GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

All of these things make it difficult for a godclad who is the first in his lineage to become a noble or one who doesn’t have ancestral support or inheritance to be a successful noble. But nobles who have inheritance will be able to easily grow stronger and recover the power of their ancestors.

There is also the pathway of merchants whose foundation of power is mostly money. Bloodline doesn’t play any role in the pathway of merchants, but money counts a lot.

The way money counts is with the rank 4 divine ability called the Power of Wealth and the other divine abilities that require money.

All the money that he is using to fuel this ability is stored within him. That money will be released from his body when he dies. His descendant can then absorb the money and use it to quickly gain a lot of power.

This is the foundation of the noble families and why they can always remain in control of Reinfield City. Because of these things, he can’t be afraid of the Golden Hammer gang.

After all, if the Golden Hammer gang can’t take away their control of Reinfield City, then the Golden Hammer gang can’t match them in terms of power and foundation.

He doesn’t believe that the Golden Hammer gang has the power but is just reluctant to use it and would rather participate in the game in the outer city meant to help the noble families pick good successors.

Even if the Golden Hammer is powerful enough to kill him, he is not afraid because his children will be able to easily take over his power and get revenge for him. This will be the case unless the Golden Hammer gang can eliminate every noble family down to their roots.

If the Golden Hammer gang can’t help eliminate everyone in the noble families and can’t destroy their foundation completely, then he has nothing to fear. As long as he makes preparations for his death, then he can fight the Golden Hammer gang without worry.

Of course, he doesn’t want to die yet. If he were willing to die, he would have tried to become a legend already.

If he succeeds in becoming a legend, he will gain a life span of 500 years. That is very enticing, but he is still not willing to take the risk to advance. So he is very reluctant to fight the Golden Hammer gang and lose his life in the fight.

This reluctance to die translated to determination after his mind was made up. He sent a servant to call his wife over so that he could tell her to stop pursuing the Golden Hammer gang.

He also sent orders to prepare men that will hunt the judge. This is just in case his wife refuses to call off the bounty hunter she hired or in case the judge refuses to stop.

He is prepared to do what it takes to put an end to the conflict with the Golden Hammer gang. Too many have died for him to be comfortable going after the Golden Hammer gang.

While this was going on, the competition for the two districts left by the rank 5 undying godclad was still riling everyone in the outer city up.

It was mostly the gangs that were riled up. But even the nobles were always moving and paying attention to news of any development.

Only people like Legion and the machinist beside them, who were preoccupied with something else, didn’t care about the outcome of the competition. They had more important things to worry about or consider.

For the machinist, what he was more worried about was the matter of revenge from the Golden Hammer gang. He has a lot of reasons that he is worried, the main one being that he is not strong enough to repel or defeat the Golden Hammer gang.

There is also the matter of him trying to assassinate the leaders of the Golden Hammer gang by sending not one, but two assassins to kill them. But that doesn’t matter as much as the fact that he is weak.

He is weak, so even if he didn’t try to kill the Golden Hammer gang, he still wouldn’t be able to defeat them if they tried to annex his territory or attack him for the fun of it. But since he already offended them by trying to kill them, he can be sure that retribution will come, and it will come quickly.

This is why he is very worried. He is worried that he exposed everything he knew about the Golden Hammer gang and everything he has done to them, including the assassination attempt.

His worry is also why he busied himself with fortifying his territory. He built and bought a lot of arrays and puppets to use to defend his territory.

Some of the puppets can move and attack autonomously, and others need him to actively control them. But all of them are expensive.

Most of the money he had on hand was used to fortify his base. He was happy to use up all of his money to defend himself if only to make sure that his enemies wouldn’t gain anything if they defeated him.

To be fair, his first thought wasn’t to defend to the death. His first thought was to escape with his life and the money he had worked for. After all, his life is worth far more than his current territory.

His life is definitely more valuable than his territory because if he loses his territory to the Golden Hammer gang, the loss will only be temporary. He will be able to regain it after this round of the game ends.

Once this round of the game ends and a winner is determined, the ownership of territories will be reshuffled, gangs will to restart the game with only one district, and a new batch of young nobles will solicit the gangs and begin another round of competition with each other.