"Oh, they're doing well."
In his Divine Kingdom, Xi Wei was using his Divine Eye to observe what was happening to his believers in the mortal realm.
He couldn't help feeling pleased when he saw that his believers, who were not even level five on average, were showing off their prowess against the goblins.
After Eleena and the others dealt with the goblins' siege on the human merchants, Xi Wei judged them to have completed their quest and generously rewarded them with quite a lot of EXP.
Then, he turned the orb to see the goblin corpses that the five children had killed in his Divine Kingdom.
Anything killed by Xi Wei's believers or the Players would be offered as sacrifices to Xi Wei, and the goblins were no exception.
With a single thought, the goblin corpses were completely disintegrated by his divine power, converted into the purest form of divine energy that replenished Xi Wei's divinity.
According to the calculation method he had decided on at the start, he now had 78 points of divine energy. Even if that much divine energy could be used to stabilize and repair his divinity, it would have an immediate effect even if it wouldn't completely solve the problem of the divinity's instability.
"Still, while obtaining divine energy through believers' offerings is fast and convenient, it's a little troublesome …"
There was a pile of metallic residue where the goblin corpses had been, and it wasn't much smaller than the pile of goblin corpses just now.
It was the residue left behind after the goblin corpses had been stripped of the pure substance that could be converted into divine energy.
That was why, apart from a few evil gods, most deities had high requirements for their believers' offerings despite the method of offering that could quickly be converted into divine energy.
Since there were almost no items in other planes that could be completely converted into divine energy, the gods would only leave a pile of useless dregs after extracting the divine energy regardless of what was offered to them. That was why the other gods would usually request their believers to offer items that were closer to pure condensation of energy such as Illum crystals as an offering, and Xi Wei was the only god who wouldn't hold back against the cold or the raw, even taking the corpses of goblins.
After all, to other deities, the residue that would pile up in their Divine Kingdom was as disgusting as kitchen waste or feces, and it was too troublesome to deal with.
Truth be told, Xi Wei was having a headache over how to deal with those things.
Unlike the other gods, he had the authority to cross the World Barrier. If he wanted to, he could even bring this pile of things along with him to the Prime Material Plane and find a place to throw them away.
However, this kind of behavior might not be a problem in the beginning, but as time went on, it was easy to cause trouble.
Because the power of faith was extracted from the offerings using divine power, during the extraction process, the dregs would be contaminated with their own divinity aura.
If he were to find a random place to throw away his trash, it would be troublesome if the gods of other churches found it.
The ability to transcend worlds without being bound by the Plane Barrier set up by the Three Saints of Creation was too tempting for other deities. If news of this were to leak out, and other deities with impure intentions came into contact with his divine kingdom, he would probably be robbed of his divinity in no time at all with his frail body.
On the other hand, it was useless as a divine grace given to his believers. Its physical attributes were close to steel, but it was not as tough or resilient as steel, and it would be better than normal pig iron when used to forge weapons. Aside from being tainted with a hint of divinity that was hard to forge, there was basically no other special effect …
"Hmm, wait a minute. I think I've thought of something …"
Xi Wei felt that his brain (although he did not have a brain in his divine state) had a flash of inspiration, but he could not grasp it, and merely had a vague idea.
"Whatever, the place is quite big now, I'll just let it pile up … compared to that, it's better to think about how I should spend the divine energy I earned!"
At first, Xi Wei had intended to pour the divine energy he earned into his divinity to stabilize his existence. After all, the erratic divinity he had felt before was too vague, and left him uneasy.
Still, after earning a certain amount of divine energy, he gave up on that idea after a period of careful consideration.
While it was true that his divinity was unstable at the moment, it would be an exaggeration to say that it was on the brink of destruction. As long as the children did not turn their backs on him, the God of Games, he would not have to worry about his existence disappearing for the time being.
Compared to that, the problems at hand were more important.
After becoming a luminous orb … or rather, a divine being, Xi Wei realized that the breadth of a divine being's mind was much higher than that of a human's. That did not mean that divine beings were much smarter than humans, but that almost every divine being was adept at fighting left and right, and could multitask.
It was the same for Xi Wei. As a normal human, he now realized that he could stare blankly in his divine kingdom while reminiscing about the food delivery he had before he transmigrated, watching over Eleena and the others in the mortal realm, as well as Angora the New Believer who was walking alone to a small town outside the Valley of the Tragic Dead …
It gave him the illusion that he was omniscient and omnipotent, but he recently realized that his bandwidth was lacking after he came up with the System settings, and various numerical calculations were taking up much of his mental capacity.
In that very moment, he remembered the fear of being dominated by the 'Five Years of College Entrance Examination and Three Years of Simulation' in his third year of high school, as well as the humiliation of being imprisoned in cram school.
Realizing that he could not go on like this, Xi Wei decided to invest the divine energy he had earned recently into that aspect, freeing himself from such heavy but uncomplicated mental work.
At first, he wanted an artificial intelligence like Moss or Jarvis to manage most of the work for him.
Still, years of experience in sci-fi novels and movies made him feel like he was courting death by messing around like that. Something might go wrong, and it would be troublesome if he created an Ultron.
That was why after much consideration, he decided to create a computer that only had basic skills to handle the mechanized changes in data as the Players earned EXP and learned skills.
That was when the wondrous energy known as divine power had to be mentioned. It was a secondary power derived from divine energy and divinity, and could only be activated through divinity. At the same time, the divinity of different deities also determined what they could do with divine power.
However, after Xi Wei transmigrated, the divinity of the God of Games was expanded by Xi Wei's knowledge from Earth, and now encompassed most divine domains. As such, to Xi Wei, as long as he had enough divine power, his divinity was like a dragon ball — he could fulfill any wish, although it would be weakened according to the number of divine domains he held.