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.
As was his custom, he manifested the finest version for his own personal use.
An SS-Grade Navigator Orb, capable of meticulously marking up to 1 million distinct locations and applicable across the vast multiverse of Gods.
Thus, Sunny's primary focus was intently fixed upon the second item, a capability he inherently lacked and for which he held the highest hopes: an item that defied direct manifestation, an item Sunny desired most ardently to exponentially increase the inherent strength of his burgeoning lifeforms.
After two intensive hours of trading, Sunny had already amassed a truly massive pool of faith, his current reserves now approaching 5 million points.
He acquired this invaluable item, and immediately thereafter, an unforeseen and potent force enveloped both the entirety of Veridia and Sunny himself.
Sunny perceived this enveloping force to be akin to his own divine interventions or the direct expenditure of faith points, yet possessing a far greater potency.
Sunny inquired of the System regarding this extraordinary phenomenon, but no immediate answer was forthcoming.
"I truly need to become significantly stronger," Sunny mused, as he harbored a profound hope of swiftly acquiring the Magic Affinity talent from his beloved dragon, Nova.
He found amusement in this audacious thought; his inherent talent explicitly stated he could copy any talent found within his territory, and Nova, for a brief yet crucial period, had indeed resided within his divine domain.
Which unequivocally implied that Sunny could manifest a new Divine Embryo, imbue it with a powerful, desired talent, and then proceed to copy that very talent once his Skill Resonance cooldown had fully subsided.
"Indeed, these truly complement each other," Sunny affirmed.
Now, Sunny's primary focus returned with renewed intensity to the system shop's remaining offerings.
The two remaining items in the system shop, according to the System's own pronouncements, were deemed the most critically needed items for the ongoing development of Veridia.
[Item Name : 50% discount
Grade : ungraded
Description : Upon acquisition, the faith consumed for any divine actions over the subsequent 3 days will be precisely halved.
Cost : 30000 faith points]
[Item name : Knowledge of Divine Buffs
Grade : SS-Grade
Description : Upon acquisition, the God can now apply powerful buffs to their territory with the calculated expenditure of faith points.
Cost : 3 million]
Sunny gasped, a rare display of astonishment, at both the nature of the items and their considerable cost.
The 50% discount was undeniably advantageous and genuinely needed by Sunny, for as a seasoned businessman, trading any divine commodity would now effectively result in half the original price.
Even manifesting an item would now occur at a 50% reduced price, and crucially, acquiring the Knowledge of Divine Buffs item would also be subject to this 50% discount, directly translating to a substantial 1.5 million faith point saving.
It clearly represented a value far exceeding its mere 30,000 faith point cost.
Sunny resolved to extract every possible drop of faith benefit from this extraordinary 50% discount opportunity.
Sunny immediately acquired the 50% discount and, without hesitation, then purchased the Knowledge of Divine Buffs.