GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 1279 The Quest For The Fire Of Rebirth.

What the squad of justice heard gave them more questions than answers. It made them investigate further. Even Jarkon took this seriously because if any of this is related to Soverick then the Virut plane might be in trouble after all.

------Legion-7's Reincarnation.

Legion-7 was selected to reincarnate into the Phoenix race. Gehaldirah had always coveted their divine ability. They are able to resurrect after death on their own without the help of the law matrix. It is a recovery ability similar to the extra-life divine ability of the Blood Giants. It is better than the extra life because their divine ability can also be used to attack.

The Phoenix race possesses a powerful flame called the fire of rebirth. Every member of their race at the transcendent level can use their fire of rebirth to resurrect or burn their enemies. The more living things they burn, the more powerful their flame gets.

Gehaldirah wasn't the only one to covet their flames. Unfortunately, no one had been able to create a concept similar to the fire of rebirth. In fact, no one knows how it works.

Gehaldirah was greedy for that divine ability so he found a phoenix egg to use as reincarnation material. Then he created an array that sent forth his soul fragments into various races. All of the soul fragments succeeded in reincarnating into their designated race except Legion-7.

Legion-7 didn't fail because he got lost. He found a viable phoenix egg and entered it. What he found there was beyond his expectations. He was shocked when he found a soul as strong as his in the egg.

He asked in utter surprise, "What in high heaven is going on?"

An egg should not have a strong soul. In fact, it will be extraordinary if the soul within an egg is fully formed at all. That occurs in dragon eggs. But even that should create a soul that is weak. No egg should have a soul that is as strong as the soul fragment of an Origin god no matter how weak that Origin god is.

"Did someone have the same idea as me? Did they try to reincarnate into a Phoenix egg too?" he asked himself.

"No, that should not be so. We got the reward for being the first to reincarnate into numerous bodies. That means I can be sure that this person didn't reincarnate into multiple bodies. So even if they reincarnated, this has to be their only body but their soul is too weak to be the complete soul of an Origin god. It is merely a soul fragment. However, it is without a doubt that this is a soul that a developing egg should not have. What is going on?"

Unfortunately, none of the clones could help him with this matter. They don't have any information about the Phoenix race in the first place and they certainly haven't encountered such a weird situation in the eggs of other races.

In fact, Legion-8 is the only one who has encountered a soul in the egg he reincarnated into. But the egg was very weak so Legion-8 was able to snuff it out with a single flick.

So Legion-7 complained. "How unlucky am I to reincarnate into the one egg with a reincarnated soul fragment in it?"

He thought about it and made up his mind. He became determined then, "This changes nothing. I just have to win. There can be only one soul and it must be me."

He is not willing to give up just like that. That will mean a failure of his reincarnation. He decided to fight for the right to keep the egg. So he rushed towards the red soul fragment and clashed with it.

He began to fight with the soul fragment but the soul fragment didn't retaliate. It was odd but Legion-7 didn't stop attacking.

"Maybe I was wrong. This doesn't seem to be the soul of an Origin god. It is not even a fragment of one since it doesn't have any soul force. It is just strong and it doesn't seem to have any will."

Soul fights are not complicated. Two souls clash until one of them is destroyed. Both souls receive damage in each collision. The skilled soul will be able to minimize the damage they sustain while maximizing the damage the opponent receives.

Legion-7's opponent was not fighting back at all so there was no challenge. The other soul fragment was also not as sturdy as his. His soul has been infused with divinity and he has access to soul force from Legion-1. He even has Origin essence to use in case he needs it. He is at an absolute advantage in every way. So it is not surprising that the soul fragment will lose.

The red soul fragment at the center of the egg shrunk in size as it gradually lost its spirituality in the fight. But the soul fragment suddenly moved before it was completely destroyed. It didn't fight back when it moved. It seemed to have sunk downwards. Then it disappeared from the egg.

Legion-7 couldn't find it anymore. All he could tell was that it went below the law matrix.

He shrugged when he couldn't figure out what happened. "I won and that's all that matters."

He moved to take over the egg and complete his reincarnation. But things didn't go as simply as they went for the others. For one, there was no body in the egg to possess. There was only energy and matter but no life.

He thought the red soul fragment had formed a connection with it that's why he didn't sense the connection to the body. There is no red soul fragment now but he still can't sense anything that can be considered gestating life.

"What is it this time? How can there be an egg without life? Then what is the egg for?"

One would expect an egg to be created for the gestation of life. He expected that too. But apparently not.

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A/N: Anyone know what's going on with the Phoenix race?