GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?-Chapter 1794: Negotiation And Ransom.

Legion-9 couldn't believe it. He said, "This is clearly an abomination of a weapon. Why is it so strong?"

The angel confirmed his suspicions, "It is because its owner is stronger than you."

But that only gave him more questions. He said, "So this is what an Authority weapon is capable of. How did she get such a weapon?"

There's eight of them still alive and one Crystal Hoard. They should have more divine energy than her, but her Authority is stronger than them individually. They have been able to curtail the spear at the expense of copious amounts of divine energy, but their problems with it are far from over.

Legion-2 said, "At this rate, it will kill us before we can steal it."

Legion-9 chuckled and said, "It killed Legion-1 with one strike and will kill the rest of us in 14 minutes. Unless our believers can provide 100 faith every second and we can convert it with enough divine crystals, we will die just by holding on to it. What a joke."

Legion-3 refused to give up. "It is too powerful to give up. If we can't have it, then we must destroy it."

They had asked their angel how to subdue the weapon and make it theirs, but it said it didn't have any information about that. They had been frustrated with it because it was the same reply it gave them when they asked about how to forge Authority weapons or how Crystal Hoard got the weapon in the first place.

Legion-4 suggested, "Maybe we should use it to get some ransom from Crystal Hoard. She has been requesting for communication for a while. I bet she is anxious."

Legion-3 insisted, "Anxious or not. We can't let her get back this spear. It is too dangerous."

Legion-2 said, "We don't need to give it to her. We can just lie about giving it to her while we get something from her."

Legion-5 shrugged and said, "I doubt it will work, but we can try it out."

Legion-9 reminded them, "I'm dying over here. Whatever we decide, we must decide in 13 minutes."

With that decision made, they decided to hear Crystal Hoard out. She had been terribly anxious, but she didn't show any of that when they finally spoke with her.

She said calmly and with confidence, "So you are still alive. Consider me impressed. Tell me, how did you do it? Was it your reward for being the first true God?"

Legion-2 asked, "What do you want?"

She snorted in displeasure. "It is not your fault. It is my fault for miscalculating. You have won this time around, so you can feel cocky all you want. But you can forget about stealing my spear."

Legion-2 offered magnanimously, "I am not a thief. How about I buy it from you?"

She roared in reply, "Never. You can forget about having it. I will never hand it over. It will either belong to me or it will be destroyed. No one can have it."

Legion-3 muttered to himself, "That is something we can agree on."

Legion-2 didn't say that. Instead, he said, "You have no choice in the matter. The spear is in my hands, and I can do whatever I want with it. Now, unless you have an offer to make, you should shut up and stop wasting my time."

She calmed down too. She even became smug and said, "1,000 divinity. No more, no less."

Legion-2 asked incredulously, "Do you think I am a fool?"

She remained smug as she replied, "I don't think you are a fool. But I know that you can't use the spear, and you have to keep using Divine Energy to suppress it. I don't know how you and your helpers have managed to hold on until now, but I don't think you can last for much longer."

"It is only a matter of time for you to run out of divine energy. At that time, my spear will return. So you either take the 1,000 divinity now or lose it completely."

She felt very confident in her conjecture. The fact that the 9 Crowns decided to contact her is proof that they can't steal her divine weapon. If they can't, then they must be trying to get benefits another way. That means she hasn't lost the initiative completely.

She advised them, "Don't try to take it out to find someone with greater Authority than mine to refine. Not only am I at the top of the Authority ranking with the highest Authority in Gemmis, I will also be able to sense my weapon immediately you leave the safety of your hotel."

She smiled and said smugly, "You have no more cards to play. Take the 1,000 divinity and hand over my divine weapon."

Legion-2 thought about it and decided to agree. "Alright. I will send someone to meet you to collect the 1,000 divinity. I will hand over the spear after I have confirmed the divinity."

She chuckled and said, "I have an even better idea. Let's do the transaction through the altar. Let the divine realm handle the exchange. This way, you won't be cheated. Don't worry. I will take care of the 5% transaction fees. I will add an extra 50 divinity so you don't suffer any loss."

Legion-2 chuckled then. He said, "You are good. You're not bad at all. But you have forgotten that we can destroy the weapon if we can't have it."

She refuted him immediately, "It is you that is mistaken. I haven't forgotten anything. I would rather the weapon be destroyed than you have it. So your choices are to destroy it and gain nothing or to return it to me and gain 1,000 divinity."

Legion-2 cut off the communication channel with a heavy heart. Not only is 1,000 too small, they can't give their enemy back the weapon that she used to kill them.

He sighed and said, "Fine, let us destroy it."