GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 1720: Daring And Fun.



Legion-5 said, "The spiritual dimension is as drab as ever. It looks like a graveyard if the graveyard also eats people."

Legion-4 joined in, "Or if the graveyard is the entire world."

Legion-7 agreed, "That would be bad. This place is just so suffocating, listless, and boring. The whole world cannot become something like this."

Legion-5 pointed to the black hole. "The only interesting thing here ever since the great mother died are these unconscious Origin gods."

Legion-3 finally took time away from running and joined the discussion. "Do you think we can eat it."

Legion-4 replied, "I don't think so."

Aeternus insisted, "There's only one way to find out."

Legion-5 agreed, "Let me give it a shot. There's nothing to lose."

Legion-2 warned them, "That's wrong. There's nothing we are aware of that we can lose. There can be a lot we can lose by trying to kill an Origin god permanently. We can be banished from the law matrix if we do."

Aeternus asked, "What if we succeed?"

Soverick replied after thinking about it for a while, "Either we break a rule of the void universe and are rewarded for it or we are punished severely for the atrocity."

Legion-1 added, "This sounds like a gamble. I'm in."

Aeternus was also full of anticipation. He said, "All in favor?"

All nine of them voted in favor of trying to eat an unconscious Origin god and maybe cause his or her permanent death. They were that bored from running around so much.

But the fact that all of them agreed to do something so dangerous didn't sit right with them.

Aeternus's anticipation had reduced by half. He said, "I know I am for Chaos and all, but isn't this reckless? Who is going to be the voice of reason?"

Everyone turned to Legion-7 who doesn't have a body and is in charge of the world fragment.

He said, "Fine. I'll be the reasonable one while you guys get to be excited about doing something fun. As if I am not bored too."

Then he said, "We shouldn't do this. Do you guys remember what happened when a world god succeeded in invading our mind network? I bet that's similar to what you are trying to do by eating this unconscious Origin god. You would be crossing the void universe."Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Aeternus snickered and said, "All in favor?"

8 voted for it while someone voted against it. With that sorted out, Legion-5 sent the fragments of a realm heart in his possession to the other clones. Then Je approached the black hole.

He approached with anticipation bubbling within him, even though Soverick has seen a darkness in his future. Not even the prospect of death is enough to deter him from trying something different, daring, and fun. Not with all of the other minds, including Legion-7, egging him on.

He crossed the horizon of the black hole and went past it to the zone of no return. This zone was too small for him since he was too strong. The suction force of the dead Origin god couldn't affect a Supreme Origin god.

He expanded his body into a bottomless abyss. Tentacles rose from the whirlpool of his body and latched onto the shattered Origin god. Then the tentacles pulled the Origin god towards the abyss to devour it.

It happened instantly. The darkness arrived and left immediately. When it left, Legion-5 was gone too. It was exactly as Soverick had seen it. It was just darkness. They didn't see how Legion-5 was demolished.

Legion-1 broke the silence, "That was more fun than I expected."

Legion-4 added, "Right? But we are not doing that again."

Even Aeternus was in agreement. "It would be a waste of time to do so. We will need to be stronger to be able to kill an Origin god permanently."

Soverick said in suggestion, "How about we try Chaos energy and see how it reacts to it?"

"Hmm. That could be an interesting experiment."

Aeternus called out, "All in favor?"

Eight of them voted in favor of toying with the void universe using a stick made out of chaos energy immediately after they were explicitly punished for messing with the void universe. The remaining one voted against it because he had to be the reasonable one.

With that sorted out, Aeternus immediately crossed the barrier between the void universe and the spiritual dimension. He used Soverick's eyes to spot a black hole and approached it. Then The handed over the realm fragments in his possession.

He said to the others, including Legion-5, who was watching within Legion-7, "Here goes. Wish me luck."

He went all out. He submerged the black hole in Chaos energy. Chaos energy ripped apart the horizon, and the soul fragments caught in it. Then it bashed against the shattered Origin god.

Nothing happened after that. They waited with baited breath, but nothing happened. They didn't give up, though. Aeternus continued waiting for weeks, which turned into months and then years.

He spent 12 years waiting and looking for any change. When it finally happened, all of Legion cheered.

Aeternus pointed out, "There is indeed a change."

The shattered fragments had stopped growing after their supply of soul fragments was cut off. But it had also shrunk. The difference was so small that it took them 12 years to notice it.

Legion-1 said to everyone. "This is good news and bad news. It is good news because Chaos energy can kill Origin gods permanently. At this rate, it might take an Origin cycle, but it is possible. That is good, but..."

Soverick finished for him, "It is bad news because it can also kill us if we lose control of it."

This is a fear that they haven't been able to let go ever since the first sage whooped their ass. It wasn't the first time either. The True Law of Order had left them hanging when Legion-5 and Legion-7 were trying to become Origin gods. The first sage's situation only served to drive home the lesson that the Supreme Laws of others cannot be trusted or relied upon.