GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 2327: Pity To Kill.

Usually, these legendary telepaths would ask for a few mind fragments in exchange for the food they sold. As long as they got more mind fragments than what it cost them to make the food, they would profit.

It was a classic case of profit = revenue – cost. Legion was hoping to take advantage of this business practice to get a lot of the bait that they needed without troubling themselves too much.

The problem was that the legendary telepaths only sold a few memory fragments as food to their customers, and they would get suspicious when a customer was asking for a large amount of the food without eating it.

Legion could have pretended that they were eating the food while secretly accumulating what they needed for bait over a period of weeks and even months. But they didn’t want to waste time on acquiring food when they still had to waste a lot of time waiting for prey to take the bait.

So they went ahead to ask for a lot of memory fragments at once. This action clued the legendary telepath into the fact that they needed the memory fragments for something out of the ordinary.

The legendary telepath they first asked didn’t know what they were going to do with the memory fragment. But that didn’t stop him from asking for 200 good coins for each food.

200 gold coins is the price of a rank 1 divine flesh. This legendary telepath had essentially raised the price by 100 times. It was clear that he was trying to fleece them.

Legion had the money and could afford the exorbitant price, but they were not going to be played as fools. So they left the legendary telepath to negotiate with others.

The other legendary telepaths were either reasonable or unreasonable. Many of them guessed that they were buying the food to use as bait for Psychic Shriekers because many of them had to fulfill the rank 6 advancement requirement that way.

So some of them decided to be reasonable and asked for 20 gold coins for each of their food. But some others decided to take advantage of them. Legion didn’t think it was possible, but some even managed to raise the price beyond 200 gold coins.

This made Legion-1 swear, “If we manage to become the god of this pathway, all of these legendary telepaths will be made to wish for death.”

Legion-8 sighed and said, “Let’s just give them what they want for now. We can get it back from them in the future with interest, and if we lack money now, we can always liberate some more from the people in Reinfield City.”

They didn’t want to waste their time negotiating, so they were inclined to settle for the 20 gold coins per food item deal. This was 10 times more than normal, but they weren’t going to be losing anything in the long run.

Once they grow stronger, they will be able to get back what they paid with interest. But before they succumb to this exploitation, they want to ask every legendary telepath in Mindscape for their offer.

It came to them as a surprise when they encountered a legendary telepath who was willing to accept the usual amount of mid fragments for his food regardless of how much they would be ordering from her.

She said, “Since you don’t need the memory fragments to contain any useful information, I am already profiting immensely from this.”

She was being perfectly reasonable. All she asked was for two mind fragments for each piece of memory fragments. Since it cost her one mind fragment to create a memory fragment, she was making a profit of 100%.

This profit was enough for her, unlike others who wanted a profit of 10,000% and more. Legion was very happy to meet her, and they accepted the deal immediately.

They had a lot of mind fragments that they had harvested from the slaves they experimented on these past few months. So they didn’t need to drop a dime to get the bait that they needed.

Legion left the Mindscape excitedly and began setting up the fishing rod. As they did, Legion-2 said to them, “What a nice lady.”

Legion-5 agreed and said, “It would be a pity when we kill her.”

She was good to them, but that doesn’t exempt her from the fate of being killed when Legion needs to kill people for power. Good or bad, Legion doesn’t discriminate. They will kill anyone and everyone for power.

But despite how ruthless they are, they will still admire the personality of people who deserve it while they kill those people. It is the least that Legion can do.

They thought of this and joked about it as they set up the fishing rod for the fishing. They got a brazier and filled it with fire stones.

Next they soaked the fire stones with energy water. This caused them to light up and begin to burn. They produced a pale yellow flame within the brazier which they threw the memory fragments into.

As soon as the memory fragments touched the yellow flame, they began to melt. The speed at which they melted was slow and very difficult to notice with the eye. But they could tell that the memory fragments were burning because the color of the flame changed.

The color of the flame changed from yellow to blue. This change was caused by the reaction between the flame and the memory fragments.

Apart from the reduction of size after the memory fragments were thrown into the flame, the memory fragments also produced a toxic gas as they were burned.

This toxic gas is odorless and colorless. But anyone who inhales it will begin to have a headache. This was a sign that the attractiveness of the memory fragments was being spread.

The smell of the burning memory fragments is unpleasant to humans, but it is highly attractive to Psychic Shriekers. So with this done, they attached the brazier to the hook of the fishing rod.