"Are you sure you wanna go through with it?"
Her annoyed tone switched to one that sounded… dead serious.
"... If there's something I need to know, please tell me."
"Well, if a new God suddenly appeared in a world, what would happen?"
Most religions would fall apart due to how much more proof there is of their existence than the existence of their own God?
"It would bring everything going on to a standstill as mortals clamor to find a way to benefit from the situation!"
Damn it, that was my second guess. Actually, it would be my fourth. Second guess is always either "nothing happens" or "rocks fall, everyone dies", and the unused one would be the third guess.
"So what did you do those two times you went down there?"
Kandance got flustered for a bit before calming herself down.
"Well, I made a process for myself that let me insert myself into the world, and you should be able to do it too. If you can produce me a few stacks of paper real quick?"
Oh, right, I have to make the stuff for her now. I do the hand move trick and make some blank paper that she can modify, and Kandance does so.
"Alright, now open up your God Panel…"
O…kay? I make it appear before me. The pieces of paper are placed on top of my panel and they sink into it, becoming what I can best describe as digital documents.
"Oh, that's pretty neat!"
My excitement and intrigue from that moment soon fades as I read what is on the papers and realize what I have before me: a character sheet.
"Now you can customize and create your own mortal form. You can make as many as you want, and as long as every little bit of information is filled in, everyone will accept you as a part of Fanta Regauss!"
While I do have experience with making characters for tabletop games, I usually had the luxury of an online character maker and rule limitations to help. But this… this was chaotic.
I could make myself any of the races, be any age they can be, I could use numbers to represent how much the form is capable of, and I can just make up whatever magics and skills. It even had sections for backstory, relationships, personality traits, and it would all just work?! Fuck me, this is going to take forever. Especially with how indecisive I can be!
Welp. Guess I should start…
"By the way, how much time has passed?"
So much has happened, and yet I also feel like not much has happened. I can't even recall how much time I've spent on this "Mortal Form", as Kandance had told me its name was.
"It's… complicated."
… How?
"Just lay it on me, I need some background noise while I do this…"
I actually work better without background noise, contrary to what I'm saying. From the smallest noises like a text notification to just a blinking icon on my phone or laptop, once something draws my focus away from the task at hand, it takes me a while to get back to it. So in reality, I'm just making up an excuse to take a break from writing on the Mortal Form.
"Alright, so…"
Kandance clears her throat, brings up her panel, and uses it like a writing board similar to earlier.
"Each world is moving on its own timescale chosen by its creator. Different sections of the world can also have their own timescale, and when two different places have different timescales, it acts accordingly."
I've seen similar stuff in movies. Say you have two worlds, World A and World B. You teleport to World B for a bit, and every second you spend in World B, a minute passes in World A. So if you spend one minute in World B then go back to World A, an hour has passed. And if you stay in World A for one minute and go back to World B, only one second has passed there. And it'll seem like you were gone for each world's respective amount of time. Simple enough to grasp.
"BUT! Your mortal world in particular, the one you call Earth, is located in a special point of time. Regardless of a world's time speed difference, Earth's time will always continue to move at its own pace. It acts as a universal constant."
I don't get why that's weird, though.
"Technically speaking, no time has passed. I do this thing where I stop all time in my world when I'm reincarnating someone, but since you have my powers now, time here and down in Fanta Regauss hasn't moved at all. And despite that, it's been about two whole days in your world."
Ah, I see now. I think?
"Wait, I need to do some math…"
I put the Mortal Form's panel to the side and pulled up a blank one for my calculations. I remember from our talk earlier how Kandance mentioned that the time between reincarnations is two to four Earth years, I'll just settle on an average of three. But for Fanta Regauss, she said it's every one thousand years between a new reincarnated person appearing. So one year on Earth probably equals three hundred thirty three and one third years in Fanta Regauss. But at the same time, even when time is frozen in the world like it is now, time still moves on Earth. This means that her system works on Earth's time, not her own. Also, the time frames between reincarnations could have desynced at some point, depending on how long Kandance has kept time stopped and how many times she's done so. Then again, I doubt she's ever kept someone for longer than one Earth day, which would be three hundred thirty three and one third Fanta Regauss days, so the time between reincarnations for them probably hasn't shifted by more than a year. Alright, I understand now!
By the way, I'm writing all of this out for Kandance to see. And she is absolutely disinterested. Like, her pupils and irises have disappeared and I think she is sleeping with her eyes open? If you can even call them open when there's only the white sclera, anyway. I can even see a huge droplet of drool forming to dangle from her mouth.
"By the way, if I'm down there, what happens up here? Could I be down there for a few days and only have a few seconds pass for you if you stay up here?"
… She's not responding, I think she's actually fallen asleep. I snap my fingers in front of her face a few times to get her to wake up. By the way, I could never snap my fingers when I was a kid, but I could once I became a young adult. Weird.
"Oh, uhh, right. This space is designed to sync with the timescale of wherever I am, and now wherever you are. So while you can adjust it to whatever scale you want in here, it matches the time scale of wherever you go."
What a gracious gift of convenience. Though now I'm starting to have questions again. If it synced with wherever she was, and she used that video presentation thrice, that means three people experienced three different time scales, four if you count stopped time being one since I assume she stops it once she gets back to do the reincarnation stuff. But where the hell else is she going if it's not Fanta Regauss?
"By the way… weren't you doing something?"
… Shit, right, the Mortal Form. I guess I've distracted myself enough, back to working on that…