Even after the splitting of reality and the birth of an entirely new universe, the things within the bounds of the First World were unaffected. The oldest of Creation had not an inkling that something new had been created just out of sight.
The Almighty witnessed the whole thing, however, and His joy had just increased a thousandfold. If He hadn't already become the very manifestation of limitless jubilation, this moment would have made Him so.
Returning to the mortal world, things have been changing in their own unique ways through the movement of the galaxies and formation of brand new celestial bodies. The process of each change would take exponential and tedious lengths of time, with some taking well over the next billion years to enter a somewhat functioning state.
One of these developments was the formation of a strange but unassuming little planet among a seemingly unassuming star system. Here, one of the closer planets within the star's orbit would come in direct contact with another celestial body. The space object, a smaller planet that be known as Theia by the mortal residents of the larger planet, would carve a large chunk of the larger object's form.
Theia would not survive this encounter, but the debris formed by the crash would come back together and form into a moon which would orbit around its original form.
During that time, a hail of smaller objects continued to rain down on the young planet, providing a wealth of resources the planet itself had not held during its formation. With this newfound wealth of supplies and the gradual cooling of the planet would provide an atmosphere unseen throughout the world since the first lifeforms appeared long ago.
Here, on the lonely little planet, life would get its second chance and its first big break. Life would finally bloom on the planet Earth.
This event would not go unnoticed, either, even with such tiny mortal life forms taking shape. The Lord would be there to see the first of Earth's life appear within the primordial waters and would call for His Angels to sing, but not in His praise. He would call for the Choir of the Heavens to sing for life as a means to bless them, to give them safety among the wide and unpredictable universe.
Though such simple mortal creatures as the single-celled organisms, though they did not understand the guidance and love they had been given from above, the Lord provided it anyway, and the Angels would sing their praise both for their Almighty Lord's joy and the resilience of mortal life.
The primitive nature of mortal life on Earth would stay as such for quite some time with many microscopic life forms multiplying into even more microscopic life forms which would come to multiply as well.
Life would move at its own pace and go on its own path, and the Lord would love it always.
Another billion years would pass before the next big step would take place. Though it possessed a similarly primitive nature to the tiny things that came before it, the first multicellular life would be born. Just as the ancient cosmic dust formed together into the stars, planets, and galaxies, the microscopic cells that made up the first of the universe's life would connect into bigger and more complex forms.
This would lead to further development as life on Earth would grow to greater sizes. What once had been among the tiniest things throughout Creation would become larger forms of life, albeit of similar complexity. These early animals would be a far cry from what life would become not only on Earth but on other worlds.
The simplicity did not lessen the reaction from the metaphysical either, and the excitement would further increase as each new species would arise within the ancient seas.
Things would come to a head as Earth's mortal life would go into overdrive, with many new unique species all coming to exist within a far smaller timespan compared to the sub-continental pace earlier creatures had taken.
From there, life would continue to grow and change and adapt with the planet, though these two groups often seemed to be at war with one another. The world would push the mortals inhabiting it to their very limits, nearly wiping them clean off its surface on a number of occasions. Life would persist each time and bounce back with new interesting forms.
Amidst the storied history of the planet many dynasties consisting of wild and wonderful clades of beasts would take control of the planet before tragedy would strike, sometimes from the planet and other times from far beyond the stars.
But life could always find a way, and would persist beyond any tragedy it would face.
However, within the darkness things were growing just as mortals were. As the number of living things grew and more things would learn of the harsh conditions produced by the mortal world, the amount of suffering produced continued to balloon alongside them.
And as new kinds of living things faced new kinds of suffering, that suffering would find its way deep beneath the folds of Creation and into the world of demons. There horrible things would be born from the pain brought from above with a deep hatred for those that made them.
This hatred would be fostered by The Nameless One, the only being any demon believed was worthy of praise. From "birth" each new demon was commanded to join its ever expanding army, though none needed to be commanded.
They simply followed orders, as their very nature commanded. At least, that is what they hear from The Nameless One.
