GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

What they didn't know is that the dragon king is also unhappy with the current situation. He can only watch them. It is grating to him that he can't do anything useful against them.

It is not that he can't. He is not entirely powerless, as there are a lot of things he can do. It is more like he should not do anything to them at all.

His single eye is glowing with anger and resentment as he stared at them, but he didn't do anything. His mind ran through the possible things he could do against them. He outlined them one by one as he looked at them.

For starters, he could use his cosmic source to overcome the barrier between the light and dark side of the void universe to attack them. This attack is exactly what he did to Legion-8. But this time, it would be much stronger since the barrier of the realm tree is absent, so he would surely kill them.

Unfortunately, that's not going to be useful since they can always resurrect. Meanwhile, each attack like that causes him backlash.

This backlash is due to the weakness of the cosmic source. He can remove the resistance of the void universe to him completely, but he can't force the universe to go against its own rules without experiencing a backlash.

The cosmic source grants him the privilege to gain the abilities and powers at the disposal of the universe itself, but the void universe operates based on rules. There are even entities in the universe that exist to enforce those rules. Those rules and the backlash it would bring to flaunt them make it discouraging to kill Legion only to watch them resurrect soon after.

Plus, using that attack too many times is a bad idea because it will cause his enemies to find him. That will invalidate his reason for hiding. After all, if he didn't have enemies, and if they were not strong enough to steal his cosmic source, then he wouldn't be in hiding.

He lamented a little, "If only I had completely subdued the cosmic source. If only, then this upstart will not be able to gallivant in front of me like this."

Currently, the Cosmic source isn't his. He is just borrowing it. If the transfer of ownership had been completed, he would be able to permanently remove Legion's immortality. If he had completed the fusion with the cosmic source and evolved, then he might not face any backlash at all for attacking them.

Most importantly, he wouldn't need to hide if he had finished his transformation into an Usurper. Unfortunately, he hasn't. That's what he is busy doing right now.

The anger in his single eye blazed as he thought of the things he could do to get the shard of power if he were a complete Usurper. But then his anger died down abruptly as he came back to his senses. Rationality won over anger, so he became calm again.

It is not that he can't kill Legion permanently right now. That is on the table, and he can do so as long as he gets his Supreme Law in direct contact with Legion. However, he is not planning on doing that ever since his encounter with true Chaos in Ragnarok.

True Chaos is what's making him calm down. It is the reason why he shouldn't do anything to Legion even if he is in total control of the Cosmic source. It is the reason why he shouldn't have made a move against them at all. The best thing he should have done was to kill the dragon clone right from the start instead of trying to use it as bait for Legion.

He muttered again and again, "True Chaos. True Chaos. True Chaos. True Chaos."

"How come the void universe didn't know he had a demon clone? Is it that the void universe didn't know, or did the void universe hide it from me? Could it be that the cosmic source is not perfect, so it didn't see the demon clone, or did the overgod scheme against me? Is it that the demon clone is too powerful for me to see, or is someone more powerful than me blocking me from seeing it?"

He has so many questions on his mind that he doesn't have answers to them. For some of the questions, he doesn't know where to start getting answers for them. For others, he doesn't even dare try and get answers to them. After all, who is to say there isn't someone beside him right now that he can't see?

Honestly, he still feels slight trepidation because of what he encountered in Ragnarok. He has been on tentahooks ever since. This has made him change his location several times in hopes that he can avoid whatever calamity he might have stumbled into. So he wouldn't dare entangle himself with Legion while trying to deal with the fallout of his previous actions.

His fear changed his lamentation, "If only I had known. If only I had known."

Then he began to mutter again, "True Chaos. True Chaos."

There are a lot of things he can mess with, but the corrosion down below is not one of them.

If he had known that Legion had access to True Chaos, he wouldn't have bothered with them at all. But he didn't know because the void universe appeared to be ignorant of it.

He didn't even bother to investigate Legion more after he saw their history through the cosmic source. This negligence almost led to his ruin, so he can't help but think that someone is scheming against him.

The first person that came to his mind was the Overgod. It is an understatement to say that the Overgod hates him and will do anything possible within the rules to get rid of him, such as goading him into attacking a weak junior. So this whole thing reeks of a scheme to target both Legion and him.

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