GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

"I will gain data about how your soul interacts with chaos energy and the changes it undergoes in your struggle with it. I won't get access to your thoughts or anything. And any information I acquire cannot be used against you as a realm lord. The monitoring will end once you die or if you manage to beat chaos energy back."

It was a tempting offer. Legion-3 suspected that the realm lord the law of will be getting a lot of advantage if he gives his permission. So he overcame his fear of the realm lord to ask for more.

He knows the realm lord can't outright kill him but that doesn't mean he has the right to offend such a terrifying person. It is not a wise action to do at all. It was with this caution that he asked for the two most important things to him.

"I want you to rescue my Original body and give me something that can help with this chaos energy."

Those are the two most important things to him right now. The original body is still being chased by Origin gods from the stone skin race that intend to use his body to make a top-grade Origin weapon. Rescuing him will mean that Legion-3's existence was not in vain.

As for the second request, if he gets something to help with the chaos trying to corrode his soul, he might have a chance at actually fulfilling the aim for his reincarnation.

The realm lord nodded. "Good requests and also easy to fulfill. Saving legion-1 will be easy to do. Giving you something to help out with your struggle with chaos is also in line with my plan. It won't do if you die on me. I would very much prefer it if you survive. Is that all?"

"Yes," Legion-3 replied.

Then the realm lord snapped his fingers. "All done. I have placed the chaos vessel into your inventory and I have rescued legion-1. The chaos vessel can store chaos and can also be used as a weapon. It's two in one. Mind you, it is a prototype, it might not fix your problem. Chaos energy is rare to encounter and survive. So the chaos vessel is based on theoretical data, but it will certainly help. Now your turn."

A contract appeared within Legion-3's mind. It required permission for monitoring his state and will last until chaos energy stops bothering him or he dies. The details of the benefits he is to get and the responsibilities of the realm lord concerning his privacy and safety were also outlined. He isn't to tell anyone about what he knows about the system until the realm lord becomes a world god.

First, legion-3 informed all the others about the realm lord's relationship with the system and the need to keep contact with each other minimal so that it will reduce the risk of information leakage once he activates the monitoring system. Then he signed it with his demon name instead of his identity within the collective that is Legion.

"It is nice doing business with you." The realm lord said before he was gone.

He went away happy with the deal. He would have paid more honestly, but it will be highly suspicious of him. The monitoring of the interaction of an eternal soul with chaos energy has important research value but even more important is making Legion participate in his project when he is done with it. But he made it a reward to mask another one of his intentions for the deal.

The participation of Legion in his project will allow him to collect some more precious data. It is true that he can't harm the children of the high heaven realm unless they warrant it and only outside the realm can he even harm them, but that doesn't mean he can't offer them something good that can also harm them. The privilege to be a part of his project is beneficial, but it is also highly dangerous. It will be up to legion-3 to keep himself safe and not be torn apart.

Legion-3 checked his new inventory. It is a special enclosed space with its coordinates attached to his system instead of his soul. It couldn't be attached to his soul because he is a demon and demons scramble spatial artifacts unless they are reinforced by the will or energy of the abyss.

Inside the space is a huge two-handed sword. He tried to access it but remembered that he couldn't. It would need him to remove a portion of his concentration to the item but that will mean a reduced defense against chaos energy. It wasn't a risk he was willing to take with something that might not work.

So he decided to wait. He could give up and attempt reincarnation again but he still has time. It hasn't even been an Origin cycle yet. He also had a purpose to be fulfilled. No clone of Legion was reincarnated at a whim. They all have their purpose to be fulfilled to the collective. It was for his purpose that he stayed in the same spot for over 40 years.

His wait wasn't spent idling about. He tried to look for more efficient ways to resist Chaos and the only thing that came to mind is Order. He hadn't comprehended the law of order so he decided to substitute it with some other laws. He started utilizing the few laws that Legion knew to give order to chaos.

Life: 100%

Earth: 100%

Water: 100%

Air: 100%

Death: 100%

Fire: 100%

Light: 1.2%

Darkness: 1.1%

Space: 1.2%

Slaughter: 73.5%

The law of life, his major specialty, failed spectacularly. Life only seemed to cause chaos to advance for some reason. Death on the other hand restrained chaos.

The behavior of the two laws was eye-opening to him. He had always thought that life was on the side of Order and that Death should encourage chaos, but it is the opposite. Life creates entropy, which increases Chaos while Death siphons entropy.