After a brief assessment, the Gods immediately launched a vigorous campaign of pairing up and seeking mates.
Yes, seeking mates.
Since ancient times, male powerhouses in this world had far outnumbered female ones.
For various reasons, women faced greater difficulty than men in becoming Legendary.
That remained true even among the present Astral Plane Gods.
There were now over a hundred Deities in the Astral Plane, and the ratio of male to female Deities had even reached ten to one.
Ten male Gods for every Goddess-it was easy to imagine how fierce the competition was.
In particular, even Goddesses had to strictly obey the laws of nature when carrying a Divine Scion.
In other words, gestating a Divine Scion took ten months!
That made the Goddesses even more sought-after.
Every Goddess in the Astral Plane had countless male Gods seeking to mate with her, and countless exchanges of benefits took place in secret throughout the Astral Plane.
Even Annie and Gunara of Dunn's Pantheon had quite a few male Gods making inquiries.
However, they were all firmly rejected.
After all, if they really were going to produce Divine Scions, they had a better candidate.
As time passed, the first Goddess successfully conceived, and the male God who had impregnated her ecstatically announced that the toxins of faith within him had noticeably diminished.
The Gods began to go mad.
The vast majority of Goddesses received countless benefits and promises.
The most ruthless of them, the Harvest Goddess, a deity of weak divine power, even accepted over a hundred deals to bear Divine Scions.
Her schedule stretched a hundred years into the future!
Apart from a few Goddesses who still had some principles, over ninety percent of the Goddesses in the Astral Plane were already pregnant.
Within Dunn's Pantheon, Annie was fine