The experiment had failed, but Mephisto was rather pleased. After the divinity fragment merged into his body, it had actually turned straight into faith power!
There was very little of it, but it was genuine faith power, the kind he could use to convert and strengthen his followers!
How could he not be pleased?
Making divinity fragments was far easier than collecting faith power!
Besides, in Mephisto's eyes, this hardly counted as a failure. A very bold idea had occurred to him—Could this thing... be something the Divine Lord developed specifically for us?
It was a very bold idea, but when the divinity fragment merged directly with him and replenished the faith power in his body, he felt it had been confirmed!
The Divine Lord really does care about us!
Isaac, who had been frowning in thought, tilted his head in confusion when he saw Mephisto suddenly smiling for no apparent reason. Seriously, man, my experiment failed. Why are you so excited? Don't you have a little too much [humanity]?
After asking a few questions, Isaac learned the reason from Mephisto and was rather surprised. This stuff can do that too?
After a moment's thought, however, Isaac found it perfectly reasonable. Divinity fragments could already serve as resources for a deity's advancement. But again, the mechanics were there; the numbers just couldn't keep up. Never mind an actual deity—even Little Mouse no longer thought much of them and simply treated them as tasty snacks.
But being useless to actual deities and divine species did not mean they were useless to virtual deities. They were not true deities, and their strength could not advance any further, so however much faith power they absorbed, they could only store it to convert and strengthen their followers.
The faith power supplied by a divinity