GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 1719: Adaptation Or What?



He rose to his true form then. The pillar grew taller and unfolded into a large sheet of worms that blanketed the sky. He had sealed every avenue of escape for her. One way or another, they were going to fight today.

"What way will you find little sister? Will you try to phase through me again? I hope you do. I have something that I think would restrict you. Why don't we give it a try?"

He was eager to try. So when he saw what SOUL meant by finding her way, he was unhappy.

SOUL didn't try to test whatever mechanism he had concocted now to trap the untrappable. She jumped into the pool of darkness and chased after POWER. This left only WISDOM standing at the edge of the pool of darkness.

He thought to himself with a smirk as his body shrank back into a small, squirming grey pillar of worms, "I thought she didn't want to risk herself. Who would have thought that she became too scared for her future? Apparently, she is not immune to everything. In the right amount, fear can affect her."

Then he chuckled. "This is good too."

The knowledge he just gained caused his worms to shift and divide. This made him more adaptable in dealing with his untouchable sister. But it is just a small victory compared to what he plans for the future.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"I wonder what will happen if I step into this nothingness without any protection. Will I disappear or will I adapt and become stronger?"

He looked at the pool of darkness with both fear, anticipation, greed, and caution. The pool of darkness is the ultimate wrongness in the world. It is also the ultimate challenge for him. If he can adapt to it, then he would be on his way to becoming an ABSOLUTE or actually become

one.

Unfortunately, he doesn't have the guts of POWER or the innate immunity of SOUL. He is too smart to risk the pool of darkness even with protection, so there's no way he would willingly bear the power of ANNIHILATION in order to become stronger.

"Maybe I could give it a try if SOUL had fused with me. But I will certainly need POWER's unending power to not die instantly."

Eventually, he looked away from the pool of darkness and turned to the Cosmos. He stared at the wound across the Cosmos. It was the wound that was left behind from the attack that killed the SUPREME.

Even after many epochs, that wound had prevented the rise of another SUPREME. Anyone who dared to try to take up that position would be cleaned in two just as the Cosmos was almost cleaved into two.

It shows just how powerful the person who killed the SUPREME must have been. And the SUPREME was someone who managed to imprison an ABSOLUTE.

"It just doesn't make any sense. But I guess I am too weak to understand it. I just have to become the next SUPREME. Maybe then I will understand."

He has always wanted to understand why and how something so incomprehensible has happened. Fortunately, his chance is coming. The wound is healing. It has been healing over the years, so it has shrunk now. Soon it will disappear, and anyone will be able to become the SUPREME then.

The other alternative is for him to brave the danger of the wound now and try to adapt to it. Then he will automatically become the SUPREME. But if he isn't willing to attempt ANNIHILATION, he is not willing to attempt whatever the wound is.

He shook his head in pity and disappeared into the Cosmos.

Meanwhile, within the pool of darkness, POWER used the artifact of the Lord of Madness that they had managed to find to resist the power of ANNIHILATION. ANNIHILATION was chained, unconscious, and held down by the weight of many worlds. But despite being shackled, sleeping, and burdened, just its mere presence could kill him.

POWER enveloped himself with the power of the defensive artifact as he swarm towards one of the two largest worlds on ANNIHILATION's shackles. He entered this world only to be shackled by the rules of the world. These rules were so strong that he too had to fall asleep.

Fortunately, he has the spirit of wisdom with him. While he slept, the spirit of wisdom helped him infiltrate the rules of this world and began a process to turn him into an indigene of the universe.

It did this by creating virtual personas that tried again and again to become strong enough to allow him to awaken. This continued until one of the vessels of POWER, an earthling called Jason, reincarnated into the high heaven realm and fulfilled the requirements to wake up POWER.

Using him, POWER successfully changed his identity from an invader to an indigene, but the shackles of the void universe were still too strong to allow him to do whatever he wanted. POWER has woken up now, and he has also found the path of Supremacy that will grant him access to the Legacy of the Lord of Madness. All he needs is for other powerful beings in this world to help him open the gate.

Of course no one will help him even if he asks nicely. They are more likely to sabotage his plans if they know about it. But he is not helpless. All he needs is bait. If that bait is good enough, then they will fall for it and do what he wants them to do.

Monarch High Heaven, the high elf vessel of POWER has created that bait. All POWER needed to do was build the platform and invite the powerful entities of this world to partake in it.

He has done all of that and just as he expected, the plan suggested by the spirit of wisdom is working without an issue. Even entities that are usually cautious like Legion are also tempted to join in.