GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

It was because of the trait of preparedness that he survived the first sage's scheme against him in the Unified Skill Index. And it is because of this preparedness that he planned for a way to divert the disaster that would have occurred to them had the plan failed.

That contingency plan which is the same one they have in case CARNAGE escapes is to divert most of the calamity to the first sage. So even if the plan to use CARNAGE as fuel to kickstart their World Engine failed, they would have angered the first sage at most and had to limit their activities to the realm. That isn't much of a problem for them.

It is still a risky and dangerous plan that they executed only because of their trust in Soverick. If they can't trust themselves, who will they trust? If it were any other person who certified the plan and recommended it to them, they would have run away without turning back.

"Enjoy your rest for now Legion-7. We have a lot of work to do to put up my new and improved law matrix." Soverick said to Legion-7 before turning his attention to analyzing CARNAGE to help Aeternus with the comprehension of the law of Chaos.

They have just finished a plan that took hundreds of years of work. They are tired so they are going to rest a little. Of course, they won't be wasting their time during this rest. They will just do less intensive and dangerous things like developing themselves before they resume building the world fragment.

Legion-5 asked Aeternus, "What did the demon god of Wrath give you for selling the coordinates of the Lumen Plane to it?"

Aeternus replied, "He promised never to harm me until the end of the era of conquest and to protect me against GREED during the era of conquest."

Legion-5 chuckled. "What a fortunate demon god. WRATH is lucky that he wasn't the one that took the bait."

AETERNUS added, "It is also good for us that WRATH didn't fall into our trap. I will have a protector during the era of conquest against GREED. GREED won't be able to interfere with our plans then. Better CARNAGE than WRATH."

Legion-5 nodded in agreement. But he still complained, "Still, the price of the coordinates of a plane for protection seems to be too high. Is WRATH the greedy one all along?"

Aeternus chuckled at that. "It might be because I antagonized the demon gods during the setup of the Abyssal Coalition."

Legion-7 agreed. "If I were WRATH, I would be pissed at you too and ask for an exorbitant amount to protect you."

Legion-5 snickered, "WRATH didn't gain anything at the end of the day so his attempt to fleece us failed."

AETERNUS also chuckled. "I am sure WRATH will be very wrathful because it missed out on a world spark. It will be doubly wrathful when it finds out that it was all a trap."

They all laughed just thinking about it. The thought that they manipulated beings stronger than them and dared to trap one is truly an amusing pastime. If it weren't so dangerous, then they would do it more often.

WRATH didn't find the Lumen plane by chance. Its coordinates were leaked to it. The Origin gods of the Lumen Plane were bitter about the loss of their plane but they were not bitter enough to find a demon god to leak the location of their plane to a demon god. Even if they were that bitter, Aeternus had already made a deal with WRATH before they could attempt it.

Aeternus is wealthy. He doesn't lack normal things and the WRATH can't give him what he lacks. WRATH doesn't even have a world spark while they are willing to use a world spark as bait to trap demon gods. It is safe to say that WRATH doesn't compare to them in wealth. If not for its power, then they wouldn't have needed to bait it too.

Aeternus asked for protection from WRATH. WRATH thought it was doing Aeternus a favor but it didn't know that it too was being targeted by them. Legion prepared for a lot of alternative outcomes. WRATH didn't come to the Lumen plane just to make CARNAGE give up on the plane and to make CARNAGE preoccupied. WRATH was also an alternative target for their trap.

If by chance, CARNAGE didn't go after the world spark because it was suspicious, WRATH would have surely gone after it. The presence of WRATH would have surely compelled CARNAGE to also go after it. Either way, at least, one of them would have taken the bait and fallen into the trap.

If it was WRATH that fell into the trap, then Legion would have had no need to worry because WRATH swore not to harm Aeternus no matter what Aeternus did. At the time WRATH took that Oath, it didn't think there was anything a demon king could do to harm it. And the Oath had a deadline. So it was willing to swear the Oath for a chance to deal a massive blow to CARNAGE.

That Oath would have led to its enslavement within the world of Legion-1 had it taken the bait. And he wouldn't do anything to them even if it broke out because it would be harming Aeternus.

Legion-5 said proudly, "We are getting closer and closer to greatness. One of us might not be able to achieve it, but together, perfection is made possible. For we are Legion."

Aeternus and Legion-7 finished his sentence for him.

"And Legion is seeking perfection in numbers. To acquire perfection as one."

Some might say that they courted death with their risky plan and those people would be right but those people would never be able to achieve what they achieved. It is because they have such a dangerous hobby that they can break their limits and the limits of what's possible in the void universe.