Several hours later while the sun was reaching the point of late evening the people of Yuvoghen looked upon the new defenses. The village now enjoyed having its very own moat that stretched around the majority of its perimeter. There was also a better wooden wall that was only half built for the moment, though easily completed by mortal hands within a couple months if need be. Their goddess had done all of this in a single day. That's me of course.

After all the garden work I had actually taken a nap. Its not like digging the trench of doing the wooden wall could be called difficult for me, as working in your garden tires you out but isn't necessarily backbreaking. So taking the opportunity to rest I had lay down on the outside of the village and fallen asleep to regain some mana. It had been almost a week since I had gotten any meaningful sleep after all.

Inside my head in the goddess vision I could still see all the villagers going about their daily lives. For the last few days however my attention had mainly been on the new worshipers of mine that were popping up across the land in other places I can only assume to be towns and perhaps cities. They were few in number at the moment though there was a town to the far north-west that had many people that worshiped me, perhaps over a hundred. According to the prayers I had received from them this town was called Vemdelen. I'm telling you these names are wild, though from what I remember from my world places had names just as wild and sometimes very unimaginative.

The main reason I was actually looking at the town during this nap is because I had been getting lots of prayers from the place about an attacking force of invading troops apparently from the kingdom of Pheoa to the north. There hadn't been any attacks yet of course as I would know about that, its just the townsfolk were aware of an army walking across the border.

My mind self sort of floated there over the map of the world and looked down on the people wandering around in the town. The map of that area was mostly blank as only the space around my worships is revealed to me. Because of this I don't know what the surrounding land looks like or what the town layout itself is, just some areas of the town as its slowly mapped out by the movement of these people.

"Keep revealing the world to me little people."

While I pondered what war would be like between kingdoms a dread came into my heart. Thinking about being a goddess of a kingdom at war was awful so I decided to go into the deeper sleep for perhaps a few hours. The regenerative sleep gave me back a lot of mana which meant it gave me it from another source than just the worship of humans. This warranted more research of course but not for now. For now I allowed myself to drift off into deep oblivion sleep.

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The sound of blaring sirens and flashing red lights assaulted my mind. There were also brief flashes of intense pain that hurt my very heart and mind with pierces like an arrow. I was violently pulled out of deep sleep into my goddess zone like someone waking up in a panic. My heart was racing as I looked around.

"What's going on?" I shouted in panic.

There was no one to answer of course within my own mind. My racing heart was the first thing to take care of and I held my hand over it and began taking deep breaths. The lights and sirens were still going off all around my goddess zone. Then suddenly without warning another one of those pains came to me. It was intense and felt like a stab to the heart. I groaned and grasped my heart tighter.

"W-What...?"

It was a scream and a wail. The sound someone makes when they die. With no hesitation I quickly scoured the map display for the source of this overwhelming despair. The cacophony of prayers also came into focus and my face went pale. These were all prayers of the townsfolk in Vemdelen. They were being attacked! These feelings were the deaths of people. The last prayer of people that believed in me...

Death...

Screams! Screaming! Panic and fire everywhere as the defenders of the town were put to the sword. The horror of bloody violence filled my mind and paralyzed me. Then there came the especially horrifying scream.

In a sudden jerking motion I awoke fully into the world, my body jumping into a sitting position with a speed I didn't know possible. My eyes opened wide as I shouted to the sky.

"I'm up! I'm up!"

It was early morning. I must have slept through the evening and the night. All of the villagers of Yuvoghen who were awake were startled by me of course. I'm sure that seeing a look of fear and pain on your goddess's face while she wakes up in a panic is pretty unsettling. To ease their fear I simply stood up and waved my hand through the air over the village.

"Its fine. I'm fine. Just go about your business."

All was not fine of course though I'm not about to tell that to them. The only question on my mind at the moment consumed my attention: how could I get to the town in time to stop this? Even if I ran as fast as I could it would likely take at least an hour to reach there. In that time they could all be wiped out.

I clutched my stomach and tried not to throw up thinking about that.

There had to be a way to get there faster though. I'm a goddess for god's sake! My mind went about this problem and in the span of a moment I realized it. Teleportation! Within the next few minutes I needed to figure out how to teleport.

