Sunny added a critical restriction: each replication would require a small amount of faith points.
This lowered the cost to a manageable 30 million faith points���a price Shenlong could earn in just a few hours.
Link: This talent, which cost only 70,000 faith points, gave the energy the ability to create a divine link with any god.
Crucially, Sunny was the sole administrator of this link.
He was the only one who could use the Replication talent of the energy and allow it to link with others.
Any new particles replicated would always be linked back to him.
This prevented other gods from replicating the system for their own followers and ensured Sunny’s monopoly.
Thought Sharing: This final talent gave every particle of the energy the ability to share thoughts with all others.
The initial price was an astronomical 700 million faith points due to its ability to negate distance with minimal energy.
Sunny placed a restriction on it as welclass="underline" every single thought would require a small amount of faith to transmit.
This simple restriction reduced the cost by a staggering 650 million, leaving the final price at 50 million faith points.
Sunny surveyed his creation. The total cost of the new demigod was over 380 million faith points, but he knew its potential was limitless.
He named this energy, Thea.
With a subtle command, Thea’s light-blue essence began to swirl and condense, materializing into the form of a woman.
She had a mature figure and wore a secretary’s uniform.
Sunny was momentarily captivated by her ethereal beauty, but he quickly reined in his thoughts and let her awaken.
Her body, though perfectly formed, appeared to be made of pure, flowing energy.
Slowly, Thea opened her eyes, looked at Sunny, and bowed her head slightly. -Thank you, my Creator, for bestowing me with life,- she said, her voice a gentle echo in the vast space.
Sunny’s heart fluttered at the reverence, but after more than 150 years of Veridia’s history, he was no longer easily flustered.
However, Thea’s beauty was truly otherworldly.
He was about to ask her how she chose her form, but she spoke first.
-Master, do you like my form?- she asked. -I analyzed your facial features and the various races of Veridia to construct the most complete form possible for me.-
-It is good,- Sunny replied, a smile tugging at his lips.
He realized his life of passively earning faith points was about to resume. -I will now trade one of your energy particles to different gods across the multiverse. You need to link with them.-
He immediately added a crucial command: -And do not materialize in this form in front of others. Instead, present yourself to them like this.- Sunny projected a thought directly into Thea’s mind���a vision of a simple, digital interface.
He used 50,000 particles to activate Thea’s Replication ability, which, in turn, generated 6 billion more particles.
He listed these on the trading platform, offering one particle per god. Then, in the original God Chat, he made his announcement:
-God Cosmos: Dear Fellow Gods, I am excited to announce my new creation. Thea, a System that will replace the current one when it disappears. It has been placed on the trading platform for 1 faith point. You need to insert 1 faith point into it to activate it.-
The God Chat fell silent. Most of them knew Sunny’s power and reputation. Those who were familiar with -God Cosmos- and his business acumen immediately started buying the energy particle. Almost instantly, over a million trades were completed.
Sunny also instructed Thea to materialize a system panel for him.
The panel was similar to the old system’s interface, with options for God Chat and Trading Space, which were currently greyed out.
Sunny commanded Thea to open the God Chat.
The chat worked by having each particle act as a single point in a neural network.
When a message was sent, it was instantly transmitted across all of Thea’s particles, making the communication instantaneous.
Sunny typed the first message into the new system:
God Cosmos: -Hello users, you can write messages. However, sending a message costs a fee of 0.1 faith points. You can also pre-recharge funds into the system for future convenience.-
Sunny, however, knew a secret that the other gods did not.
The actual cost to transmit a single message was a mere 0.05 faith points; the other 0.05 was going directly into his own pocket.
The Gods who were using the new system were all the hardened survivors of the System’s purge and the subsequent demon invasions, and as such, each of them had a substantial number of lifeforms under their command.
For them, a 0.1 faith point fee for communication was negligible.
Even if only half of the 6 billion gods���a mere 3 billion of them���sent a single message in the chat, Sunny would be pocketing a minimum of 150 million faith points.
And of course, he knew they wouldn’t send just one message.
The profits from this simple transaction-based system would soon be in the billions every single day, securing Sunny’s position as the true economic powerhouse in the new age of the multiverse.
Chapter 41: Ch 41 : God Cosmos���s Goals
In the immediate aftermath of Sunny���s announcement, the God Chat of Thea was flooded with messages from millions of gods.
The new system���s interface, a flawless replica of the original, was in fact a dramatic evolution.
It incorporated the best features of countless online applications Sunny had witnessed in his mortal life, from playful emojis and customizable fonts to dynamic stickers and GIFs.
The gods, long isolated and starved for communication, reveled in these new tools.
The system also offered private messaging, voice chat, and even video calls���functions made possible by Thea���s extraordinary Thought Sharing talent.
For the first time, gods could communicate with each other by face to face, making the vastness of the cosmos feel a little less lonely.
Though trading and the direct transfer of faith were not yet possible, Sunny was already thinking of solutions.
For now, a new and reliable source of income had been secured.
The commission from every message sent in Thea���s God Chat was more than enough to sustain him.
But his ambition now stretched far beyond simple survival.
Sunny���s new goals were clear: to become the wealthiest and the most powerful God of the Multiverse.
As the system spread, around 5.8 billion gods had already purchased an energy particle from him, earning him a direct 5.8 billion faith points.
The remaining 200 million gods were a mix of top-tier creators who feared a privacy breach and proud, stubborn individuals who still hoped for the original System���s return.
They deduced that a system created by Cosmos meant he could potentially know all of their secrets, their world���s condition, and their demigods��� talents.
But Sunny was unconcerned.
His stance was simple and absolute: if they wanted the benefits of this new era of communication and trade, they would join; if not, he didn���t care.
The temptation of a centralized, secure network in a chaotic universe would eventually prove too strong.
He was also unconcerned about the system���s computing power.
Each particle of Thea was a brain in its own right, and every time a new particle was replicated, her overall processing power grew exponentially.
The system was self-sustaining and ever-growing.
With Thea now established as a network, Sunny began utilizing her true power.
He fed her all the data he had collected on Veridia, and she began running complex simulations.
He wanted to understand the precise needs of his world, which talents would be most beneficial, and which locations were best suited for expansion.
His ultimate vision was a future where a god���s work was to intervene only in the most critical of matters, with everything else managed by his demigods.