They have to pay attention to the presence of a true god in a pathway as it will affect how they progress and how far they will progress. The second most important factor is the utility and power of the pathway to them.

The pathway of giants, for instance, would enhance the attack power of their pathway of killing immensely. As the pathway for the physically strongest and known as the pathway of unstoppable force, it would surely compliment the path of killing and go well with the path of undying by enhancing their physical defenses. So it has a very high utility for them.

Unfortunately for them, the pathway of giants has a true god. It is also one who doesn’t like anyone to challenge him and frequently kills high-ranking godclads in his pathway to prevent them from ever becoming a threat to him. So they had to eliminate that pathway from their options.

As for utility, the pathways of historian, knowledge, imagination, and error all have the greatest utility because they will grant them the ability to use multiple. But they had to let some of them go because they had gods in their pathway.

Only the pathways of the telepath, visionary, and slavery don’t have gods in their pathways. The pathways of the traveler and destruction have their gods. So these limited their options to three out of every pathway they wanted.

Of these three, the pathway of slavery is the strongest, so they went with it. Even the fact that any godclad of the pathway of slavery is killed by the other godclads as soon as they get wind of it didn’t deter him.

There are very few pathways that everyone hates. They are the pathway of the telepath and the pathway of slavery.

Godclads loathe the pathway of the telepath because they read minds, while they hate the pathway of the slaver because they enslave people.

Even gods hate the pathway of slavery. They go out of their way to kill godclads of that pathway once they get wind of them. That’s why there is no god in that pathway despite it being strong.

The hatred for the pathway of slavery is something that the gods and the god of justice can agree together about. To that effect, the lamp bearers have banned that pathway completely, and any organization that sells the divine flesh for slavery will be attacked by them and other organizations.

So the vault of gold doesn’t dare to sell the divine flesh of slavery either. They are too big of a target. Only fearless or ignorant godclads will dare to sell the divine flesh of slavery for money, and only fearless or ignorant people will dare to buy and assimilate that pathway.

Once they made this decision, they had to choose the pathway of the telepath because it is the best way they know to hide the slavery of others.

They are not being ignorant in choosing the pathway of slavery. They are being fearless, but that’s because they are knowledgeable and smart. They know that if they want to hide the fact that they are slavers, they have to find a hidden place to hide the mark of slavery. The hidden place they choose is the mind of others.

The pathway of the telepath would also grant them another way to kill and would make up for the short range of attack of the pathway of killing. It would grant them a covert means of killing, which would be a boon to them.

Another important reason to choose the pathway of the telepath is that it will help them suppress rebellion in their slaves. After all, the pathway of slavery only enslaved the body. It doesn’t enslave the mind, so slaves can betray their owners.

So the pathway of the telepath would enhance the pathway of slavery and killing. In fact, it will also enhance the pathway of undying by helping them avoid danger through reading minds and through the manipulation of the minds of others.

But choosing this pathway came at a cost. After making this decision, they had to let go of the pathway of traveling. It was easy to do after they found out that the pathway of travelers currently has a true god.

It took a while for them to make this decision. They had to collect a lot of information about the current state of the world of godclads and the hierarchy of various pathways.

Fortunately, they had three knowledgeable people to ask for information from. For the five days that these people watched them, Legion used them to acquire a lot of information.

After making their decision, they came to the black market. That was easy to do too.

It was also easier to find what they wanted. They looked around the underground market, asked for what they wanted, and paid for them.

The interesting thing was that the divine flesh of both pathways only cost them 100 gold coins each. So they spent only 200 gold coins, which would have been enough to buy the divine flesh of killing in the white tower.

Those two pathways are cheap because the demand for them is low due to the hatred of the two pathways. On the other hand, they found out that the rank 1 divine flesh of the pathway of killing cost 300 gold coins here.

The divine flesh for the pathway of killing is expensive because the divine ability of the pathway is very strong. It has a lot of demand because of this, so it is more expensive than the normal price.

Legion-1 sighed and said to the others, “Things are like that sometimes. Different markets mean different demand and price.”

Legion-4 said, “Yes, yes. Market theory is interesting and all, but I am more interested in power.”

Then he urged Legion-5, who was in control of the body, “Pick up speed already.”

Legion-5 refused to speed up. He explained, “If we move in a hurry, it will look like we are afraid. That will draw the attention of predators.”