GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

It is not their fault that they are so shortsighted really. They are still young so they haven't learned to have a perspective that considers far-reaching consequences. Even now, it is still difficult for them to fully understand the ramifications of the war on them.

Fortunately, there are some things that are very easy to consider and understand right in front of them. Those things are short-term benefits but it is enough for them to question whether they would be involved in this war or not.

Someone asked in agitation, "Are we just going to watch as an army of millions just passes us by without doing anything?"

The Celestial of Light and Justice had expected that the other Supreme Beasts wouldn't help the shadow of Despair because of how he treated them earlier. The Celestial was right but he didn't consider that some of them were tempted to intervene. He didn't consider that they might intervene to help themselves.

"This is too much to pass on. We should do something. We can't let this opportunity go."

Another Supreme Beast said with longing, "Imagine how many points we might get from this army."

Their imagination ran wild. They didn't have to employ too much mental power to conjure up the image of the benefits of so many people available to be killed. The army is right there outside their base and the mission list that shows how much point they will get for the kills in the plane is also there for them to be truly informed.

The mental stimulation became too much for them to bear. After all, they are currently point-starved and they also have a deadline of one year of strength acquisition to meet. So the people with this opinion couldn't hold themselves back. They were rearing to go. But there are those that can hold themselves back.

These people said, "Forget about the points that we might get. Let the two of them fight first. Then we can pick off the weakened survivor."

It was the female Supreme beast who was angry at the Shadow of Despair for stealing her points. She had tried to rally support then but she failed. She had also failed to resist the Shadow of Despair and received a terrible beating for her attempt at "cheating him out of his rightful rent." Or so he said.

So she is still very angry and would very much like to see someone else beat the Shadow of Despair. She is intelligent enough to understand that the war might be bad for the rest of the Supreme Beasts but she wants the Shadow of Despair to be beaten. He doesn't even need to feel too much pain. A little portion of the pain she felt as he used a whole golem as a club to beat her would be enough for her.

Unfortunately, wishes aren't horses. There are some people that just won't let her have her way. That person asked, "What if the two of them make peace? What if the Shadow of Despair doesn't have enough points? Where is he going to get enough points?"

Those are important questions that elicited critical thinking in the young Supreme Beasts. It helped that the questions were straightforward and simple. The answer was clear to the dumbest of them.

"Yes. What if the Shadow of Despair capitulates and recruits this Celestial? Are we just going to watch and do nothing while that happens? The shadow of despair will become unstoppable then."

They knew what the true purpose of the war is and now they know that the war is not bad for the Shadow of Despair alone. There is an outcome of the war that they don't want to see. If there is any of them that can manage to pay enough points to recruit the Celestial, it would be the Shadow of Despair.

The Shadow of Despair is already a force beyond them. The addition of the Celestial's force to his will make him unstoppable. Are they to allow it to happen? Even if they want to allow it to happen, are they also going to give up on the opportunity to make points that have been presented to them on a platter of gold?

The Celestial of Light and Justice planned for a lot, but the lack of information would be his doom. His foolproof plan has become a shoddy and hasty thing because he doesn't know what exactly gives the Supreme Beasts points.

The Celestial doesn't have access to their mission list so he doesn't know that there is a mission to kill as many as possible inhabitants of the plane. Each million deaths will grant them one point.

This mission is something that is normally together with the subjugation mission. Supreme beasts can't just go about killing without facing resistance from the inhabitants of the plane. And a single Supreme beast will find it very difficult to kill a million people alone unless they are in the one-man army class.

That's why they are sitting still for now while they are building an army of their own. But here is an army that has left the safety of their cities and fortresses transversing through the plane. All they have to do is attack from the sides to gain some kills. Nothing could be better for them. They need every point they can get after losing some to the Shadow of Despair.

The Celestial of Light and Justice doesn't know that he is dangling a piece of good meat to hungry jackals. His army is like a long snake meandering along the plane in a single direction towards Legion-5. And there are a lot of supreme beasts that are in desperate need of points surrounding this snake.

What increased the temptation further apart from their defenseless state is that most of the army is composed of Mana entities. There are transcendents and even Sovereigns of law that joined in because they feel that they have a higher chance of gaining citizenship this way. But they are few in number. The rest are weak. That makes this army easy pickings.