Following Adam's advice, Sunny did not hesitate. He was no longer just a king defending a castle; he was a cosmic reaper gathering the harvest of universes.
He moved with an unmatched efficiency, his consciousness expanding through the sub-layers of space like a sprawling root system.
First, he reached for Veridia, the heart of his mortal empire. Then, he swept through the Subspace Universe, the intricate Universe of Cards, and the spiritual Universe of Cultivation.
With every world he folded into the Elsewhere of his soul, Sunny felt his fundamental weight shift.
It wasn't the explosive, overwhelming surge he had felt when capturing the City of Gods.... that city alone held the six billion Gods... but it was a constant, stabilizing density.
The faith of quadrillions of mortals began to hum in his veins, a rhythmic thrumming that sounded like the heartbeat of a universe.
