THE GOD EATER

As he spoke, he absorbed the Emotion Supreme Metac into his body and sent it into his inner world. From there, the ball of multicolored ink fused with the golden crystal gem at the center of his inner world, entering the abyss within and entering the round white crystal.

When the Emotion Supreme Metac fused with the spark of power, understanding of the pathway surged into his mind, causing his mind to be saturated with knowledge. Since he wasn’t in a rush, he allowed himself to indulge in this feeling.

It took a while to finish digesting the knowledge contained within the Supreme Metac. But as soon as he was done, he got to work.

He took the Emotion Supreme Metac and pushed it into the 4-D prototype. Specifically, he pushed it into the 13th cube of the 4-D prototype.

Originally, the 13th cube was incomplete when he made it. But the investment of potential from the grand will of the universe added some commonality to help him complete it. Unfortunately, this was only a stopgap.

The commonality that was added lacked a foundation to rely on. There was no Supreme Metac that served as the source of the commonality, so the 4-D prototype couldn’t progress until this issue was rectified.

Fortunately, the Emotion Supreme Metac could fix this problem. In exchange for doing this, he lost the commonality that the grand will of the universe had given him to prop up the space. But now that the 4-D prototype wasn’t being blocked by baseless commonality, it could finally grow.

The 1st to the 13th cube needed 273 units of commonality to solidify them. The previous 18 Supreme Metacs, which were five Cosmic Daos, nine Grand Daos, three Major Daos, and one Minor Dao, provided 270 units of commonality, which wasn’t enough to fill up the 13th cube.

The Emotion Supreme Metac was a Grand Dao with a dimension of 7,7,1, so it provided 15 units of commonality. Of the 15 units, 3 were used to fill up the 13th cube, leaving 12 units behind.

The 14th cube was to have dimensions of 14,14,14 and needed 42 units of commonality to solidify it. Therefore, the 12 units of commonality left over from the Emotion Supreme Metac wasn’t going to be enough to solidify the 14th cube.

However, without the fake 3 units of fake commonality from the grand will of the universe blocking the way, the Supreme Metacs within the black cubes could finally grow.

The Devouring Supreme Metac within his first godhead had grown from 9,9,1(x,y,z) to 9,9,9 after he ascended. Now it was the turn of the 19 Supreme Metacs within the spark of power to grow.

Before their growth, Cosmic Daos used to provide 19 units of commonality. Grand Daos provided 15 units, Major Daos provided 11 units, and Minor Daos provided only 7 units of commonality.

But after their growth, Cosmic Daos now provided 27 units of commonality. The Grand Daos provided 21 units, which is now more than what Cosmic Daos used to provide. Major Daos provided 15 units, which is exactly how much Grand Daos used to provide. And Minor Daos provided 9 units of commonality, which is only 2 units higher than what they used to provide.

Because of this, the previous 19 Supreme Metacs, which were 5 Cosmic Daos, 10 Grand Daos, 3 Major Daos, and 1 Minor Dao, provided 270 units of commonality, which used to provide 285 units of commonality, were now providing 399 units of commonality.

This expansion caused the size of the individual Supreme Metacs to surge, pushing them outward from the first cube at the very center. As they expanded, his lifespan was consumed to sustain their growth, and the resilience of the Supreme Metacs was tested.

Due to the change in dimensions, he needed to maintain the operation of the Supreme Metacs so that the rules that make them up would expand along with the increase in size instead of being inadequate, leading to the collapse of the Supreme Metacs.

This particular task was a test of his mastery of the Supreme Metac. As long as he had supreme mastery of the Supreme Metac, he had nothing to fear. The Grand Dao that the Supreme Metacs belonged to would fill in the rest of the rules of operation.

As he watched the Supreme Metacs expand, he thought to himself, ’So this is where the difference between the Supreme Metac and the Source Dao lies. The Source Metac is above me and everywhere in the world, while the Supreme Metac is within me.’

’I can’t control the Source Dao, but I can control the Supreme Metac. On the surface, they appear to be distinct entities. But when a Supreme Metac fully expands, it connects to the Source Dao to borrow power.’

’This is how something like Fenrir, which used to be 81 units in size, suddenly jumped to being 729 units in size. If the Source Dao can do this for millions and billions of Dao Lords, I wonder what its true size is.’

When it was one Supreme Metac expanding, the difference between the size of the Source Dao and the Supreme Metac wasn’t so obvious. But now that it was 19 Supreme Metacs expanding at the same time, the difference was stark and unmistakable.

While he was watching and learning, the 19 Supreme Metacs continued to expand. In their expansion, they were able to occupy more space within the 4-D prototype, allowing them to fill up the 15th cube, spill into the 16th cube, and nearly fill it up.

The 16th cube itself had dimensions of 16,16,16 and needed 48 units of commonality to solidify it. But the 1st to the 15th cube had used 360 units of commonality out of the 399 units that the 19 Supreme Metacs were providing.

So there were some 39 units of commonality left over from the 19 Supreme Metacs. This was nowhere near enough to solidify the 16th cube.