Prelude - Realm Wars

It was hard to take her mind off the other her who now was in control of the Lunar castle and directed the Lunals. Yet she forced herself to think of the following steps to come.

The plan was slowly set up and the only thing Hilde didn't want was a stray from the events she wanted and also to lie.

Which was why she had upgraded her castle and Living armors to keep her children out. It would be best for them to deal with the coming events and figure it all out on their own.

By the time she would show herself again, they should have gotten used to the devils and gotten stronger from their battles with them too.

A win was a win.

On Vaustaris the wars would unearth many things like the angels and then when the time was right the gods would descend.

The only problem she had was one simple thing. If she sent all gods and daemons to this earth the tussle for territory would be high. Unlike the divine realms where the wars were fought by living armors, the new fight would be done by mortals brought under the thumbs of gods.

Hildelith didn't like that idea. History was a good example of what could happen in such situations. Sure she wanted her mortals strong not wiped out by gods who wanted all the faith.

It left her undecided. Unsure.

Her plan was tweaked and now everything depended on the events of this battle. It was a sure thing. The devils or gods would attack.

There would be a retreat due to the terrain being unfavorable for the other. Then the other would declare war on the attacker. It would be a savage but true war where her divines, daemons, and devils grew more powerful and developed resistance that would be helpful for the true fights to come.

With the fights ongoing in the mortal realm a few gods would descend to claim faith and aid the mortals against their enemies the demons.

She would create more worlds, rinse and repeat.

But there was one tissue left. Time. To get strong. With the other creators surely making plans for when everyone's protection period ended she would have to throw a wrench in their plans and timetable.

Hilde smiled as she thought of the best thing to do. Yet this part of the plan was not something Hilde could achieve.

*

Helen sighed as the pod closed behind her. She stretched her bones and muscles for a moment before heading for her bathroom.

Her eyes took in the interior of the pod as she exited it. She had rarely actually looked the thing over. Only now realizing how strange it was to be able to stay in-game for long hours without getting hungry and thirsty or feeling the need to use the bathroom.

It was something she had barely thought of or considered. Yet now wasn't the time to ponder on the inner workings of the VR pod. She knew it worked and that was good enough for her.

Turning her attention to more important and urgent matters she exhaled.

The day was going to be long and she knew it. Firstly, she typed hit a long email of her plan to the Elder gods. Yes, this part of her plan needed them to work. While she was doubtful of it she had to at least try. Hopefully, her position would help sway the Elder gods for now.

"This is why I need to stay on top. Prestige helps in such ways". she shook her head as she clicked the send.

She sat as she pulled out a notebook and detailed her plan accordingly. She had only one thing left to complete. But it would have to wait for the heat coming to settle.

It would be good too as maybe the new status quo would assist her in this plan faster.

*

In the living room, Hilde chuckled at Dustin's reaction to her plans. The boy was rubbing his jaw pondering if he could facilitate such a circumstance in his universe.

Thinking about it though he realized it was what his hordes needed to gain more experience. He looked up at the girl. A pixie with a savage mentality.

He couldn't help but ponder if it was the same thought running through the original creator's mind.

" So what will you be doing while the wall is ongoing". Dustin asked.

"I'd want to watch, but knowing those brats they will try to barge in and get answers from me."I shook my head at those children's dependency before remembering that normally they were still teenagers.

" Okay. But what about this fragment of yours?" she theses a bit before groaning. "I'll make sure she remains unseen and keeps those children out of the castle."

"You'll be logged out?" She nodded.

"I want to see it all from the streams. See what the viewers had to say. Would also be best to stop me from interfering if one of my kids suddenly ends up about to die, which I doubt but still..."

"We'll make it a movie night?" mum's head popped into view. From the sitting room.

"Sounds good".

*

Helen crossed the Evershus of her notebook. While she could always visit the Undules, those were capable of surviving due to their combat orientation.

Then there were the Argatans. The sun was their boon and as long as they remained uncorrupted they would thrive so a no to them.

Lomries were hard-headed. It was annoying how similar to dwarves they turned out to be even with her attempts to make them anything but. At least they looked more like children than short men.

The Argonnes didn't even register for her. The great sky lords would be the hardest to defeat. Then there was the Elosas.

"Definitely going there" Helen pondered what the Tundra would look like. She chuckled as she remembered how she had actually bought Source eternal to use for the Elosas. It was a wonder how easy it was to get sidetracked in-game. The devs were devious

Then the last race. The most unbothered race of her first world. The Qitsalrmers. The isolationists, the Atlanteans of Vaustaris.

The little thing she had heard or seen of them was from the fight in Oritais when Daena had killed that one dude. Even she had been shocked to meet one.

"That settles my next two stops after this event. It does make me wonder why I've not noticed any of the gods being Qitsalrmers. Neither known nor unknown gods."

It made her wonder if something was going on with the race that she didn't know about. Plus there were the other two lost worlds in her space that was yet to be explored. Vaustaris had most definitely gone past the iron age.

"If it hasn't I'll just see if I can drop a piece of steel down there and call it a day" she giggled before shutting her book.

More adventures. An excited smile stretched out on her face. Now she just had to watch the finale of the realm wars and see how it all went.

" It's good only the gods and devils can move across due to their lower-grade existences. Ayarat would slay my kids if they put too much stress on killing her or they would kill her. Best she gets strong enough until they are powerful enough to cancel each other out. A training montage without realizing it's a training montage." Helen looked to the door as a knock sounded.

"It's starting. Es-GNT is broadcasting your universe. Bertha is on the roll." Dustin stood there with a cross between an excited and amused expression as he pulled me to the lighting room.

"Seems the Elder gods agreed and they sprung this up on her late. She looked annoyed but frankly, she was getting excited" Both entered to see the holo screen already showing the channel and went for the couch absentmindedly sitting on the ground between both parents' legs.

Helen found it amazing how quickly the Elder gods had managed tk come up and arrange all this.

Keller gave his wife a glance which she returned with a wink before dropping the corn bag on Dustin. Fetch the plates.

The boy barely reacted as he passed the bag to Helen.

"Fetch the plates"

The girl completed the circle handing it to Keller without a glance eyes not leaving the show. No one spoke as the man just took the bag and dropped it back on his wife's lap before standing to get the plate.

The night was going well for the Furrow family. For the Star ring universe, their problems had just begun. The instigator staying hidden in her castle while leaving the poor children to fight.