Time passed—or something like it.
In this cut-out slice of existence, where day and night bowed to his whim, he had worked. Built. Forged. Rebuilt.
The crude beginnings—chairs tied with bark, tools lashed from raw metal—were long behind him now.
He had upgraded.
The island now bore the marks of modern design: metallic scaffolds, modular benches, storage racks filled with shaped alloys and energy cores. A working power grid, crude but functional.
Wire, circuit, containment field—if he could imagine it, and break it down into elemental purpose, he could will the raw material into existence and shape it by hand.
Creation feeds growth. The more I build, the stronger I become.
That truth had become clear.
With every crafted item—every bolt, switch, or reinforced panel—his mind sharpened like a blade honed endlessly.
And something deeper stirred beneath it. A second rhythm. A pressure in his soul.
He had no name for it at first.
Now he called it: Soulforce.
He didn't need sleep. Or food. Or rest.
Only new things to make. New designs to test. New complexity to master.
And the more he created, the more the island itself seemed to stabilize around him.
He wasn't just a man shaping metal.
He was becoming the anchor of this reality.
He had built systems, powered circuits, etched components from memory and will alone. The machines worked, crude but evolving. And with each finished tool, each new spark of creation, he could feel the silent surge inside—mind power sharpening, soulforce deepening.
It was enough—for now.
He stood, dusted off his hands out of habit more than necessity, and walked toward the small cabin he'd constructed near the edge of the trees.
Despite having no need for comfort, shelter, or rest, he built a house.
A simple one—clean edges, wooden panels, a roof that caught the artificial wind he had willed into existence.
A bed, though he would never sleep.
A table, though he would never dine.
Windows, though nothing moved outside except trees he himself had imagined.
It wasn't for survival.
It was for simulation.
Humans lived in homes. Slept in beds. Had places to return to.
He wasn't human anymore—he wasn't even sure if what he was now .
But as he moved through the door, settled into the chair he'd crafted, and glanced at the tools he'd laid out for the next design... it felt right.
Familiar.
Maybe a fragment of Ethan Miller still remained, buried beneath the growing layers of mind and soul.
Or maybe he just liked pretending.
Whatever the reason, the house stood firm—a symbol not of need, but of choice.
The forge burned just beyond the walls.
The machines hummed softly in the background.
And in the middle of a self-made world, the strongest existence sat in silence—building.
Some time passed. Or maybe none at all.
Eventually, he stood again.
The stillness faded as that pull—the need to create—returned, stronger than ever.
He walked out of the cabin, past the forge, into the open space he had cleared for larger builds. His mind buzzed with blueprints of the old world—machines of war, defense systems, energy stabilizers, containment fields, and weapons of devastating potential.
And he began.
A railgun, mounted on a rotating base.
A miniaturized reactor core wrapped in a fail-safe housing.
EMP charges, remote detonation drones, and even a basic AI interface to run simulations.
Then came the weapons that defined power on Earth.
He built a perfectly stable atomic bomb—its casing etched with warnings that no one would ever read.
Then a more refined hydrogen bomb, nestled within a reinforced vault beneath the island surface.
Everything had a place.
He constructed a sealed, reinforced underground chamber at the farthest edge of the island—detached from his main living space.The entrance is hidden and only accessible through a manual mechanism he built himself—no automation, no accidental triggers.
Each dangerous invention, especially the atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, and other high-risk tech, is kept inside isolation pods, surrounded by thick layers of alloy and energy-dampening materials—created from the simple raw materials the world gave him.
He didn't trust this reality.
So he made sure the weapons couldn't react to it.
He wasn't just making tech—he was archiving a legacy of annihilation.
Each creation was more intricate, more powerful, more impossible. He wasn't just recreating human technology now—he was refining it, improving it, even bending its logic to his own. And then,he finally did what he wants to do, he completely recreated and improved his previous world technology.
And then... something changed.
He felt it like a ripple—subtle, deep, undeniable.
The island responded.Its boundary grew.
The sky within the boundary grew brighter. The colors deepened. The sun felt warmer, more real. The air shifted—thicker, heavier with presence.
He paused, blinking out of reflex—and noticed something else.
His hand.
It wasn't glowing white energy anymore.
It was still light, still unnatural—but less transparent. More defined. He raised it, watching as the faintest shape of fingers, knuckles, and—
A mouth.
On his face.
Small, simple. Just an outline. But real.
"What is this? A reward? A reaction? Or just evolution?"
Whatever it was, it wasn't a hallucination.
Creation had done more than deepen his mind and soul—it had begun to give him form.
He touched the edge of his jaw, curious.
For the first time in this endless silence…
He smiled.
The change wasn't limited to him.
The island… had grown.
He noticed it as he walked—new terrain where there was once nothing. Trees he didn't remember shaping. A slope that hadn't existed before. The boundaries had stretched—like the world had skipped a frame and redrawn itself.
Curious, he moved through the expanding forest, wind brushing past him in patterns he hadn't programmed.
Then he saw it.
A distant glint.
Something bright—metallic, reflective—embedded deep in the newly formed terrain.
Not the harsh glare of sunlight on metal… something else. Something alive.
He walked toward it, faster now, drawn without understanding why.
What he found stopped him.
A small ravine had cracked open, revealing a cluster of glowing stones embedded in the rock.
He crouched, breath held—not from fear, but from overwhelming disbelief.
" I didn't create these… did I?" He said outloud to no one.
This shouldn't be possible.
And yet, here it was—shining. Waiting.