GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 1689: To Be Or Not To Be?



Even then, many demons still survived. They are mainly demon gods, but they are also the bulk of the power of demons, so one might say the demons are largely intact.

They may be without direction now, but at least they have their lives. Even better is that they have a chance at achieving evolution. The abyss of the two realms was destroyed. This means there will be the creation of two world enders from the two realms.

In the high heaven realm, GREED was bestowed with the energy of the destroyed abyss. GREED was the only demon that sabotaged the realm, so it was the only one in contention for the reward and automatically became the winner. This is not true for the Tyrant Realm.

All the demon gods sabotaged the Tyrant Realm when things turned bad. They were helping at first, but when they realized that the Tyrant Realm would lose, they turned on it.

So all of them have a right to the reward of the abyss. But two demons were especially hard working in sabotaging the realm. There were LIES who helped the invaders set up an ambush for the Tyrants, and there was LUST who helped GREED from the high heaven realm meet with the Supreme Tyrants.

That meeting was pivotal in the downfall of the Tyrant Realm, so LIES was edged out by a slight margin. Therefore, all of the energy from the destroyed abyss went to LUST.

But the other demon gods were not going to stand and watch. They participated in the quest to sabotage their realm tree so they could receive the energy if LUST gave up his position. LUST doesn't want to give up his position, so they decided to help him make the right decision.

The abyss has become a wreck. It has detached from the realm tree since the realm was destroyed. It is now collapsing from top to bottom. This wreck can be seen from the void. It can be seen as a sinkhole of planes, and sin energy rapidly churning and collapsing while discharging energy in the form of a black pillar rising up from the collapsing abyss.

Above the wreckage are four demon gods. One of them is at the center, while the other four flank the one at the center. The one at the center is LUST. He is the recipient of the energy pillar.

LUST is evolving. All his clones have been called back to him, and he is expanding rapidly. This is both the strongest and weakest state he has ever been in.

He is stronger than ever before due to all of his energy being in the same place and the abyss constantly empowering him. But he is also vulnerable in that if he dies now, he will die forever since he doesn't have any clones to use as failsafes.

This last part is especially important since he doesn't have a safe place to evolve. That means his evolution can be interfered with. That means it is in danger.

Not every demon god can be as lucky as CARNAGE who stumbled upon a world spark, got a safe space to evolve, and had time boosted so that he could evolve quickly. LUST has to deal with the interference of others who don't want him to evolve.

The four demon gods flanking him want to interfere in this process. They don't have a suicidal plan that needs a world ender. So they want to stop him before he becomes a world ender.

It is not certain that they will be able to stop him since it is not everyday that an abyss is destroyed for them. But they are going to try anyway.

They know that they may fail to stop LUST. They know that if they fail, they will be at the mercy of a world ender. But they can't leave without trying. Especially not GREED. He just can't leave. His sin won't let him. PRIDE on the other hand, is too proud to think he would fail, and WRATH is too angry to think.

PRIDE sneered and said, "Give up on the energy. We would rather die than let you evolve."

GREED tried to mediate. "There's no need to go so far. Just give us some of the energy. Let us share it, and we won't need to fight."

WRATH roared, "You can't win. You are the weakest one."

LUST chuckled. WRATH was right. He is the weakest after LIES. Maybe it is because of his weakness that LIES didn't join this ambush. But LUST wasn't going to allow himself to remain weak. He had to seize every opportunity to become stronger.

So he said, "Bring it on."

They did bring it on. Like three wolves hunting a stag, they tore into LUST. LUST couldn't run. He had to stay still to receive the energy boon of the abyss. So the three of them didn't have to chase it around. They could focus all their power on unraveling LUST.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

This fight is not a joke. It is a matter of life and death. Both parties knew it to be so. They tried their very best right from the start. The three demon gods burned all the energy they had for the fight.

They were oceans of energy before, but they became stars after burning their energy. Their whole existence had entered fission mode. They were breaking down their own existences for power. Regardless of victory or defeat, they would be severely weakened after the fight. LUST also burned his energy for power, but it was lacking. The sin of lust is not proficient in strength, speed, or defense. It can simulate those properties at the cost of more energy, but what he is proficient in is being difficult to grasp. However, being difficult to grasp has limited help when you don't move and are surrounded.

The three stars tore into the star in the middle. They ripped matter and energy away from LUST very quickly. He shrank because of it. If not for the energy pillar, he wouldn't have stood a chance at all.