Will of chaos-Chapter 1820: Cap 1818: Rules Meeting Part 5

3 hours of Meeting later.

For hours it seemed like they were a group of acquaintances in a meeting, they pointed at each other with questions that they knew would not be answered, they talked about the secrets they discovered about each other, but always secrets that led to the same result, as well as challenging each other.

What I learned is that all the Entities do not care about education, courtesy or appearances, they all do what they want, how they want and why they want.

These Entities are pure selfishness, they have also known each other for longer than many universes have existed, what they talk about is mostly to provoke each other while at the same time trying to manipulate us in certain directions, we are getting a lot of information, unfortunately this information is highly biased and after this meeting is over everyone will change their plans.

It was in this realization that I discovered that this was also part of the plan of some of them, as hatred pointing out what Guerra has done only to force him to change his tactics.

There is also Callidora constantly bothering Curse with mentions of events that I have no reference to understand, it was as if they were speaking in another language, but looking from another point of view, they are revealing several encounters between the two Entities, a very old and extensive history.

But somehow my eyes did not leave the Merchant, he did not say anything and just continued listening in silence, just like the System's Receptacle, but unlike the System's neutrality as Host of this Meeting, the Merchant was most likely gathering information.

Unlike me, who lacks the basic knowledge to understand many of the things I am hearing, the Merchant must be understanding everything and that must be the real reason he came since he has nothing he really wants in this universe.

"In the end it always ends the same way, probing each other in a useless way!!" (Hate)

"I completely agree, apart from the basic rules, hours of the Meeting have already passed in an irrelevant way."

(Pride)

"Does anyone have any other rules they'd like to add other than a large-scale battle?" (Cortana)

"A battle like that would be a quicker solution than continuing like this." (War)

"Everyone here already knows their own goals, except for me, Pride, and Curse, you all have different goals." (Greed)

"Then why not add the rule of not getting involved in our dispute?" (Greed)

"Don't forget about us, Greed." (Lena)

"Your power is weak and your numbers are few, if it weren't for Pride blocking me and me being careful with War, do you really think you could stop my Avatar!?" (Greed)

This meeting wasn't going anywhere, everyone here was just trying to prolong the meeting in order to get as much information as possible from each other.

"(A Rule that benefits us and that others will approve of...)" (me)

"You talk a lot, but your Avatar is still one of the weakest." (Freya)

"Even the weakest would still be enough to deal with you if it weren't for the proclamation of this meeting!" (Greed)

"Ohh... then we have something to add, don't we?" (War)

"..." (me)

"(I don't like this, he seems to be planning something.)" (me)

"How about adding a rule that whoever loses their Avatars in this Universe has to withdraw from the board?" (War)

"I approve this rule!" (Greed)

"I accept!" (Hatred)

"I accept." (Callidora)

"..." (me)

"We accept." (Lena/Cortana)

"I agree." (Freya)

Everyone accepted, only Pride and I were silent for the same reason, I felt his eyes on me before speaking.

"I accept this Rule." (Pride)

"Me too." (me)

Once again the obelisk behind the System Receptacle shines with the creation of a new rule.

"How about making everything even more interesting, after all, it's rare that we have so many participants on the same board and it's rare that I have the chance to participate like this." (Callidora)

"Finally revealing your reasons?"

(Curse)

"Everyone here has their own plans, but why limit yourself to that, how about adding something more exciting and more fun...?" (Callidora)

Callidora's mask changes, the Hellish landscape changes as red eyes open in the apocalyptic sky of her mask while the earth opens in a large crack that looks like a smile, her mask is disturbing in many ways.

"That sounds interesting." (Pride)

"Let's listen." (War)

"(What are you up to, Callidora...?)" (Me)

"I propose a game, I will place one of my envoys on the board, I will give him three objectives, his strength will be around the power of the Avatar of Greed." (Callidora)

"Your 3 objectives will be the opening of the Gate of the Infernal Beasts, the Summoning of the Demonic Corruptor and the Assassination of Avatars."

(Callidora)

"Each objective will earn me a prize, without ulterior motives, if you kill my Envoy you will earn an Origin Egg, what do you think?" (Callidora)

"I imagine that applies to everyone here, right?" (Freya)

"Yes, my dear tree, you and your rebellious husband are also part of it, as are these two trusting Twins." (Callidora)

"Interesting, these three objectives will disrupt everyone's plans here, but at the same time they can be advantageous depending on the order in which the plans are executed, you just want to see everything burn as always." (Merchant)

"Even if two of these objectives are irrelevant to me, the Avatar hunt includes mine too." (Merchant)

"Yes, wouldn't it be exciting! Hahahahaha...!!" (Callidora)

"And for it to be fun everyone has to take risks~~."

