Apart from the Burner-type worms, Li Ang had also created several other worm weapons that could be put into actual combat.

For example, the Bomb Beetle-type worm, shaped like a coconut, with eight long legs, and filled with explosives inside.

This type of worm could follow Li Ang's commands, crawling along the ground at an extremely fast speed, and exploding immediately upon contact with its target.

For example, the Earth-Driller-type worm, over three meters long, fat and round, with armor covering its body, and a sharp, protruding octagonal mouth.

This type of worm could drill holes in the ground like a drilling machine, with high efficiency. If multiple worms worked together, they might even cause the surface of a specific area to collapse and sink.

These worm weapons, due to being parasitized by vines, had in fact become an alternative form of semi-plant life.

Usually they were planted in the ground, without moving, hardly consuming anything, and without needing to expend precious divine power to maintain them.

The only drawback was that their use was restricted by the swamp's divine power.

Unlike Spirit Energy or Sanity, the natural recovery speed of divine power was extremely slow, probably only recovering enough for two or three of the lowest-level swamp divine spells per day.

If used for combat, it wouldn't take long to use it all up.

According to Li Ang's speculation, the type and strength of divine spells should increase with the quality of the divine imprint itself.

He consulted many books on the occult regarding gods on the player forums and found that in most Western sorcerers' records, it was generally believed that a personified god had four major elements:

Divine power, divine fire, divine persona, and divine office.

Whether it was a personified god who fell from the natural gods or a mortal who achieved personified godhood through rituals, they all needed to go through the process of "condensing divine power, igniting divine fire, holding divine persona, and assuming divine office."

Divine power, as the name suggests, is the power of the gods. It can be recovered naturally by the gods (low efficiency, slow speed), or it can be converted from the power of faith. When necessary, gods can bestow their own divine power on believers to create miracles.

Divine fire is the source of divine power. Personified gods need to rely on divine fire to convert the power of faith into their own divine power. Those who only have divine power but no divine fire are generally called demigods or quasi-gods.

Divine persona is the god's rank, a standard for measuring the size of a god's divine power.

As for the last item, divine office, which is the scope of the god's power and the area under its jurisdiction, is closely related to the divine persona.

The number of divine offices is not unique, and the divine offices of different gods may overlap.

For example, the Goddess of Wind possesses the divine offices of Wind Element, Elemental Messenger, Ranger, Thief, and Sailor.

For example, the Goddess of Misfortune possesses a series of divine offices such as Mischief, Misfortune, Accident, and Thief.

Divine persona produces divine office, and divine office also feeds back into divine persona and divine power.

According to Western occult scholars, divine persona, divine office, and even divine power all possess "aggregation" and "uniqueness."

The meaning of aggregation is that low-level divine offices often merge with each other.

Gods with common divine offices often fight for various reasons, stripping the divine persona from each other, seizing the divine offices possessed by the other, and thus increasing their own upper limit of divine power.

The meaning of uniqueness is that gods with weak divine power or lesser divine power who want to be promoted to intermediate divine power within the same divine office must launch a divine war to strip the position of the higher god.

The two principles of aggregation and uniqueness almost determine that the struggle between gods is bloody and cruel, even natural gods within the same pantheon will fight because of the similarity of divine offices.

This is also a speculation of Western occult scholars about Ragnarok—those gods slaughtered each other for promotion, suffered heavy casualties, coupled with the decline of spiritual energy and the development of technology,

The believers of personified gods became fewer and fewer, and the divine fire could not be replenished and went out, eventually leading to Ragnarok.

Of course, among the four elements of personified gods—divine power, divine fire, divine persona, and divine office—there is no divine spark like Li Ang possesses.

According to the occult books Li Ang consulted, the divine spark should be a type of divine fire.

"Am I a god?"

Li Ang's speculation on this was that he had in fact become a demigod or quasi-god who possessed divine power but had not yet fully condensed divine fire.

It was just that this spark was too weak to even be called divine fire.

According to the two principles of "aggregation" and "uniqueness," quasi-gods and demigods are basically equivalent to a delicious appetizer in the eyes of high-level gods in the same divine office.

Higher gods can launch a divine war to strip the divine fire and divine power from the quasi-god.

"The ignition of divine fire requires a large amount of divine power. And condensing divine power requires many devout believers."

According to the statements in occult books, the more believers there are, the larger the scale, and the higher the level of devotion, the faster the divine power accumulates.

Some gods encourage believers to establish strongholds, promote the gods themselves, and expand the scope of divine power coverage. When necessary, gods will also send down miracles to make believers more devout.

This process doesn't seem to have any problems at first glance,

But, times have changed.

Li Ang shook his head in the automated pet breeding box, "This is not the dark ages anymore, where can you find so many highly intelligent lives who worship gods.

Even the Reindeer God himself fell into a coma and died due to a lack of believers."

To some extent, the idols and celebrities who are worshiped by thousands of people have the best chance of condensing divine power and igniting divine fire in this era.

Unfortunately, Li Ang's own appearance can only be considered mediocre, and his singing voice has no special features, so he can't be an idol singer.

His appearance and temperament after makeup are quite impressive, but, in this era, it's not like being handsome and singing well guarantees success.

Don't you see so many idols who have no ability and only sing cheesy songs becoming popular all over the country, while some people who focus on music are unknown.

Even if Li Ang relies on his player status to become a slightly popular idol, the time and effort required in the process, as well as keeping his identity secret, are too much trouble.

"So the question is, where can I find a group of highly intelligent lives who are willing to worship me unconditionally?"

Li Ang thought for a long time but couldn't come up with any clues, so he had to turn around and continue to modify the bee swarm into weapons.

With the experience of the worms, this modification went smoothly, and soon, the five bee queens were modified, and a new batch of bee eggs was also being bred.

The existence of vines allows Li Ang to directly control the bee swarm precisely through the bee queens, without having to release pheromones himself.

This is very convenient.

"As for the issue of gods within the same divine office... Ragnarok has been over for so long, there shouldn't be any surviving gods with swamp-related divine offices, right?"