GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 1675: That Ancient Mistake.



None of the people in the realm could see the god of power or Mother High Heaven, but all the high elves that were Sovereigns and below stopped whatever they were doing and turned their gazes to the sky where the two invisible beings stood.

Those that were walking stopped walking, and those that were flying stopped flying too. All of them froze and stared at the same spot in the sky.

It was as if all of them could see what others couldn't see. This is odd because if anyone should be able to see the two powerful beings, it should be Origin gods, not Sovereigns of law and even weaker high elves.

All of the high elves that raised their heads to look at the god of power spoke with the same voice at the same time. "I have heard your words. Our deal still stands."

Mother High Heaven spoke. "Green Vine, don't do this to your mother." Her voice was laced with equal sorrow and kindness. "You don't have to do this to gain your freedom. I might be able to help you myself."

The high elves spoke. "No, you can't. If you could have, you would have helped me. You are shackled by rules, so you can't. He, on the other hand, is free to break rules."

Mother High Heaven warned her, "You might not survive this attempt. Even if you do, you might not be allowed to leave. He is untrustworthy. Is it truly worth it to sacrifice me for such an uncertain reward?"

The high elves replied as one, "Maybe it won't work. But I have to try. The alternative is to be frozen in death forever."

Mother High Heaven refuted her child. "There is a better alternative for you if I win."

The high elves said with disdain, "That is unlikely. You can't convince me otherwise. You are outmatched. It is why I must seek my freedom now or be forever doomed."

Mother High Heaven sighed in pity and shame. She didn't know what else to say. If anything, she felt resigned. The fact that this is happening is already enough to tilt her small chance of victory away from her.

This matter is a little complicated and goes back a long way to when the ancestors of the life tree were created. At that time, Mother High Heaven made a deal she could not refuse with Draco, the dragon king. She stole some of his energy during the process of attaching the immortal lands to her realm.

If not for the fact that she had divided her realm into planes back then, she wouldn't have survived the process of grafting an immortal land into her plane. But she survived, and not only did she survive, she created a powerful race with the energy she stole.

This race was a preparation to combat the dragons in case they turned out to be tools used by Draco to achieve some nefarious purpose in the realm.

She felt that the dragons were tools to be used by the dragon king as an intrusion on her and other living things in the realm. So to cob the dominance of the dragons, she made sure to finish the scattering of the planes from the ancient battlefield so that the dragons wouldn't be able to dominate the realm like the Tyrants did.

She gave every race breathing space from the dragons to grow, and she also laid her hopes on the two ancestors of the high elves. These ancestors were to challenge dragons and had to be very powerful to achieve it.

Mother High Heaven made one of them have a high affinity for every type of energy, while she gave the other ancient high elf a high affinity for the soul. The manipulation of energy was the foundation of power needed to combat the dragons, and the affinity with the soul was to grant the ancient elves the ability to combat the dragon spirit.

The ancient elves didn't dissapoint her wishes then. The first ancient elf granted high affinity acquired the spark of power and gained the ability to copy and utilize any type of ability by seeing it.

The second ancient elf comprehended the law of the soul and acquired the spark of consciousness. This enabled it to be capable of enslaving almost every type of living thing. Together, the two of them could control the growth of many organisms, and they succeeded in creating a paragon race with which to grow stronger.

The only major problem was that the paragon race the high elf created didn't inherit their power and abilities completely. But all in all, Mother High Heaven's move was a resoundingn/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

success.

The ancient high elves managed all of these without even becoming sovereigns of law. Their success might have been due to the potent energy of the dragon king, so Draco probably had some credit too.

Unfortunately, despite all this empowerment and investment, the ancient elves were too kind. They were naive and inexperience because despite their power, they were still children mentally.

They could produce a fruit that was capable of curing every disease, extending lifespans, and even resurrecting people from the dead. They shared this fruit with anyone who asked, but they didn't have an infinite amount of it. So they couldn't satisfy everyone who came asking for it.

A lot of people were disgruntled and unhappy that their requests went unfulfilled and their loved ones died, or that their life spans were running out. Eventually, the ancient high elves were hunted and killed by people who wanted to control them for their abilities.

They died. Their souls were fragmented, and they were plunged into the spiritual dimension, just like everyone who dies. However, the ancient high elf with the spark of consciousness didn't die completely. It maintained a tentative connection with its body in the world of manifestation.

It was caught in a sort of limbo wherein it was neither in the world of manifestation nor the spiritual dimension. It couldn't do anything with its body in the world of manifestation, so it couldn't protect itself. But its descendants, the high elves, took care of its body.