THE GOD EATER

Loki had to step in to finish the Supreme Metac for the inept rank 8 cultivator. He took over from Dragon Master and helped him complete it. Of course, this led to some loss in the size of the final product.

Just thinking about it made Loki shake his head in disappointment and say, "You came from the Enslavement Pathway, a Grand Dao, and should have pseudo-Supreme understanding of the Grand Dao. Yet you still failed in creating the Supreme Metac of a Major Dao."

"What a letdown. If your master heard about this, he will be very disappointed in you. Then he will try to kill me for poaching his talent," he said with a chuckle.

A few seconds later, he became serious again and said, "This is not a joking matter, though. Dragon Strength was also a disappointment. He came from the Strength Pathway, a Major Pathway, but the best he could do was a Minor Pathway."

With a frown, he asked himself, saying, "Is this my fault somehow? Did I put too much pressure on them?"

"Forget it. I have my own Supreme Metac to worry about and create. Let me create it and see the final product before I cast stones for their poor performance."

Saying so, he took out 8 Divine Metacs. These were acquired from the generous contributions of every divine being he met and discussed with in the second heaven.

Pulling them one by one, he examined them. After he made sure that there was nothing wrong with them, he activated the World Power Ability.

In the core of his Cave Heaven, the eight Divine Metacs revolved around his Divine Spark like small planets around a star. As they revolved, golden strands of energy as thin as silk came out of the Divine Spark and entered them.

The golden strands of energy fused with the Divine Metacs, infusing them with power and transforming them into crystals. The more golden strands of energy were fused into them, the larger the crystals became.

By the time the Divine Metacs were completely converted into crystals, they had become shining, golden Divine Metacs the size of mountains. But they were only rank 6 Divine Positions.

Dao Lords were fine with giving their disciples rank 6 Divine Positions, but Loki wasn’t satisfied with this. So he didn’t stop here with the infusion.

He continued to infuse them with world power, increasing their size so that they would advance in rank. From rank 6 to rank 7, and finally to rank 8, the size of the Divine Positions continued to increase.

When the Divine Positions were finally ready, Loki took them and shattered them into a golden pool of chaotic components.

The pool had the consistency of mud. It had tiny shattered solid fragments mixed in with water and air bubbles of various sizes.

The pool was also hot and cold in various parts. Its temperature wasn’t constant either. Energy was constantly moving around in the golden mud pool, so areas that were hot could become cold, and areas that were cold could become colder.

From this golden pool, he decided on a commonality between all 8 Divine Positions and the Supreme Metac he wanted to make. Then he used the power of his mind to extract this commonality from the golden pool.

The commonality didn’t come out of the golden pool easily, though. He had to pull and tug on it to force it to be extracted. This resistance made it so that there was a limit on what kind of commonality he could extract.

Deeper levels of commonality that were more tightly bound with the Divine Positions would be more difficult to extract, while looser commonalities would be easier to extract. In this situation, the commonality of atoms was barely at his limit.

At the end of the extraction, he was able to extract 33% of the total value of the golden pool. Since each Divine Metac was worth 8 units and he had used 8, he had 64 units of commonality to work with. So he was able to extract 21.12 units of commonality.

The loss of these 21.12 units of commonality caused the golden pool to lose some of its volume and mass. It became lighter and less dense after the extraction. It also lost some of its light.

"If I were stronger, I might be able to extract more. But for now, this is the best I can do."

Unlike Monarch Giant Zombie, his final creation wouldn’t have much to do with the Divine Metacs he used. So he can’t have up to 50% extraction efficiency as Monarch Giant Zombie did.

In fact, he had used Divine Metacs from up to 5 different pathways for the final product. So 33% extraction efficiency is the best he can do with his current mental strength, even though he is aware of deeper and more efficient levels of commonality.

He was thinking about this as he outlined the outer structure of the Supreme Metac in his mind. With this image in his mind, he arranged the commonalities according to the outline.

In this process, the mental image he had transformed into a physical three-dimensional object of great power. He found the process so easy that he was simultaneously able to encode the rules and instructions of operation into the budding Supreme Metac.

When he was done, he had a phantom object in front of him. The phantom object was a cloak. Because it was a phantom without a solid form, its true color wasn’t obvious. It looked gray and fragile as if it could break any moment.

Seeing the product of his work, he smiled and said, "Not bad. Not bad at all."

With a swirl of his hand, the cloak rotated itself in front of him, presenting all of its to Loki for inspection. It was as if he was at a market examining a product to buy. But this was no product to purchase. It was the manifestation of his creed.