GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

"That is so epic. I wish I were their child or at least had such a glorious bloodline instead of Ghastorix's lineage." Guntu said with longing.

"I don't think Ghastorix would like to hear that." The origin god said. What he didn't say is that he didn't like to have been born to the Sage's lineage.

Guntu scoffed before he caught himself and looked around warily. He has had a lot of experience with pranks to know that the moment you want to talk smack about someone is the moment they might be standing behind you.

He is a little afraid of the ancestor, but he respects the sages more, so he continued talking. "I am sure even ancestor Ghastorix would have liked to be born with Sage's bloodline."

The Origin god just shook his head. All of his life, his bloodline demanded greatness from him. His bloodline made him selfless, bold, and honorable, willing to sacrifice himself for his race. His bloodline wanted only the best for his race and it demanded that he do something to achieve it.

But his parents, the source of his bloodline deprived him of the opportunity to fulfill his craving. His parents were still alive and the worst part is that they will never die. They were alive and continued to strive for the race. He didn't stand a chance against them and It was not a pleasant feeling. Even worse is that what little he achieved is usually attributed to the fact that he is a descendant of Sages. His bloodline was his blessing and his curse.

Guntu can be said to be a fanboy. He admired this origin god. The fact that he is ready to become a world god is something to be admired, twice over. Guntu still had a long way to go to reach that level, he needed to reconcile destruction with creation. But destruction is directly opposite to creation. He will need to go against his very nature. Only then would be able to create his own law matrix and rule a world. But all his admiration paled when compared to the fact that this Origin god is a child of the Union of two of the greatest battle sage monkeys to ever exist.

The sages are greatness incarnate. Their entire race was named after them because of their feats in battle. The sages were the pioneers of the refinement path for the race, the first to achieve mana body and the first to become Transcendents. They didn't use the power they acquired to bully the race, instead, they used it to bring the race forward. Their acts of glory are eternal. Every child with an awakened bloodline and ancestral memories will remember them and their contributions to the race. The awe and respect that Guntu has for them will also be passed down to his offspring if he has any. And for generations to come, his offspring will continue to look up to the sages. In short, the sages will never be forgotten.

Guntu had been destroying the churches in the divine alliance and he was almost done with it, but he left when he was informed of the Origin god that the racial council sent. It was a more interesting thing to do, so he joined up with the newcomer and hounded him for juicy titbits. He was an artist and a connoisseur of stories, he had to come and talk to the son of legends.

Someone entered the main hall as they were talking.

"Your greatness, a god just insulted our bloodlines. He called it the cancer of the society that must be eradicated." The sovereign bowed and spoke in a deferential tone.

"Is this a joke?" Guntu asked.

If it was a joke, then it's a bad one, a really bad one.

The Origin god beside him spoke up. "Sadly, it is the truth."

Guntu noticed that the eyes of the other Origin god were glowing and switching colors. It reminded him of Soverick and why he is so important to the clan. Unlike soverick's eyes which possess multiple colors at the same time. This Origin god's eyes could only possess a single color at once but the colors change from time to time.

'A complete Sage eye. The eyes of truth, the eyes of causality, and the eyes of fatality.' Guntu thought in awe.

He is the only one around right now that could appreciate the beauty of the eyes in full splendor. Even the Sovereigns around could only get a quick peek at it so that they wouldn't incur too much mental damage.

When the first sages became mana entities, they awakened their divine ability. That moment set the entire race apart from the others and made them a divine race. A race with an innate divine ability.

The sages had no bloodline, so their divine ability was pure and powerful. It was until later that the Battle sage monkeys lost the ability to use their original divine ability.

Royal bloodlines improved the race but they also changed the race and made their divine ability change. The change was subtle at first but with time, the next generations lost the ability to acquire it completely. Only those without any bloodline whatsoever have a chance to awaken it, but that means they will have to overcome the difficulties that the sages went through in the past. No one has the confidence that it could happen. It is not that those without bloodlines cannot become origin gods, even though it is immensely difficult, it is possible. But for them to choose the path of their divine ability to ascend makes the low probability outcome become almost null.

The world is fair and balanced. Individuals of races with divine ability will have to choose their path when they are becoming titans of law just like every other less unfortunate race. They can choose to continue their divine ability and bring it to complete awakening or they can create another path.

The divine ability is created as a result of a fluke in nature either due to mana or genetic mutations, it is very difficult to replicate. The chances of becoming a titan of law are low already without adding the difficulty of trying to replicate something created by chance. If they chose another path, they won't lose their divine ability, it is a part of them after all, but it will change to accommodate their new path. The new divine ability might be more powerful or less powerful than the original one but it will be different. They become the source of a new royal bloodline when they become Origin gods and then pass on the new divine ability to their offspring. It cannot be considered a disadvantage that they lost their original divine ability, it is simply an inevitable change.

At first, the divine ability of the battle sage monkeys is not that great. Those of their race that aren't mana entities possess great visual acuity. When they achieve their mana bodies, they gain the ability to slow down time or to be more accurate, their perception increases enough to make the world slow.

When they become Transcendents, their eyes become capable of actually seeing into the future. They become able to see visions that direct their path and lead them to a favorable outcome. It is then that they must choose if they intend to continue or change. If they continue and survive the challenge of becoming a titan, then their divine ability awakens further.

Sovereigns will then gain the ability to see a few seconds into the future at all times and also multiple possible futures. This ability becomes terrifying when they become origin gods. But they have to survive the ordeal of madness as titans of law first. The barrage of unwarranted and unsolicited visions can be a real killer to titans of law.

The difficulty of achieving what the sages did is why their bloodline lineage is very rare. They became Origin gods with the original divine ability and then passed it on to their offspring. It made their offsprings enjoy the best of both worlds, they had bloodline advantage and divine ability at the same time.

The Ghastorix family suspects that Soverick possesses this same advantage and they must preserve it. Their intent for his bloodline has only become stronger when they found out that he had multiple talents. Only the original sages had multiple talents but it was nowhere on the level of what soverick possesses.

Back then, a transcendent or god-level of talent was considered a myth. Right now, royal bloodlines have made it possible. They have also made it impossible for offspring to have multiple talents, they will only have talents for what their ancestor chose as his path. Guntu's ancestor chose lightning and destruction to create a path, and that made his talents those two options only. Bloodlines have their advantages and their disadvantages.

But Soverick has multiple talents and all of them at the god-level. His importance to the family can not be understated. They didn't know what Soverick's divine ability is, but his talent and bloodline are good enough to whet their appetite.