Kyle summoned the three Essences and looked at them.
'Alright, this will take a shitload of time and won't be easy. This is the step where the Duchess of Twilight failed.'
The Duchess of Twilight had created a couple of Complex Laws.
She had made a Complex Level 2.5 Law out of Darkness and Yin-Darkness.
She had made a Complex Level 2.5 Law out of Light and Yin-Light.
These two Laws could both be used at the same time, which meant she had also belonged to the absolute peak of Fulfilled Transcendents.
Then, she had tried to fuse the Essences of her Complex Laws, which would have created an extremely powerful Essence.
The Essence by itself would have already been on the level of a Level Three Law.
After Infusion, she would have reached an incredible level of power.
Technically, it was possible to combine two Laws via regular Fusion and then extract said Essence to Infuse it into another Law.
It was just that almost nobody did that.
The reason was simple.
It was not as powerful.
By combining two Laws, one already had to get rid of many parts of the two individual Laws to create a more condensed and powerful version.
It was like getting rid of the bad parts of both Laws and keeping the good parts.
Taking the Essence out of the fused Law and Infusing it into another Law would boost the power a bit, but not a lot.
Combined Elements were not designed to be Infused.
For example, if one had the Law of Fire and the Law of Metal and fused them, one would be able to create something like the massive grey flame Kyle had created.
The grey flame would combine both aspects of the original Laws, but it would also have to be trimmed down since there were a lot of overlapping parts.
In terms of "mass", one could say that the Complex Law only had 75% of the combined "mass" of both origin Laws. Alternatively, one could say it would have 150% of the mass of one of them.
Taking the Essence out would give one a more powerful Essence than if one simply used one of the Laws.
In comparison, if one fused the Essences of the Law of Metal and the Law of Fire, one would retain all of their characteristics in a combined form.
The Essence would have a "mass" equivalent to the mass of both origin Laws.
The Duchess of Twilight knew that, and yet, she had still decided to use the Essences of her two Complex Laws.
The reason she had done that was simple.
She believed she could succeed.
After all, she had infinite time. At some point, she would get there.
While that way of thinking wasn't incorrect, it overlooked something important.
True Battles.
The only True Battles the Duchess of Twilight could experience were the fights against the Champions of Final Fate.
Sadly, after killing two or more of them, they had stopped being a problem.
And by that time, she had already committed to her path.
Even if she decided to go with an easier route, like fusing the Essences of Yin-Darkness and Yin-Light, she was also missing True Battles to comprehend that.
She had wasted the few available True Battles on something that had been too hard for her to comprehend.
Infusing the Law of Body with the Fused Essences of Yin-Darkness and Yin-Light would have been enough to become a Unique Transcendent.
In fact, this kind of Complex Law was by far the most common way Unique Transcendents were created.
Three Level Two Laws made a Level Three Law.
Yin-Darkness, Yin-Light, and the Law of Body.
Swamp Dragon was also trying to become a Unique Transcendent via this method.
Swamp Dragon had created a Complex Level 2.5 Law by fusing the Level One Law of Earth, the Level One Law of Water, and the Level Two Law of Yin-Biology.
This was the power Swamp Dragon had had when they had entered the Star Seeking, but one had to remember that the Star Seeking had been going on for over 300 years by now.
During that time, Swamp Dragon had also comprehended the Law of Body and the Law of Yin-Earth.
His plan was to fuse the Essences of Yin-Biology and Yin-Earth before Infusing his Law of Body with the Fused Essence.
Over 80% of Unique Transcendents used this method.
The remaining 20% used the same method Kyle had used to create his Law of Meteor, but with the Yin-variants of the Elements.
In general, both methods would achieve the same power, but only on average.
An Infused Law could already show its full power after it was condensed, but a Fused Law needed some additional comprehension.
A Fused Law would be a bit weaker than an equivalent Infused Law in the beginning, but after the other person created more Fragments of their Fused Law, the power of their Law would be a bit higher due to the added versatility.
The reason why far fewer people went that route was because of three things.
One, one had to be born with two Affinities and received a third Affinity that was not related to the first two. Without that, comprehending a third Yin-Element would either take forever or be impossible.
Two, if one already managed to become a Unique Transcendent, they would be very close to the end of their longevity. They didn't have the luxury to invest even more time, and when they advanced, they could already start looking at Level Three Laws.
Three, the Primal Realm was next, and this Realm focused on the body. Having a more powerful body gave a couple of benefits in that Realm. For example, it made advancing inside the Realm easier.
There were a couple of ways to become more powerful, but essentially, it all boiled down to two things.
Fusing Laws.
Infusing Laws.
Of course, that was only true for the current level of power.
As people reached even higher Realms, there were even more things they could do to become stronger.
But that was something for the future.
For now, Kyle only had to focus on fusing his Essences.
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