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Chapter 499: The Bottomless Abyss of Greed"Boiling a frog in warm water, huh..."
Aiden’s lips curved into a cold smile. A clear light flashed in his double-pupiled eyes.
After countless battles and killings, he naturally understood one thing: the calmer the surface seemed, the more deadly the danger hidden beneath it often was.
The Strength of the Pillar of Greed was trying to stir up the deepest desires in his heart.
"Use clear boundaries to break endless greed."
Aiden slowly closed his eyes and drew an unbreakable red line in his heart.
"I came here only for the approval crystal of the Pillar of Greed."
"Everything else has nothing to do with me. It is all illusion."
The moment this clear "boundary" was set in his mind, the gentle wave surrounding him suddenly froze.
It was as if it had crashed into an invisible wall of law and was firmly blocked outside his body.
Aiden opened his eyes and walked forward.
His steps were steady. With every step he took, the gray swamp beneath his feet automatically gathered into a hard stone path, carrying the dignity of a god.
However, the Abyss Maw was known as the place where countless gods had fallen for a reason. Its cunning was far beyond imagination.
As Aiden went deeper, the gray fog around him began to churn violently.
One ancient divine throne after another appeared and disappeared within the mist.
Floating above them were law fragments glowing with nine-colored divine light. There were even Inner Spirit crystals at the God-King Rank and God-Emperor Rank.
These were all heaven-defying opportunities, enough to drive countless Great Venerables and even lesser gods mad with desire.
But Aiden did not even look at them. With a cold expression, he walked past these priceless treasures.
"These things are good, but they are not within my current boundary."
His heart was as clear as ice, and his law boundary was unbreakable.
But as he kept walking, Aiden’s steps unknowingly slowed down.
A thought suddenly appeared in his mind.
"Is one and a half years really enough to gather the remaining four Pillars?"
"Leon’s threat is right in front of me. If I can raise my understanding of space and the Law of Thunder to one hundred percent here in the Abyss Maw, wouldn’t my chances be better?"
Once this thought appeared, it grew wildly in Aiden’s heart like weeds.
"Yes. I need to become stronger. I need to step into the Intermediate God realm as fast as possible, or even become a Greater God."
"Only then, when the ’door’ opens, will I have absolute control."
"And the system... Since the system may one day devour me, I shouldn’t just guard against it. I should take the initiative to study it, control it, and even refine its source power in return."
"As long as I can devour the system, my strength will surely surpass the Divine Emperor and reach a level never seen before!"
In Aiden’s double-pupiled eyes, dark golden thunder and pure white light began to weave together violently, releasing a scorching light stronger than ever before.
Without realizing it, his breathing became a little heavy.
He began to desire more.
He wanted more primordial crystals. He wanted to turn all the Strength of the Seven Pillars into his own power.
He wanted greater law understanding. Not only space, thunder, and light. He even wanted to take all the Laws of Origin from the Abyss myriad races rank for himself.
He wanted absolute control over the system. He wanted to finish in less than the expected three years. He wanted to completely trample Leon under his feet.
Every one of these thoughts was extremely clear.
And every one of them fit his current situation perfectly.
Every line of logic was tight and flawless.
These were not empty dreams that had appeared out of nowhere. They were the most "reasonable" plans for becoming stronger, based on his current situation.
"Wait..."
Aiden’s steps suddenly stopped.
In front of him stood a dark golden divine throne, giving off endless divine power.
Without realizing it, a thin layer of cold sweat had appeared on his forehead.
He stared hard at his own hands. Struggle and shock appeared in his double-pupiled eyes.
"Something is wrong."
"These plans... are indeed reasonable."
"They are so reasonable that I didn’t even notice how much they had grown, or how terrifyingly deep this abyss had become."
Aiden suddenly raised his head and looked at the thick gray fog around him, heavy and dark like ink.
Inside the fog, it felt as if an invisible giant mouth was silently laughing at him.
At this moment, he finally understood what was most terrifying, and also most clever, about the Pillar of Greed.
It never tempted you to steal worthless things that did not belong to you.
It simply stood in your position and used perfect logic, making it impossible for you to tell the difference between a "reasonable need" and "growing greed."
When you felt that everything was natural, and that it was all necessary for survival and becoming stronger...
You had already fallen into the bottomless Abyss of Greed.
"Phew..."
Aiden let out a long breath of stale air.
The cold sweat on his forehead instantly evaporated in the faint glow of the Law of Thunder.
In an instant, his eyes became deep and cold again.
Within his double-pupiled eyes, dark golden thunder and the pure white Law of Light erupted at the same time, forcibly tearing apart the thick gray fog around him.
