The Absolute: Humanity's Second Chance

*** Fou Falsar ***

'It has been over a day since we have arrived. But I am not going to claim I don't prefer such a life.' I thought, rolling up my sleeves as I joined the ladies in our daily duties.

But such strenuous activities are not necessary. As demigods, it would be simple to just wave our hands, and the dishes are washed, the clothes and blankets as well.

But we mostly prefer to do it ourselves, to avoid being bored. Unlike other races, we don't have wars, studies or goals to keep us busy.

We just prefer being a normal village.

"Ah, little Fou, you're early today." One of our elders said, gently patting me on my back.

She was from the same generation as my parents, a woman of maturity and beauty. I smiled back at her, "Yes. Today is a free day."

"Everyday is a free day." She said, chuckling under her breathe.

I rolled my eyes at her comment with a smile, "We just got here yesterday." And with that, went on my merry day, starting with the washing.

She also began helping a moment later, by fetching more clothes from the sorounding houses to wash.

And by doing that, it came as a wake up call to other young ladies and mothers to come and join as well. After all, this was a group project.

Meanwhile, the men also woke up and began on the process of building up our new homes.

And yes, we have chosen to settle down here for the time being. We exchanged made artifacts and sewn clothes for light work building materials, such as planks.

We also borrowed building tools as well. And throughout the 24 hours, we have done building the foundation of our new home.

And as we are not sure how long we'll be staying here, we chose to build a single large scaled building. Like a dome.

We are not that much after all.

"We'll be done in a jiffy guys. Let's push on." I said, prompting everyone to respond back in enthusiasm. "Yeah!!"

But suddenly, as unexpected as this whole place was, the tiny creatures that called themselves pixies suddenly flew out of their side of the territory.

For small creatures, they sure had large houses and a vast territory. Anyhow, they flew out and circled the dark sky with great activities.

They were like tiny stars of varying colors, moving in and out of space, as if celebrating the appearance of a supreme god.

At the same time, sparkles flew out from time to time, as well as celebratory sounds of wild joy and happiness.

"Wow." I exclaimed in amazement, my hands freezing in motion.

But I wasn't the only one who froze. Everyone else, be it the house maidens or the young maidens, or the builders and young forgers, they all stood shocked.

"Sister Fou, what's going on?" One of the young maidens working besides me subconsciously asked me. But how would I know?

"...I am not too sure. Give me a moment." I responded, wiping my hands on my apron and hurriedly flying towards the men.

Of course, I made due to keep my altitude on the low, a distance away from the ruckus in the sky.

Soon, I arrived besides my father, and stroked up a conversation with him. He also didn't know what was going on, and niether did mother, or the ancestor.

"You should be the one to know something. Aren't you our representative?" Fin shrugged her shoulders as she said, sitting idly atop the large book her size.

"...Go back to reading." I said, but she had a point. I was the Falsarian's representative, so I should go up and ask.

With that in mind, I carefully flew up, and suspended myself a few meters below the celebrating pixies. "Uhm, excuse me your excellences."

I called out. From my experience of staying here, and of being a goddess, I knew that these little creatures were gods at minimum.

The weakest of them were gods far more powerful compared to me. And even those, were just newborn children not much older than Fin.

And as for the teenagers? Those in their prime? The middle aged ones? The late ones or even the older ones? They were far beyond even my imagination.

Hence I decided to be respectful at all times. "Hm?" And thanks to that, a relatively young looking pixie stopped and excitedly flew back to me.

"What is it? What is it?" It asked, flying around me like a multicolored glow of light, the size of my fingernails.

"Excuse me but, what's the occasion?" I asked, a light smile on my face. The best I could prepare.

"Oh, you don't know? No wonder you're not celebrating. Hehehe, you see..." The pixie flew close to her ears and whispered, "...The unfortunate woman is finally out of her training."

"Unfortunate woman..? Oh, isn't that lady Juliette?" I asked in surprise and the pixie seemed shocked at first.

But a moment later it came to a realization and nodded, "Yes yes, her. So that was her name? The unfortunate woman has such a lovely name? Hehe, let me go tell my brothers."

"O-Okay. Bye then." I said, weakly waving as it left. Even it's speed was quite fast, appearing as nothing but a multicolored flash of light.

I then descended and alerted my people. Everyone was also excited and stopped what they were doing, only to gather together neatly before the entrance of our new home's foundation.

We all had various flowers or herbs or the likes, small gifts one could give out during a greeting. They were also ranging from Tier 1 to Tier 3.

Anything beyond that, and even we would feel strained. Plus, we thought of exchanging anything of Tier 4 or of Unique grade for high grade building materials.

We waited, expectant at meeting lady Juliette, the so called lady of misfortune. 'I wonder why she's considered an unfortunate lady. What did she ever go through.'

I thought, imagining a partially hideous or at most, a sad and depressed woman. But the moment she arrived, my thoughts were completely erased.

What was presented before my eyes, was a woman of great beauty. Beauty so high on the spectrum, she exceeded even myself, a goddess of beauty.

Even when I was but a lesser god, I believed my beauty was beyond most gods regardless of realm. Yet here I was, doubting that notion right now.

Her complexion seemed so beautiful and out of this world that, she almost resembled a beacon of hope within the dark skies of despair.

Her dark hair resembled a waterfall of darkness, smooth and serene. Her eyes like two abyssal gateways, full of stars and pure wonder.

"..."

There was many more words, but I could not use them right now. I was too shocked. I couldn't even be jealous at all. There was no competing with this level of beauty.

"..."

And I was not the only one. Every other man or woman around me, was left speechless by such level of beauty.

And to add more spice to the scene, the thousands of pixies flew around her, circulating like countless stars orbiting around a central point of gravity.

The scene was just too...

"Hmm... Your highness, are they the group of esteemed demigods my husband sent?" She asked, her voice like the most sonorous heavenly aria there is.

I felt my heart skip a beat... I was not interested in woman, that was for sure, but right now, I felt like I would actually go through heaven and earth for this woman.

Just for her to call out my name.

"Yup. Thats them." A response came from above her head, waking me up from my illusion. I then felt my heart beat race... now in fear.

'There's no way this woman is just a goddess.' I thought, fearing the grasp her beauty had over my heart. And let alone me, what of the young demigods under me?

I was about to turn around to check their situation, but then, I saw the personification of beauty herself, slowly descend to me.

...!!!

I felt my heart freeze, and my breathe vanish. She then landed besides me, and threw a casual smile at me. "Hi, pleasure to meet you, your excellences."

She said, bowing down slightly, leaving not only me, but everyone flabbergasted.

"N–No. It's a pleasure of ours to meet you, my lady." I hurriedly threw my response at her, bowing respectful towards her.

" " It's nice to meet you, lady Juliette. " "

The entire village followed, bowing alongside me, and giving her the respect she deserves.

"Ah..." I heard her exclaim in shock.

"It's... It's fine everyone. Please raise your heads. There's no need for this, please just feel free and at home. Oh, by the way, I am Juliette. Once more, a pleasur to meet you." She added, her tone quite pleasant to hear.

That made me subconsciously smile. Everything proceeded perfectly well from there. We gave her our gifts, and she seemed quite touched.

...I also came to learn that, though her beauty was high, I was the only one who saw her as the center of the universe. I was quite embarrassed.

'Flint. You ought to come back... soon too.' I thought to myself, fearing my own feelings and emotions.