So there is the benefits of utility, safety, and acquisition of power. These are just the three advantages that they can tell for now. There could be more advantages to be gained in the future.
But they don’t need more advantages to decide to steal the Mindscape. In fact, they don’t need the three advantages to decide to do so either.
Even if they had no use for the Mindscape, and even if the Mindscape is not a danger to them and can’t affect them in any way, they still won’t mind stealing it if they can just to rob soone else of power.
Just the option to be able to eliminate a future threat or competitor is enough for them to decide to steal the Mindscape. Now that they have three legitimate reasons to do so, there was no way Legion wasn’t going to try to do it.
Earlier, they had said that they would be content with the Mindscape if it could help them acquire the power they need. Apparently, they had lied about that.
It wasn’t surprising to them that they lied, though. They knew that they were greedy. They can’t be satisfied.
They only made that promise in order to lower their expectations. Now that their expectations have been t, it is just right for them to try to gain more.
As Legion trained and sched for the Mindscape in the safety of their new base, their slaves were busy recruiting people and enslaving talented godclads for them.
In Reinfield, it is pretty common for gangs to recruit new people. But recruiting more manpower usually happens when there is conflict between gangs.
During conflict between gangs, gangs recruit more n to increase their power and win the conflict. But there was no such conflict going on with the Golden Hamr gang. So their act of recruiting manpower was seen as a prelude to war.
Many people would like to think that the Golden Hamr gang is just expanding to fit their status as a gang now that the leader of the gang has been announced to have beco a rank 4 godclad.
Golden Hamr was powerful enough to be a gang leader as a rank 3 godclad. Now that he has reached rank 4, it should be perfectly normal that he wants to expand his gang.
Optimists would think it was normal. But certain pessimists thought that Golden Hamr was gearing up for war.
These pessimists were being paranoid. But they had a basis of fact for their paranoia. They have the right to expect a war since that’s what usually happens when a gang begins to expand.
These pessimists decided to nip the problem in the bud before it grew too large to control. They didn’t go to attack Golden Hamr, as he is supposed to be a tool. Instead, they went to approach the wielder of the tool to convince them not to start a war.
Gangs are tools for nobles to control the outer city. Every gang has the support of one or more nobles behind them. So the gang leaders that were worried about war spoke to their nobles, and their nobles went to speak with the nobles supporting the Golden Hamr gang.
This is a normal procedure in Reinfield because fights between gangs are fights between nobles. Usually, when a gang starts to fight another gang, it is because the nobles supporting them have instructed them to do so.
So if one wants to stop a war, the more effective thod to use is to et the nobles supporting a gang and co to an agreent or truce with them.
However, things were different this ti around because the noble controlling the Golden Hamr gang was also clueless about the true motive of the gang she was supporting.
She was sure that she hadn’t instructed the Golden Hamr gang to start fighting another gang, so she was sure that Golden Hamr wasn’t expanding the gang to start a war.
This confidence made her tell everyone who approached her that there was absolutely nothing to fear. So everyone cald down and beca relaxed. No one stepped out to interfere with the Golden Hamr gang’s expansion.
Golden Hamr was able to recruit an assassin, a thief, a paladin, a rule breaker, a warrior, a farr, a walker, a death walker, a chaos maker, an illusionist, and a mage. These twelve godclads were all rank 3 godclads.
No fateweaver appeared, which didn’t surprise Legion. They expected that any fate weaver worth their salt wouldn’t participate in a recruitnt program ant to enslave them.
Legion helped these twelve godclads acquire the rank 4 divine flesh that they needed to advance. They even helped all of them advance.
Unfortunately, because they didn’t spend much ti brainwashing them, more than half of them didn’t survive the process. Only 5 of the twelve managed to survive the advancent to rank 4.
Those five were the assassin, the thief, the rule breaker, the walker, and the illusionist. Legion didn’t mind that the others died during the advancent. After all, the whole thing didn’t cost them anything.
The godclads were acquired free of charge and enslaved by the three hamrs. Since their puppets can use all of their abilities now, even their slaves can enslave others on their behalf now.
So they didn’t spend any effort or ti in recruiting and enslaving their slaves. As for the divine flesh that they bought to help them advance, the divine flesh was still around after the godclads died. So they had truly not lost anything even though 7 out of 12 of their slaves died.
The five new slaves made their total number of slaves reach 8. They can have a maximum of 9 slaves, so they still had space for one more.
But they didn’t wait anymore to recruit more slaves and help them advance. Instead, they used the eight slaves that had to start a war.
Their slaves received the order from them and moved out imdiately. All eight of them have different bodies, but they were of one mind.
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