You want me to step in and salvage the situation? You must think highly of me... Does that mean I've done a good job playing God? Jiang Hao weighed his words, then deliberately slowed his speech.
"Time."
Is His Highness going to agree? How noble of him. He didn't even ask which god would descend; he went straight to asking when... Fiona Russell praised him inwardly.
After a moment's thought, Ieta Cavendish said, "Sometime between six months and two years from now."
He estimated at least six months because Divine Descent by a God onto the Main Plane came at a cost. For one thing, resisting the Main Plane's omnipresent restrictions meant that every action a descended God took consumed enormous amounts of Divine Power. Casting Divine Spells cost hundreds or even thousands of times more. Gods with fewer believers could not sustain such expenditure.
For another, a God's nature—"wherever a God passes becomes their Divine Kingdom"—conflicted with the Main Plane's rigid laws. The collision between that nature and those laws would injure the God.
The longer a descended God remained on the Main Plane, the worse those injuries became. After every Divine Descent, the God had to return to their own Divine Kingdom to recover.
He estimated no more than two years because he could spread the Steam Engine across the entire Main Plane within that time. If the Goddess of the Forest did not act before then, he would ascend to a True God through Authority over steam, and he would no longer fear her.
Between six months and two years? Jiang Hao nodded slightly.
In six months, the wheat would be ready for harvest. Blue Star wheat's high yield was certain to inspire the nobles of the Main Plane to follow suit. In a world where nobles