Awakened Earth!!

Hmm. I snapped my fingers and teleported the annoying guy outside. I was even nice enough to teleport his clothes. Although I don’t have an affinity for space magic like Sophie, my compatibility with it isn’t great either. Basic teleportation, though, is easy. As long as it’s short enough, I can handle it.

Short-distance teleportation? No problem. But long-range teleportation is a whole different story. Basically, once something’s outside my range of perception, teleporting becomes almost impossible for me.

I can use other spatial magic too—mostly basic stuff like pocket dimensions, though mine would be incredibly small. Considering I can store things in an infinite void with time stopped inside Sophie’s dimension, I don’t see the need to create my own pocket dimension anyway.

I can also do spatial slashes, cutting across dimensional space to attack enemies. It’s an undodgeable strike. Though if Sophie did it, she could probably slice an entire solar system in half. My attack wouldn’t even work on most of the powerful beings in the Marvel Universe.

Anyway, with a lot of practice, I’ve learned some basic space magic—but only the simplest kind.

So, I decided to head to the realm to see if Sophie was around. She wasn’t. Alex, however, was busy trying to locate a cosmic storm to absorb. She’s planning to absorb the storm, turn its energy into divinity, and assimilate that divinity—all in one go, apparently.

It’s a bit different from my method of refining faith energy into divinity and then gradually absorbing it. But there are many ways to become a god, just as there are countless ways to become immortal. What people don’t tell you is that most methods come with a price so steep, you’re left questioning if godhood or immortality was even worth it.

That said, there are plenty of methods without major downsides. Acquiring biological immortality, for instance, is one of the best. You won’t die of old age, but everything else can still kill you. No convenient loopholes created by nature—since everything that lives must die.

However, there’s one huge advantage to it. Since literally anything other than old age can kill you, you don’t lose your edge. Many immortals, although they accumulate vast combat experience over their long lives, lose that sharp instinct— that sense of urgency that keeps them alive in critical moments.

Their instincts, intuition, and sense of danger are things that tend to dull over time. But biologically immortal beings, who still have to stay on guard, only sharpen those traits further. They’re always on their toes.

That’s why immortals are often killed by people who should be significantly weaker—those who exploit their weaknesses. It’s not that they’ve been weakened by some loophole; they’ve just grown careless, thinking nothing could harm them.

Of course, they’re not entirely wrong. But when you have the one weapon that can actually harm you and you’re acting carelessly, you’re just accumulating damage. Immortality or godhood isn’t all upside—there are some downsides too.

Actually, my church allows people to evolve without me even being present, since I created the external sign. I even enchanted duplication spells to duplicate a book every time someone took one. Fortunately, it’s on a ley line. While duplicating a book doesn’t take much energy, the enchantment still needs a power source. It’s like a microwave without electricity—it’s useless without energy. Drawing power from the ley lines is a good idea.

Meanwhile, Alex was still trying to locate a good cosmic storm. I suggested she head over to a region where that guy is always finding cosmic storms and opening portals to other dimensions. I teleported over to Stark’s mansion. There were about twenty different maids, all Androids, of course. Using clairvoyance to locate something on Earth is easy—I’m quite skilled at it. It’s similar to Heimdall’s eyes, but not as effective. It’s more like a magical camera that live-feeds into your brain, allowing you to see distant locations.

Heimdall’s sight can theoretically bypass any concealment if he chooses, while mine is more limited. I can only pick up on visual and auditory information, and I can vaguely sense the magical energy in the area. I can, however, combine this with another spell to pinpoint spatial coordinates. Only beings more powerful than Heimdall himself can block his sight, though a technological construct might manage it if its energy output is high enough.

Machines, despite what people think, are inefficient at fine-tuning energy usage. You could spend a millennium optimizing a machine, and it still wouldn’t be able to significantly reduce its energy consumption. That’s because machines can’t make the constant, subtle adjustments that living beings do, which often rely on instinct—something machines lack and don’t even perceive.

Anyway, Tony was going on about how he was a genius for programming the robots for construction, agriculture, and, of course, maid duties. I asked him if they were self-repairing. He looked at me and admitted, “I have no idea how to make self repair Androids it might be possible with Nano machines, and things do tend to break down over time.” However, he pointed out that each robot has its own arc reactor as a power source, so they should maintain functionality for a few hundred years with no problem. They can perform regular maintenance routines on themselves, though full repairs would be tricky.

I interrupted him and said, “Nano machine technology is completely impractical.” I explained, "Even if you could make machines that small—which would be difficult but plausible—their functionality would be severely limited. For something that tiny, no matter how advanced the technology, you'd need an external, more powerful AI to control them. And then, you’d have to consider the wireless signal range for those nano machines, which would likely be terrible, making it impossible for the AI to send the necessary signals to control them.

In other words, it’s not that you can’t make nano machines, but they’d be highly impractical unless you made them some sort of techno-organic life form or biologically-based organism. Essentially, they’d have to be living machines or entirely biological organisms created through genetic engineering."