Awakening Chronicles

Chapter 7

Total creation points available: 1000

Please select your capital planet.

I turned my head to the planes of glass and took in the sight of the planets dancing around the star. "Helios, which planet do you think would make a good capital?" He padded behind me and stood next to me.

"I'd recommend the third one in. It would allow for a rapid distribution of resources in case of an invasion and force an attacking administrator to fight on both planets before hitting your capital." I could hear the confidence starting to return to his voice as he spoke. I nodded my head while gazing into the depths of space.

"Umm Helios, how am I going to select it?" I asked him as I started at the faraway outline of the middle planet. He snapped his fingers, and a new screen appeared before me. This one showed a three dimensional model of the four worlds and the star. I clicked the one in the middle, and a new screen appeared.

What would you like to name the planet?

I let out a dreamy sigh as I quickly racked through another list of names in my head. I thought about all the potential names before settling on the name of a planet, I wrote about growing up. "Ouradia," I quickly typed the name in, and the screen faded out, and Helios started to talk once more.

"Now, before we start creating life, would you like to customize the planetary system?" Helios deep voice tore me from my thoughts as I turned to look at him.

"What do you mean customize the planetary system? How would I even do that?"

He let out an annoyed huff at my questions, "Think about bringing up the creative menu." I closed my eyes and envisioned a creative screen appearing, and upon opening my eyes, I saw a new menu. On this particular screen was a list of different options for customizing at different layers. The first significant layer was customization at the level of planetary system.

Planetary System Customization

Planetary Merger

Orbital Realignment

Star transfusion

Shatter

Drag

Pause

Mold

All Seeing Eye

*Note* All manual options cost creation mana. Any functions done automatically require Creation Points.

"Helios, what is creation, mana?" I asked him as I took stock of the screen and all the differing options.

"Creation mana is the game type variant of the fundamental forces that compose the universe." He told me as he sat against the wall and let out a yawn.

"Can you dumb down that explanation, please. You have to remember I'm new to all this." He rolled his eyes at me and explained it again.

"Administrators get access to different systems, as you already know. The game variant administrators get the forces that comprise the universe condensed into a single force which we call Creation Mana." I nodded my head in understanding and felt a small twinge of embarrassment course through me at my stupidity.

"Where can I access the bar that shows it." He yawned again and stretched as he started talking.

"Just tell the system to turn your HUD on. It should show everything, my lord." I mentally told the system to activate, and four bars appeared on the lower left-hand side of my vision. One was red signifying health, the other was green showing my current stamina, and under that was my current mana, which glowed a faint blue. The final was a radiant yellow that was currently full.