IGIWS: FIRST DRAFT: Chapter 247

Iyomelka was one of the founding Gods of Tertius when she gained consciousness of the Dark Voids of space. She didn't know how she came to be but the only thing she could remember was this explosion, like a really big explosion. She was born from a death of a star. A blue star to be exact. And doing she could comprehend what happened the darkness of space came this dark matter that tried to attack her. Whatever was in the void wanted to consumer her. As it did for all chaotic, divine, and natural, Gods.

But luckily being just born she had enough primordial essence to fight off these things. The only problem was that she had nowhere to go but her instincts told her that if she created a world with the right conditions then her power would increase and the world will protect her from those things in the void.

And as she streaked through the galaxy like a shooting star and stubbled across some other gods to fight off the void. After a while they found a large planet with a large amount of water and started the creation of their home. She's used the templates from the other Gods along the universe as she used her primordial essence to not only to create humans, but most of the animals, fish, plants, and insects. She even created a few of our own, but the ones she loved to create were chickens. Mostly because the name sounded funny when another god from across the universe shared their creation for the rest of the Gods who wished to use it for their world.

This was Tertius, and it was their new home.

After the initial creation, they made a few changes to the planet before Iyomelka was the first goddess to take control over a piece of land on the planet and started the slow process of creating humans as her race. She wasn't the only one to create humans as well. But she was the first one to realize that the humans were perfect for adapting to their surrounding and could create technologies that the other natural races couldn't. They were the perfect balance of both the divine and the natural. But there was a con to the humans, they could be corrupted to the primordial powers of chaos.

This made some of the Divine Gods worried and the tried to take a more proactive role in their human civilization. Which would othen speed up the demise of those human civilizations. As they were more zealous in trying to destroy the creatures that were created by beings of chaos.

So the other gods took their own human followers and moved their people further away from the demons, devils, and other sentient chaotic creatures.

Iyomelka knew her fellow gods were going about their roles wrong. She noticed that when humans were attacked first was when they come together and fought off their attackers. So she didn't try to change the humans, instead, she watched and observed them and would try to use as little of her primordial essence to favor those she wanted to rise to the top of her creation. It did create some problems for her like how all the other Gods were able to replenish there primordial essence faster when their followers prayed to them and gave them offerings. But Iyomelka wasn't as active as the other Gods were.

She would only get involved when she saw a great threat or a great potential human. Like the Meredydd family that founded the Fiafyr Kingdom. They became the bastion of her creation and if anyone tried to stop their line then she would try to influence the out come by the littlest means necessary. She didn't want her followers to become dependent on her every decision and would let them make their own decisions. Even if it was the wrong one.

Her followers didn't care about the other races, but she did. She would even try to help them in her own way. They made things interesting for her, so when the dwarves abandoned a big city still filled with dwarves. She used a little of her primordial essence to suggest that the King so go and visit the city. She didn't know if Burell would kill all the dwarves or not. She just knew that he would give them a honest chance and would not kill the dwarves in cold blood.

And now her latest champion she soul summoned to Tertius has taken fancy to another champion. This isn't the first time in Tertius' history for two chosen by different gods have fallen in love with each other. But this would be the first time she's seen a different race from a chois champion to have fallen for her champion.

She would watch and observe her newest champion to see what kind of path he would take and what kind of effect he would have on the world. She had a feeling that once the other gods find out, they would probably send their chosen ones to try and kill one of them, out of the fear of the unknown. But that would only annoy her if they did.

If her Champion had any weakness, it would be his compassion for others. He would always put the needs of his people over his own. But she did notice a change in her Champion since his time with the Dark Elf. He was becoming more focused and he looked to become one of the most famous mortals of all of Tertius. And she couldn't wait to see their first born who was carefully growing inside the female Dark Elf.

But then the Duke and now the Marquess was openly trying to interfere with her chosen one.

Alaric, his wife, and son were the ones Iyomelka was used to trying to kill or destroy her Champion and she was annoyed with how much primordial essence she needed to use just to hinder their attempts. Like when she used one speck of essence to heal Rianna's womb for just long enough so she could become pregnant with her champion or the time she altered the incomplete elixir that the assassin, Wina Daz, was going to use to make her bosoms lactate so she could sneak into the palace and murdered Quinus. She enhanced the elixir to heal her mutilated virgin and her body became voluptuous before the assassin knew it. She began to fall her the Kingdom's strongest knight and betraying her client. Then there was Marcus. He was the biggest headache as she needed to use four specks of primordial essence to stop multiple attempts on Quinus' life.

Now Duval was working with the Revelia's and she used another speck of essence to warn him that he was going down the wrong path. But he ignored her. There's nothing worse than using a speck of essence and not getting the results she was looking for. Sure she had stored up enough primordial essence to create life on ten new planets and one might think she's a little stingy when using her essence, but she didn't want to be caught off grab by the other Gods.

'Duval... You are going down a dangerous path... You shouldn't go against my champion's future wife...' Iyomelka thought as she glared down at the West Wing of the palace watching the human staring out at the city.

She shook her head at their futile plan to get one of her statues to light up. Rianna was the last one to get her Idol to light up when she, by luck, did one out of five gestures to activate the Idol to connect to her in the ethereal plane.

