The existence of other sects aside from the five that he has always known was news to Loki, and it changed what he thought of the world. As he tried to accept this new piece of information and accommodate it into his worldview, he realized that the world was bigger than he once thought.
The eyes of his body in the first dimension became unfocused as his avatar said, "That means there are at least eight Dao Lords. Yet, we don't know how Dao Lords get to appear. At least, it is not general knowledge."
"And since there are other sects, there must be pathways that they use that I don't know about. That means that there are far more than the 14 pathways that I know about."
This realization made him pause what he was thinking about and ask Hammock, saying, "How many pathways are there, really?"
Hammock felt some pressure for being asked this question. He felt that he wasn't the right person to ask how many pathways were in existence. But since Loki had asked, he could only answer.
