GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Besides, they already made an investment of divine life energy in the healing pools at the various academies for training future demorgorgs. That little investment brought about a return of 60% survivability on average. That is good enough for Legion. 

The initiates left the demon prison. They all left happy. They have finally become what they trained all their lives for. They can't be sad anyway. They are alive and that's enough to be glad for. Those who failed and should be sad are already dead. 

In this way, the tree father has put the giants of order to good use. The initiates are practically on par with demigods right now. It is something that runes and Stigmatas couldn't achieve. A demigod had to be the offspring of another god. 

The process of acquiring that power is clearly very dangerous but it is worth it because there is no other option for giants of order to acquire power in the plane. Demigods don't exist anymore since the death of the gods. In fact, all the demigods that were transcendents and had fused with the divine power of their parents died together with their parents. 

The way that the gods died implicated their descendants. Chaos energy is insidious that way. Every trace of their divine power was destroyed so that the gods wouldn't be able to resurrect in any way.

The only descendants of gods that survived that ordeal are those that were still mana entities when the gods died. But the survivors lost their runes. All runes in existence stopped working once all the gods died and the Authority of the Celestial Supreme was taken away. 

The only person who can create runes and even do more to allow giants of order to acquire the power to fight titans of law is the one and only god-king. Every other giant of order is stuck at the transcendent level because of the law fragment of order in their bodies. They can't learn laws and they can't use mana. This leaves the order of demorgorgs as the only path forward despite its danger. 

"This still needs some work," Helios said. "It is too dangerous and it has a limit."

"I agree that it is too dangerous but unless I am willing to sacrifice some of my power, I don't see how we can get through this limit. There are no gods apart from me."

"I suggest that we return to the Original use of Soverick's project. It would certainly be an alternative capable of breaking the limit of power of the demorgorgs and also reduce the danger."

The tree father considered the suggestion and thought it was a good idea. "It could work but it is going to be dangerous to start it as we are. It would be easier to have Soverick on our side but he is still busy working on the concept for his eyes."

Helios insisted. "We will just have to do this without him. The time is ripe and there is an opportunity to test it soon."

"Then let us shall."

And so they began work on the next generation of amplification. What they have achieved already is exceptional. They have successfully created a path of power that is different from the normal paths of power. It is something that has been tried several times in the past. 

Some have succeeded in creating a means other than the path of perfection to strengthen beings but most have failed. The order of demorgorgs is a success but it is not good enough for Legion. 

The major problem with the demorgorg system is that it is dangerous. Transcendents are too rare to encounter amongst giants of order. They don't have bloodlines to help them after all. 

The current output of transcendents that they have achieved is a result of the intensive nurturing of the giants with normal life energy from plants engineered by the tree father and grown to provide it. But even then, some of them die during the breakthrough. 

No amount of resources can eliminate the danger of breaking through to transcendence without a bloodline, life essence, or divine life energy. Only those three can guarantee a breakthrough to transcendence. So the supply of transcendents is too low for them to be wasted when they try to become demorgorgs. 

Even if they have unlimited transcendents, they don't have unlimited access to demons. Demons are essential parts of the demorgorgs. Without a demon to assimilate, there can be no demorgorgs. This creates a shunt in the number of demorgorgs that can be created even if there are unlimited transcendent giants.

The scarcity of demons is a real problem right now even when there is a limited supply of transcendents because the portal to the abyss is closed. Aeternus had to do it to ensure the safety of the Zargoth plane. It stopped the supply of demons for demorgorgs to work with. 

The process of capturing demons is also not easy. Many of them die during the capturing process. After all, it is easier to kill than to capture. 

It doesn't help that the rate of suicides among demons has increased because of the existence of demorgorgs. Demons can sense the other demons trapped in their bodies and the pain they are going through. Most of them would rather die than go through that. 

As if that isn't enough to limit the supply of demons, the process of assimilation is also dangerous to demons. Some of them die during the process.

The process of creating a demorgorg is dangerous to demons because they have been weakened before the assimilation begins. But if they are not weakened, their resistance will be too much which will make the stress on the giants too much and will lead to the death of giants. 

Divine life energy cannot be used to solve this issue because the weakness of demons is a good thing. At least if demons die, the giants can try with other demons. But if a giant dies, that is a permanent loss for the demorgorgs.