"It is just like this simple competition. It was simple to me but it was big to the participants. But they can never fathom how really big the competition is. They were played and they remained ignorant of that fact. You were also played but here you are, outside the realm trying to get something that you had the gall to negotiate with a world god for from that same world god that orchestrated your death. It is very impressive honestly."
"As I said, you're either an ignorant fool, a confident fool, or you're a very brave fool. But you say you are not. How come? You were used and you know it. And yet, you still come forward with the willingness to die. I want to know why? Why will a genius like you be willing to sacrifice himself? I really want to know why. But I don't want to have you come back to bite me like the world gods are going to come back and bite the realm lord."
Soverick maintained his silence while the first sage also became silent. The world had completely stilled now. It is like the effect of the nullification domain except even the law matrix is frozen. Only those two white eyes and six tails are moving. The eyes of the first sage flash occasionally and move around rapidly as they observed him. Soverick knew then that the first sage is definitely using some scrying ability on him.
The first spoke after seeing enough. "I have decided then that my curiosity is not worth it. I want to settle our karma right here and now. I won't tempt fate any longer. So I will let you go. But do you still want me to give you what you are owed?"
Soverick finally spoke. "Yes. That's what I came for. Without it, my Oath will not go into effect and I and my allies will be forced to seek reparations for the injustice that I endured elsewhere."
The first sage chuckled then. "Fine. You will get what you are owed. Allow me to give you some advice. Power is not everything. You need something else if you don't want to be a pawn. And most importantly, do not threaten a world god that is already finding it difficult to hold back from shredding your existence and getting to its foundation."
The sage said before he tore space again and left.
Soverick watched the sage leave. He didn't let himself breathe a sigh of relief even when he was sure that the first sage is truly gone. The absence of the crushing pressure didn't alleviate his fears one bit.
Instead, he turned his attention to the package that the sage left behind. It is a small spherical object. He reached to it with his divine sense to probe it. The sphere didn't resist him at all. His divine sense entered it and joined with it easily. He realized what the sphere is immediately.
"Oh no." He exclaimed.
His divine sense detached from it immediately and he flew away from it in fear. He looked and waited but nothing happened. The sphere remained inert as it floated in the void. He calmed down in the silence that ensued. Then he grinned after understanding the first sage's plan.
He thought to himself with a sneer. "That sly old bastard."
The sphere is a world fragment. It contains the two things that should be his. He should have been happy that he got a world fragment too but he is not because it is a world fragment made by the sage. It contains the supreme law of the first sage. That's why he was shocked at first. He expected it to be a ploy. But nothing happened so he realized the ploy isn't short-term. The presence of the supreme law means the sage will be able to keep track of the two things within the world fragment and what he does with them.
He is out here in the void. He can't return to the realm tree with the package. That means he must take it somewhere in the void and give it to someone or someone will come and collect it from him seeing as he can't survive well in the void. The sage will be able to use the exchange to find out who he is in contact with.
All that speech about fate and settling karma is just a smokescreen. It is true that the sage will regret it but he hasn't given up yet. He wants to find out what Soverick is relying on first before he makes a move. The first sage is being cautious and sneaky.
Soverick smiled and said, "What a thieving conniving bastard. Unfortunately, the jokes on you."
His body broke apart after saying that. Some ethereal tentacles burst out of his body and grabbed the world fragment. These dark tentacles filled with dots of light pulled the world fragment into the mess of Soverick's body and the hole within it. Legion 7 used his body as an anchor to tear space and drag the world fragment away. Void energy destroyed the traces of everything and the location returned to serenity.
He is not without a course of action. He is willing to die again not to give the sage what he wants. It is all so that the first sage won't acquire more information about Legion-1. Fortunately, he didn't have to die again. His spirit was saved by Legion-7. What he gave up was the host or the vessel he is inhabiting. The Sage's expectations will be subverted just as it happens to the things that Legion-7 gets involved in. The person that enslaved Legion-7 is still mad about that.
"Time to go and meet Shannon." He said after he woke up in a new body.
Soverick's consciousness was removed from his current body so he didn't have to die. Then he was deposited in a new body in the Virut plane. It is to maintain a presence within the Virut plane and to meet with his former director of academics at the Ghastorix Academy.