Will of chaos-Chapter 1822: Cap 1820: Rules Meeting Part 7

Author's note: I sincerely apologize, I accidentally reposted a previous chapter, please correct this error, I've been sick these days and ended up confusing some chapters.

8 hours since the meeting started.

The meeting was long, but since I returned, Callidora and Pride have not returned, which made me think about many things, especially Callidora's motives, she has always been extremely selfish and only does something that is beneficial to herself or that is fun.

During all this time, Curse seemed to be quiet, it also seems that she was discussing something with Lena, but she has not said anything until now, if it was important she could tell me she could have requested a private meeting with me, something she did not do, if it is not urgent, I will wait until all this is over to hear her explanations.

The one who really worries me is Hatred, I know nothing about him, this meeting was our first meeting, I have not even heard about his tendencies or seen his way of doing things, he is an enigma to me.

"Do I request a private meeting with the Universal Tree?" (Curse)

"I refuse." (Freya)

"You wretch, just accept or do you want your secrets spread." (Curse)

"I have no secrets, say what you will." (Freya)

"..." (Curse)

"It seems that being cut off from your connection to the Tree of Creation has not affected you." (Curse)

"I want to make a deal, I want one of your fruits, I know you can produce one, name your price." (Curse)

"Denied." (Freya)

"Agree to a private meeting with me and we can discuss a price, then perhaps I can stop the Avatar of Greed." (Curse)

"..." (Freya)

Freya turns her head to me, she does it more by reflex than by deliberate action, she wanted to ask my opinion and so she turned her head to me subconsciously, but doing so revealed to the others that I make their decisions and this ring will not go unnoticed by the eyes of these old monsters.

"..." (me)

"I refuse." (Freya)

I no longer tried to hide how much authority I have in my group, so I shook my head in denial and Freya responded in agreement with my suggestion. Curse clearly didn't like it and didn't care about showing it in his Aura, which didn't affect anyone at the table. This was just an empty threat in this place. Even when I leave here, they wouldn't be able to do anything against me unless I act personally.

Of all the Entities here, even though I can't trust her completely, Callidora is a suspicious ally, but an ally nonetheless. Pride is a temporary ally and we won't act against each other. Ohara has already made that clear before.

Business, he is just a business partner. Thinking about it now, as long as our gambling business is active, he won't act against me. Of course, that doesn't make him trustworthy or even an ally, but from what I've heard, business is everything to him and thanks to that I should be safe from him for a while.

This leaves only Greed, Curse, War and Hatred as true enemies against the guides. I wouldn't like to disagree with them. War, being very direct, will leave everything in the hands of Ayden, who wants to duel me later on.

War won't be a problem. Greed is already an enemy who has been very clear in his desire to go against me.

Hatred is an unknown enemy that I am more cautious about because I know nothing about him. I know almost nothing about his plans, power and his Avatar. This makes him dangerous.

Apart from them, the one I was least worried about was Curse. Yaffe is a Curse expert who I can at least ask for assistance. Hades is my trusted Herald and also a living curse. I won't count Hinata. I don't think any Curse or statistic effect works on her. I don't need to fear curses.

Of course I won't underestimate an Entity, but if I had to choose an enemy among those here, I'd rather choose her. I also find her sudden focus on Freya very suspicious. She even talked about Freya's thefts, which I find strange since her tree never bore any fruit.

I'll have to ask Freya about these things later, but the important thing now is not to give up something that Curse is giving so much importance to, not when we're on opposite sides.

What really worries me is whether he really needs such a fruit or if he's just trying to attract the greed of others against us, that possibility is not zero.

"Since this tree can't answer for itself, why don't you make a deal with me, little Bringer of Chaos?" (Curse)

"Always making so much noise like the insect you are!" (Callidora)

"Don't meddle in my affairs, Well of Doom!" (Curse)

"Using old names now? I might know one or two of your names too, isn't it Crawler of Decay...?" (Callidora)

"One day I'll tear apart whatever you call a body and get back what you stole from me!!" (Curse)

"Don't try to play the victim, you're lucky I don't need that bone or I would have chased you for the entire existence, you damn insect!" (Callidora)

"You don't have to worry either, your exoskeleton has become a great container for my pool... hahahaahahaha...!" (Callidora)

"Can you two stop, please...?" (Pride)

I'm hearing interesting things, with Curse and Callidora dropping hints not to me, but to others, I may not know what Curse did with whatever could be considered a bone of Callidora, but the pool Callidora mentioned can only be the Curse Ocean where more than 70% of my body was corroded, my Soul was tortured and my mind was forced into a trance to maintain the little sanity I have.

