Nine Tails rarely failed to answer Rimuru immediately. After thinking for a moment and understanding what Rimuru was suspecting, she offered another explanation.
"Maybe the problem lies with your power itself. Don't forget, you've practically never encountered a bottleneck so far. That part is rather like me."
At that, Nine Tails widened her eyes and gave Rimuru a thorough look. "So sometimes I wonder whether you really are some god's illegitimate child."
If there were still traces to follow when it came to human growth and limits, visible and tangible in the improvement of physical abilities, then for demigods standing half a step into the realm of gods, their advancement was the most difficult and arduous of all.
Intangible concepts, untouchable powers, materials they had never even heard of.
Nine Tails was not wrong when she said Rimuru had no bottleneck in becoming a demigod. As early as Sequence 5, Rimuru had already broken the rules and wielded divine power. Combined with his increasingly clear inheritance, that was why he had seemingly entered demigodhood so easily—after all, the problems he had to face were merely rituals, materials, and certain powers.
But in truth, the highest attribute at Sequence 5 was 99—one had to raise an attribute to 100 to enter demigodhood, where it would undergo a qualitative change and become a question mark.
R'lyeh was better off. At least after reaching Sequence 5, R'lyeh could continue issuing missions and provide paths suited to these supernatural beings. Though they were cruel and somewhat exploitative, they at least gave them a direction for advancement—
Wild individuals who wanted to advance to demigodhood had to comprehend and seek it out themselves. Just figuring out how to turn 99 into 100 could probably stop countless people in their tracks—and after becoming demigods, when even