<h4>Chapter 299: Vol4 Ch24: Grid of the Divine me</h4>
Prometheus, also known as Suiren[1], limping as he walked up the crude but magnificent altar, the middle of which contained a cluster of me. A burning, bright, golden me.
He was still limping as if with a broken leg, but his appearance had drastically changed.
The original ape fur that grew all over his body hadpletely disappeared, the shape of his skull had also changed to look more like a modern human.
It could be said that other than clothing, Prometheus was no different from any future human, and all of this urred due to the golden mes on that altar.
Several years ago, the human apes were still savage and primitive, the structure of their society was also very loose, essentially no different from that of wild beasts.
During one hunt, Prometheus’ leg became broken and unfit for future hunts, which caused him to be discarded by his tribe. The apes who still hadn’t achieved enlightenment wouldn’t know how to take care of the sick and dying, nor would they try.
What changed his fate was the Divine me that fell from the heavens. The Divine me guided him, bestowed him wisdom, and allowed him to be the progenitor of a new species of human apes, bing their leader.
Prometheus knew full well just how powerful the Divine me in front of him was. By borrowing the power of the Divine me, they were able to digest any food and use that to grow individually stronger.
Taking another step forward, Prometheus drew a thin shard of metal fashioned into a dagger from his waist, the spoil of war he obtained from a certain Lizardman. While those ones were also individually strong, they werepletely no match for the human apes with the Divine me’s aid.
Using the shard of metal, Prometheus cut open his torso. As soon as the wound was formed, the buds of flesh around it had already begun to writhe; this self-regeneration ability also came from the Lizardmen. Their regeneration ability allowed them to stay alive even after being defeated, but that did nothing but turn them into the best kind of living cattle for meat.
Furthermore, a lot of other creatures’ unique abilities had been digested and incorporated into the human ape constitution. If not for this thin shard of metal, Prometheus might not have been able to cut even his skin.
Reaching his hand up, Prometheus ripped the wound on his chest open, then reached into his still-beating heart and yanked it out of his own chest. The broken veins were still pulsing, attempting to reattach themselves to the veins inside his body, this was how strong Prometheus’ current life force was.
Ignoring his heart’s intentions of returning to his chest, Prometheus dropped the heart into the Divine me.
Within the Divine me, the heart quickly caught on fire and became a ball of mes.
At this point, the broken veins inside Prometheus’ chest reached out and into the Divine me, reattaching to the now-ame heart.
It then yanked the heart from inside the Divine me back into Prometheus’ body. Instantly, he could feel his torso beginning to burn, his skin turning incandescent, golden patterns manifesting on top of his skin.
He had been discarded by his tribe once before. Even though Prometheus managed to return to his tribe and became their great leader thanks to the Divine me, he understood them very well. Even with their evolution, this tribe’s cold-hearted nature had never changed.
The only thing that did change was their vision after that evolution. They merely recognized now that even an injured or crippled tribesman still had their own values, which was why they no longer discarded the injured or crippled.
Prometheus’ limp could have been treated since long ago, but he purposely kept it like this as a constant reminder to himself: If one was not individually strong enough, there would always be a chance for one to be discarded once more.
He writhed and twitched in pain on top of the altar, the extreme heat had already eaten through his innards. He could feel everything inside of him bing charred ck, but thanks to his extreme life force, his innards had already begun to regenerate.
“Ahahaha, I’ve finally seeded” Prometheus could sense that he had obtained the true power of the Divine me.
In the past, by wielding the Divine me in their hands and sensing its heat, they could easily digest any food, but that was nothing but the most basic function of the Divine me.
It was only after Prometheus had put his own heart into the Divine me and used that to imnt the Divine me into his own body that he had officially obtained the power of the Divine me.
All the torches of Divine me brought outside the settlement suddenly grew dim, no longer glowing in a golden hue and instead became mundane orange fire. Additionally, it no longer contained the power that aided these human apes in digesting anything and everything.
“The Grid of the Divine me, Lord Negary, the great entity who spans across both past and future” Prometheus continued his maddenedughter. As the first to truly obtain the Divine me, he gained a great position of authority within the Grid of the Divine me.
Through the Grid of the Divine me, he was able to observe some images from the future, as well as gaining ess to control secondary Divine mes of this level. Ultimately, he would even be able to be one with the Grid, bing one of many entities capable of existing throughout the past and future.
Prometheus had now be ustomed to the Divine me constantly burning his inner organ. This was the price he had to pay, as he sacrificed his organs in order to obtain the Divine me, it was natural that he had to endure the suffering of being burnt by the Divine me.
“Have our future descendants arrived in our past?” mes seemed to be beating within Prometheus’ eye. Since the Grid spread out in both the past and future, he was able to observe some visions of the future by being its authoritative figure.
At the same time, he also understood his mission. As he was one with the Grid, the stronger the Grid grew, the stronger he would also naturally grow; thus his current mission was to sweep away all those who obstructed the Grid, putting the entire world and everything within it under the Grid’s influence.
“Lord Negary is our future” watching the intensely burning mes in front of his eyes, Prometheus dered. This was the Divine me’s original kindling, although it looked like a me right now, it was in fact the physical manifestation of the current level of the Grid.
“In the Lord’s name, I shall lead the human apes. They shall work for me, putting any and all obstacles within our grasp. Additionally, if these future descendants can be taken advantage of well, they will greatly aid in the birth of humanity”
The mes in Prometheus’ eyes quickly beat, disying even visions of modern society in his eyes. Thanks to the guidance of Negary’s Divine me, his IQ was not at allckingpared to modern humans; and now that a great volume of knowledge was rushing to his mind to forge his foundational knowledge, it would likely not take long for him to be a true God.
With various visions shing in his eyes, Prometheus slowly formted his n.
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At another location, the two Dino Sapiens were making a mad dash for their lives, avoiding the pursuit of the terrifying upright apes. Tyrant Dino had beenpletely devoured down to his very bones, so if they couldn’t escape fast enough, their oues would not be any better.
「 Damn it, if not because we’ve only just arrived without any basic weaponry to arm ourselves, I would never have allowed those savage cavemen to eat ourrade 」 despite his strong words, me Dino’s eyes reflected a sense of fear that couldn’t be obscured.
「 Boss, what do we do from this point on? 」 me Dino asked with a hint of despair in his voice.
Chrysosaurus stared closely behind himself with a gaze mixed with hatred and fear, then finally spoke: 「 We find a ce to set up base, take in the primitive tribes, then help them gain intelligence. This matter won’t end here 」
[1] Suiren is the progenitor of fire in Chinese mythology