GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

He said to her, "Swear on your origin that this is 10% of all your resources including the livestock, golems, battle suits, manpower, and everything you own."

The Supreme beast almost screamed out in frustration then. But she didn't. Instead, she smiled as she ordered her base to bring out more carts of resources. Apparently, what she brought out earlier was far from being 10% of what she owned.

Legion-5 didn't criticize her for trying to cheat him. It is her job to try to cheat him and it is his job to make sure she doesn't succeed in cheating him. That's what efficient people ought to do.

He chose to advise her. "I see that you have golems. You can use them for the rent."

The supreme beast rejected the option. "I am okay with using ores."

Legion-5 shrugged. If not for the fact that he doesn't want to reduce the fighting power of this supreme beast then he would have insisted on golems. Golems are made from resources but they will take time to produce. He has time so he can do the conversion on his own if he needs them. This way, this Supreme beast will be able to preserve the bulk of her fighting power and he will be able to earn more rent from her in a year's time.

It wasn't until the amount of carts tripled that she stopped bringing out more resources. Legion-5 was impressed with her. She had tried to cheat him out of 63% of his due. She might have been greedy but she had also aimed for high efficiency in her attempt to cheat him.

He couldn't help but say, "You are good. You have a large appetite. I like that. Now swear."

"I swear it upon my Origin that this is 10% of all that I have."

He told her, "It's good that you recognized your limit. I would have become very angry had you tried to test my patience again."

Had she tried to cheat him again after her first attempt to cheat him was discovered, she would have learned today not to bite more than she could chew because he is going to force her to eat sharp metal fragments. Fortunately, she didn't so she doesn't need to know what it feels like to have her mouth and lips torn apart from within.

Her careful actions indicate that she has a certain amount of intelligence which raises his hopes for her. He even advised her seriously, "I hope you will do well in the rite of passage. It will determine your future after all. You have to take it seriously and do your best. Do you understand me?"

The supreme beast roared in her heart, "I understand that you want me to do well so that you can extort more from me."

But outwardly she nodded calmly and said, "I understand. Thank you for the advice."

Legion-5 nodded in return and grabbed the carts with many hands of world power. Then he took them to his base. He dropped them off at his base and began another round of upgrades for his base.

If the watchers were not surprised earlier by him hauling an entire base, they were certainly surprised when he began to fly in the direction of the hex that stands beyond his surrounding hexes. He stopped in front of the base there and began to harrass the owner.

The watchers couldn't take it anymore. A supreme beast roared from within a base, "What kind of nonsense is this? Is he going to extort everyone now? The audacity!"

She had been watching the special event from the beginning. Almost everyone had been watching. Everyone is normally spying on everyone else to see what they are doing to determine if they can take advantage of it. Even if he didn't plan to, Legion-5 created enough ruckus for his deeds to draw attention. So a lot of people including the inhabitants of the plane and the other Supreme beasts found themselves watching him even if they didn't plan to spy on him.

They watched him bring down a base for an unknown reason. People reached out to the unfortunate victim and asked him why it happened. The victim was quick to tell them what happened. He painted a picture of being unjustly bullied.

What the first victim told them made them angry. But only on the surface. The other Supreme beasts were gloating within at the misfortune of a competitor of theirs. Only a few of them felt trepidation at the potential for destruction that the Shadow of Despair was capable of.

Then the Shadow of Despair went to his other neighbor so they thought he was exhorting his neighbors. They pitied the neighbors and mocked them but no one was going to stand up for them. In fact, they gloated at their calamity.

There were a lot of Supreme beasts that wanted to establish their base on a hex close to the sea of despair but they were forced out of the location. Now they are happy that the people who forced them have met with misfortune.

Then Legion-5 turned towards the other hexes. It was then that they all realized the possible ambition of Legion-5. His greed is not limited to his neighbors at all. He wants to fleece all of them and he is brazen about it. He is so brazen that he is doing it openly without hiding.

She roared again, "Is he sick in his head? Does he think we will all just lay down and let him rob us?"

She screamed in anger that was genuine and sincere. She truly feels that Legion-5 must be out of his mind to dare make enemies of all of them. It is insulting that he thinks he can do it so openly and get away with it.

"This is too much. He has gone too far. We should do something about this."

She said that but she didn't do anything. She was waiting for someone else to do something.