GREED: ALL FOR WHAT? - Chapter 2349: Being Responsible.

Chapter 2349: Being Responsible.

The legends rarely paid attention to the things going on in the city. Their current priority is to give the talented senior who advanced to rank 8 all the help that she could get so that she could safely advance to the rank of an angel.

That goal was why not one of them had it in mind to advance to rank 8 themselves. They understood that they couldn’t divide their time and resources on two rank 8s, so they all chose to prioritize the advancement of the one that was already in rank 8.

Their goal has become even more important now that it has become a fact that their neighbor is an angel or has angelic means at their disposal. So they wouldn’t have heard about Sir Kris’s situation and praised him if he hadn’t gone to them.

He went to them to offer to offload some of the work that they were responsible for. He wanted to help them do one particular job so that they would be free to do other things. The job he suggested to take over was guarding the energy spring of the city.

Aside from guarding the rank 8 demigod, the legends are responsible for protecting the energy spring too. Usually, at least two legends guard the rank 8 demigod while one of the legends protects the energy spring.

Two legends have to guard the demigod so that they will be able to resist if she loses control. Even if they can’t resist her, two of them will have time to call for reinforcements.

If there is only one guard and the demigod loses control, the demigod can kill the single guard before the guard can call for reinforcement and warn the others.

In order to prevent this, they must guard the demigod with as many legends as possible. Even if they are cutting corners, they must have at least two guards watching her at the same time.

There used to be 6 legends in the city apart from the rank 8 demigods. These 6 legends shared their duty equally. So while three of them were busy protecting one thing or another, the other three had time to rest or enjoy themselves.

But now two legends have died, and one legend needs to visit the capital and speak with the royals about the angel in the forest beside Reinfield City. This means that the three legends remaining in the city will be too busy to rest until the situation becomes better.

To top it off, with three of the legends remaining in the city being so busy, they won’t have any legend on guard by the wall of the city to look out for any move from the angel.

This is why the legends were already discussing asking one of their descendants to take over guarding the energy spring so that one of them could monitor the forest to make sure that they are not caught off guard with another attack.

They were also discussing moving the rank 8 demigod so that the angel of killing wouldn’t be able to interfere with her advancement. But they didn’t tell Sir Kris about this.

What they told him was that they were impressed with his sacrifice and dedication to the family. Then they agreed with his proposal to let him guard the energy spring.

But they didn’t let only him guard the energy spring. They asked someone else to work together with him, so there would be two rank 6 godclads guarding the energy spring.

With their decision made, they dismissed Sir Kris and continued to discuss their situation. What they discussed next was about the probability that the angel of killing was targeting the rank 8 demigod locked away deep within the city.

Meanwhile, the city settled down. It had to settle down because the nobles didn’t want anyone causing trouble in the city right now.

In fact, the nobles had agreed to ban any sort of fighting, open or covert, between the gangs of the outer city. They didn’t want anyone upsetting the already fragile peace of the city.

Every gang leader sighed in relief when they heard this ban. They were happy to receive it because it meant that powerful gangs like the Golden Hammer gang and the Black and White gang wouldn’t be able to expand their territory while the other gangs had become too weak to resist.

In general, the gangs of the outer city are at their lowest point. The devastation to the city had eliminated many gangs completely, while some gangs only had their gang leaders.

For the gangs that were eliminated completely, they have the vine plants for killing their gang leaders and the divine beasts for killing the normal godclads and mortals in the gang.

For the gangs who only had their gang leaders still alive, they have the divine beasts for why their gangs had shrunk to a record low size.

Either way, in the outer city there were either territories without any gangs in control of them or there were territories with gangs who were too weak to defend them.

So if a gang like Golden Hammer with a suspected number of 8 epic godclads decided to expand their territory, there would be very few people who could stop them.

The nobles recognized this situation, so they discussed it among themselves and banned any fighting. They also began recruiting more gangs to take over the empty territory.

Nobles usually don’t recruit gangs in the middle of a game. They wait for a game to be over before they recruit gangs. But the situation is dire currently.

The current situation is that if an attack comes from the forest again, the outer city is in no shape to defend against it. This is far more important than some game to select successors for the noble family.

While it was unlikely that the forest would be able to mount another attack on the level of the previous one, the nobles were not willing to take any chances and be caught off guard.