THE GOD EATER

Chapter 1396: Thanking Ragnarok.

’Even if she isn’t using the Illusion Pathway now to recruit mortals, she can still use it later, so she won’t like a potential competitor. I hope this aggravates the tension between them and tears their alliance apart. I hope they fight to the death,’ he thought, grinning maliciously.

As he contemplated the situation, more rifts opened in the sky above Thief Haven. More eyes appeared from the rifts, and even more projections of Supreme Metacs were dropped into Thief’s Haven.

His eyes widened as projections of the Speed Pathway, Defense Pathway, and Vitality Pathway dropped from one rift. Next, the Curse Pathway appeared from another rift. Beside it, the Farming Pathway projection also appeared from another rift.

Then projections of the Truth Pathway, Illusion Pathway, and Perception Pathway appeared from a fourth rift. From a fifth rift, the projection of the Life Pathway appeared.

No more projections appeared after that. But the turmoil this scene stirred in Loki only grew stronger with every passing moment.

His eyes turned cold as he thought, ’They are not hiding anymore. This can only mean one thing. They are preparing to go all out.’

’They are sharpening their blades for battle. I can’t let it continue.’

’At this rate, Heavenly Eye might choose to expose her worlds and strengthen them with it voluntarily. I must stop it. At least, I must not be left behind in terms of Domain Power.’

Earlier, he was only 90% sure Wandering Thief’s actions were directed at him. But now, he was 100% sure that the entire alliance was preparing to fight him with everything they had.

For some reason, all of the enemies have decided to stop hiding their strengths. What just happened was already bad enough, but it could get worse if Heavenly Eye decided to go a step further.

In fact, he was sure that it would get worse because he had banned the expansion of Domains in the four older super worlds. So if his enemies want to keep growing stronger by expanding their Domains, those four hidden worlds would be their next step.

He didn’t want his enemies to become too strong, so he sent his avatar to find the hidden worlds, force them to ascend, and establish Domains on them.

Down below, in Thief’s Haven’s divine constellation, the ten Dao Lords had gathered once more to plot and scheme.

"I have to thank Ragnarok for this. He taught us many valuable lessons."

"He taught us that our secrets might not be hidden from him. He also taught us not to hide secrets from each other, or it would be used against us."

"Now, I feel like we’ve all misjudged him," Wandering Thief said, smiling triumphantly.

Tepid Scholar also said, "His tactic has also made us stronger. As they say, what doesn’t kill us will make us stronger."

As the Dao Lord of the Myriad Phenomenon spoke, he looked at Martial Will. He stared as if Martial Will owed him money.

Seeing this, the previously silent Martial Will asked, annoyed, "What are you looking at?"

"Of all the people I suspected, you were not among them," Tepid Scholar replied, shaking his head.

"I mean, it is normal for Black Chain and Heavenly Eye to have something up their sleeves. If they were not hiding anything, I would be confused."

"But you? Where did you learn such terrible, deceitful manners?"

Martial Will snorted and asked, "Didn’t you also hide something?"

"That’s not the point. The point is that you shouldn’t be doing something so despicable," Tepid Scholar insisted.

In response, Martial Will scoffed and ignored him.

Seeing this, Tepid Scholar shook his head once more as he said, lamenting, "What has this world become when someone as straightforward as Martial Will is now scheming? Is there no innocence left in the world?"

Then he pointed at Green Fire and said, "And you. You were hiding a pathway too."

"And not just any pathway, too. It is a Cosmic Dao. That makes your offense both reasonable, but more damming."

"I guess you’re like your master. The apple definitely didn’t fall far from the tree," he said, glaring at Martial Will and Green Fire in turn.

To ease the atmosphere, Wandering Thief quickly said, "This is good."

"If we want to take down Ragnarok and the Gemini race, we should go at it with all of our power. Doing otherwise and hoping to defeat them would be foolish."

Then he turned to Black Chain and asked, "What do you think now? Do you still believe that they’re dead weight?"

Black Chain didn’t speak. He snorted and ignored Black Chain.

Upon seeing this, Wandering Thief chuckled and said, "I understand what you’re feeling. After all, no one likes to be proven wrong."

This time, Black Chain had had enough. He turned to Wandering Thief, glaring with bright eyes and said, "I didn’t admit defeat."

"In fact, I think what has happened has only further proven my point. Now, we have more reasons to do what I said and more rewards to gain from it."

Wandering Thief rolled his eyes and said, "But now it will be more difficult to get your way. After all, they are stronger than what you thought."

"They are no longer the easy prey you think they are. So the most likely outcome is that we injure and weaken each other with in-fighting."

"Even if they don’t fight back and let you kill them, I still think the in-fighting will weaken us because you simply can’t accommodate all of their Supreme Metacs in a short time."

"I doubt you’ve reached a 60% conversion rate in all of your six pathways. But even if you have, you will only be able to take one more pathway and advance to seven-star celestial."

"It will probably take you at least 1,000 more years before you can advance again. So the remaining Supreme Metacs will go to waste instead of being in our allies who would have used them to fight for us."