A wave of cold washed over most of my surface bringing snow to Y’shuah and cold rain to Hatua.

An upside to this was that everyone wore poofy winter clothing which I found adorable.

My children, one and all, were hard at work trying to adapt to the change in weather and building massive ships which they would use to go to the Moon and harvest its Glass and other resources before finally setting off for the stars.

I sat atop one of the dragons who had returned to the Island of Tablets and gently patted its head as we soared beneath the morning sky.

I turned half-open eyes to the sky and beheld the infinite.

Part of me wanted to give up.

To allow the unending to swallow me whole but that’s not what I had fought this hard for. It wasn’t what my children had fought so hard for.

I would cherish every moment until the last.

What was the point?

I didn’t know but I didn’t care about that anymore.

All I knew was that I loved my children and so I hopped of the Dragon and fell towards one. The many launch sites that were being built on my surface.

This one was on the Island of Tablets and standing by the perimeter of the large construction project was Hekima who I had left minutes earlier.

“Tell me, is there anything that you’ve wanted to do? I may not be able to grant your wish but I would at least like to try.” I smiled and this made Hekima thoughtfully top his chin.

“I am quite the content soul but I have always wondered what the bottom of your oceans look like. Perhaps you could take Cheche, Ponya and I there.”

Mmm…

“Alright. We’ll try that when Cheche gets back from school.”

Hekima nodded and this made me think about what my other denizens wanted.

It had been a few weeks since Musa and Tal died – a tragedy that would go unmourned and unsung by my design.

In that time, I had created several dolls which tended to my duties at the temples although I’ll admit that it was disorienting to have several points of focus at first.

I decided to start from the top and pay a certain artist a visit but a quick check told me that he was actually in Hatua so, after leading Hekima to my ship, we made our way south to the hospital in the capital.

We found Azar sitting next to Pazia’s hospital bed.

The artist gently rested his hand above the sleeping Pazia’s and I felt a little bad for interrupting their silence.

Azar noticed me and greeted me with a bow.

“Is there anything I can help you with, My Lady?” He asked as I walked towards him but I shook my head.

“I actually wanted to ask if there was anything you wanted. This is also a good opportunity for me to reward you for making me that stunning dress.”

Azar frowned at this.

His eyes then fell and I could see that he was contemplating refusing my offer.

He let out a sigh and looked into my eyes with an expression so tender.

“Is there a way… I could speak to him?” He asked and this made my eyes widen a little.

“Close your eyes,” I instructed while turning to leave.

Azar gave me a questioning glance before taking a deep breath and doing as I said.

I then left the room and returned to Hekima who stood outside all while pulling one of Azar’s strings towards Pazia’s.

It eventually made contact but this was as far as I would go.

A split second was all they needed and so I led Hekima out of the hospital which sat a few blocks away from the HDA.

I decided to visit Saidia as well and I found her in her office with her wife although they were having breakfast.

“Good morning.” I greeted making the two women stand and bow frantically.

“Good Morning, My Lady!” They both greeted but I put them at ease by simply raising my right hand.

I told them what I told Azar but the two women exchanged puzzled looks.

“Mmm… c-could you join us for dinner?” Saidia asked with an awkward smile.

“Oh- I’d love to but I have plans with Hekima this evening so could we perhaps have this dinner tomorrow?”

“Of course. This will also give us some time to prepare.” Tiyrah nodded.

“Good. Although I must wonder why you chose a dinner instead of anything else.”

“Maybe that’s because you have provided anything else we could ever desire. Thanks to you, we live in a prosperous nation and although this winter will be most harsh, we will emerge on the other side of a most gentle summer. That’s what I choose to believe.” Saidia explained and that answer was more than satisfactory so I turned to leave after bidding them goodbye.

Hekima let out a soft chuckle as we left the HDA.

“What?” I asked.

“Nothing. It just warms my heart to no end to see you tending to the small things. We’re usually so caught up with the grand and cataclysmic that we forget to appreciate the small and fleeting.”

I raised a brow at him.

He was right but something else was on my mind.

“Well, since you’re so wise, would you like to be a god for a day or two?” I grinned and this was enough to make Hekima’s eyes widen with fear.

