GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 2603: Domination Ultimate Ability.

In the past, the Cognitive Adaptation divine ability could help them adapt to a portion of the mental strain that is equal to their level of mastery of the rank 10 divine ability.

This meant that at 10% mastery, the Cognitive Adaptation divine ability could help them resist 10% of the mental strain caused by anything. And at 50% mastery, it could help them resist up to 50% of the mental strain caused by any activity on their mind.

So now that the Cognitive Adaptation divine ability has reached 100% mastery, they are sure that they can completely adapt to any mental strain and can run the simulation indefinitely.

Of course, using the Cognitive Adaptation divine ability is not free. They have to use divine energy to run it. So it will cost them more divine energy to run the simulation without experiencing any mental strain. Fortunately, they have a lot of divine energy to spare.

Their third source of confidence is that they have a lot of experience running a simulation of the world, and this won’t be their first time doing so.

The first time they ran a simulation was back when they were in the void universe and had created a simulation of reality in Soverick’s concept. The simulation was so convincing that they were fooled by it when the first sage infiltrated it.

So it can be said that they are very experienced in running a simulation of the world. Their personal experience, combined with their great power and the experience of the god of illusion from his memories, will surely give them an edge with the Sandbox ultimate ability.

Right now, some of them are of the mind that the Sandbox ultimate ability is the most important one of their latest ultimate abilities. But some of them think the most important new ultimate ability is the Virus ability.

No one thinks the Domination ultimate ability that they gained from the Crown of Nobility authority is the best one. The Domination ultimate ability is great, but they don’t think it can compare to the Virus ultimate ability or the Sandbox ultimate ability.

The Domination ultimate ability is a simple ultimate ability. It enhances one’s power or reduces the power of enemies’ attacks. It can’t do both of them at the same time.

From the memories of the god of nobles, they know that he usually uses the Domination ultimate ability to extend the range of his Domain divine ability to infinity. This is not a simple empowerment but a transformation of their capabilities.

They can’t do what the god of nobles did because they are not godclads of the pathway of nobility, and because the empowerment of the Crown of Nobility is highest when it is working on a divine ability of the pathway of nobility.

So they can’t use the Crown of Nobility to stay in hiding while attacking with the divine abilities of the pathway of nobility from a distance, like the god of nobility can, but they are sure that they can also do impressive things with the Crown of Nobility because its empowerment and suppression are directly proportional to the number of authorities that they possess.

Right now, they have seven authorities. Even though they haven’t fused with all of them yet, their effect on the Crown of Nobility is such that it can extend their Mental Probe divine ability from the Mindscape to every corner of the known world with minimal energy consumption.

Even the energy consumption of creating the virtual world in the Sandbox ultimate ability can be reduced from 1,000,000 to 43,750. This is because the Crown of Nobility first cut the energy expenditure by half to 500,000. Then it used the enhancement of the other authorities to cut the expenditure further.

The Crown of Nobility used the enhancement of the Everlasting Gemstone to cut the energy expenditure from 500,000 to 250,000. Then it used the enhancement of the Mind Palace to cut it again to 125,000.

The enhancement of the Worm of Subjugation was also used to cut the energy expenditure by another half from 125,000 to 62,500. Then it combined the enhancement of their remaining authority to cut the 62,500 by 30% to 43,750.

The authorities that they have fused completely with and used to become the god of the pathway were used to cut the energy expenditure in half. But the authorities that they only have preliminary control of can only provide a 10% reduction each.

This is also how the cost of creating a virtual body with the Roaming Ultimate ability was reduced from 120,000 to 5,250.

It can be said that the Domination ultimate ability is the ultimate buffer and debuffer. They can’t use it to increase their total power, which is why it’s not in contention for the best ultimate ability.

But they can use the Domination ultimate ability to transform their abilities either by increasing their range, increasing their duration of effect, increasing their area of effect, or reducing their energy cost.

In regard to an enemy, they can use the Domination ultimate ability in reverse on them. That is, they can use it to increase the energy expenditure of attacks on them, reduce the area of effect, or reduce the duration of effect of the divine abilities of their enemies.

Unfortunately, it can’t reduce the power of an enemy’s divine ability like their Environmental Adaptation can, nor can it increase the power of their divine abilities like their Offensive Adaptation divine ability.

They are satisfied with it this way. But the Domination ultimate ability can’t be their best ultimate ability.

Since they were unable to decide which ultimate ability was their best, they decided to test them out with the Sandbox ultimate ability to see what every divine ability and ultimate ability of theirs can do.

They did this while they hastened the fusion of the Ocean of Blood. As the authority of their fourth main pathway, they prioritize fusing with it before they fuse with the authorities of their adjacent pathways.