Time passed on the lush, green planet. Single-celled organisms in different areas of the world slowly changed and adapted to fit their environment. This adaptation soon turned into an evolutionary trait unique to those of different regions of the world.
Most water single-celled organisms evolved to gain better sliming capability to not to be tossed around and killed by the strong wave of the ocean. Some had to evolve the ability to move on land to return to the lake after being washed offshore. These cells soon started returning to the surface to eat the cell of grass before returning to the sea. Some had to evolve the ability to move through the ocean ground and eat the cells of the plants at the bottom of the sea.
Some single-celled organisms learned to climb trees to eat the cell from the bark of the tree or leaves. Some learned to swim to the bottom of the river to get eat the cell of different plants. Some learned to glide through the air.
Millions of years passed, and the first cell, located in the ocean, evolved into a multicellular organism.
It evolved to become the first animal on the planet. "A Sponge."
Once the first Sponge appeared, as if the single-celled organism were a bunch of dominoes stacked closely to each other, there was a domino effect, and multiple single-celled organisms in the ocean started evolving into multicellular organisms.
While all these were happening, in the micro world, a single-celled organism opted to become multicellular and evolved into the first bacteria, and another one became the first archaea.
Sea anemones, sea urchins, and other early simple animals like this started appearing around the ocean, populating it with animals. A few hundred thousand years, animals with the ability to see and move to find food for themselves appeared in the ocean, one of them being jellyfish and starfish.
More years passed, and the first ocean animal evolved to gain the brain to outsmart its other competitors in the sea. Though it was simple, it was enough to outsmart their mindless competitors and dominate the ocean.
It was around this time the first land multicellular organism appeared, a millipede-like creature. "I will just call them Millipedes." The ancient ancestors of millipedes, I guess. With them came multiple other insets that dominated the land.
The water creatures developed at a quicker pace than land, with soon crustaceans, gastropods, and more complex animals appearing. Time passed and the notochord developed in certain animals.
"Hmmm..." I noticed something.
Deep in the ocean, the first animal got infected by a virus. It didn't take long for these viruses to spread, and animals started spending their evolutionary points on creating the immune system.
With fighting in the water becoming more brutal, the first animal became a vertebrate. Multiple other animals copied this guy and used their evolutionary points to opt into backbones. Unlike their invertebrate neighbor, these animals gained well-developed internal skeletons, highly developed brains, advanced nervous systems, advanced immune systems, and outer covering of protective cellular skin.
The bone, lips, and jawed mouth soon appeared. With this came the first fish. With it also came multiple odd amphibians.
On land, the first reptile appeared. They immediately dominated the land, taking the leaderboard as the first rank on the terrestrial server. Insects couldn’t at all compete against their complex brain. Because of this, an inset used its evolutionary point and developed something that would forever be one of the best evolutionary traits.
Flight.
The insects took off into the sky, being the first animal to take flight. "Well, it isn't the first, but we aren't counting those two stupid creatures."
When they first took flight and evolutionarily took off. Multiple other Insects gain flight, now buzzing and whizzing around every continent and once more becoming the top of an entire server, the arboreal server.
A fish even took the idea from these little bastards and became the first fish to take flight. Soon, there were multiple flying fish--
"What the fuck is that!" The ocean surface parted as a wide mouth filled with rows of razor-sharp teeth glinting in the sunlight emerged. The maw snapped shut, eating a school of flying fish and diving back into the water to chase the rest of the fish, its blood-red eyes locked at them and its fins moving side by side as it shot through the water like a bullet. "Hehe..."
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Sharks now filled the ocean. They shot to the top of the food chain, dominating the aquatic server. They babied fishes and amphibians, becoming the unchallenged top dog of the server. No shark had ever been killed by another animal that is not a shark until the first reptile adept at living in saltwater appeared.
Sharks now had a competitor, large saltwater reptiles. It was also around this time reptiles decided to buy the gigantism perk with their evolutionary point, and dinosaurs were born. "It's amazing how similar to earth the evolution of this planet is going."
I called these beasts dinosaurs, but they were bigger, with thick and hard scales and more visions than what was said about the dinosaurs back on earth. It was around this time that the first ever animal with feathers appeared, being a dinosaur in the snowy terrane with feathers on the top of its head and tail.
The first reptile dinosaurs also took flight, and soon they dominated the arboreal server, casually pushing insets from the top rank of the air. Poor insets. They were pushed from the top rank of two servers by the same kind of animal, the reptiles.
Thousands of years passed, and I noticed something. "What is that?" It is warm blood and covered in fur. It has milk glands, sweats, and gives live births. "Is that a reptile? A bird? A fish?"
No, it's the first mammal that appeared on land.
The mammals quickly grew, expanding faster and faster soon populating the entire terrestrial server. Although, reptiles were still the top dog of the server, with mammals being nowhere close to competing for that rank.
