I lay there in the middle of the mountain forest. Due to my new divine nature I didn't actually sleep, it seemed to be impossible without my power being drained first. One might think such a state would be a dream come true, but in reality the constant state of wakefulness was more of a curse. Imagine never being able to embrace the bliss of oblivion even for the little time of sleep. It brought to my attention that even though oblivion was indeed terrifying I was so used to brushing against it in my previous life that it became a comfort for me. The things you never think you'll miss.

Of course there was plenty to do for me even in my sleepless state. The prayers of my worshipers were now constant. It was actually crazy how many people were praying to me now. To hear their thoughts and feel their emotions, it was altogether overwhelming. Everyone wanted something from me, for the goddess to solve their troubles. Of course I couldn't actually answer every prayer with my current powers. It seemed that the more worshipers I got the more power I had over the world itself. I knew such power as reality warping and the term described it perfectly.

Using my goddess vision in combination with my mental map of the world allowed me to remotely affect my worshipers and the world directly around them to a lesser degree. It was like playing a game where I had an overhead view. I imagine that when I get really powerful it really will feel like being an actual god. When someone asked me to heal their sickness I could remotely access their body and infuse healing mana into them curing most conditions. It seemed more advanced sickness needed me to personally touch them. Affecting the environment also seemed to be within my power to a certain degree. I saved someone from falling from a free by causing grasping vines to catch them.

This is not to forget that I knew of at least one god more powerful than me. My arriving in this world and my new state of being had to be done by someone. In my previous life the universe creator had many names in many religions but that was who I was sure did it. Elohim, Yahweh, God, The Universe, The Unknown God, and so the list went on. There were certainly also other goddesses like me in this world, though I've heard they disappeared for the most part long ago. I was a child goddess but any adult goddesses would surely be too much for me to fight against. I needed to gain as much knowledge and power as I could in preparation for that. There was no guarantee they wouldn't be hostile towards me.

I sat up in the middle of the trees and brushed myself off quickly. It was at the beginning of the morning and the sun had just risen fully. Even though I never slept anymore I liked to pretend to have a normal sleep schedule unless something demanded I be active at night. This was partially to help me cope with the sleeplessness but mainly served to teach my worshipers that there were periods of time I was to be left alone. With so many people vying for my attention it was more than my socially awkward self to handle. Even an extreme extrovert would surely cave under such ever-present attrition.

As the fall wind rushed over me I used my fingers to comb through my hair. It was brightly shining in a brilliant golden hue. My eyes too shone with more inner light than ever before, though that only happened whenever I got emotional. Thus I attempt to control my emotions as much as possible in order to not frighten people as glowing eyes could be quite intimidating. My clothing remained the same pretty much everyday as I had no real reason to change to wash it or bathe. Most of my worshipers thought my little skirt and layers of shirts was cute. None of them had ever seen a hoodie before either and some of the human women had began recreating it themselves.

"Great goddess!" came a male voice near my feet.

There were a pair of men standing a short distance away from my feet, unafraid of the enormous boots that would easily turn them into stains should they end up under them. They were guards from the city Vinedenne who thought they were protecting me as I slept. I wasn't going to correct them on the nature of things and thought it was cute besides.

I turned my head and looked down at them trying to keep my gaze as gentle as possible. Something that was difficult when I was looking at them from a hundred feet above them like they were bugs.

"Did you need something? I never asked you to stand watch over me through the night you know."

The man on the left gulped with a look of fear on his face as if he thought his goddess was angry. "W-Well we know you don't n-need protecting Great Goddess but-"

His name was Jade and he had been praying for his brother during the night. Something about an incurable illness he was afflicted with. His brother wasn't a worshiper that I could find so he probably wasn't one yet. Nothing I could do at this point.

"Its very sweet of you" I said with my best cute smile. "You're dismissed now." I paused for a moment. "Also about your brother Jade. He doesn't seem to be a worshiper so I can't do anything to help him you see. It can't be helped."

