{Bonus Chapter 2/4!!}
In Midas' mind space, a multitude of scenarios unfolded, each an attempt to understand and modify the Vital Meridians effectively. He was using his [Divine Database] to instantiate new directions of thought to decipher the problem at high speeds.
The problem with doing it like this was that the energy consumption was too high.
Normally, [Divine Database] functioned perpetually as if it were some background process that he could tap into at any moment. Whenever he used it to accomplish a task would be when it consumed a miniscule amount of Energy in exchange for doing some work.
Now, it was as if it was doing thousands of tasks at the same time, like a massive server farm that used its computing power to run massive programs in super quick time.