GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

"Only 4 more training regimens to go. Eye to body coordination, dodging and perception, blocking and parrying, and the obstacle course.

He deliberated a little before making a choice. "I'll start with the Eye to body coordination."

"Good. It is the crystal from the left."

Soverick took the crystal and absorbed the knowledge. Then he accessed the wrist logger to change the environment within the training room. Then he began his next training.

This was just physical training. When he is done with this he still had spiritual training to attend to.

Front Line Battlefield Of The Divine War.

Ghoto watched as the resistance army was driven to a corner. He was floating in the middle of a chaotic battlefield. Explosions of light, sound, and shockwaves rocked the earth and the sky. Things happened in split seconds and you need to be ever aware to even stand still in this battle. Those below the level of transcendence will only see flashes and hear thunder.

Ghoto had witnessed stronghold after stronghold be broken through and destroyed as the army of the racial council pushed back the resistance.

They were pushed back until they reached the last line of their defense. All the former defensive measures have failed till now. The resistance army simply stood no chance until now. Things suddenly changed and it seemed that they had acquired a backbone to support their breaking backs. The allied forces of the racial council tried again to destroy them but they haven't made much progress recently. The backbone that the resistance army acquired came in the form of floating war fortresses.

Ghoto stood clad in slim black battle armor. His armor was composed of little metal fragments that come loose to form a cloud of sharp knives around him. Lightning danced across the metallic cloud and it enhanced their lethality and speed. The lightning came from him, as a king of law proficient in the law of lightening, he is capable of this much.

Ghoto started as a lightning mage but has long since dropped his spells for spell matrixes. Spell matrixes are an advanced method of casting by manifesting a spell structure into the real world instead of visualizing it. They gain several advantages such as the ability for spells to be equipped with artifacts. He is manipulating the metallic blades using his lightning spell in conjunction with his mind, it forms a deadly combination that is capable of shredding his opponents. This is his new origin weapon, of mid-grade quality and amplified by his lightning law. It functions as an attacking weapon as well as a defensive one. It is expensive because of this but he didn't have to pay for it. He had acquired this new artifact as a reward for his contributions so far. So he had a hand in the current circumstances of the gods.

He was hoping to acquire another one, for himself or Mihila but the resistance army had been losing too quickly. Their rate of loss was too fast for him to provide more significant contributions. Everyone wanted a piece of them and the gods were hounded like stray prey by a pack of wolves.

But things have changed, not for the better either, the resistance army was fighting back and they were fighting well. It didn't seem like he would get to make much difference either. He wasn't willing to risk his life against the last-ditch effort of a cornered enemy.

"Something has to be done against those war fortresses or we won't be able to finish what we started." He complained.

The floating war fortress is the main reason for the halt in the progress of eradicating the resistance. They were floating manifestations of concepts of war equipped with massive bombarding energy cannons, annihilating beams, top-grade protective shields, and war factories. If you wished you had your logistics, reinforcements, command center, transport system, aerial support, land troops, radar, surveillance systems, siege weapons, and assault weapons in a nice perfect bundle meant for destruction, then you need a war fortress.

The energy cannons they have accumulates energy balls and coat them in a force field that contains the deadly energy within, then this ball is shot at a target. A hit breaches the flimsy force field and detonates the energy in a violent reaction that creates a massive ring of destruction. In other words, the energy cannons are meant for an area of effect attacks.

The annihilating beams, on the other hand, force highly unstable energy to combine within a reactor. The energy is further energized by high-energy fields. This very unstable situation is then given an outlet to vent, and it vents in the form of a single target beam of death. The beam destroys the fundamental nature of matter and can only be resisted for the smallest period by a titan of law. Anything beneath that level will be annihilated on contact.

The war factory is also constantly churning out what could be referred to as golems or robots. They are technically a fusion of both, and they were endless. The war factory converts energy and materials into these fearless kamikaze soldiers. The soldiers can be humanoid, tanks, or flight-capable drones. The resistance army came prepared for their last stand.

The quality of the golem had been reduced in order to ramp up its production speed. Their defensive parameters were so weak Ghoto could wrench them with his lightning-metal cloud but 31 war fortresses were producing these things at breakneck speed. The divine pantheon was burning money and is reaping the rewards for it. Without proper caution, anyone stood the risk of being overrun. They didn't even need to kill you, just tie you down enough for one of the weapons in the way fortress to blast you. Guntu wasn't worried though.

The resistance army had over two dozen war fortress but he wasn't worried. The gods acquired a lot of Sovereigns from somewhere but he wasn't worried. They had calamity-grade weaponry, things that are capable of rendering the plane decimated and uninhabitable, but he still wasn't worried. Why would he be worried?

Could the allied forces lose? Not all. It's just that the defensive measures of the resistance had been entrenched here in advance. It was going to take some preparation but they will eventually uproot the weeds that is the divine.

Besides all that, even if they were somehow in trouble it wasn't his place to be worried. As impressive as a king of law is, he is just a high-level grunt in this war. There were still the titans and sovereigns whose job it is to worry. The two Origin gods leading the army are fundamentally incapable of worrying, at least not by this level of warfare. In short, he had confidence in spades.

They could not lose. It wasn't a matter of morale. Every battle sage monkey with a little knowledge of the plane knows that the racial council doesn't mess around. The racial council is the hero of the plane and people will rally behind them for anything. So if people got wind that the allied forces were having trouble here, they would flock here to help. The racial council must not and can not be allowed to lose.

Speaking of origin gods. There were two. One seemed to be really volatile and Ghoto is putting it lightly. He couldn't discern much about him all he could say about the origin god is that "it" is a boiling cloud of destruction. He had seen that Origin god act once and he didn't look like a living thing at all.

That Origin god seemed natural and yet unnatural, like an artificial fundamental force of nature. The other Origin god is just a sword. Origin gods might look normal like anyone else but they seemed to change when they are using their powers. They embody powers and concepts greater than a single person.

Suddenly Ghoto felt a threat to his life. He leaped backward and formed a barrier made up of interwoven metallic blades in his defense. The calculations for the shield were done instantly in his mind within the small room he was given to defend himself. It was an impressive reaction but it wasn't enough. A spear of light smashed through the defense and blasted off one of his arms. The arm disintegrated before touching the ground while the spear went on to hit the ground behind Ghoto, it created an explosion of light and energy that was capable of incinerating Ghoto whole if it had hit him.

Ghoto realized he could have been dead right now if that spear had hit his body instead of his arm. His defense wasn't a waste, after all, it had deviated the projectile off its intended target. The fact that the spear could have killed him in one shot also made him know he was vastly outclassed.

"Which god is trying to bully me now?" He broadcasted widely as he continued to retreat. He could still feel the threat to his life locked on to him by a powerful divine sense so he didn't dare falter. Staying still will make him a very easy target.

A golden avatar of a god in a golem with a spear in hand spoke up. "You die today Ghoto."