Vacation time was always short. As for the Eastern Kingdom authorities' "invitation," from the very beginning, the question had been how much they were offering, not whether he would go.
After all, in a sense, this really was a political task where the boss asked whether you were willing to work overtime.
"How to go, how many people to bring, and whether I go myself—that's another matter."
Since they had specifically named him, making a trip was no problem. But how he went was another matter entirely.
The greatest difference between unconventional quasi-gods and True Gods was that, while their overall scale was weaker than that of True Gods, they were often not bound to a world, granting them greater mobility and flexibility.
Take someone like Lady Lin. She had been bound to Earth for too long, like an apple hanging from a big tree. It was possible to strip her of her status as a proper god, but making her willingly sever her connection to the world and surrender her God Seat was unrealistic.
That was also why, during planar conquests, gods were certainly less useful than unconventional quasi-gods.
A God's Ark parked overhead was more of a "BUFF totem pole" above one's head. Its upper limit was high, but its lower limit was also low. Back then, the God of Redemption had already reached its limit by serving as a "satellite phone" capable of establishing fixed-point contact.
As for a god's main body—the God's Ark-transformed divine kingdom—it could not directly descend to the ground in most low- and mid-magic worlds.
In fact, this time, because the barrier of planar space had been shattered by the God Above Gods, many Star Boats had been forced down by their worlds, their physical forms thrown into the front lines. Most had