In Sunny’s universe, one god was currently feeling utterly lost, his energy completely drained.
This was Kairos, who had lost both Aerion and Rina.
This diluted his hope of gaining an upper hand in the God Game.
His only option now was to fully invest in his own world.
He wasn’t like Sunny, who could manifest divine embryos at a whim.
He only had one divine embryo, which was bought using the faith of others in his alliance.
Though in his alliance of more than 6,000 gods, many others had bought a divine embryo, no one was willing to give one to Kairos.
If they knew that the one causing a ruckus in the realm of advancement was Kairos, the entire alliance would be broken.
This was because Kairos was not differentiating between friends and foes; he only hoped to get as many treasures as possible while pulling other gods’ legs.
He also didn’t want to make others suspicious by only targeting gods outside of his alliance.
Thus, members of Kairos’s alliance were unaware of his misdeeds.
If everyone in the alliance now asked what type of demigod Kairos created, how would he answer?
In another god’s space, a demigod called Octa was performing many calculations and simulations in his mind.
"Master, just a few more seconds," Octa said to the god who was standing just behind him.
They were studying the genes of their world’s life forms to find the best possible evolution paths for them.
This god was Strategist, and Octa was the demigod he created using a divine embryo. Octa had an ability similar to Thea, though not as powerful.
Even a single particle of Thea contained much more computing power than Octa.
But ignorance is bliss; if Strategist came to know of this, he would start spitting fire.
Their current goal was to create mythical creatures from the blue planet, while Sunny could directly create creatures like Shenlong, Nova, Umbra, Loki, or Thea as he saw fit, because he was not lacking divine embryos.
While all the other gods, except for a few with extraordinary talents, only had one demigod.
Strategist hoped that the mythical creatures could break past the S-Grade limit and reach SS-Grade, thus becoming demigods.
His world currently didn’t have S-Grade life forms, but it shouldn’t be too far in the future when they did.
He wanted them to have a further path ahead, because until you reach SS-Grade, you are not truly an immortal.
Below SS-Grade, all life forms are mortal. Even if an S-Grade life form can live for 10 thousand years,but it’s still not enough.
Strategist wanted his life forms to have immortality, like him.
And it was also for his own benefit.
He used his divine embryo to create Octa, who was not made for fighting; at most, he could be called a alive supercomputer.
Though he could give Octa more talents later, in truth, he would still not be stronger than a demigod fully made for fighting.
Somewhere else, one god looked at his demigod, who looked stupid for some reason.
He made a joke about his demigod’s stupidity and gained faith points from him.
This was the god named Joker, who always made jokes about other gods’ misfortunes.
He had an SS-Grade talent called Roaster. Every time he made fun of someone or roasted them, he would gain faith points according to the strength and position of the person he made fun of.
Thus, every time he made fun of a god, he would gain more than 1 million faith points.
It differed according to the god’s strength and position.
For example, if he made fun of Sunny, he could gain more than 500 million, because Sunny’s strength was very high and his position as a God of Manifestation, Merchant God, Creator of the System, and master of so many powerful demigods also made Sunny a truly successful god.
But with great powers also come great restrictions, like Skill-Resonance’s restriction was waiting for 100 planetary years.
Similarly, Joker also had restrictions on his talent.
He needed to have a good reason to make a joke; he couldn’t just badmouth or slander a person to make a joke, and he could only target one god one time per day.
Thus, he needed to find multiple targets daily.
Otherwise, he could have just made fun of a single god for an entire day and gained a lot of faith points.
From making a joke about his demigod, he gained 100,000 faith points, as the position of this demigod was high: the only demigod on a planet, the Demigod of Joker.
With this overpowered talent, he was currently among the top hidden gods in the multiverse.
He was thankful to Sunny, as he thought that his life of leisurely making jokes about other gods to earn faith had ended upon the disappearance of the old system.
But upon Sunny’s creation of Thea, a new system, Joker felt his soul return.
He excitedly bought the system and started making jokes to earn his living in this new God Chat.
Sunny was unaware of all these things and was diligently practicing magic with the newest developed magic techniques.
Sunny could now use both manifested mana and faith as the source of his magic.
Upon using mana, magic spells like a fireball or a lightning strike would be several times stronger than those of a life form.
For example, if an elf used a C-Grade fireball spell, he could burn down a small area of 10 meters with ease.
But Sunny’s fireball could easily burn down an area of 100 meters.
This was only with the use of manifested mana, but if he used faith instead of mana, the fireball spell would produce a fireball with a size similar to that of a large meteor, which could take down an entire continent of Veridia with ease.
And this was possible with just 10 or 20 faith points, while doing it with divine intervention would cost more than a million faith points.
This further fueled Sunny’s motivation for learning advanced magic and increasing his magician profession grade to SS.