GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

The lightning tribulation disappeared after losing its target. The host on the other hand isn't doing so well. Its existence has become burdened so its body is being overdrawn in order to contain Legion-7.

"This is not reincarnation. This body is not mine. It is rejecting me and it is dying." He observed.

"This is at best a shoddy possession. I doubt I can ever reincarnate again. I am too strong. No fetus will be able to handle me. I am doomed to forever escape and change hosts like clothes."

To call his situation a possession will be an overstatement. The reality of the matter is that he is trapped once again. He has exchanged the prison of the spiritual dimension for another prison. He did this to hide from the law matrix and its stubborn Will of the Universe.

The major difference is that this prison is temporary and can be discarded. Unfortunately, he can't discard it easily or risk punishment. As it is, he can't even extend his perception out of the host much less comprehend laws because that will agitate the law matrix. The best he can do to sense the outside world is to see through the eyes of the host.

Another difference between his host and the spiritual dimension is that this prison is very weak. The host is a mana entity but it can't withstand his existence at all. The soul of the host can't resist him so he possessed it easily. But the body of the host is still resisting him.

It is not exactly resistance. The body is bearing a load it was not made for. It is as if a vase made out of candle wax is being used to hold hot water. Just as the base will melt, this body is literally decaying because of him.

So this host is temporary. Even if he doesn't break out on his own, the prison will collapse around him. He has to find a new host soon. Or he will be exposed to the law matrix and it will become agitated again.

"Where am I?" he asked.

He doesn't know but his host should know so he began to rummage through the memories of his host. He is currently within the soul space of his host so he has access to its soul. He created a tentacle that he extended into the round white soul of the host. He used that as a channel to gain access to its memories.

He found out that his host was a Malekite. It is a race that descended from a fungi. If their ancestors had been plants, then they would be elves. They are not elves and they are not humanoid. Each one is a round ball of soft flesh with a hard core that contains its soul and consciousness. So they are more like elementals.

From the memories of the host, he found out that they are not the only races in the plane. In fact, they are not a major race or a particularly strong one. They are a minority race that just rose up.

Malekites are a young race. Their ancestor is even still alive. Their fungi ancestor who awakened became a god. And because the Celestial Supreme of this plane managed to merge the divine plane with the main plane, their ancestor became a landed god.

"A god. Is this what I find so palatable about this host?" he asked himself.

The host is not the only living being in the city he stumbled across. It is actually the only malekite in the city. But he chose the malekite because he felt a longing for it. Now he knows that this malekite is a believer of a god. It has a connection to this god that it believes in.

"This is exactly how Legion-9 screwed me over. But this time, I am the one on the hunt." He said in anticipation. "Let's see what a god tastes like."

He decided to follow the connection between the believer and the god. The soul of the host has formed a spiritual connection to this god due to the contract of belief. The host offers faith to the god, and in exchange, it gets to pray to the god.

The god might answer the prayer or not. It depends on the god but negligence from the god will reduce the amount of faith they get from the believer. Regardless of the situation, as long as the believer can pray to its god, then there must be a direct connection between the god and the believer.

Legion-7 made the Malekite pray to the god then. The host recited the honorable name of the god.

"Oh, Malekite, the ancestor of fungi-kind, the god of disease and plagues. I beseech you to bestow upon me your blessings. I pray that you…"

Legion-7 felt a kind of spiritual fluctuation. He said in understanding, "A prayer is just like the spiritual perception technique of the spiritual dimension."

A prayer is also a means of communication and it is direct and fast. It can work across any distance, unlike the subpar perception technique of the spiritual dimension. A spiritual entity like Legion-7 can sense this spiritual fluctuation clearly unlike others burdened by their bodies.

unlike others burdened by their bodies.

If a spiritual entity is as skilled in the manipulation of the soul as Legion-7, then it can do more with this spiritual communication.

Legion-7 extended a tentacle of soul force along the line of communication. He used the line to follow the prayer to its destination. The destination was the godhood of the ancestor of Malekites.

"Nice." He said. "I think my luck is starting to change for good."

He jinxed it by saying that. That's where his good luck ended. It came and went abruptly. He received a backlash as soon as he touched the godhood of the god.

Malekite the god of diseases and plagues roared in anger. "Who dares?"

She roused her divine power and godfire to reject the unknown influence on her godhood. The divine power slammed against the tentacle that Legion-7 had extended to the godhood.