GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?



He began speaking about the upcoming battle after explaining the divine ability of the Vipers.

"There are good news and bad news about the upcoming battle. First, the bad news. They have nine paragons. There could have been more, but that means the power of each one will be weakened. Nine of them is just perfect to put their power at the Sovereign level."

Paragons are stronger the more connections they have. The world fragment has limited their connections to a total of 3 million. The more paragons they have, the fewer connections each one of them can get and the weaker they will be overall. Instead, they chose quality over quantity. Everyone else is limited to the transcendent level while they are at the Sovereign level. 

"None of you can match them, so you will have to leave most of them to me. The second bad news is that the Vipers are stronger than us individually."

What he just said made every one of them frown, but they didn't interrupt him. It is one thing for the paragons of the Viper to be way out of their league. That is to be expected, or the sages wouldn't have decided to wipe out every single one of the Vipers. But saying that even the normal Vipers are stronger than the battle sage monkeys individually is bordering on insult.

The paragons are strong because of their divine ability. How, then, can the normal vipers without their divine ability be also stronger than battle sage monkeys with divine abilities? They would like to argue, but they have to take his word for it for now. He has to know what he is talking about. And if they don't agree, then they will just have to prove him wrong when they fight the Vipers.

"In the past, the ratio was at least two battle sage monkeys to one Viper, and that is when we had all the advantage. It was mostly worse than that when the conditions were normal. It could go as high as three battle sage monkeys to one Viper. The conditions are normal right now, so they are much stronger than us. All of you must expect a difficult fight."

He can see that they don't understand why he said what he said. So he began to explain his reasons.

"We may all be suppressed, but you know that we are not equal. Their body is much stronger than ours. We can match them for speed and reactivity right now, but the defense of the scales on their body is much stronger than ours. We have armor, and they have armor too. We use weapons, and so do they. So this fight will be difficult and prolonged."

He doesn't have any memory of the events that happened in ancient times. After all, his bloodline is fairly new. Fortunately, he found a lot of information about the Vipers in the core. He also found this information about battle sage monkeys too. He knows about the strength of both sides and can compare them with a certain level of accuracy.

"Now for the good news. We are also strong, and we have various powerful divine abilities, so the ratio is less than two to one. It is somewhere between 1 and 2. Some of us are also much stronger than them. I am referring to all of you here with crowns."

"You lot are heads and shoulders above other battle sage monkeys because of your talents, divine ability, and skill. This has made you above the normal Vipers too. Your strength will also increase when I upgrade your crowns to the Emperor rank."

That surprised them. They feel like asking him about what he meant, but he hasn't opened the floor up for questions, so they remain quiet about it. All of them kept quiet except one person.

Ghaster asked excitedly, "Really, eldest? Can you really do that?"

He has a king crown, so having an emperor crown will be great for him. There were only two emperor crowns, and he couldn't get those. He asked the question because he is used to questioning Soverick. Soverick may be their leader, but he is also his eldest. 

Litori gave him a glare, but he looked at her in confusion. He doesn't know what he did wrong. He doesn't even know that he did anything wrong. After all, he is just asking his eldest a harmless question. He has said much worse things to his eldest before.

"Yes, I can make the upgrade. Your amount of Lieutenants will also increase. They will have the power of kings too." Soverick answered the question, then he glared at Ghaster and said to him with a cold voice. "Don't interrupt me again."

Ghaster shrunk on himself. Soverick's glare is more meaningful than Litori's. That glare made him realize he had done something wrong even before Soverick said what he did wrong.

"As I was saying. You will become much stronger with the assistance of the world up to the level of a titan of law. That is not enough to match a paragon, but it will be more than enough to bully the normal vipers. You will become unmatchable by the normal vipers when I downgrade their crowns to the lowest Captain level."

That made them excited. Soverick's assurance that they would be of major use to the battle invigorated them and filled them with confidence. Some of them even thought to themselves that they would give fighting a paragon a chance to see just how strong the famed paragons are.

They still don't understand how transcendents like them can have the power of Sovereigns. Soverick might just be exaggerating. They believe that they should be able to do something against the paragons since they will get the highest assistance from the world.

Soverick continued, "And now for the last good news. The paragons are limited to 3 million connections. That means that no matter what, we will win as long as we kill every one of the Vipers."

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