Time passed slowly. After Isaac summoned the Little Golden Man to wipe out the third squad, he put it away, his brows furrowing.
Summoning the Little Golden Man had become more difficult!
Normally, the difficulty of summoning a deity's avatar did increase each time, because the essence of this ability at its current stage was stealing a deity's power. Even for an existence like the Lord of Billions of Radiance, prolonged theft would draw its attention.
That was why Isaac often summoned different deities.
Usually, however, it took more than five summons before the Divine Realm's automatic mechanisms noticed something was wrong and increased the difficulty of Isaac's summons.
After all, at his current stage, he could not let the deities learn of the Divine Tome's existence—at least, not those whose names had been written in it.
Yet Isaac had only summoned the Lord of Billions of Radiance's Little Golden Man three times so far. That should not have happened—
Moreover, the feedback did not feel like the Divine Realm's automatic mechanisms resisting his summons. It felt more like—someone had suffered such devastating injuries that not only did the deity have to enter slumber to recover, but some of the Divine Realm's functions had also been forcibly shut down!
But how was that possible?
The Lord of Billions of Radiance was a dimensional demon god. Its source of power was its Dimensional World. The Divine Realm was merely something it had made to follow the trend and manage believers alongside other deities; unlike ordinary deities, it was not one of the cores of its power.
In other words, under normal circumstances, a deity's injuries would not affect its Divine Realm. Naturally, the reverse was true as well.
Unless its injuries were extremely severe!
Severe enough that it needed to draw