GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

If anyone cares about the plane enough to want to stop him then they will come to fight him. He doesn't need to go looking for them so he made himself comfortable in the center of the all-devouring whirlpool. He said to himself, "It is a pity really. To be a dragon and to be the weakest one. But Legion-8 will never have that problem."

The fountain of life is a majestic dragon. But it is giving up. It is not just giving up the fight, it is giving up its hope and its future. It is a dragon of life and it wants to strengthen itself. So it combined the law of creation with its divine ability. 

That was too much for its dragon heart to bear so now it needs the life crystal that Mother High Heaven used to seed the plane, supply mana at the beginning of the plane, and manipulate life within the plane to strengthen its inner world. 

The life crystal is precious. Origin gods have to pay a lot of wealth to get it from Mother High Heaven. The alternative is to somehow steal it from her. It is difficult to steal from the Will of the realm but it is possible. The fountain of life was making a lot of progress in it too. 

Then the demon god came along. The plane suffered when the light of the sun was blocked. The temperature of the plane fell, and many plants and animals died. It set back the progress of the fountain of life for many Origin cycles. 

What's worse than the infection of Vampires in the plane is that the ghouls came with the Vampires. The ghouls threatened the fountain of life's plan far more than the Vampires so it had them sealed. Then war broke out between the wood elves and the Vampires. 

Fortunately, things eventually settled down when a new equilibrium was achieved. But then he came along and ruined everything. He released the ghouls again and now he is going so far as to destroy the plane completely. 

100 origin cycles worth of effort will go down the drain. It made Ragnarok feel pity for the fountain of life and pride for Legion-8. He felt pity because the fountain of life reminded him of Gehaldirah. That was where he started too. The weakness of the law of life that high elves had made him decide to overcome his weakness and helped him to reincarnate.

He has come a long way from then. Now he is proud of himself and Legion-8. He is specifically proud of Legion-8 because the dragon clone will not need a life crystal to strengthen his inner world just to fuse two high laws. Legion-8 doesn't have the weakness of dragons. And without that weakness, Legion-8 will become limitless.

He decided not to bother with the fountain of life anymore. Instead, he looked up at the sky and shouted, "Take a good look at your creation o powerful demon god."

He spread his fore paws wide and said, "I am your creation but I was referring to the plane. The destruction of the plane is my fault but my existence is your fault so the destruction of the plane is your fault. I hope the Carnage that I have wrought pleases you."

He is standing at the bottom of a whirlpool. The whirlpool is formed beneath him by the flow of the earth towards him. It is formed above him by the howling wind being dragged into him. So it is as if he standing at the center of a sinkhole in the sky and the earth. Both the earth and sky are sinking into him.

There is a tornado above him that is funneling the air and the skies towards him. Beyond the whirlpool is a broken world. The skies are dark because of the heavy-laden storm clouds. The entire plane is dark too and would be dark even if there was nothing blocking the sun.

But darkness is the least of the plane's problems. The weather is violent because of all the storms tearing the plane apart. Lightning bolts of various colors are failing from the dark storm clouds to the ground. The ground is further cratered by the discharge of energy in the lightning bolt. 

The whirlpool is widening and so is the tornado in the sky. Soon they will cover the entire plane and consume it. Then there will be nothing left of the Lumen plane. 

"See all this Carnage that I have wrought and marvel." He said proudly. "You should be proud of me. I could never have gotten to this point without you. You wouldn't give me a path to survival. You wouldn't let me leave the plane. You wanted to subjugate me. So now I will make sure we will lose it all."

He had once said that the plane would be destroyed before he willingly accepts someone as his master. He had said it to Rinoz when she came to offer slavery to him. The demon god heard him say it back then but it definitely didn't think it was possible. Now it will come to pass. 

He said triumphantly, "If I am to die, then everyone and everything is going down with me. Nobody will gain anything now. For I am Ragnarok. I am the world ender."

Ragnarok laughed maniacally after his speech. His voice cackled as he lost himself to laughter. But no one could hear him. His speech was drowned out by the sound of the world dying. All everyone could hear was the roaring tempest and the thunderclaps. There is too much going on in the world for him to be heard. 

There is the sound of the earth splitting and rifts in the ground expanding. There is the sound of the wind howling as violent storms twist and churn. There is the sound of thunderclaps and the explosion they made when they touched the ground. There is also the sound of fire raging and consuming as it spreads throughout the plane. 

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A/N: Bonus chapter for those sweet sweet golden tickets.