GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

On top of the scales are the divine Stigmatas. They formed tattoos that have been etched deep into his existence. He has no face or eyes. His head just like the rest of his body is sealed tight within the armor so he looks like a knight wearing heavy armor.

The armor is truly heavy. It is made from crystalized graviton so it is very heavy. But he feels so powerful that he can't sense that heaviness.

"It seems I have lost my flexibility. I can't revert to my normal physique anymore." He commented.

Legion-7 informed him, "That is the price to pay for fusing with order."

"It will be worth it."

"The good news is that you won't die even if you fail. The bad news is that you will remain like this forever."

"Still worth it."

"I hope so. And I hope you have a solution for the stubbornness of order."

Not only has he lost the ability to shift his body, the law of order is not done with him yet. It is trying to lock up his soul and energy too. The divine ability that he gained from the giants of order has become too powerful and is going haywire. Even Legion-7 is about to be frozen.

Legion-5 said with expectations, "I hope Aeternus's crown won't disappoint me."

The crown of Chaos is very dangerous but it is all they have to curb the influence of the law of order. He doesn't want Legion-7 to have to forcefully destroy his world engine so he forced the crown to fuse with his inner world.

They don't know what will happen because he is the first being in the universe who possesses the crown of a demon king without being a demon. Other supreme beasts don't have his mutated divine ability that can fuse with anything apart from seeds of power.

To other people, the crown of the demon king cannot even be acquired unless the demon king gives it. That is the only way to get it because killing the demon king will make the crown disappear.

But no demon king is going to give up their power. Not even other demon kings of kings who have several crowns will give up any of their crowns. And even if they did, the crowns would be useless to other Supreme beasts because it would be like a rock to them and they can't assimilate a rock.

The crown is not a rock to him. It became an organ as soon as he assimilated it. It even wanted to turn him into a demon of sorts. Fortunately, the assimilation is not complete yet or the corruption from the crown would be irreversible.

"Please work out." He said as the slot with crown approached his newly created world engine.

If this doesn't work out, apart from losing his world engine, the crown of Chaos won't give him a good ending too.

Legion-5 could have assimilated any crown with any type of sin and it would have probably been safer to use other sins apart from true Chasi. But he chose the crown representing the Authority of Chaos so that he could match and neutralize the law of order within him.

This wouldn't have been a problem had he not used the godhood of a Celestial of Order to increase the power of his inner world. But he had to use the godhood of order because it is the only one that can fuse perfectly with the divine ability of giants of order and enhance it.

Their only confidence that everything will be alright is because Soverick said that they are not at risk of dying. They have cut off the flow of divine life energy and Chaos energy into both Legion-5 and Legion-7 so there won't be a repeat of the previous accident.

So they are fairly sure that Order and Chaos won't create big problems for him. Even so, they were watching with anticipation and fear as Legion-5 began fusing the crown with his inner world. This is because this is the point where they are sure that there will be a problem.

They don't have control over Chaos like Aeternus. Their souls have not been modified and they haven't comprehended the complete law of order so they certainly cannot control the crown or the outcome of the fusion at all.

They were right to be worried but for the wrong reasons. The fusion didn't happen. Their inner world refused to fuse with the crown. The crown slammed against the inner world and encountered resistance so it bounced back against their will.

"Fuse!" Legion-5 roared.

But roaring didn't help. The inner world refused to fuse. The crown is eager for the fusion. It would have clashed and fought with the inner world if it had the chance but the power of order has grown too much for Chaos to affect it.

Legion-7 observed, "Do we get another crown to empower Chaos?"

Aeternus sent another over crown before they agreed to use it. That action signified the intent of Legion as a whole so Legion-7 sent the crown into the slot containing the first crown of Chaos.

The first crown fused with the second one and became bigger. Then they tried the fusion with the world engine again. Unfortunately, the fusion still didn't work.

Both he and Legion-7 are trying their best to bring the two remaining slots together. But their effort is leading nowhere. So they did the only thing they thought could help apart from getting more crowns. They forced cosmic energy out of the inner world into the crown.

The crown of Chaos began to strengthen at a fast pace. It reached the maximum level of a demon king very quickly which enabled it to overpower the resistance of their inner world. The two of them began to fuse. Not only that, they didn't explode.

It made the two of them sigh in relief.

"Finally,"

"Looks like everything is going to succeed without a hitch."

They felt the stubbornness of order begin to fade as it was contaminated by Chaos. Their inner world had to find a balance with the crown so it stopped trying to freeze them. But then the unexpected came.

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A/N: Cue the ominous music.