On their way to the meeting point, Nether Flame said, "We have nearly every ingredient we need for this mission to be successful. You donât seem weak. As long as you pull your weight, the mission should be completed successfully."
Outwardly, Loki smiled and said, "Iâll do my best."
But inwardly, he was grinning as he thought, âIf you knew that you were talking to the person responsible for the death of over 20 divine beings in the past 11 years, of which four of them are rank 7 cultivators like you, you wouldnât talk to me like that.â
Nether Flame didnât know that he was talking to a serial killer, so he continued to say, "This mission is very important to me. I doubt it is important to you since youâre willing to risk your life to complete it. So the mission is important to all four of us, which is why I hope everyone will put in their best effort to complete it."
Loki found himself in complete agreement with this statement. He nodded and said, "I agree with you a 100%. Donât worry about me. Iâll be taking this with the utmost seriousness.â
What he didnât say was, âIt isnât me that you should be worried about. It is that suicidal and stubborn and proud Money Body that you should be worried about.â
âI always take the mission seriously. But Money Body can sometimes prioritize having his revenge over completing the mission. So you should be saying this to him.â
Nether Flame nodded in satisfaction when he heard what Loki said. He liked that Loki was willing to at least pretend that he was going to take the mission seriously.
Despite his convincing reaction, Nether Flame didnât believe him completely. In fact, Nether Flame was still suspicious that the only reason Loki came to join this mission was to mess with Money Body.
If Loki were weak, he wouldnât have considered Lokiâs motive for joining the mission serious. But Loki was strong and possessed four Divine Positions, so if Lokiâs objective was to tamper with this mission in any way, he had to take the possibility seriously.
However, he didnât continue to pester Loki even though he was still suspicious. Since he had said his piece, he became silent as he led Loki away.
They soon reached their destination, and just like in the previous timelines, there were two people waiting there for them. However, there was a change to the people waiting there.
One of the people waiting there was a man made out of gemstones and shiny precious materials. This man was colorful and shiny from head to toe. He looked as if he were made out of every kind of material that can be used as legal tender in various societies and among various races.
This man was Money Body. Loki was used to seeing him. And when he used the Power Identification Ability on him, there didnât seem to be much of a change.
Race: Human
Available Lifespan: 11,438 Years >> 23,726
Cultivation Rank: 8
Cave Heaven: 2,843 million square kilometers
Body: 8
Soul: 8
Mind: 8
Will: 5.5 >> 8
Insight: 8
Law Fragment(Amplification): 6,847,624,513(900%) >> 6,859,371,104(900%)
DIVINE METAC(RANK): Money Body(8). Money Power(8). Golden Light(8). Market Conditions(8).
Even without seeing Money Bodyâs attributes, he noticed the biggest change in the rank 8 money cultivator when he saw four stars shining in his golden holy flame. This sight caused his heart to jump.
He thought to himself in surprise, âWhen did he gain a fourth Divine Position? I should have known if he had called a new Divine Position into his Cave Heaven. Everyone would have known, and it would be news that everyone would be talking about.â
âThe only explanations are that he found a way to hide the process of gaining a new Divine Position or that he didnât need to hide the process since the Divine Position was already in his Cave Heaven and only needed to move from the Life Fire of one of his slaves to his Life Fire.â
âSeeing as he isnât hiding the fact that he possesses four Divine Positions right now, it is either because he canât hide this or that he doesnât intend to hide it. If he didnât intend to hide the increase in his power, then it is unlikely that he put in effort to hide the process of acquiring the fourth Divine Positions.â
âIn that case, his alliance will still have the same number of Divine Positions. It is just that one of the Divine Positions has switched ownership to him. So it is likely that one of the members of his alliance is dead or has been weakened if they had two Divine Positions before they lost this one.â
A lot of things went through his mind when he saw the improvement in Money Bodyâs Power, but outwardly, he smiled and said, "Congratulations to the great cultivator on the advancement of his power."
He was half sincere with what he said, but Money Body wasnât appreciative of his compliment. The money cultivator sneered and said, "Whatâs there to congratulate me about my fourth Divine Position? Donât you also have four Divine Positions? If every riff raff can have four Divine Positions, whatâs so great about it?"
Loki immediately smiled and said, "The difference is that my four Divine Positions are mostly for show since I donât have the mastery to use all of them.â
âAs for your four Divine Positions, they represent a true increase in your strength since your understanding of the pathway is beyond the requirement to use all four of them.â
What he wanted to say was that he wasnât riff-raff, and it wasnât yet clear who would win between him and Loki. But Loki remembered what had happened in the previous timeline during the mission. He remembered how disasterious it had been, so he decided not to antagonize Money Body.