, I just want to do this. You guys can do what you want with the spirits. Maybe you'll get more helpers to care for the forest, I did add a Dryad specific section."
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I had implemented the spirit reactors into each environment. That was a week ago and now I've come back with Shizu again, more specifically we are in the Dryad section… why.
Because only one week and there were already pixies being born that Treyni was playing with.
" You know Simon, you can create a veritable army of spiritual beings." Treyni joked but tensed up when she saw that I wasn't happy with her words, " Did- did I offend you?"
" Treyni, do I look like the type to create power, to start wars?" My cold voice visibly frightened the caretaker.
" Um I… I just." She stammered at her own words until she saw I was already gone.
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Amanises was laying around in the land spirit exhibit until she saw me teleport out of nowhere, my eyes were bloodshot and I looked like a feral animal.
Amanises immediately recognized the symptoms and began using Darkness to calm my emotions.
" Dad are you ok?"
" Sorry, I just had another episode."
" What happened?"
" Treyni… just triggered something in me and… I had to get away before I fully snapped."
" Dad, you should tell her, tell them. Treyni does care about you a lot."
" I know, that's the problem. There's enough people worried about me than should be."
" Just please do it. For all of our sake."
"…Fine." I got up and walked back to the Dryad exhibit.