GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Thieving Hammer calmly put away the exposed wealth from Mirlo’s bloodless corpse. Even though his free will had been taken away from him, he was still excited to steal so much.

He put the money into his storehouse, not inside his newly stolen divine ability. The Power of Wealth is not enhancing his power at all because he hasn’t put any wealth into it yet. But he still didn’t put any wealth into it because the Power of Wealth is temporary for him.

As a thief, he will lose the Power of Wealth divine ability once he steals another divine ability. If he loses the divine ability, odds are that he will lose all the wealth he put into it too.

So it is better not to invest in an ability that can be lost. Besides that, the greatest effect of the Stealing Abilities divine ability is not its potential to grant a thief up to 5 rank 9 divine abilities but its potential to rob an enemy of up to 5 of their most powerful divine abilities.

Surely he would become more powerful if he stole 5 rank 9 divine abilities. But if he steals those 5 rank 9 divine abilities from the same enemy, not only will he weaken the enemy severely, but he will also be able to turn their strongest divine abilities against them.

With this kind of benefit, he is bound to lose the Power of Wealth despite how great it is. He didn’t mind it. Anyway, he liked wealth to be in his hands or storehouse rather than in some divine ability.

While the two hammers were wreaking havoc from within, the other hammers attacked the base of the Bright Coin gang from outside. The combination of internal and external attacks caused the Bright Coin gang to fall immediately.

The Golden Hammer gang didn’t go on a killing spree. They didn’t kill the normal gang members, as deep down, these people were mercenaries. Mercenaries will work for whoever pays them.

The people that needed to be killed are the friends and close comrades of Mirlo. These are the people that would have resisted to the bitter end or escaped only to return for revenge in the future.

Black Hammer had killed these troublemakers, so there was no need for more bloodshed. After Golden Hammer arrived with force, there was no one to rally the gang members to resist, so the Bright Coin gang surrendered quickly.

Legion didn’t relax after this victory. Instead of doing that, they sent their two sneaky slaves to the other side of their territory to catch off their other neighbor.

The outer city is a ring around the inner city. So the territory of the Golden Hammer is sandwiched between the territory of two other gangs.

On the right is the territory of the Bright Coin gang, led by Mirlo. This territory is for planting crops. But unlike the territory of the Golden Hammer gang, it has a spirit spring to support it.

On the left side is the territory of the Cold Blade gang. This territory is for rearing animals. It is mainly a cattle ranch where cattle are raised and butchered.

The territory of the Cold Blade gang is also supported by a spirit spirit. This enables them to raise healthy and giant cattle that mature quickly.

The arrangement of the territory of the Cold Blade gang makes business very successful, which means that the Cold Blade gang is very rich. Unfortunately, it also means that their territory is the constant target of beasts.

It is not only humans that like meat. Mutated beasts also like meat. But unlike humans, mutated beasts don’t have the currency and intelligence needed to exchange for meat. So they attack the ranch to eat meat.

This situation has put the Cold Blade farm on high alert. In order for them to protect their cattle, they are always on high alert and prepared for attacks.

Even if the leader of the gang was a money grubber like a merchant, they would still prepare the barrier and alarm arrays that the Cold Blade gang prepared because even a merchant knows that protecting the goods is not an unnecessary expense.

So most of the territory of the Cold Blade gang is filled with formations meant to alert to intruders and protect sensitive areas. Even if the gang doesn’t have a patrol out, it will be very difficult to sneak into their base.

As if that isn’t bad enough, the Cold Blade gang does have guards patrolling the territory. The saving grace is that they are not prepared for other humans to attack.

After they got the assurance of the noble supporting the Golden Hammer gang, they put this worry out of their minds and focused on preparing for the attacks of beasts.

So they only did what they usually do to defend their territory. They didn’t increase the number of traps, arrays, barriers, patrols, and guards on duty.

Because of the difficulty of sneaking into the base of the Cold Blade gang and the fact that news of the attack on the Bright Coin gang would soon get out, Legion decided to attack the Cold Blade gang openly.

By openly, they meant to gather everyone in the Golden Hammer gang and attack the Cold Blade gang with force. They intend to use overwhelming force to crush their defenses and defeat them.

Since their gang has already gathered to defeat the Bright Coin gang, there was no need to waste time gathering them. They simply instructed their slaves to move towards the territory of the Cold Blade gang.

The entire gang didn’t go to their destination by foot or by carriage. The plan was to take a gateway that led directly to the base of the Cold Blade gang.

Creating the gateway was easy to do since Legion had a rank 4 walker as a slave. The problem was how to get the gateway to the doorstep of the enemy without alerting them.