GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?



The ground of the city is artificial. It is a barrier created by an Origin artifact. It separates the private lower section of the city from the pubic inner and outer city. The barrier is sturdy but it can not take the stress that reaches the Sovereign level. It means Soverick is already outputting power at the Sovereign level as a king of law.

Hadrick muttered to itself again. "What a freak."

Hadrick suspected as much since it has seen some of the things that Soverick can forge. His abilities have always been beyond what a king of law can achieve. But that sphere that he created is beyond what an origin god should be able to forge. So trying to use common sense to evaluate Soverick won't work. He would rather just ignore the weirdness and just forge.

Meanwhile, the family drama continued. Soverick leaped into the air and then his powerful divine sense gripped the world and pulled on it. He shot through the air like another meteor. His divine sense acted like a slingshot by griping the world and pulling him forward. He found his mother quickly with his fast speed. She is laying in a heap weakened and battered. 

Her body is cracking all over. There are fine cracks that extend from the point he punched her to the other parts of her body. The place that he punched is cracked and caved in. Apparently, the injury he gave to her is very serious. Her essence is even leaking out of the cracks in her body. The injury has hastened the loss of her life essence and reduced her lifespan. She will die faster if she doesn't heal the injury. Fortunately, it is an injury made without a concept so it is very easy to heal.

He flew down slowly towards her and hovered just above her.

He frowned in annoyance and said to her. "Don't make this difficult for me Mihila. Just answer the question. I don't have time for this."

She replied by spitting at him. Her spit struck his barrier and rolled harmlessly to the ground.

He grunted. "As stubborn as a mule."

He flew closer to the ground. Then he picked her up by her neck. His hand clasped around her neck like a vice grip. Even weakened, her neck felt unbreakable in his hands. It is tough and hard like a rock. Her entire body is like that. It is due to the refinement of her body by the laws of the universe.

The body of law of titans is still incomplete but it already provides exceptional defense. A king of law can attack her body all day and won't be able to scratch it unless that king of law is able to output enough power to overwhelm the defense of her body. Even then, the king of law will have to slowly chip away at her body as if trying to break a mountain apart with an axe. 

Her body of law made it seem as if he is holding some highly durable metallic inorganic machine. It is a body that resists external influences because it is too strong. Her body will rather break than bend. It wouldn't be easy to damage such a body and yet he did. In fact, he is ready to do more damage if she doesn't cooperate with him.

He brought her to his face with the two of them levitating in the air. His white unfocused eyes met with her blazing multicolored ones.

He told her, "He is suffering in the artifact, Mihila. The more time you waste, the more pain he has to go through. Why don't you give me what I want and I'll let him go."

His words made her struggle both internally and externally. She knows that Soverick doesn't care about much so he must really care about the information she has if he is asking for it again and again. So she really wants to spite him by not giving him what he wants but she doesn't want Ghaster to continue suffering. His words reminded her of why they are fighting in the first place and what truly matters.

She also doesn't like the feel of his hands on her neck so she tried to release herself. She knows that she should capitulate but she doesn't like how she has been beaten up. She struggled to escape his grip but it was all to no avail. That previous attack of his mauled the little order she had in her body and made it difficult to gather her strength. Even now, she can still feel 9 echoes of force reverberating through her.

She finally relented when she couldn't make any progress in releasing herself.

She is clearly outmatched so she said to him, "He called me a few seconds before I arrived."

"Hmmm. So you didn't know he was coming to me?" He asked her.

"No. He called me and told me that you trapped him in a machine. He was crying in pain."

"Interesting. This means that he can communicate with the outside world while fused with the machine. I need to fix this. I don't want to carry a snitch with me." He said while rubbing his chin with his other hand.

He was inspired to create the vessel by the divine engine that Helios and the tree father created. Unlike them, he doesn't have divine will or fragments of the law of order so it isn't easy for him to replicate it. They were able to create an effectively isolated space within which power can be siphoned but it seems he is far from that level. Ghaster is still capable of communicating with the outside world. That will bring a lot of trouble to whoever is using the machine.

"Fine then."

He released his hold on her and she dropped to the ground. She righted herself before reaching the ground and levitated on her own. She would have called flat on the ground had she been too weak to reorient herself and Soverick would have just watched.