The guards on the city wall, seeing the millions of people approaching, shouted at the top of their lungs, reporting the massive gathering to their superiors.
Suddenly, three figures walked to the edge of the city wall.
A human with a particularly strong presence stood out among the two others.
The other two were no less impressive; one was strong enough to cope with an S-Grade powerhouse, while the last was on the verge of reaching S-Grade himself.
This trio represented the strongest force in the city.
When the millions of life forms a few kilometers away from the city walls saw these three, they felt a huge, towering pressure.
They immediately began to pray to their deity, and in a flash of brilliant light, the golden butterfly transformed into a gigantic serpentine dragon.
All the life forms, both inside and outside the city, immediately knelt upon witnessing the majestic form of the dragon.
The three strongest lifeforms of this city also knelt in reverence.
The dragon, floating in the air, spoke in a deep and commanding voice.
-These are my followers. Open the city gates and let them in. Let them feel the greatness of my master.-
The city was small, only capable of accommodating a hundred thousand life forms, so it was not practically possible for all these millions of people to take shelter within its walls.
But no one dared to speak back to the dragon.
The city gates opened, and the dragon transformed back into a butterfly, floating serenely toward the castle in the city.
The city was the Citadel of Veridia, which was being expanded on a daily basis.
The three strong men on the walls were Anaske, now an S-Grade powerhouse after his breakthrough during the war on demons, Vel, who was also on the verge of a breakthrough, and Thalorax, who was still the strongest among them due to his Dragonborn bloodline.
The Dragonborn, however, had no intention of fighting for the highest position in Veridia, as their role was to be the protector race, shielding all others from outer foes.
The only option Anaske could think of was to allow these new life forms to enter Veridia.
But before doing anything, he consulted with the butterfly, which was floating in the throne room.
This butterfly was called the Hope Butterfly, created by Shenlong from the collective hope energy of the life forms: the hope for survival, the hope for a better place, the hope to live one more day, and the hope to one day meet the dragon that had saved them when they were in danger.
Shenlong had created this butterfly to show these lost life forms the way to the Citadel of Veridia.
These life forms were from the worlds of other gods, but in the Realm of Advancement, where dangers lurked everywhere, they had encountered strong demons or monsters.
The gods they had believed in never helped. Thus, these life forms began to distrust their gods.
But one day, Shenlong had saved them.
They wanted to follow him, but were unable to do so.
Shenlong, being a wise dragon, knew how to take advantage of this.
He decided to direct these life forms to Veridia, which would strengthen Veridia���s empire and also provide security to these poor souls.
That was how these millions of life forms had reached the Citadel of Veridia.
Upon Anaske���s request, Shenlong found no objection.
Thus, it was decided that all these life forms would be transported to Veridia, where the humans would be sent to the northern continent, elves to the southern, all the beast folk to the western, and dwarves to the eastern.
The remaining races would also be transported to the western continent, as it was the largest.
Anaske knew the Citadel of Veridia needed to be expanded as the life forms would keep on joining them every now and then because of the hope dragon.
This, in turn, would increase the size of the army residing in the citadel.
Chapter 58: Ch 58 : system points
While Sunny was busy playing some shooting games, his body suddenly swelled as if a huge amount of energy was entering his body.
Upon closer inspection, he found out that he had become a B-Grade mage and a C-Grade body refining fighter.
His progression in both was increased by three times due to the clones, which made the breakthrough much easier.
But Sunny knew that as his rank increased, the time required for the next breakthrough would also increase.
-Maybe a few days to reach A-Grade and then a week to reach S-Grade, then a month or two to reach SS-Grade,- Sunny deduced this from the speed of his breakthroughs.
-All the mages would pluck their hair out if they knew about this. Should I add it in Genesis?- Sunny said jokingly.
He then decided to quit playing games and jumped towards the applications section.
There were many new apps created by Thea on the application tab, such as a to-do list, voice changer, video editor, image editor, Sapchat, Canvas Paint, an app to create videos using your thoughts, dating apps for the Gods, and many more applications.
Sunny opened an application made specifically to write and read novels.
There were currently more than a few hundred thousand novels in this application.
Many of these only had five or six Chapters at most, but one novel caught Sunny���s eyes; it had more than 100 Chapters.
Sunny opened the novel and started reading.
It was a dungeon-based novel where Gods provided various blessings to humans, and the main character was blessed by a Shadow God, becoming a Shadow Necromancer.
Sunny binged the entire novel in just an hour.
Sunny knew how this God was able to write 100 Chapters in just one day.
This was written in planetary time, and the author used a lot of faith points to do it.
Sunny wanted to support the author by giving him faith points, but he had no way of doing so.
The faith points that Gods used on Thea directly reached Sunny as the master of Thea, but there was no vice-versa.
Thus, Sunny was not able to transfer faith points to anyone.
Sunny still wanted to provide support to the author, so he asked Thea to provide 1 million system points to this author.
The use of these system points was easy: anyone with these points could buy any product in the system, like games, in-game purchases, applications, etc.
They just needed to pay half the amount in faith points and the other half would be reduced from system points.
By doing this, both Sunny and the author were happy.
The author of that book thanked Sunny and directly uploaded the next hundred Chapters.
Sunny went back to reading mode and completed these 100 Chapters in just 40 minutes.
After being a God for more than a week, Sunny finally felt good.
His hunger to read some good novels finally subsided.
He gave 1 million system points to the author again.
In one of the universes in the multiverse, a God named Blessed Soul was grinning from ear to ear.
He was currently chatting with his friends in a group.
He was boasting about getting a million system points from God Cosmos.
His group was named -Writer���s Circle.-
All the members here were writers and discussed frequently.
Blessed Soul even told them about how to use the concept of planetary time to write more Chapters in a single day.
Many just called him stupid, because writing a novels was their passion, but no one was willing to spend their hard-earned faith on writing a novel.
They felt happy even if they wrote in their God space with only a few Chapters a day.
But now, upon hearing the news of God Cosmos gifting one million faith points to Blessed Soul, they felt that the faith he spent was worth it.
Some of them also decided to write a novel in their world, thinking, -What if God Cosmos notices our novels too?- But some of them were still not willing to gamble.
Just then, Blessed Soul received another notification.
God Cosmos gifted 1 million system points to the 200th Chapter of your novel ���Blessings��� (what a loyal fan).
He shared the screenshot within his Writer���s Circle group.