This was even more boring than watching my planet develop. It was more boring than watching paint dry, even though I have never watched paint dry so I don’t know how boring it is. But that's beside the point!
In this space, all I saw was rock, rock, rock, rock, frozen rocks, ice rocks, AND ROCK! Nothing else!!!
Space is the definition of silence. At least on my planet, I can hear the thundering of the volcanoes of the flowing of the magma rivers, but out here, nothing.
Through these millions of years, I only witness one interesting thing. The first was the passing of a dwarf planet. This time, it wasn't even close to the path of my planet, and my star gravity caused it to perform the biggest and fastest Elliptic orbit I have ever seen. This caused it to go over the escape velocity of my star's gravity, which, in turn, flung the dwarf planet out of the solar system and back into the red zone.
And that was it.
Though these hundreds of millions of years, that was the only interesting thing I saw.
Just floating through space, exploring the uninteresting areas.
Honestly, it was surprising how I haven't gone mad. Becoming a god must have made my mentality stronger, similar to how hundreds of thousands of years now feel like simple days for me. Now I see why in most fantasy novels or movies, elves typically claim adulthood and an adult name around the age of 100. They have a long time to live, so they don't have to rush.
I have infinite time on my hand. "Well, a few billion, since I am sure I will die once I lose my beginner shield." But that billion is still a long time. If I remember correctly, from D&D 5th edition, dragons become ancient when they reach 801 years. "I can just imagine what I will be called if I was in the game."
Forget my mindless rant because, 590 million years have finally passed.
--STATUS--
True Name: Ailesh
Race: low-rank god
CE: 62
Creations: 1 Star, 1 planet
--STATUS END--
Opening my status, I looked at my CE, filled with joy. "I can't believe 620 million years have passed." I mumbled, staring into space. I am already used to this quick passing of time, but damn. "Well, whatever."
With a thought, I appeared above my planet. The planet I haven't seen in a few hundred million years. "It still looks the same." It was still tidally locked to the star, so it still had the day and night side. The only visible difference I can see is the Great Divider mountain range. Through these years, the mountains kept growing.
Now, the average height is 112 km, with the shortest being 106 km, and the tallest, which was still the biggest active volcano on the entire planet, being about 121 km high. In comparison, mount Everest is only 8.8 km tall. So, yeah. This mountain range is fucking tall.
"System." I called out, turning to my star in the middle of the solar system. "How much CE do I need to sense if there is any life on my planet?" CE can be used to create a star and a planet and create the body of a god, so I am sure I can use it for life sense.
0.001 CE.
'That's cheap.' Even though I used it, I would still have enough to cause the star to go supernova. I paused, staring at the star. 'If it is possible...' I asked, "Matter of fact, how much would it cost to gain the power to sense life?"
It will cost you 1 CE.
'Once more, cheaper than I expected.' And it will only take me 10 million years to regain the CE. "System, use 1 CE to give me the ability to sense life."
1 CE deducted. You now have Life-Force Detection. Within a ??? range, you can sense anything that has the smallest hint of life.
I didn’t feel any deference, but the system never lied. Facing my planet, I roared, "DETECT LIFE!" I felt a wave of seamless energy rush out of me and wash through the planet, and I got something in return.
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No... Two things...
This caused me to freeze. "...There is... There is two life on my planet?..." Confused, I used the ability once more, this time without shouting it, and tried to pinpoint the two lifeforms like a radar. It worked, and I found that there were actually two life forms on my planet.
I couldn't be more excited. "Yay." See? I am excited. "Haah..."
I can feel I was losing my emotional sense. I mean, I have been in space for 620 million years. That’s a long time. Many times more than how long humans have been on earth. Losing my emotions was the list that could have happened to my poor mind.
That's beside the point. Those two lifeforms are on opposite sides of the Great Divider, one living more than 12km deep in a volcano ocean on the day side of the planet, and the other living on the cold and dark surface night side of the planet.
The precipitation must have carried some 'piece' of the seed of life across the planet for these two life forms to appear so far from each other.
"Well, at least there is something to quench my boredom." I shot down into my planet, piercing through the atmosphere and through kilometers of magma ocean to arrive right in front of one of the two life forms.
It had the form of a worm about 5 meters long with thick obsidian scales and molten magma in between them. "Was this life form developing while I was out there exploring the deep emptiness of space?" It was already passed its single-cell organism state, so it was defiantly developing long before now. I wish I hadn't missed its early development. 'I really want to know how life could develop from lava.'
Even still, I was excited that life have finally developed on my planet. "Even though it is just a 5-meter-long mindless lava worm, floating aimlessly around in magma ocean." With nothing else to see about this mindless worm, I teleported across the planet to meet face-to-face with the second life form.
"Oh! A White Dragon!" I shouted once I saw the second life.
