As Fenrir carried him upstream of the River of Time, he said to himself, ’The problem is that the Space Pathway is supposed to be extinct. I am not supposed to have any spatial Metac. No one is supposed to carry it, so it is eye-catching and easy to spot for sensitive individuals.’
’I just have to change it into something else that doesn’t stand out so easily. Fortunately, I already have options in mind that I can fuse it with.’
’Once I switch the Space Pathway to something more common, I will have more Branch Metacs to use to increase my power. I also won’t draw too much attention to myself when I use it.’
’I should also do something about the Dual Cultivation Pathway. Its potential is stunted at rank 3, and it is not good for fighting.’
He has become desperate now for a way to be able to fight and defeat rank 5 beings. Each time he met them, he lost. He doesn’t want that to happen anymore, so he has to devise ways to prevent his loss.
The other option is to hope that he doesn’t encounter them, but he can’t hope for that because there is a nosy rank 5 seer in the sky watching everything happening below. This seer has proven that even if he digs a hole in the ground and hides in it, he will still be found.
Aside from the seer, there are deceivers that can turn into trees and hide in plain sight or pretend to be manifestations of the rank 5 cultivators of his sect. These deceivers can pretend to be the people of his side before ambushing him.
Then there are rank 5 cultivators of his sect that will actually kill him if they can. Not only will the rank 5 death cultivator try to kill him at every chance, but if the rank 5 money cultivator wants to kill, it will be too easy for her to do so.
So in summary, he is surrounded by too many rank 5 enemies, and there is no rank 5 ally that he can rely on for protection on the Heavenly Battlefield. He doesn’t like this at all.
As he thought about his situation, he said, ’What I want is a way to contend on equal footing with the rank 5 cultivators or even defeat them. As long as I don’t draw the attention of the divine beings anymore, that kind of power should be enough for me to conquer the Heavenly Battlefield.’
He was thinking about this when he awakened in the real world. Slav was already kneeling and begging for mercy.
The first thing that Loki wanted to do after awakening was to wake up and search Slav’s mind to know how Slav came to be in the possession of the Divine Metacs of the Space Pathway and Time Pathway.
But he didn’t have the Branch Metac that he needed for a memory search. So he left with Muni without doing anything to Slav.
He went to gamble and register to become a disciple of the Four Directions Sect. After joining, he signed up for the Heavenly Battlefield. Then he used the money he earned from gambling to buy some Metacs.
The Metacs he bought were the body refining Metacs for his body, the consumption Metacs to improve the power of his soul and mind, and finally the Memory Read Metac of the Mind Hunter Pathway.
The first two groups of Metacs are normal things that he acquires. As for the last one, the Memory Read Metac, he had previously decided to buy it from the heavenly city since it is cheaper there, and he won’t have to wait for it to arrive after ordering it from the public trading platform.
But this time, he decided to wait in Crystal City for the order of the Memory Read Metac to arrive. This was because he was hell-bent on searching Slav’s mind for the information about the three pathways of Luck, Space, and Time.
Since he had ordered the Memory Read Metac from the trading platform before, he knew which vendor was reliable. But it still took more than two weeks for what he ordered to arrive.
He waited two weeks more to strengthen his body and increase his power as much as possible. This was so that he would be able to contend with Skarg when he goes after Slav.
But when he went in search of Slav, he couldn’t find the boy anywhere in the city. He also didn’t find any trace of Skarg in the city. So he went after Skarg’s two sons, who were still in the city.
He went looking for Serge and Simon in the city. These two were still searching for him with the other rank 4 cultivators looking for the reincarnation that appeared with rank 4 cultivation.
In his search for the two brothers, he found Serge first. Serge was in the headquarters of the Viking Blade Society. This young master was ordering people around and giving orders left and right.
Loki snuck up to him and slapped him. The slap broke his jaw, liberated several of his teeth, and knocked him out. There was no resistance at all.
Loki looked at the prone body at his feet and shook his head as he said, "To think I used to fear you. How times have changed."
Then he grabbed Serge’s leg and led him into another room. He closed that room to give them some privacy. Then he woke Serge up to interrogate him.
He used a combination of torture and the Thought Reading Metac to get the answer he wanted. Even if Serge didn’t want to say the truth, the truth would rise to the surface of his mind, and he would think about it before deciding not to say the truth.
But he rarely decided to refuse to answer Loki’s questions. He would either answer with a lie or say that he didn’t know the truth. This was because he didn’t want to appear stubborn and force Loki to kill him.
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