《The New God》
A god retires, Roman is the replacement.
*POV Atlas*
Life as a god is horribly boring, every once in a while the boredom gets to you and you do something spontaneous to make the boredom go away such as incite a war between the humans and demons and maybe summon a hero to the world to save the day, I''m tired of all of this though the cycle is getting repetitive, I have been alive for too long. It''s time to pass on my rule as God to someone else.
*mild vibrations*
"Hahaha... Interesting, someone is using divine power" I decide to teleport that person on a whim, something about him piques my interest.
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*POV Roman*
Just another boring day, you would think that being so powerful would bring some excitement to your life, however it''s just the opposite. No one wants to even speak to you because they fear you, but at least it''s fine this way, nobody bothers me I don''t bother them. I have always wanted to meet someone I could use my full powers on though.
*ding ding ding*
(Teacher) - Class is dismissed
Well that''s my queue.
It''s such a beautiful winter evening I decide to take a stroll around the school before going home something that is out of the way of my usual Routine when I suddenly hear...
*sniff* *sniff*
(Woman) - please, don''t.
(Scum A) - don''t worry you won''t feel a thing.
(Scum B) yeah, you will quite enjoy it
(Woman) Don''t! Let go of me!
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This sent me into such a fury that I accidentally used the divine technique my clan practices, this and the combination of my bloodlust caused everyone around me to faint. Damn I better get out of here before I get any undesired attention. This was when I was teleported into a white room with a throne made of what appeared to be made up of white jade and embroidered in gold. The man in the seat gave off a feeling of divinity, his eyes where like sapphires, pale blue, lustrous. His gaze held wisdom, resignation, pride, but it also exhibited a since of tiredness and almost defeat. But at what?
As I am about to ask a question I am interrupted when the figure says.
(Atlas)"hello there, I am Atlas, what may your name be?"
(Roman) "My name is Roman"
(Atlas) "No last name?"
(Roman) "Damos"
(Atlas)"very well, I''ll keep it short and simple, I am the god of this world named Ildra, and I am hoping to pass on my divinity to someone else and give them reign as god. I chose you, don''t ask why I was just interested in the fact that you could use divine power in a world with nothing of the sort. So what do you say kid? Do you want to be god?"
* grins Mischievously*
(Roman) "Well when you put it that way, who can refuse?"
(Atlas) "Good, this might hurt a bit"
As soon as he said that I felt unimaginable pain surging through my body as well as a huge surge of power, and then ......
I blanked out.
Not a chapter, info on updates
Hey guys, this isn''t a chapter. I am writing this to inform you of my scheduling when it comes to updates.
I will most likely update this novel on Mondays, Wednesday and Friday.
If I feel like doing more or have a spark of inspiration I will update right away.
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturday and sundays are days in which I will brainstorm, so if you have any ideas then please, message me through direct message here or my email, [email protected] and make sure to tell me your username so I can give you credit for the idea. I will start this schedule on Monday. this week is brainstorm week so give me what you got.
A hero is summoned, the gods are mad.
Ugh... My head is killing me. I feel powerful, as though nothing can faze me. I find myself sitting on the previous throne that I saw Atlas in before and can perceive everything around me. It truly is a weird sensation to be able to see everything but not have to lay your eyes upon it. So this is what being God feels like huh?
What should I do this with new power? Should I shape this world into something ideal? Maybe so, humans are corrupt and need somebody to guide them in the right direction. Before I make any major decisions I should first explore this world myself, I wonder if this world has monsters like those fantasy novels I have read about, I would love to meet a dragon.
"Ok that settles it! I am going exploring!"
I look around the throne room but find no place to leave from.
"How the hell do I get out of here?
I wonder if I can teleport....of course I can I''m god, I keep forgetting this huge detail, but where should I go? I spread my divine sense and cover the world. I''m a bit surprised at what I find.
" I feel a strong flow of energy into a circle, feels like summoning magic, but why is that? Don''t tell me they are looking to summon a hero?"
