Chapter 20: Chapter 19: Giving in to Greed
Greed Ring, in one of the most opulent palaces in the most prosperous yet most poverty stricken city, a large man dressed as a clown turned towards the door.
"Finally! I've been waiting… hours! For you!"
The clown man, a being feared in the whole of the Greed ring, one of the sins, the Lord of Greed Mammon spoke arrogantly as he stared daggers at the visitor. A person who should not have arrived here and yet- here he was strolling into his palace like he owned the place.
Alesandrei Angelique Engel, otherwise known as Diabolos- the newest overlord who stole a Geotic Title.
"Aww quite your bitching, I'm a couple minutes late, the missus was begging for my dick, had to show her who's boss by filling her daughter up and shoving her aside"
"Urk, another Goetia? Who's getting cucked this time? Oooh! Tell me it's Paimon! I wanna see that bird bastard get cucked!"
Seeing the clown get all excited over his own ideas made Alan sigh-
"Done that multiple times already- do you have any idea how many wives Paimon has?"
The clown paused, stared at Alan in confusion as he asked, "how many?"
Alan smirked, "More than you".
silencio~
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"YOU BASTARD!"
Mammon exploded in rage, he multiplied in size and looked down on Alan as he threatened the sinner.
"YOU DARE TO MAKE A JOKE OUT OF ME?! FOR FREE?!"
Alan wasn't disturbed, he wasn't scared nor did he care about the transformation of Mammon as he responded with a smirk.
Multicolored flames lit up around Alan, his eyes opened wide his gaze staring back the Sin.
Sinner and Sin stared at each other, their gazes threatening the other.
Dare to make a move?
DO IT!
TRY IT!
The two were waiting, testing each others patience as they both erupted with a crazy amount of demonic energy.
Demons who were unfortunately near the site had all turned to dust yet the two monsters didn't care about them. They simply continued their showdown, the raging green flames covered in thick arcs of green lightning raged behind Mammon.
Meanwhile, multiple colored flames swirled behind Alan, the flames brought about a variety of changes to their surroundings, some destroyed, others created, some multiplied others froze-
Mammon showed destruction, Alan- madness and chaos.
The demons that were affected by Mammon were blown away, covered in cuts and bruises if lucky, turned into meat paste if not.
On the other hand, the demons that were caught up in Alan's show of force were suffering, they were not immediately killed. Some were encased in ice, others petrified, some were slowly burned, others were melted slowly like acid. The luckiest were turned to dust by scarlet flames…
Ignoring the cries of the "innocent" demons around them, the two continued to flare their powers. The Greed Ring trembled at the raging power of the two.
Mammon IS a Sin, he would not give in to a Sinner but-
"OKAY OKAY- STOOOP!"
He could ignore the suffering of the demons, he'd laugh off the thousands of deaths that his clash with Alan would cause but-
When he saw the burning pile of cash his heart broke.
It was one thing for the clash to cause him a loss of slaves- it was a whole other thing for him to lose money!
The imps and all the other demons could reproduce endlessly, who cared about their lives? But money? That could also be produced endlessly but it was more important than some "lives".
So what if he gave up?
The bitchhound was bending over backwards and letting the kid pound her like she was his bitch! Levi was seen sucking him off in a club and Belphegor- she drugged herself just to enter his tower in Pride and she only left after a week!
Safe to say, he wasn't the first Sin to give in.
Especially since the sinner had power that could threaten the precious things (money) he owns!
Even Satan turned a blind eye to the kid's rampant act of going to every ring and fucking every single hot demon he saw!
Asmodeus even complimented his noncommittal and indiscriminate acts of lust, so much so that he gave the kid an Asmodean Crystal!
Lucifer even allowed the Sinner to return to earth- as a demon but still!
The kid spent what? Six months in hell and now he was moving around like he owned the place?
Mammon could easily kill the kid (probably) but that would come at a cost (money)! And the kid was not worth that kind of cost-
As such, the Sin of Greed decided to, just like his fellow overlords, give up and just let the kid do as he pleases. Moreover, it wasn't like Alan was here to steal his property-
'Yeah! The kid's here for business!'
Mammon recalled the reason the kid was here, he wanted to offer Mammon a deal. It had something to do with the flame jewels.
'The kid wants some of my clowns, in exchange I get a steady supply of flame Jewels for free!'
Recalling the price at which the flame jewels were sold, Mammon had already long decided to take the deal. All the kid wanted was to get 5 clowns yearly, out of the trashpile of losers who failed in his selection for the next "exploit".
'Yeah, the kid gets trash and I get treasure!'
Thinking about it, Mammon calmed his heart down, he returned to his normal form and with a snap, the manor that was in ruins was quickly fixed. Although the dead demons are still dead, those lower class were of no consequence to Mammon.
"Jewel's for tra-talent huh? I don't mind, we could finish that deal"
Mammon said apathetically to which Alan revealed a smile as he extended his hand-
"So it's a deal then?"
