As the first hour of God-ti drew to a close, a happy, almost incredulous smile spread across Sunny's face.
It wasn't the kind of wide, boisterous grin he might have worn on the Blue Planet, but a subtle, deeply satisfying acknowledgnt of his divine success.
The reason? The astonishing ergence of life on the newly revealed landmasses of Veridia.
Due to the imnse amount of resources he had channeled into these nascent continents, the microscopic pioneers — mosses and lichens, re specks in the grand sche — were no longer content with their humble forms.
They were evolving, rapidly and visibly, transforming into a diverse array of terrestrial flora: rudintary plants, simple shrubs, and even the beginnings of bushes.
The forrly barren, steaming rock was slowly but surely taking on a verdant hue, a testant to his focused divine will and the inherent adaptability of life itself.
"Even with divine intervention, I didn't think it was possible to evolve lifeforms to such an extent so quickly," Sunny surmised, genuine surprise lacing his thoughts.
The speed of developnt felt almost unnatural, defying his prior expectations of slow, eons-long progression.
He decided to ask the System about it, a direct inquiry to the omnipresent interface.
"Hey System! Why is evolution so swift in this world?"
[The Evolution rate for first 7 Godly days is 1000% fast.]
This succinct statent instantly dispelled all doubts in Sunny's mind. A 1000% (or 10x) acceleration in the baseline evolutionary rate for the initial seven Godly days was an incredible boon.
It ant that his water world, despite its humble beginnings, was undergoing a hyper-accelerated developntal phase, a cosmic head start that compensated for his initial lack of diverse lifeforms or a ti-accelerating talent like Kairos's.
But a new thought quickly surfaced: why was this crucial information not yet rampant in the God Chat? "Those blabbers and boasters will not remain silent in chat if they knew about this," he mused, a flicker of suspicion joining his satisfaction.
Was this hidden knowledge, or was sothing else at play?
He opened the Chat panel, scrolling through the usual mix of complaints and minor boasts.
After a few minutes, one ssage, typed by a God nad 'Curiosity', caught his eye.
"Hey guys! I asked the System about the ti of my misfortune and it said it can be anyti in this day. Do you understand what it ans?"
"Bullshit! System doesn't answer any of the question. It is unreliable," retorted one God, imdiately dismissing the claim.
"I agree," another chid in. "I just asked for the how much is the ti acceleration and it didn't answer . Unreliable ."
"Wait a minute! Does that an we have different systems? Because mine answers sotis too," a third God interjected, sparking a wave of confused questions.
"Let's analyze, guys! What is the thing which can be different since before the opening of the world?" typed the God nad 'Strategist', attempting to bring order to the chaos.
Many theories, ranging from starting planet types to initial faith points, began to flood the comnts.
"Guys, wait!" Strategist typed again, his next ssage coming swiftly. "According to , the answer is talent."
This theory made the whole chat fall silent. It was a simple, yet profound, insight that had eluded most.
Strategist, sensing his advantage, began to clear their doubts. "Hey Curiosity, what grade is your talent? And two brother below him, what is yours?"
"B-Grade," Curiosity typed, confirming his talent level.
"F-Grade," replied 'Brother 1'.
"No Talent," ca the stark, almost lancholic admission from 'Brother 2'.
The chat ca to silence again, a different kind of quiet this ti, heavy with the weight of implied hierarchy.
"No talent? Haha. If I were in your place, I would have buried myself instead of chatting here," typed 'Joker', ever present to mock the less fortunate Gods.
Sunny noticed this God, a constant presence who seed to relish every chance to make fun of poor or struggling deities.
"According to , the higher the Talent, the higher the authority to ask the question from system," Strategist continued, undeterred by Joker's barb. "For example, I have an S-Grade talent, but when I asked the System why there are only 300,000 Gods in this Chat, the System didn't answer. If anyone has talent higher than S, can you confirm my doubts and ask System this question?"
"Woah! Another S-grade talent," typed one God, awe in their digital voice.
"Bigshot, can you explain your talent to us poor Gods?" a chorus of voices pleaded.
" 1," " 2," "... 231322." The request quickly garnered hundreds of thousands of upvotes, a clear indication of the collective desperation for knowledge and advantage.
"Look then," Strategist typed, attaching an image.
Sunny curiously opened the image, and his face subtly distorted in a mixture of anger and disbelief.
[Talent na: Children of Wisdom]
[Grade: S]
[Detail: All the lifeforms born in your territory will have 5 tis the wisdom.]
"System, why are all the S-talent stronger than my SSS-Grade talent?" Sunny complained silently, a ntal shout of frustration.
His "Skill-Resonance" was powerful, but situational and with a long cooldown.
These S-grades seed to offer imdiate, constant, and far-reaching advantages.
The System, however, chose to ignore him, maintaining its stoic silence.
The revelation from Strategist broke every other God in the chat.
"Crying ;-;. Why is the gap so big?" typed one God, expressing the universal sentint of unfairness.
"I don't think it is that great of a talent," said a God nad 'Brutal', perhaps trying to downplay its significance.
"You don't understand," another God typed, countering Brutal. "While your algae is developing slowly, his algae will find different ways to evolve and survive with the help of that wisdom."
Sunny's thoughts echoed this sentint, but he saw an even more terrifying aspect.
"They don't understand the real threat of this talent," he thought.
"While it is terrifying in the start, where the lifeforms will evolve and survive easily, it will beco truly Godly when the wise races start developing." A wise race, according to the System, possessed complex thought and the capacity for belief.
Imagine such a race with five tis the normal wisdom.
"One genius will take 50 years to develop sothing, but one genius with wisdom x 5 can do it in 1 or 2 years. Isn't it more terrifying than Kairos's talent?" Sunny wondered, the implications of such accelerated intellectual developnt sending a chill down his divine spine.
This 'Children of Wisdom' talent wasn't just about faster evolution; it was about compressed history, rapidly advancing his future towards sentience, technology, and formidable power.
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