In the library, there are records of books that tell the story of an unlucky guy who, on the very day the Divine Domain was created, received the news that his entire family had passed away in an accident. He fainted on the spot, and when he woke up, his plant-based familiar had mutated into a dark fairy.
Compared to him, William’s change was much greater. His divine traits were enhanced, and the mutation of his familiar was quite normal, considering his soul had completely swapped. His memories and life experiences were effectively doubled.
After coming to terms with the causes and effects of the Divine Domain’s changes, William decisively pushed those thoughts aside. What mattered most now was examining the state of his familiars.
Without hesitation, William expanded his divine sense and performed a detailed scan of the ants in the anthill. A semi-transparent blue panel popped up on the screen, showing the subordinate familiar page.
He casually opened the familiar page, and the information of his core familiar appeared on the screen.
Familiar Name: Ant Queen
Familiar Level: Extraordinary
Familiar Talent: Gene Fusion
Faith Level: Zealous Believer
Faith Power: 100/day
Reproduction Rate: 300/day
Description: Can fuse certain genetic fragments from consumed creatures to birth offspring with the traits of those creatures. The Ant Queen is the core of the colony. Before the Queen reaches the end of her life, she will begin to give birth to an Ant King. If the Ant Queen dies before giving birth to an Ant King, the colony will face extinction. The Ant King will then seek out a strong female to give birth to a new Ant Queen, dying once the new Queen is born.
William looked at the description of the Ant Queen, and the more he read, the more familiar it seemed.
“This is basically a Chimera Ant, right?” William's ethereal body muttered as it hovered in the air, “Don’t think I haven’t seen Hunter x Hunter, this setting is definitely influenced by my memories.”
Suppressing the urge to continue ranting, William named the core familiar "Chimera Ant" and turned his attention to the other two familiar types.
Familiar Name: Worker Ant
Familiar Level: Ordinary
Familiar Talent: None
Faith Level: Zealous Believer
Faith Power: 10/day
Description: The producer and combat unit of the colony. Apart from reproduction, all other tasks are entrusted to them.
Familiar Name: Larva
Familiar Level: Ordinary
Familiar Talent: None
Faith Level: Zealous Believer
Faith Power: 1/day
Description: From egg to pupa takes 7 days, and it takes another 7 days to break out of the pupa and become a Worker Ant. The total growth period is 14 days.
After reading through everything, William silently assessed the pros and cons of his familiars. Overall, he was quite pleased with his core familiar.
The Gene Fusion talent, combined with the divine trait of genetic adjustment, allowed him to collect and fuse genes, as well as optimize them according to his needs. With these two abilities as a foundation, this familiar had unlimited potential for growth. William even had a reference from another world’s fantasy templates to guide the Chimera Ant's development.
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The environmental adaptability trait ensured the colony’s basic survival. Despite not having cared for the colony for more than fifty days, it was still developing well, thanks to the divine traits at play.
Though the Chimera Ants didn’t generate faith power in the hundreds like other high-intelligence species, the fact that they were born as Zealous Believers saved a lot of trouble in faith cultivation.
Even though their individual faith power was less than one-tenth of other species, if their numbers were large enough, the Chimera Ant colony would still far outstrip most other species in generating faith power.
The colony’s only weakness was the Ant Queen. Once she died, the colony would face extinction. Unfortunately, William didn’t have a solution for that issue at the moment, so he decided to put it aside for now.
For now, the Divine Domain was still safe. The Chimera Ants were at the top of the food chain, and the entire realm was a paradise for insects. William had scanned the area and determined that no species posed a threat to the Chimera Ants.
Furthermore, William was still in the "newbie protection period" of the divine world, where no invasions could occur. In the real world, three months equated to thirty years in the divine world, providing a long period of safety.
Scanning again, William watched the Ant Queen, whose size had already surpassed half a meter. "She’s grown so quickly in just over fifty days," William mused. The last time he had seen her, she was only about 10 centimeters in size.
As he observed, the Ant Queen's antennae suddenly twitched, and a surge of emotion and thought flowed through the faith line, reaching William.
“God, you have returned! Have you once again gazed upon my tribe?”
Feeling the pure, sincere emotions from the Ant Queen, William’s heart became heavy. This was the first time he had felt such genuine emotion—an overwhelming joy just from his attention.
Is this the connection between a god and their believers? William thought, looking at the Ant Queen lying on the ground. Her massive abdomen prevented her from moving freely. He couldn’t help but feel a little uneasy.
He knew exactly why the Ant Queen was asking such a question. It stemmed from her confused memories and feelings of being abandoned by God after a prior encounter, when she had sensed the hatred, anger, and despair from God’s divine will, which then disappeared. She had thought that God had abandoned her.
Gently sending a message of reassurance and encouragement through his divine sense, William responded:
“God has never left. I will watch over you until eternity!”
Although it was a little awkward, William did his best to follow the teachings he had learned from his memories—this was the right way to handle his first encounter with a believer.
A surge of pure joy from the Ant Queen erupted, flowing through the faith line and into William’s perception. Even the faith power generated by the Ant Queen increased by two points daily.
Watching the Queen's antennae twitch in joy, William couldn't help but smile.
Confirming that the core familiar was fine and that there was no imminent extinction threat, William slowly withdrew from the Divine Domain. There were still matters to attend to in the real world.
“Shhh…”
A soft hiss sounded as the black divine domain connection pod's door slowly opened, revealing William, who had just opened his eyes.
Supporting himself with one hand on the pod's edge, he struggled to sit up. Rubbing the back of his neck, memories of the pod’s function automatically flooded his mind.
This was the low-end version of the divine realm’s landing pod. Though it was quite stable in helping to stabilize the mind and alleviate the pressure of spiritual overload, comfort was never a consideration. Its primary function was to help new demigods quickly understand their divine domain, while alleviating the disorientation caused by the time difference between the real world and the divine world—where one month in the divine world equaled 30 years in the real world.
This device was also designed to stabilize one’s mind. In the early days of human contact with the divine world, there were no such advanced systems. Back then, many people, due to the time distortion, suffered from psychological issues, and some even experienced personality splits.
