-------------------------------------POV Marcus------------------------------------------

I enjoyed my first evening in this world by listening to the elves, trying to learn some words and grammar, but without any help i didn't have much success. Sure my skill mind speech let me understand everything in my range of influence, but i would really like to have some language skills in case i ever got back a kind of body.

Shortly i thought about disturbing Kalla or Galen but both were tired from working the whole day. Luckily i didn't feel any kind of exhaustion. So i directed my attension to increasing my range again. With the passive regeneration it was easy widening the outer edge. After half an hour i had 10 feet more and channeled my mana into the earth itself to create a kind of earthen wall around my citizen.

A wall of stone would be awesome but when i tried to create it, there was a notification.

You don't have the necessary materials for creating stone buildings.

That was a surprise. Where did the materials for the mana stones come from then?

I looked around a bit and then stumbled over my inventory. And there i saw something that made everything clear.

Inventory (max 32 cubic meters)

Crystal (for growing dungeon core)

300 gramm

Ok, that was a problem. Obviously i had used my own crystal mass for the growth of my body to create the mana stone. I want it back! NOW!

But the old geezer would rather sacrifize one of his hands than giving back the stone, of that i was sure. I had to regain it another way. Perhaps my citizen could find materials for me.

But now i had to create the wall with something other. And i had an idea for just that.

I absorbed a bit of dirt, then compressed it as hard as possible and positioned it back into place. The result wouldn't stand to a serious siege, i had to admit, but it was much better than just piling dirt up. Then i had another idea.

I asked around if anybody had something like vines that i could plant. After having questioned a third of the elves i got a little kid that had some seeds of vines. She even gave some of them to me and i could begin my next project.

I planted the vine seeds at different places in the ridge and then again used my magic. But this time i used fire and earth magic combined with my life magic to make the vines resistant to fire and harder to destroy with toos and weapons. To my delight it went exactly as i wanted but i got only a resistance again and not immunity At least it would be much harder to destroy the vines.

Now that i had all tools at hand for my project, i began to build my ridge with abandon. Some elven guards that walk around the place watched bewildered as i put compressed earth blocks onto each other and creating a moat at the same from the removed material. That was my project for the rest of the night and when the sun began to rise the next morning there was already a 5 feet high circular ridge with an opening in the west to the riverside.

Kalla and Galen took a look at my work and turned back to me.

„You worked hard tonight, i see. But wouldn't be stone better for a wall?“

„You are right, Kalla, but i can't create stone out of nothing. When i tried to with my creation skill, it said, that i hadn't the necessary materials. Actually i found out, that i created the mana stone Galen uses out of the material Tiria gave me for growing my body when i level up. I only have enough for one level up and then you guys have to find some for me if you want a bigger core. I can work with what i have right now, but in case of an attack i don't have big reserves to spend for any emergencies.“

Kalla and Galen showed signs of concern.

„Ok, first i want breakfast and then we can try to find a solution for that. We will have to send out scouts for gathering and finding harvesting spots. But everything after we have eaten.“

Just as she said it, a young boy came to her carrying a basket with freshly baked pita bread and some jam. Not a big choice here, but if you had to flee your home, you don't have much choice i think.

Then the boy came to me and offered me his mana without a care in the world. How nice. So well-mannered. I liked him. And he even had more than 600 mana to spare. They should train him as a mage when the time came.

„I will return to my ridge then and with the mana of all you guys, it should be minimum 8 feet high at the evening. I also want to strenghten it with some enchanted vines i created. That should give us an edge against any attackers, but i don't have an idea for the gate. I don't have wood here, that i could use. Perhaps some of you could bring wood back from the forest?“

I expected the elves to have murder in the eyes for suggesting to fell some trees, but Kalla and Galen only shruggered and sent a party of 30 men guarded by 10 archers back to the forest.

I will have wood, hoorray! New materials to build with. But until they came back, i had to make my ridge bigger and then let the vines grow. Checking my status i was pleased with my progress.

Name

Marcus

Race

City dungeon

Level

6

Mana

690/2100 1/h reg

60/minute from citizen

Int

11

Wis

11

Cha

11

Luck

10

Skills:

Earth

Newbie 7%

Water

Newbie 9%

Air

Newbie 0%

Fire

Newbie 10%

Life

Newbie 11%

Mind Speech

Adept 5%

Architecture

Beginner 1%

Range of influence

80 feet

Number of citizens

95 (providing 60 mana/minute)

The men that left for the woods, didn't seem to have strong mana regarding my reduced mana regeneration. Now back to building.

I had my work cut out for me now and the elves began to search the surroundings for food and went fishing in the river. Some of them brought back reed and clay from the river shore.

I thought about ways to use the new ressources during slaving away at the the defences. This will be a long and boring day. In my old simulation games it was so much easier! Reality sucks.