“..urgh…again?” Iris slowly woke up, finding herself having a pounding headache for some reason. She slowly looked up, opening her eyes she saw that she had somehow made it back into the cave “well, that’s good.” She stood up and exited the cave while rubbing her eyes.
“Why do I keep passing out like that… and for how long.” She stretched, opening her eyes and freezing in place.
Outside of her cave she was greeted with a mouth filled with sharp teeth slowly exhaling and towering over her. she slowly looked up passed the toothy grin and saw blue scaly skin that covered a long, serpent like creature that had extended its long neck the full 20 meters from the ocean to the entrance of her cave.
“Ah… hello?” Iris nervously said, in turn the giant serpent opened its mouth in a roar. Startled, Iris shrieked, punching it.
The creature flew back, somehow managing to keep its head as its entire 100 meter long serpentine got pulled from the ocean and sent flying, giving Iris a lovely view of it’s blue body, noting the fins, gills, and lovely yellow tail before being slammed with a wave.
As the waters receded Iris noted her headache was gone “weird…” was the only thing that came to mind as she watched the tiny little speck that was the serpent fall into the water a great distance away. “Well, it kept its head so, I guess I held back.” She nodded, satisfied with herself.
“Now that is taken care of, this place sure changed.” She gave a quick look around, and animals that were in the area got washed away by the wave, but the trees and plant life were still around. The trees had changed she last saw them, becoming multicolored and bigger, she really liked the blue leaved ones, besides the foliage she also felt like something was…different….
Like it was easier to breathe or something, more lively? She could hear birds now singing from somewhere. “Oh, maybe more life developed.” She nodded to herself, dashing over to the ocean coast she looked out and could tell, something was different. “Maybe something is out there now…” she looked back towards the island and was instantly surprised by the addition of a giant 50-meter-tall tree with silver leaves.
“Yeah…something is definitely different.” She said in amazement, wondering what that tree even was.
“Eh?” She looked around, not seeing anyone else but hearing a weird, silent voice inside her head that gave her an explanation “What was that? Hello? Anyone there?” she received no answer. “Weird…maybe…” following a hunch, she opened up her status page again.
>>>Status<<<
Name: Iris
Race: Creation Goddess
Gender: Female
CP: 3149
HP: NULL/NULL MP: NULL/NULL
STR: SSS+
CON: SSS+
DEX: SSS+
INT: SSS+
WIS: SSS+
Skills: [Absolute Authority] [Universe Atlas]
“Yeah, new stuff.” Her attention was immediately drawn to the addition of a new section, skills, under which she had two. “Absolute Authority huh… “It sounded vaguely familiar, she focused on it and got her answer.
[Skill: Absolute Authority: The inherent privilege of the goddess of creation. Enables the use of Creation Points. Enables the bending of reality and the nature of the entire universe to one’s will. The highest of authority that no one can go against.]
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“Ah, that’s why.” She bumped her fist to her open palm “I had that from the start, it was just different, not a skill, or maybe it was? I just couldn’t see it.” She shrugged, then brought her attention to the other skill “Then this one is…”
[Skill: Universe Atlas: The knowledge of all things, anything the user wants to know about the object will be granted absolutely.]
“Right, had this at the start to.” This was how she knew what the sun was, same with the tree and crab and everything. Even if it was her first time seeing it, she knew what it was called and vaguely what it was, was all thanks to this skill.
“So why can I see them now… Why are they now shown as skills….” She thought about it for a moment, standing on the beech before the headache returned “…hm?” She looked back towards the ocean, that same serpent was now poking its head out of the water, staring at her.
“Hrm, oh right.” That had reminded her, she pulled up her status again and looked at the very important bit of information “CP is passed 3 thousand.” She bluntly said, holding back the rush of emotion she tried to think rationally. “To increase CP I need followers, but there was nothing that existed back then so I couldn’t get CP, but with it increasing…” She glanced at Leviathan, who was keeping its distance while staring at her.
“Then people exist…” She looked down at the sand, a feeling welling up inside her that she couldn’t contain, she started giggling, a giggling that quickly turned into laughing “I can get more CP! I won’t be alone!” She cheered “And since I didn’t kill the leviathan in one punch, clearly I can hold myself back!” She nodded, facing the open sea.