Closing my eyes I dove back into the goddess zone, my mind moving the map directly to the town far far away. With all my mental fortitude I imagined an opening in the world that I step through like a door. Portals is what these things were called. If it was possible to create a portal then I could get there in an instant.

"Please father let this work..." I whispered in my mind.

As if a power higher than mine was answering me I felt an idea enter my mind. With intense focus I hedged all my thoughts around a single woman in that town, my vision closing to a pin point. Magic circles of a size big enough to envelop me seemed to form around my head. I looked up and in my mind saw an opening to another sky, one with billows of smoke entering into it. Indeed!

By instinct I opened my eyes into the real world and there above me in the air was the same opening. It was a glowing circle of magical looking symbols and shapes glowing gold in the morning air. Now I was thinking with portals! Ignoring the concern and confusion of the villagers below me I reached up into the open hole in reality and tried to pull myself up into it. To my surprise instead of going up into it the portal was pulled down over me like a hoop. The effect was all I could have asked for: me disappearing from where I stood and appearing where I had wanted to be.

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"I have arrived!"

The effect my entrance had on the humans below was something I could only imagine from the incoming waves of raw psychic energy of terror and despair.

Because the portal was like a pair of pants it required me to step out of it at the bottom and though I tried to be careful of where my feet were landing it was inevitable I would step on a house. Thankfully no one seemed to have been inside that building as it was crushed into splinters beneath my massive boot. My other foot landed with a thundering boom in the middle of the street as people fled in every direction both townsfolk and soldier alike. Without another thought my mind went into immediate assessment mode.

I looked around frantically and tried to take in all the information about the situation that I could. The town itself was pretty big according to what I remember of old world towns. To my initial surprise I first saw the scale of everything. Like the village before it was like stepping into a tiny model for a movie set or something. All the townhomes were like thirty feet tall at least but barely reached to my shins. Even the wooden walls of the town barely reached that high on my body. Each of my feet easily took up the entire street and the castle in the center of town barely reached my stomach with its tallest tower.

Sadly this visit was not one to enjoy the beauty of the town as there was great destruction going on around me. Fires rose up from buildings scattered around the town, the billowing black smoke rising into the sky above. There was of course the screaming of the people being attacked and those attacking. The smell of burning and death filled my lungs and caused me to choke.

The screams from the terror of war were replaced by ones from the terror of my appearance. A massive titan of a little girl had appeared from the sky and now stood menacingly over the entire town and despite my coughing one could well imagine people going mad with fear. There were already people from both the town and attacking army fleeing in all directions, all other thoughts purged from their minds.

With a final cough I stood up and prepared to address the humans below. I needed to make this a commanding entrance if I was to restore any amount of order. While I didn't know it both my eyes and hair and ignited in a brilliant golden glow as my voice boomed out across the town.

"I am Jenna the goddess of light and knowledge! All soldiers who dare attack my town gather outside the town to face judgment!"

The enemy had already begun to flee with most of the army fleeing in the northern direction they had assuredly come from. My plans didn't include any of them escaping though I did wonder what I was going to do with them. Its not like a goddess can just kill everyone she considers an enemy right? Do I need to chase after them? I did need to stop them escaping.

With as much care as possible I began walking through the town towards the fleeing army. There couldn't have been more than two hundred of them. Not a small army but not a big one either. My feet boomed down in the streets below as I was sort of straddling over a row of buildings and using the two streets on either side as a place to put my feet. Everyone was fleeing in fear of me which made it much easier to walk.

"Anyone who's able bodied start taking care of the wounded! Those with the ability start putting out the fires if you can!"

My commanding voice seemed to shock some sanity back into the panicking townspeople. The massive girl was speaking to them, was giving them orders. It was human nature to follow those more powerful than them, especially if it was believed that powerful being has their best interest in mind. It was clear now that this goddess that had appeared was at least protecting them for the time being. The enemy was fleeing and the command was to stand fast in your home. Thankfully to my great relief it seemed they were obeying me.

