GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 2489: True Competitor.

As a former god, he is someone who reached the apex of transformation whose mind and soul were even at risk of transforming into those of the progenitor. So his existence is closest in form and spirit to that of the progenitor.

The next best level of existence closest to the form and spirit of the progenitor after the existence of the god of the pathway is the angels of the pathway. This is why they are the best candidates for gods of their pathways to possess.

A god of a pathway will find it very easy to possess an angel of their pathway because they have nearly identical physiques and many divine abilities in common. They will have the same divine beast form.

The opposite will be the case for the gods of other pathways, as the angels of other pathways will be the most different in physique. Only special gods like the god of dreams, who can overwrite the mind, can bypass the restriction of the differences in body and divine abilities.

So angels of killing are the best vessels for his crippled soul. He would be able to instantly tell when he had encountered such a vessel, which was why he became sure that Legion had become an angel of killing.

But despite this good news, he still shook his head and said, “No no no. This is not good.”

“How did they become an angel of killing? Isn’t this too fast? Is someone using him against me? Is he the vessel of another god who wants to take over my precious Ocean of Blood?”

He should be happy that another angel has appeared for him to possess, but after experiencing the loss at their hands when they subdued his divine flesh, he realized that they were more trouble than boon.

At least compared to a killer who has part of their divine flesh in their existence, Legion will be very difficult to possess. So not only is he not happy that they have become angels, but he also hates how fast they were able to become angels.

He was very angry because Legion becoming an angel meant that they had become his competitors for the position of god of the pathway of killing.

He became so angry that he raged and roared in his underground temple. This caused the temple he was in at the top of the pyramid to shake.

He also lashed out at his priests and believers. He created a hurricane full of blades of blood that rotated and shredded everything that it encountered.

Both living things and nonliving things were lost because of his anger. There were especially a lot of losses of lives. This was because he mostly targeted living beings in order to use their blood to expand the hurricane and kill more people.

Fortunately some people survived by hiding in their houses. They survived because the hurricane was only made out of blood and didn’t have the other divine abilities of the pathway of killing enhancing it.

This wasn’t because the half-god of killing was being magnanimous. If he had the ability to enhance the hurricane with the rank 1 Sever divine ability, he would have used it.

Unfortunately, he is just a crippled avatar with only one divine ability at his disposal, and that divine ability is the rank 7 Blood Manipulation divine ability.

His weakness was why most of the inhabitants of the city managed to survive his outbursts. Even so, a river of blood flowed through the underground city. It served as a testament to how many lives were lost.

No one dared to cry and complain, though. They all had to kneel down and beg for forgiveness from him. Only begging for forgiveness when they hadn’t done anything wrong aside from being weak is the only way to appease the angry half-god.

After he raged and roared, he calmed down and began to consider what to do.

He mused and asked himself, “Maybe this isn’t such a bad thing.”

The first angel that he was counting on has become crippled after the god of justice killed his main body. This was the angel of killing that suddenly appeared in the forest outside Reinfield City.

The appearance of that angel of killing had drawn a lot of attention. It was even impressive that even though he was incomplete, he still managed to kill an angel of justice. Unfortunately for him, only an avatar of his was still roaming about.

So thy angel of killing is in the same state as himself. In fact, that angel might be in a worse situation because the avatar doesn’t have a divine fragment like he does, so it can’t live forever.

The best that it can do is use the waters of the spring of life to maintain its existence. As for healing itself, that is possible, but it is going to be very costly.

This means that his first option for possession is botched. After all, he can’t very well try to possess an incomplete angel. That will only compound the current problems of his incomplete existence, not alleviate them.

His second option is the killer in the spiritual dimension. This killer is the perfect choice for him. She is the next best thing to a vessel that he specifically crafted to house his soul.

She is not a specially crafted vessel, but she is still a good vessel for possession for him. She is so good that he doesn’t need to wait until she becomes perfect to possess her. He can possess her as soon as she becomes an angel of killing.

Unfortunately, despite the advantages of these benefits, it will take a long time before he can reap them. This is because she needs to kill 10 million people to become an angel, but she is stuck in the spiritual dimension fighting blood beasts.

She is still safe and is even able to kill one or two hundred blood beasts a day. But it will take a long time before she kills enough people to qualify to become an angel of killing.