Iyomelka had these Idols designed so the Priestesses and Clerics could contact her when she was a new Goddess. But after seeing how the other Gods interfered with their followers and seeing how dependent her followers got. She made it that no one could read the scriptures at the base of the Idols, then if someone did a few of the prompts by accident to light up the Idol the scripture on the base of the statue would replace whatever the old prompts with new ones so they couldn't repeat the old actions. Lastly she didn't recharge them with her Primordial Essence. So over a course of Ten Thousand years the Idols slowly lost the power to connect with her realm and Rianna just happened to go on one kneel but she stubbled a bit into a praying motion. It didn't look graceful and the High Priestess was about to reprimand the Princess at the time until the Idol's eyes lit up. And that's how all the Priestesses and Clerics began trying to just like how Rianna stumbled during her ritual of purification.

Iyomelka decided the less interference the better. So she made it nearly impossible for any humans to light the Idol. But it would be entertaining to watch them try. And now they were using ether crystals which did something to her Idols but she didn't know the extent of what the crystal did.

And the fact that the Prime Minister was ignoring her warning was pissing her off. She didn't know if she should try something else but that's when she felt another presence of a God appearing behind her.

Iyomelka narrowed her glowing light blue eyes and without turning her head, she spoke, "I thought you three traveled together... You're brave to show up on my planet... Or is it stupidly..."

The entity was none other than Paul, the eldest brother of the Divine Three. Gods that got forcibly exiled off of their old world and found this one.

Paul's body glowed yellow and had long flowing hair that reach his knees. His toga looked simple to the Roman's standards. His feet were bare and his body was in its natural form.

"We were wondering if we could have a talk." Paul's voice echoed.

"We?... Don't tell me your brothers are cowering?... Those two must be smarter than you, Paul the Wise..." Iyomelka scoffed.

"They are busy and they are none of your concern..."

"What do you want Paul?"

"To discuss the future about you joining with us... This world is corrupted by more than just these other... abominations..." Paul said as he looked down at the palace and witnessed three elves, a Wolfkin and two Dwarves mingling amongst the humans.

"This world is fine the way it is, and you and your brothers have no claim over it!" Iyomelka stated angrily.

"You don't understand how dire the situation is on this world... This mana... It gives the mortals the abilities of Gods... And if we aren't careful... Then they will try to overthrow us... It's unnatural for mortals to have such power..."

"Are you speaking from experience, Paul?... Or are you assuming what will happen next?"

Paul narrowed his eyes when looked at Iyomelka's back.

"No... Our world was destroyed by the Beings of Chaos. They gave their followers enough of their primordial essence to crack the planet in half—"

"Don't you mean, you all gave your followers too much of your primordial essence and caused the destruction of your world and your people?" Iyomelka interjected.

Paul pressed his lips together and glared.

"You Gods of Divine are almost as bad as the Gods of Chaos... All you want to do is make your followers become draconian and you make them fear and hate those who aren't your followers. When there should be more harmony amongst the people." Iyomelka said.

"There is nothing wrong with making your followers stronger..."

"At the cost of the planet and it's people?... I always wonder how you three were exiled... Turns out that it was your own doing—"

"Enough, Iyomelka!... Will you joins us and kill those abominations that are in the heart of your land... Or do you need us to do the work you failed to do!"

"Get off my planet and leave us alone, Paul..." Iyomelka growled.

Paul narrowed his eyes.

"This is our planet, now—WHOA! AAAHHH!!!"

Iyomelka created a golf ball sized amount of Primordial Essence and shot it at Paul while he was distracted and was about to go into a monologue. It hit him square in the chest and in a blink of an eye. He shot up into the atmosphere and out into out space.

Paul was planting his arms and legs about trying to stop the momentum as Tertius started getting smaller the further away Paul was going.

"Damn, you witch!" Paul growled as his glowing hair whipped around his head.

He quickly used his divine power to stop the momentum.

"Someday I'll expel her from this..."

Paul stop talking when he heard the void coming from the darken of space. It looked like thousands of black tentacles rushing towards him as before he knew it one of his arms and legs got wrapped up in the tentacles and the pain was unbearable.

Paul screamed as he used his Primordial Essence to blast the tentacles away. He quickly rushed away from the source and speeded toward the planet with the void chasing after him and occasionally grabbed him and ripped away flesh.

The Primordial Essence burned through the void tentacle's and he escaped the tentacles and crash landed back on the surface of the planet.

Paul's clothes were in tatters and his skin was bloody and full of holes and gaping wounds. He sighed as the prayers of his follower recharged his Primordial Essence and he began to return to his pristine condition.

"So this is her choice then... Fine... Don't say I didn't give you a chance, Iyomelka... For your followers will become ours and then when can create more Paladins and rid the world of this cancer... This mana that doesn't belong here..."

Paul stood up and his clothes repaired themselves as his body glowed.

"And for the sake of the universe... I must find the rest of the Beings of Chaos and end them once and for all."

The light died down and Paul returned to watching over his land and waiting for his brothers to finish their mission of supporting the Paladins that were purging the Dark Elves in the far west of the continent.



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Iyomelka was still watching over the palace after sending Paul away.

'I can't wait to send Paul into the void once and for all... But his damn followers give him and his brothers so much essence that they have become almost untouchable... Thanks the fates that they use it all on their Paladins... Otherwise, I would be in trouble... I need to meditate... I grow tired of watching these fools plotting away.'

Iyomelka turned away from the palace and floated toward the clouds that had her home. Where she was going to meditate and watch her followers from the astral plane.