I choose to teleport to the summoning circle out of curiosity. when I get there I am surrounded by what appears to be knights and on a throne is what I presume to be a king. I also see a girl in the circle with me that appears to be 17, she is beautiful red hair that reaches her waist blue eyes, pale white skin, and lips that are Luscious, I guess she is the hero. But what I see is what truly baffles me.
The hero has HUGE..... assets.
I know, I''m sorry but they are truly big, I''m not a pervert or anything but try being raised in a family of all males in which all you do is train day and night, I haven''t been in a relationship much less touched a girl since the day I was born, 17 years, imagine that!
I look up at the king and he begins to speak.
"I am sorry to have pulled you away from your home, but we are in dire need of help, and you are the only one.. Erin two that can help us. You are the chosen ones by the gods, the only ones that can help us, we will assist you in whatever we can. We need your help in defeating the demon lord do you chose to help this kingdom?"
This kind seems humble, however I can''t have myself be caught up in all this, it will take too long, and I want to go explore my world!
The beautiful girl speaks and says
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"my name is Angela, I would love to rescue you from these demons, I want to bring the demon king to justice! This is my new destiny, one cannot run away from this!"
she looks at me with her face full of pride, I look up at her and nod my head in approval. Then I see a man in white robes and an impressive amount of holy power smile and speak.
" I am the pope of the church of Astra, it''s a pleasure to meet you Angela, we will make sure to provide all that we can to assist you and eliminate those vile demons! What about you? Emm.."
He looks at me waiting to give him my name.
"It''s Roman" I say.
"Well Roman, would you join us as well?"
I look at him and think for a minute, should I? I think they should just negotiate it out,
oh well I''ll do somethings about this later.
"No"
I look around, everyone has their eyes staring at me as though I grew another head, except for Angela and the pope, they have looks of disdain towards me.
King- " may I know the reason why?"
Roman- "sure, it''s simple, I am God, it would be pretty unfair to use my power to single handedly give you a victory would it not? You are to negotiate with the demon king and set this dispute aside, or I will personally get involved."
I let a single percent of my power out, and it caused more than half the people to faint, the castle walls are crumbling, I had to use my power to reinforce the castle otherwise it would all go down.
The pope looks at me with fear and even greater disdain.
Pope- " You dare claim to be god! Astra is the true God!"
Roman-" I mean, she certainly is a god, however I am the true God."
Pope-"prove it!"
Roman-" fine, I will summon your goddess and make her kneel"
Pope- " how audacious! You dare speak ill of our goddess! Paladins! Apprehend the heret-"
Before he could finished his sentence I had already spread my divine sense and summoned all 5 of the godly entities I found.
They all appear in front of us confused. but upon realizing that they are kneeling they all exhibit an astronomical amount of furry and blood lust and released their powers.
*BOOM!!*
...... I think I messed up.
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Authors Note:
I know I said I would start posting next week but, idk I felt like posting today, surprise I guess. Have a good weekend guys.
Ch.3 Subjagation of Gods and Revival of the dragons
"Time Stop"
That was close, if I was one second late they would have destroyed the whole country, I mean look at all the damage, half the castle has been turned to ash. Nobody was able to width stand the aura of these gods.
I''ll deal with them in a bit, let me deal with the dead and the damages first though.
"Healing Aura"
Every person that was present has been completely healed, some have even gotten younger.
I reverse time and cause the damages to be repaired, I dissipate the energy that was released before into mana and absorb it, it''s surprisingly delicious.
"Now what should I do about these gods?"
I know! I distort space and chains come out of what appears to be a black hole beneath the gods and wrap themselves around the gods, they are sucking on their mana and strength acting as a seal.
I also wrap the gains around their mouths to prevent them from talking.
"Ok this is good enough. Resume"
The motionless people around us suddenly move again, and just stare at the gods once again kneeling on the floor being restrained by chains. They gasp in shock as they realize they are in the presence of the gods they have heard so many legends about.
"So now, mr.pope, which one is Astra?"
He looks at me with terror and grief watching his worshiped goddess on her knees in such a pitiful and submissive state has really traumatized him.
