GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?-Chapter 2126: Unreasonable Reasonable Sight.

Captain Sheckel became silent for a while. Her eyes became unfocused as she gave his request some thought.

Then she said, "I am the captain of this division of Lamp Bearers. It is my duty to protect my subordinates, and it will be a dereliction of that duty to put a rank 1 rookie in the most dangerous post. I cannot do what you asked for. But I can give you the opportunity to grow stronger."

Legion raised an eyebrow and asked, "What do you have in mind?"

She replied, "The most dangerous post is guarding the spirit spring. But you are not ready for that yet. So I will let you guard the prison. When you are ready to advance to rank 2 and need to complete your advancement ritual, I will let you use some of the prisoners for your ritual."

Then she asked him, "What do you say?"

Legion nodded and said, "You have been very accommodating. I thank you very much."

She has indeed been accommodating. If he hadn't seen it himself, he wouldn't have thought it was possible for a rank 1 godclad to make demands from a rank 4 godclad and the rank 4 godclad would capitulate.

Her behavior is a rarity. It is a phenomenon that he can experience thanks to the tolerance of lamp bearers to one another. So he has the god of justice to thank for that.

As for them thanking her, they are truly satisfied with her arrangement. Guarding the prison where nothing ever happens and they can train all day is a very good arrangement for them.

It would have been nice to be assigned to guarding the energy spring. They would be able to acquire information up close with that kind of posting. But it is also good that they will be far away from the scene of the crime so that it will be very difficult for someone to link them to the crime.

His reply made Captain Sheckel smile. She smiled as she said, "I would shake you on this successful arrangement, but I can't now." fгeewebnovёl.com

He nodded and changed the subject, "When can I begin?"

She replied seriously, "You will take up your posting during the next shift change. There will be someone to give you a tour of the prison and explain your duties to you later."

"But first, you must join the lamp bearer communication system. Now that you've become a serving member of my division, you will need to be able to report anything to me quickly and be able to call for backup wherever you are."

Legion was surprised to hear that. This communication system is something they have never heard about.

So they were genuinely surprised when they said, "Oh."

Soon they asked, "What is this communication system?"

She chuckled and said, "If you're surprised now, then you will be very surprised when you see it."

As she spoke, she tapped her forehead several times in a particular pattern. After she did this, her forehead split open to reveal a large heart.

The heart was bigger than her head. They could tell that much. Yet, it was contained in a space smaller than her head.

So the heart was both big and small. This dissonance in spatial perception caused Legion-5's mind to ache. He had to give up control of the body to Legion-4.

The exposed heart was beating and pumping blood to places unknown. The injury that contained the heart was widening to accommodate the size of the heart. Yet, the injury was always on her forehead, and her head was growing larger to accommodate the growing injury.

This was a paradox. But it wasn't the only one.

She wasn't bleeding from the split in her head. But the injury was bloody nonetheless. At least, they felt that it was a bloody injury. It was a contradiction between what they were seeing and what they were feeling.

What they were seeing looked reasonable. But if they try to parse it or analyze it with logic, they will get a headache because it will turn out that what they were seeing wasn't reasonable.

How can a bigger circle be within a smaller circle? Yet, they were seeing just that. It was an unreasonable reasonable sight.

They also sensed a higher power from the heartbeat. This higher power was speaking and calling to them.

The heart was speaking to them. Its words were a mangled mess. It couldn't think coherently, so it couldn't communicate correctly. But its intent was passed across to them clearly.

The heart wanted them to take it. It was a relic or divine artifact made from the pathway of killing, so it wanted to join with them.

The calling of the heart was akin to the temptation of divine flesh. The major difference was this heart was more powerful than a rank 1 divine flesh, so its calling was stronger than the temptation of the divine flesh.

Even so, they weren't moved by the calling. It couldn't overcome their reason and make them fight a rank 4 godclad for it. At least, not yet.

But the heart gave them a lot to think about. Apparently, there was a lot they didn't know about the lamp bearers.

As they were thinking about the heart and what it signified, Captain Sheckel said to them, "Guard your mind. Don't let it fool you. Whatever it promises you is a lie."

Then she grabbed one of the blood vessels connected to the heart and ripped it away from the heart. The blood vessel didn't come away easily. It resisted her touch and resisted her pull.

Even when she succeeded in pulling it away from the heart, it was still squirming in her hand. It simply refused to be subdued.

She tapped her forehead while she held the red, squirming worm in her hand. The wound on her forehead began to shrink. It shrank quickly until it closed up and disappeared.

The large circle that made up the wound collapsed into the small circle that was her head and disappeared. This sight made their eye twitch in annoyance.