The enemy army however was a different story. They had the footsteps of a furious goddess at their backs and I was making no effort to hide my fury. I was trying very hard to keep rage from broiling up from within me though the pain of their victims was filling me with a righteous anger. It hurt my very pride itself as well. How dare they attack MY people?

"Not a single one of you will escape!" I shouted at the fleeing men and women.

After several steps I was at the wall of the town and due to its height of barely thirty feet I was able to step over it like humans would step over a fallen log. Then outside of the town I simply speed walked through the fleeing soldiers and stopped a short distance in front of them in the direction they were fleeing. I then spun on my heels and glared down at them my face still red with anger.

"End of the road! You will go no further!"

They were still still fleeing of course just now in different directions. An idea for dealing with that came to mind. My ability to use vines to grasp at objects could surely be used to contain people as well. I had been practicing with using large amounts of vines to pull together mounds of rocks in order to like stop rock slides or stuff so this would just be applying that.

Closing my eyes I expanded my mind out as far as I could picturing the enemy as they ran around, barely able to perceive these non worshipers as their belief in me grew simply from my existence. There were those fleeing from inside the town as well with some already in the edge of the forest. None would escape me if I had anything to say about it.

"You're not getting away!"

With a deep breath I gathered as much focus possible for me at the moment and lifted my left foot into the air. Then with the force of a crashing meteor I stomped it into the ground causing an earthquake. The people who didn't topple from the shaking soon found themselves entwined in a new nightmare.

As a goddess my mental processing was clearly vastly superior to a human's which allowed me to do what I was doing now. Hundreds of vines burst forth from the ground as I spread my mana out through the ground towards the fleeing soldiers. They grasped out like tentacles and ensnared the legs of the fleeing humans, toppling them to the ground with screams of dismay. Any unused vines were quickly dismissed to save mana as I sent out tendrils further to catch those fleeing into the woods. The mana cost was higher than I liked and not everyone was able to be captured in this way, though the show of power was enough to stop them in their tracks as I took a couple steps forward.

"Useless useless! As you can see there isn't a way for you to escape. If you want mercy I suggest you all come gather in front of me and beg for your lives."

I then lifted my head to let my voice carry over the town.

"And to any soldier hiding in the town or ensnared in the woods be assured I can still see you and demand you come here as well. If you don't want to surrender to me I will simply kill you where you stand. Do we have an understanding?"

The people of the town had stopped what they were doing and were staring at me in awe instead of helping their devastated community. I addressed them quickly by raising my hand and pointing at the town.

"You townspeople stop standing there gawking! I can see what you're doing you know. Tend to the wounded and get those fires put out! I'll address you later."

My renewed orders thankfully had the intended effect and they went back to dealing the devastation. They of course took a look over at the towering child every once in a while which wasn't something I could stop. What's important is saving as many lives as possible.

Meanwhile with regards to the attacking army for their part the soldiers had began to gather in a crowd before my feet. It was quite clear to them at this point that there was no other choice but to beg me for mercy. As their obedience was demonstrated I began releasing those entwined in vines and they began walking over as well. Those far off in the town and woods might still flee so I would need them brought over.

I lifted my arm and pointed in the direction of the town.

"You that are able. Go and bring out those hiding in the town and woods ensnared. None of you are getting away and I want you to bring them to me as well. Don't think about escaping with them either as you'll share in their death if you attempt that. Go on now."

My arm was lowered again as I crossed my arms, my expression changed from one of fury to a frown of disappointment. It wasn't really in my plan to kill a bunch of people as I'd rather not have to kill anyone at all. Probably the best move is to make these people like prisoners of war and send them off to the local lord guy and have him deal with them as he saw fit.

Many of those gathered in front of me left to go gather their comrades and I spoke to those who remained.

"We'll wait here for the escapees to be brought over. Sit down if you want. Nothing's gunna happen until I have all of you all in one place."

This seemed to ease the outright panic in these soldiers hearts though the fear of death was still very much hoovering over them like an aura. They were still before the feet of a massive goddess who was clearly very angry at them. Many of them did in fact sit down and rest while others began taking to each other in whispers.

I didn't bother listening in on their conversations. For the moment I was thinking of how I was going to deal with them and how to go about all this.