Dragons, A race of mythical creatures that have inhabited the world long before the humans and other races. Arguably, the oldest existing species besides the high elves. Originally dragons ruled the seventy-five continents, all other species were subject to their authority. This era also known as the true dragonian era lasted for millions of years till the gods intervened, sparking a great war that leveled a majority of the continents. In the end, the dragon god, TAMIRA was defeated by an anonymous human god, chaos god BETHRA and the high elf king, VRAGGAR.
TAMIRA fled, under the pursuit of the chaos god, he made a deal with the king of the underworld to craft an abstract realm that BETHRA could not access. This world would later go on to become the world of dragons. The chaos god angered that TAMIRA was now beyond his reach, took out his anger on the remnant dragons singlehandedly wiping out every single dragon.
"Ugh I don't want to hear this dumb story, why are you even here?" Maya groaned, rubbing her temples. "shouldn't God be watching over the heavens or something"
"Oh, please that's a common misconception, who would want to sit all day just watching? You mortals seem to think that gods don't get bored or feel emotions "Avaris says while eating an apple; apparently, eating doesn't affect his speech clarity at all.
Maya sighs, leaning against a tree she wonders how she met this self-proclaimed god again
Tall ancient trees at least 20 meters tall and 3 meters wide rose around them, their trunks thick with moss and age. Shafts of sunlight filtered through the canopy in broken gold beams. They were in the northern forests of Hacrale, after Maya finished off the third lesser dragon she travelled north for three weeks and finally crossed the barrier between the western and northern regions. She kept heading north till she found the river and a sense of joy washed over her. After drinking her fill and taking a bath in the river, she finally settles down to practice her abilities.
Right now, with her physical strength she could easily restrain lesser dragons that could pull small mountains, her speed and stamina were even more impressive she was able to cross hundreds of kilometers in under an hour. She felt that with just her physical abilities even if she encountered a lower grade dragon, she could exchange a few blows and make an escape.
Polarity reset
This ability allowed me to alter the state of anything to it's corresponding opposite, hot to cold, life to death, up to down, forward to backward very much like changing the outcome of flipping a coin from heads to tails and vice versa. Although there's a bunch of restrictions like having to be in contact with the target, and it doesn't work as effectively on beings with the same qualitative existence, she suspects that it won't work at all on beings at a higher qualitative existence. I couldn't directly kill set the lives of those lesser grade dragons to death, probably because we're on the same level of qualitative existence, I still easily killed them by setting the connection of their brains to their bodies to disconnection. It seems I can easily set the lives of insects to death; I can even set the existence of smaller organisms like germs to nonexistent, this means when I get to higher levels of qualitative existence, I should be able to easily erase lesser dragons or even lower dragons from existence.
After analyzing her abilities Maya noticed Avaris just sitting beside her, she didn't know how long he had been there but he still had that annoying smile on his face. He didn't really leave her alone after that and just followed her everywhere.
Maya finally spoke after a long time
"Hey I want to know how to leave this world"
Avaris didn't reply right away. He just smiled staring into the distance
"Ah," he said, tapping a finger against his temple. "that's what I've been trying to tell you. Through the dragonian history."
Maya was beginning to feel frustration and anger
"Just get to the point or just take me out of this world yourself, aren't you a god?"
He appears thoughtful for a second
"Hmm…."
"I can't take you out myself that's way too boring, currently besides praying me to take you across the dimensional barrier, there are three ways for you to leave"
Maya scoffs and says "why would I pray to a dumb bottom tier god like you, what are the three ways"
"Option one"
Avaris lifts one finger, closing his eyes like a philosopher about to deliver profound wisdom.
"You keep killing dragons and absorb their life essence till your qualitative existence reaches, greater grade, then you can forcefully escape from holes in the dimensional walls. At your current stage assuming you can kill a one high grade dragon every day it should be achievable in approximately 791 years"
Her jaw dropped
"What the hell seven hundred and – "
"Ninety-one," he repeated cheerfully. "of course this is assuming there are no mistakes, injuries, mental breakdowns, or death."
He continued not caring about Maya's reactions or whatever questions she might have.
"As you already know for all mortal lifeforms, by mortal lifeforms I mean lifeforms that don't possess any amount of godhood qualitative existence is classified into 11 grades; micro, minor, lesser, lower, medium, high, higher, great, greater, ascendant and transcendent. There are only two ways to ascend to a higher grade. You can either kill lifeforms and consume their life essence of course the lower the grade the smaller the life essence. Perhaps, if you get lucky and kill a transcendent grade you can acquire enough life essence to ascend to greater grade. Jokes aside you have no chance of winning against a medium grade at your level, so killing a high grade everyday is impossible and it's not like high grades are that common even if you had the required capabilities. Also—"
Maya interrupts him sharply
"What if a person willingly gave up their life essence or just a bit of it?"
With a beaming smile on his face that made it seem like he didn't care that she just interrupted his profound session, Avaris shakes his head repeatedly
"Sharing or directly manipulating life essence is impossible without godhood, I'm sure you don't know any gods who would help you ascend directly." There's a moment of awkward silence, Avaris sighs and continues "Please don't look at me that way, helping you ascend is even more boring than personally taking you outside the dimensional barrier, I'll never do it."
Maya exhales and replies with a bit of disappointment in her tone
"I thought as much."
What a jerk! Maybe it's possible to reset my grade to a higher one using polarity reset, theoretically—
"You know I can hear your thoughts, right?"
Maya makes a face that says _ I know but I don't care_
Avaris continues "Anyway it's possible with your ability, but with your qualitative existence still at lesser grade it's absolutely impossible. Remember directly manipulating life essence requires godhood, that's the number one requirement; That means even if you were a transcendent grade, you would still be unable to do so."
Getting sick of being told she can't do this because she has no godhood, Maya simply asks
"Then how do—"
"I obtain godhood" he finishes the sentence for her with a sly grin, pressing a finger to his lips. "That's a secret."
Not giving her a chance to get another word in, he quickly added "Option two"
Quickly deciding not to dwell on the topic of godhood, she immediately focused on his next words.
"Kill the dragon god, TAMIRA. This dimension will automatically collapse if you do that."
Her eyes narrowed slightly, and she let out a quiet sigh, clearly tired of the impossible suggestions this dumb god keeps bringing up.
In an imitative voice that mocks his tone, she says "knowing you, you'll probably say something like, _I can't kill the dragon god for you, it's too boring_"
She pressed on
"What's option three?"
He smirked, folding his arms with a hint of amusement.
"Good, you're starting to keep up"
He paused, eyes glinting mischievously like he has been waiting for this moment since forever, his lips parted as he slowly said
"Death, Option three is to die."