Capítulo 39: 39 That's No Moon... (Preservation)
I floated high above Heaven and took a moment to enjoy the eternal night. Truly glorious. I stretched my senses out and began to resonate with my world. To become a proper Force user, ordinary people needed to meditate for years to learn how to reach out and sense Reality with their Will. However, my spatial sense as well as my empathic and telepathic abilities gave me quite the leg up. The fact that I created it all helped too. I could feel Reality's Definition in a way more intimate than any Jedi Master could, and could resonate my Will with its ebb and flow within a mere thirty two seconds of meditation.
The sensations were quite informative. While a mortal Jedi could only see glimpses of the possible future and have a Domain of only a few miles (depending on the amount of information to sort), my mind quickly processed the happenings of the entire Orchard Forest Heaven. System had been disseminating cultivation knowledge to my angels, who on the whole were a bit bored. They wanted to be patient, but they didn't have any idea what my plans were for them.
So they started to pick up hobbies. Some volunteered to be incorporated into System just to have something to do. Others decided to start seeing if more trees will grow by planting seeds, and became farmers. Still more started competing martial and magic and psychic combat schools. Luckily, they all were unified under the singular purpose of serving me, so all competition was amicable.
My favorite were the artsy angels. Without the ability to make paper, ink, or any sort of domicile, they instead painted and constructed with magic. They pushed their art to the limit; they expanded the magic for miles, showing the emotions of their fellows by highlighting them with auras. Others used mirage magic to manipulate light to make it seem as though wondrous castles and dragons floated in the distance. Still more formed dance and song groups, practicing my favorite songs and dances to perform for me.
The more carefree of my children just played games. They conjured a frisbee and started playing Ultimate; they conjured a football and had a blast playing it 3D. Some played tag, while others grouped up to do a mind meld and start running simulations that looked suspiciously like a TRPG. Others worked out how to program illusion magic to make a virtual reality version of Wolfenstein.
However, there were hobbies that disturbed me. There were three angels who wanted to test how much harm they could get away with before the Heaven's Law of Invulnerability kicked in. There were others testing the limits of their digestion by eating dirt and still more who would delve into each others' heads to test the limits of mental programming.
The worst of these actually performed body modifications on themselves! These ranged from cosmetic color changes to turning themselves to dragons!! There were even those who figured out what each gender is supposed to look like and turned themselves masculine or feminine. What the heck! My disgust with the practice made me lose hold of the Force, and those body modifiers all had a run of bad luck. Most had treefulls of fruit drop on their heads, while others tripped and fell face first on the ground. All felt my displeasure.
I had to take a step back and calm down. My Preservation instincts were telling me that what they were doing was terribly wrong, but I wasn't just one emotion. I processed what they were doing through my main body, and felt impressed. They had figured out how to work around being invulnerable by exploiting the cultivation loophole in the Law. The invulnerability granted by being in Heaven is not a stasis effect, and allows growth. It actually works by allowing the Soul's Will to affect the body to the point that nothing can harm it.
What my children had done was change their Will's perception of themselves, thereby affecting their Forms, something only possible because of how the Law of Invulnerability worked. They cut out the middleman of mana or qi transformations, and thus there was no conflict with the Law. It was extremely impressive. Changing your own self perception should be nearly impossible!
My Preservation side both wanted to revert them and keep them the way they were. I had wanted armies of identical angels, but what they had done was so artistic! Luckily, their transformation did not mean they had forgotten what they were before, and so their original body was included in their Definition. I focused and resonated once more, connected to the Force of my Heaven.
All we needed was to make both Definitions true. There would be mental trigger deciding whether the dominant Form was the original or transformed template, and all future transformations would be done from a transformable template. Not something easy for a Force user, but my Will was the Will of the World after all.
My poor transformed angels were depressed from experiencing my displeasure. They hadn't reached the level of wishing to suicide, but it wasn't far off. When they felt myself connect and resonate with their existence, they cried tears of joy. When they realized they now had a new instinct that enabled them to transform, they did so at once, singing my praises.
I spoke to all my children. "I am Father's Preservation. I was displeased when I found that some had had altered my design for you, but am now pleased at your creativity. I recognize both of your forms as part of who you are. However, I decree that only angels who are granted permission to do so may join the group of Transformers. Thank you all for growing the culture of my Heaven, and being patient enough to wait for my return."
"I further decree that I shall grant jobs as World Custodians, guardians of the worlds and systems that I shall create. These jobs shall be given to angel who wins the contest that is to be held once a month."
I went on to explain to them that the contest would be one of simulation strategy. They would run a city and could incorporate any skill they learn into their populace. Arts raised morale, martial arts raised military power, engineering allowed for a greater populace and attracted new residents, etc. They would need to balance the economy with city upkeep, defend against invading forces from other cities, and try to invade others. The best at such micro and macro managing would be the best choice for Ascension to godhood and run a world of their own.
I didn't mention that I would be making a thousand yearly contest to see which world was doing best. KPIs would include economy, overall happiness, overall security, number of premature deaths, and so on. The winner would get another world to give away or manage. I'd mention it closer to the planned day, as I wanted to see how my children would perform without incentive.
All the angels were abuzz with the news, and started forming alliances based on their personal strategies. I spoke to System. "Approve any who chose to be Transformers, just let me know when they deviate from the base template so that I can install their trigger."
"Acknowledged. Should I program the simulation?" Aww, it wanted to take initiative to serve me. I felt touched.
"Please do. Base it off my world with only minor magics allowed. I'll set up the Kraken to be used as hardware." Allowing access to the same bioware that stored System's backup would be dangerous, so I would have to install a firewall.
Reaching out to the Kraken, I smiled as I found that even with Systems myriad backups including all its existence scans, we could continue relying on its storage for another trillion years. What I needed though, was another VMD that was available to the public. A VMD required a soul, for without a soul there is no imagination. Imagination is, after all, Possibilities unrealized.
Unfortunately, that meant that splitting the Kraken was not an option, especially through my Aspect of Preservation. I would have to grant it a soul, and having another creature with access to System's backups was a security risk.
Instead, it was time to create a new sort of creature. My night sky consisted only of stars and was missing a moon, so I might as well make one. I used System's VMD created Moonlink. It was a round sphere that was all brain. It had telepathic powers that could mess any mortal up right quickly, but its purpose of creation was to be a link to all of Heaven's creatures, hence the name. It came with a VMD much like Systems, except you couldn't save any projects for creation. It only functioned as an virtual world, so I called the function Virtual Reality instead.
I saved the project as Moonlink, and then used my own Will to define Possibility into Reality. I wanted the personal connection, so I didn't System for more than a supplement to my Will.
We were now all set in Heaven. I just needed to keep the peace, and preserve the way of life I shaped.
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