GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?-Chapter 2063: Sense Of Superiority.

They don't even need to offend the god before their path to power is cut off. Their path can be cut off just because the god of craft doesn't like them.

This problem has eased now that there are two gods in the pathway. It has given machinist two options. If one god doesn't want to help them, another god will.

The appearance of the god of steam has introduced competition and have made monopoly of power by the god of craft disappear. But the presence of two gods in the pathway also means that there is conflict and division in the pathway.

It is one thing for him to invent something as an outsider. Whatever he does will benefit both of the gods, and he will receive his benefits as someone outside of the rules of the pathway.

But once he becomes a machinist, he will have to cater to the whims of one or both gods. If he doesn't, he won't grow stronger, and he risks being killed.

One of the effects of authoritative gods is that every machinist has to serve the gods in one way or another. It is why there are so many priests in the temple of the god of steam.

Those godclads don't have much of a choice in the matter. They have to show up every day to work in the temple and maintain the machines needed to run the railway system.

He doesn't know exactly why the god of steam and the god of craft insist on making machinists do things like that, but he has heard too many machinists complain about it in his future.

He has also heard that the gods of a pathway always know the location of godclads in their pathway and can always find them.

So machinists can't run or hide from the god of craft. If they offend him, they are doomed. That is another thing machinists complain about.

Whatever the reason is for why the god of steam forces machinists to maintain the railway system, he is not comfortable having someone above him blocking his path to power and ordering him around. So he won't become a machinist no matter how well he is convinced to do so.

At the very least, he does want to be forced to recruit a mortal genius inventor despite being a powerful high priest just because the god of steam has his or her eyes on that mortal.

He shook his head in pity thinking about that high priest having to say so many good things about the pathway only to fail in convincing him to become a machinist.

Then he sighed and said, "I guess every pathway has its difficulty. I hope to experience the difficulty of the undying pathway as soon as possible."

At this point, he doesn't actually have a choice in regards to the undying pathway. He can have more than one pathway to ascension, but one of them must be the undying pathway.

Of course, having more than one pathway is very rare. Just succeeding in assimilating the divine flesh of one pathway is already difficult enough. Many people die in the attempt. But at least they can prepare for it.

On the other hand, assimilating the divine flesh of two pathways is something that can't be prepared for. One will either have the ability, or they won't.

Usually, people only stick to one pathway, and they think about their choices for a long while before making a decision. But he doesn't have a choice anymore after he survived the calamity that wiped out his village.

He has already taken on something that belongs to the undying pathway, so he must embark on that pathway. It is a must.

In fact, this matter is related to him becoming an Absolute. Without reaching the peak of the undying pathway, he will never become an Absolute.

As someone who should be able to assimilate four divine flesh, one of them must be from the undying pathway. So he doesn't mind that he doesn't have a choice about the undying pathway.

Actually, he is glad he gets to ascend through the undying pathway because it is a very strong pathway. Not that every pathway is not strong. But the undying pathway specializes in improving his existence in such a way that he becomes difficult, if not impossible, to kill.

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He is aiming for the impossible to kill as his goal, seeing as the greatest obstacle to becoming an Absolute is death.

He doesn't want to die because if he dies, he won't become an Absolute. Even if he later recovers his memory in the future, his connection between the future and the past will be severed by his death, and he will have no hope of becoming an Absolute with the aspect of Independence.

There's also the threat of ANNIHILATION. ANNIHILATION is still hunting him from the future. If he can overcome death, then he might be able to overcome ANNIHILATION and successfully become an Absolute.

He thought about these things as he was returning to the small room he lives in in the dormitory.

As he walked to his destination, he saw many types of people. Some were richer than him, and others were poorer than him.

But no matter the type of people he met, he always had a sense of superiority over them. He believes that he is better than them.

Objectively, this claim of superiority is not a fallacy. He is better than them if only because he remembers his future and would have remembered his past if the aspect of Independence hadn't made him independent of his past.

But at least he remembers something while they are limited to their experience in this life. And while he doesn't remember his past, they don't have much of an advantage in that aspect either because they have a poor memory.

He thought to himself in jest, "Some of them might not even remember what happened to them a week ago."