The Veritas Chapter 7: Humility

The mirror that was given to Vanity before was also the same mirror that was manufactured by Greed and used to control him before. It served as a beacon and a homing device for Greed to use whenever he desired, because it was one of his byproducts.

Vanity swirled elegantly out of the vicinity of the sharp tongue lashing of the nefarious Greed monster, hulking about as a pulsating blob all over the field. "Whoops, you missed a spot~!" the Demon Lord of Pride jeered, only to come to a halt and realize just how actually damaging to it. "A-aw..." Vanity drifted off, shards of mirror flaking off from a cracked piece that suddenly split in the frame, "... I actually had a very thorough synchronized choreographed stylized customized tactical maneuver orchestrated, but now without Chauncey..." A greater crack shattered in the mirror at the emotional blow, and Vanity's eyes became more feral. The souls locked inside of the Demon Mirror started pounding at the weakened surface from inside, begging with all their spirit to be released from their imprisonment. They could only be heard after Vanity became more silent and despondent -- more broken. "CHAUNCEY, WHYYYYY!?!??!?!?!" It screeched, no longer having a reflection to look into, which was quite mentally jarring. The more Vanity cried, the more energy poured out from inside, cracking the mirror further.

"BAHAHAHA!!!!" Greed cackled nefariously, "Critical Hit!!!"

Before anything else could come out of Greed at all, all of the outpouring energy of Vanity was concentrated into self-sustenance, which also made everything else a threat around it, and therefore also turning Vanity insane. The sheer intensity of the instantaneous transition because of the uncontrollable outpouring unstable energy reacting all at once due to many mental chemicals released simultaneously focused all such energy into pure destructive chaotic force targeted at whatever was detrimental to any and all of the Demon Lord of Pride's self interest at heart. It would not be hidden nor plotted with coordinates, as was done with the Mirror attachment. Instead, all of the actions would be done instantaneously, and a searing laser of white hot hatred beaming directly at the head tower of Greed -- straight at his heart and every other vital point in that area just because it could be seen or was already known. It would be a rain of fire down upon all vital points that were in the direct line of sight of Vanity at the time.

The energy being released by the heartbroken Vanity poured through the cracks with streams of divergent stray lasers that seeped off to every side, making the entire blast like both a direct high-powered laser and also a flurry of homing lasers to every side, yet only in one direction entirely. All-encompassing, it reached the North, Northwest and Northeast, as well as Eastnorth and Westnorth. All of the 'Northern' hemisphere and Perversions of the Enemy of Vanity were eradicated on the spot.

However, Greed, being able to shift throughout its large body spontaneously, simply moved himself and all of his weaknesses all into a different spot randomly upon the remaining land mass and completely aborting the prior. It was no longer considered one of Greed's children, because it would no longer make Money. Therefore, the moment it was absolutely assured that it was worthless, Greed discarded it as waste and did not look back on what would have been one of its own. Instead of gloating about how Vanity missed, the smart thing was to be inconspicuous and stay out of the way. Demon Lord Greed did not reveal his location, but amassed himself like one of his warts, where no one could tell the difference between them. Whatever was destroyed in the process could be rebuilt, and Greed went off elsewhere.

-Escape-

"There..." Lord Kindness signaled to the troop, binding Greed wherever he and his Perversions manifested outside of the initially constructed nexus. It was essentially the same as shadow possession or threads. "Attachment." At that moment, everyone else would be able to see exactly where each weak point was based on the initially constructed nexus no longer matching up with the new coordinates or alignment of Greed's new formation, thereby making the Demon Lord traceable by inversion immediately. "Lord Father," he cried, alerting that he'd successfully accomplished binding Demon Lord Greed in place where he was and that he was ready for further instruction.

"Yes, Father," Lord Charity, the Grand Panda responded obediently, extending a branch from the large body and out over the ignorant $yndicate member as to take possession of his body and move him further ahead whilst remaining attached to the House, like a life line. Everywhere he would go extending out from the actual secured clean land, he would be supported and protected as an extension of the main vine and branch all collectively congregating in the place where the House was rooted, which was also where Titane's body would remain set. This also made it easier to defend the city whilst the spirit of Lord Father went on to secure another large area, thereby claiming two separate lands by association.

The $yndicate Member was moved on further along the mountain alone.

Struggling further caused the mirror that was the Demon Lord of Pride's body to crumble under the intensity of the pressure being unable to sustain the fractured and fragmented being in any form of imperfection, causing the entire construct to fall apart once it was broken even once.

Though the Demon Lord of Pride was gone and all the souls burnt up, Greed was spared from the destruction.