After a year of intense massages and endless feasts, I returned to the Universe. The gods better have a good plan, because the Challenge was going to start very soon.


    “Hey guys!” They all jumped. Seriously? Can they not see me coming? I have a body now, you know.


    “Hey, Omni,”- Primis


    “Hello…”- Exitium


    I guess the other deities are too scared to greet me. Sweet. It makes me sound like a complete badass.


    “Ok, planning’s over! Ask any questions and then the Challenge starts!” I was going to let them ask questions, of course. Else they’d misinterpret the rules and ruin the whole thing.


    “Ok…”- Primis


    “Go! Ask!”- Me


    “Well, we were wondering if we can make more species, and have them unified by one god.”- ExitiumThis content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.


    “Why would you want that? Actually, no. Don’t tell me. Surprise me,”- Me


    As long as they counted as a single nation, I don’t really care. The gods looked really relieved, though. They must have really wanted this.


    “So, what species do you want?”- Me


    “Well, we made some examples,”- Primis


    “Ok, get them!”- Me


    Magus, the great librarian he is, scurried off somewhere and came back a few minutes later holding three cages, which he presented to me.


    The first one contained a heavily muscled, seven foot tall humanoid with thick green skin and large fangs. It looked like a cross between a human and a giant, with its strength and intelligence somewhere between the two. “This is an ork,” Primis said. I like it.


    The second cage’s inhabitant looked like a smaller ork. It was about five feet tall and skinny; not a very good fighter. However, it’s brain was much larger, making almost as smart as a human. “We call this one a goblin,” Primis told me. Not bad.


    The final cage had, unlike the first two, a beast. It was essentially a giant bat, with a wingspan of just over twenty feet. Even with it’s strengthened body, it didn’t look like it could carry an ork. A goblin, however, could use them as flying mounts. Very smart. “And this one is a giant bat, for transport and scouting,” Primis finished.


    “I assume these will live with the giants?”- Me


    “Yeah, that’s the idea,”- Primis


    “Sure, you can use them,”- Me


    In all honesty, I wasn’t sure what good the giants would do, but with smarter and more numerous allies, maybe they wouldn’t die out after a few thousand years. Well, I’ve waited long enough, time to start!