His question made Nether Flame burst out laughing. As he laughed, he said, "Didn't you hear what I said? One would need to master the five aspects of the Death Pathway to be able to produce them."
"I haven't even mastered one aspect, and you want me to produce a homunculus? How hilarious! How ignorant! You crack me up."
He laughed for a few seconds more after that. But Loki didn't care that he was being mocked for his ignorance. He had a goal he wanted to achieve with this line of questioning, so he soldiered on.
He said, "If you can't make a homunculus, who can?"
This time, Nether Flame shook his head in dismay at Loki's level of ignorance before saying, "Isn't it obvious? Only the Supreme Metac can make them. Only the Dao Lord can make something like this."
Loki nodded in understanding before saying, "Do you think it will cost the Dao Lord some lifespan to make them?"
Nether shrugged and said, "Maybe or maybe not. Who am I to know how the power of a Dao Lord works?"
