I returned to the mortal realm. I was very tired, so I decided to take a nap, and so I did.
Nine decades later, soon after my nap, I opened up my eyes and saw that the mortal realm was just the same. How boring.
It seems that it would still take tens of millions of years for the first star to be born. And the peculiar energy that was inserted in the mortal realm only stirs up the nebula "cloud" and delays the formation of a star for some more tens of millions of years.
Being impatient, I decided to increase the speed of the process. I could try to use my creator's will to make a part of the nebula condense, but now then, should I do what? Guess I was not an astronomer. Let's go by the easier magical solution to create another god.
Maybe a god of the sun. I would like to have more than one star in the future in the mortal realm though. So perhaps a god of stars would be better. Yet, still, I need to have planets as well, so I'm going with a god of solar systems.
The true form that I created this time, was of a male god. It was a very tall man with a shirt of pink-dyed mulberry silk and grey-dyed linen pants, that seems to be made out of silver but is filled to the brim with mana and divine energy like a sort of magical metal. He uses a shining bronze wristlet with a heavy jewel of all types, including diamonds, sapphires, tanzanites, apatite, emeralds, turquoise, a crystal of solid mana, other of solid divine energy, a crystal solid of qi ( that was very hard to make), and even a crystal of peculiar energy, all of which have a bluish tone.
For some reason, I imagine him being rich. He also has a collar with a small purple quartz sculpted in the form of the sun, but somewhat appearing "alive" like a sun with several quartz storms, but somehow the rock seems to have never-ending matter. He also has toned muscles.
His round eyes shine brighter than Sirius. His iris has ever-changing colors, and radiates electromagnetic waves across the whole spectrum, from radio to gamma-ray.
He also has a wavy hair that grows down to the end of his column. It was like pure gold, but more resistant. He was using sandals that seems to be sculpted from purple heart wood with the part where the foot stands being covered in suede and the back of each one having a small topaz rock sculpted in the form of a dodecahedron. I thought of giving him a crown, but even I considered that this would be too much, and perhaps give the false idea that he was above the other gods.
His mere presence makes the space/time fabric curve itself a lot. There are several geoid objects making elliptical rotations around him with also rocks and dust. He as a whole radiates a bit of light. I named him Siraj, by what I heard means in Arabic light, lamp, or in a more figurative way it may mean "guiding light".
"Hello, father." he said tenderly after his soul was fully formed.
"Hello, my son." I said, although I was a bit surprised at being called like that I reacted quickly accepting the way he addressed me.- "I would like that you start forming the solar system as soon as possible, please. And don't forget to make some planets including one prepared to contain life. Although your domain is not related to life I think you have some idea of what type of word I'm talking about."
I know I'm urging someone that just got created too much, but I infer I am an impatient person.
He did as I instructed. It was a very good decision to create one more god. He was born with much more precise control over the matter in the mortal realm than I, with it being practically a second limb to him. His efficiency was surprising. With him speeding up the process, the first star was formed within a week, and now it has nine planets orbiting around it. Three of these shall be naturally habitable, while others will only become with some more complex energy(qi) manipulation.
He already helped a lot, but I asked if he would like to help in the development of mortal life. After all, all of it was part of his domain. He said that he would, but would like to hear my suggestions and ideas, that according to him, "they that come from the great one that created him would surely be great". And something of having more beings being able to stand in his presence.
"To me creating the biological structure of living beings, would not be difficult. The problem would be the souls, which are more complicated to be made. I would suggest making a microscopic organism, their soul doesn't need to be completed in the first place, needing to be a simple soul spark the size of an atom, the natural qi is enough for the natural formation of this spark, then we only need to insert them there and let the souls form naturally. We can then let natural selection takes its course."
Yes, natural selection. Even if my universe has a creator, I cannot deny such an important element of existence. How this fits with a created universe? I have no idea.
" Thank you very much, for the suggestion father, but I don't know how to create this... What do you call them? microorganisms..."
"Let me do that. My "domain" is related to it. I was thinking, in fact, to have your support in you being the patron of the mortals and in taking major decisions and suggesting some ideas of species."
"I got it, father."
