(Aden's P.O.V)

Kori and I hadn't had some time alone in a long time. And with Raava capable of looking after the kids, that provided us the perfect opportunity to bond. I set up a beautiful picnic on the edge of a waterfall that fell from a really long height. The spray of water managed to create a very beautiful rainbow that paired up perfectly with the greenery of the island we were on.

The beach here as seen from the distance was simply a work of art. Gaea could engineer the best tropical getaways or such beautiful landscapes,that you would lose your breath from sighing in happiness too much.

The best part of this island? It was all natural. As natural as it could be given that the whole realm was only a few months old. Holy shit. The realm was actually only a few months old? My surprise aside, I made sure to set up the most romantic date we had ever gone on.

The best part about the island was that the waters near it, were home to a school of Flami-dolphines. Creature that were hybrids between Flamingos and dolphins. They were also humongous. Easily the size of a blue whale. Everytime they jumped out of the water, it was a spectacle to see.

Kori enjoyed it immensely. We stayed there just chatting about everything. She told me about her worries and I assuaged them. I told her about my doubts and she hugged them away. It was nice to have someone who wouldn't judge you. Nice to have someone who cared.

After the beautiful day, I took her home and enjoyed the evening with my family. The kids could sense I was about to leave and so more than usual they wanted to spend every single minute with me. At the end of it all, I stood alone watching the ocean, my toes digging into the sand.

The stars in the sky, a mere illusion yet they managed to cast a natural light down to the surroundings. I knew that one day, every single star I could see, would ignite and become real. Gain substance. I wasn't going to stop until I made this realm the best.

I would even take all the followers I made in the other universes and bring them over. I would create a Utopia not free of strife or suffering but with just the right amount of pain and the right amount of pleasure. Pure Bliss for eternity is no different than pure suffering for all eternity. In a way.

So my creation was going to have realism. Where you were free to achieve anything you wanted. My ideal ideal world. I was still not sure about letting humanity stay though. The amount of faith I was receiving from the populace was increasing each day.

It felt scummy to eventually abandon those who decided to worship me. That was something the Greek gods did, not me. Yet, humanity had proved time and time again that bitter change usually accompanied them. Was I dooming myself and the realm for considering what I was considering?

I stayed there for over 3 hours. Not meditating or doing anything of great importance, just chilling and thinking.

Eventually, I had to depart. Duty called and I would be remiss if I didn't answer. No one says no to a training montage.

I jumped to my feet and closed my eyes in concentration. At my urging, my body split into two forms. The original body had green and red eyes while the Homunculi puppet looked like the White Shadow. It was strange seeing myself from outside my body. I had grown really tall. I was my dad's height now and although faint, some of the resemblance that had been there still flashed through in certain angles despite my face now looking like...this.

I was really really handsome. It threw me out of loop and left me feeling weirded out that I was staring at myself. How the fuck had no one pointed out the unnaturalness of the whole thing? Oh, yeah, the ones who would have said something were too scared of me and the ones who wouldn't, saw past my outer image. They saw me for me.

The Homunculi puppet perk had evolved. I could now sustain another Homunculi without any side effects. Which gave me three independent forms for each of my unlocked elements. That meant that sooner or later, I would be able to split my attention among all the elements and their Sub-skills. I could coordinate attacks with myself and have a better layout of the battlefield.

This particular Homunculi only had access to the water element. It had no connection to any of my divinities, major or lesser. All it basically had was my strong body and skills. My mental facualties were fortunately split between all my active forms, so my comprehension speed was still very high.

I saluted the original, which was still me, I guess. So I basically saluted myself and then disappeared into the water realm.

My original self shook my head at my antics before turning to the realm mother.

"Gaea, is everything ready?"

I stretched my body, the air undulating and the sand on the beach shaking. I heaved and jumped with my physical power alone. The air tore apart and a path of super hot energy was left behind my trail.

I reached the atmosphere of the planet in a split second and then beyond that to plunge into the cold of space. The sun was huge. It covered every corner of my vision when I looked at it.

Space itself was cold but my godly immortal body easily shrugged off it's effects. I was now sustained by my power and domains. Nothing lesser than me could kill me. Gaea's answer came just as I was drifting around, basking in the rays of the sun.