Part II: In the New World
As mortal life was preparing to take its first few steps within the First World, the Second World that had been a measly spark moment prior had expanded into another universe of similar grandeur to its predecessor before its cosmos were fully populated.
The first major curiosity discovered about the newborn world was the fact that it already had many of the traits the previous universe had to develop over the course of eons. This one didn't even need a Divine Font to sustain itself during its infancy.
Had God's wonderous Creation already gotten better at working on its own? Indeed it had, and that self-reliance could be seen through its need for far less assistance than the universe from whence it came.
Though a concrete explanation as to why the subsequent universes were found to be so stable compared to the first prototype will likely never be found. However, the most plausible theory presented thus far is that the spark that emerged from the First World held onto some of the rules that had already been made in a similar fashion to cells using the genetic data both to create a stable structure and to experiment and create something new.
And experiment it did, as galaxies and other grand spectacles of the cosmos that had never existed within the older world were discovered by Angels watching above. Where a star system within the old world once had a massive deadly star watching over the handful of planets in its orbit there is a smaller star with more planets orbiting itself. One of these planets, due in large part to the change in the star's nature, would be able to produce mortal life.
With so many seemingly massive changes, it may be surprising to hear that this new world remained largely the same compared to its predecessor. In many major aspects such as the placement and arrangement of galaxy clusters and the associated galaxies remained the same for the most part.
Even less cosmically significant traits such as the development of life on planets like Earth kept the same histories. Life would begin within the primordial soup once more, trilobites would remain successful for the same chunk of time, the dinosaurs would meet their end by the same asteroid, and mammals would take their place.
And in both worlds, something far less expected would pop up on both worlds, permanently changing the course of history for both version of Earth.
The Almighty, who had been observing both worlds as they expanded and grew, rejoiced at the beauty of both worlds and felt great joy with each milestone the two worlds reached. As the first world entered a strange period with its most populated planet, with ginormous arthropods ruling over vast rainforests, the second had just created the first vertebrates.
As time passed. He would observe the two universes like a parent charts the growth of their child.
The Almighty felt that familiar bliss swell within Himself as He watched His glorious Creation continue to blossom, and this joy would be accompanied by a surge in pride as the beloved mortals kept bouncing back from the brink of annihilation.
In that multi-billion year moment, everything was perfect.
Part III: The Wise Ones
For quite a long time mortal life within both the old world and new world were advancing at their own pace, creating all sorts of wonderous and strange forms of life. The progress made by life would be interrupted now and again by disasters of all sorts from the eruption of massive volcanoes to objects crashing down on unsuspecting planets shot at them from lightyears away.
But as life tends to to, mortal creatures keep fighting regardless of how hopeless the odds may seem or how worthless fighting back would seem when seen from above.
Across a billion years of gradual change, a single constant trait remained among all living things regardless of the world they were from; none recognized the divine in the same way the divine recognized them. None of the flora or fauna of planets like Earth would recognize or even notice signs presented by the Almighty, instead choosing to live their lives among their fellow mortal creatures.
This did not lessen the Lord's affection for the living things of either universe, however. He still believed the way in which they lived and kept fighting to live in spite of pain was the way in which mortals wished to worship.
While the Angels sang the praises of all the wonderous things, mortal creatures would praise the divine through enjoying Creation as best as their temporary forms would allow them.
This way of life would persist for generations of mortals across multiple worlds as well as two different universes. That is until something unique appeared on Earth within the First World. A new species would appear along the equator of the region, the descendants of which would head towards the continent north of them. These strange upright-walking mammals evolved to utilize tools in a way which no other species on Earth had tried to.
Homo habilis, as it would be named by its most famous descendants, would prove to be a highly skilled species and would enjoy life on the planet Earth for a million years before vanishing into obscurity.
The age of the hominid had arrived, and these early bipeds would lead the way to one of the most influential mortal species throughout the entirety of Creation; humans.
