GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 2353: Knight + Farmer.

They happened to leave Reinfield just after one of the legendary nobles left the city to go to the capital. This was not by chance. They had inside information, so they knew when the legend would leave.

They didn’t leave after the legend so that they could attack it. They didn’t have that intention yet, as they didn’t need to attack someone that was going to be out of the picture.

The reason why they waited until the legend left was to see for themselves that he truly left, not just pretending to leave. For that, they sent their illusionist to follow the legend and make sure that he left.

After they were sure that the legend had truly left and they didn’t need to eliminate him, they left Reinfield City themselves.

They didn’t leave alone. They left with some slaves. In particular, they left with slave number 1, their giant and guardian slave; slave number 3, their walker and traveler; slave number 4, their thief and rule breaker; and slave number 6, their knight and farmer.

The rest of their slaves remained in Reinfield City to execute their will. The five of them went to buy some rank 6 beasts first.

The rank 6 beasts are for slave number 6. He is a rank 5 knight and also a rank 5 farmer. He doesn’t have a large army to support him, but he can substitute the power of an army with the power of beast pets.

Rank 4 farmers have the Beast Tamer divine ability, so the slave can have many pets. Rank 5 knights also have the Rider divine ability, which helps them to combine their power with the power of the beast they are riding.

These two divine abilities will make the slave useful for what they are about to do. The other two slaves will also help in their own way.

Even slaves that are not currently with them are also helping them. For example, the fate weaver is helping them predict the situation from where she is back in Reinfield.

It is because of the prediction of the fate weaver that they decided to buy the rank 6 beasts that they need instead of branching by a forest to kidnap them.

Their knight slave has a 50% mastery of the beast-taming divine ability, so he can have up to 4 pets. A rank 6 beast costs 12,800 gold coins, which is already the cost of a rank 7 divine flesh, so they will need to spend 51,200 gold coins to fit their knight with the four pets.

This is expensive, but their fate weaver had deemed it to be cheaper than what it would cost them to apprehend and tame four rank 6 beasts on their own.

It is not that they can’t catch and take four rank 6 beasts on their own. They can, but it will take a lot of time and effort. And some accidents can happen along the way that can delay them.

So instead of wasting their time, they decided to spend money on pets. Then they went straight to the location of the spring of life.

With an extra four rank 6 beasts, they became nine in total. This gave Legion more confidence to go ahead with what they had planned.

The spring of life they were targeting was in control of the vault of gold and was being guarded by a legend. The presence of the legend is why Legion decided to try the stealth approach first.

The vault of gold decided to guard the spring of life with a legend instead of harvesting all of the water of life in the spring and calling it a day because they would gain more by keeping the spring intact.

The water of life inside a spring doesn’t regenerate naturally. Once it is used up, the spring will die, and nothing will be gained from it again.

But the spring of life can be induced to regenerate some more water of life by pouring energy water into it. This process takes a long time and requires the spring of life to have some water of life in it.

As merchants, the people of the vault of gold decided to opt for the slow and tedious process because it means more money in the long run. Besides, the investment of energy water to get water if life is an investment without loss.

The only way they will lose their investment is if someone comes to steal the spring of life and everything within it. This is why they made a legend guard the spring of life.

The spring of life itself is a pond containing milky white water. It is surrounded by a series of walls that formed layers of protection around it. Each layer of walls also had defensive and protective arrays on them.

There are also alarm arrays around the spring of life. There was only one door through each layer of security. If there was an alarm, every door would close, and access to the energy spring would be cut off.

There were five layers of walls in total. Each layer was manned by two guards. The deeper the layer, the stronger the guards.

The entire arrangement was like a fortress. It was also a fortress with a thick roof, so no one could just bypass the walls by dropping from the sky or climbing over the walls.

All of these defensive measures might fail, and the spring can be taken by force, but no matter what happens, it is unlikely that someone would be able to break in unnoticed.

Legion didn’t break unnoticed. Instead of doing that, they sent their number 4 to scout and gain access to the spring through the normal route.

Their number 4 slave is a thief with the rank 4 Stealing Abilities divine ability. This divine ability of his is at 50%, so he can steal and use up to four divine abilities at the same time.