14 - Training as a Godchild

I opened my eyes to a bright morning two days later. The sun was glaring down on me like a stranger in it's home.

Okay maybe I was but still manners. No way to treat a guest.

My plan for the day was same as it always was, farm divine points. But this time I knew what I wanted to do. After randomly giving my first priestesses their quests. It was fulfilling to open my panel to see their stats below.

'Ah it feels so good to have followers. Those social media nuts really don't know what a thousand followers to one loyal divine seed is like' I thought smiling up at the sun in glee.

For each follower I got an increase in divine points. Which would always be refilled either by them or by my divine point regeneration. As long as I didn't burn myself out of points it would always regenerate back.

Anyway with the quests followers had now I took two days making a plan on that. Since I had them head south I was already on the route ahead.

I had to pave a path literally right. All this work was getting annoying and stressful.

But first I had remembered or more like my voice had made me realize something. I was powerful as a god no doubt but if I were to stumble across some other god I would be toast.

Which was why now I was doing something very human. Something I never did back on Earth. I was training. How crazy was this.

[FIRST, AS GOD YOU CAN CREATE YOUR OWN SKILLS AND NOT BOTHER LEARNING OR ATTAINING THEM FROM OTHERS SINCE YOUR IMAGINATION AND WILL WORKS TOGETHER TO MAKE IT]

"So just like I made the ability beads?"

[YES BUT INSTEAD OF FORMING A BEAD YOU CREATE A CORE WITHIN YOU]

"Is that why my skills are not accounts? cause I can make them. Wait what's the difference between abilities and skills.?"

[ABILITIES ARE INNATE. SOMETHING YOU CAN DO. SKILLS HAVE TO BE LEARNED]

"Which means making skills is an ability. Why hasn't that registered on my abilities?"

[THERE'S NO ABILITY SECTION. ]

"Shouldn't there be, I mean knowing what I can do would be easier to tackle problems"

[WE NEED THE EXPERIENCE. NOT KNOWING AND LEARNING ALONG THE WAY WOULD MAKE IS WORK HARDER TO UNCOVER ALL OUT TRAITS AND THEN SIMULTANEOUSLY GIVE US MORE REWARDS. ]

[LIKE THE MANA SKILLS WE ATTAINED. ]

I frowned at first. Things would be harder this way but in a way I understood. After all practice makes perfect or something like that.

Signing I started.

[LET'S TRAIN YOUR MANA MANIPULATION PROWESS FIRST. COMPREHENDING MANA USE AND USING IT ARE QUITE DIFFERENT. ITS LIKE KNOWING HOW TO BUILD AS AN ENGINEER. BIT NOT ACTUALLY HAVING DOWN THE BUILDING, THAT'S WHAT YOU LACK IN EVERYTHING, WHAT THE OTHER GODS AND EVEN DEMIGODS HAVE YEARS OF. ]

"Experience?"

[EXPERIENCE]

[LET'S START WITH A FIREBALL. CREATE THE FLAME ON ONE HAND WITH DIVINITY AND THE OTHER WITH MANA]

Nodding I tugged at both energies flowing within me and willed them forward. In a second both had formed outside my palm where it sparked and erupted into a little flame.

On the left which was the mana hand the flame was red and glowed brightly stretching out tall as it burned the mana like a flame. On the right hand with the divine energy the flame was golden with flecks of blue.

Dings rang out in my head but ignoring them was ignored as I focused on controlling the flame. It felt like plastic balls, plastic balls with a mishmash energy within it.

I needed the balls into different shapes the flame shifting and stretching as my hands and mind willed. With one I made a flame dagger, then the other I stretched out till it formed a long pike of golden blue flame.

Holding both made several slashes and thrusts before jumping with a smirk while using them.

[NO ONE WOULD EVER BELIEVE YOU A GOD]

ignoring my voice I dissipated the flames and then still controlling the energies I pushed them out and into.the ground. The floor shook slightly as the ground heaved then I shot back as a slab of earth pushed up out of the ground and formed a wall.

Quickly retracting my divine energy I used the mana to begin practicing. The rock slab separated from tbe ground and then levitated up into the air.

Quickly it crumbled into little pieces before separating then rolling ba together. Various shapes and forms appeared as I watched the earth bend to my will.

After a few minutes of that I tossed the earth aside and using the same mana while pulling out divine energy the next element came too.

The leaves and dust whirled.up.and got tossed aside as the winds kicked up a fuzz from the divine energy. Slowly but efficiently I compressed the air as I wished till it became nothing more than a ball of wind on both hands.

"How is it so easy.?" I asked perplexed.

[Cause you are a god. To you it's as easy as eating. Controlling the elements need the understanding of universal laws and others. Who best to know this laws than someone birthed from the stars itself. ]

"Awesome. " I muttered before shooting the wind out. The compressed ball went out in a blur drilling through countless trees and finally exploding in a mushroom cloud of dust and vegetation"

[Try to refrain from wanton destruction. Whatever seems little to you. Is like a nuke to humans]

"But this is just an avatar?" I mumbled stunned.

[And that's why True forms are not allowed within worlds. Just a mere presence would shatter the reality woven.]

"Obviously. Damn."

"Wait if that is the case how would I build my worlds without being within. "

[From the inside out of course. You'd also need to make a new form that would adapt to your new world without weakening you or shattering the world]

"Alright. "

I refocused on the task at hand. Next came water, it was quite beautiful

and sharp. The miniature waves sliced the air apart as the consolidated into a ball on both palms.

I was already realizing that divine energy made everything more potent. The element would be more powerful and potent unlike mana fueled elements.

Finally I made the last three elements, lightning, darkness and light. Darkness was chaotic and wild as I held it, a squeeze was all it took to tame it. Light was a bit easier but bote a weight that the others didn't.

Lightning while free was disobedient. Always trying to run out of my grasp.

"It feels like a child. Like a high school teenager" I said while looking at the tendrils of blue energy that flickered on my palms.