In other words, it had left the strange, empty space they were currently in.
In any case, the scene left even Lince speechless.
But Lince wasn’t the only one who was silent. Of course, the Cancer of All Machines and the Mother of All Things, both present in this space, were as well.
However, Lince didn’t really care.
Whether the God of Thousand Faces was truly insane or had so ulterior motive, Lince had learned one thing for certain.
The Cosmic Ga did indeed possess capabilities similar to the True Ga.
But its effectiveness in cultivating Players—and even in providing powerful feedback for the growth of its Authority Holders—couldn’t compare to the True Ga at all.
Or perhaps it was because the Cosmic Ga had been forced to accept the Three Gods.
In Lince’s opinion, the growth rate of the Three Gods was rather disappointing.
The Three Gods had controlled the Cosmic Ga for well over sixty thousand years.
But, just as Lince had observed,
the Three Gods had only managed to break through to the Authority Level around twenty thousand years ago.
As for the Cosmic Ga’s so-called "Contest for Authority"...
...it was rely an agreent the Three Gods had made among themselves when the Cosmic Ga was reactivated, the contents of a contract witnessed by the ga itself.
The terms of the contract were simple.
As long as the Three Gods themselves didn’t interfere directly, their Clans and affiliated factions were allowed to fight one another.
When one faction was ultimately defeated by another, the corresponding Deity’s supre authority would be stripped, causing them to lose all power within the Cosmic Ga.
If any of the Three Gods couldn’t accept defeat and intervened personally, the outco would be the sa.
The rules of the Cosmic Ga would strip them of their authority directly.
In short, this "Contest for Authority" beca one of the foundational rules of the Cosmic Ga.
But was the Contest for Authority such an easy war to wage?
It was a three-way standoff.
No single party would stand by and watch one of the others be defeated.
After all, if one god obtained all of another’s ga authority, the last one remaining would have no chance of winning.
So, over these many eons, while the Three Gods constantly had conflicts, they always ended in a truce due to the interference of the third party.
None of the Three Gods were fools, so under their maneuvering, the Cosmic Ga continued to operate smoothly.
And now, Lince had been added to the mix.
Though he introduced more variables, it didn’t make much of a difference in the eyes of the Three Gods.
Adding another person to share the authority seemingly diluted the benefits for everyone.
But one mustn’t forget that Lince was bringing his own assets to the table.
With the fusion of the True Ga and the Cosmic Ga, the ga was bound to change, and the benefits from its functions and feedback would even increase.
Therefore, the Three Gods knew that giving Lince a share of the authority wasn’t a loss at all.
In fact, they were the ones getting a great deal, gaining even more benefits they never would have had otherwise.
Since the Three Gods were no fools, they naturally knew they needed to offer Lince so compensation to lure him into their trap.
Otherwise, did they take Lince for a fool?
Therefore, after so discussion, and at the Cosmic Ga’s suggestion, the Three Gods finally offered three ten-thousand-year compensation clauses that were not only reasonable but actually quite a bargain for them.
So, when Lince chose to join,
the Three Gods, far from feeling like they’d lost out, actually felt they had co out way ahead.
After all, from their perspective, they could have been even more generous with the three ten-thousand-year compensation clauses.
For instance, fifteen thousand, or even twenty thousand years.
And what about Lince?
He had accepted so eagerly?
So, to the Three Gods’ astonishnt,
the smiles they gave Lince at first were like those of seasoned company veterans watching a naive college graduate on their first day.
But in reality?
Far from losing out, Lince would not only retain all his original authority from the True Ga for ten thousand years, but he would also gain a quarter of the authority over the new, qualitatively transford ga post-fusion.
’Heh... who really ca out ahead and who lost out? It’s hard to say!’
Lince marveled inwardly. ’It’s truly wonderful to et three arrogant fools with such preconceived notions about "gas".’
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