I am a Soul.

  My Soul was a normal Human once until I was summoned and afterwards I was discarded. They made me fight their enemies and then discarded me.

  After I was discarded I traveled through a space of pure Insanity made real until I was drawn into a rift which closed afterwards. Now I am in a kind of pocket space with all the Miasma they threw away with me like I was a garbage bag.

  Luckily it is not all so bleak, as I can somehow control the Miasma with my thoughts. Right now I have made some experiments and found out something interesting.

  Taking Miasma and splitting it in different categories it can be used like spells. For example if I take the Miasma that is ‘hot’ I can make a place with extreme heat like a miasmic Fireball. The same can be done with ‘cold’.

  Now the really fun part: If I grind both areas against each other they fight to the death! Each annihilates the other Miasma and out comes: MANA!

  So Miasma was Mana all along. This would explain why there was so much and what this Pollution of the World really was. It was their own doing with all the high magic used for almost everything.

  Now to the best part. Mana is also under my control but way easier to handle. It can be made into anything I want. If Miasma is Sand I make a Sandcastle out of, the Mana is Putty I can form in all kinds of ways without breaking down or deforming.

  Now to the demerits: Mana has not the aggressiveness of Miasma and does their Magic at their own pace, Miasma is powerful but can go out of control, if I do not concentrate on it.

  Luckily I can mix both and make a stable but strong spell If needed but this corrupts Mana back into Miasma over time, so better grind more Mana for later use.

  Now to the one thing I still do not understand. What is that pinhole here with me?

  I can move it but what is it for? Using Mana I try to bore into it but it is rather resistant.

  Miasma is even more ‘volatile’ rejected so I have to work with pure Mana for now. injecting it with Mana I can feel… something on the other side. taking what I felt back I find… More Miasma, yay…

  Wait, this Miasma is different. It feels like it has completely different laws or whatever. I can not describe it fully as it feels foreign, but with a bit of effort I can make it controllable under my will.

  …

  While prodding for more Miasma of the other kind I found some interesting aspects. First the Miasma is not Miasma I know. It has different Rules but is close to similar to my Miasma. It is hard to explain but the Rules of Magic have different nuances that work only similar but not the same. Imagining one workes with gears and the other with belts. They do the same but do so in different ways. My Mana can emulate the way it works but not perfectly. More work for later.

  Grinding it into Mana itself makes a new Mana which does not mix with my Mana. Luckily I can just use my Grindstones for making Mana and it works even more efficiently than with the Foreign Miasma.

  Now that I have new Mana I try to exit with it and there is no resistance whatsoever. I can go out with it and even get more Miasma in bulk with that.

  …

  Grinding Miasma into Mana and using it to go in and out I finally have enough to do more than just pull something in. I can now slightly feel the ‘outside’.

  The first thing I noticed was something more than just Miasma around. Pulling it into my Space… Ugh! I just call it my Domain, It feels better and is more accurate as I seem to be the Ruler of everything in here.

  So back to the topic: I pulled something into my space to notice it is ‘air’. There is no gasses or anything other than Miasma in my Domain so I was first shocked and thought how could I breathe when I came to my senses and realized I am an Idiot, as I do not even have Lungs to begin with.

  Filling my place with some air I was gratefully working on what I could do with it. The first thing was ‘taking over’ the air and being able to move it with my mind. Afterwards I just pushed it back out to notice it was blown away and leaving my grasp when I did not pay attention. This gave me another new insight as my Rule over it was not gone, just the air itself. I have taken over Space!

  New Definition: Presence - Space I took over and am able to ‘feel’.

  I could stretch the space and form it into a tendril but the easiest form it could handle was being around my pinprick hole on the other side.

  …Did I imagine things or is the hole bigger than I remembered it? Question for later.

  For now I take Air in, convert it to my side and let it go back out to increase my domain. Hopefully I can find more things in the future. To be honest I have nothing else to do right now, so I can work on taking over some other World right now, as I do not want to be stuck in some kind of place with nothing but Miasma.

  More and more Space outside is under my control and after a long while I found something new. Ground! Earth or whatever it is was being felt. Taking it in was at first a bit complicated but after I understood how to use Mana I could hover more and more into my Domain. Some crystals in this sand with other Minerals, I never paid attention in Chemistry class so I would like to kick my former self, a slacker of a Student, in the Butt for being so disinterested.

