Greed: All For What? - Chapter 1767: The Weak Link.

There was something that had been troubling Legion-3. It is especially so now that he is about to risk Warshaw for more Authority. Fortunately, he didn’t need to be troubled by it for long. He just asked his angel.

“When will we get more oracles?”

The angel replied, “You will get another one when you become a true god. You will also get priests for your religion at that time. There’s so much to look forward to.”

He asked it, “What will happen if my Oracle dies now?”

“Then you will lose your qualifications to become a true god. You will even be on your way to dying permanently.”

“Is there no way to get an extra Oracle now? I really need one.”

“Unfortunately not. Oracles are precious. You can always replace an Oracle when they die of natural causes. It will only cost you some divine energy. But if you don’t replace them quickly or all your Oracles are killed, you would have fulfilled one of the requirements for a permanent death.”

“So no Oracle for now. What are the other requirements for permanent death?”

“The destruction of your altar.”

“You mean the altar we are about to create?”

“That one.”

“What if we don’t create the altar? Doesn’t that mean we will never die?”

“That is correct. But you will also never become a true god, and you need to be a true god to acquire Domains. Domains can be taken out of this world. If my information source is correct, Domains are what most of the god seeds are after. So unless you don’t care for domains and are willing to while away your time here, you don’t need to become a god seed.”

Legion-3 understood. Legion decided to participate in this project because of the Authority of the Void Universe. In this world or project, the Authority of the void universe is called a Domain. If they are to acquire Domains, they must become gods and compete with the others for them.

To do that, they must create altars and become independent from the divine investiture. There is no other way around it.

As it is, only 4,000,000 of all the 100,000,000 god seeds can become godlings. The rest will be eliminated. So they are not given much of a choice. They either fight for the Authority of the void universe or be eliminated.

Authority of the void universe is so important that even world gods want them. That’s why they sent some immortals into this world to acquire it. It means no one is likely to decide to remain as god seeds.

He asked another question, “Is there no way to descend to the mortal realm or help my Oracle?”

“Unfortunately not. At least not currently. You will have to grow stronger as a god and gain new abilities. Maybe one of them will help you. In the meantime, you have to watch your Oracles be in danger.”

He sighed and thought to himself, “Fortunately, Hoggings is there to protect her. But we can’t let this continue for too long.”

He is hating being a god more and more by the moment. Not only do they need the belief of mortals for power, they need their daily dose of faith from the mortals so that they can continue to remain alive, and now they need to protect an Oracle because it is their weakness.

At this point, he doesn’t know who is more miserable, the gods that need mortals to survive or the mortals that need the help of fickle gods. But that still didn’t stop him from extending his grubby hands to acquire more mortals.

He still had to decide which tribe to attack next. The annexation of the Bear Paw tribe went well. There was no conflict in the process. All that was needed was for the glory of the gods to be displayed.

The feeling of watching their Authority increase ensured that he would be content until he acquired all that he could possibly get. His greed won’t be satisfied with just one tribe.

Of the two available tribes nearby, one tribe has a god that has ascended. This god, whoever he is, must be somewhere in the Northern divine realm. They are probably in Gemmis or one of the other nine divine cities in the northern divine realm.

They did do some research on their side, which involved asking their angel for information and asking around. But they only know the title of the god and the race of the god. They can’t get much information from that.

The best they could do was to check the ranking list. They relived when they didn’t find the title of the god there. That meant that the god seed hadn’t become a godling yet.

As for the second tribe, it has two god seeds who are at each other’s throats. They are the most dangerous option for them currently. It is not advisable to have their believers attack any tribe with a god seeds, much less a tribe with two god seeds. It will only lead to a calamity. The presence of the two god seeds in the mortal realm has secured the second tribe from that influence, even though they are many times stronger than the two of them combined.

The problem is that they can’t use any of their power to assist their mortals currently. If it were only one god seed, they could try to exhaust the god seed by throwing mortals at it and making it spend its divine energy to kill mortals. But that plan will backfire if the god seed targets their Oracle first. It is bound to backfire since there are two, not one, god seeds.

On the other hand, the first tribe with the ascended god will be just as vulnerable as they. No matter how powerful that god seed is, it won’t be able to assist its tribe in their moment of great need.