500th Time Reborn, A World Only Known By Women: The Karma System

"You know before I came to live what I thought would be my last life with you, but after I had learned about you, I used to walk these halls so much that I would jump to the upper ledges sometimes so as not to wear a path on the floor. I daydreamed of what it would be like to do this right now, but something feels like it is missing," I said as we walked to the stairs that led up to my second-floor garden.

Only a few rooms in my twisting castle had actual doors, but it wasn't like it would start raining here randomly or the winds would gust up if I didn't want them to. I might be acting god for the Mortal Realm, but here, nothing happened if I didn't say it did. It made the place fun, but it meant nothing if you couldn't enjoy it.

That was my problem right now.

"I feel like I am in a dream; even though I have been considered one of the strongest goddesses for the last 500 years, I feel completely normal in your arms. The crystal clear backdrop of the stars and the floating islands are hard to comprehend, and it all is breathtaking," Tallia said and then kissed my cheek. "I know this has been hard for you, and you have given up so much to get me here, so I just want to tell you how much it means to me. I know I get angry, but I really do love you more than anything in any world at any time. You are the most important person that has ever been and ever will be in my life. Thank you for loving me so much."

I stared forward with my heart in my throat and tears running down my face. The world could wait.

"Can I show you something?" I asked quietly, not confident in using more of my voice. I didn't want this moment to ever end.

"Yes," Tallia said and tucked her face into my chest as my Astral Coating covered both of us, giving her cute black cat ears like mine covered in stars. Tallia reached up and felt them, then grinned at me. "Did you just give me cat ears?"

"We are going to go up into the stars, and there are things up here that would attack you if I didn't coat you in my presence," I said as we suddenly shot straight up, but the air moved with us in a bubble around, making it seem like we were still.

"What are they?" Tallia asked as we rose, but even at this speed, it would take fifteen minutes. I could have portalled, but part of the magic was the trip up.

"Space Whales, Tamed Riftwalkers, and two Artificial Intelligence Orbital Platforms. Each of them has more guns than I have hair on my tail and the ability to use even more varieties of ammo. The Space Whales and Riftwalkers are Brood Mothers meant to constantly spawn new troops," I explained, and this made Tallia look at me with a concerned look.

"Why would all of that be above your home?" Tallia asked, but I shook my head and then pointed my chin forward; she looked over and then gasped.

We had just broken above the outer layer of my Astral Island, and now the other twelve islands could be seen in a ring below, and then far below that was the expanse of Yaggisdral. I spun us around so she could see everything.

"As the Thirteenth Zodiac, My job is to protect everything. I used to spend my off days coming up here to fight alongside the creatures that I had collected to protect everything below us. I don't know where the creatures above us come from, but they are nonsensical and attack constantly. They are what I have come to call Chaos Beasts because they have no reason, and they even attack each other," I said as we rose higher.

"I don't understand. When did this start happening?" Tallia asked, and I laughed.

"Since the moment I drew breath, I knew it was one of my tasks, but in the earlier years, the others would be the ones forced to defend the place while I took care of the world. I started to request my father to let me bring back the creature you will see above to help defend us, and he agreed after wringing a bunch of tasks out of me for each one, but now I no longer have to worry about them, and then others get to live in peace. This was probably another one of the Guides tests," I said and got a sour taste in my mouth, finally putting the finger on why I couldn't fully enjoy this moment. It was because the Guides talked of even more work after everything was done with the twelve islands.

"I'm still not following, but that is fine. Why did you want to bring me up here?" Tallia asked, but then added, "I mean, it is really nice, but-"

"You will see. While The fighting above is crazy, it is something that no one has ever seen before up close beside myself. It is actually really pretty to watch if you don't think about the death and destruction," I said, and then we slowed down and pushed into Liquid Space.

We were still in an air bubble, but the layer that we just broke through was the final layer of the Heavenly Realm called Heavens Filament. Everything outside of here was just called Liquid Space because there was a resisting force that made it seem like you were in the water, but everything else was the same as normal space.

That is, except for all of the multi-colored monsters and bullets that smashed into endless streams of glowing red Chaos Beasts. They each had twisting forms of humans, monsters, and all things that had ever existed, and they flowed endlessly.

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