GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

1173 Picking Out A Livestock.

Unfortunately, he doesn't have any say right now. None of his caretakers listened to him whenever he asked to move around. They would just smile at him or ignore him entirely. None of them even bothered to explain anything about his situation to him.

The thought of his situation made him grumble again. "That Soverick was lucky to have parents he could play around with. He could even demand his own private space in someone else's house."

That recollection made Legion-5 chuckle. He said to the other clones, "His parents were weak physically and mentally. None of us have ever had it that good."

"My father wanted to possess me so your situation is not so bad."

Legion-5 rolled his eyes. "You have to retire that story. It makes you seem innocent and abused but things didn't turn out that way for you."

The two of them began to argue about whose situation was worse. Aeternus didn't join in and neither did Ragnarok. They didn't have parents at all so they don't have any right to argue about how bad their situation at birth was.

The hatchlings were taken out of the hatchery through a series of tunnels. They had to stop several times for security checks. The matured hatchlings were monitored closely for any anomaly or negative effect of being exposed to unfiltered air. Those that so much as sneezed were attended to with care. Those who couldn't take the exposure were taken off the train at the checkpoints and returned to the hatchery.

The train finally stopped at an underground structure. The matured hatchlings were taken down and placed into a vehicle with numerous seats. They were buckled tightly to their seats and examined twice to make sure that they were all safe and secure. Then the vehicles began to move through this new underground structure.

Their guide spoke to them as they moved along. "If you look to your left, you will see some of the livestock that we rear here. There are several assortments of them. The Supreme Alliance subdued different planes to get this much livestock of so much variety. Pick one that you like from the first 3 levels. It will be prepared for you to eat as your first meal."

The bus was made of a hard transparent material so they could see everything around them. Legion-5 could see that there was a large circular structure at the center of this area. The road they are riding on is attached to the external part of the circular structure like a stairway.

There is a space between the circular structure and the surrounding structures. These surrounding structures have several levels that can be seen from the buses as they rise higher. On each level are many people of different types of races within cages.

"Slaves." Legion-5 thought to himself when he saw the surrounding structures.

The guide called them livestock but they can also be called slaves. There are several types of them too. Each level of the cells contains livestock of different power levels. The ones at the first level are just mortals. They become stronger as they rise higher on the road. He even saw transcendents but they are at the fourth level.

While the livestock have different races and power levels, all of them are shackled and restrained in limited living quarters. And those living quarters don't look comfortable at all.

Mana entities and transcendents don't excrete so their cells are very clean. But they are very cramped and don't have room to move around in. All of these told Legion-5 that they had more in common with slaves than livestock. Because some livestock have better living conditions.

Legion-5 wasn't surprised by the sight. He wasn't moved either. He has seen a lot of this before. But the other matured hatchlings are not him. This is the first time that they are out in the world. Everything they see is novel to them. They marveled and pointed out the windows as they made their picks on which livestock they wanted to eat.

He thought to himself, "The supreme alliance is very terrifying. No wonder the realm lord had to compromise with them back then when he wanted to stop the exploitation of life trees."

He is uncertain of the strength of the Supreme Alliance, but it is the way that they raise their young that he finds more terrifying. The other hatchlings don't have any bloodline so they don't have any ancestral memories. That means their mindset is clean and malleable.

The first thing these highly impressionable minds heard in their life were stories of subjugation, killing, domination, and survival at all costs. Then they were shown slaves as if this was a normal farm.

The hatchlings are being raised to believe that enslaving other races and killing them for food is normal. They don't question it either because they don't see anything wrong with it. One cannot know the abnormal if they haven't seen or experienced otherwise.

The buses passed through the several layers so they were shown the full stock of tens of thousands of livestock. Then they reached the top of the circular structure where they were unloaded by their guide and attenders.

Each hatchling was handled meticulously and carefully. They were unstrapped gently from their seats. Then they were wheeled to special seats that were placed around an empty circular space.

"So it is a colosseum," Legion-5 said in realization.

He now knows where they are and what the structure is. It is an arena for fighting. One might mistake it for an ordinary arena for harmless sport but the knowledge of the presence of livestock made Legion-5 understand the purpose of this arena.

The ongoing fight on the ground at the center of the arena confirmed his guess. The matured hatchlings were placed on seats with a good view of the violent and bloody fight.

Their guide said, "You will spend a few hours here enjoying yourself before your test. Your selected livestock will be brought up and prepared for you to eat here."