GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 2286: Ungrateful Cedric.

They simply had too many reasons to eliminate him. First of all, there was the matter of revenge for planting a propagator of disorder in their gang for the sole purpose of crippling their gang.

They have to pay him back for that. Even if they don’t want to because of what they did to him, there is a second reason that compels them to seek to eliminate him.

This second reason is the matter of Cedric seeking revenge against them for setting him up with the propagator of justice. It is unlikely that Cedric will think what they did to him was fair, so it is likely that he will come after the again and this time, he will be more ruthless and desperate.

As it turned out, the second reason truly made Cedric a threat that they had to eliminate. This is because Cedric wanted revenge and he didn’t leave Reinfield City like everyone thought he would.

He stuck around with plans to get back at the Golden Hammer gang and make the gang help him recover his innocence.

Cedric planned to gather evidence against them and use force if necessary. Either one was a reason to go after him, and they did.

They found Cedric in the place he was hiding in the outer city. They were able to find him because they had been tracking him ever since he killed the propagator of disorder in his territory.

Their illusionist was the first to find him and had been following him before the propaganda of disorder found him. It was because Legion knew exactly where he was that they knew where to send the propagator of disorder.

Legion had used the same card that Cedric’s father used on them. And it worked so well that he never escaped their sight.

They found him, enslaved him, and killed him. This wasn’t easy for them to do because they already had the maximum number of slaves possible. They had to give up one of their powerful slaves for him.

They gave up the assassin. That meant that they had to kill their assassin in order to free up the slot for a new slave.

It was a great loss to them. But they went ahead with it because their assassin didn’t have six souls and couldn’t have two pathways.

Since he was going to die anyway, they would rather make him die early so that they can use his slot to advance. Anyway, Cedric should have been proud that they were willing to sacrifice so much for him.

But Cedric wasn’t happy at all. He was too proud to see their sacrifice as noteworthy. He was also too greedy for life.

Legion went ahead to kill him anyway because their greed for power trumped his greed for life. But they were glad that he was proud because after enslaving him, they met their advancement requirement. This was evident by the faint glowing of the rank 4 divine flesh in their spirit.

So they let their slave kill him while they immediately began to advance in the safety of their base. They assimilated three rank 5 divine flesh in one day, but they didn’t feel any significant stress because of the matter.

If anything, they felt full of energy and powerful. It put them in a good mood because acquiring more power always puts them in a good mood.

So their good mood only intensified when they used the power assessment technique to determine how much power they had gained.

POWER ASSESSMENT

#STRENGTH: 80 > > > 160. #SPEED: 80 > > > 160. #SPIRIT: 160 > > > 320.

#CONSTITUTION: 80 > > > 160. #VITALITY: 80 > > > 160. #PERCEPTION: 80 > > > 160.

#SPIRITUAL ENERGY: 2,080 > > > (320+320+320+320+320+320+320+320+320+320+320+320) = 3,840

#LIFE ENERGY: 800 > > > (320+320+320+320) = 1,280.

DIVINE FLESH: DIVINE ABILITY.

1. PATH OF UNDYING: AEGIS SHIELD (RANK 1) – 39% > > > 47%. REFLECTOR SHIELD (RANK 2) – 32% > > > 40%. ARMOR (RANK 3) – 19% > > > 29%. ABSORPTION BODY (RANK 4) – 16% > > > 28%. REGENERATION (RANK 5) – 1%.

2. PATH OF KILLING: SEVER (RANK 1) – 39% > > > 47%. DEATH MARK (RANK 2) – 29% > > > 38%. STUN (RANK 3) – 21% > > > 30%. BLOOD LIMBS (RANK 4) – 17% > > > 28%. BLEED (RANK 5) – 0% > > > 15%.

3. PATH OF SLAVERY: BONDAGE (RANK 1) – 42% > > > 47%. LIFE SIPHON (RANK 2) – 29% > > > 37%. LIFE BOND (RANK 3) – 21% > > > 30%. PUPPET (RANK 4) – 13% > > > 24%. WHIP (RANK 5) – 1%.

4. PATH OF THE TELEPATH: MENTAL PROBE (RANK 1) – 70% > > > 74%. MIND READ (RANK 2) – 56% > > > 62%. HYPNOTIZE (RANK 3) 19% – 29%. MENTAL ARMAMENT (RANK 4) -11% > > > 24%. SENSORY HIJACK (RANK 5) – 1%.

ULTIMATE ABILITY:

1. AUTHORITY OF UNDYING: INVULNERABILITY—0%.

2. INNATE ABILITY: Adaptation—100%.

After two months of being at rank 5, their spiritual power was able to increase from 160 units to 320 units. All it cost them was 1,600 liters of energy water.

They got more than this much energy water from raiding Rack and his undying friend’s territory, so they didn’t feel the impact of using so much energy water in any way, be it financial or mental.

With the assimilation of three rank 5 divine flesh and the advancement of their other three pathways to rank 5, each of their souls was finally able to hold 320 units of spiritual energy.

This increased their capacity for spiritual energy from 2,080 to 3,840. Their capacity for life energy also increased from 800 to 1,280. This is an 84.62% increase to their spiritual energy capacity and a 60% increase to their capacity of life energy.

All of these will come in handy with the new rank 5 divine ability that they gained from the pathway of undying. With more life energy and spiritual energy, Regeneration will be able to keep them alive longer.

The best part of regeneration is that it is impossible to kill them as long as they have life energy or spiritual energy. Not even beheading them will do the trick.

If they are beheaded, they can just pick up their head and place it back. The wound on their neck will heal, and they will be as as good as new.