Naimus carefully sensed the changes in cognitive faith.
Then he began processing this portion of cognition.
It had to be said that nearly all deities abandoning cognitive faith as their primary source of faith was actually the right choice.
Divine Fire needed thought to drive it, and the entire process required frequent contemplation.
It consumed a tremendous amount of energy, even to the point where merely seeing knowledge would become irritating.
Cognitive faith was also a poisonous kind of faith.
Much of the cognition within it was filled with fallacies. At times, it made Naimus feel as though he were grading a child's homework.
All sorts of obvious errors only made one even more annoyed.
Especially since those errors were not necessarily entirely wrong, and he still had to understand what the other person had been thinking.
That was practically mental contamination.
And self-inflicted at that.
The Gods already stood at the pinnacle of the world. They could steadily grow stronger by harvesting faith, so there was no need to seek out such suffering.
In most cases, suffering served no purpose. If someone liked suffering, they would most likely only find endless suffering.
The same was true for deities.
If they liked refining cognitive faith, then endless cognitive faith would be waiting for them to refine.
And the gains from that process were difficult to determine.
The growth of Divinity was not a stable linear progression, but followed the principle of Marginal Increase.
Each time meant breaking through a limit, so each time became more difficult.
Naimus's good fortune and advantage lay in the fact that the "marginal increase effect" finally came into play during this process.
Within cognitive faith, a single piece of cognition could swiftly be driven by the power of traits, linking with other pieces of cognition.