THE GOD EATER

Chapter 1390: Creating Divine Metacs.

In case he had created the Divine Metac before, he could easily recreate it with a thought by activating the Divine Metac Creation Ability. It would only cost him some lifespan.

A Rank 6 Divine Metac would cost at least 10,000 years of lifespan. If he was being frugal with his lifespan, he could force a disciple to spend their time and resources refining it.

But if he was trying to create a new Divine Metac from scratch, he could either do the hard work himself or let his Rank 5 disciples with mutated Life Abilities create new Divine Metacs.

One option would definitely cost him time and resources. The other could cost him nothing. So it was easy to see why Dao Lords didn’t bother helping Rank 5 cultivators to create new Divine Metacs.

Unfortunately, his situation wasn’t so simple. He wasn’t trying to make a Divine Metac of his pathway. Instead, he was doing the more difficult work of creating a Divine Metac for an unfamiliar pathway.

So the next step was converting his pathway’s law fragments into those of the unfamiliar pathway. This is the part that stumps nearly every Dao Lord in existence.

When converting other law fragments into his pathway’s fragments, the process happens automatically. It is second nature to a Dao Lord, just as speaking one’s first language is.

But converting law fragments from their pathway to an unfamiliar pathway has to be done manually, and it is very difficult. It is like translating your first language into a language you don’t know. A hundred percent of the time, the result would be gibberish.

It was so difficult that it was easier for a Dao Lord to create a Supreme Metac for an unfamiliar pathway than to create Divine Metacs for that pathway. This was because creating Divine Metacs required knowing the language, while creating Supreme Metacs required knowing the rules of operation.

In fact, a Dao Lord didn’t need to know 100% of the rules of operation for a Supreme Metac to create it. They only needed to know a certain portion, usually around 10%. As long as they met the minimum requirement, the Dao Source that found it acceptable would patch it up.

Then, when the Dao Lord fused all of their life experiences, knowledge, and talent into the incomplete Supreme Metac to solidify it, they would gain understanding of the language of the pathway.

The part of their life that fused with the incomplete Supreme Metac would create a new mind whose only language is the language of the pathway. From then on, creating a Divine Metac for the pathway would become easy, and converting law fragments from other pathways would become second nature, as easy as breathing.

Because of this dynamic, no Dao Lord would attempt making a Divine Metac. If they tried, they would surely fail. They would be better off trying to create a Cosmic Dao like the Time Pathway than creating the Rewind Metac.

But Loki’s situation was different. He didn’t have the lifespan to spend pretending to try and fail, so he chose the cheaper option.

It was cheaper, but definitely more difficult. Fortunately, it was possible because Fenrir could simulate the law fragments of other pathways with its own law fragments.

It also helped massively that he knew the language of the Time Pathway. So if making Divine Metacs for other pathways was a test, he already knew the correct answer and would surely ace it.

But the main reason he chose to make the Divine Metac instead of the comparatively easier Supreme Metac was that it cost absolutely nothing to try.

On his first attempt, he used the Devouring Pathway’s law fragments to simulate the Time Pathway’s law fragments. Then he joined them into strings of varying length.

Next, he infused these strings with instructions. Then he used the strings as lines to form shapes. The shapes were all two-dimensional and flat.

The next step was to make the shape resonate with the Time Pathway. This is usually done with the Supreme Metac of the Time Pathway. But if he knew the Time Pathway’s language, he could use Fenrir instead.

This was the second roadblock to creating Divine Metacs of other pathways. The pathway was unfamiliar because Dao Lords didn’t know its language, so they usually failed here.

But even if, by some stroke of luck, they stumbled onto the right language, they still couldn’t make their incomplete Divine Metac resonate with the pathway because they lacked the proper Supreme Metac, something like Fenrir, that could use Divine Metacs from any pathway.

So they couldn’t do what Black Loki was doing by activating the incomplete Divine Metac with his Supreme Metac. Unfortunately, upon activation, the incomplete Divine Metac.

Seeing this, he shrugged and said, "Let’s try again."

He didn’t feel any heartache because the whole thing hadn’t cost him any lifespan. He only spent lifespan to acquire law fragments from the world. But those law fragments still existed even as the Divine Metac fell apart. So he could use them again without spending more lifespan.

The law fragments were durable and basically indestructible. They could only be converted from one form to another.

At most, they would shatter into pieces when the incomplete Divine Metac failed. He only needed to reshape them for his next attempt.

Because the law fragments were reusable, he could try to make the Divine Metac forever and ever. Each attempt would only cost him time. Otherwise, he had nothing to lose.

The only time he needed to spend lifespan was if he managed to activate the incomplete Divine Metac. Then he would infuse it with lifespan using his Divine Metac Creation Ability, granting it a Life Spark.

The Life Spark and their structural complexity were the main differences between Divine Metacs and Mortal Metacs. Mortal Metacs were simple and lacked a Life Spark, so they couldn’t withstand the power of a Cave Heaven or ignite a mortal’s lifespan to create Life Fire.