Year 7,000,000 since creation

Current Age: Origin

A few million years have passed since I started the modifications and the world was able to accept new rules again. I wasted no time adding divinity, faith, evolution, and other systems.

Since the world was a bit more mature I could put in more. Adding some scientific and mystic rules like summoning, chemistry, alchemy, runes, and a whole bunch more until the world once again felt overwhelmed and sent a distress signal.

I stopped and silently conversed with the world conscious though it could only return with vague impressions and feelings.

I was ecstatic. The world was developing faster than expected and in the near future, a few million years maybe, they would be able to communicate fluently. For now I continued to chat while beginning the next batch of improvements.

Multitasking was fairly easy even when I started forming four mountains in the cardinal directions of the world. They also made another set for the upside down portion too.

The babbling of the world surrounded me while I did so. It was the same nonsense-like conversation one would have with mortal babies. I couldn't deny that it's these moments that got my burnt out tired self through the job.

The top of the mountains weren't pointy but a bowl of a few hundred meters in radius. And in the center of the bowls they placed the source of the four elements. To the north was water, the south was fire, the east was earth, and the west was wind.

The bowls were soon filled in a few months then began to overflow drenching the entire mountain in liquid energy. It wasn't water but condensed pure elemental energy that just looked like liquid and also acted like it.

I carved a moat around the mountains. From the moat various channels were drawn in various patterns connecting the mountains and allowing the liquid energies to clash and combine. I also connected the mountains directly to the two world trees.

At the foot of the trees I also carved a moat and placed the sources of elements and magic. Placing both in the middle where the trunk meets the root. It also began to fill up and fused with the currents from the mountains.

Even with the clashing energies it looked fairly stable. I decided to wait a hundred thousand or so years before I continued. I created new layers and sandwiched the old one with it and also did the same on the upside downs side. One on top and the other at the bottom.

Once again carving channels in certain patterns different from the old one but still connects the mountains and trees. I waited again for it to stabilize before repeating the process. Each layer had a different pattern until the mountains were completely covered by the last layer leaving only flat earth.

I wasn't finished yet but decided to add more systems and rules since a few million years had passed and the world had adapted to the changes.

Tribulations, madness, insight, fate, fortune, and others were added. I had finished adding only the basic versions of all systems and let the world advance these by itself.

It's better this way because all basic rules and systems don't clash or contradict each other unlike the derivatives and evolutions. The world could then balance and prevent clashes to already existing systems.

Sure it might complicate the evolution and potential of each system but that's fine. In the long term the pros outweigh the cons. Once a system or rule does evolve from this hodgepodge of a mess it would definitely be extremely powerful.

I was done with systems but the world seemed able to accept more. I decided to include all information on different kinds of life forms and materials and send them to the world for study. Unlike before, I didn't inscribe it in the origin.

What kind of creature the world breeds was up to it. I only gave guidelines and examples of existing and thriving life in the various universes I saw and created. What the world does with this info was a future problem that future Cycle could manage.

I said so clearly to the world. While the conscious was busy examining the massive amounts of info the concept set about the finishing touches of the latest modifications.

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Eight seeds were created and placed where the mountains were located. Once buried, I urged the tree roots of the world trees to grow directly under the seeds. The roots encircled and climbed the buried mountains.

The seeds sprouted after a hundred thousand years and the roots reached straight down. This was all done under my control and manipulation. If not it would've taken a million years before they would sprout. Even the world tree would've taken billions of years without interference.

The two world trees’ roots reached the source of the four elements at the same time as the saplings’ main roots. The roots systems combined and sources were completely covered by the roots.

When the saplings made contact with the world trees and the sources they changed. Each becomes an elemental tree binding a specific element instead of becoming a new world tree.

This result was intentional. The world didn't need more world trees. Two trees were already pushing it. It was a precarious dance as the two trees complemented and also competed for nutrients. Any more would have completely dried up the world making it desolate.

These eight extra trees were auxiliary trees made to balance the elements and strengthen the world's stability. With a more stable world, its growth accelerates and can become larger.

Before the plane was around ten thousand miles from edge to edge while growing about a few meters per year. Now it's been accelerated to hundreds of meters per year. Not to mention the growth and maturity of the two world trees were also boosted.