  The next thing I need to do is see what I can do with it.

  …

  Heating and freezing it can make it have different states. At least this is like I know it, so the outside is not that different hopefully. Now the question is what to do with it.

  I can not even understand what it really is that I am making but I think it is Obsidian? Making Lava and letting it cool might be some kind of Obsidian, right? For Now I should be more careful with the Outside world and try something.

  The Mana I have already taken over is slowly used to heat the ground and liquefy it, then I pull it into a spherical shape around my hole to secure it a bit better. If something destroys it, I might be cut off this plane forever and I would have a hard time finding a new hole if there might even be one.

  Carefully telekinetically making an obsidian shell around my hole… that sounds dirty, I just call it Portal.

  New Definition: Portal - My hole between my Pocket Dimension and wherever that is where I exited.

  So back to the work at Hand… um… Tendril. I carefully create a shell around my Portal to make it more secure. Better be safe than sorry. I leave some holes to pull more earth and air into, but otherwise it will be an eggshell for me for now.

  …

  The Portal is growing. The more I convert the Miasma and make it to Mana the more it grows. It is just a slight growth but it grows.

  Sitting inside the Shell I can perceive the Outside quite well with my Presence, but somewhat unclear. Well I can neither hear nor see, just ‘feel’ and even that is rather vague. So I work on different ways to make the world visible for me.

  Many experiments came to a failure, but a specific kind of Miasma seems to notice differences in the area as they react differently inside my shell and outside. It perceives something so more Tests are in order.

  At the same time I make an obsidian sphere in my Realm…

  New Definition: Realm - My Pocket Dimension.

  Ahem… So an obsidian sphere was made because I want to test something. I take this sphere and let it go… It hovers there, so maybe there is no gravity or I am free falling at terminal velocity… Nah, then lighter things like air would drop slower… Wait, we are in a Vacuum, so would they fall at the same speed? No, there must be a ‘ground’ to be there for the possibility of ‘falling’ without gravity well… WHATEVER!

  So I am hovering or falling at light speed, where I tend to believe the former way easier, so I chose that as fact. Now I need to see how far I can perceive so I throw the sphere with my will.

  …Why does the sphere come from the other side back at me?

  This place is a loop. A fake endless space, that just loops in on itself, in every direction. So the ‘falling at light speed’ was stupid to begin with. Maybe I just had tested this out before.

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  Next experiment needs much more Sand for me to create an obsidian pole.

  …

  Okay the pole is made and it is reaaaaally long. From one end to the other I would say about a hundred Meter? I don't even know what a meter is right now. Maybe I am just as big as an Ant or my presence is half a continent, whatever it is I need to work harder to find real measurements.

  At least the stick is made. It is really thin and brittle, but that is of no concern as I just wanted to see how far apart the two sides are and what I found out is… it is growing.

  Slowly but it does. Both ends of the stick are slowly drifting apart, the space is expanding.

  Am I a baby universe? Where is my big bang? Wait, I do not want to explode, better be careful with my wishes.

  …

  I can SEE! Well not quite, but I have found the Miasma I was testing being light sensitive. Suddenly it did not work outside anymore and with more tests I found out it was night. Then the next day I have created a lens that perceives light and darkness by forming Miasma in a special way. The way I ‘see’ is hard to understand until now, so I need to acclimate myself to it.

  With more focal points in my new ‘sight’ I can finally perceive my existence and the area I am living and… well nothing worth mentioning. To be fully honest it is rather bleak. A wasteland surrounded by pointy Mountains.

  Is this a Crater? Did I do that? Nah, I am just a pinhole in the fabric of space… Wait, I do not know how devastating a puncture in space can be, maybe…? Nah, I did NOT do a nuclear holocaust just because of a miniscule rift in space. Also there is no glass desert, the floor is fine dirt.