Well, let's start. I, then, used my powers to make the three planets completely filled with life, and in fact, I purposely overpopulated these worlds, to make life fastly fill up the ozone layer; the fast changes in the atmosphere and the overpopulation lead to mass extinction and set a violent natural selection. Somewhat accelerating the appearance of eukarya organisms that consists of some primitive algae and amebas.
But none of them have mitochondria or chloroplast, which was an important feature of this cell's evolution on earth. I made sure, to forcibly create some of those, and put them in some cells. Making nature also filled with independent mitochondria and chloroplast. It was interesting how souls are connected with life.
While making a mitochondria or a chloroplast a part of the cell, I noticed how the primitive soul of these cells merges with the soul of the new organelles that become a part of the cell, making this soul a bit bigger, though still insignificant and empty. The soul of a small being doesn't have anything in it, no feeling, no emotion, nothing; to the point of making me reflect if they are actually souls.
And these souls have zero impacts on the cells, acting more like a parasite, but not causing damage or anything, if one cell haves its soul destroyed it will simply form another.
It seems that they always have a sou,l but it, as a matter of fact, serves no purpose. If a bacteria or even protozoa has its cell destroyed, killed, or devoured, the soul will not even go to the reincarnation realm, it will simply explode, spreading itself all over.
When I tried to create a crude multicellular organism like seaweed or a sponge, I noticed that the soul seems to have a greater impact on the organism. I did this creation by making a bunch of equal cell work like having different functions.
But the souls of these different cells did not work as before, the souls seem to resonate, fusing themselves but leaving nodes that connect them to the cells and a bunch of lesser souls, that are in the cells connected to the structure. In this way, if the body of the being is split it will actually split the souls like a torn fabric.
I gradually went from molding simpler species to more complex ones. How much more complex the beings become, the more insignificant the lesser souls turn to be; until at some point, they do not exist anymore. It took more than a year to complete this process.
The middle of the three planets has an evolution path that copies the earth one but is simplified a lot, skipping the dinosaurs, which were too impractical to keep, because of the need to nurture rational life. I also skipped the fungus for no specific reason.
I also have the ocean filled with eatable fish and the land with domesticated artificial selection animals, or simply cattle and domestic pets; and plants: of fruits like lemons, oranges, apples, tangerines, passion fruit, açaí, bananas, grapes, guavas, pears, persimmons, etc; of seeds like rice, beans, coffee, etc. I also put some useful plants like cotton. The only insects that can be found are pollinator insects or silk producers. There is practically no dangerous wild animal in nature, if the species that I make can't survive in these conditions I don't know what to do.
The one closest to the sun, I made it have several pluricellular bacteria organisms, it was very hard, I may add, first, because the structure of a bacteria does not fit well to making pluricellular cells, for reasons I'm too lazy to explain and because of the souls of the bacteria were too insignificant to follow the example of the sponge organisms.
In this world, I left the rest to its own devices, and ask Siraj to warn me if life in there starts to become nearly extinct for some reason.
The last one I filled with fantasy species like slimes, kunpeng, my version of loch ness monsters, krakens, griffins, hippogriffs, pegasus, unicorns, leviathans, dragons, basilisks, chimeras, hydras, manticores, typhons, giant wolves, that I named fenrirs; hippocampus, cipactli, charybdis, behemoths, scylla, abaias, calygreyhound, cockatrices, makara, ammits, wyverns, namazus, centicores, questing beasts, serpopard, indus worms, ahuizotl, psoglav, aspidochelone, myrmecoleon, ekeks, oozlum birds, hellhounds, monocerus, water leper, ophiotaurus, unktehila, mapinguaris, yalis, bashee, teju jaguas, indriks, simargls, mboi tuis. Though, I could do this only because of the experience I got with the other normal species I created on the middle planet.
The dragons did not need magic to release fire. And there are, in fact, two species of them one that resembles Chinese dragons, with a more serpent-like form, and another that resembles more European dragons.
These species have very big similarities in genetic code though. None of the species that I created need magic to sustain themselves, in fact, I expect this species, to naturally evolve into becoming able to use magic by natural evolution, though this will for sure take hundreds of thousands of years to naturally happens.