When the first of mankind arrived during a period of global freezing, they would have seemed similar to the rest of the animals on the planet. They, just like many other mammalian species at the time, lived in small groups and sought out food, water, and safe shelter. The cave-dwelling tribes hunted and gathered among the frozen tundra of the planet's northern hemisphere.
However, even early in their history humanity would separate themselves from the rest of the mortal life around them. The utilization of tools boasted by the more ancient species would be perfected by the time humans arrived, and they would use distinct strategies to take down beasts far bigger than them, sometimes larger than the whole group combined.
What really caught the attention of the Almighty, however, would be the other ways in which the first humans boasted their intelligence.
Humans would communicate on a level no other species had been able to before, using such complex languages to cooperate and pass on information to those that would come after them. They would also work to create art, painting on the walls of caves to tell stories both real and imagined.
Early humanity would also use their wizened minds to look up at the sky and wonder if there was something else out there. They would tell stories, tales of great spirits roaming the world, recollections of hunts out in the frozen wilderness, and attempts to explain the world they found themselves in. What is the orb that brings light in the day, what are the lights dotting the sky during the night, what causes those deadly flashes when it's raining?
Did something make this? Is there something farther than the sky?
The active minds of mankind would truly be what made the Almighty love them so much. Even if they never discovered Him, He would get to know everything about them.
Part IV: Where Will We Go?
One constant among all mortal life can be found within the title far less mortal creatures have assigned to them; they all possess a temporary existence.
It is the one truth that unites every single mortal creature across existence even in the current era. Any living thing that is born is bound to die at some point. It is one of the biggest downsides to living within a mortal space, but one that life has not let stop it its continued existence.
The ultimate question that many life forms, especially those with any amount of sapience, ask goes as follows; what happens after we die? Is there a part within ourselves that persists beyond the end on the mortal plane or do we simply disappear?
For quite a long, long time, it seemed as such. When living creatures died, the light would fade from their eyes and the flesh would become food for the living things of the future. The nebulous nature of death and the soul makes it incredibly difficult for mortals to fully grasp or even locate their own spirits.
Souls are very tricky to find for anything that isn't totally omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. For God, finding souls is as easy as looking at a living thing and assessing their attributes. Analyzing a mortal soul is as easy as opening a book for Him.
Because of this along with His aforementioned infinite wisdom, the Almighty possesses all knowledge regarding the nature and location of every soul. This allowed Him to track the spiritual energy of every mortal creature within both worlds from the moment they came into existence to the final moment it spent within its original home. This aspect is easy to grasp as mortals can also witness their own lives while alive, but things get more complicated when they die, and it seems like the very essence of the creature has disappeared.
The soul is not gone however, but merely asleep.
During such an early point in the universe's existence, the souls of living things had nowhere to go. They didn't possess the metaphysical weight needed to sink down among the demons, but they also weren't quite pure and light enough to ascend to Heaven. With no real afterlife to go to, the first living things simply stopped moving among the void between worlds.
There in the darkness, the souls of the dead would find peace and enter a deep dreamless slumber. This would be the truth of the afterlife for all mortal souls for over a billion years, until the first sentient life forms appeared.
While other mortals were more occupied with doing everything they can to survive long enough to pass on their genes to the next generation, sentient beings became concerned with both the physical and metaphysical. They would start asking questions and coming up with theories behind both the physical mechanisms of their worlds as well as the possible nature of a spiritual world.
As the sentient races of Creation came to understand their mortality, they would be forced to face the many complications and emotions that come with such a truth. This would cause many of them to imagine a world beyond the bounds of mortality, a place where an unseen piece goes when the body runs out of steam.
These prayers would float up from the mortal worlds into the darkness, and the void would listen to their pain, their grief, their fear, and would become changed by those emotions.
With the dreams and prayers of humans, the first mortal afterlife would be created. Known as the Kingdom of the Dead, the pocket in the void would become directly connected to the mortal world and to human souls in particular.
