Greed: All For What? - Chapter 1619: Perplexed And More Perplexed.
WRATH warned them, “I’m telling you now. Don’t think that I am easy to fool or that you can defeat me easily. I will be sure to take down at least 3 of the 5 of you with my current clone. And there’s still more of me in this realm to go around.”
There’s not much difference between demon gods in terms of power. What affects their strength the most is the amount of energy they possess, and WRATH’s current clone has the same amount of energy as all five demon gods of the Tyrant Realm, if not more. So its threat must be taken seriously.
If not for the fact that it will be fighting all of them at once, it would be able to take down four one by one before its energy level runs too low to threaten the last one.
The demon gods of the Tyrant Realm went ahead and explained the situation. They were not planning to fool WRATH before, so they didn’t hide anything anymore.
“Actually, we don’t know the strength of that god because there is a demon god protecting him. This demon god calls himself the herald of chaos. It is very strong and unreasonable to negotiate with. We have tried to beat it, but…”
WRATH snorted. “If you mean Aeternus, then you lot must have lost and you must have lost a lot,”
The demon gods displayed Aeternus’s current form to WRATH. His large, dark form, which dwarves planes, appeared in all its glory in WRATH’s mind.
Then they asked, “Is this the Aeternus you speak of?”
WRATH’s eye would have bulged if it had eyes. “Aeternus has grown so big. What has he been eating?”
Then the answer to its question dawned on it. “Ah yes. He has been eating you fools.”
One of them asked WRATH, “Do you know this Aeternus very well?”
WRATH laughed as it replied, “Of course I do. He is notorious in our realm. I and many others have fought him many times. We even know his weakness. But don’t bother to ask me to join you. If Aeternus is involved in this, then I am not interested.”
“We don’t intend to have only you join us. We want to call on every demon god from your realm to join in. If every demon god from the two realms combined their might, we might be able to seal this Aeternus.”
WRATH didn’t budge. “I am still not interested.”
This statement shocked the demon gods.
“There is an opportunity to become a demon god at stake here, and we have a good chance at it.”
But WRATH didn’t care. “Please leave. I am very busy here.”
The demon gods were bewildered. They expected a demon god as powerful as WRATH to be very confident in the combined might of all the demon gods against a single demon god, so they were both disappointed and perplexed.
They left, though. They had to when WRATH began to prepare to send them off violently.
WRATH watched them go with a sneer. It felt some amusement at the fact that Aeternus troubling someone else for a change. But mostly, it was content with what it was doing.
The demon gods of the Tyrant realm would never understand why it is not tempted by the god because it already has an alternative. They don’t know that alternative because no one has mentioned the abyssal coalition to them.
This abyssal coalition has given it the opportunity to acquire a world spark. Currently, it can already afford it. Most demon gods that participated in the invasion of the realm can. So it already has a way to become a world ender. What it is doing right now is enjoying itself. That’s why the invasion of the Tyrant realm has become a party to them. It is not a war anymore.
The demon gods of the Tyrant realm don’t know why they are backing up the wrong tree, so they approached other demon gods for corperation. Their perplexity deepened when every demon god they approached refused to join in. SLOTH didn’t even listen to them.
The demon gods that did listen to them were first excited when they heard about the god, but they lost their enthusiasm when they heard that it concerned the herald of chaos. They also displayed particularly weird emotions when they displayed Aeternus’s current large form. They, above all else, knew how powerful and formidable Aeternus was when he was more than a thousand times smaller than a powerful demon god. Now he is many times bigger than when they first participated in the era of conquest. How can they not lose interest?
In a normal situation, size is everything to demon gods. This is because the bigger they are, the more energy they have at their disposal. But Aeternus is not ordinary. He already had a lot of energy when he was small, and he could fight many demon gods bigger than him. So they had to give up now that things have developed to this level.
PRIDE even became angry when he saw Aeternus’s new form. It said, “See what you have done now, you fools? You have created a problem for everyone with your incompetence.”
A demon god asked, “If this herald of Chaos is problematic right now, why don’t we work together to eliminate it before it becomes too late?”
PRIDE yelled at them, “SCRAM!!!”
They actually proposed a good idea, and it is tempted by it. But the fact that it needs the help of others to defeat Aeternus doesn’t sit well with it. And the fact that even if it overcomes its discomfort, this plan is unlikely to succeed because these fools have made Aeternus stronger by offering their flesh to it, makes it very angry.
These two things made PRIDE yell at them to leave. The demon gods of the Tyrant realm had to leave. They left in bewilderment and surprise. They had to ask themselves, “Why are they so scared of him? I am sure that all of us combined should have a lot more energy than one demon god.”