Canghong Mountain Range suddenly understood. "I get it! When you were cultivating the demigod tower beasts, you gave up deciding what they should become and reduced your control. That made them very weak at first, but by letting them actively experience battles with the ancient demons, they could keep improving and iterating through combat. As long as they didn't die, their eventual growth would far surpass what mages could have decided for them from the beginning. Moreover, although this method seemed slow and wasted two or three months, it was far faster than having mages regulate and produce the next batch of powerful demigod tower beasts."
"It's like how everyone creates tower beasts. We gods are used to equipping them, teaching them Divine Skills, and having them fight according to our methods. But either our methods fail, or they need a long time to adapt to our power. What you're doing now is letting the tower beasts learn to forge their own equipment and decide which Divine Skills to use. You don't decide for them, but keep guiding them. It seems slow, yet it's actually the fastest method."
Suye nodded. "Exactly. That's the difference between puppets and tower beasts. Every component in a puppet is filled with certainty, so the final whole is also highly deterministic. Tower beasts are a part of the Biology Mage Tower. They're living beings. If we control them the way we control puppets, we're bound to lose to the ancient demons in the end."
"But could the tower beasts become completely independent, betray us, or even destroy us and the ancient demons, becoming the overlords of Creation Land?"
The gods were slightly startled.
Suye smiled. "If that day comes, then from our perspective, we've failed. But from the perspective of the Infinite Plane Will, perhaps