THE GOD EATER

Of the 9 Divine Metacs that he gained from hunting and killing divine beings, he left out the Obscuring Mist Metac, the Will Erosion Metac, the Thousand Cuts Metac, and the Bone Armor Metac. These four belong to the Deceiver Pathway, the Mind Hunter Pathway, the Killing Pathway, and the Death Pathway.

The five remaining Divine Metacs were the ones he chose to upgrade. The Wolf Emperor Metac, the Wood Tyrant Metac, and the Crane Master Metac were part of this group.

After he converted these five into rank 8 Divine Positions, he put them into a circular formation. Fenrir was at the center of this circle. So the five of them were to be sacrificed to uplift Fenrir.

In order to achieve this, he summoned the expertise he gained from fusing with the Domination Supreme Metac. This caused his mind to churn with thoughts upon thoughts of actions.

The thoughts came together to form a plan, which he outlined in his mind as he said, ”The first step is to have a goal in mind. This goal will be the end product of the fusion of Divine Metacs and Divine Positions.”

”The second step is to find a commonality between all the parts you want to use to create the final product. This commonality must also be what the parts have in common with the final product.”

”The third step is to extract the commonality from the different parts and use them as bricks to build your final product. The commonality is the only useful portion of the ingredients, so whatever you can’t extract to use will go to waste.”

”There is a minimum amount of commonality needed for the Supreme Metac. When you have it, you must arrange it in a three-dimensional order. This is the fourth step.”

”In order to succeed in creating a Supreme Metac, all of the parts and ingredients must have a lot in common, and you have to extract all of the commonality. Then you must give this commonality new rules that it will operate by. This is the final step.”

”Once you have given the commonality a set of internally consistent rules and external coherent rules, such that it won’t collapse when subjected to the rules of the world, but will instead carve out a domain for itself, you will have succeeded in creating a Supreme Metac.”

After these steps went through his mind, he got to work.

The first step was to have a goal in mind. Based on what he could tell, this part should be the fourth most difficult step. This is because the goal must be something new.

As people who have used one pathway all of their lives, it should be difficult to come up with an alternative option for power. Only those with enough inspiration and talent can accomplish this part.

For him, he didn’t need to do anything to complete this part. This was because he already had an image of what Fenrir could become and had been using Fenrir with this image for most of the time.

Fenrir should have been a Core Metac with one ability, namely the Devour Ability. But because of the spark of power, Fenrir gained a lot of abilities that it shouldn’t have for its level. So there is already a template for Fenrir to become.

He only needed to fill in that template, which made this part easy for him. In fact, the difficulty for this step was nonexistent. He was able to skip it and move on to the next step.

The next step was to identify the commonality between the five different Divine Metacs and Fenrir. He doesn’t know what other people call the similarities between Divine Metacs, so he decided to call it a commonality.

From what he can feel about Supreme Metacs, this step should be the third most difficult part. But he can also tell that this part is extra difficult for him because he is using Divine Metacs of different pathways as ingredients.

Usually, rank 8 divine beings are supposed to use the Divine Metacs of one pathway as ingredients to create a Supreme Metac of another pathway. This will be easy to do because they’ve already mastered the Divine Metacs of that pathway.

But in rare cases when the Divine Metacs of one pathway aren’t enough or if the rank 8 divine being is ambitious, they can use the Divine Metacs of two pathways. This was what Money Body did in his first attempt to create a Supreme Metac.

Money Body had tried to use Divine Metacs of the Money Pathway and the Beast Pathways to create the Domination Supreme Metac. He had failed, and this was one of the reasons he failed.

Because he was using two Pathways, he needed to be very familiar with the two pathways to extract a commonality between them. This will be very difficult to achieve since it is already so difficult to gain Quasi-Supreme Mastery of a single pathway.

And no matter how familiar he was with the two pathways, the amount of commonality that he could extract from the Divine Metacs of one pathway will always be greater than the commonality he can extract from the Divine Metacs of two different pathways.

So one can imagine the sort of difficulty he is to overcome by trying to find the commonality between the Divine Metacs of three pathways. These three pathways are the Enslavement Pathway, the Death Pathway, and the Sword Pathway.

This made him furrow his brows and say, ”It is like finding similarities between materials of the same type. It is always easier to find similarities between metals than to find similarities between metals and non-metals.”

”Then the difficulty will skyrocket when it comes to the similarities between metals, non-metals, and gases. Or like finding similarities between a cow, a tree, and a rock instead of just the similarity between a cow and a goat. It is going to be difficult, but it is not impossible.”