Tuatha de Danann 339 Book 4 Chapter 32 Epilogue (Patreon)

The [System Administrator] had formed an office hovering in the vastness of space, revolving around Earth. She didn’t have feelings or emotions like Gods or mortals would understand them, or if she did, would never admit to them.

But in the silence of space with the office walls festooned with computer monitors claiming every inch of space along the walls, she allowed herself a small measure of contentment. It had been necessary to call in favors owed by  [Time] and [Paradox] to accomplish her goal, but those two Celestial entities how chalked up a legion of debt. Asking them to roll back time so Earth’s integration could be given a ‘do-over’ was insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

If Olympus and Asgard from these loci of multi-verses hadn’t tampered with the System. If they hadn’t managed to inject a virus into the mechanics of that local System,  [System] would have allowed things to progress without interference.

But that virus had been administered, and the System that was responsible for this Universes integration. Choices that had allowed variables to be introduced into the integration left the people of Earth with no way to survive.

That System had forced race and class on every mortal, forcing the change based on location on the planet and selecting races that suited the biomes without worrying about survivability or compatibility between species. Mermaids that would spawn in the middle of deserts. Worker drones were assigned as classes to the great mass of individuals, a class with no combat skills or magical defenses.

When Teigh had been successful in waking the Tuatha de Danann, [System] realized there was an opportunity to repair the damage that the infected System had done. The limited accessibility the [System] had in Urt’s Universe because of Teigh’s presence also allowed for the Atlantian Pantheon to be given a second chance and a new home.

And balance the debt owed to Teigh for his work in finding and resolving the virus issue and freeing the Tuatha de Danann. [System] had given the quest to free the Tuatha de Danann to billions of individuals across the multi-verse. Forcing their Pantheon into  [Sleep] had caused the imbalance that allowed a virus to be inserted.

[System] might be immune to emotions, but it was still able to recognize when a debt had been made, and the debt owed to Teigh had weighed heavily on the Karmic balance sheet that it constantly monitored.

Teigh had asked that the Sidhe that lived on Earth be freed from the vulnerability to iron. They could still be killed by an expertly wielded weapon made of that metal, but the ravages and almost certain death as a result of iron poisoning had been removed.

The [System Administrator] had agreed and had managed to sneak in a further boon to Teigh as the means to alleviate that curse. The Sidhe would have the smallest alteration to their genetic profile, that segment of DNA that expressed as a weakness to iron was replaced with a small genetic donation from the Atlantian people.

Danu and Apollimi had to agree to the exchange, and they had. Even after the  [System Administrator] had placed restrictions on the changes. A requirement that Teigh is allowed a duality of Divinity, a deviation only possible because of the dual nature of his [Domain].

Teigh’s [Authority] over [Glamour] would be tied to his affiliation with the Tuatha de Danann. His [Authority] over [Illusion] would be tied to a new affiliation, [Authority], and membership as a minor Deity of the Atlantian Pantheon.

This wasn’t the first time a God had claimed membership in two different Pantheons. Apollo existed as part of both the Roman and Greek Pantheons.  The difference this time was the tenuous connection between Atlantis and Celtic cosmological evolution.

The two Pantheons were separated by time and location. They had never had a chance to mix, to absorb aspects one from the other. But that limitation was one that  [System] was able to bridge because of events that occurred on Urt.

It was Teigh’s intervention in that world that resulted in the destruction of Atlantis. It was his hand that had forced the tides of Fate that freed the Titans and sunk the continent. That confluence of events was enough to allow  [System] to acknowledge Teigh’s influence in both Pantheons.

It was a technicality, something a sea lawyer would come up with.  But it served [System’s] purpose and to give it the loophole it needed to redress the failure of a local System that had been corrupted.

The  [System Administrator] focused on one of the monitors decorating the walls, one of the billions that each monitor was set to display for a different person. [System] had instructed the [Administrator] to prompt those descendants of Teigh into selecting Sidhe or Atlantian for their race.

Descendants that would never know they had some connection to the God. Never know that at one point in a previous life, Teigh had lived on Earth as a mortal. [System] was willing to provide this last boon. Any individual with a connection to the soul that had transmigrated as Teigh who selected Sidhe or Atlantian would start in this newly integrated world with [Teigh’s Blessing].

Those gifted with that blessing would have the ability to obscure their status when inspected, a small boon of [Illusion]. And they would advance magic, psychic skills, or Qi cultivation twice as fast as even the most gifted individual.

They would be reborn with bodies whose magical networks, psychic pathways, or meridian channels were easier to advance, open, or cleanse.

The [System Administrator] watched as one of Teigh’s descendants made her choice. An Atlantian who would follow a dual path of cultivation and psychic enhancement. The choice was unusual enough that the  [Administrator] thought she might follow this young girl's path.

Asteria  Antonius was not the first of Teigh’s descendants to gain his [Blessing], but she was the first to choose Atlantian as her race. And the combination of energy systems she selected should make for a story worth reading.

This end’s the narrative in the Tuatha de Danann Universe for the moment. I will return in the future. I want to follow up with Caraid’s daughter and see the kind of mischief a living Leader of the Hunt might get into.

Second Chances: Atlantis Restored will begin posting later this week and will follow Asteria Antonius as she works her way through the trials of living on an Earth that have changed while trying to come to terms with her new race, class, and abilities.