GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Legion-7 managed to rush to where her body was because of the lack of resistance. Freedom was at some distance away. But then the soul fragments collapsed around him. They overwhelmed his repulsive field and trapped him. The great mother formed again with him at the center.

He fought well. He did. But it was already over when he was surrounded. That verdict has seen the light of day now that a great mother has formed her body around him. He has been caged by her body. This is a body as large as a plane.

Still, he didn't give up. Soul force is the toughest and sharpest tool at his disposal or the entire spiritual dimension for that matter. He used it to great effect in destroying the soul fragments that trapped him. But no amount of damage to the soul fragments can affect the eye.

The white eye is the main body but he is too far from the eye to damage it. There are too many soul fragments between him and the eye. It is like destroying the ground of a plane in order to damage the sky of the plane. It can work, but he will need to destroy the whole plane. Then there would be no more sky.

However, even that prospective difficulty didn't make him give up. He was willing to destroy every soul fragment to harm the core of the great mother. After all, it is the best he could do in his situation.

He succeeded in destroying a lot of them but more soul fragments clumped onto him and blocked his way. They formed a tightly sealed shell around him. Some other special soul fragments were mixed into this shell. He destroyed some of them but many managed to get close to him and attach themselves to him.

There was no resistance because they were pure soul fragments without memories and with adaptable soul imprints. They grafted themselves onto his cocoon without his active participation. Then they rushed towards his true soul in the center of the honeycomb cocoon.

"You're already trying to enslave me so soon? At least, say some sweet words to me first."

He was joking but the great mother took his request seriously. She said to him, "I have never seen a soul as beautiful and precious as yours. You will be the prize of my collection. We will achieve greatness together. Nothing will be able to stand in our way."

Those were indeed sweet words but Legion-7 remained stubborn. He protected his core soul with soul force so the soul parasites couldn't infect him. Then he tried to push them away from himself but that failed. He noticed that they were even siphoning his soul force away instead of being rejected.

He heard the great mother as she siphoned his soul force through the soul parasites, "Give up your resistance. Join with us. Achieve greatness together with us."

Legion-7 didn't give up. He continued to resist with soul force even in the face of the loss. At the same time, he began to use divine life energy to strengthen himself. As long as he is still alive, he will continue to resist.

His use of divine life energy didn't only strengthen him, it created the light of hope once again. The attraction for a god spread outwards from him into the spiritual dimension. It brought very hungry and very angry soul prowlers to his position. A fight then ensued as the soul prowlers tried to get to him.

Unfortunately, his resistance is futile for the time being. The great mother has subdued him and she has even gained access to soul force. Her body became enveloped with the film of soul force. She got the soul force from him and she will continue to get more as long as he resists her soul parasites.

If he gives up, the soul parasites will get access to his true soul. She will be able to attack his soul directly through that. If he fails to resist her then, she will have forever. Either way, she is going to get him at the end of the day. His resistance is futile. The greatness of the great mother will be achieved through him.

In the meantime, she has become protected by soul force. It protected her from the waves upon waves of angry soul prowlers. He was already a tyrant with soul force. The great mother has become something much more dangerous with soul force. Nothing the soul prowlers could do could harm her.

Not only that, the clone that captured him shared that soul force with all her clones now. The changes that soul force brought to them were immediate. They all began to grow rapidly.

The protection of soul force means that they are not losing anything to the spiritual dimension anymore. So all the energy that the phoenixes are sending to them can be maximized for their growth.

That is just quantitative growth. She is already working on achieving qualitative growth by trying to assimilate soul force into her flames of rebirth.

The great mother is getting ready for another evolution. It might propel her to the level needed for her to become capable of hunting the fragmented Origin gods. If she were great before, then she is about to become something greater. And it is all thanks to Legion-7.

Legion-7 spent his days as a laborer providing soul force to the great mothers. He is doing so unwillingly and without getting anything in return. He is a forced laborer. That is the definition of slavery.

In the meantime, the Tree Father managed to create a large cult in the Zargoth plane. He also succeeded in creating many churches in many other planes so faith was abundant.

Legion-7 was provided with a lot of divine life energy from the Tree Father which he used to become as strong as a Supreme Origin god. So he became strong enough to overcome the barrier of the spiritual dimension and leave.