  What worries me more is not what I see but what I feel. This Miasma is strangely homogenous. It not only has patterns but seems to be made with purpose. The second thing is what is over my Portal. Over my portal is Miasma being slowly concentrated. By the look of it, this could be the beginning of a new Rift. Remembering that frightful thing in the Void I believe this is a second attempt to make an entry. When will it be finished? Dunno, but with how slow it concentrates I would say ‘time’ is of no concern for whatever it creates. Maybe a Decade, maybe a Century? What I know is I want to be GONE before the new Portal lets something in that could reduce Sanity by just looking at it, so how can I remove me from being right at ground zero?

  …

  So, good news, bad news and better news. Good news is my Presence is expanding rather well. The sphere I can perceive as my own Presence works nice and has even entered the ground I am hovering above.

  Bad news, something deep below is rejecting my Presence. It feels like something pushing against it like a kind of counter presence, so I know where the cause of the new Rift is… I at least think it is that, maybe it is a third party and awake some sleeping giant if I stay…

  Now to the better news: I can MOVE!

  It is rather weird but the Portal is not fixed. It can not fall or has some kind of inertia but can be dragged by me pulling on the ground via Mana tendril. With this ability I can finally say goodbye to this place and escape! …very slowly…

  Now I have another dilemma, where to? Everywhere are Mountains and nothing looks different.

  …

  I found something curious. This is a total wasteland and I thought nothing exists here but there IS something new. A Leaf!

  Well to say it is a leaf would be an insult to leafs, but it was a leaf once. Dried up and looking dead it has been ravaged by the Miasma it seems, but as this is the first thing I found I can say whatever created the Portal has also used up much of the Miasma around, so maybe things can grow now in here.

  I found out the Miasma is a complex mesh out of different alignments of Elemental spells in a way that would just grind anything to death so no wonder only fine dirt and no life is here, but now with less of that toxic stuff Life can come back.

  And this leaf is proof this place has life to begin with! I decided to move in the direction where the Leaf came from. It might be South or North if the Sun works similar than my own World and the former I was banished from. If East and West is the same I might be on the southern Hemisphere, but I am not sure, as the Sun might rise on this Planet on the West. For now I believe my Idea and see me in the southern Hemisphere and this means I crawl South.

  But first the Leaf into my own Domain! … and it passed through my Portal without being sent to my Domain. What the FU…!

  …

  So while crawling I experimented a bit. Big things can not go through the Portal like that. The Portal must accept it and then it can pass through. How does it accept something? Easy, it has to fit. Sounds simple but it is not. If there is an overlay before it can exit on the other side the Portal just lets it through like it isn’t even there.

  Probing I found if I pull the stem through it appears on the other side and becomes corporeal with borders for the leaf. I would need to roll the leaf into a cylinder to bring it through but can’t without destroying it. Totally dry and brittle. So I tried something else: If the Object can’t fit through the hole, can the hole made fit the Object? The answer is: It’s complicated.

  I can change the shape of the Portal, but the size is hard to extend. It can only be stretched to a limit before not going further. This corresponds with the Volume of the hole itself. Luckily it grew bit by bit over time and with mental agony I could make it fit the leaf for now.

  I dread how hard it would be to stretch enough to get a twig inside. Might be impossible until my Portal grows big enough… wow, it still sounds dirty.

  Well I have the Leaf now stored mostly intact, so I can look into what it can tell me about Flora, maybe there is still something I can find out.

  Right now I am stretching my Mana Tendril out, fixating it on the floor and dragging the Portal with me into the direction I christened ‘South’.

  I must look like some kind of Snail. Oh, and my Speed is that of a Snail too! If I work hard I might be out of here in a Year or two. Ugh!

  …

  I am an Idiot! First I drag myself like some Snail instead of using TWO tendrils to increase the speed! I hate myself for not realizing it earlier! And I can let the Portal be on the FLOOR! It can pull in at least more of the dirt for me to convert! Why did I hold it over my Tendril like a real Snail! Do I have a Brain like a Snail too?! …Wait, I do not have a brain, how do I even think? Ugh! This all is so confusing to me! So much I have to learn…

  At least my Speed has become incredibly fast. How fast? About walking casually. For the time before this is blazingly fast. Also I have found out I can create tasks in my Realm. If I command the Grindstones out of Miasma to work without end they will not stop even if I work on something outside like breathing was for me a long time ago. The Realm inside is like a kind of body of mine. I have command about everything and it works on instinct, which makes it very convenient for the takeover and grinding of Mana. Also the Sand is still accumulating. Let me see what I can do with it. Maybe I can use it for something neat?

