GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Aeternus finally relented, "Fine. I will target the Will of the realm first."

Soverick added, "You can do that after the era of conquest, not before."

Legion-9 snickered, "If the realm is still in existence after the era of conquest, the realm lord will be a world god by then. That means the you will have two entities with the power of world gods to contend with."

Aeternus groaned while Ragnarok said, "Two world gods are still easier than the Will of the realm."

Aeternus is currently the strongest clone, but he listened to the other clones. It is because they are one, and they are right. What they said was reasonable. But that didn't stop him from craving for Authority.

Authority is his obsession as part of Legion just as Cosmic force is the obsession of Legion-5 and prophecy is the obsession of Soverick. The three of them have to pursue their obsession for Legion, but they have to do it in a way that won't endanger Legion.

So Aeternus had to rethink his plan. He didn't think about creating Authority at all because he was more intent on stealing the Authority of the void universe for himself than trying to make Authority for others. He can afford to make something like the heart of Carnage, easily, but it is not worth it because he won't gain anything from it.

In a way, his ability to create Authority is similar to how demon gods create races by sharing their power. But demon gods share their power so that the mark of sin that they fused with will grow and therefore increase their capacity.

It is giving to receive more. Vampires commit a lot of carnage and hence increase CARNAGE's capacity for power.

Demon gods do this because they can't grow any longer, even if they consume or overwrite everything in sight. They have reached the limit of what their sin can take, so they have to expand their sin.

They don't create and share Authority because they are kind or because they are bored. Aeternus, on the other hand, won't gain anything from creating Authority since he doesn't have a Supreme Law because he didn't fuse with his mark of sin.

This is good because he won't be limited by his mark of sin. His lack of Supreme Law has made it so he doesn't need to create Authority or expand his sin. He can grow stronger on his own. The best source of strength he can think of, apart from eating, is stealing Authority from the Void Universe.

When coupled with the fact that sharing Authority won't give him strong subordinates immediately and he doesn't even need strong surbodinates for physical assistance, it has made him decide not to bother with it at all.

So unless he succeedingly becomes kind or becomes bored, he is not inclined to spend cosmic energy to create subordinates. He would rather hunt demon gods, consume their supreme law derived from their mark of sin, and use that to add more cosmic energy to his existence and grow stronger.