Now that whole liquid Curse makes sense, Callidora being the cosmic monstrosity that she is, must attract a massive amount of Curse both from those who have negative feelings towards hell and from those trapped inside her with endless malice towards her, that must be exactly why she created the Cursed Ocean to concentrate all that cursed energy.

Which makes me think that those other places must be similar, I remember that besides going to that Cursed Ocean I also went to a Desert of Death and a Demonic Valley or something like that, possibly there was something in those two places that served to concentrate those energies in those points.

Applause! Applause!

"Now that everyone is finally gathered, how about we get back to the purpose of this Rules Meeting?" (Merchant)

"What did you come up with this time, Merchant?" (Pride)

"I hope it's fun, for your own good..." (Callidora)

"Are you finally going to reveal that conspiracy with the little Bringer of Chaos?" (Curse)

"Hahaha.... please, please my dear friends, do not provoke this Merchant, there are also no conspiracies or lies, this Merchant only speaks the truth and my actions are the embodiment of honesty." (Merchant)

"Don't waste our time, we are not as naive as those 4, speak your proposed rule so we can vote!" (Hatred)

"If it is not beneficial to me, then I will reject it." (Hatred)

"Say what you need to say at once." (Greed)

It seems that I may have trusted the Merchant too quickly, even though we did not lose anything in our deal and in the end we agreed on a proposal with the System as a witness, so I should be safe, but clearly the Merchant does not have as clean a reputation as I initially thought.

Thinking about it, it represents the very concept of trade, something that does not only happen between fair people. There are illegal trades, manipulated prices, counterfeit goods, manipulated prices and agreements with hidden conditions.

Trade itself is based on the exchange system, giving something in exchange for something else, be it a service or an item. Trade is a very old and extremely broad concept. I must not be so careless again.

"The rule I want to approve is to make a bet, not between us, but between those outside this board with the participants of this meeting as the players, see the terms, see the fame and glory it will bring to your names!!" (Merchant)

Clap!

The Merchant claps his hands that are covered in shadows because of these clothes, then a screen of materialized energy forms expanding as his hands move away and continues expanding until it forms a screen that everyone can easily read, on it was written almost all the content about the bets with the exception of the division of profits, I fixed thankful that he did not mention it to the others.

But from the Auras released, they were clearly not happy with this, which was to be expected, this proposal not only does not affect them in any beneficial way, but also uses them as pawns for the profits of others.

"Interesting! Very interesting! Hahahahaha!!" (Callidora)

"Merchant, are you serious with this ridiculous proposal!?" (Greed)

"I think someone here may have gotten too arrogant!" (Hatred) fгeewebnovёl.com

"Are you sure you want to do this?" (Curse)

"..." (Pride)

Pride didn't say anything, but his head turned in my direction, just as Callidora was laughing looking at me, Curse was clearly irritated, even so he didn't raise his voice.

"Those in favor of this proposal, raise your hands!" (Merchant)

It came as no surprise to anyone that he and I raised our hands at the same time, soon after Lena, Cortana and Freya raised their hands upon seeing my actions.

What took a few more seconds was Callidora raising her no, just as I thought, Callidora wouldn't let an opportunity like this to have fun pass by, especially if it would irritate others.

What I didn't expect was that Pride also raised his hand, his vote wasn't important for this rule to be approved, but I didn't expect him to approve it.

"Hahahaha... as proud as ever..." (Cortana)

"I can't stay behind, I'll make all those who bet on me win, be proud of having voted for the greatest winner there is!!" (Pride)

"(What a stupid pride...)" (me)

With that decided the Obelisk behind the System Receptacle shines once more while several entities become enraged looking at the Merchant who bows to the System.