“I am not a healer so you need to get yourself checked after this. I placed a temporal lock on your state.”
Can’t you just reverse time on it?
“Normally yes but not if it has been caused by reality altering skills, which is often the case for the tailed foxes.”
I see, so my first question is, when we met you had the primal rune for 6 in your eyes what’s that about?
“So, you know Protia…” She briefly covered her eyes which seemed normal and showed them again. The symbols for the number 6 were visible. “It seems I have to tell you more than I was planning to. But I will begin at the beginning. My full name is Chiaraneiara. You might already know what this means, don’t you?”
That I was right in surrendering the moment I saw you?
“I suppose so. This body you see is both real and fake. The Sarian gods can exist in multiple locations.”
Like a shadow clone or a blood clone?
“Blood clone works as a comparison. Most Sarian gods have their other ‘blood clones’ spread throughout the universe, some leave most in the Gods Realm or some have multiple in the same space, Bellia loves this continent as she has 3 on this continent and 9 on this planet. Biian has 2 on this continent. She is strangely obsessed with this continent, though.”
Wait there are 2 of her? Might as well just kill me after we’re done here, at least I’ll fall to a nice god. Wait is that the reason why it’s impossible to kill gods?
“Yes and no, the blood clones as you would refer them to, have regeneration you would expect from a god, moreover that version will revive as long as the belief in them is strong in that area. So, for most of you, it will be difficult or impossible to kill that god. Now the real Biian is in the god's realm. Kill that version and all her blood clones die. Her real body is many times stronger of course, so I would only recommend you try that after you’ve turned 5 years old.”
Wait, I actually have a shot?
“If you can make it to 5 years old, you might even give me a run for my money. But that is how the Sarian gods work. Gods also have ranks and the amount of blood clones and resiliency depends on this. The minor gods have 1 body. Kill them and they’re gone. They might revive if the faith in them is strong enough, but that’s unlikely.”
I see so to permanently kill a Sarian god I need to go to the god's realm while any minor god just has 1 chance.
“That is correct. My sister and I are a bit different, however, you are currently speaking to my spatial image. I will tell you later what this means, but I want to explain what the 6 in my eyes mean.”
Ah right! The conversation went all over the place.
“I have to focus to stay on topic, I’m the goddess of chaos, after all. 6 in eyes! My sister and I have longer names than the other Sarian gods, barring the current Walter. Adeaneidra and I are also the first and oldest of the Sarian gods.”
Ooh so another name I have to remember. I don’t want to piss her off.
“Both of us are fond of the tailed beasts, so don’t worry. We kind of made you that way.”
Wait what? You made us?
“It was to help us keep this dimension under control, Adea and I kind of messed up… this dates back almost 2 million years ago. It was just Adea, Xyoras and I. Because Adea and I were using our full names, our powers manifested without us being aware of it. My existence brought multiple dimensions forth, while hers copied them. Copies would normally be unstable and collapse but my presence made them real. Which brings us to where we messed up and had to shorten our names.” Chiara made a hologram like I always used to do in strategic meetings with Raishin, Greg, and Ted.
“We messed up because 2 copies of the same dimension collided with 2 others, creating the current one. This dimension was our first and only mistake. It never happened again after we shortened our names, but we still had to manage this dimension which was a product of 4 merging together. Another dimension had merged on a later moment just like what just happened. This merger had caused fragments of shattered dimensional fabric to scatter around and are currently known as Dimsha.”
Oh, that actually explains a lot. But where did the other Sarian gods come from?
“They got birthed from an event that happened shortly after, but I am unable to speak about that now. So now this dimension you live in became difficult to manage because it’s unlike any other, none of the normal rules apply so we needed help so Adea and I made the tailed beasts. While the other tailed beasts had important roles, the nine tailed spirit foxes specifically were made to help me. I am sorry, but your race is to help me in fixing my mistake and maintaining this dimension.” She said as sincerely apologized to me.
Oh, I did not expect that… so you’re not going to wipe us out?
“No… so the other thing is, that about those blood clones don’t apply to Adea and I. We only have 1 body, well 2. We split into 2 when we shortened our name. This body functions the same as Chiaraneiara, but this body’s name is Chiara, Neiara, the stronger part is endlessly working on mending and repairing the fabric and preventing it from completely unraveling.”
