After the power of creation fused with the blood of Minsol, his blood cells underwent a certain change. The power of creation transformed a very small number of his cells to take on a semi-real state. These cells became part of God, allowing Minsol to borrow some of God's power. But the power that Minsol received was a lesser version of that compared to God. God could be summed up as having two basic powers. First, is His property of being unchained by time. This allows Him to ignore the passage of time, and even be immune to its destructive forces. Second, is the power of creation, allowing Him to create anything, as long as He can imagine and understand it. This power that God possesses is not limited only to creating matter, but is also able to create energy - be it kinetic, thermic, or other. God had previously used the power of creation to redirect certain comets that were on their way to impact the first planet. Of all of God's powers, Minsol inherited His power to create kinetic energy, or in other words telekinesis. While the basic ability was the same as that of God, the way how Minsol was able to use it was different.
God had a limited supply of power of creation. Even if it was enough to create a second solar system, it was still limited. Using any amount would permanently deplete His power, and until He waited for His power to build up again, He wouldn't be able to use any of His powers. In comparison, Minsol had specific cells, called divine cells, within his body that were responsible for the supernatural abilities that he possessed. The body of Minsol, outside of his divine cells, was entirely human. So if Minsol depleted his supernatural energy, he could regain it relatively quickly by eating and resting. The energy converted from food would be turned into a special kind of energy within the divine cells. Of course relying on just food would be quite difficult, but God noticed, that similarly to Himself Minsol too possesses the inexplicable ability to generate energy from seemingly nothing. It seemed that by acquiring his divine cells, Minsol had gained the ability to create something from nothing, even if it was only kinetic energy. Not only that, but the rate at which God started to generate energy has increased as well. After careful examination, He realized that His energy production had increased by about 50%, while the energy production of Minsol was close to half of what His was when He first awoke within the void. Up until now, His production rate has been constant. This made Him speculate that perhaps with more mythical life forms, He could increase His energy production, but He felt that unless He would create more mythical lifeforms, His hypothesis would be difficult to prove.
Ever since awakening, Minsol has dedicated himself to building a grand temple. For that, he split off and lifted a piece of marble the size of a small hill from a nearby cliffside. He then transported this marble block to his birthplace. Upon the spot where God created him, Minsol excavated the dirt and half buried the marble in the ground. With the marble in place, he started carving a structure. First, he carved stairs leading to the top of the roughly pyramid-shaped structure. Atop the structure, he would then carve a temple by using his inherited memories as a template.
The final structure resembled a roman temple, with a high roof, supported by large and exquisite pillars. On the inner side of the ring of pillars, was a wall, separating the outside from the inside. At the far side of the entrance, a window was carved, allowing natural sunlight to illuminate the hall. Within the center of the hall, was a statue of God, as He appears in Minsol's imagination. A large faceless beautifully sculpted statue dominates the inside hall. The inside of the walls are covered in various murals. One side was dedicated to the scenes Minsol witnessed in the inherited memories, and another wall was dedicated to the stories and visions that God showed him, of the creation of the world. Before the grand statue of God, Minsol carved a statue of himself. Although God's statue was easily 20 meters tall, his was only as tall as he was. It was carved to be in a kneeling position, forever displaying his loyalty to God. These two statues were meant to represent the first day of Minsol's life, the first time, when Minsol knelt before God and proclaimed his piety.
Once when Minsol was taking a break from carving to eat, God asked him "Why do you wish to build this temple? It won't do me any good and in the first place, I do not require your faith." To that Minsol, after finishing chewing the roasted horned rabbit that he had hunted, replied with "I build this temple, to demonstrate my faith in you. Whether you need my faith or not isn't even the most important to me. My greatest wish is to be of service to you. It is simply that I lack the power to do anything else but build a temple and worship you." After proclaiming so, Minsol took another bite of the horned rabbit. The juices of the rabbit flowed out with every bite that Minsol took. The cooking method was very crude, only grilling over an open flame, but the quality ingredient made for a tasty meal nonetheless.
God pondered Minsols words while watching him devour the rest of the rabbit. "Then is there anything else that you wish for?" Suddenly faced with this unexpected question, Minsol halted mid-bite. The juice of the rabbit's leg was running down his arm while Minsol froze for a second. He closed his mouth and gazed at God. "Another wish besides worshipping and serving you?" He stared into the distance at the towering temple he had built. "Perhaps there is something I would wish for. I think it would be nice if there were other humans around. I do not wish for me to be the only one to witness God's glory. I wish to share the joy of worshipping you with others." God didn't know if He should have been amused or exasperated, as to Him it simply sounded like Minsol wished for other humans to exist, simply so that more people could worship Him.
Nevertheless, He felt that it wasn't an outrageous request and that it was well within the means of God. While He didn't have enough power of creation to create many mythical humans such as Minsol, He had more than enough to create many base humans. So, with a wave of His hand, a few dozen base humans came to be at the foot of the temple, not far from where Minsol was enjoying his meal. While creating the body took a certain amount of power, it seemed like a final step was needed to "activate" the body. Even if the brain and body were perfectly functional, a human would not awaken unless God added a large amount of power of creation, much more than was required to create the body, to do "something". What He wasn't sure, but He believed it had something to do with the existence of souls. However it may be, without this activation, the bodies would remain as vegetables, no different from clinically dead patients, kept alive by machinery. While adding this last piece of energy, He also infused some information.
