A wave of pure, triumphant power washed over Sunny as his faith reserves crested the hundred-billion mark.
The number felt monumental, a concrete symbol of his burgeoning influence.
The last 79 billion had been accumulated in just four hours, a speed that was both exhilarating and sobering.
He realized he could now generate a hundred billion in just five hours, but even this immense power wasn't enough for the grand scheme brewing in his divine mind.
Despite the ever-increasing pile of faith, he decided to spend a significant portion of it on a new demigod.
His world, Veridia, had a demigod to handle death and wickedness in Cerberus, but it lacked a demigod to complete the other half of the cycle: life.
A philosophical idea struck him—a duality of existence, two sides of the same coin.
He took a single Divine Embryo and, with a thought, divided it into two distinct bodies. One male, one female.