GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 2324: Suspicious Motivation.

Legion didn’t think the death of so many telepaths would be worth it, but they also thought that maybe the persecution of telepaths outside of Wessex was so bad that the epic telepaths had become angry enough to give up on their long lifespans and join the war against the Church of Justice.

So they were willing to let go of their suspicion about why so many epic telepaths had become selfless and were willing to sacrifice their lives.

They were open to the idea that maybe the telepaths had had enough and had become desperate for change. But when they heard that the reward for participating in the war was to be memory fragments, Legion couldn’t let go of their suspicion.

At first their intuition had told them that something was wrong about the recruitment of telepaths. They thought that something was out of place when hedonistic telepaths who liked to have fun all day and enjoy their long lifespan suddenly decided to give up everything.

This feeling could have been because of their extensive experience and long lifespan or their new rank 6 Danger Sense divine ability. But once the matter of the memory fragments as a reward was brought up, they were finally able to put a finger on what they felt might be the cause of the abnormal behavior of the epic telepaths.

Legion-12 asked the other eleven clones, “Could it be the memory fragments?”

Legion-6 nodded and said, “It could be.”

Legion-3 also agreed, but he placed emphasis on something else. He said, “It could be, and it might not be the influence of the memory fragments. But either way, there is no way to tell.”

Legion-8 chuckled and said, “I still can’t believe it. So many people will be brought to their death because of food, drinks, and sex.”

He was referring specifically to the food, drinks, and sex that telepaths enjoy in the Mindscape. Those foods, drinks, and sex are not real. They were made with memory fragments.

Legion always suspected that the food and drinks were faulty. This idea was reinforced when they found out that the food and drinks were made by infusing mind fragments with memories of food and are actually memory fragments.

Using memory fragments to make food in the Mindscape is the only way that food can be made, shared, and eaten in the Mindscape. But Legion only saw memory fragments as a means to modify the minds of others.

They had suspected it at first, but now their mind is made up about it. No one can tell them otherwise because they read that memory fragments are one of the important tools that legendary telepaths use to attack the minds of others.

They have already witnessed upfront how memory fragments led to drastic changes in the personality and the mental state of people. They saw this clearly when they used memory fragments to help their slaves gain mastery of divine abilities.

So when they suddenly saw someone like Gerald, who liked to enjoy life, eat snacks, and advise people to take life easy, sign up for war, they knew that something had gone terribly wrong with him.

Legion-2 said, “This isn’t the first time that Gerald has been acting out of place. Do you guys remember that time the bounty hunter appeared?”

Legion-4 said in realization, “That’s true. He had given up on his sedentary lifestyle and had gone off the rails. He was so determined to kill the bounty hunter at all costs that he surprised us.”

Legion-11 nodded and said, “I remember him saying that he was willing to chase down the bounty hunter to the ends of the world. I didn’t think he could ever take anything seriously.”

Legion-8 said, “Back then, we thought that he behaved like that because he hated judges so much. But now that so many epic telepaths are behaving just like him, either they all hate the church of justice so much, or they are all being influenced.”

Legion thought that the telepaths had been brainwashed, but Gerald and the other telepaths who signed up thought that they were being cowards.

Gerald himself didn’t know it, but he was very right to call them cowards. After all, they knew that nobles would win, yet they refused to join the war.

But they didn’t let Gerald goad them into joining a war that they don’t want to. They still aren’t willing to have anything to do with the Church of Justice yet.

Besides, they knew that this war was for the nobles. Whatever benefits that everyone will gain won’t last long after the nobles settle down and begin consolidating their power.

They are sure that everyone who thinks that the church of justice is a tyrant will have to reevaluate that judgement once the nobles have no one to challenge their authority anymore.

Observant people might have already caught a glimpse of this when Bushwick gained full control of Ivory Town and began cracking down on every noble family and organization in the town.

At that time, godclads and people were leaving Ivory Town en masse in order to avoid Bushwick’s tyranny. Legion is sure that things will be worse when the nobles come into full power of the Wessex kingdoms.

Total tyranny is something that should be expected from people who belong to the noble pathway and think they are better than others. But things will get worse than tyranny all because the ruler of Wessex will become a god and a god of the pathway of the propagation of disorder.

They are sure that many people will regret letting or helping the nobles win the war because they have seen it in the future. But they also expect that other people should expect this because nobles are too controlling.

At the very least, they expect telepaths to see this possibility since they were one of the pathways that was enslaved by the nobles in the past. But no one seems to be thinking of this.