It looked like a comodo dragon, but this one was 4 meters long with a ghastly thick white scale and no eyes. It slowly moved through the dark land, casually shrugging off the rocks falling from the sky at Mach 5 and slamming into its scales.
"System, does this have something like a genetic template?" I asked, curious about what I can change for this little dragon.
Yes.
"Bring it up."
A massive screen appeared in front of me, showing me countless pieces of information about this animal. The first thing that caught my attention was something called index #. When I clicked on it, a new screen appeared, showing a ranking.
Index # 1: Lava Worm [1st Life form]
Index # 2: White Dragon [2nd Life form]
"Oh?" So the lava worm was the first lifeform. That is good to know. 'I expected it to be the dragon since it seemed more 'sentient.' I guess I was wrong. I mean, trees have been around longer than humans yet the latter has more sentient than the former.'
I continued exploring the genetic template screen, noticing something else. This dragon was 27,987 years old. "System. By which years term are you going by? My planet's or earth's?"
Your planet. Would you like me to change it to earth?
"No." I just wanted to be sure. "So in other words, this dragon is 55,974 earth years." I stared wide-eyed at the slow white dragon that was now eating a rock. "Damn. This thing is ancient." It is older than Mesopotamia, the oldest civilization in human history!
Curious, I quickly asked the system to bring up the lava worm's template. Unsurprisingly, It was older, being 33,721 years old, or 67,442 earth years old. "Holy shit. How can they live this long?" The seed of life is great! Who would have thought it would give me two immortal beings?
Before I get my hopes up, I looked toward their lifespan. Who knows. They might be dying tomorrow.
Surprisingly, the worm had a life span of 4.7 billion and the dragon 4.5 billion. "This is amazing. System. How much would it have cost to create a life that can live this long."
More CE than you have ever held.
"Not the answer I was looking for, but that will do." I guess the seed of life was the best choice, unlike the recommendation to manually create the life form I want. "Or, hear me out. Or, I was just lucky." I guess I have used up all my luck for the next billion years.
I kept looking through their template and decided to make them bigger. Bigger always makes better. Besides, they are the only two beings on this planet. What's the worst that could happen?
I want something worst to happen.
So, I used 0.4 CE each to make the Dragon grow a 3.3 nanometer each day and 0.6 CE on the worm to grow 4.95 nanometer each day. Hehe. I can't wait to see how big they will become and how bad this idea would be in the future
While that was happening, I went to space and looked down at my planet. Seeing how it is tilde bond to the star, I doubt any notable creatures would be able to survive here. I want to move forward on my planet. I don't want to keep exploring space like a mindless god.
I want to watch life develop. I want civilization. I want to see two mortals have sex and the wife give birth to a child that looks nothing like the father, which would then lead to the man believing his wife had cheated when I was the one that changed the child's genetic structure.
"So, should I remove it?" If I remove it, my two monster creatures won't die. That's for sure. "So, yes. System, remove the tilde lock from this planet!"
0.07 CE was used to remove your planet's tilde lock.
The planet shook, the volcanoes around the world giving out thunderous roars, spewing their lava into the sky. Tectonic plates shift like there is no tomorrow, grounds opening up to swallow whatever was on the surface and the two ancient monsters simultaneously raising their head to the sky.
And for the first time, the planet spun.
'Things would be different from now on.' The night side would receive sunlight for the first time and the day side would experience the night for the first time. I am sure those two beasts would be hella confused about what is going on... "...or not."
Those two just returned to what they were doing as if it wasn't their business. How dumb are they? The world might be ending, and all they will think about is rocks. "I need to improve their intelligence. System, how much would it cost to do that?"
It will cost 197 CE for the worm and 193 CE for the dragon. This is due to their genetic nature, natural life span, and many more factors.
"I guess I won't be making them smarter." I chuckled, deciding to let that idea pass. "Besides, they live for a long time. I am sure they will get smarter with time." Like elephants.
With the planet now spinning, the day side slowly cooled, and the night side slowly heated. In a few thousand years, the planet became a dry terrestrial planet, nowhere as cool as when it was tilde locked to my star.
The worm had dug deep down into the planet's mantle to keep living in the magma. It had sealed itself inside the planet, more than 2,000 km under layers of solid earth, just so it could continue swimming in lava. It caged itself just for that warm lava, even though it didn't need it to survive. "Stupid."
The dragon had actually become a dragon. In a few hundred thousand years, it somehow gain the genes that made it grow wings, and it left the surface of the planet to live on the Great Divider mountain range, where it was forever cold due to the planet's ring blocking out the sunlight.
One went down, and the other one went up.
"Well, I guess that is good for me." With them out of the way, I can start creating LIFE!
Well, life life. Not just life. You know what I mean.