GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?



The sage smiled to himself when he saw this. She is doing him proud. Her situation is very common to those with his bloodline. The ability to predict the future means that their enemies will always play into their hands no matter their decision. The outcome is inevitable. Either they hunt her and she kills them or they stop killing monsters and she wins. Either way, she comes out on top.

These three, Salvia, Salvin, and Salvini, are the ones most favored to match Soverick. These three are from the sage lineage but only Salvini awakened with the bloodline of the sage. One is enough anyways. There are other kings in other arenas. There is the Stone empress who turns living things that she gazes at into stone. The transformation to stone is gradual, it is not instant but it is insidious all the same. It takes root in you and won't stop until you turn into stone as long as she is looking at you.

There's the Unrelenting Justice also known as Jarkon. The unrelenting Justice gets stronger the stronger their target for justice is and this person has targeted Soverick for the crimes he committed commonly known as the Calamity of the child of the plane.

Most surprising of all is the Soul-Fire witch. She is a witch that is capable of burning anyone from the inside out. No defense has been capable of blocking her attacks. Salvos' gaze burns everything both defensive measures and the target. While the gaze of the stone empress can be defended by using an inanimate object but the attack of the soul-fire witch bypasses every defense. She is also known as Litori, the litter mate of the child of the plane.

The sage has a lot of tricks up his sleeve. He can use different ones based on the circumstances. His plans are intricate enough that he can accommodate failure. Even the failure of one of his most important pieces. He doesn't need them now because Soverick is doing his part nicely and beyond expectation. But there are those that can step into his shoes and do what must be done. They might not do it as well as him, but they will get it done.

Most of the talents designated as KINGs right from the start showed wonderful performances that proved that they earned their names. There are others who performed well too despite not being designated as a KING. One of them caught the Sage's eye as he roamed about the events of the challenge.

He muttered, "Interesting. I see the convergence of fate. It is a long time coming too. This is going to be good."

He can see two battle sage monkeys both of whom have ties to Soverick. The two of them are about to meet within an Arena in the challenge. Their meeting will change their destiny and might affect Soverick. The sage finds it interesting. So he decided to watch.

One battle sage monkey is traveling freely through the forest. She is traveling without any fear. Her head is held up high as she looks around imperiously. She walked confidently through the forest. Her pride and confidence come from the fact that she has not been defeated even once throughout the survival challenge and she doesn't think she can lose to anyone. 

She is not a king but she has the pride of one. This pride doesn't come from a baseless and unreliable opinion of herself. The results that she has had so far have proven time and time again that she deserves to be confident. The advantage that her bloodline has given her has made her near unbeatable in direct combat and luck has smiled on her. 

Things have been going quite well for her during this competition. The only time she ever felt fear is when she heard the feats that Soverick has acquired. Soverick's feats are enough to make a lot of people cower. Her more so than others. She truly finds them overwhelming to hear. But it is the sound and mention of his name that induces fear within her. 

Her body freezes involuntarily whenever she hears the title of the Child of the plane. An involuntary show of fear in a transcendent is a mark of trauma. Such a trauma has left a mark on her mind and consciousness. It is affecting her against her will and control. It used to be referred to as the heart devil.

She has bad reactions to Soverick and everything about him because she has had a very bad experience because of him. That event traumatized her badly. He defeated her and he defeated her soundly. It was not a defeat that she can talk herself out of or soften the blow with some jokes and excuses. That defeat left a shadow on her heart and it has remained so ever since. She has to defeat him and see him trampled beneath her feet to remove her heart devil or it will never leave. That's why she participated in this competition.

She is not a nameless person in the Virut plane. She has also received a title for her valiant exploits in the plane. The recent conflicts caused by the availability of origin energy in the plane and the differences in the ambient origin energy concentration have allowed several previously unknown individuals to come to light. Litori the soul fire is one of them and she, Ameglia the star of victory, is also one of them. She is confident because of her title but her title has not granted her confidence that she can defeat Soverick.

It is more accurate to say that her title has stopped granting her the confidence that she can defeat Soverick. She used to have confidence that she can take him on. She planned to use her bloodline abilities to bring down the child of the plane. So she joined others in camping outside the Ghastorix main city to fight him. He didn't show up to fight despite the clamor for it. It didn't surprise her. The Soverick that she knew had always been proud. So she gave up and left. That's what saved her life.