One day passed.
Haru surfaced from meditation with a clearer grasp of his source of Divine Laws than he'd ever had. This was the first time he'd actually sat still long enough to study it properly and the gains were real. Not transformative, but real.
He filed it away and got back to work.
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The Empire's morning recruitment ran its usual course: seven thousand adult Angels, fourteen thousand top-level troops from various races. It was routine by now. Haru moved through it quickly and made his way to the Imperial Plaza, where the new [God-level Angel Reincarnation Pool] waited.
Nova had finished building it yesterday. Three kilometers in diameter — triple the size of an ordinary pool — radiating holy light so dense it was nearly impossible to look at directly. Like a small sun dropped into the plaza.
Haru pulled up its status panel.
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[Angel Reincarnation Pool: Unique Barracks]
[Current Level: God Level]
[Can not be upgraded further]
[Can give birth to three thousand Angel 'Holy Spirits' every day.]
[Special Reminder: All Angels born from God Level Angel Reincarnation Pools are God Class Angels.]
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Three thousand God Tier Angels per day. His seven existing Level 9 pools combined produced fewer than a thousand God Tier ones. One God Level pool outperformed all of them together. The requirement to build one, a Supreme God Tier Angel of Creation, suddenly made much more sense.
Since holy spirits didn't interest him as they were potential and not power, he chose 'no' on the first prompt. Then he chose to recruit adult Angels without hesitation. They would all be True Gods, combat-ready.
The pool blazed to life, then delivered the recruitment timer: almost three hundred and ninety days.
One Divine Crystal shaved two hours off the clock. Full acceleration required four thousand six hundred and seventy-seven crystals. Steep enough that most gods could never afford it. For Haru, it was trivial.
He fed the crystals in. The pool erupted with a shockwave of Divine Power that rolled across the entire Angel City. In the outer city, thousands of mortal believers dropped to their knees without knowing why, praying instinctively to their God.
Three thousand balls of light rose from the pool and hung above the plaza. Then they burst.
Three thousand Angels. Every face stunning, every pair of eyes carrying the quiet certainty of a True God. Wings ranged from six to fourteen, no sixteen or eighteen wings, but a solid core of Fourteen-Winged High Gods backed by a mass of Twelve and Ten-Winged Angels at the Intermediate God Tier.
All of this, for fewer than five thousand Divine Crystals.
"Praise you, Lord Almighty!"
Three thousand voices, absolutely loyal. The Angels' faith in Haru wasn't political calculation, it was bone-deep.
"Go meditate." He told them.
He'd have Celestia distribute the evolution blueprints once she completed her ascension. These Angels were born at the ceiling of their growth potential. Until that ceiling was raised, killing enemies wouldn't improve them at all. They needed to use the blueprints before the upcoming wars.
Across the plaza, Nova was already laying the foundations of a second god-level pool. Tomorrow, six thousand God Tier Angels would be born from them. Haru watched the construction and ran the numbers he'd been quietly turning over since yesterday.
His reserves sat at twenty-six million Divine Crystals. That sounded comfortable until he imagined dozens of god-level pools running simultaneously, each pool costing nearly five thousand Divine Crystals to accelerate every day. The money would go faster than he liked.
He really needed Estelle to find Kronforge, the base of the Ancient Titan Pantheon, left untouched for hundreds of thousands of years. Whatever Divine Crystal deposits had accumulated there over that span would exceed anything currently in circulation. Once he had it, funding would never be a concern again.
But all of this was for the future. As for now, he had troops to recruit.
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The [World Chat Channel] was noisier than usual. The Demon Slayer Tournament had been a turning point for the castle faction. Millions of creatures (Castle Lords, Rangers and troops) had ascended to Godhood. Dynasty-level local forces that had been thorns in their sides for months were being swept away in days.
Several Castle Lords had already assembled the nine fragments of the Dynasty Heart and established 'True Kingdoms' recognized by the laws.
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