Chapter 668: The Goddess of Faith

Donald’s ascension process as the true form of the God of Faith proceeded more smoothly than he had imagined. After shedding the divine domains related to nature, his entire soul felt much more unobstructed. This made Donald realize that his previous divine domains had been overly complex, causing excessive burden on his soul and hindering the advancement of his divine rank.

Now that the natural domains had been integrated into the divine essence of the God of Laws, the God of Faith, freed from much of its burden, naturally became much lighter! By removing the divine roles of natural protection and divine punishment assigned to the God of Laws, as well as related domains such as purification, growth, plants, and protection, the true form of the God of Faith was left with only four major divine roles: alchemy, blacksmithing, summoning, and demon hunting. Additionally, it retained domains such as fairness, weight, balance, summoning, conservation of energy, time, fate, prophecy, and demon hunting.

Although it was still quite complex compared to other lower gods, aside from the three additional domains of time, fate, and prophecy, the other divine roles and domains were largely interconnected, almost all related to the domain of order. In particular, the four domains of fairness, weight, balance, and conservation of energy were directly branches under the laws of order. Thus, Donald naturally formed a new divine role: the God of Order.

With the emergence of this divine role, Donald’s divine rank, which had been restored to level 8 through the power of faith, surged to the peak of a lower god at level 10. This demonstrated the immense power of this new divine role. Even though it was still in its initial stages, the authority of order immediately surpassed the other divine roles, becoming the most powerful force under Donald’s true form as the God of Faith. Of course, aside from the strength of order itself, this was also due to the existence of the mighty weapon, the Whip of Order, which embodied the authority of order and was at a mid-to-high peak in power.

Once he grasped the authority of order, the secrets of this universe gradually unfolded before Donald’s eyes, and he came to understand the true essence of order. Everything in the world depends on order. Without the restraint of order, everything from the dispersion of elements to the collapse of nations, and even the destruction of the entire universe, could occur.

Of course, this does not mean that all existence is order, as order and chaos are two sides of the same coin—neither can exist alone. Objects purely governed by order are virtually impossible to exist. All substances leaning toward the domain of order are merely relatively more ordered!

It is just like the theory of yin and yang mentioned in his past life—everything in the multiverse arises from the alternating influence of order and chaos.

After comprehending these truths he had never noticed before, Donald felt a profound change within himself and knew it was time. He immediately drew a great deal of faith power and poured it into his divine essence.
Ding…
As if breaking through some barrier, a clear sound resonated within his soul. Surrounded by divine fire, the lower-tier god’s dodecahedral divine essence rapidly transformed into a icosahedral crystal form characteristic of a mid-tier god.
“I’ve finally become a mid-tier god…”
The moment Donald completed his ascension, the entire realm of Azeroth began to tremble violently. The land shifted, mountains stretched, and the space expanded by at least one-tenth.
It should be noted that Donald’s realm was already larger than that of most mid-tier god realms. Now, having expanded further on top of that, just imagine how enormous this was!
All beings in the realm—including worshippers, divine messengers, and dragons—immediately praised the sacred name of the great true god Donald. Unlike the Law God, whose presence remained subdued with power concentrated inward, Donald’s ascension caused a significant disturbance. No matter which plane they were in, all of Donald’s followers instantly knew their true god had grown even stronger!
Donald could now be called the God of Order, while the title of Nature’s Guardian belonged to the Law God.
However, Donald did not plan to announce publicly that he had seized control of order. Thus, most of his followers and worshippers continued to pray to Nature’s Guardian, with most of their faith power flowing toward the Law God’s true form.
But since both the Law God and the Faith God were aspects of him, the faith power obtained by Nature’s Guardian could be instantly transferred to the Faith God’s true form without any loss.
After ascending to mid-tier god status, Donald’s first task was to create avatars. Unlike the Law God, who could freely travel between planes, the Faith God’s true form lacked avatars, making it too dangerous to send it out for every matter.
The first avatar created was the primary divine avatar—the Order Avatar. Then Donald created another avatar, the Hunter of Demons.
Although all aspects related to nature fell under the Law God, preventing the creation of a Nature’s Guardian avatar for now (as there was no exclusive artifact for that domain), the Faith God now possessed an additional aspect of order.
So, just like during his lower-tier god days, Donald still had three major avatars.

