Loki thought that are behavior and words were cute. He wasn’t an outlier in this regard. Most of the divine beings watching were amused by her behavior. They thought that she was a child who had just received a present and was showing of the present to the less fortunate children watching her.
Some of the divine beings who were amused decided to humor her.
One of them said in a grand voice, "May your divine throne ascend."
A second divine being chuckled as they said, "Congratulations on your ascension, Monarch Winter Blade."
The rank 8 cultivator of the Forging Pathway nodded and said, "Impressive."
The words of this rank 8 cultivator were directed at the leader of the alliance that sponsored her. Every divine being knew this. But the mortals down below didn’t know it.
However, not everyone was glad to see the ascension of a new divine being or the strengthening of the alliance of sword cultivators.
Most of these disgruntled divine beings couldn’t speak ill of the rank 8 forger after the rank 8 forger stated that she was impressed with this development. But not everyone was afraid of her.
The rank 8 death cultivator spat and said with venom in their voice, saying, "Fuck you. I hate sword cultivators. You disgust me."
The rank 8 mind hunter also said, "You have disturbed me. So if I meet you, I will kill you. You have been warned."
The mortals below couldn’t see the source of the voices, but they surely heard what the voices said because the voices were so loud that they reached every corner of the world.
As a mortal with a shallow understanding, he hadn’t considered the implications of these words beyond recognizing the fact that some divine beings were in support of this new Monarch Winter Sword, while some were not in support of it.
But as a divine being who knew the identities of the divine beings in support and not in support, he realized that there was more to their words than what concerned Monarch Winter Sword.
When he saw the rank 8 cultivators who had just spoken, he said to himself, ’Wasn’t the founder of the Sword Way Sect a forger before he became a Dao Lord and founded his sect? So the founder of the Sword Way Sect should be the rank 8 cultivator in the Forging Pathway before the current one.’
’Knowing this, I understand why she doesn’t hate sword cultivators. After all, the creation of sword cultivators represents a possible future for her.’
’As for why the other rank 8 cultivators of the Four Directions Sect hate the Sword Way Sect, my best guess is that they are jealous. That most likely the case, but I also can’t fathom where they got the courage to be critical of the Sword Way Sect like this?`
`Don’t they know the power of a Dao Lord? Or are they certain that the Dao Lord won’t make a move against them for their words?`
`Either way, these people who were alive before the Sword Way Sect was created should know a lot about Dao Lords. Even if they don’t know about Dao Lords, they should have a lot of secret information that very few people know.’
While he was thinking, Monarch Winter Sword was done with her ascension.
She didn’t reply to any of the people who spoke to her. Loki wasn’t sure if this was because she didn’t know what to say, if she was shy, or if she knew that the people who spoke were only humoring her.
Anyway, she rose high into the sky until she disappeared. She entered one of the extra dimensions and left the first dimension. This marked an official end to her ascension.
Of course, Loki didn’t think that all of her troubles had ended and that everything would become easier and better for her from now on. In fact, he thought that her troubles were only about to begin.
When he thought about what she could be going through at the moment, he laughed as he said, "She is probably meeting her debt collectors right now. After all, no one helps others to become divine beings for free.’
’I just hope she knew what she was doing before they suddenly asked her to surrender. If she didn’t know, then the look on her face would be priceless right about now.’
After laughing, he shook his head and said, ’She probably doesn’t know what she has gotten herself into. They should have told her a little about it, but I doubt they gave her the full information and its implications.’
’I wonder if she will be filled with regret about it later on. Not that it matters. She will become a slave with her life in another person’s hands, or she will die. Those are the only two options.’
’Not that I could have done any better than her without Fenrir and the Rewind Metac. In fact, being enslaved to another divine being is probably the best I could have managed to accomplish without Fenrir. The path forward has simply been blocked.’
As he was thinking about how alliances have entrenched themselves in a pathway and become a force to be reckoned with, he remembered something that he had always ignored in the past.
What he remembered made him say, "Come to think about it, why doesn’t every alliance raise mortals like this and use them to increase the size of their Cave Heaven forever?"
When he thought about this question, an answer came to him based on his personal experience with the consequences of being greedy.
This answer made him look around to make sure that no one had overheard and say inwardly, ’There should be a limit to how large the Cave Heaven gets if someone as greedy as Money Body hasn’t taken advantage of the weakness of mortals to enlarge his Cave Heaven beyond the size of the Blessed Heaven World.’
’If the limit is real, the implications will be as bad as I imagined. It makes me wonder how the Sword Lord ever became a Dao Lord.’
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