Surroundings

Gods had the ability to assimilate parts of the knowledge of their subordinates. This focused mostly on information concerning the state of the territory or its surroundings for example.

Techniques would meanwhile be useless for them since gods need their own techniques that function with the help of divine energy.

As Ezequiel began to focus, he could see two tiny lines connecting from the place in the sky where his consciousness resided towards the two Angels.

As he focused on one of the two lines, he actually began to see fragments of memories. Images began flooding his head and entering his mind. Luckily his consciousness was strengthened with his elevation to demi-god or his mind would probably be overwhelmed by the amount of information.

The images showed a view of the land below him from a birds perspective. It was probably the Angel flying through the air with the help of its wings. The sight was really sharp, almost as if he was looking through the eyes of a hawk.

As the images continued, a large forest was revealed, with trees that were over 20 meters high. The Angel chose to fly at a speed of about 200km/h. For a normal human that would be almost unbearable but Angels had very robust physiques due to their high-level bloodline.

After flying for about 15 minutes, the trees began to thin out and the forest was exchanged for grassy fields. After another minute the Angel was able to see a settling in the distance but chose to not get too close as to not expose himself.

There were huts that seemed to be built with primitive techniques out of straw and wood. On the streets of the village you could see green child-like creatures walking around. They had long, pointy ears and savage, ugly-looking faces.

‚Goblins'

Ezequiel easily recognized these little green creatures. It seems like many of the fantasy species on earth actually exist here. This was good for him.

Goblins were one of the lowest level creatures, even within the low-level species. They were also savage and evil, meaning that Ezequiel wouldn't have any qualms killing them.

Not that he would really mind killing humans. Ezequiel was mistreated by fellow humans in the past and knew that most humans are evil as well, but it would still feel weird to kill someone from the same species.

According to the thoughts that Ezequiel gained from the Angel whose memories he searched, the strongest being in that village was only in the 3rd stage of Energy Refinement.

After finding out about the nearest settlement and its strength, the Angel chose to return to the mountain where the summoning platform was located. Ezequiel also chose to exit the memory.

Though it contained the information of over half an hour of time, Ezequiel only needed a single second to analyze the entiere memory. As a god he needed a large processing power, after all he would manage entire universes as he grows stronger.

Focusing his attention towards his Angels again, he felt like he would be able to speak directly inside their mind through their connection. This was very useful since he didn't always want his voice to encompass his entire territory when speaking to a single person.

‚What is the strongest level of goblin you could kill at the moment?'

The female Angel who heard the message inside her head was confused but regained her calm quickly and began to kneel on one knee.

„Reporting to the Almighty Lord Creator, I am confident to draw against an Early Foundation Establishment stage goblin and kill a 9th level Energy gathering goblin."

‚Aren't low level species way too weak?'

Ezequiel was shocked by the combat strength of his Angels. There was a huge gap between the Energy and Body Refinement realms and their combat strength could even compare to someone two major realms above them.

Not only did Low level species have a lower limit, their combat power in the same realm was also way weaker. Ezequiel once again thanked his luck for giving him and Marie such a high level race.

But if his Angels were this strong, world domination was basically assured. As soon as one of them entered the foundation establishment stage, they would have no equals in this world.

The upper limit of a low-world was only the Sea Expansion Realm. This meant that as soon as his Angels entered foundation establishment they could dominate this world with their realm-crossing combat strength.

What he needed to do now was to quickly increase the amount and level of his Angels. To do that he first tried to summon new Angels. He directed his consciousness towards the summoning platform and a prompt appeared before his mind.

[Would you like to summon additional troops? Each unit costs a total of 1000 faith points]

‚Hmm, not as much as I expected. With the help of my Angels that gather faith points like no other, I can quickly increase the amount of troops I have.'

Ezequiel had just about 1000 faith points at the moment so he indicated for the platform to summon.

[Error. Daily summoning limit of 2 units reached. Please wait until tomorrow to try again.]

‚Damn it. Seems like they balanced it so that you can't exponentially increase the amount of units you summon each day.'

‚But that's okay too. Other gods might not even be able to use up their daily limits but I won't have a problem with it. Seems like I can only quickly increase the strength of the Angels I already summoned.'

To increase the strength of your worshippers within a short amount of time there are basically 2 methods.

The first one is to condense herbs with the help of faith points and let your alchemists produce pills. The other option also uses faith points.

You can spend faith points to accelerate the time or spiritual energy in a certain area within your territory. This means that the followers within that area will cultivate faster.

For Ezequiel's current situation the first option was better though. With alchemy he could spend many points and focus them on a small amount of subjects. The second option was generally more effective when you have more worshippers that need to increase their realm.

Luckily Ezequiel remembered that his male Angel was actually proficient in Alchemy. Most Angels, as a highly intelligent species, were proficient in at least one lifestyle profession like Blacksmithing, Alchemy, Engraving or Array Formations.

He simply asked the Angel which materials he needed through the connection in their mind again. After he told him a list of the materials he was surprised by how relatively cheap they were. A single set of them only cost him fifty faith points.

For other gods that would be an astronomical sum though considering that every believer would probably need several sets to effectively increase their training speed.

After going over the ingredients again, Ezequiel condensed 10 sets of them in front of the male Angel and therefore spent 500 Faith Points.

To condense an item you would simply need to tell the system what you wanted and it would do most of the work as long as you had a blueprint for the item. Supposedly higher level gods would have such a high control over the power of faith points that they wouldn't even need the assistance of the system anymore.

After the ingredients appeared, the Angel immediately got to work. He would create an unranked medicine, the Body Strengthening Powder.

Since you couldn't effectively wield spiritual energy in the Body Refinement Realm he could only create unranked medicines. Normally you would need a recipe, but since this was such a low level medicine, the recipe was contained in her bloodline inheritance.

Of course they could also gather the ingredients themselves, but since this was an area poor in spiritual energy, it would take rather long since those herbs were rare. Ezequiel didn't really lack Faith Points so he used them to not have his followers waste their time.

After seeing that the Angel started creating the powder, Ezequiel once again returned to the Divine Realm with his consciousness.