GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Achieving complete mastery of a skill in a year is impressive enough because it usually takes godclads. nonstop practice for at least 4 years before they can gain initial mastery and up to 40 years before they can master a skill completely.

Thanks to his high regeneration of spiritual energy and innate ability, he shortened the requirement of 40 years to one month. That is a speed-up of 40 times.

It is an impressive achievement, which many people would be satisfied with. But he is not satisfied with it.

It is not just because he is greedy. He has other reasons for him to want to achieve complete mastery sooner.

The most important reason is that there are many skills he will need to master in a pathway, and he will have four pathways to deal with. That is a lot of skills to work with, which will delay his progress.

The second reason is that mastery skills will reduce the difficulty of ascending the pathway. Besides those two reasons, there is also the fact that he has a solution to his problem. If there is a solution, then he will like to try it. He won’t give up without a try.

The solution to this problem is straightforward. As long as he can get external sources of spiritual energy to practice with, he won’t have to rely on his regeneration of spiritual energy, and the time it will take him to gain complete mastery will be shorter.

There is one easy solution that he knows, and that is to replenish his spiritual energy with energy water. That is a solution that is common knowledge among godclads.

What else is common knowledge among godclads is the fact that energy water can raise the power of the spirit of a godclad. This is important knowledge because it relates to the ascension of godclads.

The way for godclads to ascend is to use energy water to raise the power of their spirit and make it powerful enough to assimilate the more powerful divine flesh of their pathway.

Godclads need to raise the power of their souls so that it can bear a stronger burden. If the souls can’t bear the burden of a more powerful divine flesh, then the godclad’s existence will collapse when they try to advance.

So if any godclad wants to grow stronger, they have to have energy water and they have to have a lot of it. This in turn makes gaining control of a spirit spring attractive.

The importance of energy water to godclads is the main reason the previous controller of Ivory City withheld energy water from the people. They wanted to use energy water to practice, and they thought their power was of a higher priority than the people of the city getting food to eat.

Unfortunately for them, the lamp bearers didn’t agree with that order of priority. The lamp bearers removed the previous owner of the city with violence and force. Then the Ivory family gained control of the city after promising to only keep 50% of the supply of energy waters for themselves.

Maybe 50% was enough for them when the Ivory family was weak and few in number. But after a hundred years, he is sure that they too will be feeling the strain by now. So energy waters won’t be easy for him to acquire.

There is more bad news because that is not the only part of the difficulty. If the difficulty lied solely in energy water being expensive, it won’t be a difficult problem for him to solve.

The other part of the story is the initiative that the lamp bearers have taken to ensure that the energy water gets into the hands of mortals who need it for survival.

It is one thing for the Ivory family to promise that they will let the citizens of the city have half of the energy water supply, but it is another thing for them to deliver on that promise, and it is another thing that the citizens of the city are able to get the energy water even if the Ivory family is willing to give it.

A lot can happen that will prevent the inhabitants of the city from getting energy water, such as the rich buying all the available energy water from the Ivory family and then selling it at a higher price to the citizens.

Another thing that can prevent citizens from getting their energy water is godclads stealing it from people. To prevent this and many other obstacles from getting in the way of acquiring energy water, the lamp bearers gained control of 50% of the supply and took charge of its distribution.

The lamp bearers sell energy water to each individual at a maximum quota so that everyone can get what they need to survive regardless of their wealth or status.

And of course, the lamp bearers make sure to track down and punish anyone who is stealing energy water from the inhabitants of the city or is coercing them to sell it.

So energy water is going to be very difficult to acquire. If he wants more energy water than the quota he is limited to, he can only get it from an external source. He can either raid another settlement and take over their spirit spring or he can go into the wilds to find ownerless spirit springs.

The first option will make him clash with the lamp bearers. They won’t sit back and watch him cause a famine or drive people out of their town.

The second option will help him avoid conflict with the lamp bearers, but it will bring its own danger.

The wilds are dangerous on their own, but rarely are spirit springs without owners. He is likely to fight a powerful beast over control of a spirit spring.

The more he thought about the problem of energy waters, the more frustrated he became. His frustration isn’t only because of the difficulty in getting more energy water now; it is also because of the difficulty of getting energy water in his various futures.

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