After sorting his mind up, James now came down to the most pressing issue, believers, that's right, James needed more believers, with the tournament being just two years away, he needed more believers. He had a quota of five believers, and with the system's help, he was sure that he would be the one to win that tournament.
Speaking of the system, James found out another function of the system, apart from just showing his profile page and the skills description, it also siphons life energy from the defeated target, seventy percent goes to him and thirty goes to the believer automatically, he found out about it after Sam defeated the mercenaries that tried to kill him.
"But the energy I got is too little it won't be enough," James says while looking at his status.
Name:- James Anderson {Xerxes}
Age:- 34 (89)
Divine Energy:- 2500/15,000
Experience:- 270,000/1,500,000
Race:- God
Authority:- Thunder and lightning
Tier:- low-level high God
Believers:- 2
Skills:- Divine Grace, Divine Fury, Divine Order, etc.
Narrative:- As the God of thunder and lightning you have complete control over those elements.
Well, it can't be helped, at least I did not get an almost dried-up body, without a sliver of divine power left, now all I have to do is power up.
"How do I do that"
"Oh my gosh, I can't leave, I literally can't leave this space" James shouted, looking around, he moves from the tree he was at, walking around and still finding nowhere out, he decides to take a look at Xerxes memories, after looking at the entirety of Xerxes memories, he concluded that Xerxes had never once left this space, he calls his "Divine kingdom".
"More like a prison" James muttered,'" but wait if I can't leave then the others God's shouldn't be able to move out of their own space too right,' James internalized.
"Then how did Annox, manage to leave his space, much less get into mine and do battle with me" at first James was not thinking of such things, the reason being that his believers were in danger and as their new God he had to do something before there died, in this world, this prison/purgatory, Gods can't preach about themselves, they can only interact with the people who believe in them, so if a God loses all his believers, then he/she is as good as dead, hence the reason why Annox sent his believers to kill all of Xerxes believers, and his believers in turned mercenaries to hunt down any that might have escaped.
Annox had this plan just in case he was not able to kill Xerxes, and due to certain circumstances, he thought he didn't succeed in finishing him off.
Shaking his head from thinking too much, looking down he sees the dark sky slowly getting brighter and a few rays of sunlight peeking in through the dense clouds and lighting the world below in its golden lights, if James didn't know better he would swear that this wasn't a prison but a whole vast world, just waiting to be explored, and another reason he knows that this world is a fake, is the prison or space that he is locked in, the weather conditions is always stagnant, it doesn't move from the day time, that mead if he does not look down at the mortal realm he won't know the time or how long has passed.
Looking back down at his believers, he sees Sam asleep at the far side of the wall away from the wolf, and Peter sitting outside meditating.
"I am gonna get new believers, they'll need to get stronger fast, that means that they will need to go leveling and they will also need a good cultivation manual.
"Cultivation manual, cultivation manual, how do I get that, I KNOW, I CAN MAKE ONE, am a genius" James shouted while clapping for himself.
After spending a few hours to make a suitable cultivation manual, he named it the "Thunder scriptures" nodding to himself, he was just about to send the manual to his believers, when he heard the systems prompt.
[Congratulations for creating your first cultivation manual, you gain one minor realm as a congratulatory gift. NOTE:- This is a one-time event, you shall not get one again]
"Well I did not see that coming," James says as he looked at the system prompt with his jaw slacked.
"A power boost of a full minor realm as a gift, awesome, now one step towards my goal, too bad it's a one-time event" James sighed.
"Status" he called out.
Name:- James Anderson {Xerxes}
Age:- 34 (89)
Divine Energy:- 2500/15,000
Experience:- 270,000/2,000,000
Race:- God
Authority:- Thunder and lightning
Tier:- mid-level high God
Believers:- 2
Skills:- Divine Grace, Divine Fury, Divine Order, etc.
Narrative:- As the God of thunder and lightning you have complete control over those elements.
"Hmmm, that's a start, now let's send this manual and quests to both of them," James says while rubbing his hands together as he sent the message to his believers.
1). For those who may ask why don't he just use the cultivation manual himself, well it's cause he can't, God's born from the consciousness of the world can only rely on the faith of their believers to become stronger. But the stronger one becomes, the less they need the faith of their believers to sustain themself.
2). He sends the quests like a mental note to whoever he wants to.