Just then, one particular message caught his attention, not because of the item request itself���Sunny hadn’t even opened the chat yet.
The name of the client alone made Sunny grin from ear to ear.
It was Kairos.
Sunny opened the chat directly, and the description of the item requested was very different from what his imagination had anticipated from Kairos.
-Was he fooling everyone from the start, or is his world mutated enough to have elemental spirits?- Sunny began to ponder, trying to understand why Kairos, the boastful and progress-obsessed God, would be requesting this type of item from him.
Item Name: Elemental Flower
Grade: A
Description: Food for any type of elemental spirit. ������������������������������������������������.������������
The description was short and concise, but the story this flower silently told Sunny was far more complex.
From his prior observations in the God Chat, Sunny already knew that worlds with truly extreme elemental energies were not something any ordinary creature could endure.
Thus, only elemental spirits were typically found thriving in these worlds, because for them, these raw elemental energies were akin to breathing high-quality air.
The meaning of this item request was clear: either Kairos had been lying about the true progress and nature of his world in the chat, or, more likely, his world possessed specific biomes that were naturally filled with these potent elemental energies, allowing spirits to exist.
Sunny believed the latter to be true for only one reason: lying was easy, but showing screenshots or irrefutable proof was not possible unless it was Sunny’s own manifested work, which would be difficult to fake convincingly.
-What a lucky fellow,- Sunny thought, a cold calculation in his eyes.
-But your luck ends here.-
He manifested a single Elemental Flower to gauge its cost and found it to be just one Faith point.
Cosmos: -Price is 20 Faith points. How many of these do you want?- typed Sunny in the private message to Kairos, a predator’s smile playing on his lips.
Sunny was not thinking of sparing him for once.
This was a direct 20x markup on the production cost.
He could have simply blocked Kairos and moved on, but looting him of his Faith was, in Sunny’s view, a far more satisfying revenge.
Kairos: -Isn’t the price very high?- asked Kairos, his digital words conveying a hint of indignation.
He had already inquired about the typical pricing from many other Gods in the chat, and all the answers he had received indicated that Sunny’s service was -cheap.-
Sunny, to his mild annoyance, hadn’t known that his base prices were considered so low by other Gods; otherwise, he could have raised them across the board earlier.
Cosmos: -If you want it, take it. There are many still waiting for their turn.-
Sunny gave no room for negotiation, no way out for Kairos.
He had always found Kairos to be a very boastful person, someone who simply couldn’t stand seeing anyone surpass him.
But this time, unbeknownst to Sunny, Kairos was in a desperate situation.
In the world of Kairos, a severe misfortune was playing out.
Due to this calamity, the vital food sources for his elemental spirits were dying off at an alarming rate.
His world was indeed a lush, vibrant mana world, filled with diverse biomes, including several regions with extremely harsh elemental climates.
These specific biomes were precisely where the elemental spirits thrived.
However, the spirits in these lands were now dying and teetering on the brink of extinction.
It was commonly believed that spirits only needed ambient elemental energies to survive.
But this was not entirely true; they also required specific spirit fruits, elemental flowers, or other rare spirit treasures.
These crucial resources were no longer abundant in Kairos’s world due to the ongoing misfortune.
Kairos had been unable to solve this critical problem for about five agonizing hours, watching his unique lifeforms perish.
That’s why he had finally swallowed his pride and decided to resort to Sunny’s services.
He had expected Sunny to either block him outright or demand an obscenely high price, perhaps even mocking him.
So, he gritted his teeth and typed his desperate reply.
Kairos: -1,000 Elemental Flowers for now. I will message you if I need more.-
Sunny was dumbfounded.
He knew the Faith stored in the pockets of established Gods like Kairos or Strategist was enormous, a testament to their talent and successful worlds.
But seeing Kairos spend this much, all on spirit food, made Sunny’s scalp tingle with excitement.
-He is facing some misfortune, perhaps,- Sunny mused, briefly considering raising the price even further.
But he quickly decided against it.
Kairos was a fat cow, and he was going to milk him slowly, over time, rather than trying to take everything in one go.
Sunny directly traded 1,000 Elemental Fruits to Kairos.
He instantly gained a staggering 20,000 Faith points from this single deal.
This was, by far, his greatest profit yet from a trade.
Just then, another notification rang out across the vast expanse of the God Space, a System-wide announcement.
Congratulations Gods! For completing their First day as a God!
Chapter 19: Ch 19: The Cosmic Alliance
Chapter 19 - Ch 19: The Cosmic Alliance
Congratulations Gods! For completing their First day as a God!
From now on, No faith will be generated for the death of any non-wise lifeform.
Each God can create one Group for Chat.
-Well, one bad news, one okay news,- a God typed in the God Chat after witnessing the new notifications provided by the System.
-True,- another God typed, peeking everyone’s interest, -But I think this is issued to balance this game.-
Finding this brief moment of silence, he typed again, -Think about it: now, billions of bacteria and algae are born and die every hour or so, giving us huge amounts of Faith.
But in the future, this speed will increase manyfold, which will provide us hundreds of thousands of Faith every second.-
Every God nodded in silent agreement after reading this insightful message.
-Dear Fellow Gods, I was pondering about this multiverse of Gods for a long time and found out that each God alone is enough to sustain his world.
But to handle misfortune and develop a world at the same time would be challenging,- typed Strategist, his customary long-winded yet profound style apparent.
-Thus, hereby I announce that I, God of Wisdom Strategist, am creating an alliance.
Any God interested in this can message me for more information.-
The chat went silent for a moment as Gods throughout the multiverse understood the true meaning of the second notification by the System.
‘Alliances.’
This momentous announcement spurred many other Gods with good talents to also think about creating their own alliances.
But the downside was clear: you needed to publicly showcase your talent, otherwise, who would join a nobody?
Many Gods, however, still decided to play it safe, opting to simply type that ‘I have an A-grade talent, and interested Gods can inquire about my talent via private message.’
Sunny saw all this unfolding and also thought of creating an alliance.
He was an exception when it came to showcasing talent, because his unique title, ‘God of Manifestation,’ was alone good enough to attract members from any nascent alliance.
-I will think about it in the future, let’s handle the elves first,- Sunny said to himself, his gaze shifting towards Veridia.
The Elves had evolved enough to be quite similar to humans, except for their dazzling appearance and naturally pointy ears.
Even the previous, small gazelle-like horns of these elves were nowhere to be seen now, having fully receded with their evolution.