GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

More than pride, she didn't want to join the fight against the Shadow of despair now because she wanted her fellow Supreme beasts and their alliance to suffer. They have been pressuring her and limiting her progress with their alliance so she wants them gone.

She is very dangerous so they wanted to get rid of her. It is only because the cost will be too much that they didn't attack her outright. At least not until they eliminate the Shadow of Despair. But they threatened her in the meantime. She had to keep her disease in check.

She could have disobeyed the alliance and killed more people in the plane but she didn't want to fight them because she is very easy to kill despite her ability to cause the extinction of all life throughout the plane.

She is not a warrior so she is not durable. She a hybrid of a one-man army and a special class that targets every intelligent being. But none of the great divine abilities she assimilated increased her survivability hence why she didn't fight with an alliance of Supreme beasts who know her weakness.

Things will be different when she becomes an Origin god and the threat of death is reduced or when she fuses her several divine abilities so that she can escape into her undead. But that isn't so now. She can't run away or they will destroy her base so she can only suffer under their pressure.

Their hold on her will surely be lost when they attack the shadow of despair and suffer loss. Then she will attack them all at once. They are in the same place so she can eliminate the majority of them and reduce the threat that they have on her.

She is already mobilizing her troops for the battle that will ensue after the Shadow of Despair falls. She is not the only one doing this because she is not alone in this thought. There are several other Supreme beasts aiming to take advantage of the situation. They want the fight to start and end soon so that they can rush in and reap the benefits. But the fight didn't start early.

The Shadow of Despair ignored his enemies as they assembled. He didn't do anything even after they assembled. Instead, he waited patiently for all of his resources to be sent out from his neighbor. He confirmed that they are really 10% with an Oath to that claim. Then he collected his 10 points.

He said to the tenant, "Very good. You have done well. I know that you are hoping that I will be defeated and your points returned to you but I appreciate your cooperation nonetheless. It is nice doing business with you."

The extorted supreme beasts didn't deny it. But he also didn't address the claim. He said, "It is my pleasure too."

Legion-5 felt amused. "I might return for that chat and delicacy that you offered. I assume I might be thirsty after the work I am about to put in."

The supreme beast chuckled and nodded. "It is likely so. After all, this is the first strenuous work that you are going to do in almost a thousand years now. If you survive it, you are welcome to come and chat with me. In fact, I will serve you hand and foot and fulfill any demands you have concerning food and drink."

He almost said that he would fulfill any of the Shadow of Despair's wishes but he changed it because of the bad feeling he has.

It is easy to promise things and it might look safe to promise servitude since it is unlikely for the Shadow of Despair to survive the beating that is about to come to him. But he stopped himself because he was not so certain about that outcome now that he had met with the Shadow of Despair again.

Others may not know it but he can feel his divine abilities shaking within him. It is as if they want to vibrate and break down. But they can't break down because they are immortal. Even so, he can't activate his divine abilities because of the situation.

He doesn't know why it is so. He would like to believe that it is because he is nervous but he knows that can't be true since he has gained perfect control over his body as a transcendent and perfect control over his concept as a Sovereign of law.

So he suspects that it is the Shadow of Despair's fault. However, he doesn't want to accept that explanation. After all, he has never heard of any divine ability that could cause that.

He might not want to believe it is caused by the Shadow of Despair but he is not going to join in attacking the Shadow of Despair because of this feeling. So he bid farewell to the Shadow of Despair and ran back into his base. He closed it up, locked it down, and raised up all his defenses. He became a tortoise in a very sturdy shell.

Legion-5 watched him go with a chuckle.

"You scared him." Legion-7 said.

"I didn't mean to. The divine ability of giants of order is too strong. Just its effect due to proximity is enough to render him meek."

"It is good that this rite of passage is about to end. A few more hundred years of you in this plane and this plane will become barren. You might not be able to hide it from the Supreme Alliance anymore."

"Yes. This plane has suffered enough. It is time to end its misery." Legion-5 said.

Legion-7 laughed. "I hope for the plane's sake, you won't end its misery the way Ragnarok put the Lumen plane out of its misery."

That made the two of them laugh. They chatted casually as the workers he sent for carried his resources to his base. He made sure that they were all gone and his bounty safe and secured before he turned to address the colossal elephant in the room.