THE GOD EATER

Chapter 1274: Rape Vs Fatherhood.

‘A rape is only a sexual crime. There was nothing sexual about what happened to me, but it was definitely more painful.’

‘Not only was I forced to do it, but I nearly died in the process. I was also forced to give birth to a child that would want nothing more than to kill me.’

‘So if I were a mortal woman, what just happened would be a raped plus childbirth in which the child nearly killed me and crippled me in the process, weakening me forever. Of course, minus the sex,’ he thought gloomily.

‘At least some mortal women have the chance to abort their unwanted pregnancy. I didn’t get that chance. Now I have a child out there planning to kill me.’

He had endless negative things to say about that experience, and if given the chance, he could spend hours and days complaining about it. Unfortunately, complaining was a luxury he couldn’t afford in his current circumstances.

To make sure the time he had to spend being forced to produce offspring was as short as possible, he had to increase his strength as soon as possible. So instead of complaining, planning ways to increase his strength and executing those plans was a better use of his time.

‘First on the agenda is conversion efficiency,’ he thought as he examined the two godheads.

‘I need to raise the conversion efficiency of the two Devouring Supreme Metacs to 20% as soon as I can so I can advance to three-star celestial as soon as possible.’

‘Once the conversion efficiency of the Seal of Death reaches 10%, I will be able to double it with celestial gold and bring it to the two-star level. So this is currently the priority.’

‘Fortunately, I don’t have to prioritize one over the other. I can pursue the two at the same time. It is just that the process has become more difficult now,’ he thought, chuckling in amusement.

When the Devouring Supreme Metac was at one-star level, and he only had to worry about one of them, he only had to achieve 10% conversion efficiency in 27 units of Divinity. So at most, he had to align 3 out of 27 units of Divinity perfectly.

But now that there were 2 Devouring Supreme Metacs producing 54 units of Divinity and he had to achieve 20% conversion efficiency, he now had to align 11 out of 54 units of Divinity perfectly.

So the difficulty of reaching the next milestone had increased nearly fourfold for the Devouring Supreme Metac. Since it normally took him 1.333 weeks to gain 1% conversion efficiency, it would now take him 5.33 weeks to acquire the same 1% conversion efficiency.

To top things off, the same thing would happen to the Seal of Death Supreme Metac once it reached the 10% mark. Therefore, the work he had to do to reach three-star celestial was now eightfold.

Despite the increase in difficulty, he wasn’t worried because he could speed up the acquisition of conversion efficiency with Divine Metacs.

In the case of the Devouring Supreme Metac, now that he had 54 units of divinity, the limit of Divine Metacs he could use to speed up was 54. So he could speed up the acquisition of conversion efficiency by 54, thereby reducing the time he needed to acquire 1% from 5.33 weeks to 16.6 hours.

Before, it took him 8.3 hours to acquire 1% after speeding things up with 27 Devourer Divine Metacs. So he now needed to work twice as long to acquire the same 1%. Therefore, in 166 hours, or at most 7 days, he would reach 20% conversion efficiency from 10%.

He was amused by this and was chuckling because he was thinking about how difficult the process would be for other Dao Lords and because he didn’t know what the guardian would say when he advanced.

‘I am so screwed,’ he thought, chuckling.

‘It is one thing to advance to two-star celestial in one day. I can call that luck.’

‘It is another thing to advance to three-star celestial in one week. I can’t call it luck this time.

‘What do I do now? Do I keep pursuing conversion efficiency at all costs, or do I slow down so I don’t alarm anyone?’

‘If I am to slow down, how long do I have to slow down for? What is the normal amount of time to become a three-star celestial? Is it 100 years or 300 years?’

‘It is supposed to be a good thing that I can advance so quickly. I should be celebrating, but why do I feel like it is bad?’ he asked himself.

‘I know the answer. It is because I am weak,’ he thought, laughing. ‘It is because I have the Gemini race above my head watching my every action, and there is nothing I can do to resist them.’

Then he remembered something that made him stop laughing. Instead, he sighed and said, ‘I can just reverse time.’

‘Once I advance to three-star celestial, I will reverse time before the guardian arrives. They should need some time to get to me, so I will have time to make my getaway,’ he thought, sneering.

‘When I go back in time and advance, I will advance with three stars like Wandering Thief did. That way, it won’t draw much attention. Other Dao Lords will only think I am an old Dao Lord returning to his position.’

Shaking his head, he thought, ‘But this is only a temporary stopgap. I will have to reverse time again and again whenever I advance too quickly. And it won’t work forever because the more pathways I have, the clearer it becomes that there is no one like me in the history of the Sea of Worlds.’

‘Forget about it. I can only take things a little bit at a time. I will handle the challenges as they come.’

‘Take Astra, for example. I already have a plan to deal with him. The stronger the 4-D prototype becomes, the higher his chances of losing if he challenges me.’