The laser struck the target and pierced it cleanly. As if this wasn’t bad enough, the Multiple Strike Metac and Compound Damage Metac also took effect to turn that single attack into six attacks that were more deadly than the last.
Next, the Bleed Metac made sure that none of the six would heal anytime soon, and the Weakness Metac siphoned the black-robed swordsman’s strength.
Finally, the Sting Metac converted all of the damage into additional mental damage. This caused immense pain that bypassed all of his defenses and struck his mind. So he cried out in pain like a mortal experiencing a paper cut.
He had already been weakened by the first attack that had grazed him earlier. So there was no way he could handle this attack. His body began to disintegrate immediately.
Not only did his body disintegrate, but his soul wasn’t spared either. However, the Splitting Edge Metac took things further and also cut his mental world. The red lightning surged into his mental world like a river and carved it into pieces as it flowed.
The surging lightning didn’t restrict itself to flowing like a river, though. It crackled and popped as it spread outwards to submerge the entire mental world and break it apart from within.
Then it got to work annihilating the pieces of the mental world so that not even fragments of the mental world would escape the destruction. It can be said that the red lightning was thorough with its work.
Because of the Splitting Edge Metac, everything about him was cut and destroyed. It is why an attack that should only inflict physical damage also dealt spiritual and mental damage that was strong enough to eradicate his soul and mental world.
After the red lightning was done with the black-robed swordsman, all that was left was a clump of white ashes. As the ashes fell from the air, the wind blew them away.
Loki saw this and nodded in satisfaction. He even said, "That was a satisfactory diversion. But I still have the main course to deal with."
By the main course, he was talking about the people of the Myriad Phenomenon Sect. As it turned out, he was not far from their position since the black-robed swordsman was leading him towards the city.
So he just cast one last look at the drifting ashes that his previous enemy had become before continuing his journey towards the city. There was a look of anticipation on his face as his figure streaked through the air.
On his way there, he said to himself, ’That Vengeful Bones Metac is truly something. I’m not sure which is better between it and the Reversal Metac.’
’On the one hand, the Reversal Metac can help me block attacks, and I can save attacks for whenever I want to use them. I can also save more than one attack, and it only costs a little energy to use.’
’Finally, the Dual Cultivation Pathway that the Reversal Metac belonged to can work with anything, including creating physical attacks, defending against physical attacks, defending against curse attacks, defending against mental attacks, and many more.’
This particular ability of the Reversal Metac made him sigh and say, ’It was a truly prolific Metac. It could bond and work with nearly everything. It truly embodied the promiscuity of the Dual Cultivation Pathway.’
Then he thought about the Vengeful Bones Metac, which made him say, ’On the other hand, the Vengeful Metac can not defend against any attack. I will have to defend against the attack myself.’
’The pros of this are that I don’t need to be more powerful than an attack to nullify and absorb the attack as the Reversal Metac does. For the Vengeful Metac, as long as I survive an attack, I will always be able to use the power of the attack to enhance my power until the person who attacked me in the first place is dead.’
Then he shook his head and said, ’But the cons are that I can only save and use one attack, which has to be the strongest attack that hit me. Plus, the Vengeful Metac also consumes a lot of energy, which increases the longer I maintain the saved attack, and won’t stop until the enemy who attacked me has been killed.`
’As for the inbetween, the Vengeful Metacs and the Branch Metacs of the Strength Pathway can’t be used to defend against curses, mental attacks, or create mental attacks. But the power of the attack that the Vengeful Metac saves can always be used to enhance my power, be it my speed, physical attack, or mental attacks.’
’So all in all, the Vengeful Metac is a Divine Metac that will help me get my revenge on those who hurt me. I wonder how that will work against an array, though?’
This thought made him smile and say to himself, ’I guess I will find out soon.’
He still hasn’t decided which is better between the Vengeful Bones Metac and the Reversal Metac, but as for which is better between the Strength Path and the Dual Cultivation Pathway, the answer is clear.
The Strength Path has a lot of weaknesses, but it is still the best of the two. This is because it has more Branch Metacs.
What’s more is that most of the Branch Metacs of the Strength Path can increase his power directly because they are useful in a fight, and the Branch Metacs all reach rank 5. On the other hand, the Dual Cultivation is mostly useful for making the best out of sex.
Even if he is attached to the Reversal Metac, he can’t let his favor of the Reversal Metac make him choose a pathway that has no potential and is dying over a pathway that is still alive and thriving.
As for which is better between the Space Tear Metac and the Splitting Edge Metac, or between the Space Pathway and the Killing Pathway, the answer is much clearer.