GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

The Celestial of Light and Justice fused with the domain of power and fire. The previous Celestial of Fire is a Celestial of peace like him so the fusion went well. It made him a level 4 Celestial without the title.

The gods wanted to celebrate the end of the war but they were still tense about the upcoming attack of the Supreme Beast. They are even more tense now that the in-fighting between the Supreme Beasts has ended. It ended in a victory to the Shadow Of Despair who just couldn't be killed.

The other Supreme Beasts had to surrender to the Shadow Of Despair after they realized the complete hopelessness of their mission. They are all recuperating their strength now. But their threat to the gods has reduced because their numbers have fallen.

"I have finally succeeded and I have secured my future." The new Celestial Supreme thought to himself smugly.

"Should I still betray the supreme alliance?" he asked himself.

He has enough strength to defend himself against the young supreme beasts now. At least, the gods can preserve their life so there is no need to betray the supreme alliance anymore.

On the other hand, there is the temptation of immortality that can only be acquired through betraying the Supreme Alliance. And he wants immortality very much. He wants it badly.

So he said to the phoenix. "Let us cooperate. We are willing to betray the Supreme Alliance but we will only go so far as to watch on and do nothing when you attack. We will not inform the Supreme Alliance of your visit or notify them of your invasion."

"That is the best that we can do for you. We have already made a contract with the supreme alliance which prevents us from joining in on any invasion of the attack."

The Phoenix replied, "That is good enough for the Phoenixes."

The Celestial Supreme smiled, "That is very good. We have a deal."

The arrangements were made and contracts were signed. The Authority of the Celestial Supreme was used as the foundation of their agreement so if the phoenix went back on it, she would be punished by the power of the whole divine plane.

The Celestial Supreme received an egg for his corporation. It is a soft gelatinous oval object with a red shell encrusted with sparkling gems. It looks very precious and valuable with a single glance at it.

The egg is supposed to grant him rebirth so it is more valuable than any previous stone. But he didn't fuse with it when he was given it. His reluctance is due to caution. He decided to wait and to see the effect of the Phoenix eggs on other gods before fusing with it.

The Celestials and great gods used the low gods to experiment with the Phoenix eggs. It is a dangerous experiment but the low gods had no choice in the matter. They are the lowest rung of gods so anyone can push them around.

It wasn't until the Celestials and great gods saw that the low gods that fused with the egg could always resurrect after their main body was destroyed that they decided to fuse with it.

The Celestial Supreme still wasn't completely satisfied. He interrogated the low gods about their situation and performed thorough physical and spiritual examinations on them. His examinations came up clean and the low gods all told him that everything was fine.

He was still suspicious of their claims since he didn't trust their word but he went ahead to absorb the egg into his existence. The temptation of immortality was too much for him to resist so he opened up his divine protection so that the egg would reach his divine soul.

The red egg melted into his godhood immediately. It felt to him as if the egg was liquid fire instead of solid. There was a tiny soul fragment in the egg but he didn't sense any threat from it so he consumed it.

He thought he consumed it. He didn't notice that it fused with his soul. All he felt was refreshment in his soul immediately after the two souls made contact. Then his colorless godfire was tainted by the red flame from the egg and he froze.

He remained frozen for a long while as a large quantity of unknown memories were injected into his mind. He doesn't have an immortal soul with an immortal soul imprint so the deluge of memories changed his consciousness and identity.

These memories were a flood in his mind. They eroded his mind, washed it clean, and they remodeled his consciousness in the likeness of his Savior.

He unfroze after a while. Then he smiled and said, "We have become one. We will achieve Greatness. Come to me immortal one. Resistance is futile."

His smile spread across his face in a manner that one might consider creepy.

-----Back To The Main Plane.

The fighting in the main plane had long since stopped. It ended with a sounding defeat of the resistance. They put up worthy resistance but the Shadow of Despair was unbeatable. He ground them little by little until he beat them within inches of their life. It was then that they gave up and handed over their rent. Of course, the Shadow of Despair tripled their rent.

Triple the rent is a blessing considering that he wanted to eliminate all of them and end the rite of passage. The only reason why he accepted their surrender at all was because the Invigilator announced the mission to end the era of conquest.

So he decided to keep them around while getting more points from them. He doesn't need the points but he made it a point to teach them a lesson not to cross him ever again.

The points can be used for a lot of things like buying Celestial godhood, life essence to increase his power and information about world gods and the realm tree. He even found out that the Supreme Alliance was planning to monopolize all the benefits of the era of conquest.