Book 12: Chapter 78: Idiots (2)
The brooding Immortal God opened his eyes to find himself back in a familiar place. However, his mood wasn’t made any better by this reality. Dyon hadn’t even done anything particularly disrespectful to him, but he still found it to be completely unacceptable.He walked out from a cultivation room with plain grey walls and into a hallway that was equally as plain. Often times the higher you traveled in Immortal Plane society, the less material things seemed to matter. However, though this was the case, it wasn’t exactly true either as odd, as that may sound.The reason was simple. Though this place seemed minimalistic, everything in sight was worth an obscene number of energy crystals.The grey walls were actually made of blessed void stone, a precious resource of the Void Planes that cost several million Law grade crystals per gram. To build an entire network of cultivation rooms with nothing but it was extravagant beyond compare, to say the least.The Immortal God walked unhurriedly down the hall, his steps even and his gait almost inhumanly balanced as though he was a machine tasked with this one duty.Despite his seemingly slow pace he made it to his destination in not even a minute, crossing hundreds of kilometers in barely a few breaths.“You acted quite fast, Nazaire. I had actually wanted to go myself, but you took hold of the qi line before I could. Who would have guessed that the boy would deliver himself on a silver platter like this for us. Now we don’t have to worry about what he will think.”Nazaire entered a small garden with nothing but a table of crystal etched with a chess board and its pieces. Aside from this there were only two old men sitting across from one another, deliberating over their next moves. It was impossible to tell whose turn it was, maybe because other than to speak the words one of them had just spoken, neither had moved an inch in years.“You should speak the truth. In reality you just wanted an excuse to leave this game that’s bound to be your loss. I knew I should have insisted on a timer before we began.” The other elder snarled.“You say this, but isn’t it your turn? It’s already been ten years since my last move. What’s taking you so long?”The elder in question didn’t respond, likely focusing on his own thoughts once more.“A Tier 3 General was it? That’s worth a death sentence for anyone below the general rank. But you probably gave him the frontline fighter penalty, right? Definitely the smartest choice. He’d be very easy to control in this way, less of a headache…”The voice of the chess playing elder trailed off when he looked up to Nazaire’s dark expression.“…what happened? Did he interfere?”“… No. The boy is just more difficult to deal with than we thought.”“How difficult could a boy be to handle?”By now, both chess playing elders had looked up, observing the Alchemy God with weird expressions.After listening to his story, the two elders sent a frowning gaze toward each other. It was difficult to tell what they were thinking. In the end, they decided that this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. Not only did they avoid the embarrassment their friend had to suffer through, but now they had a more legitimate reason to target Dyon.“This is good, this is one less headache. If he dies because he broke our laws and was taken down by an Immortal Hunter, we don’t have to take any responsibility for it. If it wouldn’t be too obvious what we were doing, it would be even better if we put a Tier 9 arrest warrant out for him.”“That would be far too much, even a Tier 7 warrant hasn’t been issued in several billion years. We can only barely get away with passing down a Tier 5 warrant due to the fact he controls a 3rd ranked Golden Cauldron.”The coalition laws didn’t work in cohesion with hegemon laws. In order for each hegemon to maintain and protect its autonomy, the coalition laws were forged such that they didn’t directly contradict hegemon laws, especially when it came to laws elicited under Heavenly Oaths like Pill Sword Mountains obligation to treat mortals fairly.As a result, despite the fact there was now a warrant out for Dyon’s arrest, since it was issued under the coalition laws, his golden cauldron hadn’t lost any power.However, this wasn’t all good either. Only under coalition laws could such a wide spreading arrest warrant be disseminated. Instead of being wanted in just one or a few star segments… Dyon was wanted in them all!There was no bounty in existence an Immortal Hunter wanted to claim more than one issued by the coalition. And… when they learned of the fact that the target was a ‘mere’ mortal, which of them wouldn’t be chomping at the bit?The only one who wasn’t fond of this turn of events was Nazaire himself…As for why they wanted Dyon to fall, was it even possible to see through the thoughts of these old monsters who had lived for billions of years?However, if one wanted an inkling… it had far more to do with Abraxus than it ever had to do with Dyon. Since he wanted Dyon to live, they wanted the opposite.