GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

"Here I thought you were going to make a deal with me but it seem that you just want to insult my intelligence."

The fountain of life scoffed at him. "You are jumping to the conclusion again Ragnarok. This is just like that time when you assumed that every paragon in the prison apart from Gator was too weak to communicate. Didn't Fenrir show you the error of your ways?"

"Of course, you saw that."

That made the fountain of life snicker. "Saw it? I orchestrated the whole thing."

Ragnarok wasn't surprised. He said calmly, "Oh."

"You aren't shocked?"

Ragnarok did a mental shrug. "I have long since known that the struggle of the plane is a game between three players. There is you, the demon god, and the Will of the plane. Everyone else are pawns including the Vampires, wood elves, and even Rinoz. It does not come to me as a surprise that you had something to do with a prison full of Warrog paragons that were captured by wood elves. After all, you are the player in control of the wood elves."

The fountain of life was not impressed. "I should have had you killed you when I noticed your conception."

That made Ragnarok laugh. "So were aware of my conception? You probably let me live because you thought you could use me. But you have realized now that I will be no one's pawn. Unfortunately, it is too late for regrets."

He laughed for a long while before he got back to the issue at hand. "Will you tell me about how I am jumping to conclusions this time around?"

"What if I don't want to leave?" It asked him.

Its answer confused him. He asked with a doubtful tone, "Why would you not want to leave this doomed plane? What could be so great about this plane that you would be willing to risk yourself for it?"

"I already told you. This plane is mine. I am not giving it up without a fight."

Ragnarok snorted. "I wish I could believe you."

"What can I do to make you believe me?"

"It is simple. Go and take the planar portal. Then you will have the right to negotiate with me."

The voice rejected it. "I can't do that. Taking the planar portal will expose me. I can't show myself or the demon god will know where I am."

Ragnarok rolled his eyes. "Then how are you supposed to be fighting the demon god when you don't actually do anything? Staying hidden is the direct opposite of antagonizing the demon god."

What he asked for is reasonable. He will stop what he is about to do if he is offered a way out of the plane. But the so-called fountain of life refused to do it. He is finding this situation to be more and more fishy. The fountain of life or whoever this person is must be surely up to something. If that something is to fool him, then whoever this is won't succeed.

It yelled at him, "I don't have to explain myself to you."

"You kind of actually. You called me remember? You were the one that reached out to me. You are the one that has something to ask of me. So you have some explaining to do. It is the least you can do if you want me to listen to you."

"This is your last warning Ragnarok. Cease what you are about to do"

Ragnarok didn't stop. In fact, he would have sped up if he could. This conversation is already grating on his nerves.

He raised his voice and asked angrily. "Or what? What are you going to do to me?"

"Tell me. I want to know. Have you ever been shackled with a demon god? Have you ever been in a situation wishing you could die without your soul falling into the demonic claws of a demon god? What can you do to me that is possibly worse than that? Do you plan to lock me up in a prison for tens of origin cycles as you did to the other Warrog paragons? Or do you actually plan to kill me this time? What is it you plan to do? Tell me. I want to know. I really do."

The voice said nothing. 

He continued with a sneer of disdain, "Don't threaten me if you don't have the power to back it up. I don't respond to threats of violence. I will only succumb to actual strength. You are strong but I have looked at the face of death and smiled at it. Your power, no matter how great, cannot beat that."

Then he calmed down. He even smiled. "Besides. I am probably heading to my death right now. It is not wise to threaten me with more death. You have to think of something better. Offer me something useful or I will destroy this plane that you cherish so much."

The silent voice finally spoke. "Think about all the people that you will get killed."

Ragnarok laughed. "If you've been watching me as you claimed, you would know that I won't care about that."

It actually knows that he doesn't care about that. After all, it watched Ragnarok kill and eat the paragons of his race. He didn't help them by releasing them. That opportunity could have been used by him to become a hero for his race. But he didn't care about his race. He only cared and still cares about himself. 

He continued to laugh, "You are either lying about being the fountain of life or you are fishing because you have no better option. Either one is laughable."

The voice sighed. Then it said, "Run and keep running. That's the only thing you can do because you can never hide from me. If you survive this, then you will have me to contend with."

Ragnarok snickered again. "You have to line up after CARNAGE. You are not the first person that wants me dead. But I doubt you will line up behind the demon god seeing as you are scared of it and can't show your face around it "