He stammered and looked up at me with a look of reverence in his eyes. Its not like any humans except Miya knew how their prayers actually worked so he was shocked I knew what he prayed for last night. Understandable of course. I'll keep it a mystery too, nothing people love more than a good one of those.

He finally spoke after recovering himself. "Of course goddess. I apologize for praying and asking for such a pointless thing. I'm also sorry my brother hasn't yet seen your light."

"It's not a problem" I quickly replied. "I'm not out to force anyone to convert to my worship or anything. People should choose to do it of their own free will."

The other man laughed and slapped Jade on the back. "That's our goddess for you! Nobel to the very detail!" He then looked up to me. "Truly your mercy and majesty know no bounds!"

What they didn't know was as noble as it was there was an arterial motive behind it. One could even call it sinister. I knew that worship gained through love inspired much greater loyalty than one could ever hope to gain through fear. Really I'm being selfish with long term goals in mind when I allow people to come to me themselves instead of forcing converts. Hopefully no one figures it out and if they do they don't think I would ever think like this. I'm really not planning anything sinister anyway!

I began standing up and brushed off my leggings as I did so. My feet thundered down and shook the two men visibly. I mean they were the size of my pinkie finger.

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"Yes yes. Now I really must be going. I have a little morning class to teach in Doovlin."

After saying that I just ignored them and turned to walk towards the village of Doovlin. I had started a little school time with Jenna of sorts in the early mornings. It was just a class to share knowledge with the villagers and anyone who came to listen. Basic stuff really: mathematics, biology, literacy, economics, and all the stuff you would learn in school. Most adults could read of course but there wasn't any basic education for the poor in this world. It was no different then feudal times in my old world. Only the rich could afford a private tutor and that infuriated me. Like I actually got a bit ragey when I thought about it for too long. Thus these classes were meant to help the poor gain some understanding of the world and whatnot.

It didn't take me much time at all to walk to Doovlin even though I had been many miles into the pine forest. As I approached I smiled at the finished stone wall around most of the village and the watchtowers at each corner. It wasn't a tall wall of course, not even past my ankles, but that was still at least ten feet for the humans. My booming steps will have woken up anyone that was sleeping, though I have heard that some have gotten so used to the mini earthquakes that they could sleep through them. Reminded me of myself actually.

"Good morning Doovlin!" I said cheerily as I stepped over the wall and into the village proper. After that it was only a few steps over to the sort of open air theater where I did my lessons. There was already a small crowd of a couple hundred people gathered there. They were of all ages both young and old. I suppose its sort of become a thing to come gain knowledge from the goddess of it. Also the goddess of light by the way! Though that seems to be glossed over by most people. Whatever I'm not bitter.

People stopped to give me a bit of praise or a prayer and continued on their day. Having me around was a very normal occurrence to the people of this village especially. Many of those gathered for my class were from other places and were unused to my size and speed. There was some fear in their hearts but nothing too worrying.

I stepped over to the massive boulder I had brought down from the mountain to serve as my seat and looked over the crowd. "Good morning students!"

"Good morning goddess Jenna!" they all replied in unison.

After the greeting I sat down as gently as I could, the reverberating boom of my butt shaking the immediate vicinity. There were some murmurs of concern and awe from the new faces in the crowd.

With a flick of my wrist I summoned my floating book and it opened with a thought. On its page was a large symbol people from my old would know immediately. Two circles intersecting like the number eight on its side. The symbol of infinity. The crowd looked at it in confusion and curiosity.

"What is that?" a woman asked pointing.

There were more murmurs as people talked among themselves.

I just smiled. "Today I wanted to introduce a more advanced concept from mathematics that I'm sure none of you have thought much about before." I let out a sigh. "I'm not sure it'll be that useful for your everyday lives. But I wanted you to know about it as you never know."

