Greed: All For What? - Chapter 1520: Reasons For Paranoia.

This whole mix-up could also be a problem with the cosmic source, but Draco is more inclined to believe that the Overgod had set a trap for him. After all, there was a bait and a switch. By that, he means the shard of power and True Chaos.

“This Overgod wanted to kill with a borrowed blade. If everything had worked out well, both Legion and I would have perished together. What a sinister plan!”

Some might call him overly paranoid for suspecting the Overgod. They would be right to think so, but they would be wrong to think he should not be overly paranoid. Right now, he is on the cusp of evolution. Anything can interfere and rob him of billions of years of effort. So it is right for him to be overly paranoid and suspicious of everything.

The thought that he could have lost everything, including his life, made him feel trepidation and fear. It is something he can’t let go of because he knows that there are worse things than death. True Chaos won’t kill him, but he would wish he were dead.

True Chaos will twist him into something unrecognizable. He will become something else. He will become a vessel for Chaos. He will become something similar to Aeternus.

The thought of the repercussions for his actions made him look at Legion with pity. “You are good, but you won’t have a good end because you are courting eternal damnation.”

Despite his immense power, boundless wisdom, and abundant knowledge, he considers true Chaos to be too dangerous to mess with. An ignorant person might be brave enough to test true Chaos, but that’s only because ignorance is bliss.

He can’t do it all for any benefit because he has seen a lot of the world and knows the danger of true Chaos for those who dare to come into contact with it.

“How did he even come into contact with true Chaos? How did he survive the encounter? Did he even survive the encounter? Is he still a clone or an aberration pretending to be one of their clones? I truly want to know.”

He wants to know badly. True Chaos might be difficult for weak beings to encounter, but it isn’t for an entity like him. He can just go down below and he will see an ocean of it. If he is lucky, his curiosity will not pull him too deep, and make him go mad. But that’s him.

Legion on the other hand, is a false immortal. How did an Origin god manage to come into contact with True Chaos, survive the corrosion, and not go mad? That might be the prize here instead of the shard of power, so he wants to know.

He snickered and thought, “That is, if it is even possible at all. If it is not and the demon clone didn’t survive, I shouldn’t try to come in contact with it at all.”

He always thought that the clone that became a demon had died. After all, the demon clone was not shown in the information state of Legion after it reincarnated. Now he doesn’t know what to think at all.

It could be that true Chaos was scrambling the existence of the demon clone from the perception of the void universe itself. That would be the least dangerous situation, but it would mean that True Chaos is too dangerous for him.

As for the most dangerous situation, it is that Aeternus is too powerful for the void universe to monitor. If that is so, then everything related to Aeternus, including the void universe, is doomed.

Frankly, he doesn’t want it to be either of the two. He would like to believe that the void universe or the Overgod are pulling a scheme on him. That would explain why it appeared that the void universe didn’t know the existence of the demon clone.

Even so, it is still dangerous for him. It is something that changing his location in the void universe will not solve. But he doesn’t have any choice. He can only be paranoid and wish that Aeternus truly survived the encounter with True Chaos, despite how unlikely it is.

It is unlikely because even the false Supreme Law of Chaos is deadly. And from what he knows, true Chaos is worse than the false Supreme Law of world enders. When combined with the fact that if true Chaos is a Supreme Law, then it must be alive just like him, this leads to the conclusion that True Chaos is a being more deadly than world enders.

That means Legion is not messing with a dead tool. He is messing with a deadly being. That’s why the dragon king thinks Legion is playing with eternal damnation and why he is not going to come into contact with it at all costs.

Even being in the possession of a cosmic source does not give him the confidence to mess with True Chaos. After all, the cosmic source in his possession is just a stronger variety of the one that every demon possesses.

A lot of entities know about the mark of sin, but they don’t realize its full power. Maybe even Legion doesn’t know its full power. It is an oversight caused by underestimation. Despite knowing that the mark of sin can bring a demon to the level of a demon king, which is the equivalent of an Origin god, many don’t consider the source of the mark of sin to be special.

That is understandable because of limited perspectives. After all, there are at most a thousand demon kings in an abyss. Most forget that there are a near-infinite number of realm trees in the void universe, and each one has an abyss. It means a single Supreme Law is capable of creating a near-infinite number of Origin gods.

That is something only the void universe has been able to achieve. And it has the help of Archons. But that is nowhere limit of what the true law of Chaos is capable of.

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A/N: I realized that I was supposed to release a bonus chapter yesterday for the 300 golden ticket goal. I am making up for it today.