GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?



The last charm is the body armor charm created with an earthen armor spell. It creates a thick layer of earth around its users that can protect them from physical blows and adverse physical conditions. 

Speed is reduced but this body armor charm lasts until it is destroyed as opposed to the temporary protective charm. An Alpha has used it to survive the anger of a pack leader before. That was the moment that his name began to terrorize the mountain range. 

All four of his blessings are very powerful since he is a Mana entity so it is like a cheat for vitality core stage refiners to have. So they are very popular. They are also very rare and precious since he is the only one capable of making them. 

Many Omegas want to learn from him and many park leaders think about him and dread the day they will have to fight the iron fur pack. His blessings make it so that an Alpha can contend with a pack leader for a short while or decimate other Alphas. They also make Sauron a tiger that has grown wings. 

His charms and blessings are not free. They each cost a single offering. It is very cheap considering their power but he makes up for it by making the charms temporary. That means that the Warriors keep coming back for more. They use the charms for more than fighting and hunting. 

The charms have increased the survivability of the Warrogs and helped them to clear out previously uninhabitable locations. It is why the Warrogs are already all over the mountain range. 

Dangerous heights, unstable footholds, and fragile ice grounds have stopped being a barrier to expansion. It allowed the population of the park to expand and also increased the demand for his charms.

The Warrogs of Tesrat's squad approached him one by one for their blessings. They remained bowed as they approached him. He is already much taller than them without them bowing. Lowering their heads has made them much smaller to him. Fortunately, he is sitting while attending to them so he doesn't need to bend to put his hands on them.

He healed the first one with the broken arm. The injured Beta can heal it on its own but it will take time. She will lose her strength and the amount of prey that she can get in that period of time. Her injury will make her become a burden on her squad since they have to take care of her during that time. 

But a healing spell is quick and cheap so they came to him for it. By making healing cheap, it has become accessible to everyone so even the weak nameless which are the bulk of the population of the park can afford to pay him for his services. That way, he uses the entire manpower of the tribe to hunt for him.

Then he gave each of them their charms. He did so by drawing a remnant of a warrior from the totem pillar and fixing it on the warrior's fur. Then he infused the remnant with his spiritual energy in the specific structure of the spell that he is casting. The spell became infused in the remnant and can be activated with a thought by the warrior. 

All it costs for him to bestow a blessing is his spiritual energy which he has a lot of because of his powerful soul. The remnant of the warrior is not even used up. It returns to the totem pillar after the spell it holds is used up. All he does is cast the spell and receive an offering for each cast. It is a massively profitable business for him. 

He didn't teach the Shamans that came to him to learn. They came with what they considered precious knowledge and information but he doesn't care about those. He doesn't even value the spells and they were effectively created by an Origin god. What can they possibly produce in this stunted environment that can impress him? 

The only thing he cares about right now is that he has a monopoly. He aims to keep things that way. Virtually nothing the Warrogs can give him can convince him otherwise.

Tesraly said to him after he was done. "Thank you for the blessings, Shaman Ragnarok. We will leave now. Have a nice day."

"You too. Good hunting."

"Good hunting." She said and bowed again before she left with her squad.

They left with 2 offerings since he reduced how much they had to pay by 2. He became alone in the shelter after she left. So he turned his attention towards the pile of offerings. The red horn on his head glowed bright red. Then it turned to dust. The red dust blew around him with the wind. It formed a trail of red dust in the air. 

The red dust rotated idly around in the air but his body was already reacting to the release of his slaughter anchor. The red tattoos on his body turned to dust too. They joined the trail of red dust in the air. The red dust trail has become a small cloud of red dust now. 

Then he redirected it towards the pile of offerings. The red cloud moved swiftly and pounced on the dead bodies. They consumed the offering down to the bone. Even the bones disappeared too after a while. 

The red cloud became bigger after extracting the death essence from the offering. He made it return to his body. The red cloud swarmed him but didn't consume him. They turned into the numerous red tattoos on his body. His red horn has also reappeared in its rightful place. 

The whole red cloud is something that all Omegas have. It is the activated manifestation of the power tattoos. An Omega gains strength from the dead and from killing. They use a part of their body as the anchor for the power that they gain from killing.