GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

"Have fun." He called behind him as he flew away from the Vampires and out of the underground space.

He crippled every Vampire that he could in a straight line across the underground space. Then he dug through the wall at the other end and left the space. He is not willing to stay and see the outcome of his sabotage.

"What was that about?" One of the Vampires asked the others.

Ragnarok came and went just like that. They expected more from him. They expected mass destruction and a killing spree. It is what is expected from any Vampire in the devouring lineage but he didn't kill anyone. 

Someone suggested. "We are probably not his target. He is definitely on his way to fight another Primogenitor. We just happened to be in his way so he decided to have some fun with us."

"You don't say. He didn't even kill anyone. He just trashed them." This person then sighed. "It must be nice to be so strong."

That made them laugh deprecatingly. They are not worthy targets to the Monarch Killer so he played with them instead of killing them. If he wanted to kill them, all he had to do is to kill their Primogenitor. That will surely eliminate more of them that way. So they understand why Ragnarok won't be interested in slaughtering small fries. His efforts are better spent on the big fries. 

They returned to work trying to leave. It was then that his pursuer came. The ghoul dug its own tunnel into the underground space. It entered the light for the first time. The light showed its features. It is a hairless creature with a large gaping maw on its face. 

Its shriveled and tight skin is completely black. It clung to its bones so tightly that it looked like a mummy. It doesn't have any claws. Only its mouth looks dangerous because of the abundance of misshapen teeth.

Its red eyes glowed brightly for a brief moment when it sensed other living things. But it remained locked on Ragnarok because he is higher on its list of priorities than living things. So it continued to chase after Ragnarok. 

But its pursuit made it detect more things other than normal living things. It sensed the undead who are the primary target of its existence. Its eyes glowed for a longer albeit still brief moment. Then it gave up on Ragnarok and turned to the Vampires. 

The Vampires took off immediately when they sighted the abomination created by the law of order. They shouldn't have bothered to run because they might as well be standing still as it slaughtered them despite the fact that they were running. The Ghoul warped from one Vampire to the other. It disregarded speed and flashed around turning the Vampires into dust with a single touch.

It targeted the strongest first. Then it moved on to the weaker ones. It would warp to a vampire and simply touch them. Then it will unravel their existence by taking back the blood power that makes up their foundation. The Vampires turned into statues of ashes that broke apart once they hit the ground.

The Ghoul killed the Vampires quickly without much effort. There was no fighting it. It is after all something made to destroy them. The ghoul also got stronger the more it killed. The life force in the blood power that it absorbed strengthened it rapidly. Its eyes glowed brighter and brighter. Its range for warping increased from 1 kilometer to 10 kilometers and more. But it didn't chase after Ragnarok anymore.

The Vampires scattered so some of them managed to evade death eventually. That doesn't mean that they escaped. The Ghoul has locked on to every one of them. Nothing and no one can stop it from killing them apart from coming across a better target. 

Such targets include origin gods and primogenitors. If it doesn't come across any primogenitors or origin god in its hunt for the Vampires then it will turn its attention to other living things starting from Sovereigns of law. 

It is only after it has eliminated every vampire and living thing that it has locked onto or within its detection range that it will start to come after Ragnarok again. But that is unlikely to happen. The Underdark is full of Vampires and living things. Then there are the occasional primogenitors. It has a lot of targets here for it to be busy with for a long time. 

Ragnarok breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that he was not being chased anymore. "That was close. Now I have to make sure that the Vampires suffer what I have just gone through."

He has escaped for now. This short experience has given him quite a fright. It is mostly because he doesn't know much about the Ghouls. He doesn't know their strength and weakness so he doesn't know how to fight them. Fighting something dangerous in ignorance is bad. It is extremely bad if you can't even avoid the fight with the dangerous thing. 

The person that could have helped him couldn't. Soverick can't see past the energy cloud that is encapsulating the whole plane so he can't assist him with information. He had to get rid of the ghoul or risk losing more of himself. 

But now that he is free, he has to take advantage of the situation. People say he is selfish and he can admit that he has a sharing problem. But occasionally he becomes generous enough to share his pain and suffering with everyone. For starters, he must make sure that the Ghouls are not sealed up again. 

The only way to seal the ghoul that chased him is to put it in a confined space with only its current targets that it has locked onto. It will start to sleep when it has killed everything it can kill. That is unlikely to happen soon when the underground spaces are virtually connected to each other and are full of Vampires and familiars. But it happened before so it can surely happen again. 

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A/N: Ragnarok is patient zero so it is his duty to spread the disease. No one can call him selfish now.