Tima, the Creator God's Overlord Journey

"Aya Tiamat." As she declared her name, Aya's heart trembled for some reason.

"Aya Tiamat... Divine One." Behind Aya's back, where she could not see, Maria held a silver cross and bowed her head in prayer.

Maria resolved to carve that name deep into her soul.

Author's Note:

Today's two chapters both unknowingly went beyond their originally planned word count. I updated a total of 6,500 words—I'm really so diligent (/ω＼)

And, thanks to @{"reader_id":"2028417

Wooden Ox

As Aya examined all her skills related to "mechanisms," she felt a headache coming on.

In YGGDRASIL, most players who specialized in summoning focused on a single branch, such as elemental summons, angel summons, or undead summons.

The purpose was to ensure efficient use of enhancement skills and attributes, while also avoiding wasting points on prerequisite skills.

For example, a player who had spent a large number of skill points maxing out all enhancement and advanced skills for undead summons would summon individual undead far stronger than another player who had split their points evenly between undead and elemental summons. Due to limitations in MP, casting time, and cooldowns, however, the number of summons the two summoners could maintain was roughly equal.

Aya's primary specialization was the life branch. Put simply, all manner of living things fell within her summoning range. She had invested enormous resources into this field in the past, and combined with her special Mother Goddess of Life race, she had great confidence in her life-based summoning abilities.

But that did not mean she could ignore branches outside her main specialization. In fact, aside from undead summons, which had truly terrible compatibility with her race, she had dabbled in several other summoning branches as well.

The reason was simple: compatibility. Because YGGDRASIL was such a vast game with so much content, all kinds of dungeons and enemies could exist. In other words, any attribute or race could find itself countered.

For instance, elemental summoners would probably be furious in a dungeon with a boss that possessed the "Elemental Stripping" trait, while life-based summons would be severely weakened in areas afflicted with the "Life Forbidden Zone" debuff.

Whether one could summon retainers capable of handling the situation even when their main attribute was at a disadvantage was also an important measure of a summoner's depth of skill.

As a top-tier summoner, Aya naturally did not fall behind in these areas either.

The mechanical branch represented by "mechanisms," which she was currently researching, was also one she had explored before.

But the situation was not looking very optimistic.

"Ah, so weak. Mechanisms are so weak." Lying on the bed and kicking her feet in dissatisfaction, Aya wore the unwilling expression of a child.

After growing used to all the powerful buffs of her primary life branch, it was truly difficult to be satisfied when looking at the attributes of other branches.

The wooden golem created with "Basic Mechanism Construction" was level 33, had extremely poor combat ability, and possessed no special abilities. Its overall combat strength was probably below level 30.

Its advantages were probably just its relatively high durability, the fact that it could exist permanently if constructed with actual wood rather than purely magical power, and the minor benefit of requiring no food or mana after being made.

After three days of testing, she found the best wood in the forest for making golems and produced ten of them, sending them ahead to Est Village. Their assigned task was to help build walls and warehouses.

At their level, those wooden golems could at least lift massive logs by themselves. Hopefully, they would prove useful.

If not, she would switch to bronze golems with an average level of 55.

Then there were the plowing oxen she had promised the villagers. Aya fell into thought.

Her initial plan had been to summon Earthshaking Oxen or other bovine magical beasts, but after considering it, Aya realized they were not suitable as plowing oxen.

No matter which kind she chose, they were far too fast, and every one of them had a violent temper. It would be difficult to restrain speeds great enough to fling farmers through the air.