Chapter 2023: Lantern Fish.
On one side were world gods who didn't want to join the system that Legion-0 was advertising but wanted to copy the system. On the second side were world gods who wanted to steal their system directly.
On the third side were world gods who had joined this system but wanted more control over it. These three types of enemy formed a triangle of enmity that hunted Legion-0 at every turn.
The situation of the third type of enemies was quite interesting. Legion found it interesting because, apart from the usual greed motivating them, the main reason why these world gods turned on Legion-0 was because they didn't want to lose the power they had gained.
They had no right to the power as they got it free of charge, so they couldn't demand to keep it, and it could be taken away from them at any time. This made them afraid.
So some of them tried to find Legion-0 to convince him to make a stronger contract with them. They offered to pay for the right of ownership or control. But that didn't work, so they were pushed to desperate measures.
Legion welcomed these desperate measures because there was only one thing they could do, and they liked that thing very much.
The only thing the greedy world gods who were already part of the network could do was try to use the soul sphere in their core to infiltrate the system and take control of it.
Legion liked this very much because every world god who did this lost their rights and became a complete member of Legion-0 without the need to sacrifice a clone of Legion-0.
So the greedy world gods who wanted more were not a problem for Legion. Unfortunately for their enemies, the world gods who wanted to copy the whole system or find the creators and take full control of it right from the start were not a problem either. Stay connected with My Virtual Library Empire
Legion-0 could defeat them on its own. But that would make world gods fear him and stop attacking him.
He didn't want that. He wanted to continue looking weak so that the world gods would think they had a chance in subduing him.
Besides, he couldn't prevent the world gods from escaping. He could only kill them, which would be a waste of his time.
So he didn't fight them. Instead he escaped and led them to Legion-3 or other clones that were nearby.
Legion-0 orchestrated this encounter to make it look as if it happened by chance. It is because he didn't want anyone to know that he was related to Legion.
So even though world gods were avoiding the mad Legion like a plague, they would still fall into their hands through the bait that is Legion-0.
The clones of Legion were like a lanternfish in the dark depths of the void universe. Legion-0 was the lantern that they used to lure prey.
Legion hunted everything and everyone. Both World gods and Supreme Origin gods were not safe from them.
Their actions meant that Legion was always growing stronger. They reached a new peak when all of them gained a Cosmic Source.
At that time, they had acquired 842 world gods in Legion-0. Each world god increased the quality of Legion-0 by at least 4.
Their individual power had become 12 Aspects x (12 Aspects x (5 World Engine + 5 World Seed + 1 Limitless))^2 × 3,368 Legion-0. It was 704,208,384. Together with the aspect of Unity, they had 101,406,007,296
Legion-1 said, "Just a little more and we will be able to break through the barrier above us and see the primogenitor again."
Legion-9 agreed. "It is just a matter of time. We will surely reach it before the end of the void universe."
Legion-5 said sinisterly, "When that time comes, everything that belongs to the void universe will belong to us."
They were excited for the future because they had accumulated so much power that they would be able to reach the core of the void universe with their power. All that is left is to finish their plans for the end of the void universe.
With the refinement of the Cosmic Source, they have gained a lot of information about the void universe to help them with this.
Even though the Cosmic Source they absorbed has been cut off from the void universe when they made it reliant on their origin instead of the void universe, so they can't continue to get more information from the void universe, what they have learned is enough to help them finalize their plan for the end of the void universe.
They know now beyond all reasonable doubt where the greatest source of strength of the void universe is. That source is the corridor of worlds.
The corridor of worlds is the artifact deep within the dark side of the void universe created to be the connection between the inner worlds of every world god in the void universe. It is also the foundation of the law matrix.
The corridor of worlds is why the void universe allows the destructive world gods to exist in the void universe. It uses the combined power of their inner world to increase and maintain the size of the void universe.
The void universe needs to do this because the Primogenitor of the void universe is not a Limitless even though it is in possession of an origin.
The void universe doesn't possess the spark of power or spark of the soul. It only possesses the spark of wisdom.
The origin in its possession is not its either. It was bestowed by the Lord of Madness for it to produce Cosmic energy.
Without it being limitless, the void universe can't expand indefinitely like they thought. It needs world gods to create pressure within it that keeps it expanding.
So the more Legion subdues world gods and adds them to Legion-0, the faster they grow and the faster the void universe weakens.