Chapter forty three: world expansion
As the insects lit up, white light spread through the area until everything shone. The flower field itself was dyed in white.
Even if it may look like, Caelum wasn't the redefining those insects. Infact that was impossible because, anything born from his earlier creations was beyond the reach of direct redefinition. These insects weren't his original creation; they were the offspring of his creations.
"To expand this ecosystem," his mind raced, "I'll have to make the flowers' raw energy usable for everyone here."
He continuously made strokes, his mind was running ahead of his hand.
What he was doing was simple. On every insect's body, he created countless tiny microbes, so small they could barely be seen.
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With each of Caelum's strokes of the quill, the deepest part of the Sersikar Forest was quick filled with a pale, misty light.
From the insects feeding on the flowers to the small birds that hunted them, every living body shimmered faintly white.
He had defined into into existence a new type of microbes, those tiny things manifested right on the insects and birds themselves.
"This should do for now," after a few more strokes, he lowered the quill.
Caelum took a look around. The forest breathed with a dim glow, and he found himself smiling.
"These microbes will multiply and grow on the birds and insects, and when they near the end of their lives, the microbes will drain what energy remains inside them."
He walked through the field of flowers lost in thought, "Once that's done, the microbes will burst apart, spreading the energy outwards."
Countless of those microbes glowed faintly, already sucking out energy from dying insects and birds.
"These microbes will turn the energy they take into a pure form of energy, capable of being utilized by any living creature."
Caelum felt his plan was flawless as he walked across the vast field of flowers, a flower filed that had spread wide over the passing thousand years.
He nodded to himself. ""Since I defined the microbes to convert energy into a pure form usable by all living beings, it's only a matter of time before stronger creatures begin to appear."
Caelum's idea sounded complicated on the surface, but it wasn't. He had envisioned a new microbe, defining it into existence. A microbe that would absorb the energy inside insects and birds, then burst at the end of its life, releasing that refined energy into the air.
Once this refined energy mixed deeply with the atmosphere and living creatures began breathing it in, those beings would experience a qualitative change in their physical forms. Their bodies will grow stronger, faster, and far beyond the ordinary..
This was Caelum's way to expand on the micro ecosystem and take the first real step toward the supernatural.
"Well then, that's that. I still have plenty of willpower left, so I might as well perfect a few things."
After walking for a while, Caelum got tired of staring at the endless stretch of flowers. So, With a single thought, he lifted off the ground and rose above the forest canopy.
Flatter… swoosh…
A gust of wind tore through the area, so strong that a few branches snapped and leaves scattered everywhere. But even through that violent wind, Caelum kept flying, gliding across the sky while scanning the land below without any problems.
"Even after a thousand years, this place still feels empty," he couldn't help but sigh.
By now, he had already flown a full circle around Dharti. In fact, dharti wasn't that big yet, at least not for someone who could move through the air with ease.
"When I first defined Dharti, I defined it as an exact copy of Earth. Every condition, every element was defined to be a perfectly mirrored. That's why I expected that, given enough time, every kind animal, plant, and everything that ever existed on Earth. All of it would eventually appear here too."
He sighed again. "But… ugh, I can't wait that long."
Even though it will take thousands of years to happen naturally, that timeframe is according to Dharti's subjective time, only a few months would pass by in the real world. But still, Caelum didn't want to wait even a few months in the outside world, for things to develop naturally.
"Yeah… let's do this," he made up his mind and landed smoothly on the ground.
He took a quick look around the area, then nodded. "Since I've already decided to push my willpower to the limit every time for a breakthrough, I might as well fill Dharti with vibrancy on my own."
From that day forward, Caelum poured all his focus into recreating the plants and animals of Earth inside Dharti.
He started with what he remembered first. Creatures lime elephants, wolves, fish, or anything that came to mind appeared on dharti, manifesting through the quill until his willpower ran dry.
When he couldn't think of more, he began studying. Researching about every unknown bird, every kind of plant, every insect he had never heard of. Then brought them into Dharti one by one.
As countless new creatures began to fill up Dharti, a problem surfaced. There just wasn't enough space.
When the world only had a single human city, a few animals, and lions as the top predators, the size of Dharti had been fine. But now, with wolves, tigers, and countless other beasts roaming its lands, it was beginning to feel cramped.
