The phantom of the God of Kingship gradually became clearer. The old man wearing a crown, golden armor, and a scarlet cloak could now be seen in such detail that even every strand of his hair was distinct.
Yet his eyes remained devoid of spirit, without the slightest trace of liveliness.
Sui Xiong knew that this was proof of a lack of faith.
When a god revived, it required an enormous amount of the power of faith to fill it. Only sufficient faith could rekindle the fire of the god's soul and allow it to be reborn.
Without enough faith, even if every other condition was met, what was "revived" would only be something that possessed a god's appearance and power, yet lacked consciousness.
Such things were generally known as "godspawn." Like monsters born from gods mating with other beings, products of gods' dangerous experiments, and the like, they were all things nearly as powerful as gods, yet far more dangerous and terrifying.
Most of them lacked intelligence, or at least complete intelligence. Many had nothing in their minds but destruction and chaos, worse even than evil gods, and rather similar to the demons of the Abyss. Worse still, quite a few of them were extremely powerful—some so powerful that even gods found them troublesome.
For instance, the famous godspawn Star-Devouring Hydra was a monstrously troublesome creature. It belonged among the "star-devourers," able to swallow an entire star—or an entire small world—in a single bite. If it entered the world where Earth was located, the Sun probably would not even be enough for one mouthful. It would have to swallow Mercury, Mars, Earth, Venus... all together before it could sigh, "Ahhh, that only took the edge off. I still need to find a proper meal."
Assuming it truly possessed such