Chapter 782: Shadow Body.
Many Eyes also said to Star Divination, "Come back. We have to fight. The thief is clearly determined to get rid of us."
He said that to her because he was sure that the thief’s promise not to kill him was a lie. In fact, he was sure that the thief would try to kill him next.
The thief’s promise not to kill him had convinced him that he had a 100% of being pursued after the deceiver dies. Since he was next in line to die, it became a good idea to fight with the deceiver for a chance of survival.
What would be better is if Star Divination also joined in the fight. Unfortunately for him, she was not willing to risk her life like that.
After she heard his words urging her to fight, she laughed and said, "It seems you’re screwed. But that’s a good thing for me, though. So why would I jeopardize my chances of surviving by coming back to fight?"
She also believed that Many Eyes was next in line to be killed, which meant that her chances of survival had increased. By the time the thief dealt with the deceiver and Many Eyes, she should be long gone.
As for the thief’s claim that he could find all of them, she didn’t believe that. So she refused to turn back and fight.
While she was running for her life, a great battle was going on behind her. It was a fight between an army of one and a squad of two.
In most cases, an army was always stronger than a squad. This was the case here, even though the squad had more people than the army.
Before they came to blows, Loki’s eyes roamed all over the deceiver. He had the Power Identification Ability activated, so he could clearly see his power.
Race: Human
Available Lifespan: 12,518 years
Cultivation Rank: 7
Cave Heaven: 2,868 million square kilometers
Body: 7
Soul: 7
Mind: 7
Will: 5.5
Insight: 5.5
Law Fragment(Amplification): 6,257,589,362(900%)
DIVINE METAC(RANK): Shadow Body(7). Disappearing Mist(7). Shadow Blade(7).
The deceiver had three rank 7 Divine Metacs and three stats raised to 7 units. This already put him on par with the Monarch Golden Lion of the Martial Body Sect.
But this deceiver is even stronger than Monarch Golden Lion because he is part of an alliance. So while Monarch Golden Lion possessed a Cave Heaven that was 468 million square kilometers in size, this deceiver had 6 times that size.
Because of the advantage in size of his Cave Heaven and the massive amount of amplification from his law fragments, this deceiver has become someone that even Golden Lion can’t fight. This was why the three seers hadn’t been able to notice the deceiver even though he followed them around for so long.
Unfortunately for this deceiver, his understanding was only at the Grandmaster level. So he could only combine two of his three Divine Metacs for a single attack. This was why Loki was able to notice him.
The Disappearing Mist Metac is the one the deceiver mainly uses to hide himself. This Divine Metac creates a black mist around the deceiver, making them blend into the world around them.
The Shadow Body also helps with stealth, but its main purpose is to give the deceiver a body that behaves like a shadow. With this body, the deceiver can hide in shadows, move on the ground like a shadow, and gain some immunity to physical damage.
When the deceiver combines these two Divine Metacs, he can completely disappear from one’s perception, even if he is standing within the range of perception of other divine beings.
The best part of this technique is that it can fool even stronger foes. This is because most divine beings are not actively using their full power when they go about their day-to-day lives.
Most divine beings only use the power of their Cave Heaven to do things. It isn’t until they get into a fight and they become serious that they use their full power.
But if they don’t know that someone is stalking them, they won’t use their full power to check their surroundings. And even if they know, very few people have Divine Metacs to mobilize their Insight Stat.
So even a seer that is stronger than the deceiver is unlikely to notice the deceiver stalking them. Only a seer that is stronger than the deceiver and is always using their Divine Metac at full power to check their surroundings will notice the deceiver.
Because of this, very few people would notice the deceiver stalking them. If Loki hadn’t been rushing forward at full speed, he wouldn’t have noticed that something was wrong. And if he didn’t have the Eagle Eye Metac, which utilized his Insight Stat, he wouldn’t have been able to see the deceiver even if he noticed that something was out of place in his range of perception.
With the Shadow Body Metac and the Disappearing Mist Metac, the deceiver could produce a power of 7(Cultivation Rank) × (7(Body) + 7(Mind)) × (7(Shadow Body) + 7(Disappearing Mist)) × 2,868 million(Cave Heaven) × 10(Law Fragment), which is 39,348,960 units of divine power.
On the other hand, Loki was using the Gorilla Strength Metac for his Strength Stat, the Angry Bull Metac for his Will Stat, the Impaler Metac for his Mind Stat, the Viper Fangs Metac for his Soul Stat, and the Eagle Eye Metac for his Insight Stat.
All five Divine Metacs belonged to the Beast Pathways of world kings. He didn’t mix in any Divine Metac from other pathways because seers are very sensitive to law fragments and can identify the different pathways even without looking directly at them.
He is experienced with hunting seers, so even though he wanted to use the Vengeful Bones Metac to increase his strength, he held back on doing so for fear of exposing the fact that he can use more than one pathway.