GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

That's the advantage of the path of the Alphas. It is their reward for the duty of building a settlement for their people and growing the population. As for Omegas, their path is the killing path. Instead of killing and going on a rampage, he has helped Sauron build his pack. It is the best decision for him but it helped Sauron more than him so it feels like he is working for someone else.

"This sucks." He thought to himself.

He wants to go on a rampage. His inner beast wants it too but he knows that he shouldn't. He is not a fool. Sauron is already powerful like this. If Sauron had his full divine ability then he would be able to break his limit and become much stronger. That means Sauron will go on a rampage. He will begin to kill pack leaders wantonly because it is prey at his level that will strengthen him the most. 

That will in turn raise a red flag which will bring the might of the wood elves if noticed. These are the same wood elves that cursed the Warrogs in the first place. Drawing their attention won't end well.

The rules of war and engagement were not initiated by Warrogs. Normal Warrogs are violent. They kill what they defeat. But the wood elves crippled them and also gave them rules that they must abide by. Breaking the rules is an indication that someone is becoming violent and needs to be put down. 

So if he doesn't control his impulse and his yearning for quick strength then he will draw unwanted attention to himself. So he has to suck it up that he helped Sauron to grow stronger more than he helped himself.

Sauron remained oblivious to his inner thoughts. The pack leader continued speaking but in a more serious tone. "Things have been good for the Iron Fur pack but that ends soon. The next step will be too much to overcome."

Ragnarok felt the change in the demeanor of the park leader. He asked carefully, "Do you mean the allegiance of the Iron Nail pack?"

"Yes. The Iron Nail pack is trouble. But that isn't the only problem that I am facing currently. Even if I defeat the Iron Nail pack, what do I do next? Am I to die as an Alpha of Alphas? I will be dying as a glorious one but is that all I am to amount to?" Sauron asked.

Ragnarok himself sighed. He doesn't have an answer to Sauron's question. The Iron Nail pack is the last remaining large-scale pack left on the mountain range. It isn't an ordinary pack. All the pack leaders that Sauron has defeated over the years came together to form an alliance. Park Leaders rarely cooperate because the boost of the park will be shared among the park leaders based on their control and influence. 

Such an arrangement causes a lot of problems in the hierarchy and leadership of the park. It rarely works. But Sauron's existence has pushed them that far. A worthy threat has brought those defeated park leaders together. 

The other choice is to start anew with a few close friends and families somewhere on the outskirts of the mountain range. They will struggle just to survive. Then Sauron will come and annex them when they get big enough. So they decided to band together now when they still have a meager chance against him.

Each park leader is not a threat to Sauron individually. After all, he defeated them in the past and they have only become weaker now. But the Iron Nail have quantity on their side. They have more pack leaders in their pack. It is obvious that they came together because of Sauron. They even renamed the pack to Iron Nail. Because an Iron Nail is much harder than iron fur. They are hoping their Iron Nail will pierce the Iron Fur.

Sauron will not be able to fend all of the pack leaders off in case of conflict. There are more than 10 of them. 5 of them or even 7 can stall Sauron while the others decimate his warriors. So Sauron has to be very ready to make serious losses if he wants to overcome the Iron Nail pack. 

The Iron Nail pack will be very challenging for Sauron to take. At any other time, he will be very excited about the challenge and will be looking forward to victory. But he sees nothing for him after the Iron Nail pack is defeated so he is depressed. Only death awaits him after overcoming the Iron Nail pack.

Sauron is a very ambitious Warrog. He wishes to conquer the entire Mountain range. That is something his father or anyone before him has never done, but that isn't enough for him. He wants to take a step further and become a transcendent. But he can't do that because any Warrog that manages to become a transcendent will be hunted and killed by the wood elves. It has happened every time. 

The surveillance and investigative methods of the wood elves are unfailing. Any park leader who breaks the rules of warfare several times or who tries to become the next Emperor is killed without fail.

So Sauron has a tough decision ahead of him. This decision doesn't have anything to do with the Iron Nail pack. It is whether to become a transcendent or not.

He might die trying to become a transcendent. If he dies, then all his hard work would have been for nothing. If he becomes a transcendent, then the resistance of the Iron Fur pack becomes inconsequential. He will be able to defeat them easily. But what next then? How is he to resist the might of an entire race that is much stronger than his? 

That is the conundrum in his heart. He is about to achieve something that no Alpha of Alpha has done. He will soon become the ruler of the whole mountain range. But several Alpha of Alphas have become transcendents before him and none of them have ever survived. If they have, then they are nowhere to be seen.