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Chapter 3 – Arrangements for The Lost One
“Welcome to my domain, the Castle of Eternity within the Chaotic Realm.”
Tiamat declared in a smug tone as if boasting about it. She was emanating a compelling pressure that it made me want to kneel on the spot.
“You really are an interesting one, even lower ranking Gods would bow before my Divinity just by being exposed to it.”
Tiamat said with an amused look on her face as she sat down on what seemed to be a throne.
“Divinity?”
Switching her crossed leg, with one arm on her chin in a sloppy position, she answered.
“Divinity is what we so-called Gods exude, which is also symbol of our power, and me as one of the ancient ones exude usually exuded a pressure so strong strong that could not be compared to newly born gods or even the current manager of earth. Yet, you, a plain human soul, was bathed in such divinity that would make a normal human feel like they are being crushed, endured it as if it were only a little heavy atmosphere. That’s why you piqued my interest since the time I found you”
So that pressure a while ago that I felt, making me feel like kneeling was Divinity or rather Divine Pressure, however, hearing this, I was surprised that I unconsciously asked.
“Found me?”
“Yes, for some reason, you ended up lost in my domain, weakened to the point of almost vanishing but still survived. If it was not for me, you might have already vanished in this chaotic realm. Even young gods don’t dare traverse this realm, after all.”
Tiamat then explained the details about how I was found and my condition, along with how she ended up in contact with the manager of Earth, resulting in this situation.
“That seems like a really dangerous situation.”
“It is indeed, still, that might have been the reason why you can endure my divine pressure. Divine Pressure from Divinity is directly applied to one’s soul, and since your soul have endured pressure from the chaotic realm that even young gods can’t normally endure, it made you more resilient than a normal soul. I won’t even be surprised if your soul vessel could house a God.”
She then complained about not having any subordinates because the younger gods couldn’t last long in her domain. She did have subordinates, though, but they don’t reside in the chaotic realm.
“I don’t really understand, but what are you telling me is that my soul became strong?”
“That’s the short gist of it. Anyway, returning to the topic of inviting you to one of the worlds I created, what do you wish the world would be like? you can choose from a world similar to earth, a sci-fi word with technology that has advanced enough to travel space, or a world of sword and magic?”
“Is it really alright for me to choose?”
“Of course, since you have my interest, I would like to see what changes, your presence would do to the world itself. Some worlds have been stagnant, that I would usually send over people from other worlds to stimulate it. In your case, though, it would probably not just end up as a small ripple.”
“But I don’t really have a desire to change the world or anything of that purpose.”
“Don’t worry, just having the presence of a visitor would change the world itself, even if you don’t get directly involved. One such change that happened before was the improvement of the circulation of magic power in one of the magical worlds.”
“I see, if I don’t really need to do something, then it would be alright.”
She then asked me to pick the kind of world that I wish to go to… but well, that has already been decided, right?
After the exchange, what popped out in front of me were several holograms that seem to be worlds that she had created over time, they were like hundreds of floating marbles in front of me, and when I touch one of them, the visuals expands the world and a panel about the world on its side is shown.
It was like one of those popular MMO games I played that was sci-fi-based, and I checked from world to world. Tiamat then explained that what I was seeing now was a reproduction of a system similar to the game for me to understand it easily.
She also mentioned that I could sort or filter it to the type I preferred and after filtering it to with things like Fantasy, Magic, Dungeons, Game System, etc. the number of worlds narrowed.
I couldn’t even believe that all the things I had placed on the filter actually existed…
“Um, Tiamat, am I right to assume that all that I have placed on filters actually work as I expected?”
“Well, what you have placed is just a broad identification, so it might not actually match what you were expecting. But the general terms like magic and fantasy is only based on the concept of your imagination, to which this system matches with what could be currently found on these worlds”
“I don’t get it, but I would just assume that putting magic and dungeons means that it would be a world where such things exist, right?”
“That’s about right if you simplify it”
“I see”
Looking back again at the worlds in front of me, there’s only 5 left after sorting everything. After checking the general information about each world, I noticed that they were all a bit too similar from each other with only a few differences like size, ecology of creatures, number of continents.
Out of the 5, I chose the biggest and oldest of the five. What I was surprised though was that even the oldest among them was only around 500 million in age, yet the there were already proper civilizations and the wildlife and nature have already stabilized to a point where new evolutions or changes in ecology haven’t happened in over a million years.
“Tiamat, this world seems interesting, but could I ask why there’s only a limited variation of creatures?”
“That’s an interesting question, I didn’t expect you to ask something of that level and would just jump on the world like all others who I have guided before but, you are indeed different.”
“I may not look it, but I am quite a curious person, I even think about why fantasy stories and games have like a limited number of creatures within them, to which I thought at first that the developer just didn’t want to create so many creatures in their databases.”
“I see, well, there is actually a simple explanation to that. I call it forced stabilization.”
“Forced Stabilization?”
“That’s right, knowing the history of your world, would you expect intelligent life to exist in a world so young?”
“If I based it on the theory of evolution from our world, no, I don’t think so.”
“That there is the answer, and as to why there is intelligent life in such a world, is that they were introduced into the world and not a product of natural evolution. A similar circumstance happened with the creatures.”
Tiamat Continued.
“At first, when this world was created, I have introduced a lot of flora and fauna from other stable worlds I manage, and because of the unique environment, creatures started evolution and mutation in a strange path, and unlike on earth, instead of spreading out the variations, they became narrower and narrower as time passed by which ending in the current generation of creatures that have fully adapted to the world.”
“I see, so it’s not that there were unaccounted creatures, but instead they have squeezed their evolutionary path to an almost singular point.”
“That’s right, they do exist, the singular point of every creature, like Fenrir for the wolves, Ancient Dragon for reptilian, and many more. Those creatures are the pinnacle of life forms in this world. Some have also received protection and intellect from the different gods that are managing that world”
“Different Gods? You don’t manage it?”
“No, not anymore, though I did have a hand in its creation and stabilization, after the world have become stable enough to only suffer a few problems, I left the management to the lower gods. Ones who can’t yet perpetuate their existences. They were also the ones responsible for the introduction of intelligent life to the world.”
“I see, do they have the same responsibility as Deus?”
“Similar, but Deus is a much higher existence than them, and he was more of a manager than a God. Unlike in your world where there are almost no interference from Gods, in this world, Gods presence were still prevalent. This is because lesser Gods needs faith to continue existing.”
“Tiamat is also a Goddess, right? Don’t you need fate to exist?”
“For someone like me, that is not necessary anymore. Ancient Gods like me have already accumulated more than enough faith and have become a stable existence. We usually just live off chaotic energy that could be gathered in this dimension, and would from time to time create worlds on a whim.”
“That sounds like and old person on retirement.”
“That is what we are, though. And a Deity have reached this stage usually tend not to get involved with the lesser Gods, unless they are our subordinates or kin.”
“Sounds complicated.”
“Not really, it just means that we are old, and they are young. Of course, if a young God could harness the chaotic pressure of this place, it won’t be long before they could stabilize themselves. Anyway, we are getting a little too sidetracked. So, have you decided which world you would pick?”
“Ah, umm, sorry. Yes, I want to go to this world, after filtering all the things that I wished to have in the world, this one is the oldest among them which would mean it would also be the most stable, right?”
“Indeed, well then, since you have selected your destination, next is building a proper vessel that could house your soul.”
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