"Briss… I see," Ning said with a thoughtful look. "You have an apostle in Mexico and Ghana, don't you? What are you doing here in South Korea? And why are you hurting people?"
"Hurting? No, no, no," the constellation said. "I do not hurt people. If I wanted to watch them get hurt, I wouldn't have appointed Apostles to help your world. I simply wanted a distraction, but you got rid of it way too quickly, didn't you?"
"Distraction? To stop me from teaching them about Magic Circle?" Ning asked.
"Yes," Briss said. "Where did you even learn it?"
Ning ignored the question. "Why do you want me to not teach them about Magic circles?" he asked. He couldn't find any obvious consequence of teaching magic circles to humans at all. At least, not from what he was going to be teaching.
'Unless…'
"What will it take you to not teach them about magic circles?" Briss asked.
Ning gave a smirk towards the faceless godlike being who could peer through space to look at him. "Are you worried that humanity would advance far too quickly for your tiny pawns to no longer seem so unique?" he asked. "The moment the Apostles no longer appear as powerful and out of reach as they are now, you are afraid the people will lose faith in you. Given the context, it does make sense why you would be so afraid."
"Afraid? Hah, I don't fear anything," Briss said. "If my plan fails, I will simply stop and wait for the apocalypse to begin."
"So you will join the other side?" Ning asked. "Join the ones that are waiting for the world to end before it's their time to shine."
He wasn't very angry hearing that. "That simply means I have to stop it from ever getting to that point," Ning said. "With me stopping all the Tier 6 dungeons, there will never be one that will grow strong enough to turn into an actual portal. Do you still want to wait for that?"
Briss didn't answer for a few seconds, leaving the morning silence lingering for a while before Ning got an answer again.
"If that doesn't work out, I will simply go to another world. Your galaxy has plenty anyway," he said.
"Yeah, but not all of them have the apocalypse like ours, do they? The ones that do have some are orchestrated by other Constellations, which makes it impossible for you to go to that planet," Ning said. "Besides, I know how useless Constellations are. You only want to sit and reap benefits. This is way to late for you to start sowing for anything."
Briss didn't not answer again, but Ning could feel the anger from that thing. He wasn't intending to, but he had managed to rile up this Constellation enough so that he was actually angry towards Ning.
His anger became very apparent when he spoke again. "This is your last warning, if you don't stop what you are doing, I will group up with the others and kill you. You may have killed Stryxus using some means, I am willing to bet you cannot do the same again. At the very least, you can't do the same to multiple one of us at once."
Ning felt a pang of fear in his heart too. That was something he had been worried about. He had talked with his system and he had gotten some rather unfortunate answers.
The system was only capable of linking to one Will at a time. This meant that in a battle against multiple Wills, he could only kill them one at a time. And depending on the amount of Energy they had, the time varied.
Still, Ning had a card to play in this situation.
"Do you know what I will say to the humans when I help them understand Magic Circles?" Ning asked. "I will tell them that all of this stuff was taught to me by my 5 gods, the one you surely know I'm in an alliance with."
"With such recognition from the world, they would certainly like it a lot, and in return, they will fight alongside me if you ever team up with others to attack me," Ning said. "Also, even if you bring so many that I will certainly die, I will make sure to take you along with me. How does that sound? Still want to fight?"
Ning made sure to not let it be known that he was immortal. That was akin to telling the constellation that he was a host of the Energy system.
With how wanted that system was throughout the multiverse, he would immediately be taken and, figuratively and literally dissected to be learned from.
"This is your last warning," Briss said and then his aura vanished. Ning could no longer sense him at all.
He continued smiling for a few more seconds, but after realizing that Briss was truly not looking at him anymore, he finally dropped the act and frowned.
'This is bad,' he thought. He had been hoping to move under the Constellation's attention for a while so he could do the things he wanted to do, but it seemed he had brought himself directly in front of them.
The other 5 constellations weren't going to help him when war broke out against him, and he knew that. He only hoped the bluff would keep the others from acting rashly. Given how cowardly these wills were, he wasn't worried about that aspect.
"How much more energy until I can get uhh… two of them?" Ning asked his system.
<For both of them, it will cost you 1.3 Octillion more energy>
"And for all 3?" he asked
<All three require a total of 3.9 Octillion Energy>
"Damn souls make everything so expensive," Ning thought to himself. "I don't think we have the luxury to sit around anymore. I need to at least work towards one of it."
<You do have enough energy for one of it>
"Yeah, I might have to do that," Ning said. "Help me find a suitable one. Once we find it, I will leave."
