GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 2362: Getting Played.

Even if he somehow finds a way to maintain the balance of his existence after acquiring the pathway of undying, the divine flesh of the pathway of undying will only add to his stress and make it more difficult to maintain the balance and make it easier for him to lose control.

So he can do what the killer in the energy spring is doing and have two pathways. The best he can do is admire their foolish decision while eating popcorn.

For now, he doesn’t plan to intervene in the fight. There is just nothing to gain yet by doing that.

He doesn’t want to show himself easily, or the nobles of the city will become wary and target him. He also doesn’t want to expose his location to the other avatars, as they might try to kill him to gain control of the main body.

So he watched with rapt attention. As he watched, things became heated because the head of the killer in the energy spring had become exposed.

The legendary noble realized that someone was in the energy spring and was absorbing it. He also came to the same conclusion that the person was an undying godclad trying to become a legend.

This conclusion was already enough to make him incensed. But what tipped the scale was the realization that Sir Kris had been playing around with him all along.

He had been angry earlier with Sir Kris, but even when he threatened to kill his family, it was mostly a bluff. He didn’t want to go through with it and hoped that he wouldn’t have to because it could make Sir Kris lose control completely.

But now he knew that there was no going back and Sir Kris couldn’t be convinced to open the barrier. Since the energy spring was doomed and there was nothing to lose, he gave the order to behead Sir Kris’s family.

Sir Kris watched as his three wives and the remaining four children were killed. He should have been angry or bitter or sad. But he was just calm.

His eyes were cold, and his face was expressionless. It looked as if he had just witnessed the death of chickens and dogs, not his precious family.

He didn’t say anything either. Since the cat was already out of the bag, there was no use saying anything to delay anymore. No one was going to care about what he had to say when the energy spring was at stake.

What he did was to activate the second set of barrier arrays that Legion brought within them. This barrier shield was prepared in case the nobles had a backdoor to the one protecting the energy spring.

Sir Kris believed that there was only one control panel for the barrier shield. But Legion wasn’t going to take any chances.

They prepared a second barrier shield that was as powerful as the first one and was also capable of fusing with the first one.

They used the control panel of the first and the same foundation, the energy spring, to combine the two arrays to create one powerful array that couldn’t be taken down even if the nobles had another way to access the first barrier.

The fusion of the two barriers not only created a more powerful barrier shield, but it also blocked sight and sound.

The resulting barrier had become black and opaque. Nothing could be seen through it anymore, and communication between those outside and inside of it became impossible.

Their caution paid off because the nobles indeed had a way to break into the barrier. They didn’t want to use this method because it wouldn’t open a passage into the barrier but would destroy the barrier completely.

They didn’t want to use the barrier breaker earlier because there was no need for it. But now that it had been confirmed that they would lose the energy spring if they didn’t destroy the barrier, they decided to use the barrier breaker.

The barrier breaker is a rank 8 item specifically designed by mages to break arrays. The item works by deciphering the operation of an array and striking at its weakness with a lethal blow.

This usually leads to the array being shattered. Unfortunately, the barrier breaker needed time to set up before it could be used.

The barrier breaker needed time to decipher the operation of the array before it could strike its weakness. This time could be long or short. It depended on the power and complexity of the barrier.

The time will definitely be long because Legion had upgraded the barrier. What’s more, Legion has a slave that is a machinist, so they are knowledgeable enough to make changes to the upgraded barrier that would make it difficult for the barrier breaker to find its weakness.

This was exactly what happened. The barrier breaker was brought in to destroy the barrier while the four slaves worked to keep the upgraded barrier working.

The barrier breaker was a large white disk. It was placed against the barrier and began to flash with various colors as it got to work deciphering the operation of the barrier.

The barrier breaker will be destroyed after releasing the attack to destroy the shield. So it is a one-time-use item.

If the barrier breaker succeeds in its endeavors, both it and the shield will be destroyed. This will be a huge loss for the nobles, which is why the legendary noble had been willing to try and convince Sir Kris earlier instead of resorting to this.

Unfortunately, it was already too late to use the barrier breaker. Even if the legendary noble began attacking the barrier now, it wouldn’t be able to destroy the barrier quickly because Legion also brought a log of energy water to support the independent operation of the upgraded barrier shield.

So even though absorbing the energy spring took longer than Legion expected, they were still able to do it peacefully without any interruptions.