"FUCK!" I roared, slapping my imaginary face. "Why the hell did I do that!?" I just did the stupidest thing a god could ever do. "Like, why the fuck did I let myself fall for that shit!?"
After raging for a few minutes, I calmed myself down, taking deep breaths. "Fuck." This was a mistake I couldn't go back on. Being angry at myself will bring nothing or turn back time to before I used it. 'Even if the system would allow me to do it, I will need CE. And right now...' I called up my status.
--STATUS--
True Name: Ailesh
Race: low-rank god
CE: 0
Creations: 1 Star, 1 planet
--STATUS END--
"Zero." The sight of my statues brought up the anger I was trying to suppress, roaring at myself. "I only needed 245 CE to create a fucking star! I could have created another star of equal value and maybe an older star with the remaining CE?"
Again, I forced myself to calm down. As much as I regretted this decision I made, all I can do now is hope for the best. "*Scoff*" I mumbled, trying to remember the time when hoping for the best in a Gacha game worked out. "Haah..." He rubbed his imaginary forehead. "Hope for the best. System, how long will it take life to develop from the seed of life?"
Days, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia, millions, billions, and sometimes even trillions...
"Yeah, yeah. I get it." I mumbled, cutting it off with a groan. "How would one know that the seed of life didn't produce any life?"
Some gods give up after a long time of waiting and deem it a failure, while some have a way of finding out. You will have to find the way yourself. But I will guarantee you, the seed of life does and might fail.
"Well, that's sucks." I was planning on just erasing my planet and star and recreating them with an older star and a smaller planet. That would give me enough CE to manually create a stupid life form with high reproductive potential and the inability to commit murder. After this creature populates the planet, I will wipe out the entire race, which would again give me more CE than I used to create them and I can use it for whatever I want.
I already formed a plan for when the seed failed, but now, I won't even know if it works or not. What if I destroyed the planet just as the first life was about to form? What if life did form but I didn't notice it and then destroyed the planet?
"Besides. System, how can I even destroy the planet?" I asked, already expecting the answer it will give me.
You will need CE to destroy them since you don't have a physical body or ability strong enough to do it.
"Of course." I mumbled, having expected this answer.
Now, I know, I am royally fucked. I just threw all my CE away, and now I can't even destroy the star or the planet to get some CEs. "God, I am dumb."
I floated in space, staring at his planet with hundreds of imbalanced volcanic hellscapes, which roared from time to time, magma erupting violently. Every inch of space on the planet is covered in floating volcanic dust particles. The hot surface ground is filled with massive spiderweb cracks, lava flowing through them like rivers or streams and flowing into what one will call a magma ocean.
This kind of condition was impossible for any life to live in. Even the tardigrades would burn to crisps just being close to this lava planet.
It didn't take long for the volcanic ashes from the volcanos to cover the planet's sky, forming some kind of atmosphere. 'Well, this is boring.' I thought to myself, looking at my planet which now looked like a gray-colored planet due to the volcanic ash atmosphere. 'Time to go down, but how do I move?'
It didn't take long for me to come up with an idea. To move as a human, the brain sends signals through the nervous system, to the muscles. The muscles then contract to create movement. Since I am a soul with no nervous system, all I just need to do is think---
"WOAH!" I cried out as I suddenly shot forward at breakneck speed, flying through space and heeding to my planet. With a thought, my body instantly stopped. "Shit. That scared me." I wheezed, calming myself down.
With a thought, I moved towards my planet like a comet, quickly getting used to moving without legs. I will even say I like it better this way. I soon reached the planet, shooting through the clouds with no resistance, due to them phasing through my soul body, arriving below the clouds.
Stopping right below the ash clouds, I scanned my planet which looked like hell, sighing. "There is no way the seed of life will work on this planet." I quickly shook my imaginary head, pushing the negative thought away. "I mean, it would have allowed me to drop the seed into the sun or space if my CE and rank were high enough, meaning there is a chance of life developing in those areas. Soo..." I trailed off, staring down at the planet.
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I don't know how long has passed since I have been observing the planet for any sign of life while also exploring the landscape, and I don't want to ask the system. Though this time, I noticed something. One-half of the planet was cooling, with the lava becoming solid and the volcanoes becoming dormant. But the other half remained the same.
Confused, I went to space and watched the planet for a while, soon noticing the reason. The planet was tilde locked to my star, meaning one part of the planet is always facing the star and the other side facing away from the star
It was interesting to watch how these two parts of the planet developed. The part facing away from the star increasingly kept getting colder, till the enter surface became frozen. It was constantly night there, being pitch black. When I went down to the cold side of the planet, I was surprised that I could see perfectly fine. But then again, I am a god.
The side facing the star gradually kept getting hotter and hotter, soon so hot that magma can evaporate. The first time I saw that happening, all I could say was, "Damn. How will life develop here."
The vaporized rock helps to create a thin atmosphere on the planet, mixed with volcanic ashes. This also created what I would call, a weather cycle.
The 'Day side,' what I call the part always facing the star, would evaporate lava into the atmosphere with supersonic winds carrying mineral vapor over to the 'Night side,' where it will then be frozen and rain down as quartz pebbles. These pebbles fall at a speed of more than 7000 km/hour, breaking through the frozen surface and reigniting the cooled magma oceans, and awakening the volcanoes. The magma from the ocean and volcanoes would flow to the dayside, which would then be evaporated.
