GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

The Authority of the Celestial Supreme is very powerful so the increase in productivity of Origin essence by the tree father is double that of Legion-1. Now they have a combined production of 30 origin essence per Origin cycle. It is a lot for a weak origin god but it is nowhere near the infinite amount they need.

On the bright side, the tree father also doesn't need to dilute Origin essence to make Origin energy. He can make it directly as a by-product of making Origin essence. He is also not the only one changed by the development. The inner world changed too. It became stronger and self-sustaining which made his world devour ability became stronger.

The best change is that they are finally able to use cosmic energy. The tree father can use it to strengthen his domain. That means the inner world can grow stronger. It is an underwhelming change but it is welcomed because they couldn't use cosmic energy for anything other than reinforcing concepts. It just didn't listen to them.

They have a large supply of Origin essence from Helios but it is beyond their manipulation. It wasn't a surprise since cosmic energy is the base material for authority and they haven't managed to make their own Authority so they couldn't use it at all.

The Authority of the Celestial Supreme made cosmic energy not so useless to them. It used to create divine authority when it worked together with the divine will. They don't have the divine will of a plane so what they get is the strengthening of the inner world.

There are other effects but the most drastic change happened in the Zargoth plane.

The Zargoth plane has lost its Authority of the Celestial Supreme. That means divine power and divine energy cannot be produced anymore within the plane. That means divine authority can't be created or bestowed any longer. That means that new gods can't ascend. That means the era of gods in the Zargoth plane has ended. That means the end of the divine plane. So the divine plane began to collapse due to the loss of its anchor.

In a bid to save itself, the divine will of the divine plane reached out to the only godlike being that it knows within the Zargoth plane. Beggars can't be choosers. It is dying so it will take help from anybody and anyone. It is like what the will of all living things within the plane did with Helios.

The tree father is somehow able to exist despite the loss of the anchor. The divine plane thought the tree father might be able to help it. So it offered to enter a symbiotic relationship with the tree father. It will receive sustenance and anchorage in exchange for giving the tree father protection and total control of the divine plane.

The Tree father accepted the deal but he is just an avatar. He can't move to the divine plane. The divine plane is desperate so it chose to fall to the mortal realm instead of collapsing into nothingness. It doesn't have a choice in the matter. It is either survival or oblivion.

A large white sphere descended from the sky and appeared above the tree father. It is so large that it can easily be more than 100 times the size of the 10 kilometers tall avatar. The mortal realm felts its impact as it detached from the main plane and entered it.

The world shook. Earthquakes rose in the desert. It is a very odd phenomenon but the giants of Order were not moved. They have become used to doomsday signs. It has happened a lot recently and they don't care anymore.

First, it was when the world froze. Then it was when a large bright beam of light blinded everyone and cut the plane in half. Then there was the time the sky tore open when Celestial Authorities clashed. The world didn't end then and it probably won't end now. Even if it did end now there is nothing they can do about it. So they watched the large sphere descend to the ground with mild interest instead of mass hysteria and panic. They have panicked enough.

The sphere descended slowly until it engulfed the giant tree, its forest, and its surroundings. It covered about 5% of the total surface area of the Zargoth plane. This space will go on to become a nation and not an ordinary nation. It is a nation with a god as the sovereign.

Other nations will spring up later as giants of Order prosper but no other nations will have a god as the sovereign because there will be no other god forever in the Zargoth plane. The path of perfection remains closed off. The absence of the Authority of the Celestial Supreme didn't automatically make Origin energy available. It instead robbed the plane of making that transition. So the inhabitants of the Zargoth plane are doomed. That is unless they have an alternative path of power that they can use.

The Holy Nation Of The Tree Father is also the only source of the path of power after transcendence. Any giant of order that wants to become a lord of law or above have to be loyal to the tree father. This will further cement its hold on the plane. Acquiring something doesn't mean that it is yours forever. You have to be able to hold on to it. There will be people who will want to wrestle the plane out of the hands of the Tree father and Legion.

The Zargoth plane has changed beyond compare in a short 200 years. It took a hundred times longer for Zargoth to experience this change as compared to the short 2 years of the Virut plane but the three clones did it by themselves. They didn't have the help of a racial council. In fact, they were the enemies of the racial council which is also the pantheon but they beat it and succeeded in creating a new world order.