He points at the blond god that has golden pupils, she looks about 22 but doesn''t have much of a body, it''s really such a shame.
I unwrap the chains around her mouth.
" so tell me Ms.Astra why is it that I am being told that you are the one true God? You claim to be above me?"
I decided to act a bit arrogant, j couldn''t care less what people say, but I have to train these gods to fear me if I want to make my Utopia.
By the looks of it, it''s working I see the gods shiver a bit and Astra is sweating.
" I-I wouldn''t dare to sir, but the creator that was in charge of us appointed me to be in charge of the the gods and the affairs of Ildra, I am the head goddess."
I use mind magic to peer into her memories, it turns out she is telling the truth.
" is this true?"
I look at the gods and they all nod.
" well, I am the creator''s replacement, Roman , and unlike him I will be directly interfering in this world, so there is no need for a god head anymore."
I look at her for confirmation
"Y-yes mr.Roman"
"Good, and about this feud with the demons, I want to put an end to it, equal rights to the other races, should they not comply they will be punished. Understood?"
She looks at me in shock? She seems unwilling to end the war but she finally resigns
" Yes, it shall be done immediately"
Now that I think about it I still have a question.
"Oh and Astra."
She looks at me as though I just pierced her heart, maybe she thinks I''m going to punish her or something.
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" Are there any dragons around?"
She looks at me as though I had just asked the dumbest question she has ever heard.
"What?" I ask
"N-nothing, they have been extinct since two thousand years."
This is really interesting, I wonder why they went extinct.
" how did that happen?"
I really am curious
" during the last holy war the humans asked for the dragons help against the demons, the dragons accepted because the first hero rescued the dragon king''s granddaughter, however at the end of the war when the dragons were the weakest, the humans chose to seal the dragons off.
Most dragons are dead while those that remain are sealed and weakening, so dragons don''t really exist anymore."
I is my head in confirmation.
" so explain to me why someone in charge of keeping the balance of this world would allow for a whole race to be exterminated?"
She is sweating bullets, I swear she is forming puddles, she has her head down and I can tell she is fearful.
" I guess since the ones involved were your believers you chose not to interfere, Al I right?"
I let a little aura seep out, She fainted, oh well. I look at the gods and they shiver.
" when she wakes up, tell her to get this mess with the humans and demons cleared up, I am going to resurrect some dragons."
I spread out my divine sense and seek out the closest thing to a dragon. I then teleport to it. I am standing in front of a 10 story tall dragon with Crimson scales, Ivory white horns that come out of its head and its spine all the way down to its tail. Wow he is huge.
"do you want the dragons to reign supreme once again?"
*ancient Voice* " what does a God want from us dragons? You guys condemned us to this state"
" It''s simple, I want to make the dragons rise to prominence, for a price."
*ancient voice* " what is said price?*
" I''m going to build an academy, unlike any that exists, one that allows all opportunities to rise in this world, one that allows mortals to become much more. One that seeks true justice, not just a one sided justice, all the races would be allowed entry. Your job would be to oversee the world and guide those that you deem are worthy to this academy. In exchange I will offer to rejuvenate the remaining dragons to their full health"
*Ancient Voice* " that''s pretty good, but the remaining members are not enough to rebuild our race*
"Don''t worry about that, I will also fix your race''s fertility problem for half a century, and I shall offer you place as a god for your race. What do you say?"
*Ancient Voice* " I accept. My name is Lyth, the previous king of the dragons"
" Name is Roman, current true God."
I use full heal on the dragons and break their seals.
"Awaken from your Slumber!"
The Dragons rise up and look at the sky and suddenly release an earth shattering roar
Now let''s go with phase 2, time to build an Academy.
Ch.4 Creation of the academy. 5 days to go
Now that I haven brought the dragons back it''s time to work on my second project. The Academy.
I will need a lot of space for this, I also need to make the academy something inconceivable, it has to be huge, teach the most advanced forms of magic, it must be indiscriminate, accessible to all, and worthy of future gods.
What I came up with was an academy in the sky, one with a barrier that blocks out all magic and intruders from accessing it. The only way to access the Academy is to open a gate Via a student hard that is soul bound to each student.
