Chapter 36 (1/2)

Karta leaned her head over, glancing at Vremya’s screen. The two gods were lazing about on the couch as usual. “You stole another user?” the Labrador retriever asked, taking in the view of Vremya’s four users. “Maybe you should spread some of them out. There’s not enough resources in any area for four users to grow.”

“I didn’t expect to get a fourth user here,” Vremya said and shrugged. “Who knew he’d come over and try to kill Smith Jr.? I thought you said Paul was the target.”

“Maybe all your users are the target,” Karta said, smacking her lips. Her eyes shifted towards Vremya’s. “Why do you keep looking at your bellybutton? It’s actually really gross.”

Vremya snorted. “What do you know?” he asked and shook his head. Baby Vremya was growing just fine in there. One day out here was equivalent to one hundred days in there. It wouldn’t be long before he had a godly avatar. “Anyway, this Sword of Justice, clearly it’s the handiwork of the god of justice. How did she find me?”

Karta was too lazy to sit up. Her tail slapped her display a few times, and a search result appeared. “Pravos set up a deal with Rynok. If you buy certain goods, she’ll get alerted.” Karta rubbed her chin with her paw. “I wonder if I can make a deal with Rynok too. If I can find out who’s still buying apple chips, I’ll have a huge advantage over Yabloch.”

Vremya frowned. It seemed like he underestimated the power of connections. Someone with no connections to Rynok could still access the marketplace, but those allied with Rynok obviously would get more benefits. His eyes drifted towards his messenger app where there was a 999+ number in the red dot located on the corner. Should he form connections with people too? He turned his head. “Wasn’t there supposed to be one god talking to me every day. What happened to that?”

Karta blinked hard. “I was pretty sure you wanted to be left alone, no? Why’re you asking?”

Vremya narrowed his eyes. “Stinky dog, what did you do?”

“Hey! Don’t take that accusatory tone with me!” Karta said and rolled over onto her belly. She glared at Vremya, trying to look as fierce as possible. After a moment of silence, she sighed. “Alright, I’m still auctioning off the messaging slots, and I’ve been pretending to be you.”

“What’ve you been saying?” Vremya raised an eyebrow. He wasn’t angry with Karta. In fact, he was quite pleased he didn’t have to make connections himself to make connections with other gods. Although he was a bit irked the stinky dog was using his name to make money but not giving him any of the funds.

“Take a look,” Karta said, slapping her display with her paw. The display tilted for Vremya to see without him having to move. The Labrador retriever opened up the messenger app and pointed at the list of gods she had been talking to. “Most of them are trying to get you to open up a zone of increased time. A lot of people have herbs or things that take a while to grow, but their users need those things immediately.”

“I’ll think about it,” Vremya said, reading out the answer he saw most used on Karta’s screen. He nodded. “I thought about it, and that’s not a bad idea. I can modify a dimension, have its time run faster than ours. Of course, I won’t trade for commonly found things like spirit stones or titan corpses. If they want to use the fast dimension, they’ll have to trade things only they can create.”

“Like free river searches on Poiskle?”

“River searches are already free,” Vremya said. His brow furrowed, and he slapped the dog sitting next to him. Of course, his hand was blocked by an invisible barrier. “We don’t talk about river pictures. Anyway, I mean things like free portal access, free reincarnations, special systems, unique golems.”