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Unlike with Minsol, He didn't bestow His memories, but merely things such as language, how to walk and move, and a basic description of the world as it was. In other words, it was everything an adult would need to be able to function in this world. After all, God thought it would be a bit too cruel to throw a few dozen newborns at Minsol and make him a single father. So when these humans came to be, they were fully conscious and aware of their surroundings. They were quite disoriented and were taking in everything around them. Minsol was overjoyed at this sight and thanked God profusely. Some humans followed the gaze of Minsol but saw nothing. This was to be expected, as God wasn't part of this world. He may be its creator, but He wasn't a part of it. "You are their king, and it is your responsibility to guide them." Saying so, God departed and entered the temple. Minsol, now alone with the humans, eagerly started welcoming God's newest creations.
Over the next few months, besides carving murals in the temple, Minsol started to guide humanity. He taught them how to make basic houses out of trees and rocks. He taught them how to hunt and forage, but most eagerly he taught them how to worship and praise God. Within this world, Minsol was invincible, for he had God's grace, allowing him to possess extraordinary power. The other humans didn't possess this power, something Minsol realized, when he tried to teach them how to move fast by levitating themselves. Among the humans, one particularly caught his attention. It was a woman who he called Caeluma, meaning the sky. Just as he was called the sun's little brother, so he named her the sky, not only because he seemed to see the sky when he gazed into her eyes, but also because he was hoping that they could be together, just like the sun and the sky.
One year after God created the human race, a festive wedding ceremony was held. It was the wedding between Minsol and Caeluma. The wedding was held at the foot of the great temple, and a grand feast had been prepared for this event. There was grilled wild boar, seasoned horned rabbit, delicious crimson berries, mushroom stew, and a brave hunter-gatherer was even able to collect a fist-sized grand bee's honeycomb. All of these had been brought here as gifts to congratulate the newlywed couple. Even God came out of the temple to witness this ceremony. Usually, God would stay in the temple and research life templates. Minsol would often climb the temple stairs and eagerly talk about the current happenings within the nascent city.
Now, on this sunny day, God watched as Minsol and Caeluma exchanged a pledge to love and support each other until the end of their lives. Minsol then recited a prayer to God asking for His blessings. God, hovering just above the two in the sky, smiled and gave a nod. Minsol was overjoyed, thanking Him profusely. Afterward, Minsol and Caeluma shared a passionate kiss, which made the crowd cheer in jubilation, signaling the start of the feast. Minsol ate, danced, and laughed with his fellow humans, occasionally looking up at the sky, from where God was watching. Minsol had a twinkle in his eyes as he started to recite a prayer. "Before there was something, anything, there was nothing. And before there was nothing, there was God. Then one day, God decided that there should be something. He started by creating the sun and the sky. He followed by creating the world and stars..." It was the founding story of how this world came to be. Soon, everyone joined in this prayer, as this was one of the most well-known and popular prayers.
The festivities continued long into the night and even into the next morning. At dawn, once everyone had gone to sleep, with Caeluma sleeping in his arms, Minsol was sitting at the last bonfire. God descended next to him and asked him "Are you happy, Minsol?" "Yes, God, I am very happy right now." Minsol replied with a twinkle in his eyes. Perhaps he should have been named after the stars, as just like Minsol seemed to see the sky in Caeluma's eyes, one could swear they saw stars shining in Minsol's eyes. "Good. Very good." God couldn't feel this world, as he had no body to feel with, but he had a very strong spiritual connection with Minsol. Perhaps it could be said that Minsol's emotions were God's emotions and vice versa.
"Are you happy, God?" God was taken aback by this question but then smiled slightly. "Perhaps so." Suddenly, Minsol exclaimed, "I am going to build a grand city! One that will forever stand beneath this temple. That way there will be always people here to worship you and to throw celebrations in your name!" God chuckled at this proclamation. "Nothing is forever. Not this temple, nor the city beneath it. Even the sun will burn out one day. And in the first place, it's not the worshipping and celebrations that made me happy." Minsol seemed to struggle to understand God's words. "If nothing is eternal, then are you also not eternal?" God shrugged "Who knows? But I believe I should be an exception to this rule. I can't explain why, but I don't think that time has the same effect on me as it does on you." "On me..? Does that mean that I am not eternal? Will there come a time, where I won't be able to be there to be your servant and worshipper?" "Yes, I am afraid. As you are now, you are merely a human with a few special cells giving you special powers." What God didn't mention, was that if Minsol asked Him to, it wouldn't be impossible to prolong Minsol's life significantly using His power of creation and his understanding of lifeforms. "Then even more so! I must build a grand city that will be there when I'm gone. I will make sure, that there will always be someone there to serve and worship you." God looked into the night and at the temple. "I never asked for your faith. Nor do I need it." Minsol followed God's gaze. "Even if you don't ask me to, it is my wish."
Both God and mortal sat in silence as they watched the sun crest over the horizon, illuminating golden light unto the temple. No one spoke any further. It was unknown what kind of thoughts the two of them were having at this moment. When the sun's rays hit Caeluma's face, she stirred, scrunching her face and digging deeper into Minsol, hiding from the bright rays. Minsol looked down at her and caressed her cheek. Once he looked up, God was no longer next to him. A new dawn had arrived.