GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 1907: Daydreaming.



He belched and said, "Maybe I should stop drinking."

Another person joined in. "It is true. We have really found a way to kill gods."

Taylor didn't take them seriously. Maybe it was because he was drunk, so he couldn't take anything seriously currently. But he felt like he had to entertain them, so he said, "Good for you. You know what? You should go for it."

Their leader resumed his proposition, "We need your help for something."

Taylor shook his head. "Despite how dashing and sharp I look, I can't kill gods. I'll just be a disappointment to you for that."

The leader explained, "No. We don't need you to kill the god. We only need you to lure a god into the ambush we have prepared."

Taylor asked, "Where am I supposed to find a god to lure? Gods aren't in the mood for interacting with us mortals. I can't even communicate with them, and even if I could, they won't listen to me."

The players looked at each other in a shifty manner before one of them suggested a solution. "Don't you have a patron god? Surely you can come up with something to draw their attention."

Taylor was sobering up now. No amount of alcohol can keep his buzz going when someone suggests something that can obviously ruin his life.

He asked, "Do you mean 9 Crowns? Are you crazy? You want me to betray my boss?"

He had become angry by the time he finished firing off the series of questions. He is not attached to the 9 Crowns emotionally, but they are his boss and employer. They are the source of his strength in this world and livelihood. What they are asking of him is to endanger his livelihood, and there is no way he is going to go along with that.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Not only did he sign a contract in which he promised not to betray his patron, but even if he did betray the 9 Crowns, get away with it, and manage to kill the 9 Crowns, what would that benefit him?

The leader tried to placate him. "Calm down. Wait till you hear what we have planned before you make a decision."

Taylor nodded sharply. Then he asked, "Let us start from the very beginning. What is this weapon that you have prepared?"

They became hesitant. They didn't want to reveal this knowledge to someone they couldn't trust.

Taylor smiled at them. "Fine, don't tell. At least tell me what you will gain from killing the god."

The leader replied, "We don't know, but we expect there to be great loot for killing a god."

Taylor laughed then. He shook his head and said, "Give up on your daydreaming. You are all tier 1, while the weakest god is someone who had gone through tier 1 all the way to tier 6 before they ascended. You can't even kill me permanently. What hope do you have for killing a god?"

The players became angry, but he had more to say to them about the folly of their plan.

He said, "Don't answer that. I am sure you have great hope for killing a god, or you wouldn't have approached the servant of a god to recruit them in your plan, even at the risk that they would betray you and snitch to their god."

"But hope aside, we already have a realistic answer to your chances of killing a god. Do you remember earlier when we were fighting the divine calamity? Did you see the avatars shooting off nukes? Do you know that those avatars are not even their true bodies?"

He continued to ask more questions. "Did you see that some avatars returned after being destroyed? Did you see that those avatars returned quickly? So the answer is clear. Even if you manage to defeat the avatar of a god, the only thing you will manage is to anger a very powerful being. So give up on your daydreams."

Their leader scowled and said, "It is clear that we came to the wrong person. I see that you have decided to betray where you're from and who you used to be for the gods."

Taylor scowled in return, "What the fuck are you talking about? It is a game. Not a fight between worlds. I have betrayed no one."

The others dragged their leader away, leaving Taylor pissed. He frowned and thought to himself, "They have ruined my fun. Maybe I should ruin theirs."

He thought about killing them. Not only will that cripple their strength by half, but he will become stronger after doing it. It will surely improve his mood.

But then he remembered that everyone had agreed not to kill anyone during this festive event. So he decided not to kill them.

He let them go. But that didn't change how pissed he was. He couldn't appreciate the celebration anymore, so he decided to leave. He mounted his horse and began his journey back.

Black Knife and Tempest returned later on. Their days became normal again. They hunted humans were hunted in return. They died and resurrected again.

This continued for many days. It turned into weeks and months too. At this point, the king of the kingdom was about to send his whole army after them. But then something out of place happened after 3 months.

A red rainbow appeared in the sky. It was sudden and silent. It hadn't rained, so there shouldn't be a rainbow.

Taylor looked into the distance and saw what looked like blood raining from the sky. Light passed through the droplets of blood and was refracted into the colors of the rainbow.

What he saw surprised him. He said, "I didn't know that blood could do that."

Black Knife asked, "How did blood get that high in the sky?"

Tempest asked, "Is that even blood?"

Then they received a notification.

-A mortal has killed a god.

-The Mortal Blade has claimed another victim.

A/N: I am sure this is just a coincidence.