GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?



Soverick edged him on. "Aw, come on. Don't you have faith in your choice? You should have faith in Salvini."

The sage answered frankly, "No, I don't have faith in my choice. I have had a lot of reasons to question my choices recently. Now make the Oath."

"I, Soverick Ghastorix, swear upon my Origin that I will never try to sabotage the Virut plane and reduce its chances of success in the era of conquest as long as my position as sage is still recognized, as long as the first sage gives me the compensation and requests that we will agree upon latest by the next week and as long as I am allowed to challenge the Salvini."

He made the Oath. Then he asked the sage, "Is that good enough for you?"

"Good enough." The sage agreed begrudgingly.

They never agreed to maintain his position as a sage. Soverick added that part in his oath for assurance. It means that he will still have a say in the racial council. But the sage decided to allow it. Soverick already promised not to sabotage the plane and that's what's important.

"Now spill," Soverick said eagerly.

The sage conjured a round object. It is a large sphere shining brightly. It is like a small star and it might as well be a star since it looks like one. It is entirely white and it is larger than a plane. There are runes on the surface of the sphere that seems to be projected outwards into its surrounding. 

The runes form a sort of holographic projection into the surroundings which makes the sphere brighter and bigger than it is. The runes are very difficult to see but their projection makes their existence known. The projection of runes forms another sphere of holographic material around the round object. 

Soverick was staring at the object with intense fascination. He was captivated by the beauty of the sphere. It is clearly an object of great power but it isn't producing any energy fluctuation or pressure. It seems to be in perfect balance with the world around it. It would go unnoticed if he was not looking directly at it. It is then that the brightness of the sphere is pushed into his face. If he turned his back to the sphere then he wouldn't notice the white light that it is producing at all.

"That is the realm heart." The sage said.

"Wow." That was all Soverick could say.

He is too smitten and mesmerized to say more.

The spherical object is beautiful. It remained beautiful as it was made to break apart next. Its outer layer broke into pieces like fragments of glass and floated away. What's left of the sphere is a smaller sphere surrounded by a ring of light. The ring of light is shining an intense white light that makes it difficult to be seen. It is almost as if the ring is fashioned from supercompressed white light.

The sage removed the white ring of light from the small ball within it. The ball then split into two equal halves without the ring holding it together anymore. The removal of all that light allowed him to see what the ball is. The first half of the ball is made of pure laws. It has no form or shape now that it has been freed from the influence of the other two. It is pure information and order. Just looking at it made his mind become infused with unbidden knowledge. 

This half will be invisible to lesser minds but he can see it and so he will be forced to accept the information of its existence. It is as invasive as the supreme laws of world gods. But it seems more powerful because it actually has the support of the void universe. He can feel fluctuations of cosmic forces from it. 

Time and space seem to be in a constant state of flux around it. There is no beginning or end to it. Only laws and information trying to overwrite all of existence. He had to look away from it less his poor mind gets injured again. He ignored the stirring of Legion-7 and looked to the next half. 

The second half is a translucent crystal with a seemingly infinite amount of edges and faces. It seems to be constantly changing and shifting in shape, size, form, and colors so he is always seeing a different side of it. But the side he is seeing is just a fraction of what the crystal can shift into. 

As the crystal shifts, no form is repeated. Every change is new and previously unseen. Whatever this half is, his mind is not powerful enough to take in the entirety of its presence. It is as if infinity has been forcefully given shape and form. But that doesn't stop it from being infinite. Because it is his mind that has given it its form and his mind is not capable of quantifying or limiting infinity. 

Infinity is boundless but his perception is flawed. So he can't know what the crystal is in its entirety. All he knows for sure is that it contains the infinite possibilities of Life. Unlike the other half which is forceful with its influence, this half is beckoning to him to accept it. This temptation is similar to the one experienced when one encounters godhood. It is the temptation of evolution. 

But he knows he mustn't succumb to this temptation so he looked away too. It is a dangerous temptation because evolution without direction or the power to fuel it will lead to ruination at best. If he is unlucky and he actually has the power to fuel it, then without a direction, that he is certainly lacking, he will evolve forever.

Evolution without direction is evil. Infinite Evolution without direction is a curse that even an immortal wouldn't want to bear. The artifacts pressured him with the yoke of their existence. He had to take a step back from them. He had to yield to them. They are beyond his level of existence. Only the help of Legion-7 prevented his existence from shattering into pieces right now.