  …

  Let me say the Leaf I have is around ten centimeters in length from stem to the tip, then my Domain outside is now… About a Meter in Radius. So two meters in diameter? I grow slowly but steadily. The wider my realm gets the easier and faster it is to move.

  Right now it is night and while I do not need sleep I need light to see further, so I go full conversion mode while looking at the stars and Moons.

  Two Moons to be exact. One white and one Red. The smaller one is red and I do not know which one is further apart. Maybe If they overlap I can see it, but right now I have no Idea. This World should be rather foreign for me, as my own World had only one Moon, but the World that bastard of a God and that Kingdom doing the summoning had dragged me into had also two Moons. A larger bluish white one with a red smaller one. The red one was the more close one and was called the devil’s eye by the Kingdom.

  I wonder what the Moons on this Planet are called? Maybe there are not even intelligent creatures here and they have no Name? This would make it harder, as I need to find a way to hop Worlds. I want to go back. Back to the rotten World and give my ‘thanks’ for their hospitality. They will suffer like I did, especially the God I will not Name and the whole Kingdom!

  Better not speak their Names, as Names have power by how I learned from them. If I tell their Names I might warn them before I have the chance to retaliate.

  So much to do, but I will find a way back. They toyed with me in so many ways and I fell for it, especially by those female… well I will make sure they know their lies made them a rather dangerous enemy.

  I have no Body, no way back and a slightly damaged Soul, but they will not escape, I can build back up as long as I am alive, and with these new Powers I will make my comeback.

  …

  Those Mountains are really far away. I crawl the second day and right now I am around halfway there. By the way I am an Idiot again. I have Miasma and one of the more easy spells are LIGHT! I can just create wisps to illuminate my way, why did I just stare at the Stars for hours on end?!

  No matter. With how I move right now, I should be there tomorrow morning. Also my radius is now one and a half meters. I am growing fast! Maybe I can take over the whole world! Muahaha! …Just kidding, wrong world to take over anyways.

  While crawling I noticed something I need to remind me more often. Boring tasks do not get boring at all. I have no feeling of tiredness or lack of entertainment. If I am not careful I might start a work loop and forget the time until it is a decade later, that would be bad as I want to be back as soon as possible to make them regret their betrayal.

  …At least my animosity is still there, so maybe I still have my Emotions? Hard to tell as I am right now something I could not even really describe.

  On the way I found more leaves and found out I was sadly mistaken. This Place is still hostile to any kind of Life it seems. Not one has any kind of life in them. Not only do they not have life they are as brittle as the first one. The first one must have had a lucky or unlucky gust of Wind dragging it close to the center.

  Yes, the Place I was seems to be the center. The more I learn to use my new vision the better I can perceive distances. As my obsidian eggshell is right where I started there is a high likelihood of the center being my spawn place. Then whatever made this Crater might be the thing creating these rifts and whatever is below the surface deep down might be the thing pulling the strings or better pulling the Miasma behind it all.

  What lovecraftian Nightmare can just create rifts to other dimensions while being buried deep below? Better get out of here quick. This is not my problem so better travel to the other side of the Planet.

  …

  Spikey! I do not know how to describe those Mountains better. These walls are fully plastered with obsidian blades. After breaking one of them with some kinetic Miasma placed like an air cannon I pulled it in. Those shards are not only sharp on a molecular level they are filled with this poisonous Miasma like a deadly trap to keep anything living from entering this place. Those things are definitely artificial by some kind. This is the most brutal ‘keep out’ sign I have ever seen. For me it is no problem. What do they want to cut? My Miasma? A hole? There is nothing to rip and tear, rather I can break more of them from the wall and take in. The Miasma stacked inside is rather intriguing. It has an extremely concentrated form of the Miasma all around.

  So this Miasma not only can be in the air, but also infused in things. Maybe I can infuse Miasma in things too? Worth a try later on. For now my travel went from going horizontal to vertical. Luckily my Portal has neither innertia nor weight, so it just needs to be pulled up. The most pretty death spikes get collected while I am at it.