Among them, the Avatars of Order and Punishment are powerful lower deities since they belong to different archdeity avatars, while the Hunter Avatar has not advanced much due to the limited power of its divine authority, thus remaining at the level of a demigod avatar. As for the avatars of the three divine authorities—Summoning, Alchemy, and Forging—they have low combat strength, and there may be other changes in the future; Donald currently sees no need to create more. After becoming an archdeity, each avatar also gains some strength as its divine rank rises, but since both of his current divine ranks are odd numbers at 11, this improvement is not significant. While Donald was ascending to archdeity, something significant also happened in the plane of Nordahil. After giving birth to a child, the demigoddess Catherine stayed behind Donald to raise her children, largely ignoring matters in the main world. However, due to Donald’s earlier arrangements, the Gold Banks under the Dalarn Adventurers’ Guild expanded across the continent, and more people began to praise the Lady of Dalarn as a business genius. Not long ago, Catherine sensed a faint presence of power, but at that time Donald was fighting in hell, and the countess did not want to distract him, so she kept it hidden. Yet, the power of faith cannot be suppressed by individual effort alone. Especially since Catherine became a demigoddess through the Immortal Fruit—though this method posed no risks—she lacked the trials and hardships endured by other demigod warriors to ignite their divine flames. Her demigod status came easily, but her control over her own power was poor, and she lacked experience in using the power of faith. As a result, she was unusually stimulated by the collective faith of others, enabling her to form a divine domain and give birth to a divine authority within her divine flames! It should be noted that other demigods struggle endlessly to form divine authorities, yet in Catherine’s case, the situation reversed—she was forced to do so. This was also Donald’s oversight; he underestimated the importance those merchants and nobles in the main world placed on the changes brought by the Gold Bank system. With this network of Gold Banks, the need to carry large amounts of money for trade and worry about robbery along the way was largely eliminated. Now, simply carrying a deposit certificate issued by the Dalarn Gold Bank allows one to withdraw funds up to a set limit anywhere, greatly boosting commercial activity in the main world.

This allowed Donald’s original plan to elevate faith into divinity to be achieved ahead of schedule in a way he hadn’t anticipated. He had thought it would take at least a decade or so to reach the initial stage of forming a divine hierarchy. A decade or so wasn’t much time for those like Catherine, who enjoyed Donald’s favor—under the influence of divinity, they no longer faced the aging problems that mortals did.

The unexpected early completion of this transition from spreading faith to forming a divine hierarchy came as a great surprise to Donald.

When he sensed fluctuations in the laws near the World Tree, Donald already had a pretty clear understanding of the situation. He nodded to the Avenger and Loki and Thor, who had also come to check things out, then went over to Catherine, took her hand, and reassured her, “Don’t worry. Just do as I say—it’s easy!”

With that, he transmitted through his mind some techniques for forming a divine hierarchy and gaining faith power. At the same time, he teleported Catherine to the manor in the main world.

Whether it was igniting the divine fire or forming a divine hierarchy, it was better to do it in the main world, where the rules were more refined. This increased the compatibility between the deity and the main world, significantly reducing any rejection from the realm’s rules toward that deity.

When Donald manifested himself, Catherine, who was initially at a loss, found stability as if guided by a core pillar. With Donald’s encouraging gaze, she firmly closed her eyes and began to take control of the divine power that was about to take shape unexpectedly.

At first, Catherine was still somewhat unskilled, but for a deity, using faith power and forming a divine hierarchy was as natural as eating and drinking, so she quickly became more proficient.

Thanks to the power of faith, the divine hierarchy had already begun to take shape, and now, with the deity’s active control, the process became even smoother.

Soon, the brilliance of the divine hierarchy shone around Catherine. All beings related to the business world subtly sensed the birth of a deity who would rule over commerce, and immediately, some merchants began to worship this new goddess of business.

Today, Catherine has become a new deity, officially the God of Commerce, wielding the powers related to commerce as well as trade and wealth. It’s simple, but it holds great potential. These three domains of divinity could propel Catherine to the level of a mid-tier god. After all, all races on the continent, including intelligent undead creatures, rely on trade—whether it’s the primitive barter system or the more advanced commercial activities among highly intelligent races like humans—all of which will bring immense power to Catherine. As long as the humanistic systems created by intelligent beings continue to exist, even without faith, deities like her will not perish. That’s why Donald chose such a domain of divinity for his wife. Moreover, Catherine is already highly skilled in the field of commerce.