“Something is out there, and I am going to see it.” She nodded, gathering magic around herself she lifted herself up into the air… and quickly found herself firmly planted back onto the ground desperately clinging to it.
“Scary, scary…too scary.” She was shivering, simply flying half a meter off the ground had reminded her of uncontrollably falling through space, she couldn’t handle it.
Thirty minutes later she had decided to swim it, but that also didn’t work as she was reminded of the first time she fainted, being tossed about in the open sea until she landed here.
She had balled herself up, taking a twig from a nearby tree she had been depressingly drawing stick people in the sand dancing around a more detailed depiction of herself “hopeless…its too scary… can’t do it.” She stopped drawing, staring at the picture she frowned “no…”
She stood up, her bare chest puffed out “If I can’t swim or fly, then I’ll run!” She declared, hearing a soft growl in the distance coming from the leviathan, who had been worryingly watching her “Quite! I’ll do it, watch me!”
She then took a few steps back, took a deep breath, and ran, instantly gone from the point she started from others perspective before a cloud of dust and water flew into the air as reality slowly caught up to her speed.
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The following is a telepathic communication between 4 people, enjoy.
L: “Mom’s gone.”
S: “Eh?”
P: “What do you mean mom’s gone?!”
L: “What I said, mom woke up and left.”
T: “Just like that?”
L: “Yes… Well, she did punch me before leaving… I though I’d die.”
S: “Its amazing you didn’t”
T: “Held back?”
L: “ Must have, I was surprised.”
P: “Guys, can we focus on how mom, MOM, left her island please?!”
S: “Sis, have some mercy on bro…”
T: “Merciless.”
P: “Am I the only one that understands just how bad this is?!”
S: “Sorrry, sorry~, yeah its bad. But what can we do?”
T: “Dangerous.”
P: “Leviathan, go over everything that happened. Did she seem like she was going out in a bad mood? This is the first time she has ever waken up after…”
L:” Right, so I noticed the mana around the island was getting thicker so I went to go check up on mom and she was awake. I got excited to finally meet mom cause you know how she always sleeps and we never talked…”
T: “Focus.”
L: “Sorry, so I tried to telepathically talk to her but she ignored me, shrieked, and punched me.”
S:”How much health did you lose~”
L: “I was left with only a single thousand.”
S:”Yikes, I’d be dead. And that was just her holding back?”
P: “Focus, then what?”
L: “Well, I went flying, that punch ripped me clean from the water, by the time I got back she was talking to herself on the beach. I tried talking to her again, from a distance, but she ignored me. She then flew for a second before breaking out in tears and holding herself on the beach… she tried swimming as well but the same thing happened…”
P:”…”
S:”…”
T:”…and then?”
L: “She yelled out that she’d run and then did, its like she teleported… shes probably at the mainland already, arriving at the west side.”
P: “WEST SIDE?! And you didn’t follow her?!”
L: “What part of it looked like she teleported didn’t you understand?”
S: “That’s our momma~”
P: “Aurgh…so to recap, mom woke up, punched you, and then left the island and we have no clue why.”
L: “Yeah.”
S: “Yup~”
T: “correct.”
L: “Look on the bright side, at least closets to you instead of hitting the north or south.”
T: “That would be bad.”
S: “The worst~”
P: “… if there must be a bright side to this, sure.”
S: “Speaking of those two, should we tell them?”
P,L,T: “No.”
S: “Ha!~ We should totally steer mom in the direction of one of them~”
T: “Not a bad idea.”
L: “Keep in mind If those two make mom angry it won’t be just their areas that get messed up.”
P: “Easy for you guys to talk about it… mom isn’t currently near your countries…”
T: “Condolences.”
S: “Can I have your stuff when your wiped from existence?”
P: “haaah… Thanks, I’ll try and keep an eye out for her. If we are lucky she’ll burn herself out and go to sleep.”
L: “Stay safe, I’m going home to heal.”
T:” Becareful.”
S: “Don’t piss her off!~”
And with that, the communications were cut.