Treasure (2)

A way to win their favor? That was definitely necessary.

I was already their hero, but if I could win even more favor, I could probably get even more out of them.

Then a brilliant idea suddenly came to me.

‘Hey, you’re a god anyway, right? If you show them your true form, wouldn’t those guys worship you on their own?’

That would be the surest and fastest way, wouldn’t it?

Hard as it was to believe, it had apparently once commanded a similar retinue.

But Sandworm’s answer was no.

[Sandworm says it is not time yet.]

‘Why?’

[Sandworm explains that its power is not yet fully restored. In its current state, it cannot properly display the majesty of a god.]...