Since Kaori already had everyone’s attention, she decided that now would be a good time to introduce everyone who was awake, which looked to be about two thirds of everyone, to the wonders of networking. “Now that I have finished with the quick remodel, let me have everyone synch up with each other using the pedestal over there. Just go over to it and place your off hand, meaning the one you don’t use to do most things, on top of it in the blue oval. In a very short time it will turn gold around your hand and you can remove your hand from it.”
“Some of the golden color will leave the pedestal and follow your hand in an oval. Ignore the floating gold and move over here so that the next person can get to the pedestal. Once all of you have been to the pedestal, I will begin telling everyone the next part. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt you.”
It took a few minutes but everyone was finally standing around in a group in front of her. Some were talking quietly amongst themselves while most were looking at her expectantly. Only one group was conspicuously messing with the new item they had received, Her previous angels and demons from Earth. Only they would know how to make use of most of the functions of their new interface, for that was indeed what Kaori had given all of her various gods and goddesses. It was the magical equivalent to a notepad computer with a built-in video chat function. She spent the next couple hours explaining the functions of the new boon to them.
By the end of her explanation there were no end to the quiet murmurs of admiration and awe and more than a few deities who were extolling her virtues very boisterously. Kaori for her part blushed a little at their praise but waved it off. None of this was, strictly speaking, her ideas and she felt awkward receiving praise for the ides. The group that had transmigrated with her all had big grins on their faces as the egged the crowd into ever more adulation, even the three former angels!
Having finished with their little impromptu pep-rally The groups all began heading back to their original work stations and found the new designs to be a great deal more efficient to work with. The holographic tables allowed them to walk through the display to point to different parts of the map without changing the orientation or size. Soon, a number of requests for different elements to be implemented were piling into Kaori’s notification bin on her laptop. Going through them, she was able to approve the greatest portion of them on the spot. There were others that were requests for clarification or suggestions of a direction to proceed, especially where monsters and challenges were concerned.
The work proceeded smoothly for the next several days with all of the deities who missed her initial presentation about the interfaces hearing about it from their peers and everyone quickly adapted to the new system. Kaori finally took some time off to go sleep in her new apartment at the insistence of many of her underlings. Finally, a few days later, it was time to begin implementing the new species and setting all of the new races up to figure out where they would all begin.
This is where Kaori ran into a bit of a snag. She had never figured out how to make the hybrids she wanted. There was always the option of paying for them but that would be prohibitively expensive. What was it she was planning to do again? No, she had truly never considered the how of making the new species. Surely there was a way though, Right?
Kaori tried to find the information in the book but that went about the way she expected. There was absolutely no information in the book about the creation of new creatures. She looked through the book again but the prices of the various creatures were prohibitively expensive and she would have to have an entire starter population of each one. Worse, there were species that she wanted that weren’t even present within the catalog. Frustrated that this was getting her nowhere, she tossed the book onto her desk and looked around. There were several of the deities who were looking her way with varied looks of concern.
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One of those who happened to be looking her way was Tozenna. That gave Kaori an idea and she called the dryad woman over. “Tozenna-san, I have a question for you. You’ve been a goddess for a while now, yes? How does one go about creating hybrid creatures? I can find no reference for it anywhere and I really need to get started on that.”
Tozenna looked about bashfully before meeting Kaori’s eyes with resignation. “Kaori-sama, I don’t know how to do that either. I was never slated to become an elder goddess and because of my interest in helping others with their troubles, I was relegated to working for less favorable deities. I’m not implying that you’re one! By no means, you, Kaori-sama have offered me the best terms of employment I’ve ever gotten and this is by far the best world I have ever been a part of.”
“I worked for a lot of other deities that would have me talk to all of the gods under them. They would demand harsh work schedules with near constant problems, often created by the main deity themselves, and I was only there for them to complain to without being able to help them in any way. Needles to say, the pay was often a major point of contention between those gods.”
“I have never even seen any hybrid beings created before. Creation of new things was not often high on the priority list of those I worked for previously. I have been wondering for days now how one could even begin to compare others to you. The way that you approach things is often so far from the normal way of doing things that it becomes hard to imagine why nobody has ever done this before. Then there are things like the… what was it again? Oh yeah, Deific Network! Nobody has ever seen anything like that before! You should probably talk to your supervisor about sales of that system in the catalog. I bet it would sell very well! Again, I am very sorry that I couldn’t answer your question Kaori-sama.”
As Tozenna was walking back to the group that was setting up the plants and animals in various regions that had already been prepared by the other groups, Kaori considered her words. She was right, there were a lot of things that she did in a way that was different than what would be available to others. Why were the things she did so different though? Just because she was from Earth? Whatever the reason, if there was nobody else to show her how to make the hybrids, she would just have to try doing it her own way.
Kaori then began typing various ides for combining the different hybrids that she wanted. First on the list was one she considered to be ridiculous but she supposed all things were possible, she was a deity after all. She would have to see if simply willing the creatures to merge would work. She didn’t really want to use that method though, even if it would work, because it would mean that she would have to buy a bunch of new people to turn into hybrids and she wouldn’t really save any points doing things that way.
The next on the list would be to try physically pushing the two beings together. This one she considered to be even more ridiculous. She would have to try it anyway. Next up is the idea of trying to find some sort of essence of the beings and using that. She tried to remember any time she saw something tried in an anime or manga and wrote those down too. Then there was the obvious if ultra-embarrassing method of trying to have the beings mate. This she wanted to write off because it never worked on Earth even though many strange people tried it, repeatedly.
Armed with a list of ideas to try, she summoned her book and turned to the page with the animals and summoned her first test subject, a cat.