This connection would only truly form with those who have heard of it, and those who either did not accept the idea of the afterlife or simply had not heard of it would have a weaker connection. Those who had heard of the Kingdom of the Dead would still form a connection with the realm although far weaker than those who embraced it.
It would only be the first, and many, many more would follow in its path.
However, the afterlife itself would not be the only thing created by these dreams. With the development of the mythology in Ancient Egypt came a group of powerful beings ruling over the kingdom.
Along with the afterlife, man had created the first of the mortal gods.
Even in this early state, the gods would serve a concrete purpose. Throughout the mortal afterlives that would arise in the future, there are distinct roles different gods and goddesses play such as the figure of authority or the judge. They also rule over certain domains such as the sun or the sea.
Regardless, this new development would make Creation even more exhilarating from the viewpoint of the Almighty. Just as the world seemed to become predictable, something new and exciting appears right before His eyes.
For mortals, however, life seemed to keep going on as usual. However, that couldn't be further from the truth.
Part V: Then There Were Four
With the arrival of mortal life and the deep changes they have made in the metaphysical world, Creation is in its most grand and complex shape. The cosmos have expanded to great lengths both within the old world and the new one, which has brought the Almighty great joy.
Things seem perfect, as if the world He has watched couldn't possibly become any more wonderous. And for quite some time, this would seem to be the case as life went on much the same way for quite some time.
If there is one constant rule throughout Creation, however, it is that stagnation can never persist and change is an unstoppable force.
As if on queue, the next great change across the world would begin as a spot along the border of the new world began to stretch. A second spot on the edges of the old world would begin to stretch soon after, almost in reaction to the other universe's sudden growth. Having learned what these stretches could imply, the divine observers watched the event with far more excitement than when it had first taken place.
As the two growing marks continued to stretch outward, each spot would begin to produce a spray of familiar sparks both into the universe and out beyond the emptiness. Even as terror was replaced with anticipation the process seemed to take far longer than the first split.
When the time finally came, a tiny orb of light would emerge from the first spot and a second orb would emerge from the second spot soon after.
Then they would follow the series of events from the first split as the two points of light shrunk in on themselves before expanding into two new universes. Creation had just expanded to twice its size right before the eyes of God and His Angels, and His pride would increase just as much with an instant moment of realization.
Just as the Second World would display its differences from the original, the two new worlds would have their own unique features. While looking over the new corners of Creation, the Almighty would notice two interesting things; both universes started around the time Earth had started to develop life and both of these worlds would develop far greater differences than those made by the first split.
Within one of the new worlds, the world would still be hit by an asteroid as the dinosaurs met their demise, but a handful of species would survive as they hid in burrows. These strange animals would last millions of years longer than dinosaurs within the old worlds did, though the freezing of the planet would eventually do them in once more.
The dinosaurs of the other newly formed universe, however, would be given a far more fortunate fate as the tiniest change in trajectory of a single planet would cause the asteroid to fall off course and lead it to soar way off course from Earth.
This would not save the dinosaurs their share of grief, however, as environmental changes on the planet would gradually worsen until they died out once more. It would seem they could only get so lucky within the confines of a cruel and mortal world.
That is unless something new were to happen.
And with that thought, the Almighty started to think, and He had a very exciting idea.
Part VI: A World in God's Hands
The new split in the time space continuum would prove that, even when left to its own devices, Creation has a tendency to let fate take the wheel leading to changes in the timeline with each new world. Any naturally occurring changes in the universe tend to be small both relative to the universe itself and in comparison to the worlds that came before it.
But what if something, or someone, had an influence on the world?
The Almighty, having witnessed the changes in the timeline on Earth as two new universes sprung forth from the great unknown, wondered what would happen if He had a more direct influence on the next split.
The plan would have quite some time to develop as the next split would take another few million years, at which point all four worlds would develop the familiar stretched point before those equally familiar sparks would form from those points. Of course, this would have felt far longer if He had not already experienced an eternity of nothing but His own existence.
At the very moment the first point in the newest world began to swell outward, God knew it was the perfect moment to enact His grand plan.
