The first thing I worked on was not air or water.
It was the sun.
I knew that creating a proper ecosystem would be impossible without a stable source of energy. Plants needed light. Heat needed a source. Even the movement of air and water would eventually depend on energy input.
The problem was that my artificial world had one fundamental limitation.
The artificial world could preserve things that already existed, but it could not violate the principle of energy.
For example, I couldn't cast a fire-element spell there because it lacked the fire mana needed to produce flames. The same was true for every other element.
So I changed my approach.
If I couldn't create a sun inside my world, I would create one outside and absorbed it.
I returned my focus to the real world and began constructing the foundation there.
