GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

The fight wasn't what they were expecting but it was entertaining nonetheless and it has the potential to lead to a lot of more entertaining things. Helios might be angry with them. It is something to celebrate about. It has been a while since they had a rebellious transcendent. It will be fun to watch him hunted down. They can even compete among themselves to see the first one to kill him.

That's what the gods thought. They were excited at the prospect. Only Harkam could keep his calm. He just can't admit that Helios is worthy even if he is to be hunted for sport.

He said to the gods dismissively, "He wasn't that impressive. It is just a demigod bullying a normal transcendent."

He claimed that the fight was impressive but Harkam isn't impressed. If Helios has become a transcendent then it is normal for him to destroy a Colossus easily. It has never been done by any demigod but it is theoretically possible so it is not impressive that Helios did something that no one has ever done.

A Colossus is a transcendent too but they are weak compared to demigods because they don't have Origin energy to use their full power. The fact that Helios couldn't penetrate the skull of the Colossus the way he penetrated the ant mound is proof of their potential.

Demigods that become transcendents are more powerful because they have divine power from their godly parents to augment themselves. The situation will be the same even if there is Origin energy. Demigods will always the advantage of divine power.

The only way for normal transcendents to bridge the gap is with the use of laws. So it is unfortunate that giants of Order can't use laws. They are screwed either way with or without Origin energy. Demigods beat normal transcendents because of this handicap. It doesn't happen so grandly as Helios did it but Harkam will stick to his guns and remain unimpressed.

What he is perturbed about is how Helios broke through. Last he knew, Helios was betrayed and offered up. So how had his captors allowed him to break through? There's no way the ant queen who is a demigod, will not know when someone is breaking through around her. If Helios had broken through in the army camp, all the gods would have been aware of it. The fluctuations of divine power will be obvious.

"Good for him."

Harkam gave up when he couldn't come up with a good reason. Maybe the queen was negligent or Helios was lucky. It doesn't make a difference to him. Even the fact that Helios just killed a Colossus of the church of order didn't seem odd to him, only interesting. There have been a lot of weird things happening lately. The Celestial Supreme froze the mortal realm just recently. So this seemed mildly odd but very interesting.

The person that it bothered the most is the Celestial Supreme. While everyone is excited about the fight he is more concerned about the implications of the fight. He sensed that Celestial aura around Helios very clearly. It was as clear as day. But there was no Celestial. Or at least, Helios does not look like a Celestial. And yet, his Stigmata contains the divine will of a Celestial god. So where did Helios get help from?

The divine plane hasn't acknowledged a new celestial after Stelios so that means that Helios is in touch with a previous Celestial. It couldn't be the god of fate because of their contract. It shouldn't be the sun god because the coward is hiding away but the celestial aura felt like the power of the sun.

It couldn't be the hidden god because he has confirmed that it is related to plant life not the sun and the hidden god is not a Celestial.

'I am so confused right now.' He groaned and massaged his forehead.

The Colossus he sent was supposed to answer questions and not increase them. He still doesn't know what's going and he doesn't have an inkling of it. If there's one thing that he is certain of, it is that the hidden god is not a Celestial god. He already knew that, but his estimation of the ability of that new and unknown god has begun to rise.

"Nothing I could have done would have made me avoid this. Two Colossi would not have been able to hold their own against him."

One of the things that he would have liked to avoid apart from the death of his Colossus is letting Helios live. Everything else is irrelevant in this situation apart from the strength that Helios exhibited. He saw a lot more than the other gods saw and what he saw made him realize that he couldn't have expected that outcome and nothing would have changed if he had done things differently.

He planned to hit the ant mound with two instead of one Colossus when he suspected that a plant spirit will be there. There is one for each of the 100 mana entities so there might be one at the ant mound too.

He is not one to take chances so he was about to tell the enforcer to turn back and wait for reinforcement when he noticed that the plant spirit was leaving. More like it was running away. The plant spirit picked up speed and left the ant mound as fast as it could. It was running towards something or away from something.

"Maybe the hidden god values the vessel too much to endanger it. Anyway, this is enough for me."

Back then, he didn't think too much about it. The action perplexed the Celestial Supreme but again, there was nothing he could do about it. So he sighed in relief that the plant spirit that he was worried about won't be there to stop him. Recent events have shown that he should have been worried. He should have been very worried.