Mammals soon invited themselves to the aquatic server. First were pinnipeds, then sirenians, and finally cetaceans. The cetaceans became the top of the aquatic server for a short period of time, losing their rank when sharks evolved to megatooth sharks because of the competition.
And so, Megalodon was born.
It was around this time a group of animals took the feathers found in certain dinosaurs and used the evolutionary perk to make them better. They used these feathers to fly and gained hollowed-out bone, allowing for better flight, and their production of hard-shelled eggs was their way of reproduction.
And so birds were born into the world, rushing up the ranking board to dominate the aboral server not long after their arrival.
"Now, the five main animal family groups are here." I smiled, "Fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and birds." With this, the ecosystem was complete.
Every creature was working hard for the essential purpose to survive, grow, and reproduce for the inheritance of their race. Plants absorb nutrients from the dead animal acting as fertilizers and grow wantonly. Herbivores eat plants for food, and carnivores hide in the dark and hunt herbivores and other carnivores.
I floated in the sky, my life-force detection enveloping the planet like a blanket. With my Life-Force Detection, I tracked the every move of all quintillion creatures on the planet, including ants.
In these years, my mind had become something that no mortal could comprehend, allowing this to be possible.
I forgot to mention before, but sensing a creature's force would create a silhouette of different colors of the creature. Different creatures have different colored life forces unique to the fundamental of their very soul.
Looking at an animal with my life force detection would make it seem like they were warped in a thin layer of energy. With this power, I knew the amount of life force an animal has, meaning I could tell when exactly they will die of natural death. I also knew what exactly they were doing, be it running, walking, hunting, sleeping, or anything else.
I was Nigh-Omnipresence on this planet.
It is great.
"Ahem!" Back to narrating.
From time to time, a creature in an environment would not adapt and evolve well, and soon they will get eliminated and go extinct.
When a creature is about to become extinct, I will collect its genetic information and save it in my archive mind.
Many creatures die every moment, and then they turn into Cosmic Energy, causing my CE to slowly increase. Sometimes I created new creatures to increase the competition and biodiversity of a part of the world.
Time passed.
Now, every link in the ecosystem is stable. It is now capable of returning to its equilibrium state after a perturbation or does not experience unexpected large changes in its characteristics across time. There is no need for the ecosystem to have constant attention from god.
My planet has reached Ecological stability!
"System. Show my stats." I called as a screen appeared before me.
--STATUS--
True Name: Ailesh
Race: low-rank god
Age: approx. 3.21 billion years
CE: 591.5 CE
CE/10 million years: 1.63
Creations: 1 Star, 1 planet
Soul Ability: Cosmic Calculation, Life-Force Detection, Panmnesia
--STATUS END--
Yep.
2.5 billion earth years have gone by like a blink of an eye.
In these years, I gained a lot of CE. 250 CE from star 1 CE every 10 million years. 107.5 CE from the planet. The CE I get every 10 million years kept increasing with more life, and now it’s a stable .63. More than half what the star gives me now.
I got 197 CE from the death of multiple animals through the 2.5 billion years. The CE they give me every death is extremely minuscule, but they add up as time pass. The MOST CE I ever got in a day was 728, and that was from the first great extinction of animals.
As we all know, this planet leaves the habitable zone twice every 730 days, one closer to the star and one further from the star. My animals and plants have evolved to be able to survive these short three days, six-day if both apocalypses are combined, but one time, an anomaly occurred.
During one of the heat apocalypses, the planet had stayed closer to the sun for two weeks instead of three days, causing a heat apocalypse that almost wiped out all life on my planet and destroyed multiple terrains.
That shit scared me, so I quickly brought the planet back into the habitable zone with 3 CE and used 10 CE to make it stay in the habitable zone through the 730 days it takes to orbit the star. I then had to use 578 CE to recreate most of the animals and plants that had gone extinct and reform the terrain of my planet.
I also used 100 CE to buy an ability from the system. It is known as Panmnesia.
It is an ability that makes me able to remember and recall everything that I have ever experienced, encountered, or learned in my lifetime. This includes my past life as a mortal.
I need only to read, hear, see, and experience something once, and I will never forget it. In addition, I can be able to instantly recall any information stored with perfect clarity and no effort and without strain. My mind has an unlimited storage capacity. I will continue to learn for the rest of my life, and my brain will simply contain it all without trouble, allowing the memory of every event, experience, or a bit of knowledge from birth to the present. This also makes me entirely immune to Memory Manipulation.
It was an amazing ability that was worth the 100 CE I spent. I got this ability because I kept forgetting things I don’t want to forget. Besides, I am a god. What kind of god forget things?
Besides that, with 3.21 billion years gone, only seven hundred and ninety million years are remaining before I die, and I have another thing in mind.
This thing I am about to start working on that would shift the balance of this world. It might destroy my planet's ecosystem and shake my planet's ecological stability.
The creation of...