Damien stood in front of the doubles of a massive towering building. The Magical automation must need a lot of space. Damien walked into the building and Damien was instantly scanned by a red light. The entire inside of the building was all white eerily so. The only thing inside of the room was a massive grey cube. As Damien walked towards looking around the room. He was startled by a sudden and loud female automated voice spoke.
"Scan complete. Welcome Sire to the Magical matter Automation Center. What would you like to be created for you today?" The robotic voice asked.
"Well, how about an explanation on how this cube thing worked."
"The object in front of you is a universal matter creator. No matter what the matter is so long as enough mana is input into the cube, the exact image of the object whether physical or mental, and so long as the object can fit inside of this room then the object can be created. Matter is the building blocks of the universe. The object origins is classified."
"So... like... anything?"
"Yes, anything so long as it is made of matter. Th things like currency of the planet the cube is limit is only 100 of any object per hour. The object is also limited to the size of this one room. Is the only limitation."
"So could I make another one of these blocks?"
"No but you can create a variation that provides a specific object at less the amount produced a day."
Damien has the object to create a fully self sufficient city. His city was an extension of his systems godly power. Damien was giddy inside like a young child. With Damien's mana core he had aether a more pure form of mana. With his staff he was not worried about creating anything. Damien had one image in mind to try before anything, and that's transportation that didn't rely on his own mana.
"So how do I use this cube?"
"Simply place your hand on the cube and the image in your mind of that object can be created. Warning, once the host confirms the object it WILL be created. If the host creates an organic sentient object and does not insert a personality then it will come out with a preset by the matter cube. Or if a an unstable chemical is created then the reaction will soon follow after the mixtures of then explosive reaction follow. Be warned."
With that Damien needed to be very careful with this object. It could easily bring about his ow. demise. This was the most godly object he's ever come across. He shouldn't be shocked with a system created by the gods but he was. Damien was limited to his own imagination.
Much more carefully Damien placed his hands on the grey cube and his fears were eased when a menu option rose. The options had option to upload presets. Damien thought of a picture of a foreign earth sports car. He created the option to have the vehicle hover up to 7 meters and the option to roll on wheels with the press of a button. He added a map function similar to GPS for his kingdom. Under the hood Damien made a slot to include mana stones to power the vehicle. Each stone would power each vehicle 3 months at a time before slowly power down. A new stone would then need to be place in its slot to power the vehicle once again. Once Damien was done with the details he selected confirmed. A few meters away a perfectly new sports cars sat there waiting on a driver. A smiling Damien would oblige. Be fore leaving Damien made this building restricted to himself and his DNA as a security feature. He could spend weeks in this room creating new objects to improve his population but, Damien wanted to explore the other two buildings first.
Before leaving Damien made a home cube that provides modern amenities like kitchen ware, toiletries, and any kind of meal and food the people could think of. He made them all into the shape of a 10'x15' shelf that opens and provide a listing to whatever the home needs. It would produce 10 cubes per hour of any object. Damien put massive restrictions on them. They would all only produce 2 vehicles. All objects would come with a manual before operating. After entering in some last second modifications, Damien finalized the results and The first cubes were activated. He had them transported outside of the building using the newly created lift system and storage space out side of the building. This was so that they could be carried away to the homes and business. He has his machine create 100 of the objects an hour and ship onto the automated production line.
Sitting in his sports car Damien wondered how he was going to drive out of building when the entrance transformed into a opening leading to the road. Damien pressed the gas pedal to the floor and sped out of the building. Damien ha super human reflexes so driving at top speed in a city was nothing to him. He had driven 230 mph in a few minutes to reach his next destination the cultivation chamber. Here was an Asian themed dojo with large fish in ponds and a stone walk way. Bamboo tress where everywhere in the massive courtyard. Damien entered the doors of the dojo and this time there were martial instructors practicing strange skills and hand to hand techniques. Damien seen energy coming from the instructors but he couldn't feel any of the energy.
Damien stepped into the room further he noticed the room expanding instantly. The room became a small sect palace.
"Hello honorable king. Do you come to study the Martial laws? The ways to true power begins from within. Then external prowess will be amplified. Do you want to begin the process of forming your Dantian?"
Damien was no fool to cultivation. He has heard of it in the past reading a few novels on it and in them it usually takes a long time to grow. Damien also knew that the skills from cultivation novels usually grew to have amazing skills and godlike physical and sensing abilities. Like sensing all life in a area just from feeling for them with the senses. Powerful curses and unstoppable weapon techniques. And best of all expanding the lifespan.