The final way to access the academy is through void gates during enrollment that open up any place that has civilization.
The floating island the sky Academy is located on is about 50 miles in radius. In short it''s the size of a country in this world, it''s divided in zones to help the students train.
The island is divided in 5 zones, the east consists of F-D rank monsters for beginner students to test their skills with.
The west is for intermediate strength students. It ranges from C to A rank monsters.
The third zone is the south, it is recommended for those that have a certain level of god hood due to its sheer difficulty. It ranges from S to SS monsters..
The fourth zone is the dragons, this zone isn''t quite the same as the other zones, in this zone you don''t fight like you do in the other zones. In this zone you can find a master, if you manage to impress them.
By receiving a dragon from this zone as a master you are imprinted by their essence, which grants you a boost in mana and strength, it also allows for the use of legendary and forgotten magic related to your master. Most importantly you are provided tutelage and knowledge from the divine beasts themselves.
The final zone in the floating island is the tower of trials. This is a huge cylindrical tower that reaches beyond the heavens, as you get higher in the tower the floors get harder. Traps more complex, monsters get stronger and smarter. The payouts also get greater the higher you go, payouts include weapons, armor, skills, blessings, boosts in powers, and sometimes even a gods core. As you get higher these gears and skills get stronger, to the point of being able to slay even a high God.
The academy is in the dead center of the island, should students find themselves in critical health they are automatically teleported to the nursing room of the academy.
The nursing room was created with sentience to be able to administer the healing spells needed to heal the students, it can even resurrect them.
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The academy has a huge arena, classrooms, nurse rooms, a dormitory, and a court room that is used to trial both teachers and students.
I use telepathy to communicate with Astra.
" Astra, tell the other gods to spread the word that the true God has created an academy in which one can ascend into god hood. It has dragons, equality, and is free of tuition. It will open in exactly 5 days, a huge gate will open when it does those of the age of 14-18 that want to attend are to go through."
"Yes sir."
Good she doesn''t stutter when I speak to her anymore. She''s getting used to me.
Now that recruitment of students is settled I need teachers. I use divine sense to mark up anyone that has a great amount of magical power and advancement in a specific element, and also warriors that possess great physical powers. I teleport them to the academy.
They all appear in front of me and the dragons and have a look of shock and fear, some possess looks of reverence and others admirations. In total there are 200 people. 100 are mages and 100 are warriors.
"Hello there, sorry to have teleported you from what you were doing however I have a proposal for you all. I brought you here because you are the best of the best, if you haven''t already heard from your patron goddess, I am Roman, and this is the academy I''ve made, these are the dragons by the way."
I look around and they all have faces of shock and determination. Suddenly someone spoke up.
" what do we get if we join you?"
I think for a moment.
" I am willing to offer protection, money, power equivalent to a minor God and knowledge beyond your dreams. But most importantly, I offer you the chance to be a part of a legacy that will shake and transform the world into something greater. What do you say?"
" we agree!"
"Good I will implant the information you will need to know and your job/classes you will teach."
The rules were simple.
1. Discrimination by race is not permitted and is punishable.
2. Experimentation on students is banned, unless given consent.
3. Any student problem is handled by the student council.
4. Plotting against the school or students will result in instant execution.
5. Abuse of divine power will result in sealing of your power.
Everything else was mostly read between the lines.
5 days until the Academy is open. I can''t wait!
Not a chapter just an explanation
The tiers of power for mages are:
Scholar
Apprentice
Magus
Arch magus
Sage
Arch sage
Ascended
Tiers of power for the Warriors are:
Apprentice
Rook
Intermediate
Master
Sage
Arch sage
Ascended warrior
As far as God hood goes the ranks go like this:
Demi-God- is reached once one exceeds the ascended rank and is able to feel and manipulate divine energy.
Minor God- is reached once a demi God obtains enough divine energy to advance. It also requires certain mastery of an element to advance into.
High God- to reach this rank you need complete mastery of at least one element, you will be shown a list of laws to govern over and must train the adequate elements to advance.
