GREED: ALL FOR WHAT? - Chapter 2340: Blood Sacrifice.

Chapter 2340: Blood Sacrifice.

The vine plants tried to resist by killing more people. As long as they use the blood to heal, not grow, they won’t be in violation of the first rule and will be able to continue to survive.

This move won’t solve their main problem, as the second rule is still killing them. But it will give them time to come up with a solution.

The solution they had in mind was to kill the legendary nobles. But the legends didn’t give them the opportunity to do so.

“It is forbidden for plants to move of their own initiative in this city.”

“The blood in carnivorous plants in this city must burn and turn into flames.”

The third rule sealed the fate of the vine plants. If they can’t move, then they can’t kill anyone else, so they won’t be able to resist as they wither and die.

But the legends weren’t satisfied with that. They also set their blood on fire. This way, they will die faster.

Blood is very important to the vine plants, and without blood, they will starve and die. But then the blood was removed and turned into fire to burn them from within. This dealt catastrophic damage to them.

Legion had become solemn as they watched this. Legion-2 said, “It is even more terrifying when seeing it in person.”

They had read about the power of legendary nobles, but this was the first time they were seeing it. They know that a noble can order someone to drop down and die in their territory, but it is still terrifying to see it occur.

But they were not cowed by the sight because the Domain divine ability is not infallible. It is true that nobles can do anything in their domain, but they must have the spiritual energy to pull it off, or their rules will backfire on them.

This weakness is why nobles have to be smart with their rules. They can’t say that they forbid plants from moving, and they can’t say that they forbid plants from moving in their territory. They have to say that they forbid plants from moving of their own initiative in their territory.

If they had said that they forbid plants from moving, the domain they set wouldn’t be limited to Reinfield City. The domain will try to cover the whole world, and the nobles will have to expend spiritual energy to make all the plants in the world immovable.

Legion doesn’t dare say that it is impossible to make a plant immovable, but they are sure that it is impossible to make every plant in the world immovable. If it were possible, then it would be possible for a noble to make it impossible for anyone to harvest plants or do anything to plants that requires moving them.

Nobles have to be reasonable in their rules. Even if something is possible for them to do, they still have to find a quicker and more efficient way to achieve it.

For example, it is more efficient to turn the blood in carnivorous plants to fire or forbid carnivorous plants in the city than it is to order the plant vines to drop dead and die instantly.

Both rules will eventually lead to the same thing, but they will cost less energy to achieve it. So it is more efficient for them to set the rules that way. If the vine plant dies because of those rules, then it will be because it is lacking.

All of these shortcomings mean that nobles can’t just order Legion to die. Even if the legendary nobles do so, they are undying, so they will be able to resist better than a killer.

Maybe if the plant vines were legendary killers, they would be able to resist the rules. But they were at most at the rank 6 level. So they were doomed to die.

But Legion wasn’t sure that things would end like this. Legion-6 said, “It shouldn’t be news that Reinfield City has legends, and this shouldn’t be the first time that the legends have clashed with the beasts, so the beasts have to have more up their sleeves, or they weren’t trying to be victorious at all.”

The fate weaver couldn’t tell if the beasts still had something planned, just like they couldn’t tell what the beasts had planned earlier when they broke into the outer city. This was because the forces involved were too powerful for their fate weaver to sense.

The best that she could do was tell if there was danger or not. And right now, all she could sense was danger.

She didn’t know when the danger would arrive. But she was sure that it would come and that it would come from the direction of the plant vines.

This danger filled Legion with a sense of anticipation. They wanted very much to see what was about to happen that was so dangerous.

Just as they were waiting and watching, they heard someone laughing. The laughter came from the direction of the forest.

The person laughing then said, “I guess this is it. You’ve got me. Checkmate.”

Then the four vine plants exploded in a flash of bright red light. The four vine plants were committing suicide. This should make everyone relax, but no one who witnessed the scene could relax. All anyone could feel was immense existential dread.

Even Legion, who was looking at the scene through the eyes of their slaves, felt residual dread. They were so afraid that they instinctively activated their ultimate technique, Invulnerable.

They did so because they sensed a life-defining moment that they were unlikely to survive if they were affected by it. Everyone else felt this, including the noble legends.

Just after the four vine plants exploded in a red light, the red light that they produced collapsed into a single point. That single red point of energy then shot towards a legend.

It all happened so fast that it was like red lightning shot at the legends. Even so, the legends still reacted to the danger.