The God of Black Mist had been able to sense the God of Scorching Wind because the latter had once been a member of the divine pantheon under his command—and one of his longtime old subordinates, at that.
Creatures of the faith-based godhood system possessed a distinctly unique trait.
When low-level believers meditated upon or called the name of the god they worshipped in their minds, those gods, affected by the threads of faith, had a certain chance of sensing their subjects' calls.
Across the major Plane Worlds that had developed Faith Power, Divine Miracles often came into being. In truth, it was simply those gods hearing the pleas of their people and responding to them.
Sometimes, gods could be quite reasonable.
If you offered up your faith, they would give you a response as they saw fit.
But if a god ignored its believers, or constantly acted recklessly and turned a deaf ear to its people's pleas... what lowly creature would worship or believe in such a being?
That was why the circle of gods could be fiercely competitive at times.
If you did not work hard enough, the believers you had painstakingly gathered might very well be lured away by some other evil god.
The God of Black Mist had discovered that the God of Scorching Wind was in the plane below not because the God of Scorching Wind believed in him, but because, as a subordinate god of the God of Black Mist, the God of Scorching Wind was theoretically required to hand over a portion of his Faith Power to him.
It was like the God of Black Mist was "collecting rent." He allowed the God of Scorching Wind to spread his faith within his territory, but the Faith Power earned had to be shared with