What this is saying is that to advance from over God to the next rank you must reach the necessary mastery in the manipulation of an element, not everyone can master all the elements as some people just have low or no affinity towards more than one element. So not everyone could be the, let''s say, the God of time as it requires mastery of all basic elements plus the addition of void.
This brings me to my next info dump. There are 6 basic elements that humans can wield, Earth, water, Wind, fire, dark, and light. But as states before not all of them have affinity for certain types. However, these are just the basic elements, with enough comprehension of these elements one can create their own element.
What I mean is that you could be a lightning Mage should you either reach a certain mastery in the wind element or if you reach an understanding to the concept of the element. The final option is to get a divine imprint from the dragons, if their master could manipulate the void, they would receive minor affinity with the void element.
The last rank of gods is Sovereign
Sovereign- to reach the sovereign rank one must completely master a law, and possess astral energy, there can only be one sovereign at a time. Should you reach sovereignty you must either submit to the current sovereign or battle to the death.
To put it simple, there levels of god hood. The levels go like this:
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Reach a certain level of power (demi-God)
Then
Become one of many rulers of an element ( can be more than one) (High God)
Finally there is
The representation of of an Idea/element. There can only be one. By this I mean that they become the figure head, for example there are many gods that rule fire, but there is only one God of fire ( the sovereign) as they have the highest understandings in this element.
The current 5 gods, or rather sovereigns
Are:
Astra- Goddess of light, depicted as a 22 year old woman with pale white skin, golden hair and eyes and golden wings. She was the first God made by Atlas and as a result is more powerful.
Ryze- God of fire, depicted as an 18 year old short tempered man with a tab, fire red hair and Crimson eyes.
Talia- goddess of darkness, depicted as a 21 year old female with pale white skin, waist long dark black hair and eyes
Faro- God of magic/mana, the only current God that represents an idea, but due to being created 10,000 years after the rest of the gods he is weaker. He is depicted as a humanoid entity made of mana, often sporting a black wizard hat and cane.
Kane- God of water, He is often depicted as a tall, spake skinned man with sky blue hair and pupils.
Between the sovereigns there is a big difference of power between representation of element and idea. representation of idea is usually stronger than element, but both require insight into laws of the universe to accomplish.
When a god reaches sovereign level their body goes through a change to bring their body closer to that element/law, for example if you become the representation of fire you will receive attributes of fire, such as red hair, maybe short temper, and explosive outputs of power.
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Authors note.
Hey guys I took your advice and decided to provide ranks and a more In depth explanation of the idea of "Godhood" What I am going to do next is a bit of world building. And figure it out, next chapter update on Monday.
Important announcement !
Hey guys, I haven''t been posting chapters recently. There is a reason for that.
#1. I was in Honduras, and Internet there is not exactly the best.
#2. I didn''t take the notebook in which I wrote the story with me. I had written about 52 chapters in advance.
#3. When I returned to the U.S I was unable to find my notebook with the writing.
This means one of three things. I will either drop the story and make a new one, since I have about 3 other fictions already written out with at least 30 chapters each.
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Option two, keep the story going, but it will be completely at the top of my head, (as I no longer have chapters I had before and being in Honduras for the last couple of weeks made me lose track of where the story was going.)
Or option number three. Which is to rewrite the story from where we are right now going forward. This will take about 3 weeks to a month.
Important announcement !
Hey guys, I haven''t been posting chapters recently. There is a reason for that.
#1. I was in Honduras, and Internet there is not exactly the best.
#2. I didn''t take the notebook in which I wrote the story with me. I had written about 52 chapters in advance.
#3. When I returned to the U.S I was unable to find my notebook with the writing.
This means one of three things. I will either drop the story and make a new one, since I have about 3 other fictions already written out with at least 30 chapters each.
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Option two, keep the story going, but it will be completely at the top of my head, (as I no longer have chapters I had before and being in Honduras for the last couple of weeks made me lose track of where the story was going.)
Or option number three. Which is to rewrite the story from where we are right now going forward. This will take about 3 weeks to a month.
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