Deep in thought, Ada sat on her cloud outside and looked up at the stars. Without any light pollution, the sky was a tapestry of stars. There was also a dense cluster of stars lying along a narrow band which presumably was an edge-on view of this galaxy. This universe was younger than hers but it was still vast. She didn't recognize any of the constellations. She wondered if the people in this world created names for the stars as well and grouped them in constellations. They probably did for all ancient civilizations created legends and stories around the heavenly bodies. The stars were also quite useful for navigation. Perhaps some of these stars were named after the gods? She wouldn't be surprised.

Her mind drifted to wondering how deeply the gods interfered in the mortals' affairs. Deducing from what Leanne has told her so far, the people of Urth have a much more direct connection with the gods than most people on Earth. Ada remembered her

"Without asking Leanne a lot more questions, I'm pretty limited in understanding the state of mortal and god affairs," Ada said aloud. Then she thought, "Instead of asking random questions which could be really interesting but not very helpful in handling the other gods, I should boil them down to the essentials so that I can prepare for the worst case scenario. God, I really hope these deities are not just stupid superficial bullies."

Ada shuddered as she thought of her early years of schooling when she was bullied mercilessly by a gang of older girls. To this day, she wasn't sure why she was chosen to be their target. Eventually though, she left that school and entered a special science-focused school where her peers thankfully actually respected intelligence and academics. She would have to prepare for the worst, which with a god's power could be truly horrendous. Ada decided to write down the list of questions she would ask Leanne. If Ada was still mortal, she would have grabbed her phone and typed out a note with a list of questions. With her current goddess memory though, there was no need. Yet, she decided to enumerate them aloud out of habit as if she was dictating to her phone, "

Questions on the deities first for Leanne since they are definitely more of a potential threat though I haven't encountered them yet.

1. What are the motivations and personalities of the gods?

2. Where do the gods live?

3. What do the gods do?

4. Were there stories of any new gods that came into this world similar to me?

5. How often do the gods interact with mortals? Do they instigate wars or influence the leaders?

6. Who are the followers of the gods?

7. Who are the heretics and what entities do they follow?

8. As a follow-up question, are there people that follow no gods or just one God?

Now for more 'mortal' questions that have nothing to do with gods:

1. What are the nations in this world and what kind of government does each nation have?

2. What are the histories of the different people?

3. What is the most powerful nation in the world?

4. What languages are spoken?

5. What do most people do to survive?

6. Are there universities or schools and if so what subjects do the scholars pursue?

7. Where would I find the most capable and intelligent people?

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Leanne possibly wouldn't be able to answer all these questions but she would know a good chunk more than Ada right now. Also, with question number 7, she should still be able to provide Ada a link to those individuals who would know. Ada planned to take another journey but this time equipped with knowledge from Leanne, the trip would be far from just being a random foray. She felt that she needed to recruit more capable followers and this would be a good reason to not stay put in the cloud permanently and drift toward a state of utter boredom. Ada has always been taught by her parents that she should take risks to progress - just not too many stupid ones with no planning.

"Come on! There's a whole world out there," Ada said with excitement on that thought.

In the meantime, while Leanne was sleeping, Ada decided she would investigate more of her own capabilities. She said aloud, "Unpause systemhelper."

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"Maybe there could be some new files in my folder since a whole day has passed? Perhaps the first day was just a trial period from God?"

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"Ugh! Fanciful thinking to think I would somehow be magically given a guide or more powers. I need to write more scripts but first let me edit one. I remember I was annoyed with having to repeat the script attractmen multiple times. I haven't edited an existing file before but intuitively this should work."

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As expected, writecode opened up the original file. Ada quickly edited the program to enable it to take in several arguments. The first argument designated the number of lodestones created while the second and third argument inputs designated the height and the radius of a cylindrical lodestone respectively. The default values were just one lodestone with a height of 2 meters and a radius of 3 meters. As far as physical placement goes, she would need to focus her eyes on where the initial center would be. The other lodestones would perform a circle around the first lodestone.

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Ada paused the systemhelper since there were other thoughts nibbling at Ada's mind which she wanted to investigate. Every human in this world is an object. And somehow each human created another human. How does that work? Ada was tempted to try her hand at creating a human later but currently she shuddered at the prospect of truly playing God. Besides, Ada thought that if creating a cloud required so much effort, surely a human being would be ten billion times harder to create with the required attributes.

However, if she wasn't willing to create life, could she look at creating new classes of inanimate objects? For instance, the weapons that the men were carrying earlier were created by mortal hands. For instance, are their swords merely objects created from a sword class? That was an interesting concept for her. For a goddess, to instantiate an object after defining the attributes was instantaneous. However, for a mortal, creating an object required a more natural process. So how does the system know that the thing the mortal created was an object which belonged to a particular class?

"Binoculars do not exist in this world. If I or a craftsman created one by manually putting together a couple of glass lenses and mirrors in a metal frame, would the system automatically classify it as a new object of a new class? Binoculars are hard to make so how about a ... paper clip? Just to check first, unpause systemhelper."

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Ada recalled that despite its simplicity, paper clips were not invented until the late 19th century. A typical paper clip in modern day Earth would be made from galvanized steel but galvanized steel was not achieved until the 19th century. Plastic doesn't exist either in the standard library. She decided she would try copper. She went ahead and created a copper object that was cylindrical in shape with length 10 cm and a wire diameter of 0.8 mm. The tiny copper wire appeared in front of her as an imperceptible amount of the wall was transformed. She went ahead and folded the wire into the shape of a paper clip. She was no artisan before and neither was she now; it took her a great deal of effort but finally there was one paper clip.

She waited for the systemhelper to say something, specifically something akin to "congratulations, you have a new class!" Much to her disappointment, there was only silence. After pausing systemhelper, she pondered on what she could do. Possibly, the standard library was read-only for her and she would need to create her own library. However, if the world only used the standard library, how could she force the world to include her library? This was something which she would need more than a night to figure out.

"Well, if I can't create new classes, can I possibly delete objects? Let's try that. Unpause systemhelper."

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Ada gasped in shock at the thought. That was 1253 times greater than the energy output of the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. e = mc^2 seemed to apply here and she did not want to set off a nuke.

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Hurriedly, Ada paused systemhelper and decided to explore other avenues of interest. Several hours later, she felt quite satisfied with what she has learned and made.