"Fifteen trillion faith points," Sunny murmured in the quietness of his God space, a low whistle escaped his lips.
He ran the numbers again. Five trillion for the rewards to his demigods and heroes, and another ten trillion to pour the stolen lifeblood of mana back into a billion worlds. "This breakthrough costed me a fortune."
He leaned back on his throne, a thoughtful expression on his masked face. His income from the Cosmic Shop and the God Chat was immense, but the discount he had offered to the Pantheon as compensation was now slowing his earnings. He needed a new, massive revenue stream to fund his ever-growing ambitions.
"I didn't realize a simple breakthrough would be so catastrophic," he mused. "Otherwise, I would have just used a portal and done it in Kairos's abandoned world." He chuckled at the petty, vengeful thought, but then the joke sparked something else. A thought, sharp and brilliant as a shard of a shattered star, pierced his mind.
