《Creating a world can't be that difficult, right?》Chapter 8
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After a few hours of chatting with his friends, Axel came back home. It was already late afternoon, and there was little natural light outside.
Thanks to his friend’s help, he was able to create the add-on that they suggested to him, so his world was safe right now. That thought gave him inner peace as he knew that he didn’t need to hurry the least.
When he got home, he found that his parents weren’t at home, so he grabbed some of the leftovers from lunch and went to his room. He turned on his computer as he bit into a piece of pizza and began to browse the guild’s website. In a few minutes, he was on the market’s website, so he began to look at what he could find.
Dragons, robots, magic, and spaceships. Add-ons and subs for anything that you could imagine were being sold on the market. There were even multiple add-ons to create cat-girls of different kinds, but for some reason, those were extremely expensive.
After a while of looking at what he could find, he decided to use the tool that his friends had told him about. He clicked on a button that said, "find your ideal add-ons," and a test popped up on his screen where he was asked about his world and the functions of his actual add-ons.
The test took approximately ten minutes, and after he finished, a button to create an account appeared, saying that he couldn’t see the results of the test if he didn’t register on the guild’s website.
"Why the hell didn’t you ask me to register before that test? Wouldn’t that be more logical? ", Axel said to himself.
In a few minutes, he registered on the website with his ID so the website could check if he had multiple accounts. After he finished his registration, a few suggestions appeared on the screen.
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"Okay, so this website says I should get an add-on that lets me interact with my world in a more directed way, something that helps my cultivators to become stronger and something that lets them meet with a world so little developed like this… Well, let's see what I can find that fulfills those criteria", Axel thought.
After some searching, he discovered several affordable add-ons that could work with his world.
First of all, he found one that created an IA called "heavenly will" that he could control manually or let work autonomously. Some of the functions of that add-on were the creation of heavenly tribulations to punish those who didn’t follow his will or to test them when they were in the middle of a breakthrough, the possibility of sending messages to specific creatures of the world or creating a voice that everyone could hear and that would be recognized as the voice of heaven so he could give orders or advice to the people of that world. It could also create mental notifications that alert the owner of the world that he should check something inside his world or that something has happened.
Also, it was the kind of add-on that his friends told him that was easy to fuse with the one that he had created to stop time, so it wouldn’t occupy another space in the core of the world, and he would have another one for anything that he wanted.
After that add-on, he found one sub that created an underground world made of gigantic caves that expanded themselves little by little, something that would make the connection between the three islands easier because that way they wouldn’t need to cross the sea to reach each one. This one was different from the others as it modified the core rune of the world to change the landmass.
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"But this sub will work better once you get a spherical world… Wait, what? ", Axel said while reading the description of that sub.
He instantly opened another tab in his browser and began to search for information about that topic.
"Oh, so every world starts flat, and after you increase your rank, you can make it spherical", Axel said while summarizing the information that he had just read. "So, the flat world is cheaper to rank up and expand on the surface, but the spherical world generates more energy. I will keep that in mind."
In the end, he began to search for something that could help his humans be more powerful, and after some research, he decided to buy a sub that added dantians to the human body. After comparing some subs, he decided to go with one that added one dantian in the middle of the abdomen, so cultivators would be able to absorb energy easily with it.
After they learned how to use their dantian, they would be able to use that energy to strengthen their bodies, their minds, or the dantians themselves, obtaining various kinds of empowerment.
He thought that with that add-on and those subs, his world should be able to progress without too many problems, so he added them to his shopping cart and fill in the necessary information to buy them. But when he was about to click on the buy button, he stopped.
"What am I going to tell my parents?", he thought.
For some reason that he didn’t know, his parents didn’t like the world builders and had shown their dislike towards them since shortly after everything began. He didn’t know why this was like this, but he preferred to avoid problems, so he texted Adam and William to ask if he could write down one of their addresses so the package wouldn’t come to his house. After William confirmed that he didn’t have any problems, he wrote his address and clicked on the buy button as he said goodbye to his savings.
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