And I actually did not want to create monsters that only hunted down the mortal species that are so troublesome to make, if I put one of those there; so I made the man-eating one only simply having different diets. And also obviously without mortals there this monster would only become extinct in the previous condition.
At this point, I could already use my creation power to make some animal souls, which makes the process faster. Some of these species have in fact some similar or practically equal descriptions so I make my adjustments and make sure their genetic code and chromosome sizes and numbers vary largely, so they are quite different species that resemble each other.
How did I remember all these mythological creatures' names and general descriptions, that I skipped giving because it would be quite tiring? I didn't. When I thought about creating some mythological being, these memories if I can call them that, naturally came to me.
Before I only remember a few of the most remembered species, like dragon and phoenix, if this was a novel this may be called plot armor. The best theory I could get is that my evolution into a universe creator may have let my soul be more sensitive to the collective knowledge of my previous world mankind, like a somewhat remembered knowledge, like a different version of Plato's theory of ideas that strangely mixed up true knowledge with collective ideas or creations, if all these creatures were truly false, considering the supernatural side of the multiverse.
I am not a fan of platonism, however. I think these ideas have various holes in them and are probably empty suppositions.
Now returning to the subject, I also added all dinosaur species from the earth in this world. Some self-created species, physically resemble a hybrid between mythological creatures and dinosaurs. I also created there several fungi that filled up the whole planet. Some very strange ones to earth standards of fungus, even.
These strange ones are fungi that have a quick response to the outside environment, and a developed motor system, some even have pseudo vertebrae, and a very strange version of the brain, having very complex tissue structures that make them resemble more an animal than a fungus. There is even a species that resembles a lion. I also added some gigantified versions of platypus and penguins, because why not.
The only magical things I added there were some mythological plants, and some simple creations of my own. I created aglaophotis, a type of mythical peony that was supposed to ward off demons in the original version of the myth.
However, the plant will probably be useless because I'm not planning to create any demons. Austras koks, I also created as a species, that is pointed some times as a Latvian mythology version of the world tree, which seems to be very common in several myths on earth. My version will grow every morning and become invisible every night.
There will be barnacle trees, but instead of releasing actual gooses, it will release some puppet magical gooses that will protect the tree and plant its seeds. Fern flower bush that will only bloom one night in a decade. Lotus trees will give fruits that cause some drowsiness but with magic and not for chemical reasons.
Moly magic herb, that will have magical medical effects, depending on how it is prepared, but have anti-poison and weakening magical curses when eaten raw. Raskovnik is a magical plant that will open any lock and even a sealed dimension space.
Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, will also exit, but they will not release their puppet sheep like the barnacle releases sheep, but keep it connected to a soft branch that will work similarly to an umbilical cord in human pregnancy. Bohun Upas will release magical poison.
I also made Yggdrasil trees which are trees that can manipulate space to protect themselves. I as well made two versions of hungry grass, one that emits a vapor substance that is poisonous and makes animals have insatiable hunger. And another that does the same, but with a magical curse. I put some magical version of ginseng.
I created magical water moss, that grows in dry lands and uses liquid magic to produce water for its own survival. And palm trees that when their fruits are pulled unripe release a sort of magical fire bomb.
Also, I made a form of wild rice that creates a water dam with earth magic where it leaves. The trees are a wild imperial tree that accumulates a wide amount of magical energy and releases it in a form of energy that affects animals making them fear being near them and making plants avoid growing near them. There is a fruitless tree that releases magical lightning to kill parasite plants or fungi, that may try to grow in it.
It was enjoyable but quite a tiresome work. After making some more adjustments, I went to the other six planets. I created some extremophile bacteria, that could in some special regions, barely survive. I pushed all the qi on the planet to this region ensuring that lives flourish there.
Though with time the planet as a whole will have its atmosphere replenished with qi, by the out-of-the-dimensions connections with the river of energies and souls.
Of all the worlds I think only the middle one is prepared to hold rational life so I started there because I made the last of the three a bit too dangerous, yes although rational life is not the main food source of the creatures there, hungry carnivores can eat nearly anything while hungry and some of the magic plants may be dangerous if one is careless.