"Your condition looks terrible," Sui Xiong said, frowning as he looked at Manis, the Goddess of Wealth.
As the God of Wealth, Manis was one of the powerful gods. Though he was not a deity skilled in battle—perhaps he could not even defeat certain especially combat-capable intermediate gods—his strength was still beyond question.
It was like someone who donated money but did not sacrifice themselves when their homeland was in need. That absolutely did not mean their moral character was low; it was simply that the standard of comparison had been set a little too high.
If every intermediate god could fight like Ogmanding, the God of Strategy, or Morani, the Orc God, wouldn't the world have fallen into chaos long ago?
"Six hundred million citizens, all as wise and virtuous as Yao and Shun," was ultimately only a beautiful ideal.
Manis's power already placed him among the highest tier of the gods. He should have possessed vigorous divine power and abundant divinity, giving rise to an elegant, noble bearing and a radiant majesty mortals could not look upon directly. But now, his face was pale, the dark circles and bags beneath his eyes were obvious at a glance, and the radiance surrounding him had become exceedingly dim. Just as Sui Xiong had said, he looked terrible.
Manis gave a bitter smile, shook his head, sat down in his usual seat, and let out a deep sigh.
After a while, he said, "Among my divine domains, the four most important ones are something you all know about, right?"
The gods nodded one after another.
Of the Goddess of Wealth Manis's divine domains, Wealth, Merchants, Commercial Activity, and the Gold Coin Federation were the four core domains. Though the domain of "Wealth" sounded lofty and grand, it did not actually provide