No matter how deadly this precipitation was, it is a fascinating weather.
"Welp, I am bored." I called out, officially becoming bored from watching an empty planet for a few months. "System, how many months has passed exactly?"
300 Earth months, and 150 of your planet's months.
"Right. 300---" I froze, realizing what the system said. "Wait, wait, wait." I mumbled, cleaning my imaginary ear. "Did you say 300 months?"
Affirmative.
I was at a loss for words, staring into deep space. "300 months?" I mumbled. 25 years. 25 years have passed. Yet I thought only a few months. "What the fuck?" I am not one to curse, but this was...
"Now I see why time is subjective." I mumbled, letting out a tired life. "I was 20 years on earth, and that time was enough to do a lot of things. Yet, here I am, spending 25 years watching a planet and not even feeling time pass.
It was... frightening.
"25 years." I laughed. "Damn." I sighed, calling up my status, to my CE was still 0. I thought it would have increased for being a god for 'so and so years,' but I was wrong. "So, all I can do now is wait..." I laughed, not even angry at what I did 25 years ago. "Still, there is a chance. The first life on earth appeared eight hundred million after the planet formed. Maybe the god of the planet at that time was just like me."
Time passed like this as I continued watching the hot and cold planet, hoping and waiting for life to form. During this time, I slowly witness the birth of the grandest mountain range ever. The day and night sides of the planet's tectonic plates kept colliding with each other at the planet's axis, which soon formed a mountain range that went around the entire planet, forming a great divider from the cold to the hot side.
The average high for the mountain in this mountain range was 37 miles, with the shortest being 29 miles. The tallest was the biggest active volcano on the entire planet, being about 43 miles high and more than 400 miles wide.
A majestic being.
It was around this time that a frozen rogue planet entered the solar system. It was about the size of mars, or ¼ the size of my planet.
Its flight path was directly lined with my planet, and I could do nothing but watch from space this planet moving hundreds of km per second heading straight to my planet. 'Well, at least this will create my planet a moon.' I thought, remembering how scientists theorized earth's moon was formed.
Unexpectedly, once this mars size planet reached a certain distance close to my planet, it was shredded to pieces. I am not joking. My planet's tidal force literally caused the planet's body disintegrates. These particles quickly started orbiting my planet, giving it a beautiful planetary ring.
"That wasn't what I was expecting." I mumbled, staring at the thick Saturn-like ring system around the planet's axis, right above the 'Great Divider' mountain range. "But, I will take it! At least I have new things to explore."
The ring was made of solid rock, and unlike my planet, which was tilde locked to my star, it orbited the planet, so the rocks facing the star didn't evaporate. The shadowed area, the Great Divider mountain range, also lost most of the sunlight it received from the day side of the planet, soon becoming bitterly cold.
'Haah...' I opened my statues for the first time in years, mumbling. "Why do I expect CE to suddenly appear---"
--STATUS--
True Name: Ailesh
Race: low-rank god
CE: 3
Creations: 1 Star, 1 planet
--STATUS END--
There it was.
Three CE.
"Oh, wow." I uttered in disbelief, staring at the screen. "Wow, wow, wow, wow. I have three CE!" I roared in joy, quickly asking, "System, how did this happen?"
Passive income from your creation. The star and planet generate your CE after some time. That time, you will have to find out yourself.
"Shit, shit, shit, shit!" I was free. I was free from the prison I put myself in. With enough CE, I can wipe out the entire solar system and restart it! "System, how much to cause the sun to go supernova!" I quickly asked, mumbling, "That will destroy the planet with it. Killing two birds with one stone."
61.25 CE
"61.25 CE..." I mumbled, doing the calculation in my head. "That's easily 1/4th of what I spent to create the star." It didn't seem much, seeing as I spent 366 CE dropping a seed of life that did nothing. "So, system, how many years have passed now?"
30 million earth years and 15 millions of your planet's years.
"Wait, what!?" This was beyond outrageous. 30 million? "I didn't even feel like it was up to ten years!" Holy shit, my prescription of time is changing like shit. Is it because of the lack of day and night in space? But still.
Holy shit!
"I should know this." I sighed, slapping my forehead. "It's not like mountains form over the span of a few years. Epically one like the Great Divider." This time, I wasn't as shocked as before. I mean, why should I? Time would be going by this quickly from now on so I better get used to it quickly since the getting surprise is getting old.
"That's beside the point." I turned back to my status screen. "30 million years have passed, so 1 CE every 30 million years." My eyes widened, as I sighed. "590 million years before I can make this star go supernova." Rubbing the bridge of my imaginary nose, I mumbled, "That should be quick like the 30 million years."
I looked into deep space, where stars glistened in the distance. "I should use this chance to explore this fifty quintillions square mile of area I have for my use..."
Holy shit.
Did I get smarter?
I just calculated such a large number in an instant. "I guess this is another perk of being a god. Is that right? System?"
Yes. Your ability as a mortal is gradually getting stronger the longer you are a god.
'Huh.' So another I won't have had this much calculative ability at this exact time if I was not already good at calculation. 'Still, it would have reached this point with enough time.'
This made me shiver.
What of the gods that have lived for billions? No. Trillions of years. What intelligence would they hold?
"I guess omniscient is real." I looked around, terrified. "Or omnipresent..."
Or all the OMNI Power's...
I pushed away my thought and floated into deep space, exploring the large safe zone I have to myself while waiting for 590 million years to pass.