Chapter 412: Distributing Divinity
During this time, Owen had a preliminary understanding of the six Divinity points he had harvested, and he had thought of a distribution plan.
The two Divinity points of the Voodoo King were Plague and Witchcraft.
The two Divinity points of the Blood Skull Demon were Bloodbath and Tyranny.
The two Divinity points of the God of Stealth and Deception were Assassination and Deception.
Theoretically, after absorbing these six Divinity points, Owen could cross a stage, advancing from a Lesser God to an Intermediate God, reaching the same level as the former Goddess of Nobility.
In reality, it was impossible, because of incompatibility.
Six Divinity points, six attributes, if Owen really dared to gulp them down like bubble tea, he might cripple himself.
This was also why there were many Demigods and Divine Spirits, but few true Gods. Because only one Divinity point was needed to become a Demigod or Divine Spirit, but to ignite the Divine Fire and become a God, one needed to gather five of the same Divinity.
The problem was that there was an upper limit to the amount of Divinity that a world could produce, and the production of the same Divinity required a sufficiently complete corresponding Law.
For example, the Plague Divinity of the Voodoo King, unless the world was filled with plagues, at most one or two points would be born, and it would be absolutely impossible to gather five points.
The same was true for other Divinities, they simply couldn’t be gathered.
After some consideration, Owen first bestowed the two Divinity points of the God of Stealth and Deception upon An Qi.
An Qi originally possessed two Divinity points of Blood. Logically, they had nothing to do with Assassination and Deception, but these two points originated from the Blood Prince, so they did not completely represent vitality, but were more inclined towards evil attributes, barely related to Assassination and Deception. However, there was no way to become a God with this.
It was a pity that the other Divinities did not match her attributes, otherwise, he would have another true God among his subordinates.
However, this was not a big problem. As long as he waited for a while, he could exchange a Divine Artifact for An Qi from the system, allowing her to become a God through it. It would just take a little longer.
Now that the system’s Progress Value upper limit had reached sixty, even if he didn’t use any of it, it would take more than a year or two to recover to full value.
There was no other way. Now, the speed of recovering Progress Value from zero to twenty was very fast, but from thirty onwards, the time required for recovery more than doubled, especially after fifty Progress Value. The recovery speed was so slow that it made one anxious just looking at it.
It was just that Owen was a God now, he had plenty of time, and there weren’t many places where he needed to consume Progress Value. Otherwise, he wouldn’t necessarily be able to make up his mind to exchange for a Divine Artifact.
As for the remaining four Divinity points, Owen originally wanted to give them all to his Ogre avatar, but he still encountered the problem of incompatibility. In the end, he only kept Plague and Witchcraft, because Plague was actually related to vitality, and Witchcraft could enhance the Ogre avatar’s spellcasting ability. This undoubtedly both enhanced his strengths and made up for his weaknesses, making it very suitable.
The remaining two Divinity points, Bloodbath and Tyranny, were fused into the two battle axes, creating two Semi-Divine Artifacts, and given to Charle to use.
Although Charle was not a Demigod, her strength was such that even an ordinary non-combat Demigod might not be her opponent. Now, with two Semi-Divine Artifacts in hand, she truly possessed the power to slay gods.
With this, the Divinity was distributed. As for the Dragon Mother, although Owen did not give her any Divinity, all the faith in this world would be hers, so there was no need to rush.
After the fall of the three gods of the Voodoo King, the Dragon Mother Clan’s subjugation of the three Lizardmen Clans would be a matter of course, without any setbacks. After that, it would only take some time to consolidate their faith before they could launch an annexation of the other two Mother Lizardmen tribes. If the other party disagreed, wouldn’t there be Divinity?
If they agreed, not only would the Dragon Mother have two more Divine Spirits under her command, she would also gain the faith of all the Lizardmen. It wouldn’t be difficult for new Divinity to arise from this, and she might even directly become a God.
In any case, everyone had benefited, even the territory, because there was nothing to hinder them from mining the abundant resources here.
However, Maya aimed for something even greater. Compared to the Main World, she preferred the Mountain Range World, which was almost a blank slate. Moreover, Owen had made quite a few arrangements here, which she could fully utilize.
Apart from the Lizardmen Clan, the overlord of this world’s sole continent, there was also Hydra Island, which roamed the four seas, and the Pirate Queen. Not to mention the various foreign races in the Mountain Range that he had already begun planning for.
It could be said that unifying the entire world wouldn’t be difficult at all, so it was no wonder Maya was tempted.
Considering that the waters of the Main World were a bit deep, Owen also agreed to develop the Mountain Range World as a backup retreat, giving Maya full authority to be in charge.
Time passed quickly amidst the busyness. After gaining more confidence, Owen also had the courage to touch the Divine Net, gradually understanding its functions.
No god could say for sure who had built the Divine Net initially. Even the earliest records only mentioned that several gods had stumbled upon the broken Divine Net in the depths of the Void. After figuring out its functions, they realized it was a good thing and repaired it based on its original foundation, making do with it.
Later, as more and more gods discovered the Divine Net, each repairing a corner and pulling a thread, the Divine Net gradually grew larger, and its coverage became wider and wider, gradually becoming an indispensable tool for gods.
However, apart from the initial part of the Divine Net and the parts repaired by those powerful gods, most of the peripheral Divine Net was not strong enough and prone to problems.
For example, a Void Storm a thousand years ago had caused many places to disconnect, and many places had not yet been fully repaired. The efficiency was comparable to the infrastructure of the United States.
If it weren’t for the Goddess of Nobility pulling a thread to Owen’s world, he wouldn’t have been able to connect to the Divine Net at all.
It was precisely because he had connected to the Divine Net that Owen had the opportunity to learn a lot of valuable information.
A lot of this information involved the world’s origin and the secrets of gods. However, because only gods could connect to the Divine Net, and because it had existed for so long, a lot of the information accumulated on the Divine Net had become worthless, allowing new gods like Owen to take advantage of it.
It was also at this time that Owen understood how the Main World, the ruins of the Mountain Range, and humanity had come to be. Apart from some empires and forces that were powerful enough to traverse the Void, most were formed by those gods who drove their believers to colonize and develop new pastures.
This was because any world had an upper limit to the amount of life it could accommodate. Just like an ecosystem, once one link proliferated, complete collapse was only a matter of time. And those who were suitable to be believers and easily multiplied and became powerful were undoubtedly intelligent creatures. And intelligent creatures were very exclusive. Simply put, they obtained more living space by killing other races, which was undoubtedly an act of destroying the ecological environment.
This led to the fact that if one didn’t want something like the end of the world to happen, apart from internal consumption, external expansion and colonization became the best choice. One couldn’t make all males cut themselves off, right?
Through the Divine Net, Owen saw many new gods like him seeking cooperation, such as exchanging Divinity, materials, believers, and news of cooperating to develop new pastures.
These new gods were not as wealthy as Owen. They were either from small worlds with limited resources or from large worlds with many gods and fierce competition. It wasn’t easy for them to expand their faith, so external development became one of their few choices with the highest cost-effectiveness.
To put it bluntly, it was just like the empire’s choice to develop the Northland back then. The internal interests had already been divided up, so they could only take risks to seek external resources.
