GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

A new round of war started because of the tension between Transcendents and gods. Transcendents banded together and rebelled against their rule.

First, they asked to be allowed to leave the plane. Their request was denied as it has always been done in the past. But unlike the past, things didn't end there. The transcendents attacked the seal on the planar portal in a bid to escape the rule of the gods.

Kilorita killed the first batch of transcendents

who dared to touch the seal. But it didn't quell the uprising. It only made more transcendents angry. Some Celestials also began to help the Freedom Fighters which strengthened their resolve and made them bolder.

The population of the plane is at an all-time low which means that the Celestials are also competing with each other. The only one not competing for believers is Kilorita.

At first, the Celestials were glad that Kilorita wasn't competing with them. Their happiness was sullied when word reached them that Kilorita didn't disdain converting believers because she was friends with the Child of the plane.

The gods know that Kilorita is not confident because of her friendship with the child of the plane but because she is the child of the plane. That means she is the one taking their powers when they suddenly feel weak. So her disdain for fighting for believers is her looking down on them.

Not only that, her schemes were exposed by the Freedom Alliance so the world knew that she killed the child of the plane to take his power. They were enlightened with the true reason why Kilorita attacked a Celestial city on the day when a lightning storm appeared in the plane. It was an attempt by her to get rid of that Celestial.

The Celestials didn't believe it at first when the Freedom Fighters leaked the news to them. But they confirmed it after cooperating to confront her.

They accused her of trying to eliminate them and asked for an explanation for why she tried to kill the Celestial of Knowledge. She ignored them at first and called them delusional but they were insistent.

They kept disturbing her and spreading rumors about her to her believers. So she suppressed them by weakening them and then she beat them up.

She sent them running with a sound beating in front of the whole plane. Then she declared that she was Supreme forever.

She did it to teach them a lesson and establish her position as the undisputed strongest. She succeeded, but it made the Celestials begin to sabotage her.

The Celestials knew that they couldn't attack her directly. But they were not willing to have her lord her power over them forever so they chose to empower a tool to use against her. The best tool was the Freedom Fighters. So the freedom fighters gained assistance from the gods which empowered their terrorist activities.

Churches were burned, pilgrimages sabotaged, and priests and believers were killed. All the gods took a huge blow to their faith because the Freedom Fighters attacked all the churches indiscriminately. The Celestials told them to do so to look innocent.

This move not only allowed them to avoid Kilorita's wrath with their suffering, but they also used this innocence to grieve and complain to Kilorita until she was compelled to allow the transcendents to leave.

Kilorita opened the seal so that the transcendents could leave. But the freedom fighters were not content with that. They attacked the seal from within to destroy it. Kilorita tried to stop them but the other Celestials intervened.

Kilorita was very angry. She sneered at the Celestials and said, "So you have finally shown your true colors. You have been colluding with these ruffians. You caused the deaths of so many people. For that, you will be punished."

The Celestials didn't feel guilty. They shouted back at her in defiance. "Don't think we don't know what you did. We know you invited a demon of pestilence into the plane."

"That's why there were no divine traces and why the disease was after godhood."

Kilorita was stunned. She asked, "What kind of nonsense are you spouting?"

"At least admit it. You are so powerful now. The least you could do is admit it. Don't take us for fools."

Her confusion changed to anger. "Not only have you committed so many atrocities, you think you can also accuse me falsely? I will teach all of you your place."

The Celestials fought with Kilorito to prevent the seal from being saved. They couldn't beat her but she also couldn't stop the destruction of the seal while fighting them.

They did this so that the plane would be open to the ancient battlefield. The gods wanted an invasion badly. They wanted something to change the status quo. They were hoping that the transcendents would grow stronger and return to fight for power. It was a dangerous move but they were desperate to eliminate her hold over them.

The Celestials didn't like it when the Razor was stealing their power but they couldn't do anything to him because they didn't even know who the child of the plane was. They know now and are not going to allow the strongest person to go further at all costs.

Nothing happened for many years. None of the transcendents that escaped returned. But some battle sage monkeys appeared one day. They inquired about the situation of the plane and the gods were very willing to let them know that their Celestial Supreme is a tyrant who gained power by orchestrating a disaster.

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The squad of the bloodline of the lion of justice from the Virut plane learned of some of these events when they asked around.

"So you are saying the disease is all a scheme by the Celestial Supreme to gain more power?" Jarkon asked.

"Yes." A priest of the Celestial of War said. "We received information from Razor's friends. Razor was the previous child of the plane but he was killed by his mother and his title was stolen by her. But he told his friends some secrets before he died. He said that the so-called disease was actually a demon."