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So, if I get this right, you split into 2, into Chiara and Neiara, and your sister into Adea and Neidra and those are the only bodies you have?
“Correct, so this body is both real and fake. But this is the reason why we are the only gods that are too busy to actually help the tailed beasts, and I’m truly sorry.”
Ehh at this point you can just blame the other gods then. I have personally experienced how tough this is, it must be many more times worse for you. But doesn’t this mean you have to make sure you don’t die?
Chiara flexed her biceps. “Don’t worry, me, as Chiara could still take on all other Sarian gods excluding my sister, we also play by different rules.”
Doesn’t that mean that you two shouldn’t be in the Sarian group at all, then?
“That is a good observation. You might be correct. Now back to what these 6 means. It means that this dimension is a product of 6 merged dimensions.”
I guessed as much… and the primal rune is because you're old as fuck?
“Has anyone told you that phrasing is important? But yes.”
Wait, Isi had 5 arms, does she have 6 now?
“Isi… that is a good observation and yes, her arms depict the amount of planets she has to manage. They have all merged into this one, but it doesn’t make it easier on her.”
So, what’s her story? A dragon turned into a planet or something?
“No, planets are lifeforms. Isn’t this known? I apologize I haven't stepped down here for a very long time.”
A lifeform… I shouldn’t be surprised but I am. That makes a lot of sense now. So not only the dimension is in danger but also the planet?
“Unfortunately, yes, you will either have to figure out space travel and evacuate to another planet or fix this issue.”
Space what?
“I manage this whole dimension, not just this planet, it’s just that I only have 2 bodies.”
Right, so your job is actually a million times harder than I thought, why are you wasting your time on me then?
“Because this is the only planet in this dimension that still has members of your race. The tailed beasts are the only consistent life forms found throughout this dimension, but every planet be it gods or resident life forms has wiped them out, stress and the high burden had also played a role.”
Great, more pressure, just what I needed.
“Well, I was hoping this dimension that merged with this one would bring in some, but it was infested with these things you call fairies. I’m afraid that there are no reinforcements for you…”
Understandable… so if the planet is a lifeform and spirits are the breath of the planet, if all the spirits die…
“The planet will lose its ability to ‘breath’ and it will wither and die. It is hard to explain how exactly this works but I hope this will suffice”
What a pain in the ass.
“The problems aren’t over I’m afraid, I didn’t create the dimension that crashed into ours, I have no idea what else it brought with it.”
Fantastic. So, there are more supergods like you who are messing around?
Adea and I aren’t the only ones of our kind so yeah…”
I loved it when my only problem was to try and get out of Boshi town. Growing up sucks! Anyway, thanks for the info, I will do my best to survive, but I can’t promise anything.
“I am so sorry, Adea and I have lost the ability to create more of you. I am extremely busy right now, but I will at least close up this tear, I can’t get rid of all the fairies I’m afraid. Please give Adea a greeting for me if she ever appears in front of you. Where should I drop you off? Where does the best healer live?”
Ugh both Healerguy and Giana are going to give me an earful. I don’t know where the idols are, so just drop me off in Gittrian.
“You won’t be able to digest food with this temporal lock on you and it will only lift after you get a healer to check on you.”
Ugh, so I can’t escape this? Fine! Send me to Healeruy!
It seems she had foreseen my plan, is it because she made my race or because she used some temporal hacks? I couldn’t tell either way.
The area started to distort and slowly started to look like an AA lobby. “You might want to hide those tails.”
Oh right.
“Thank you for helping me in maintaining the dimensional fabric and also thank you for listening. And please… stay away from the red dimensional holes, my other part, Neiara is on it, she will now focus on the ones on this planet to relieve the stress of the tailed foxes.” She flashed a smile and I found myself in the AA lobby of Gittrian the moment I hid my tails.
“Interesting, I was just wondering what reckless behavior you would be showing in this world of turmoil and you suddenly appear in front of me!” Healerguy grabbed me by the scruff of my neck and dragged me to the sick bay.