Greed: All For What? - Chapter 1647: Taboo Move.
He went through her history and found her identity. Unfortunately, he didn’t know at the time that she had stolen someone else’s identity. She was masquerading as someone else, and
Mother High Heaven didn’t notice. He knows now that it is because she can change her
spiritual flunctuations into that of anyone else’s.
But what further drew his attention back then was how she waltzed through the trial. Nothing could harm her. And even though she didn’t attack anyone at all, she still managed to make it to the final trial.
Of course, now he knows that it is not that she didn’t want to attack but that she can’t attack. Somehow, she is completely invulnerable to attacks, as they will become intangible and disappear if they come near her.
That is the only reason he can remain calm with such a person around him. Even then, he decided that he had to start the era of conquest as soon as possible.
He didn’t need her telling him to start it for him to tell the representatives that came to see him to start preparing for the era of conquest. He had already done that even before he met her. But he sped up his plans because of her.
Someone like her threatens his control over everything. It made him try to awaken the first one as soon as possible to recover his memories and power.
Anyone would feel threatened having her around. He knows that Mother High Heaven doesn’t even know that she has been coming to the realm. He asked, and Mother High Heaven thinks that he is crazy whenever he claims that he met a white lady who can become transparent.
So either he is crazy and he doesn’t know it, or this lady can hide her presence from the Will of the realm. Either possibility is dangerous. Only power can make him certain.
Even the item he got from the first sage to target spiritual entities doesn’t give him confidence. Besides, he has another use for that item. So he will pursue his personal and ultimate power.
—-The Last Stand.
The Supreme Tyrants received news of the failed second invasion, so they came together to execute the plan that GREED suggested. Unlike the simulation, they had time and space to make use of it. The realm didn’t end with a bang, so they had time to make up their minds, gather together, and execute the Taboo.
There was no speaking or mourning. The majority of them gathered solemnly in a single location. In fact, all they needed were two willing Tyrants to start it, but more than ten thousand of them came together to ensure that it would work and no one would interfere.
The Tyrants paired up with each other. Then they started by using their innate divine ability to enhance each other. But this time, they didn’t stop at enhancing each other’s power. They took things too far.
They opened themselves up to start the taboo. Their powers and their existence began to merge with the other Tyrant they paired with. This merge was a kind of unification of different existences into one.
Each Tyrant merged with the other, and the result of their fusion merged forcefully with any other Tyrant nearby, be they normal or fused Tyrants.
The first two Tyrants agreed to fuse, but the result of their fusion doesn’t care about the compliance of others. Any Tyrant around would be forced to merge with them. So the
amalgamation cannot stop after it begins.
Tyrants have two ancestors, one of whom reproduces by dividing themselves. That form of reproduction was finally eliminated after they discovered parasitism. But before then, the Shikis tried fusing with one another to reverse their fission and extend their lifespan. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. Not only was the lifespan of the fused individuals shorter, they also didn’t reproduce after death. So the fusion was banned. But something that the fusion granted them was power, which is also something that the Tyrants desperately need right
now.
The ability to fuse with each other was inherited by the Tyrants from their parents. At the surface level, they can use it to enhance each other and make their Supreme Laws work together. But that’s only temporary. At a deeper level, it becomes deadly to them and also permanent. However, it will grant them power.
Normally, no Tyrant wants to die, so no Tyrant is willing to break the Taboo. But the fusion is not a racial taboo because two individuals will die. No one will bother to ban the fusion throughout the race if it will only affect the two Tyrants that fused.
The fusion is Taboo because it will affect the other members of the race. The fusion grants a short burst of power at the expense of lifespan. The entity that is produced from the first fusion will not be willing to let go of that euphoric power boost, so they will forcefully absorb other Tyrants.
Consuming other Tyrants will make the boost continue and increase their life spans. Then the entity produced from the fusion of three will want more time and will have more time and power to fuse with a fourth. And so on and so forth.
Once the fusion starts, it is very difficult to stop. At the very least, the fusion causes a rapid decline in the population of Tyrants. If the amalgamation is allowed to grow without restriction, then it will consume the entire race and lead to extinction. Hence, it was banned and considered taboo.
But the Tyrants have thrown caution to the wind right now. The amalgams of the Tyrants hunted other Tyrants and other Tyrants to increase their power.
Each fusion caused the power of the realm flowing into each Supreme Tyrant to combine and become stronger. So they were steadily approaching the level of a world god within the realm. It is a good thing for the Tyrants, but it was not a pretty sight to see.