GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 2357: Shattered Minds.

The Wealth Armament divine ability requires money, and a lot of it, to create its offensive and defensive means. Money is more expensive than lives and can even buy lives, so Blood Sacrifice has the advantage in cost of usage.

The advantages that the Wealth Armament divine ability has are that it has a lower barrier of entry and can be used to protect one’s life, not just for attacking.

Blood Sacrifice requires a killer to be an angel to use, while the Wealth Armament can be used by epic merchants. Plus, Blood Sacrifice does nothing to protect its user.

Killers have always believed that the best defense is an offense. If they are going to die, then they might as well bring everyone down with them.

Legion had all the advantage in this ambush, but they didn’t want to waste time fighting epic beings. They came here to advance, not fight, so they opted to spend a lot of money to end the fight as soon as possible.

The only rank 6 godclad that could resist them was eliminated quickly. The remaining five guards were rank 4, so Sir Kris and the other three slaves that Legion brought with them could handle them.

The first divine ability that they used was Psychic Howl. When Sir Kris used it, a silent and formless mental wave spread out from his head to everyone in his surroundings.

The mental wave was silent as it traveled, but those the wave touched heard a great scream. The scream pierced deep into their minds and shattered their concentration.

The remaining guards were about to react and attack before the Psychic Howl divine ability was used. But once it was used, they became stunned and immobile.

The light of focus in their eyes had been shattered so their eyes became dim and their gaze became unfocused. They stared forward looking at nothing while Sir Kris advanced on them like a lion on ship.

The damage that Psychic Howl had done to them was immense. The first layer of their minds had been shattered by the divine ability, so they couldn’t make thoughts in their mind.

Their mind was blank and it would remain like that for a long time. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the time for them to be distracted. Sir Kris was unforgiving to those who made that mistake while fighting him.

While the fight, or in this case, the massacre, was going on, Legion went towards the energy spring to soak in it. They didn’t bother to intervene in the fight and no one bothered to stop them either.

The energy spring looked very different from the spring of life. Its waters were clear and transparent, not milky white like the waters of life. But the entire pond was glowing with a bright light that illuminated the environment and made it look like day.

The people living in tenebrium wouldn’t have known about the existence of daylight if not for the sun present in the spiritual dimension. But even that daylight is tainted and meant to kill, not give life.

Legion had experienced true and fresh daylight in the void universe, so they knew what daylight felt like. In that moment as they sank into the energy spring, they experienced that feeling again.

The energy lake was deeper than the spring of life. It was also deeper than they were tall, so they were submerged completely into it when they entered.

Just as they sank into the energy spring, a very angry being arrived above the energy spring. When the angry being saw what was going on within the barrier, they became even angrier.

The legendary noble roared at them, “How dare you?”

This was the legend who was tasked to guard the city and watch the forest for any attacks. He had set up a domain all over the city, which had one rule that would inform him of any attacks or violence in the city.

The rule was aimed at catching any secret attacks from the beasts and also from the gangs in the outer city hoping to bypass the ban on fighting and take advantage of the current weakness of the outer city to expand their territory.

It wasn’t the domain that informed him of violence, though. His domain had only informed him that the barrier shield around him was put in its strongest state, which suggested an attack.

His domain hadn’t informed him of the violence within the barrier shield because the barrier had cut off the influence of his rule after it was put in its strongest state.

This had confused him, and he came here to figure out what was going on. He didn’t expect that an attack was really going on.

So he was first stunned when he came and saw what was going on within the shield. Then he became angry and roared.

The legends of the city were more concerned about the gangs and other people with greedy motives causing trouble from within the city than they were worried about an attack from the forest. This was why the legend on guard set up the domain.

They suspected a lot of things, but they didn’t suspect an attack on the energy spring of the city. They didn’t have much reason to fear one because they had one of the strongest epic beings in the world guarding the energy spring and a strong barrier capable of resisting even legends.

But the epic godclad that they were counting on turned against them. Not only that, but the barrier that was supposed to protect the energy spring had also been turned against them. Anyone that this happened to would be furious.

The legendary noble ordered them, “Open the barrier now.”

Legion didn’t say anything. They only focused on absorbing the energy spring.

The energy spring itself is very large and will take them a lot of time to absorb. Fortunately, they have many souls, many pathways, and many consciousnesses, so the rate at which they digest energy water is very high.