As the god of light and the stars, the sun was under my control. I tried to absorb some of it's power and found it easy. Though I would probably need like a hundred suns to actually absorb a good amount.

"Yes. It was difficult but with the Justice League's data on wormholes and spatial manipulation for faster travel, I came up with a working model. Though it only goes up to 500× the gravity."

She answered through telepathy.

I hummed in acknowledgement and reoriented my body, then shot off towards the only other giant planet in the star system. I hadn't bothered with creating other exo planets, deciding to wait until there was a need. Gaea was huge, almost the quarter of the sun and closer. The other giant planet was near the outskirts of the star system.

Gaea itself had several Jupiter sized moons revolving around it. The number was six. Gaea had a project to combine them all into one moon, stabilize the gravitational forces between the two to stop any adverse effects and give Gaea one beautiful moon that occupied the night sky.

We were literally rewriting the laws of physics however we wanted. For her it was just a matter if saying, 'it works.' and it would. With trillions of simulations running on how to make the planet more evolved, then it really was a matter of saying, 'it works.'

I weaved through an asteroid belt, escaping the field with crazy flight maneuvers that reminded me of my favorite sci-Fi shows, to come up on the literal opposite to Gaea. Even from space itself this planet was an enigma.

It was silver with a layer of white covering it. Not to mention, Smooth like a globe due to the high gravity restricting the formation of tall mountains and hills. The planet was also frozen over with temperatures that approached the absolute cold, only off by a few degrees.

It was made for ash living. The air was not breathable and instead contained an atmosphere dominated by a gas that was highly poisonous to biological life forms. The planet had customer made drones that could go toe to toe with the Justice League and best them. Those were going to be for sparring.

The thing that set the planet apart from Gaea or anything else however was that I could afford to go all out here without the danger of breaking it apart. The planet had a Chaoum core and absorbed any energy you threw at it, giving off a field of dark energy that cast the planet in a dark light. The darkness drained even more energy from someone. It was the perfect training place.

The planet was Gaea's size as well. But the gravity was crazy. 500× the gravity of earth or Gaea's own adjusted gravity. The pull from the planet was bringing me closer to it's atmosphere without my wanting to. The second I breached the zone separating it from space, I plunged right through like a meteor, feeling a slightly uncomfortable weight acting upon my body.

It was easy enough to shrug it off, but my trajectory kept on shifting due to the increased gravity. It would take some time to get used to it.

I hoped the other me was having more fun.

(White Shadow)

Yeah. I was having fun. Infact, it wasn't just fun, it was something else entirely. Awe and Satisfaction. I had just found the winner for the prettiest plane in my realm. A world made entirely of water and the occasional ice landscapes floating above the surface.

Despite that, the temperature was not freezing. It was actually warm in a way. The clouds above were a beautiful golden color that seemed to exude out a light that hit the water and caused all these beautiful shades through the environment contained inside.

And that was where the awe came from. The underwater was it's very own sustained eco system. It contained beautiful aquatic plants and animals. The sea life looked like something you would see straight from a fantasy movie.

The entire dimension was as big as the rest of the planes, with no discernible end. Or something like that. To be honest, space was folded and stretched out in places. The elemental planes did not follow the same rules as the main dimension. The main dimension had a sun, none of the planes had that.

I swam inside the waters, just enjoying the view. Huge sea creatures that were bigger than the Unagi passed me by peacefully. I touched one of them and had it leaning into my touch. They recognized me.

And just as they recognized me, I recognized the spark of life inside each of them. The connection they possessed that made them stand apart from the rest of the creatures in my fire plane and air plane. That spark of life culminated into a special universal consciousness that I could feel watching me curiously and with interest.

I smiled as a name appeared out of nowhere, glowing with the light of knowledge inside my mind. Aqua, the spirit of water and life.

She wasn't ready to meet me yet though. I could feel her hesitation. She was... unsure. I was something else. I was different. She could not feel me or control me or be me.

I smiled, closing my eyes and allowing the water to pull on my body, causing me to sink into it's blue embrace.

'Its alright, I mean you no harm.'

I sent forth calming telepathic tones, hoping that I made a good impression on her.

I had a feeling that water training would go faster if I had Aqua helping me.