GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

The army of soul fragments alone has surrounded the feeding ground. They formed a thick sphere around it so he is utterly surrounded. It is safe to say that he won't be able to escape no matter what. He is confident enough to bet on it.

He knows that the first great mother to reach here has been here for quite some time. He got it from the memories of the soul fragment that she was only waiting for others to come. They came and surrounded this place just for him. He is the man of the hour. But he is not happy about it.

He chuckled wryly and said, "The great mother is truly talented. She took the path of parasitism and unity. I am impressed."

He found out too late that there was more than one great mother because he missed a technique called soul parasite when he acquired information from the first soul fragment he encountered. It is a technique she created to overcome the problem he faced when he reached his limit of soul grafting.

The great mother was strong but she couldn't overcome the problem of quality after gaining energy from the Phoenix race. Soul prowlers can become stronger by grafting but that is only quantitative empowerment. She also reached her limit and she did so very early compared to him because her true soul was smaller than his.

If soul prowlers want qualitative empowerment then they must absorb souls directly. Unfortunately, it comes with madness. She bypassed that madness by fracturing her true soul to create a pure soul fragment without any memories. Then she used this soul fragment to parasitize other soul prowlers.

There were no memories within the parasites so there was no rejection from the target. Soul resistance can be likened to the reaction of antibodies to foreign bodies. If the foreign bodies can hide or camouflage themselves very well, then the antibodies won't be able to find them and attack them.

The great mother took advantage of the principle of resistance. She willingly cut off her soul and wiped the memories and her soul imprint on it so that there would be no resistance. Then she grafted the pure soul fragment onto a soul prowler.

A reverse grafting of the soul parasite onto the soup prowler became successful that way. The parasites would be contaminated with the memories of their host but the great mother would be able to siphon the soul essence of the host onto herself through the parasites.

This soul essence was pure because it was filtered by the parasite. She used the soul essence to grow her soul and attain qualitative improvement. Her success in overcoming her limit increased when she created soul viruses which are the opposite of soul parasites. The soul viruses are initially soul parasites but the great mother infused them with her memories and her soul essence after they have infiltrated the soul prowler.

This is done after the soul parasites have been accommodated by the host. It creates a deep level of invasion that eventually turns the host with the soul parasite into an entity that thinks it is the great mother.

All these great mothers that have besieged him were created this way. Several soul prowlers were parasitized. The parasitized soul prowlers succumbed to absorbing souls directly to make up for the inexplicable loss of soul essence. They turned mad but the great mother continued to feed them souls to consume directly while absorbing pure soul essence from them and pouring it into another soul prowler with a soul virus.

In this way, she used soul prowlers as farms for soul essence. She can't devour souls without madness so she forced others to take on the madness for her. It is an ingenious idea but that wasn't enough for her. She went further than that by using the soul essence to create several great mothers which she then grafted onto herself.

The great mothers are not like the grafted souls that he uses. They are clones of her in almost every way. At most, they are several versions of herself. She was able to achieve quantitative and qualitative evolution this way. She finally grew strong enough to break the barrier of the spiritual dimension. And now she is about to get him and walk further on the path of success.

He calmed down after reviewing his situation.

"I guess she wants to use the soul parasite on me. But it won't be easy. I won't give up without a fight and the black hole will protect me. It can last for thousands of years or even a couple of origin cycles. That is enough time to be rescued."

Unfortunately, he can't use Legion-1's domain in the spiritual dimension because there is no law matrix here. So he is between a rock and a hard place. There's not much he can do against the great mother but he is determined to fight. After all, if he gives up without a fight, then he will never win.

He decided to wait until the final moment when he had to fight to fight the great mother. That moment will be when the fragmented Origin god in the black hole finishes its resurrection.

From the memories he gained, he knows it usually takes around 10 to 100 Origin cycles depending on how strong the Origin god is. During that time, the gravitational pull will increase exponentially so it will be dangerous to fight close to the center. So as long as he stays close to the black hole, the great mothers can not approach him until it leaves the spiritual dimension.

The great mothers are strong but they are too big. The force of attraction of the black hole is too strong on them compared to him and they don't have soul force to resist. They will be consumed if they try to nab him now. That will give Legion ample time to come up with something to save him. Even one origin cycle of time might be enough for an opportunity to show itself.