GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

He can even become strong enough to resist the great mother himself thanks to the supply of divine life energy and Origin energy he is getting from others. So his situation is not entirely hopeless.

He thought to himself, "How about using the black hole to resist the great mothers?"

He thought about going out of the feeding ground and dragging the great mothers into the black hole. But he didn't do it because it is too dangerous and it would reduce the time the black hole will stay in the spiritual dimension.

The black holes last long in the spiritual dimension because the healing of the fragmented Origin god takes time when it is only absorbing unaware soul fragments and weak soul prowlers. It won't take long to heal if it absorbs a lot of strong soul prowlers.

Something like the Great Mothers is surely big enough to shorten the duration of the black hole drastically. It will remove the time he has for safety and growth so he gave up on the idea. Instead, he focused on growing stronger. He can only rely on his strength so it is better to improve his strength now that he has time.

Unfortunately, that means he had to stop using divine life energy all the time. He is safe close to the black hole so he has time to grow. The amount of time he has is because strong soul prowlers won't take the initiative to throw themselves at the black hole. Not unless there is something they must get very close to the black hole.

It just so happens that there is such a thing. Soul prowlers want to get him at all costs and they disregard their safety to approach the black holes. He didn't know before but now he knows that soul prowlers will rush towards him like flames to a moth and be consumed by the black hole. The origin god will recover in record time thanks to their selfless sacrifice and rob him of his protection.

So he has to stop tempting them all the time. He decided to use divine life energy all at once instead of receiving a trickle from the Tree Father all the time.

The effect of his decision was immediate. He didn't know it but he stopped producing soul light and the temptation of his existence was cut off. Soul prowlers stopped coming to their deaths and the rate of recovery of the black hole slowed down. It bought him time for the other clones to get stronger.

Unfortunately for him, the great mothers had other plans. They noticed that he had stopped emitting the light of hope. They understood what he was trying to do and they would not have it.

"Resistance is futile," They said as they set off to capture soul prowlers.

He gained the knowledge of black holes from the great mothers so they are the highest authority on that aspect. He won't be able to cheat them out of their price.

They captured soul prowlers and fed them to the black hole. If the soul prowlers don't have the incentive to sacrifice themselves, the great mothers have enough incentives to make the soul prowlers sacrifice themselves.

Their actions made it so that he didn't even get a year of protection before the black hole had to leave.

The fragmented Origin god healed quickly. Then it ascended into the barrier of the spiritual dimension and disappeared leaving a defenseless Legion-7 surrounded by a pack of wolves.

Legion-7 sighed. "Let us get this over with then."

They clamored excitedly, "Resistance is futile. Join us and become great."

Legion-7 rushed in one direction and attacked. Several white vertical arcs of soul force shot out of him in the same direction. Behind him are whirring tentacles of soul force rotating at high speed and propelling him forward. In front of him are tentacles of soul force combined together to form a rotating drill. Beside him are spears of soul force shooting out in every direction.

He is going all out now. He even used the new technique that he just created. He activated a field of soul force to repel anything spiritual that came close to him. This field can be reversed to attract anything spiritual be they unawakened souls or soul prowlers to him.

He created the technique to mimic the attraction force of the black hole. But he doesn't want that now. Instead, he is using the repelling effect of the technique to keep the billions of soul fragments and the many great mothers away from him.

The great mothers attacked even as they swarmed him from all sides. The single eye on their heads shot out a beam of the flames of rebirth. These red beams rushed towards him with overwhelming might.

The repulsive field around him slowed down the beams and gave him time to dodge them. However, these also slowed him down because he was attacked from every direction and had to change his direction several times to avoid attacks from his front.

Even so, he survived their attack and managed to reach the edge of the encirclement. In front of him is a great mother with her wings spread wide. He is just 100 meters across while she is as large as a plane. So there's no way he can go around her.

"Freedom is on the other side." He said to encourage himself as he rushed forward with his primed drill.

The great mothers have the strongest defense in the spiritual dimension. So he expected resistance when his drill clashed with the defense of the great mother before him.

He didn't get any resistance though. The great mother scattered like the petals of a flower in the wind. Her giant body broke apart into soul fragments. All of these soul fragments are in the shape of feathers and are connected to the white large eye by white threads.

"What is she trying to do now?" He asked himself tentatively.