GREED: ALL FOR WHAT? - Chapter 2350: Deadly Blunder.

Chapter 2350: Deadly Blunder.

The nobles had a lot of things they wanted to do but had very little people capable of doing those things. They were so desperate for manpower that they allowed gang leaders that had been banned before from the games to return.

This permission allowed the rank 4 machinist that used to be the neighbor of the Golden Hammer gang to return to the outer city as a gang leader.

The machinist was the leader of the Five Gears gang. He was punished a few months ago after 256 men and women in his gang died because of a powerful disease.

Cedric was determined to be the culprit of the death of so many people, so he was disowned publicly. But the nobles didn’t stop there.

In order to discourage using underhanded schemes to attack other gangs, the nobles decided to punish the machinist too for attacking the Golden Hammer gang with an undying godclad and another knight.

All of these happened about six months ago. The machinist was supposed to be banned for life from participating in the game, but he was back again doing what he loved in less than a year.

What’s even better than his return is that he gets to pick whatever territory he wants to take control of. It was a matter of first come, first served. He came to sign up as soon as the nobles announced their permission of his crimes, so he came first and became the first to choose his territory.

This opportunity was very good for him because it meant that he had the option to pick somewhere to stay that was as far away from the Golden Hammer gang as possible.

He didn’t want to be anywhere near the Golden Hammer gang after experiencing multiple losses and nearly dying himself. So he chose to stay close to the Black and White gang since it was directly opposite the territory of the Golden Hammer gang in the outer city.

After arriving in his new territory, he went to greet Black Axe, as he was his neighbor. When they were chatting, he casually mentioned why he picked the location of his new territory and how much he hates the Golden Hammer gang.

Legion-5 chuckled when he heard this and said, “What a loser. We are not even interested in you, yet you still show up to be killed.”

The machinist thought that he was moving away from danger, but he was only getting closer to it from another direction. His move to stuck with Black Axe was simply a deadly blunder.

If not for the fact that fighting among the gangs was banned and Legion didn’t want to antagonize the legends of the city yet, they would have killed the machinist.

They would have killed him out of spite and to mock him for his decision because they don’t have a better reason to kill him. He is just that inconsequential to them.

There is very little that they will gain from killing him if they could do so and get away with it. But now that killing him would bring them trouble, they didn’t bother to waste time on him.

Besides, they didn’t have the time to waste on him. They had more important things to spend their time on, such as fishing for psychic shriekers.

After a month of baiting and using their fate weaver to calculate the fastest way to get what they want, they finally got something to show for their efforts.

Their fate weaver had been manning the fishing rod and had been using her divine ability to predict where to fish for the optimum outcome. Now a psychic shrieker had taken the bait.

The psychic shrieker had been hooked because it had swallowed the bait, and the binding formations on the hook had activated. The binding formation caused a tattoo of a rope winding around the neck of the psychic shrieker to appear.

The tattoo wasn’t for show. It wasn’t just an ornamental manifestation. The tattoo of the rope was really crushing the neck of the psychic shrieker and holding onto it very tightly.

What’s worse is that the tattoo was still spreading from the neck of the shrieker to the rest of its body. Soon even its four feet will be bound up, not just its neck. This was the cost of eating free food.

The psychic shrieker couldn’t escape its bounds, so the fishing rod was reeling back the hook out of the spirit realm and pulling the psychic shrieker with it. Legion had to be there to fight and kill the psychic shrieker, so they went there and didn’t bother with the leader of the Five Gears gang.

The psychic shrieker is a large red bird the size of houses. It was as big as the rank 6 beasts that led the beasts tide earlier.

The psychic shrieker was as big as a three-story building and also strong, so its resistance to being pulled was very high. The fishing rod was groaning and creaking as it struggled to pull back its catch.

It appeared that even though the psychic shrieker couldn’t escape, it wasn’t going to make capturing it easy at all.

Legion had to join the efforts to pull the psychic shrieker out of the spiritual dimension. To do this, they activated all of their pathways and let all of their arms grow out.

With four pairs of arms, they grabbed onto the rope and pulled it. The effect was immediate. Their strength tipped the outcome heavily in their favor quickly. The psychic shrieker was yanked out of the rift into the physical world, so they were finally able to get a good look at it.

The psychic shrieker had four limbs. Two of them were large. They were the hind limbs that it used to stand.

The other two arms were small. They were attached to its chest like two little hooks. Their small size made them look diminutive and useless.