God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains

Keith stayed on the ship since he couldn't keep it active when he was inside his spatial dimension. He silently waited while he took out a bunch of papers and began to make plans for the ship.

He originally only had a crude plan, but now that he had nothing else to do, he began to brainstorm and draw diagrams.

Days flew by and once Keith made sure that there weren't anymore of those bony fishes, he put the boat back out and went back into his spatial dimension.

Trees were then burned in the absence of oxygen, which was only thanks to Keith's control over his spatial dimension. Once the charcoal was formed, it was powdered and pushed into a huge molten ball of iron.

Keith didn't know how to get them to work with each other, so he simply chanted.

"Merge and turn to steel. Merge and turn to steel. Merge and turn to steel…."

Almost two hours later, a system notification popped up.

[The metal needs tempering. Hit it repeatedly with something hard to help remove the impurities. Since you're using 1 meter square sheets, hitting them 10 times with something that has the same area will suffice.]

And so, Keith made himself a huge cube and used it like a hammer to hit the iron. Two centimeter thick iron plates had begun to stack upon each other while Keith continued to work.

But just two days later, he was alerted once again and was forced to check the situation outside.

Huge waves rose up and fell while dark grey clouds loomed up in the sky. Thunder roared and lightning flashed as Keith tried to search for his boat, only to see a small broken plank getting carried by the waves.

Seeing this, he knew what had happened and sighed as he shifted his attention to his system.

"Is this really the safest path?"

[Yes, this is the safest path based on the creatures that live under the water.]

"What about nature then? You can't expect me to just go through something like this?! Just look at those waves!"

[I apologise, you asked me for a route in which you'll have the lowest chance of encountering monstrous underwater creatures.]

'Of course it's my fault… meh. I should have considered this too.' he cursed first and then accepted the fact that it was indeed, his fault.

He shook his head and looked a the huge waves before going back to his system.

"How long will this storm go on for?"

[The violent storm will stay for two weeks and retreat for two weeks before coming back. There are eight days left for it to retreat.]

Keith nodded and sighed before he went back to his iron plates, "Eight days huh, I guess that's fine."

A few hours later, he paused and wondered, 'What if I just make a submarine using Ethereal psychokinesis? Hey system.'

[Time required to leave the stormy area is 10 days.]

'Nevermind then.' he thought as he did not want to spend all that time just to focus on travelling while he could just use that time to finish building the ship.

For the next two days, he focused on turning all the steel into plates and once he was done, he moved on to attaching them all together.

The ship slowly came together and once he was done with the easy stuff, he began to work on two of the most important mechanically operated things.

A steam engine connected to a propeller and the rudder for steering the ship.

These two took a considerable amount of trial and error to get right, but Keith finally managed to get them done by using simple but effective method, which was by using gears for the rudder.

The steam engine was easy as his main goal was to use his own flame control and creation to power it up.

Once he was done with all the parts, he put it into the ship's body and took another day to make sure that everything was perfect before he brought it out.

The storm was gone, but he knew that he had to get out of this place as soon as possible.

The huge ship fell from the air and sunk a little before it bounced back up. Keith fell onto it and rolled twice before standing up with a grin on his face.

"I did it! But let's try some stuff first." he said out loud before he ran over to the back of the ship and pulled open a door that was on the floor and climbed down the ladder.

He then grabbed the rope that was tied to the door and pulled it down, which closed the door with a loud bang.

Keith snapped his fingers and a small ball of fire floated up in the middle of the room to give him light. He looked up at a huge steam engine that he had made and grinned as he climbed up the small ladder to get access to the door to the container.

He used the water from his spatial dimension to fill it up to 80% and then closed the door before tightening the lock.

Soft rubber was used to make sure that the seal was tight just so he could stop the steam from escaping from the gaps in the door. As for how it got it, it was through an extremely inefficient method.

He had to use his reality warping power over his spatial dimension to create something out of nothing.

Luckily, he didn't need much.

He silently climbed down the ladder and sat down on the chair beside the huge metallic cube that was right below the water container.

Keith put his hand inside and shot flames out. He didn't use the white flames and instead, he went with the slightly colder blue one, which helped him with heating the water faster than the orange or yellow flames.

He made sure to not keep the temperature of the flames too high as he felt like this might break the whole thing. Whether this might actually happen or not, he did not know since he hadn't tested it with flames of extremely high temperature.

The flames heated up the water for more than twenty minutes, but Keith finally saw the propeller rotate. He couldn't really see it rotate on the outside, but he had made a miniature form of the propeller at the base of the shaft close to the steamer so he could see the speed.

It rotated really slow at first, but it began to speed up as time passed by. It gained momentum and Keith grinned as he created a huge ball of fire right inside the cubic space before walking out.

He made sure that a part of his mind was fixed on the fireball to keep it burning while he climbed back up into the ship.

Keith rushed over to the front to see the ship cutting through the waters and grinned widely as a weird sense of accomplishment washed over him.

This ship was a product of weeks of hard work and trial and error. Even though he had it easy compared to the regular builders, he still could help but feel proud of his work.

With a deep breath, he walked over to the steering wheel and grabbed it tightly.

"Man this was the hardest one to make so I hope it fucking works." he muttered to himself and turned it sideways.

360 degrees, 720 degrees, 1080 degrees.

Three whole rotations and Keith had to put in some effort to turn the wheel. Multiple gears turned inside the ship and Keith felt the ship move to his right.

"Let's fucking goooo!!!" he screamed and pumped his fists in the air before jumping around.

The steering wheel slowly rotated itself back to it's original position and Keith nodded to himself as he saw it working the way he intended it to.

His mental connection to the ball of flame was cut off thanks to his excitement, but he din't mind it much as the water inside the vessel was hot enough to continue producing steam for the next few minutes.

"Oh well, this works like a basic ship for now but I'll need a stabilisation system. What is it called… uhhhh a ballast system? Oh well, it's whatever. I have a chamber built for it but I guess I can start doing something about it once I leave this stormy area." he said to himself as he summoned an undead to help him with steering and then climbed back to to keep the steam engine going.

Days quickly passed and Keith finally managed to leave the stormy seas. With a heavy sigh, he climbed up and walked a little before he opened another door.

He went down and lit up the place to uncover an extremely hollow area.

"Time to test some stuff I guess." he muttered as he raised his hand up and the water from his spatial dimension gushed into the chamber. The chamber slowly filled up until the water levels reached his chest.

Keith stopped when this happened and nodded to himself before climbing back up.

He walked over to the side of the ship and saw that it had sunk down a little but it wasn't much.

"As long as the ship is floating, it should be fine. Modern ships used pipes and motors to move the water around but I guess I can just do it manually by moving the water in and out of my spatial dimension." he said and smiled, "Well, it should have better stability now? Heck, what does a ballast system even do?"

Unfortunately, even though he had done some research on building ships, he hadn't managed to retain all the information.