GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

But after a while, the custodian had to speak. He said to her, “It seems the boy is done with the assimilation process.”

Captain Sheckel looked through the gap in the door and confirmed that Legion was truly done assimilating the rank 2 divine flesh. His body had stopped changing and there was no mutation. This can be considered a success.

The custodian went into the locked room to unshackle him. Then they called over another godclad to follow him home and make sure that he was fine.

As soon as Legion was sent home, Captain Sheckel called Shawn over for a meeting. The meeting was short. In less than five minutes, the captain finished speaking with Shawn and sent him away.

Shawn returned home unhappy and angry. During the dinner with his wife, he ate his meal with a rare gusto. He tore into the meat with reckless abandon while imagining that the steak was his boss.

He complained out loud, “That uncultured swine. That lowborn dreg. That filthy commoner. She was lucky to get to where she is today, but she thinks that gives her the right to push me around like some pawn.”

He said a lot of unsavory things about her. His anger was not to be mollified. Even his wife recognized this and didn’t try to placate him. She just served him his food and let him vent.

He is not only angry that she had the power to order him around. He is also angry because he doesn’t like Captain Sheckel, the lamp bearers, and what they represent.

In the past, only powerful and rich families could produce godclads. These noble families were the ones with the wealth required to prepare someone’s existence and acquire divine flesh.

This was the foundation of the rule of noble families. Rich people became powerful and used that power to acquire more riches. Then they used the riches to acquire more power.

Over generations, noble families became stronger as they inherited the power of their predecessors through the divine flesh they left behind after they died. So noble families were able to gain control of Spirit Spring and gained dominion over the livelihood of a whole town or city.

Everything in a town was decided by them. But that has changed over the years with the advent of organizations like the Lamp Bearers.

The main issue that the Ivory family has with the lamp bearers is not that they are being forced to settle for 50% of the energy water supply of the city and, in exchange, they have to protect the two from beasts and mutants.

The problem they have with the lamp bearers is that they are being forced to do anything and are at the mercy of others. Even if they were given 90% of the supply of energy water to do whatever they wanted to with it, they would still complain because they are not in total control of the city.

Currently, if the Ivory family doesn’t guard the border of the two and protect it, they will lose the 50% that they were given. If they fail in their defense of the city and some people die, the lamp bearers will punish them by reducing how much of the energy supply they get for a while.

So it is clear that the Ivory family is not the one in control of the city. Anyone that wants to replace them only needs to convince the lamp bearers, not bear arms against them and use force to replace them. The Ivory family doesn’t like this.

This problem is not a local issue. It is widespread throughout the kingdom and beyond it. Many nobles and even the royal family don’t like the lamp bearers.

Their dislike of the lamp bearers is also bigger than the lack of autonomy over their territory. There is also the matter of the removal of the liege system.

In the past, if the spirit spring of a town or city isn’t enough for the needs of a noble family, the noble family will attack another town or city in an attempt to annex it and increase their supply of energy water.

Weak noble families that want to prevent annexation by a stronger noble family will give up a portion of their supply of energy water as tax or tithe to a stronger force in order to gain their support and protection.

This way, the stronger force won’t need to expend a lot of manpower in order to increase their supply of energy water. Just by being strong, they will be able to earn from the supply of weaker forces around them.

Sometimes, the strong noble force will earn so much in tithes that their income of energy water through tax will be greater than the supply of energy water in the city that they control. This is the benefit of the liege system.

In the liege system, baron families pay tithes to viscounts. Viscounts pay to counts. Counts pay to dukes, and dukes pay to the royal family. So the royal family is the biggest beneficiary of the liege system.

But due to the interference of the lamp bearers, no noble family can attack any settlement in order to annex it. They will have to ask the lamp bearers first, and the lamp bearers will always refuse to support war.

As long as the people in a town continue to get 50% of the energy supply of the town, the lamp bearers don’t care about who is in control of the two and will always try to keep the status quo.

Since the strong noble families can’t use their strength to annex other settlements and grow stronger, weak noble families don’t need to fear them and pay tithe to them. What everyone is afraid of is the lamp bearers.

So thanks to the lamp bearers, war and strife between noble families has ended. This is a good thing for the commoners. But the noble families don’t like this at all.

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