THE GOD EATER

Chapter 1152: It Is A Pyramid.

"And Look, here you are now. Was I right or was I right?" it asked proudly.

"If you knew that I would come, do you know what I would come for?" Loki asked with interest.

"Frankly, I do not," the black moose said. "But I have planned to give something that might turn your hostility to friendship."

"Oh. Now I am interested. Tell me more," Loki said with a smile.

The moose nodded in satisfaction and said with pride, "You have seen my methods. What do you think about it?"

"It is intriguing," Loki replied. "But it is too expensive and inefficient."

"Take the Blessed Heaven World, for example. If you intend to buy your way into gaining the support of 4.35% of mortals, you would need to buy the vote of at least 35 billion people."

"Even if you spend just 100 years of lifespan to buy the support of each mortal, you would need to spend 3.5 trillion years of lifespan. Who has that kind of lifespan to invest?"

"This is just for setting up a Domain in one super world. That cost will only increase over time."

"And what will happen after you get what you want from the mortals? Will you just discard them and stop giving them lifespan then? What if news spread all over the Sea of Worlds that your method is a scam?"

"So it is intriguing, but it won’t go far," Loki said with certainty.

"That’s a good analysis, but you’re wrong," the moose also stated with confidence.

"You have a slight problem with your calculations, but it isn’t really your fault. You simply haven’t had enough time to observe my method and see how terrifyingly good it is."

When Loki heard this, he smiled and said, "Is that so? Why don’t you enlighten me?"

The phantom moose said smugly, "You missed factoring in the fact that I can give lifespan and take it as well. You see, the channel between my believers and me isn’t just for giving. It is also for taking."

"That, and the fact that most cultivators die from accidents and murder rather than from old age. So I take back all of the lifespan I have given them and more when they die."

"So, take, for instance, a normal population of cultivation whereby the size of the preceding cultivation level is ten times greater than the next. Let’s say there are 1,000,000 rank 1 cultivators. Therefore, there will be 100,000 rank 2 cultivators."

"From the 100,000 rank 2 cultivators, if only 10% of them advance to the next rank, there will be 10,000 rank 3 cultivators. At that 10% advancement rate, there will be 1,000 rank 4 cultivators and 100 rank 5 cultivators."

"Therefore, the total population will be 1,000,000 rank 1 cultivators who will not cost me any lifespan and 111,100 rank 1 to rank 5 cultivators who will cost me lifespan because they advanced. By using the lifespan of the 1 rank 1 cultivator as resources, I will have enough to pay the 111,100 cultivators who cost me lifespan."

"Most of the 1,000,000 rank 1 cultivators will die halfway into their lifespan, giving me the rest of their lifespan when they die. Even if I give every one of the 111,100 cultivators double their lifespan, I will only need 444,400 of those rank 1 mortals to feed the 111,100 dependent cultivators."

"With 50% of the lifespan of 444,400 rank 1 cultivators spent to maintain the facade, I will have the remaining 50% of lifespan left from 555,600 people to myself. So, anyway you look at it, I will always come out on top. What do you think now?"

Before replying, Loki did some calculations on his own. At first, he used the lifespan of humans to verify the moose’s calculations.

Then he made some adjustments to the calculation, like shifting the advancement rate from 10% to 1%, which is more realistic in the Four Directions Sect. That changed the population of the rank 2 cultivators from 100,000 to 10,000.

The population of the rank 3 cultivators also changed from 10,000 to 100 cultivators. Following that, rank 4 cultivators became 1 in a million, not 100. For the sake of generosity, he also set the population of rank 5 cultivators at 1.

After that, he accounted for only giving the 1 rank 5 cultivator 200% more lifespan, giving the 1 rank 4 cultivator 150% more lifespan, giving the 100 rank 3 cultivators 100% of their lifespan, and the 10,000 rank 2 cultivators only 50% of their lifespans.

When he was done with this, he added them together and distilled their numbers to only 2,551.75 people getting 200% of their lifespan. Therefore, if he got 50% of the lifespan of the 1,000,000 rank 1 cultivators, he would only need to use the lifespan from 5,103.5 of them to feed the stronger cultivators.

This would leave him with 50% of 994,896 people to do whatever he wanted. In the case of humans, who had a general lifespan of a hundred years, 50% of 994,896 humans would be 49,744,800.

’By that logic, the 35 billion people are no longer a liability. Instead, 99.48% of them will give him 50% of their lifespan, worth around 1.74 trillion years.’

’This is a pyramid scheme. And unlike the pyramid scheme from Earth, this one cannot fail. I won’t be surprised if this is why the Pantheon of the Gemini race became so powerful.’

When he saw the result of this calculation, he could hardly believe his eyes. And this was even when he had the greatest amount of lifespan that any Dao Lord had the right to have.

Meanwhile, the phantom was still saying, "So those 35 billion people that you think are a liability are actually a great source of lifespan to me."