He could now successfully imbue various artifacts with specific talents, specifically those talents with whose working principles he was intimately familiar.
However, for talents whose internal workings Sunny was not yet familiar with, such as the mysterious God’s Eye or Nova’s unique Eye of Truth, Sunny was not yet able to manifest those upon artifacts.
-A mosquito’s leg is still meat, I guess.- Sunny mused, paraphrasing a common saying, indicating he was not overly downcast upon the partial failure of not yet being able to manifest the most complex talents like God’s Eye or the Eye of Truth upon the artifacts.
Being able to manifest the talents he knew and understood was still a tremendously good thing, a significant breakthrough in itself.
For instance, he could now reliably create artifacts that could dramatically increase a lifeform’s mana capacity or enhance the mana flow within their bodies, or even create items that tangibly increased the physical strength of any lifeforms who wielded them.
Sunny stopped paying more attention to this specific line of experimentation; he had already been intensely experimenting for more than 15 continuous hours, a testament to his divine focus.
He was still, however, paying a lot of attention to the ongoing developments on his world Veridia. He observed the steady creation of large wooden ships, vessels designed for longer, more ambitious journeys across vast seas, and the continued development of spells and arrays related to medium-grade teleportation, which could now reliably teleport a magician or a small group 1000s of kilometers away in a single bound, a monumental leap in travel.
Apart from these technological and magical advancements, there was also a significant change in human leadership.
Thorn’s 21st child, a young man named Anaske, had now ascended to become the human leader, a testament to his talent and the tribe’s evolving structure.
Due to its rapidly expanding population, the human tribe had now successfully developed into a burgeoning kingdom, complete with three major, thriving cities and one central capital, a true mark of sophisticated civilization.
Anaske himself was now an impressive A-Grade body-strengthening fighter, a formidable warrior, and he needed just a final push to reach the illustrious S-Grade.
Thus, he was truly looking forward to venturing into the realm their God had mentioned, eager for the opportunities it might hold for his own advancement and that of his people.
Even though he was merely a newborn, a tiny infant, when Sunny had first descended to Veridia in his divine form, but due to his inherently high talent, or perhaps simply the captivating and awe-inspiring form of Sunny, he was never able to forget that momentous encounter.
Even though at that time Sunny’s body was covered in a mysterious black cloak and his face was concealed with a mask, those cosmic, all-seeing eyes were all that it took for anyone to fall into his divine grace, to be utterly captivated by his divine presence.
From that moment, Anaske was not fearful towards this almighty, powerful being.
He felt nothing but utmost reverence towards Sunny, a profound and unwavering devotion, and his lifelong goal had since become to see that divine form again, to once more bask in the presence of his benevolent Creator.
Chapter 29: Ch 29 : Third misfortune and generous rewards
Chapter 29 - Ch 29 : Third misfortune and generous rewards
Sunny was now feeling a growing unease within his divine heart, because it had been 17 hours of the third day and the foreseen misfortune was still conspicuously absent.
He harbored no particular fondness for misfortunes but knew with certainty that these trials were inevitable, thus the later their occurrence, the more profoundly dismayed Sunny became.
Sunny judiciously diverted his keen mind to divine trades, diligently collecting faith points, and earnestly increasing his vast knowledge; he possessed grand plans for this accumulated knowledge in the foreseeable future, but as always, required the essential capital to bring this knowledge to fruition.
As Sunny was busily engaged in trade during the 18th hour of the day, Sunny suddenly perceived a large number of lifeforms falling ill within the human kingdom.
After meticulously observing the bodily functions of the afflicted people, Sunny precisely knew the reason for this widespread illness: the insufficient management of communal human waste.
-A misfortune not overly arduous to manage,- Sunny mused, knowing he could directly provide them with the necessary information to swiftly solve this pressing issue.
But he decided against such direct intervention; he simply conveyed a divine revelation to the priests of the human kingdom.
The role of priest was merely a designated profession, and any magician, healer, or fighter could apply to become one.
But the leader of these priests could only be someone who could truly commune with the divine and receive sacred revelations.
Sunny’s revelation contained the detailed cause of this pervasive disease.
As ever, the divine revelation was regarded with utmost reverence and importance; all the healers swiftly commenced the arduous task of tending to the afflicted humans.
And others were diligently occupied with discovering a viable solution; Anaske also publicly announced a generous reward for anyone who provided an effective resolution to this misfortune.
Sunny ceased dedicating significant attention to this specific misfortune and promptly resumed his trading activities.
As he was trading and diligently accruing faith points from his fellow Gods, quite apart from those standard faith points, he perceived a prodigious influx of faith points originating directly from Veridia.
Sunny looked towards Veridia and found that the humans were prostrating themselves in devout reverence before his statue; these people were mainly the afflicted individuals who had recovered through the diligent healing efforts of the priests.
And Anaske, too, was bowing in profound reverence before the very statue he had personally commissioned within his formidable stone castle.
He felt the palpable resurgence of divine benevolence amongst his people and throughout all of Veridia.
Due to all these people praying to Sunny at once, the influx of faith swiftly reached the millions.
Then came the melodious pronouncement of the System.
Congratulations, God Cosmos, for overcoming today’s designated misfortune
This misfortune had been resolved in a mere 40 minutes of divine time, though for the lifeforms of Veridia, it represented a duration of 275 arduous days.
Such swift resolution was solely attributable to the timely revelation from Sunny, for without it, this calamity would undoubtedly have claimed countless lives.
Sunny merely smirked subtly at this divine confirmation and, with renewed vigor, promptly accessed the system shop.
Item name : Navigator Orb
Grade : C
Description : Capable of marking up to 20 distinct locations and precisely guiding the user towards them according to their desires.
Note : The designated locations must reside within the same world for the orb to function accurately.
Cost : 10000 faith points
Item name : Talent elevator
Grade : ungraded
Description : Upon acquisition, lifeforms subsequently born within the territory can possess multiple inherent talents at once.
Cost : 1 million Faith points
-Here it is,- Sunny exclaimed, one primary reason for his eagerness, for hoping for the misfortune, was precisely because Sunny wanted to obtain this particular item.
From the Gods conversing in the God chat, he was already aware of two prevalent items commonly found within the shop’s offerings.
Many among his fellow Gods had even requested Sunny to manifest these Navigator Orbs for their own future explorations within the Realm of Advancement.
Sunny manifested a C-Grade one for all the other Gods and an S-Grade one for all the Cosmic Alliance members.