GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Things are not guaranteed to be good for him even if Xigger agrees to help him and the demon god is amendable to a cooperation between the two of them. It will just be a repeat of his stay in the Iron Fur pack. He will be replacing Sauron with the demon god and working hard for the Vampires instead of the pack.

It is all because he doesn't have the qualifications to be treated as an equal by the demon god. At best, he will be a desperate and weak Warrog seeking favours. 

So he decided to get rid of everyone else and take the entire pie for himself. He did what would give him the strength to protect himself and only that. He knows that when you need to rely on someone for safety, then you are weak and your fate is not in your hands. He doesn't like to live under someone else's grace or thumb. 

"I am a fugitive now. It is best to escape." He said after taking one last look at the mess he has created.

His inner beast wants to chase after those who escaped. It wants him to hunt them down till the ends of the earth. Then it wants him to relish the chase by crushing them in his jaws with a single bite. 

Unfortunately for his inner beast, that is a stupid idea. The plane is not his to do whatever he wants to do or just to run about in freedom. He ignored the compulsion for violence. Then he chose a direction and flew away from the scene of the crime. 

His life is in his hands now. He has to take care of it because no one else will. That's how he likes it anyway. But no one will want to take care of him after what he has done. They will be more inclined to do the opposite.

He has offended a lot of people with the massacre he just performed. He doesn't regret his actions but he understands that a lot of people will not be pleased with what he did. The most important one of them is Xigger. But there's also the paragons that escaped. They are weak but they are not inconsequential. They witnessed what he did and have information about him. That is going to give him trouble.

"Things would have been smoother if only Sauron and Xigger didn't separate." He complained a little.

He used the Doom Chomp because he wanted to get both Sauron and Xigger. They were intertwined together in their fight. He was hoping to take out both of them at once. But they were suspicious of him and decided to separate at the last moment. 

That saved Sauron's life but he didn't know what's good for himself. He should have escaped when he had the chance. But he didn't. Then he even had the gall to announce that Ragnarok is the future Executioner before dying.

Sauron confirmed his identity so a lot of Warrogs know about the future Executioner. It will make some very angry wood elves come looking for him. That's why he will escape now and try to hide.

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The repercussions of Ragnarok's actions are widespread. Wood elves were already sniffing about the mountain range. They found the wreckage he left behind after he was gone. A preliminary investigation pointed out that the destruction was not caused by vampires. They determined that it was caused by a spell caster of fire. That itself is perplexing. 

Vampires don't use Mana spells and they are definitely afraid of flames. So it can't be vampires. It also couldn't be Warrogs. Warrogs don't have the spell heritage to use spells. 

It isn't wood elves either. Tree elves can use spells but they don't like to use basic Mana spells. They prefer to use spells fueled with their nature Mana. Wood elves also hate fire spells the most. It harms them and their trees. 

So they were very confused about the cause of the destruction. Then they interrogated some warriors of the Iron Fur pack. The information that they gained shed a lot of light on the situation. But they still couldn't believe that a Warrog did it. 

"You mean to tell me that a Warrog of a backward pack like yours created hundreds and thousands of balls of fire in a minute?" A wood elf asked.

The Warrog replied in agitation, "Yes. Yes. He did."

The wood elves didn't believe it one bit. Even they can't cast spells that rapidly and they are to believe that some ignorant Warrog managed to do so. The reliability of the information was put into question when they heard the warriors saying that the Warrog responsible for the Carnage is also a future Executioner. They laughed off the rantings of the warriors as derision.

The tree elves decided not to believe the warriors at all. It is a decision that was made after considering the presence of vampires. They found Vampires and they also saw signs of the use of blood spells. That means that a vampire that is at least a viscount was there. Which also explains the sightings of many vampires. Such a powerful vampire can also compel the minds of weaker beings to make them believe wrong information. 

The viscount probably hypnotized the warriors so that they could give false information to the wood elves and misdirect the wood elves. The lack of dead bodies is also something that a vampire is capable of doing. 

The craters all over the mountain range and the fire damage can be caused by dropping flaming rocks all over the mountain range to mask the traces of the Vampires. It is elaborate but it is possible. 

The wood elves thought they had figured everything out. Their train of thought is very reasonable. Besides, things like this have happened before. Vampires do it to mislead pursuers. But this vampire went too far. It made a mistake by fooling the Warrogs into believing that all of the damage was caused by an Executioner.