GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?



Only crown bearers and their lieutenants can fly in the arena. The rest are foot soldiers. Both sides have the same amount of crowns, but they have different amounts of lieutenants. Most of the crowns of the battle sage monkeys are emperor crowns with ten lieutenant spots, while most of the crowns of the Vipers have been demoted to the lowest commander crown with one lieutenant spot. So battle sage monkeys have a higher amount of airborne forces. 

Soverick is the one responsible for the changes to the crown. He created a massive advantage for the battle sage monkeys. Being airborne means they have a larger range of movement. They will also have a wider view of the overall situation, and they will be able to easily move to any location that needs assistance to support them. 

They have 1387 leaders and airborne forces, while the vipers have 234. There's also the difference in the strength of the crowns. The least of airborne forces are at the level of the king crown, while the highest of the Vipers are at the commander level. That is a difference of 3 levels. 

The two sides responded differently to his tampering with the crowns. Most of the battle sage monkeys were ecstatic about it. Some were not happy that their hard work had been invalidated, but the fact that their side would have more advantage placated them. Everything will be worth it if they win. 

As for the Vipers, they were confused. All of their crowns except the divine crown have been changed to the lowest commander crown. They lost most of their lieutenants when their slots were reduced to just one. The change caused a lot of confusion. They wanted answers and reasons for the change, but no one answered them. 

Soverick saw all of these happening. It is one of the perks of being an administrator. He can see everything happening in the arena, and he is updated with real-time statistics about each side. He could also answer the Viper's questions. He thought about playing a prank on them and gloating but decided otherwise. He doesn't want to antagonize the other world god any more than he already has. Things are going well for them, but his sense of danger hasn't been reduced yet. So he can't be carefree yet.

"Go and bring me victory." He said to his army.

The battle sage monkeys roared a battle cry as they rushed forward to meet their enemies. 

They cried, "For Victory."

"Let the games begin." He said to himself as he waited.

He watched the battle sage monkeys go to battle while he waited by their white flag. He is the only one that will defend the flag. He sent the others off to retrieve the flags of the Vipers, but he doubts they will be successful at that. The other battle sage monkeys are unable to help him directly. They will be most useful by thinning down the vipers, which will indirectly weaken the paragons.

He didn't have to wait long before the paragons reached him. They left a trail of destruction through the battle sage monkeys as they passed by. No one could stop them, and the crown bearers didn't bother. He had ordered them to let the paragons pass. The ones that suffered were the foot soldiers that couldn't make way for them. They were trampled on and discarded easily by the paragons. 

The first incoming paragons are very fast, and they are coming for the flag directly instead of bothering the rest of the battle sage monkeys. If there were no flags, then they would have focused on the normal soldiers and run amok. He wouldn't be able to predict their actions. 

He would know where the paragons are located and what they are doing had he not added the flag-capturing winning condition. But it will be inefficient to face them that way since they will be everywhere. The flag made them focused and predictable. It made them not bother with killing the soldiers. 

There is still the hunting competition, but the person that grabs the flag and returns with it will win the competition anyway, so the flag is the current priority of the paragons. He is defending the flag of the battle sage monkeys. That means they will have to go through him if they want to get the white flag.

There are 9 of them with seven different divine abilities. There are two speedsters, two brutes, one defense buff, one attack buff, one immortal power, one spell tower, and one immortal link. The immortal link and the defense buff stayed back to defend their flag. The attack buff and the spell tower led the army of Vipers to attack the battle sage monkeys. The two speedsters, two brutes, and the immortal power came for the flag. 

They were nine, but they had to break up their forces into three groups because of the flags. Now he has just five to fight instead of all nine at once. The immortal link and the attack buff are pretty weak, though so it is effectively 8. His five opponents trampled through the army of battle sage monkeys as they rushed toward him.

The speedsters are the first to reach him. Their divine ability allows them to speed up their agility, dexterity, and perception. They are capable of reaching speeds beyond what Sovereigns are capable of. They tore through the army of battle sages without being seen at all. The only signs of their passage are the dissected battle sage monkeys and scattered body parts.

The two reached Soverick quickly. They traversed the large battlefield in 30 seconds. One was faster than the other, but the difference in speed wasn't that much. So they reached him at practically the same time. They began circling him in a blur.

"Well, what do we have here?" One of them said. "It is a little furry defender."

The other one observed. "He has golden fur. I must say that it looks better than the ones we have at home."

"Yes. Gold looks better than white. The rest of the furries here have different types of furs. It is weird and mostly unpleasant to look at. But this gold one is definitely better."