"Rise!"
Aiden let out a low shout. His index finger moved like a sword, cutting sharply through the air.
"Buzz!"
At that moment, he pushed the advanced Law of Space to its limit.
A silver-white line of space law started from his fingertip and quickly drew itself across the void, forming a completely sealed silver ring.
The ring shrank and locked firmly around his sea of consciousness.
This was the "absolute boundary" he had drawn for himself.
Inside this boundary, no outside will could shake his true heart.
Aiden sat down cross-legged.
He closed his eyes and began to list, one by one, the things he truly needed.
"First, Zoey needs enough time to repair the Golden Great Wall."
"Second, Cheryl and Kelsey must stay safe."
"Third, Bella must always remain by my side."
"Fourth, Faye’s Heaven-Devouring Mystic Dragon clan must no longer face any threat."
"Fifth, the sealing of the Seven Pillars and the evolutionary leap of the Lord of the Primordial must be completed smoothly."
"Sixth, the billions of humans on Earth must no longer suffer the threat of the Great Destruction."
Each time Aiden spoke a name, a solid golden rune formed in his sea of consciousness.
These runes floated inside the silver space ring. They gave off a warm but firm light, lighting up the darkness of his mind.
After finishing all this, Aiden slowly opened his eyes.
He looked at the endless gray swamp ahead. He looked at the divine thrones and law fragments filled with temptation.
"These are what I, Aiden, seek in this life."
Aiden’s voice was calm, but it carried a weight like a mountain. It echoed through the entire Abyss Maw.
"Enough."
Just one simple word, yet it seemed to carry some kind of supreme power.
"Rumble!"
At that moment, the entire Abyss Maw shook violently.
Countless streams of gray fog began to retreat like mad. The divine thrones and Inner Spirit crystals that gave off tempting light melted away like snow the instant the word "enough" fell.
Greed was forcibly held back in that moment.
The world around him fell into a deathly silence.
A long time passed.
"Buzz..."
The gray fog gathered in front of Aiden and turned into a huge, blurry face.
It was the will of the Pillar of Greed.
"Enough?"
The Pillar of Greed’s voice was hoarse and cold, filled with the mockery of someone who toyed with people’s hearts.
"Aiden, you are lying to yourself."
"You say enough, but does the thing inside you agree?"
The Pillar of Greed’s gaze seemed to pierce through Aiden’s divine body and stare straight into the system deep within his soul.
"The 10,000x Critical Hit System."
"Its core logic is endless taking, endless increase. Ten thousand times, a hundred thousand times, a million times!"
"Ten thousand times means infinite."
"Infinite means greed."
"You carry a system whose very source is ’infinite greed,’ and yet you stand here telling me, ’enough’?"
"It will never have enough!"
The Pillar of Greed’s question exploded in Aiden’s mind like thunder.
Aiden narrowed his eyes slightly.
He fell silent.
The question was like a sharp blade, stabbing straight into his deepest wound.
The system was the foundation of his rise. But at its core, the system had always been absorbing the essence of his laws. In the future, it might even devour him.
A 10,000x critical hit was indeed endless greed.
How could a person who held a tool of infinite greed ever say, "Enough"?
Aiden stood where he was, completely still for a long time.
The gray fog of the Abyss Maw began to stir again, trying to wrap around him once more.
Second after second passed.
Aiden’s breathing slowly became calm.
Suddenly, he lowered his head, looked at his own hands, and laughed.
"What are you laughing at?"
The will of the Pillar of Greed asked coldly.
Aiden raised his head. There was no longer any struggle in his double-pupiled eyes. There was only absolute control.
"I’m laughing because, in the end, you are only a pillar. You don’t understand the human heart."
Aiden’s voice suddenly grew louder.
"The system is a tool."
"It wants to gain without limit. That is its core code."
"But I am not the system!"
Aiden took one step forward. Thunder roared beneath his feet, and space shattered inch by inch.
"I am the one using the system!"
"The greed of a tool is not the same as the greed of its owner."
"If I want to use it, it is the sharp blade that helps me grow stronger. If I do not want to use it, it is nothing more than a pile of cold data."
"Enough is a judgment made by me, Aiden. Not by the system!"
"Boom!"
As Aiden’s words fell, the three laws within his body, Space, Thunder, and Light, erupted in an unprecedented resonance.
His divine might surged like a sea, sweeping across all directions!
The huge gray face of the Pillar of Greed trembled violently.
For the first time, a look of disbelief appeared in its hollow eyes.
That emotion was almost like "envy" envy of humans for having such pure and independent will.
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