The Villain's Story

Alan held one of the rewards he had received from the tower in his hands, firmly grasping the small sphere. It was crystal unlike any other, appearing hollow at times and then with a myriad of colours. It was a strange object, like many of the tower's rewards.

"Now, let's see if this works on you..."

Alan muttered as he stared at the behemoth snake in the room, its body's true length unknown. The information of the crystal he remembered was quite peculiar, and the only reason he hadn't sacrificed it.

[Name: Enigmatic Crystal.]

[Rank: Dependant.]

[Usage: It is able to create a perfect copy of a creature.]

It was short, but it was best. Alan wished the copying effect would have extended to items as well, but alas, this was good enough.

The only problem he faced was that whether the snake in the throne room counted as a creature or not. It was a product of his own mana and did not have a sentient mind, to his knowledge. Furthermore, it was a creature present inside his domain only. So that was another issue.

But, he should try it, If it didn't work he would eventually have a use for it sooner or later. With that thought in his mind, Alan ordered the snake to come forward. The snake, with its large body, slithered and moved in the air, above the throne and put its head close to Alan.

"Here goes nothing."

Alan said, with wishful eyes, and put the item in front of the snake, and activated it with the help of his mana. The snake looked at the small ball with curiosity in its eyes. The ball, in response to Alan's mana turned to a fluid and flowed towards the snake, entering it through it's head. It was completely absorbed by it.

The fluid reappeared out of the snake's head a while later, and this time in a greater amount than when it entered.

Much, much greater.

The silver fluid which was enough to fill a pool began to take a shape, in the form of the very snake in front of Alan. The fluid was now like a molten metal, slowly taking shape and hardening.

The scales formed, then the eyes, then the jaw and the teeth. And soon, an exact copy of the snake in the room appeared, just as large.

Although the room was cramped, Alan was amazed. He quickly checked the snakes' information.

[Name: Jade Snake Beast King (Copy)]

The name was enough for him, he knew the other stats of the creature were based off his own. The stronger he got, the stronger these two would get as well.

"Nice."

Satisfied, he opened his inventory and got another item. This item was one he received together with the crystal. It was the [Enigmatic Crystal Amulet].

The amulets features were special and exclusive only to the creature created from the enigmatic crystal, it enhanced the abilities of the creature and made it 'superior' to the original. It was a pair to the crystal. The amulet was in the form of a small crystal sheet, in a circular shape. It was blank at first, but now it had the image of a snake on it. Alan suspected that it was because the crystal had been used.

He brought the crystal amulet close to the crystal snake, and it was absorbed into the creature. The snake, enlivened, let out a deafening roar that shook the throne room.

"You can roar?"

Alan was surprised that the snake had the ability to let out a roar, but he dismissed it. Satisfied that the two items had worked, he let the two snakes play with one another and sat on the throne.

The items he had sacrificed were useless to him, but not all the items from the tower were in his realm of understanding.

The crystal of shadow he obtained from defeating the shadow beast was given to Kazikato, but he had other things as well.

He opened his inventory and took them out.

[Spark Of Divinity.]

[Gáe Bolg(half).]

The description of the two items told him they were significant, and thus he didn't sacrifice them.

[Spark of Divinity.]

[Usage: The catalyst to become a deity.]

The description did not give the item a rank, unlike the other items, both on Earth and in the tower. He had even inspected the thing with [Dragon Eyes] and the description did not change.

He tried to use it as well, but all that would appear in front of him would be a small message.

[Insufficient ingredients to conduct the procedure.]

With all that, he left the item and let it sit in his inventory, not knowing what to do with it. The other item, Gáe Bolg, however, was interesting to him.

A spear that seemed as if it was crafted from the spine of a massive creature, its description was quite lengthy and contained the abilities of the spear.

Runes were present along the length of its body, which would light up when Alan let his mana course through the spear. However, he didn't feel any change occur within the spear. He guessed that it was because the spear was incomplete.

Because of its incomplete state, the Ame-No-Sakahoko was unable to devour the spear. Although the spear did express the desire to devour this thing, greatly, still.

"You express yourself when you want to eat something, and never talk to me, huh."

Alan addressed his spear, which was lying beside the throne, resting the large crystals behind it. He was frustrated that the spear, despite all his efforts, didn't talk to him at all, like it did with the original owner.

Perhaps he didn't 'meet' its requirements just yet. Alan was oblivious that the spear had done it once or twice.

However, he left the matter behind and opened the interface of the domain, the sacrifices had given him a lot of points to spend. Furthermore, he had also sacrificed the broken core of the tower that the altar showed great interest in.

After he had sacrificed it, he had apparently gained another option in the interface, which was quite literally named.

[Tower.]

He couldn't see inside the category until he actually purchased it, it cost him quite a lot of points, but he did it, considering he had a lot more in store. After he had purchased it, a singular option appeared.

[First floor.]

It cost points as well, and Alan bought it, out of curiosity, the option for the second floor appeared after that, but he didn't buy it.

"Hmm..."

He didn't know it yet, but a large tower made of crystal had erected in the south side of the city, the soldiers stared at it with a curious look in their eyes, and the beasts paid no attention to it, putting sleep above the strange tower.

Maxwell, who was also outside, saw it too, and gasped.

"What the fuck...?"

He muttered, as he gave up trying to make sense of this domain and went back into his room. Meanwhile, in the throne room, Alan was tinkering with other things. He first made an additional 5 knights and forcefully grew baby snakes into adult snakes, so they would become suitable mounts for the knights, he also made three more barracks, for the spearmen, archers, and swordsman.

He wanted to create mages as well, but he had to buy the building known as the Library first, he did it and could finally purchase mages.

The library erected itself in the city as well, And this time Maxwell was right on top of the empty space it would be constructed on.

It began to erupt from the ground, and Maxwell screamed in fright.

"What the fuck?!" He fell on his ass on the roof, and rolled down and hit his head on the solid crystal ground.

"..."

He groaned in pain, Alan in the meantime was disheartened to see he could only produce mages who could only use ice magic, the options for chaos and astral magic were also present.

It seemed the mages he could produce were related to his elements... And besides points, it took a bit of elemental mana to form them as well.

He created 15 ice mages, and saw that their rank was B- each, and they could also grow. Maxwell was almost crushed to death underneath the mages. They were like the knights, possessing more snake-like features and wore robes that concealed their upper bodies, the robes had small crystals embedded in them and were cyan.

Alan spent quite a while analyzing the information of the mages, and found that they were also restricted to the number of spells he could use, and also the rank. They could use all the spells he knew, but only according to their own rank, not above. However, if they joined together, they could cast higher level spells.

Maxwell walked towards the castle in the meantime, and entered his room where he had made his little sanctuary. He knew Alan was the one responsible for the changes but didn't blame him, and blamed his bad luck for being at that place at that specific time.

Alan, in the throne room, decided to buy an alchemy lab and a blacksmithing room inside the palace. 'Coincidentally' the blacksmithing room was the exact room Maxwell had made his sanctuary.

"Hmm?"

As he was humming a tune, he saw his table disappear and be replaced with anvils, he saw a forge appear right underneath him.

"Woah!"

He jumped, avoiding the structure and rushed to leave the room, which was being transported, A hammer appeared on the walls and maxwell collided with it, it fell on his foot and he screamed.

"WHAT THE FUCK!"