During the past three months, he had also visited the Celestial Domain several times. After talking with Evangeline, he realized that the Eternity Religion had been successfully rebuilt.
That woman, following his plans, had managed to liberate almost half of the human continent’s borders that had been conquered by the demons, with the help of a group of dragons and Fallen.
And right there, by preaching and announcing that they were from the Eternity Religion and had come to destroy the demons, they had been able to promote the Eternity Religion and lay its foundations.
The first border city located on the edge of the ocean, where Evangeline had descended, was chosen as the capital and holy city. The first church was built there exactly like the Eternity Church.
Evangeline had introduced herself as the Saint of Eternity and announced that she had come on behalf of the Prophet of Eternity to help them.
The humans who had been slaughtered by the demons, taken as slaves, or eaten, naturally believed in Eternity easily after seeing the people who had saved them.
The first group of devout followers also belonged to that holy city, and according to what Daniel had heard, their faith had reached an extreme level.
He didn’t know if something like that was really good or not. He needed to go there himself and check. Unfortunately, he didn’t have time to do that right now.
Besides, the time hadn’t come yet. He had ordered them to advance and liberate the border cities more slowly. Before actually liberating the cities, they should first try to spread whispers and rumors about the Eternity Religion.
This way, they could grow faith in the hearts of the followers.
"It’s just possible that the Divine Church or the demons will react," he muttered to himself.
The Divine Church and the demons still hadn’t shown any reaction to the return of the Eternity Religion, but Daniel knew that both of them had already become aware of this matter and were now monitoring it.
The Divine Church would not allow a religion to suddenly appear out of nowhere and steal all the followers. More importantly, it could not allow the balance between religions to be broken.
On the other hand, the demons were naturally the greatest enemies of the Eternity Religion, and vice versa. This matter had historical roots, and now that the Eternity Religion had once again blocked their advance, it would definitely make everything more complicated and worse.
However, they still hadn’t shown any particular reaction.
"Calm before the storm, huh? Good. The later they react, the more time I have to become stronger," Daniel smirked.
After becoming an Innate Primal, he could no longer continue becoming stronger like before, and his path of progress had completely changed.
To become stronger, he needed to absorb divine power. By rebuilding the Eternity Religion and gaining followers, he planned to do exactly that.
And fortunately, it had already started. He could feel that the faith of the followers was turning into divine power and being absorbed into his divinity.
But the amount wasn’t enough for him to reach the next rank. He needed much more divine power to absorb.
"The best way is to increase the speed of spreading the Eternity Religion, but doing it this way might cause problems in the long run," he thought and decided to abandon this idea.
The number of followers was increasing, and sooner or later it would reach a level where they could help him. All he needed was patience.
"Until then, I can continue climbing the Tower. Even though it no longer helps with increasing power, I can obtain useful treasures."
"Besides, conquering the tenth floor should have a very big reward," he muttered.
Right now, his raw power, combined with his Laws, was equal to a National Rank Awakened, but there was a huge difference compared to a Heavenly King.
From what he had understood, his divinity needed to become two-star for him to be able to match a Heavenly King.
His current divinity was one-star. What did this mean?
Divinity has three colors: white, turquoise, and gold. Currently his was white, the gods’ was turquoise, and for Supreme Gods it was gold.
Each color has four stars, basically small stars that appear on the divinity.
When four stars are completed, the divinity evolves and its color changes.
And the way these stars are created is naturally by absorbing enough divine power. In the place where gods live, there is something called Divine Fruit. By swallowing it, one can absorb enormous divine power.
But unfortunately, Divine Fruits do not exist in his current world or in the Celestial Domain. That was why he had no choice but to rely on the faith of the followers, which could be converted into divine power.
It would take more time, but there was no other way. Of course, when the Eternity Religion spreads across all continents and is known among billions of living beings, the divine power he would obtain would definitely be indescribable.
But there was still a long way to go...
Of course, he also had other ideas, such as finding objects or beings that possess divine power and swallowing their divine power.
Doing this in itself isn’t difficult, but the problem is finding these items and beings, and for that he needs a very extensive intelligence and espionage system that can help him in this path.
He had also planned to establish an intelligence and espionage organization before, but he never had the chance. Fortunately, now with the rebuilding of the Eternity Religion, an opportunity for this had also appeared.
He had ordered Evangeline to create a military force completely loyal to the Religion, a force whose only purpose of existence is to serve the Religion and its leader.
This force is supposed to have a very large and extensive intelligence service section.
Wherever followers of the Eternity Religion exist, he will also have eyes and ears there, and in this way, finding what he is looking for will become easier.
"Fortunately, I don’t need to do these things myself and everything is being done," Daniel smiled.
Having the Fallen and the entire dragon race under his control also brought many advantages, especially since the number of his Fallen had now reached nearly ten thousand.
How?
Well... he naturally didn’t ignore the corpses of the Awakened on the battlefield either. There were tens of thousands of Awakened, and a large number of them were between A-rank and S-rank.
He didn’t even ignore the corpses of the S-rank Awakened from the Goblin Guild and turned their commanders into his Fallen.
Of course, he also swallowed a large number of those corpses that were between C-rank and A-rank and weren’t useful with [Everlasting Physique].
Now he had an army of ten thousand Fallen that could help him in almost all fields, and he had sent a large portion of them to help Evangeline.
His only regret was that he couldn’t turn Valkraz and Morkan into Fallen.
He stood up from his seat. He planned to go to the Guild and have a meeting with Varenos. That man had told him he wanted to see him before he went to challenge the fourth floor of the Tower.
However, before he could step out of the house, his phone suddenly started ringing.
"Hm? Alice?" It was his sister’s number. It seemed they had finally managed to conquer the first floor of the Tower.