No matter how the fire god thought about it, it couldn’t understand what had happened. So it decided to give up and continue to attack.
It thought to itself, saying, ’If one didn’t work, then five should work. If five won’t work, then five hundred must work."
But before it could make another move, its mind froze. This caused all of the environmental phenomena to lose their support, so they began to fade away.
The fire clouds disappeared and took their rain of lava with them. The ground cooled and hardened into rock while the spears of fire stopped shooting up at him.
Even the body of the fire god transformed back into its physical form. This physical form was halfway into the ground, with only the wings and the tail of the fire god on the surface.
While this was happening, Loki smacked his lips and said, "So weak. It didn’t even crack one million units of power. It is just too weak."
The ability to eat things directly with his Mental World is something similar to how divine beings suppress rank 5 cultivators with their Cave Heaven. It is an attack that he can only use to suppress the weak.
His Mental World is fragile, so if he dares to eat something too strong for him, he will fail to eat that thing, and his Mental World will be injured. This risk increases further when he tries to eat an attack.
In fact, it can be said that eating people is his weakest mode of attack and should only be used on something that can’t resist.
Unfortunately for this fire god, even with how risky what he was doing was, the power just wasn’t good enough to take advantage of his weakness and make him regret trying to swallow fire.
As it turned out, not only did he not regret eating the attacks, but he also did so while sparing the mental power to attack the mind of the fire god. He didn’t try to kill the fire god immediately because he had information that he wanted to learn from the fire god.
So while the fire god was still frozen, he planted a Mind Node in its mind. Then he proceeded to interrogate it about the location of the symbol of authority.
He doesn’t plan to keep the symbol of authority when he gets it and hand it over to the divine beings. His main purpose in searching for the symbol of authority is to use it to connect to the heart of the world.
Once he gets access to the heart of the world, he plans to eat it. He doesn’t plan to use the heart of the world to create a Divine Position and become a divine being. At least not yet.
He can’t become a divine being yet because he has yet to reach 500% energy manipulation skill. There is also the fact that he will be attacked during the process of ascending, and if he doesn’t have enough strength to defend himself, his ascension will be interrupted, and he will fail to become a divine being.
He always thought that ascension would be instantaneous or secretive, but he learned from the seer of the information broker shop that this wasn’t the case.
Another thing that he learned from that rank 5 serr who used to be a divine being was that reincarnated divine beings can use the hearts of worlds to increase their talent. So he decided to give that a shot instead of trying to become a divine being.
And if his plan doesn’t work, and his talent doesn’t increase, and he fails to acquire enough strength to steal this world from the five divine beings, then he will have to use one of the other two small worlds that he knows about.
As this thought raced through his mind, he remembered how eating the Power Core of the world guardians of the previous Heavenly Battlefield had increased his talent.
This pleasant memory made him lick his lips and say, "It should work. After all, if a little of it is so good, then the whole thing must be better."
While he was thinking about his plans, the interrogation of the fire god had been completed.
He learned from the fire god that the symbol of authority was given to the wind god to keep. This is because the wind god is the second most difficult world guardian after the fire god, and because the wind god is the fastest world guardian.
This information caused Loki to snort and say, "What a boast!"
Then he sneered and looked at the helpless fire god at his feet and said, "Is this what you mean by difficult to kill? Just because it can turn into lava? What’s difficult to kill about that? Even that mind hunter would be able to deal with you."
After mocking the fire god and its claims of being unkillable, he returned his attention to his plan and what he should do now.
When he thought about the wind god and how difficult it would be to catch the world guardian, he said to himself, ’What am I to do now? Am I to chase the wind god around? What if it doesn’t want to meet me?’
’For sure, it won’t want to meet me. After all, I have revealed my strength, and it is in charge of protecting the symbol of authority, so the smart thing for it to do is avoid me at all costs.’
The more he thought about the situation, the more troublesome he realized that it was. Of course, he could decide to wait for one week for the position of the guardians to be revealed, but he doesn’t want to wait that long.
After thinking about the problem for a while longer, he decided to do something that he had never done before.
His idea made his eyes gleam sharply. Then he glanced at the helpless god and said, "Don’t fail me now."