(Callidora)

"(Damn crazy woman, she just wants to see the circus burn...)" (me)

Even without anyone opening their mouths, it was easy to see that everyone was seriously considering Callidora's proposal. No one mentioned the prizes yet. Callidora also didn't specify anything about these prizes, but if they are as important or more important than the life of an Avatar, while it must be important, this Egg of Origin also seems to be something important. The only prize she mentioned was for the murder of her Envoy, the Egg of Origin.

"I accept and I believe that everyone here will do the same." (Greed)

"I never had any doubts that you would accept, especially you, Greed, but I will only go ahead if it is unanimous." (Callidora)

Callidora looks at me, she is clearly having fun while everyone in the meeting turns to the four of us. To be honest, I would like to refuse this proposal. Adding another factor of uncertainty to this mix is ​​very bad.

But with so many Entities clearly interested in the proposal, if only the four of us oppose it, it could make us fall into enmity with those Entities, Callidora knows that.

"I accept." (me)

"We accept." (Lena/Cortana)

"I will accept." (Freya)

"[ ... ]"

It seemed that the System didn't like this, but there was no breaking of its rules, so the obelisk glowed brightly once more.

"Since that has been decided, I would like to have a private meeting with Commerce." (me)

"I accept." (Merchant)

"..." (me)

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Suddenly I felt my body vibrate once and before I understood what had happened I was in a luxurious closed room, with no doors or windows, there was a table with two chairs where Commerce and I were sitting facing each other.

"How do you know about the Private Meeting?" (Merchant)

"Lena told me, unlike you guys who communicate through Aura Techniques, signals and other hidden forms of communication, I can't even use my telepathy safely around you."

(me)

"So you've realized, Hatred is not good at disguising his movements and Pride's Aura control has become too precise..." (Merchant)

"I didn't come here to talk about that, I want to make you a proposal, a business proposal." (me)

"I'd love to hear it." (Merchant)

"I know you'll pay me fairly, so I'll be direct, why don't you create a betting rule during this Gathering." (me)

"This idea has been tried before, as much as it's fun, it's nothing more than that." (Merchant)

"I'm not talking about a bet with the Gathering participants, they're the 'Players', I'm talking about a bet from the observers." (me)

"I know well why Pride is here, I also know why his Avatar wanted to contact me, others must have noticed too since Callidora is trying so hard to increase Chaos."

(me)

"(Yes, Callidora mentioning the Origin Egg and further increasing Chaos like that, I can see where she's going with her thoughts.)" (me)

"You have a good head on your shoulders, child, even though you're so young." (Merchant)

"Since you thought of that, you must know the difficulties in this thought process, there is no currency to be used in bets, we Entities use a system of exchanges for that." (Merchant)

"Of course there are currencies, don't test my intelligence, there are Souls, Life Force, Slaves, Bloodlines, Worlds, Essences, Divinities and many other things that Entities accumulate throughout their ages of existence using to exchange among themselves when necessary." (me)

"As the Entity of Commerce, I'm sure you've already put a price on all of this in order to use all these 'currencies' fairly in negotiations, so you'll be able to make the bets."

(me)

"I like you more and more, boy, very well, let's increase the fun as you want, what is your payment for this proposal?" (Merchant)

"As a player, just like the other Entities, you would not allow me to bet and neither would the system, so I want a share of the profits from the bets, all of them will be useful to me in the short term." (me)

"What would be your share as a betting table?" (me)

"20% of the profits." (Merchant)

"Then how about giving me 5% and keeping the other 15%, the idea came from me and I also presented many types of currencies that can be used." (me)

"You are asking a lot for just one idea, 1% at most 2% would be more realistic since I will do all the work." (Merchant)

"That won't work, you have to tell me something else, like for example that for the Rule of this bet to pass, it will need my approval as well as those around me."

(me)

My vote will be worth 4 since Lena, Cortana and Freya will follow my vote, Callidora will accept without a shadow of a doubt and Merchant will go along with it, there are already 6 votes out of the 11 participants in the Meeting, thus obtaining the majority of votes to be approved.

The other Entities will not like this and will deny this proposal where they gain nothing, they will also not like being used as a form of entertainment by others without receiving anything in return.

"Hhahahahahahahahahaha...!!!" (Merchant)

"Okay, deal done, I like those who know how to negotiate, Zenos." (Merchant)