“That is too cruel a joke.” He whimpered with drooped shoulders but I lightly smacked his back before puffing my chest.

“What? Are you scared-“

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“Yes.” Hekima interrupted flatly.

“Aww… you’re no fun.” I pouted but Hekima didn’t budge.

I gave up and walked back to our ship while still pouting and I pouted all the way to Kimbilio and continued to pout as I entered Ed’s office.

“Err… is something wrong?” Ed asked as I plopped onto the chair in front of his table.

“Would you like to be a god for a day or two?” I sighed while Hekima shook his head behind me.

“P-pardon?” Ed asked while making the same confused expression as his son who sat next to him.

“Nevermind. I came with a different question in mind. What do you want? If there was anything you could ask for from me what would it be?” I crossed my arms.

Ed’s brow furrowed a little.

“You’ve asked a similar question once before and I can’t say much has changed.”

I let out a frustrated groan.

I knew what Ed and everyone were saying but-

Mmm…

Did I really want to help or did I want a distraction?

I sighed and leaned back into the chair.

“First you refuse to enter my temples and now you refuse my direct blessings. How arrogant your kind is.” I scoffed but this just made Ed smile.

“Anyway, did you do as I asked?” I rolled my eyes.

“Yes. Any and all text regarding or referring to the Mal’akhs is being destroyed.” Ed reported.

I nodded before standing up and lazily waving him goodbye.

“Come on. Let’s get Cheche and Ponya ready for our little-“

“Umm… my deepest apologies, My Lady but could we postpone our trip?” Hekima said with a pained expression.

A single bolt of lightning tore across a clear sky but I took a deep breath and exited the building with a guilty-looking Hekima in tow.

He joined me on the way home and accompanied me to the Temple of Tablets where he left my side as I entered its ancient halls.

I made my way down to the bedroom where I fell onto the bed.

I could still feel two other presences in this room even though they were gone.

Hours passed as I lay.

My thoughts were haunted by terrors old and new.

Those hours then turned into worrisome days.

My other dolls were in the other temple’s tending to whatever my people needed although they never asked for much so my other selves just sat in empty chambers for the most part.

It wasn’t that I was allowing time to pass quickly or that I had no interest in what my other denizens were doing.

I was simply heartbroken.

I checked in on my denizens from time to time.

Chozek was still dealing with the aftermath of my battle with Musa in Y’shuah although he had since begun to share administrative control with his daughter, Shemesh.

The dragons remained as easygoing as ever although funnily enough, some people started to think they were my divine companions since I loved them so much.

I knew exactly how this was going to go but I would leave the possibility of dragon cults to my children and maybe even then dragons themselves.

All they ever did was fly around!

Maybe it was time they started doing things!

I let out a sigh after two weeks passed.

I hadn’t moved since but something was catching my attention.

I knew Hekima had gotten pretty busy after I shut myself in but I decided to leave him to his devices.

That is up until I noticed that he was getting more people involved.

No one spoke about what it was they were working on but I figured it had something to do with the Umande River which was thoroughly cleaned and monitored.

A strange cubic wooden building and also been built near the point where I found Musa all that time ago.

Mmm… this was definitely peculiar but nothing they did seemed harmful.

“My Lady.”

My eyes widened as Hekima called me from the entrance of the temple.

I sluggishly made my way to him and questioned him with a raised brow.

“Could I ask you for something unreasonable?”

“What is it?” I asked while trying to hide my concern.

“Could you close your eyes for a while? All but the ones of this body in front of me.”

I frowned.

Hekima saw that I was about to ask that he elaborate and so he raised his right hand, silencing me.

“Think of it as a request from all of us.” He smiled and this was enough to make my eyes widen.

“Huh… when did you become so arrogant?” I scoffed before doing as he asked and limiting my perspective to this body.

“Thank you.” Hekima bowed but I simply clicked my tongue while turning around.

“Go on. Do whatever it is that you want complete secrecy for.” I shooed him away before returning to my room where I fell onto my bed again.

I then closed my eyes and tried sleeping, as futile as that was.

.

..

[My Lady.]

I awoke to the call of thousands- no, millions of my denizens.

