GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 1669: Dodged A Bullet.



Soverick groaned and said, "I might have been wrong. Mother High Heaven contacting us is not the darkness we should be afraid of. It is what she contacted us for that is the true cause for fear."

The smart thing for them is to have never broached this topic with Mother High Heaven at all. Fighting and killing the realm lord is something they plan to do, but it is going to be later in the future. It is not something to consider while their lives are already precarious and they are being hunted by world gods everywhere.

At this point, they are not thinking about the rewards at all. They are already thinking of the consequences of failing. If the realm lord catches a whiff of them scheming against him, all he needs to do is broadcast their position to the world gods searching for them. It will be easy to do for him since he was able to find them easily earlier.

So things can begin to go bad for them right from this moment on. They don't need to make the foolish decision of trying to subdue Monarch High Heaven before bad things start happening to them.

Unfortunately, they had no chance in the matter. They were brought into this scheme because they can run, but they can never hide from Mother High Heaven's connection to them. She is using that connection with them as her children to speak to them, and she is waiting for them to give their reply to her proposal.

Legion thought about it and said to her, "Give us some time to think about it."

Mother High Heaven sighed. It was clear that she was disappointed as she said, "I'm guessing that's another way for you to say no."

Then she smiled at them. "It is alright. This was expected. I know you better than anyone, so this did not come as a surprise to me. You can be greedy at times and do foolish, risky, and dangerous things to get what you want. But other times you become cautious and refuse to take any risks at all."

"I knew you had a chance to achieve good things right from the moment you survived the demon possession as an elven youth. You didn't know at that time, but you stopped being an elf at that moment. A shackle within you had snapped. You gained mental and emotional freedom."

"It didn't come to me as a surprise when you decided on a crazy plan to gain all the divine abilities of powerful races without their weakness. But it was then that I thought to take a gamble on you. Your plan was great, but you were lacking something. You were lacking a long term goal, which I gave you by letting you see some of the realm lord's plans for the void universe in the library."

"Seeing those plans was not normal at all. I showed them to you in hopes that it would help you make something better of yourself."

Legion said in understanding, "I see. You have always wanted my help, and you wanted me to go against the realm lord."

"Yes. But time has been too short. Your progress has been lightning fast, but it is not fast enough to give you the confidence to go against him. I hope that will not always be the case. I hope you will be able to rise out of his shadow and stand against him soon."

"I will leave this connection open. You can use it to assist me if you change your mind. I might not even need your help. After all, you are not the only one I invested in. Goodbye."

She said that, and then she disappeared from their minds. Legion sighed after she left them, but they didn't feel guilty about turning her down. They are greedy, but they know their limits. This moment seems to be their limit.

In fact, they passed their limit the moment they decided to take the realm heart of the Tyrant realm. They have been out of their depths ever since and have somehow managed to survive.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Despite the danger all around them, they have just gotten a lot of valuable things that they might lose if they die. It is good to gamble. But sometimes, one shouldn't gamble because they might not be able to afford the loss.

Unlike the first sage, they can't use the world ender they have to threaten the realm lord. They don't know his Supreme Law and don't want to return to the high heaven realm just to let loose of CARNAGE. Who is to say that CARNAGE will attack the realm lord and not them?

They don't even know if they have anything that can threaten Monarch High Heaven right now, and they don't know what the fight between the Realm Lord and Mother High Heaven is all about. What if it was a trap for them by the realm lord to recover what they took from him?

It is as Mother High Heaven said, they are currently afraid of the realm lord. It is because they know that they are lacking compared to him. That will change in the future when they become world gods with nine worlds. Probably no world god would be able to match them ever. But if they join this fight, lose it, and lose the nine sets of realm hearts, then they will lose that future.

They won't even have the assistance of the realm to fall back on if they lose. So they focused on running away as fast as possible.

Legion-1 said, "We might be Legion, but we are not nearly enough to subdue him where many world gods failed after he banned the trade of life trees."

The new Legion-8 said with lingering fear, "It seems we dodged a bullet with the dragon clone."

Legion-9 agreed. "If we had sworn the oath to owe Mother High Heaven that favor in exchange for her help in rescuing the dragon clone, then we would have no choice but to mire in whatever shit is going on in high heaven realm right now."