Kaori was amused and annoyed at the same time. This was a huge oversight! This was exactly why she needed to observe the natives up close. There were instances where her underlings simply overlooked things and there were places where they assumed she meant something that she didn’t.

Kaori assumed that the latter could be chalked up to cultural differences or simply underling syndrome. Then there was the possibility that the system might be interfering on their behalf. She couldn’t remember writing that particular bit into the programming for her office software but it might be the case. This was something that would have to be resolved right now.

She left off watching the squirrel-woman, a scuiringen as she had named them in the catalog. She headed for the big kidney shaped desk that was hers. She was stopped a half dozen times on the way by one of the lesser deities with questions or in one case a compliment.

Kaori could still feel the heat in her cheeks from the compliment. She also knew that it wasn’t just the normal sucking up to the boss. Her hands began making a sesame seed grinding motion subconsciously. This was one of the deities whom she had hired from the help section of her catalog and she told Kaori that this was the most functional deific realm she had ever been in!

Kaori was still blushing when she made it to her desk and began a search for translation properties in her software. It only took the briefest moment for the software to come up clean of anything like that. That left Kaori puzzled for a moment before she summoned her book to her hand.

With a thought and the spreading of her fingers to hold the book, it appeared in her hand. The cover, which looked like some fusion of magic grimoire and a magazine, was now missing the pause button that had adorned it not long ago. It had disappeared when Kaori reset the time on the world below which meant that every correction from now on would have to be done in real time.

Kaori checked a few pages in and looked at the table of contents, wondering what section might lend an answer to her question. Out of the categories were animals, energies, features, help, histories, magic, materials, monsters, phenomena, powers, races, and relics she wasn’t sure where it would be. A moment later, she had an idea and went to the section for hiring, Help. She discovered that there was a section for promotion of new hires to deific positions before hiring so that the process counted towards the worship points you would have to pay them. In this case, the process was contractual and for a one-time investment of points a deity could make a lesser deity that they didn’t have to pay half as much.

Seemed like a con but she could understand if the world’s deity was bad at their job and was struggling to get enough worship. She set the line of reasoning aside though as she found the listing for perks of becoming a deity. Listed right there in plain sight was the ability to understand and speak any language. So the problem was that everyone on high was a deity and therefore could automatically understand every spoken language of the world they had created.

Kaori pondered this for a moment but ultimately turned to her book again. She went to the table of contents and pressed the section for powers and thought about languages. The moment she pulled her hand back, the book flipped to the section for powers and more specifically, it flipped to a power called omniglot. The word was strange but not unknown to her. She had seen it a few times in various Isekai novels.

The power in question had several price ranges from one for single person all the way to every world under the purview of the deity. This last was an atrociously large sum in the millions of WP. Kaori somewhat wanted it but knew it was out of her price range but maybe the one for just this world.

Kaori sat her book down on the desk in front of her and looked at her left hand. On the thumb of her left hand was a thin silver ring with a round flat space on the top and carved out of that space was an intricate pattern that was too complex to actually exist in a ring. She held her breath and swiped a finger over the ring, activating the spell circle that was the actual function of the ring.

Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.

The center of the circle set in the ring lit and the whole circle began turning with a faint purple power and several bands of spell circuitry around the band faintly glowed briefly. The purple glow leapt from the ring and formed a small oval window in the air in front of her, displaying her current worship point balance. For a moment, Kaori just sat there in stunned disbelief.

The small oval displayed a number that Kaori felt was simply ludicrous. She had expected to still be looking at a negative balance but what she found was anything but. The balance of her account was currently in the mid eighty billions. Her account balance was increasing as she watched! She sat stunned for several minutes as the balance ticked ever upwards and finally overtook eighty-six billion WP.

In a panic, Kaori swiped the floating breakdown menu and found her deductions and credits summary on her account. The credits part was moving at a blinding pace and she swiped on it immediately. The breakdown that opened was a spreadsheet page that took up the area of a door.

There were flashing account transactions going on at a frenetic pace with the vast majority being for the PDI (Personal Deific Interface) systems but the orders for batches of anthromorphs wasn’t running much slower. The sheer volume of sales left her feeling numb.

A sudden thought occurred to her and she tapped the search bar that she was sure hadn’t been there the last time she had used this spell. The bar opened a keyboard interface and Kaori typed in Descartes Malafecto and found his name as one of the first three to purchase the system. No wonder Tozenna and later Descartes were so insistent that she post it for sale.

With her finances secured in a most over the top manner, Kaori picked her book up and reread the description of the omniglot power. The power could be turned on and off by the deity and could even be turned on and off by the recipient so long as the deity made it available. It would also give a reference to which language the being that was speaking to the recipient spoke.

Kaori almost purchased it immediately but then thought about it and wrote up an announcement that would be displayed in the system window of the people down below. A sudden realization struck her, the inhabitants didn’t have the videogame-like systems available to them. This was one of the things she was going to do later when she had a bit more WP available.

With a smirk and a quick glance at the ring on her thumb, Kaori tapped her book to open it to the powers page for inbuilt systems. She was a little puzzled when nothing happened but flipped to the front in the TOC and tapped the powers section while thinking of a video game system window. Again, nothing happened. Groaning, Kaori tapped the powers section and it dutifully flipped to the beginning of that section. She settled in for a good bit of reading.

In the forest below

The girl had grown accustomed to the noises in the slight distance. She was aware that there might be danger there but she couldn’t identify it so she was left with the choices of either fleeing, waiting, temporarily ignoring them, or finding out what they were.

She chose to simply ignore them and looked about for a bit of food. This went on for a few days where she searched every tree she could reach without descending to the ground. There was enough water held in the hollows of trees for her to drink from for those few days. Then came the morning that no matter how much she searched she couldn’t find any food that she could reach without getting out of her safe tree cluster.

There was no way out for her. She could descend but she would either have to get closer to whatever was making all that noise or go back the way she had come. She quickly decided that the way she had come terrified her more than whatever was ahead of her.

She got down from her tree and walked to the tree she couldn’t reach by its branches and then climbed back up. She might be forced to get closer to the noise but she wasn’t going to do it any faster than she absolutely had to. After finding a cluster of nuts for a late breakfast, she cleaned herself and then curled herself up and went back to sleep. Kaori sat on the branch beside her watching her sleep and considering if there was anything she should update her alter ego about but decided that the changes she was working on were more important. She casually brushed an ethereal hand across the sleeping girl's head while looking down at her with a smile.