The cause of the tsunami had finally been uncovered.
After personally investigating the seabed, Soren discovered that an underwater volcano near the maelstrom where the Floating City had originally crashed had erupted with astonishing, unnatural force.
Large numbers of water elementals also occupied the surrounding area. They were violent and highly aggressive, even attacking the nearby ocean monsters. Without a doubt, after losing the Elemental Overdeity's control, many elemental life forms with little intelligence had gone berserk. Most elemental life forms lacked a distinct individual consciousness. Generally, only upon advancing to the level of an Elemental Genie did they truly become as intelligent as humans. Other, lower-ranking elemental life forms acted almost entirely on instinct.
Peace seemed to have returned to Port Nyanzaru.
Yet after that catastrophic tsunami, many things in Port Nyanzaru had changed.
Soren's worshippers, for instance.
The number of Soren's worshippers had surged during this period, especially among the half-elves. More than ninety percent of them had become his worshippers, including a large new contingent of devout believers. Soren had never demanded compulsory worship, because faith had to be voluntary. Ten shallow worshippers provided only as much power of faith as one devout believer, so he generally did not interfere when half-elves worshipped other deities. Now, however, a remarkably high proportion of half-elves worshipped Soren, and the number of devout believers had increased by more than fifty percent.
Devout believers were those who offered formal prayers every day.
Fanatics, on the other hand, regarded their deity as everything. The proportion of fanatics in Soren's Church had also risen considerably.
All this resulted from his taking on True God Form on the day of the tsunami and saving Port Nyanzaru, even at the cost of exhausting all his divine power. Although his divine power value had nearly run