He was greeted by a very old man with a long greying beard, slanted eyes, bushy black and wore his hair in a pepper colored ponytail. His wore a all white and grey Gi underneath a robe Dark grey robe..
"Just enter and relax. 1st stage is just recognizing your soul energy and forming it in Dantian or spirit core. Then you will begin to flow them back through meridians and into your body, then through your accupoints at the late stages. That is the first 1 though 9 stages of the peak body stage. Next, is the mind stage that flows power into the mind chambers from 1-9. The soul stage is the most difficult with the most bottlenecks due to having to extensively understand you soul and form a weapons from it in the later of the 9 stages. Last is the step into immortality. That step is for a later discussion. Once the Dantian is unlocked then the martial lessons will commence. Once we have enough disciples we can be come a proper sect."
Damien thought why not and was directed to one of the many chambers in the room. Damien was definitely motivated to try after hearing the benefits. He noticed a mixture of all of various cultures of earth as he was escorted down the hall by one of the masters. Damien entered the dimly lit wide windowless room. It had Asian designs but Damien couldn't be sure. once he sat on the cushion in front of the small globe it activated.
'....scan complete. No soul power. Learning assimilation commences.' A thin green light shot out of the orb and into Damien's forehead. After 45 minutes, the knowledge to form a Dantian was in Damien's mind. He knew he had to sit and meditate. Damien began to focus on his breathing. His breath became rhythmic and in sync with his heart beat. Damien soon drifted off and his consciousness drifted inside of himself.
Damien wasn't sure what was happening but he was sure he couldn't see inside himself this well while he was building his mana core. He began to see small particles of yellow energy floating around inside of himself. Damien could see his mana core in a perfect sphere but now he could notice the particles floating around his purple sphere. Damien was admiring the beauty of it when he noticed. Something strange. A dim dark golden light deep within his subconscious. Once Damien took notice it began to slightly glow.
Thinking of this as his Dantian Damien began to will the light to him. The object wouldn't bulge for it location. So Damien tried harder and hard and still nothing. Damien spent the next countless hours pushing and pulling at his object. He wanted to have more power. Enough to travel worlds to get home. The power of cultivation could be dimensional so traveling worlds shouldn't be impossible at all. Damien was sure the same was possible with magic, but with much of the magic lost to time I this world, it would take centuries to unearth a planets worth ancient magic. Damien seen cultivation as a short cut. Of course this was all speculation. Damien was grasping for straws to get home. He was thinking of trying almost anything.
After hours had passed Damien kept his focus in the object. He would not stop until it moved. He didn't know why but he knew this was important. It was inside of himself had to figure out what it was. He didn't want anything inside of his body that he was unaware of. Damien thought that this could be aliens playing a cruel joke on him despite what the system said. He thought about how he was forced on a planet and forced to be a killer. Forced to act as god to a planet he has not attachment to. He lost the only thing in the universe that mattered. In the middle of the night. Damien swore he would never leave his child like his father had left him so many years earlier. WHY?!!!
Damien focused on the dim object with all of those turbulent thought. The object began to glow brighter as Damien began to shake with fury. The particles began rushing towards the object slowly forming a ball around the object All of it directed at the object yet even this was not enough. For hours, Damiens subconscious curse the object making it the reason for his hatred. Then suddenly, his blind rage simmered in to calm resolve. When would wallowing in self-pity get him out of his situation? He had a mission, plain and simple. Planets will bow to my feet if they stand in my way. My will must be indomitable!
Damien grasped at the object with all of his will power. He forced all of the particles to surround the object and created a mental ball and chains. He drew power from his mana core that is near by and had a yellow and purple chain and pulled orb. The closer he pulled the orb the brighter it became and it also grew in size. Until it equaled the size of the aether core. Meanwhile the sprit core had also formed until it grew to the size of the mana core also. As Damien was confused as what to do next. Suddenly, the new brightly glowing dark golden orb suddenly shot two snake like ropes inside of both cores and Damien was assaulted with unfathomable. The pain was beyond the body he felt this in the mind and should. Before Damien could fall into insanity from the pain he pass out inside of the chamber, with none the wiser. Little did Damien know the implications of his actions would spark a wild fire of events to come.