Caelum realized he couldn't keep adding life without balance. So, he stopped his rapid creation spree and focused on world expansion.
Instead of relying on the world stabilizer to passively grow the land on its own, he started doing it actively. He poured his willpower in waves, forcing the borders of Dharti to stretch wider, the mountains to rise higher, and the oceans to deepen. Caelum even created new laws and implemented them through the world stabilizer, perfecting the world further.
This type of routine became his new life. Creating and expanding, resting and repeating. Whenever his willpower ran dry, he will return to the outside world, eat enough to regain strength, sleep for a few hours, and dive right back in.
With Caelum lost in the cycle of building his world, two more months passed by like that.
The two months that had gone by was in accordance to the outside world. But within Dharti, two thousand years had already passed.
Dharti's flow of time didn't touch caelum at all; he stood apart from its rules, watching an entire age pass in the blink of an eye.
Because of his direct intervention, the world had grown far faster than it would have under the world stabilizer's passive expansion. The land now stretched across roughly three hundred and fifty-seven thousand square kilometers, about the size of Germany.
Ofcourse It wasn't a full-sized world yet, but it was more than enough for the countless lives within it
And life, of course, rapidly adapted.
The humans had spread far from their first city. Many villages had turned into towns, then into small cities scattered across plains and valleys.
The era of the small and curious Estelle was long gone, her name was now remembered in carvings and stories told around fires.
After her father's death, she had taken the role of chief ruler, guiding her people with the same fearless will that once made her run toward lions. Under her lead, humans made tools of iron, built stronger homes, and stepped firmly into a new age.
After Estelle's passing, her descendants carried on her will. They ruled wisely, built stronger cities, and guided humanity toward what looked like an endless rise.
That peace lasted a few years, until the beasts of the Sersikar Forest began to mutated.
Ofcourse It wasn't without reason, The mutation was the result of caelum's arrangments.
Over centuries, the pure energy released by the microbes within the great flower fields had spread outward, mixing into the air and soil. The Birds, insects, and beasts that breathed it in for a long time began to change.
At first, the change was subtle. The animals grew faster, lived longer. But soon Their instincts became sharper, their hides became tougher, and Some even developed the ability to heal minor injuries and recover their stamina instantly.
The forest that once stood as a boundary between man and wilderness became far more dangerous.
When those beasts began to mutate beyond their limits, they pushed out of Sersikar, attacking nearby villages and, at times, even reaching the smaller towns.
Humanity, once at ease under Estelle's legacy, now faced the rise of creatures that no weapon of iron could easily stop.
Even humanity's strongest weapon, the golden-eyed bloodline, could no longer defend as easily against certain beasts.
The only reason that hunters like Rev'dalto and the others had once managed to take down an entire group of lions with just two people was not because they were overwhelmingly powerful; it was because of their golden eyes, a gift that allowed them to perceive movement and reaction at a far faster rate than ordinary humans.
But now, with the beasts that had mutated, that advantage had begun to fade. These creatures had grown unnaturally fast, capable of recovering their stamina and even healing minor wounds within moments. Against such foes, humanity found itself struggling.
Of course, humans weren't entirely helpless. Their intelligence gave them an edge; they could craft traps, devise strategies, and exploit terrain.
Yet, despite their efforts, the threat of the mutated beasts refused to disappear.
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At the edge of a small mountain village, seven warriors stood in formation, holding sharp swords, their eyes were fixed on two massive wolves
The night before, the beasts had torn through the village, leaving more than ten people dead before vanishing into the woods. Now, at dawn, the warriors sent from the nearby town had arrived to end them.
These warriors were, of course, from the golden-eye bloodline.
In the current age, the golden-eye lineage had grown so large that many of its members were no longer considered part of the main ruling family. Even so, their status remained above ordinary citizens. And even diluted, that gift of sight made them the strongest defense the common folk had.
"If it were just one, we could have killed it ourselves," one of the warriors said, keeping a close eye on the wolves' movements.
"True, but there's no need to fear. It's not like we came unprepared," another one replied calmly.
Just as those words left his mouth, the two wolves leapt forward. Their movements were so fast that they became nothing but blurs, far too quick for normal eyes to follow.