The book floats down closer to ground level, the ribbon tethering it to me increasing in length as necessary. As the pages of the book show whatever it is I can imagine I have a small colored light trace around the lemniscate. As it went the colors of the rainbow appeared in its path until the full spectrum was traced around the shape forming an infinite colored loop. This was to make it more visually unerstandable.

"This is called a lemniscate. It represents infinity. The never ending loop." I pointed and traced with my finger now. "See how it goes around and around? There is no beginning or end to this shape."

One of the men in the crowd raised his hand. He looked like a townsperson. I put my hands on my lap and addressed him.

"Yes? You there?"

He cleared his throat. "Something having no beginning or end? Such a thing is ispossible in the world. Why would knowing about such a symbol be important?"

"Hmm..." I said appearing thoughful. "Well some of you were here for my lesson on the water cycle weren't you?" There were replies of conformation from the crowd. I continued. "Well the water cycle is infinite isn't it? The same water evaporates from the ground, forms clouds that rain down, it flows through the land, and then gets taken up into the sky again. The same water goes through this process over and over again. There is no beginnin nor end to its journey is there?"

There were gasps of shock as people began to comprehend what I had just said. Several people raise their hands at the same time. I choose another main from the crowd, this one a villager from Doovlin.

"Yes?" I asked.

He stammered a bit. "I must admit Great Godddess that my mind is still reeling from this revelation. Such a concept. Its difficult to grasp."

He paused and there were statements of agreement from all over the crowd.

"If this infinity truely does exist even in the real world" he continued. "What other things are neverending?"

I tapped my chin and thought about it for a moment. Thanks to my goddess powers I had some sort of mind hastening that allowed me to process thoughts in lightening speeds. After practice I had managed to apply it to my reaction time as well, though this wasn't applicable here. I spent a few minutes from my perspective thinking but only a few moments from theirs.

"Well think of infinity as possibility." I replied. "Like for example apples. Are we really ever going to run out of apples? As long as humans continue to cultivate them there will always be more apples growing forever and ever as long as humans exist and possibly beyond. Its not truely infinite but it has the potential to be infinite."

While I had been speaking I used my book to show pictures of apple seeds being places in the ground by humans and growing into many apples trees. Then those trees growing more apples with a zooming image of more and more apple trees and apples until the trees were tiny dots on the page.

"Thought if you're talking truely infinite things like the water cycle. I would say the imagination counts as one of those things. Truely there is no end to what people can think of." I then gesture to the sky. "The outer space I've spoken on before. Its also infinite. It goes out and onward to a place that never ends. But of course here on this planet we don't need to worry about that."

There were a few minutes of silence as the people collectively thought it over, only being interrupted by children asking their parents for help understanding. I left that to the adults to explain to their kids, and from what I heard they were doing an ok job of it.

"Is your power infinite goddess?" One woman in the crowd asked somewhat nervously.

I just smiled and laughed. "Oh. No I suppose its not currently. I know that's probably not what ya'll wanted to hear. My power is potentially infinite however as the more humans that worship me the more I gain. Perhaps that fills you with fear or joy, either one is acceptable as my growth is inevitable. The amount of humans is also potentially infinite you see, so is my number of worshipers and thus my power!"

So my class went on. I discussed more about the nature of infinity and how it was used it mathematics. There was also mention of my father's infinite love which I sort of glossed over as discussing too much about an infinite being would probably be too much for them to handle at this time. It was a mind bending concept regardless even for me. Even in this elevated divine state true infinity was beyond even my full comprehension.

Having infinite knowledge, that was my ultimate goal. Infinite potential to help those in need is why. It was at once a selfish and selfless goal, or so I liked to think to myself. One fear I had was that my mind and memory was finite even if it had been increased in capacity. This was a problem I was currently developing a fix for I hoped.

I pushed these thoughts from my mind and continued my class. This lesson on infinity was starting to give me an idea for a water wheel and its applications and I'd need to chew on that after this. I put a literal pin in that thought inside my goddess zone as I answered questions from my students.