Chapter 1417: Copying Supreme Metacs.

After a few back-and-forths with Divine Metacs, Divine Positions, a lot of lifespan and a lot of time, a new Supreme Metac appeared in front of him.

-DEVOURING(ESSENCE OF THE MIND - 49): Emotion Devouring(9).

It was a small pool of water with a whirlpool at its center and tentacles waving around from the bottom of the whirlpool. It was currently incomplete and was only a phantom, so he hadn’t spent lifespan to solidify it yet.

Even though it was incomplete and couldn’t be used, it was still better than what True Loki had accomplished in the spark of power. He had done the exact same thing Black Loki did, but he had nothing to show for it.

When Black Loki failed, and the incomplete Supreme Metac collapsed, nothing happened in the spark of power. Now, even after Black Loki succeeded, the incomplete Supreme Metac in the spark of power still didn’t change.

So, not only did he gain no success, but he was also robbed of failure. His failures mattered because they told him when he was doing something wrong and helped him pinpoint exactly where he went wrong.

’Forget about that. I already knew to expect it anyway,’ he thought, moving on.

’Let’s just copy this into the spark of power and be done with it.’

He wanted to move on to something more successful. Unfortunately, the failures just kept coming.

He could see the lines of entanglement between the units of commonality of the incomplete Supreme Metac in the spark of power, but Black Loki didn’t have that advantage.

Aside from the obvious fact that the incomplete Supreme Metac on the outside was now a phantom structure, Black Loki couldn’t tell anything else.

Since Black Loki couldn’t see any difference between an incomplete Supreme Metac that had gained support and one that hadn’t, he didn’t know what to copy to turn the one in the spark of power into a phantom state.

’I’m calm,’ he thought to calm himself.

’I am not frustrated or angry. I am very calm.’

As opposed to what he wanted to believe, he was frustrated. Being met with failures twice in a row was frustrating, but he wasn’t frustrated with Black Loki, though.

As inept as Black Loki was, he couldn’t be blamed for not doing something he couldn’t do. Only the one stopping him from doing what he needed to do to succeed was to blame.

He could only sigh as he thought, ’Since the easy way is out of the question, let’s go the hard way.’

Then he looked inward to examine the complete Devouring Body Supreme Metac and identify its differences from the incomplete version he made earlier. That way, he would know what to copy.

At first glance, there were too many differences. First of all, the complete one had walls and boundaries that sealed off its internal space.

Second, it had divinity and divine crystals, not commonality, making comparison difficult. Fourthly, the complete Supreme Metac was a solid object of energy, force, and information, while the incomplete one was a bunch of information-carrying particles called quanta and the channels of information between them.

The complete Devouring Supreme Metac had also been twisted into an unnatural shape and nailed into the 4-D prototype to expand it. So there were too many differences, and he couldn’t pinpoint exactly which part the Dao Source was responsible for.

There was too much to see, and to fix it, he decided he needed an incomplete Supreme Metac that hadn’t been solidified yet. He also needed the incomplete Supreme Metac here, in the spark of power, where he could see the exact internal structure, including how the components communicated and interacted.

The best option would be to make a freshly accepted incomplete Supreme Metac outside with his clones and bring it into the spark of power. Unfortunately, that wasn’t an option.

When he remembered why the best option wasn’t possible, he sighed and thought, ’Things aren’t so bad yet. I still have other options.’

He had no confidence in what he had to do. But he had too much to lose if it didn’t work and nothing to gain by ignoring this option, so he got to work.

He shut off the Name Supreme Metac and pulled it from the 4-D prototype. He picked it because it was the most recent Supreme Metac he added to the 4-D prototype.

Since it was the most recent, it was on the surface of the 4-D prototype and easy to remove. In contrast, the Devouring Body Supreme Metac was embedded too deep within the 4-D prototype. It would take too much time to remove an old timer like that.

After he picked his specimen and prepared it for the experiment, he began stripping it down to its parts. Like an insect under an entomologist’s lens, he took it apart piece by piece and cut it open to see inside.

The Name Supreme Metac was a white sheet of coarse paper covered in black, moving words. Its appearance was standing in his way, so he started by removing its skin.

Unlike a living thing whose skin he could peel away, a Metac’s skin was more like a manifestation created by a force field and energy. Removing the skin meant deleting the force field and energy responsible for it.

If he did this outside the spark of power, he would definitely destroy the Supreme Metac if he tried to remove its ’skin’. There was no doubt.

But in here, he had perfect control. However, even with perfect control, some consequences of his actions were unavoidable.

When he removed the skin, the white sheet broke into a phantom mass of a network of tiny twinkling stars. There were 19 stars, lit up with activity, each vibrating millions of times per second.

The Supreme Metac was now barebones, without internal volume, and couldn’t hold anything. This was because when he deleted the concept of skin, he also deleted the concepts of shape, form, and color with it.

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