GREED: ALL FOR WHAT? - Chapter 2425: Liberated Vs Phantom Divine Form.
Chapter 2425: Liberated Vs Phantom Divine Form.
And since the sentient divine flesh had decided not to rebel against their host, they didn’t need to drain Legion’s spiritual energy to keep manifesting and trying to escape.
Not only are they not trying to escape their host, but they are also at peace with their host enough to sleep. The divine flesh became completely inactive and would only become active when Legion needed it.
So Legion didn’t need to spend spiritual energy to maintain their activity. This meant that Legion wouldn’t need a large source of energy or water to maintain their life.
Aside from the rebellion of the divine flesh, the sudden spike in spiritual energy consumption is the other drawback of becoming a demigod.
Legends will need to spend 7 units of spiritual energy per second to maintain their liberated divine form, but demigods will have to spend 8 units per second to maintain the active state of the divine flesh or as much as ten times as much as that if the eight divine flesh in the body are rebelling.
This sudden increase in the consumption of spiritual energy means that demigods must have the support of a large-grade energy spring to live comfortably. This is the case if the demigod is a beast, a plant, or a human.
But Legion doesn’t need an external source of water due to the fact that their eight divine flesh are being so docile. They also didn’t have to coerce the eight divine flesh when they wanted them to become active and wanted to use them.
The advantage of being a demigod is the ability to gain the power of the liberated divine form without actually liberating their form and changing into a divine beast.
They gain this advantage by using their spiritual energy to create a phantom of their divine beast form around their bodies. They can create eight such phantoms for the maximum boost.
The first advantage of using this state is that the stress on the godclad’s mind will be reduced. The godclad will also be able to reduce the stress further by reducing the number of phantoms that they summon.
This way, demigods have better control over their power. They can increase the power of their liberated form to whatever level they want and are comfortable with.
The second benefit is that these phantoms form a barrier of protection around the demigod that must be destroyed before the demigod can be harmed. So the phantoms can be used as a shield of protection, and there are eight of them.
The first disadvantage of this is that the phantoms are not real. They are fake constructs so the demigod will not be able to gain some physical enhancements that they would otherwise have gained in their real liberated form.
For example, if Legion were to create a phantom of their divine blood form of the pathway of killing, their own bodies would remain normal, so they wouldn’t be immune to physical harm like they would when their body turns into a humanoid blood being.
A second disadvantage is that creating phantoms is expensive to do in terms of spiritual energy.
Each phantom will cost about 100 units of spiritual energy to create and will need more spiritual energy to maintain. This cost will also increase depending on how much the phantom is damaged in a fight.
So a total of eight phantoms will require at least 800 units of spiritual energy to create and much more to maintain. This is many orders greater than the 8 units of spiritual energy per second that they will have to consume in their new liberated form.
After weighing the pros and cons, Legion decided to stick with their liberated divine beast form. They decided on this because they didn’t have to worry about losing control and because the energy consumption is too high.
Even though they have a lot of spiritual energy, they still thought that the consumption of the phantoms was too much. They also thought that the phantoms were a waste of spiritual energy since they don’t provide physical enhancements.
Besides, they are undying godclads who can use the divine abilities of the pathway of undying in their liberated form, so they didn’t care about the advantage of using the phantoms for protection. After all, they have a cheaper and stronger alternative through their pathway of undying.
They will be one of the few who will make this decision, if not the only ones to do so. Most demigods will pick their phantom divine beast form every day over their liberated divine beast form.
In fact, demigods are very happy to get the phantom beast forms because now they can fight with their full strength without having to fear losing control too much.
And when they feel that their mental state is slipping, they can remove a few phantoms to relieve themselves. So to them, this is a godsend even though they have to consume a lot of energy and water to remain alive.
Legion just shook their heads in pity. Then they began drinking some energy water to increase their spiritual power. This is something they have no fear in doing since their divine flesh won’t rebel against them.
Other demigods don’t try to increase their spiritual power when they become demigods so that when they become angels and their divine flesh transforms into independent avatars, those avatars will have weak spiritual power and be easier to defeat and subdue.
Those ambitious demigods wait until they become angels before they increase the spiritual power of the soul that belongs to them. But Legion doesn’t care about that.
Their divine flesh isn’t rebelling and they don’t believe that their divine flesh will give them problems when they become angels, so they could increase their spiritual power without fear that it will turn against them in the future.
After increasing their spiritual power to the maximum for their stage, they checked their status to see what other benefits they had gained with this advancement.