He would wait at the first growing point as if He could miss it if He didn't pay it every bit of attention He can afford. Even from the perspective of the Infinite God the process seemed to take forever. The Almighty, as well as His Angels, could nearly feel the anticipation as the marks continued to stretch out beyond the bounds of their respective realities.
Then, as each point of light broke free from its shell in neat succession, God focused all of His being into capturing the first little orb. Then, with the unformed universe in His hands, the Almighty began to dream and wonder once more.
He though of the mortals He had seen on Earth, especially those which had long since faded away. He dreamed of a world where neither the worldly apocalypse or extraterrestrial threats could wipe such fantastic creatures out of existence. Then, once He focused all of the willpower He could muster into the orb, He released it and allowed it to blossom into a brand new universe.
Now, right before His eyes sat eight universes where there had once been four. His joy would have extended even further in that moment if He had not already manifested it within the entirety of His being.
He was a being of limitless joy, and He had His Creation to thank for that.
As He and the Angels celebrated yet another expansion within the glorious Creation, He observed His little experiment and saw that the dinosaurs, which had been wiped out in all other worlds since, would continue to thrive within His customized universe.
The asteroid, like in the previous world, drifted off course and was sent plummeting into one of the gas giants near Earth. The conditions on the planet itself failed to reach catastrophic levels of destruction and many species of dinosaurs lived past what seemed like the apocalypse.
His theory had been proven to Him right there. He could alter the space time continuum within each universe. He could make something completely different to the original form of Creation if He put His mind to it.
The only limit would be His imagination, and there is no limit for His imagination.
Part VI: Expanding Even Farther
Now as a pattern has begun to form, the worlds began to split away in greater numbers and greater variance as each blip. Each roll of the dice brought something just a bit different from the previous iteration. In some worlds mortal creatures would arise in planets that were barren in the older universes. Sometimes the life on populated planets would branch off in unique new ways, creating entirely new timelines as a result.
This would cause new forms of the mortal afterlife to take shape along with different lesser divinities. The gods and goddesses would begin to take form as mortals came to worship new divine beings.
The biggest changes throughout the developing Creation, however, would come from above.
The Almighty, having performed a perfect first experiment, would go all into His new exciting project as many new worlds expanded out. Possessing infinite willpower, He would reach out to many hundreds of worlds at a time and implant His own dreams within the little sparks before they expand, altering the flow of space and time just enough to bring about another wonderful world.
Eventually, the Almighty would allow His Angels to perform their own experiments on these new worlds under His supervision. He would watch as His divine servants would transform those sparks in the way He did, bringing forth their own dreams and desires through the mortal realms. With a combined effort, the Great Divinity would create fantastical words far detached from the more logical world that Creation enacted.
Spectacular forms would spring from the great font of dreams from a grand universe filled with magic and strange mystical beings to a universe comprised entirely of moss, ferns, trees, and various species of snail. Sometimes an test would be to simply create a single massive star at the center of the universe to see what would happen.
Speculation in all fields of practicality such as biology, physics, chemistry, and even studies of the supernatural would become a key tenet to the Great Divine's works of Creation. What would happen if this planet, which is completely inhospitable in the original worlds, were provided just enough support to allow mortal life. How resilient could those creatures be, and how complex would they get? What would happen in the physics of reality called for cubes instead of spheres? What if this chemical behaved more like another one? What if? There was truly no limit to what could spring forth.
The range of Creation was on full display, all thanks to a series of grand divine acts. Just as He did when He first saw His Creation spring to life, the Almighty was very happy.
In time, what had once been a single, albeit large compared to mortals, humble universe would become a great many individual worlds spread across a grand cosmos. Where hundreds of years had once passed, now the grand cosmos had become over ten billion years old. And just as the time grew to great sizes, the size of the cosmos would grow to unrecognizable sizes.
To a mortal creature it might even seem to be infinite. Like one could just keep going forward and never hit the edges of Creation. As if there could never be an end to it, it would go on forever.