I couldn't wait to see what the future would bring. Now all that's left to do is wait.

Year 14200000 since creation

Current Age: Origin

I didn't have to wait too long, around several million years or so. The two world trees blossomed and an uncountable number of flowers replaced the leaves. They were also able to self-pollinate.

I watched the flowers bloom for another hundred thousand years. During this time the two trees gradually became transparent as if to fade away. This was intended.

The moment all the flowers become fruits the two trees would become incorporeal only sensed not seen or touched. It would be there and not there. As if in a flux.

One of the greatest weaknesses of the world tree system is that when the world tree dies or was otherwise damaged it directly affects the entire system. It wasn't uncommon to see the world destroyed at the same time the tree died.

I, of course, made preparations and plans to prevent that and this is the current best method. The trees were now physically untouchable. As they continue to grow they’ll eventually have spiritual and magical immunity as well.

This would continue until the only way to kill the trees is to destroy the world in which it rests.

This removed the greatest weakness of my world. There would be no big weakness to exploit, maybe a few minor ones but nothing as damning as the one before. It wouldn't be like in the past, this time it would be safe.

I watched as flower petals fell and tiny fruits formed. As the last petals dropped the two trees disappeared. I can still sense it but physically it wasn't there anymore. They became similar to universal phenomena. Like in another world, I saw before where love became formless but encompassing the universe.

“f……. Plea….”

Something echoed in my mind. I searched and found myself looking at the world below.

“Four more seeds…please,” A tiny androgynous voice said. Ah, it looks like the world can now talk. And the first thing they did was to ask for something. I wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not.

Still, I fulfilled the request, creating the seeds and sending them to the world. The wind stirred and the four seeds were carried by it to its destination. A pair went to the top above where the world tree once was and the other at the bottom below where the upside-down tree was.

“Source light and dark…two pairs”

I was beginning to see what the world planned to do. I was also amused that the world shamelessly asked for more. Other concepts would've been mad at this point. Feeling that they weren't given proper respect. Pride was a core part of their existence. After all, it isn't easy to become a concept. A being a level above even primordial and ancient gods.

To reach this level of power an uncountable number of lives would've become footstools for advancement. It would've been strange if they didn't have some kind of ego.

I wasn't exempt from this but compared to other concepts I consider myself milder. Only showing this soft and generous side to my personal creations. If it were any other who did this they would've been erased from existence.

I treated my worlds as my children like small cute toddlers asking for candy. I chuckled at the image.

Four sources were made and given to the world conscious.

A pair of light and dark for the top and another for the bottom just like the seeds. In fact, the seeds have already sprouted. Their growth sped up by giving them more CHAOS to absorb. They were positioned the same way as the world trees with one upside down and the other right-side up.

In the middle of the saplings, the world placed the sources. One light and one dark. The sprouts changed, one became an elemental light tree and the other a dark tree. The same thing happened to the other pair.

The ethereal world trees were involved too. Connected to all four new trees and sources. It's why it's an elemental tree instead of a world tree.

Next changes occurred in the whole world. The rules were attempting to change. It's trying to rebalance day and night but doesn't know what to do with the multiple suns and moons and four split skies.

The trees changed day and night too. When the dark tree is at the bottom it's night and if the light tree is at the bottom it’s day. This however is in contrast with the already established day-night cycle.

“Well this is a mess. What are you gonna do about it?”

The world tried to solve it and it took around a thousand years of trying to no avail. Eventually giving up and calling out.

“Help”

I heard them plea in a frustrated and resigned voice. They were already adding feelings and inflection. I'm so proud!!!

“No, you got yourself in this mess, you deal with it,” I love and dote on my worlds but now that they could talk it means they're nearing maturity. I won't solve all their problems for them anymore.

I would be sent to another creation task after this so this world needs to learn to fend for itself. It's better in the long run this way.

The world lets out a frustrated grumble before focusing back on the now increasingly volatile day-night cycle.

I looked at the barren landscape of this world and thought To myself.

‘It's been around just about to reach five million years since I started and it's still a wasteland. I'm behind schedule. Next step is life propagation.’