GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 817 The Charlatan.

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There are soldiers in the fortresses but they are not the main fighting force. Each fortress can churn out golems in the thousands to field an army. The fortresses are armed to their metallic teeth. This is a force ready for war but they only surrounded the fighters. They didn't shoot their ranged weapons but they took aim. 

The fighting stopped immediately. Every origin paused in the air. The sight and the feeling of having matter disruptors and energy destabilizers with other assortments of deadly cannons trained upon them froze the origin gods.

A loud voice rang out from each fortress and said the same thing. "Cease all Hostilities. This is the patrol guard of the Virut plane. Please leave if you're not an indigene of this plane or explain your purpose to the racial council of the plane. You have a minute to decide. After which, the racial council will be forced to intervene."

It was an ultimatum. The ambushers communicated amongst themselves to decide what to do. It didn't take long for them to come to the conclusion that they have to cease fighting. That much is clear. It is either that or face the might of the racial council.

What comes next is also obvious. They can either give up and leave or give up and have a discussion with the racial council explaining to them what they came for and why they must have it. Stealing is not a big deal amongst Origin gods. If you don't steal, how else are you supposed to get stuff? Besides, free stuff is always the best stuff to get.

So the racial council will not criticize them for their robbery. They adhered to safety protocols and didn't harm the plane. The problem is that this was supposed to be a quick heist. Stopping it now will give the Ghastorix family time to respond better to the situation. 

The cube and what it contains will surely disappear while the ambushers are questioned. The patrol didn't ask for indigenes to explain their purpose so the Ghastorix family will be able to get away with the cube. The ambushers discussed and chose to give up. They scattered and disappeared.

Soverick watched all these happen. He also saw that the flying fortresses escorted the Ghastorix family members too.

He grumbled to himself. "What a bust."

Then he shrugged and said, "I get paid either way."

The heist failed because of the interference of the racial council. They were not supposed to interfere. The heist was supposed to happen quickly before any reinforcement can interfere. It is obvious that someone influential in the plane knew about the heist and chose to interfere. 

He looked around and tracked the series of events back to its source. His gaze locked on to a certain battle sage monkey. She has white fur and eyes that change color. She is standing in a room in the capital city of the Empire of Sages. She is also staring right back at him. Her face is scrunched up in a frown. There is a great distance between them but it seems that they can see each other. 

He sneered and said, "What a charlatan."

He can see her clearly. She can only sense his gaze and the direction he is looking from but she is acting as if she can see him. He is the real deal. She is and has always been a charlatan. That's what he thinks of her. Her becoming the child of the plane has not changed his opinion of her.

She mouthed to him. "This is not over."

He scoffed at her. The failure of the heist doesn't impact him much. He just wanted to take advantage of the information he had so he sold information about Hadrick to a group of origin gods. He was to be paid three levels of reward for his information. The first payment was the upfront payment for the information. The second one is payment for the validity of his information after it has been confirmed. He would have received a bigger third payment if the origin gods had succeeded in getting Hadrick.

The loss of the third payment is bad but anything is better than nothing. He is just glad that he got to use the information he had. It would have hurt him more if he simply watched such a great opportunity pass him by without gaining anything from it. That is just against his principles. Acting on the information will also help Legion.

The money they gained from the information will be used to research the artifact that they are making.

He could have sold a world god the information instead of selling it to a group of Origin gods. He will get a better pay that way and the world god might actually succeed in kidnapping Hadrick so he will get a third massive pay. 

But he chose not to bring in a world god because they are difficult to find and because he doesn't want to mess with two world gods at the same time. He was burned severely the last time he did that. What's worse is that the repercussions are not over yet. Both world gods are angry at him and want him dead. So he chose to restrain himself to one world god this time around. 

He is already crossing his ancestor by sharing this critical piece of information. He doesn't need to add more to his plate. He only managed to secure his life after being used and discarded from the last time he messed with two world gods. There's no need to test fate anymore.

Besides, his ancestor is a new world god, he is the prime target if Legion has any reason to target a world god. Now that the thieves have failed, it means that Ancestor Ghastorix will get Hadrick. He will be able to track his ancestor's world through Hadrick if they bond with each other. His law of causality and his eyes can do that.