Nurturing gods.
For Lady of Pain and the other four.
Without a doubt.
It was a very simple matter.
As long as quality was not pursued, the entire process required no more than a trivial thought.
But gods that were both usable and brimming with potential were not so easy to come by...
For that reason.
Repeatedly screening the entire population of gods naturally became necessary.
In the future, as internal competition continued to arise and intensify.
Many gods of mediocre aptitude, like the materials required to cultivate elites.
Would be continuously consumed...
In this regard, those fellows' deaths would not cause Lady of Pain and the others any losses.
As God Above Gods, the actual administrators of this plane.
Their existence was like something renewable and reusable.
Even if they unfortunately died, they could still be treated as resources to replenish the plane itself.
Just like the famous saying:
Workers, working souls.
As the name implied, it meant that workers were beaten while working—beaten to death alive—and after death, their souls would continue working for their bosses.
And that principle was quite fitting when applied to those gods as well.
While alive, their believers worked for them, providing faith and all kinds of labor.
After they died.
Those whose faith was not devout enough would be forcibly reincarnated!
Whether their next life would be spent as cattle and horses upon an endless emerald-green grassland, or as a human reborn into serfdom, laying bricks and herding sheep, depended entirely on luck. No one could say for sure.
Those with pure faith, meanwhile, would ascend into the Divine Kingdoms of their respective gods and become petitioners or holy spirits.
As for their treatment, although food and lodging were included.
They still had to serve as self-generating power generators for the gods,