I immediately wanted to widen my perspective but I remembered what Hekima had asked of me so I instead rushed out of the temple to find a sea of people on their knees around my temple.

I looked down and saw that all of their Uyil Belts were reaching down to mine.

[Go to the river. To where it all began.]

They instructed through their souls and while this was amazing, I was also a bit frightened.

I nervously flew to Hatua and landed near a certain suspicious wooden building where I found a smug-looking Hekima alongside Saidia, Ed and the other leaders of the humanoids.

“Destroy the wooden veil.” He said. His smile and that of those who stood were seemingly brightened in the brilliant light of the morning sun.

I used Glass Transference to destroy the wooden house and this revealed to me something which stole my breath.

Standing about five meters tall and made entirely out of Glass was a statue of me.

The sculptor, who I knew was Azar purely from the fact that he was among the few who stood behind Hekima, had depicted me in an elegant gown only my arms and head were rested on… me.

My true form.

The form of a planet.

I recognized all my landmarks in the sculpture.

My three continents and two poles, the Elephantine Forest and the Forest Afor, all of it… all of me.

[Mother.]

I turned to Hekima with widened eyes.

He had spoken to me using everyone’s voice.

“Could we ask one more thing of you?”

I looked into my son’s beautiful grey eyes and dreaded his next words.

“Could you let us go?” He pleaded with a voice that shook little.

“I asked as many people as I could if they wanted something but every single soul agreed that we ought to do something for the one who created us. But what do you gift a God?” He asked while.walking towards the sculpture.

“What we eventually agreed on was that the greatest gift we could give you is making you proud by truly achieving independence but in order for that to happen… we need you to let us go.”

Tears began falling from my eyes once again as my Glass heart raced.

I wanted to protest.

I wanted to argue and demand that they let me hold their hand until the very last moment because they were everything to me but…

I let out a pained sigh and began slowly destroying my other dolls.

[Thank you, mother.

For holding us.

For guiding us.

For lifting us up

And nursing our wounds.

For punishment our wrongs

And celebrating our highs.

Thank you, mother and know that we have and will always love you.]

The last of dolls faded into dust and, for the first time since I discovered life on my surface, I allowed time to pass for me as it would a planet but before too much time could pass, I spoke to my children for the last time.

“I love you too.”

Seconds quickly blurred into hours which turned into days, months and years.

I watched as my children built their ships most of which remained on my surface where they were continually modified as technology advanced.

They seemingly agreed among themselves that they could stay on my surface a little longer and they did so for a few thousands more years.

As I suspected, a dragon cult was formed and they caused a bit of trouble but it was nothing catastrophic.

My children also took care not to crack open my surface in their search for resources and even took to the moon for some of their raw materials.

The time eventually came for them to leave as my surface became too cold and too hostile.

As expected, the loss of those Uyil Belts affected me and although I didn’t think my total lifespan would be affected, it definitely made my surface less hospital in a shorter time than expected.

The first ships were small and fast, using Gravity Magic launched themselves across the stars in search of Glass and habitable worlds.

They must have found a few because some ships would later return and guide those who remained back from where they came with the dragons in tow.

Billions of years later my surface stood lifeless although monuments of the past remained.

Chief among which was the statue my children made for me.

It was protected by pylons which created a gravitational barrier around it.

The day eventually arrived when the sun began to expand as it died.

I looked at the bright ball of fire and realized that it too was my parent and unfortunately, I would not be able to escape its embrace when the time came.

This made me all the more grateful that my children had managed to leave with spare time

But this was it.

I had failed spectacularly in my search for true immortality but I didn’t mind.

And so, as the sun expanded once more, scorching my surface in the process, I shifted my focus to be inside the still-standing statue and smiled.

A moment of blazing heat and light passed.

And then it was over.

The End.

Afterword

Firstly, thank you for reading “I Got Reincarnated as a World” to the end. I am beyond grateful and I genuinely wouldn’t have gotten this far without your wonderful support in whatever form it came.

Secondly, I’d like to apologize. Volume 3 ended up being way shorter than expected and I may have to merge it with volume 2.

But yeah, we made it to the end.

There is so much I want to say but I think the story said all that was necessary so again, thank you, my wonderful readers.