"Are these Earth's gods? How magnificent."
Zeta Duna, the "Snow White Sheep Girl," now the "Caretaker of the Fertile Fields" and "God of Guardianship of Animal Husbandry," gazed at the City of Silver before her, which had expanded at least tenfold once more, and fell into deep thought.
Behind her stood her kin—the jungle hunters led by Kasuga. Weary yet joyful from their harvest, they waited to complete the procedures for entering the city.
Lu PingAn's faction did not support idlers, at least not newly arrived ones. Though they were all subordinate gods, Lu PingAn and Chris's "children" received entirely different treatment from the ancient gods newly joined from the Underground World.
They—or rather, They—needed to prove their worth, or at the very least earn ship tickets for themselves and their followers.
Most of them were deeply uncertain about the future. As ancient beings, they had never believed in promises. No matter how wonderful the future Lu PingAn promised might be, no matter how enticing their homeland in the documents appeared, they would not take it seriously until it was truly delivered.
Those ancient gods who had not followed Lu PingAn's orders to rescue this world's mortals were already preparing to burn the bridge after crossing it. Lu PingAn did not bother with Them, letting Them remain in the Courtyard to retire in peace.
Among these ancient gods, Zeta Duna, the "Snow White Sheep Girl," was an outlier. Not only had she carried out rescues according to Lu PingAn's requirements, she had also accepted Lu PingAn's "investiture" and gained a Low-level Life-type Divine Authority.
The Animal Husbandry Divine Grace of the Land of Life. It sounded far too subtle, even practically useless—a man-made authority from the "Beast Tamer" path shared by Mother Goddess Chris.
Its strength was low, low enough