His words were accompanied by shadows dancing about, his whole figure was covered in darkness as his hand waited for Mammon to grab it-
"No no no no, making deals with Sinners is something Sin can't make. Even non-soul deals would give you too much power so no!"
Hearing the response of the Sin, Alan did not look saddened, maintaining his smile, Alan snapped and a black flame erupted above his hand. It quickly dissipated revealing a contract.
"Regular Contract it is"
"Yes, that's more like it!"
Mammon then proceeded to carefully read the contract, commenting on a few things, changing up a few lines and even debating with Alan about some clauses.
Despite his goofy and stupid behaviour, Mammon was surprisingly thorough in dealing with contracts.
But- what else do you expect from a monster at making the most money out the smallest of matters.
The two quickly finished their deal after hours of endless debate and rewriting of the contract.
After Mammon signed the damn pile of papers, Alan turned to leave but not before the Sin of Greed said-
"Next time try to make your actions more subtle, your traps were obvious, some were well hidden but not from me! Don't get down though kid, you have talent, in a few hundred years you might be able to fool me for a little longer! Hahaha!"
Hearing Mammon's words, Alan smiled as he turned towards the sin.
"Yes, unfortunately I need to go, the timers are almost up!"
As he said those words Alan vanished into a pillar of black flames but his words stuck to Mammon-
"The timers up? What does that-"
As he thought about it, the memories of the contract popped up in his mind. Everything slowed down and Mammon quickly realized the mistake. He thought he was perfecting the contract to make himself win but-
[the flame jewels proceeds would all fall to the hands of Mammon (authorized distributor)]
[Authorized Distributor - an entity who is allowed to sell the products defined in the contract]
"DIABOLOS!!!"
It was two lines, out of the hundreds of pages, two lines was all it took to beat Mammon.
One that defined Mammon as an authorized distributor and the other a definition of what an authorized distributor was.
It went over Mammon's head, somehow he missed the part that he had been limited to only selling the products.
Normally one would not see a problem in this but to Mammon, it was basically a hard limit to how much money he could make!
As a distributor he could only get the products and sell them as is, he could not transform them into anything else.
The worst part was that the Flame jewel was not a product he could mess with. It was a dangerous item that could harm the Geotia nobles so there were various restrictions placed upon its sale. If those restrictions were paired with his authorization as a mere distributor…
"FUCK!"
Of course he could just ignore the laws, he was one of the Sin's for crying out loud! But the people who would go after his ass if he did commit the crime were not the low class idiots but his fellow sins and even the damned fallen angel!
The Flame jewels were that important of an item! In fact, if he looked at it closely-
"HE MADE ME A FUCKING SLAVE!"
Mammon got the opportunity to sell the jewels at any price he wanted, but- he did not control its supply completely. He would only receive a constant amount yearly, an equivalent exchange with the amount of trash Alan takes from him.
But if he looked at the matter from Alan's perspective-
The sinner was not a competitor of Mammon, heck, the market where his Jewels were selling was still limited to the Pride ring.
Most of the jewels that trickled down to other rings came from hellborne demons who bought it at Pride and resold it elsewhere at a greater markup!
Mammon was being used to create competition for the scalpers and resellers-
When he realized that he was fooled Mammon wanted to chase after Alan but-
"FUCKING BIRDMAN!"
He cursed as he realized that his hands were tied and he could only do his best to sell the goods-
"Fuck, let those bastards do the selling, if he scams me then I scam others a hundred times to balance it all out!"
Envy Ring, in another opulent palace, Alan was talking with a two headed Sin-
"So that's how I made Mammon into my corporate slave"
The two headed demoness laughed, "That prick deserves it, all he knows is how to eat and do nothing while all his money comes to him just because! Working hard for money is something he needs to learn how to do"
The right head said as she let out a puff of smoke.
"As much as I would like to defend him, Mammon's been quite loud lately, he's had many of my people move to his ring and work. They don't even work for me!"
Hearing their words, Alan took out a similar contract as he said-
"Well, how about giving your people a job they could not refuse? I don't mind giving you both a deal related to the flame jewels. Moreover, I'll make you both franchisee's? You get more control and more say in how you sell and market the jewels. You could embed them in rings, turn them into weapons… you can make many jobs which would bring back your people!"
"Sounds a bit too sketch"
"It's better cuz I'm asking for something only you can offer~"
Alan showed the exchange, unlike Mammon who gave him "talent", the offer with Leviathan, the Sin of Envy was really something "only she" could give.
Seeing the smirk on Alan's face, the twin headed demoness laughed as they signed the contract before proceeding to pounce on Alan like a hungry beast.
Wrath ring, in the palace of Satan, the Sin of Wrath and the lord of the Wrath Ring-
Alan and Wrath were inside the Sin's gym, Alan was spotting the huge draconic Sin when he suddenly smirked.
"What happened?"
Wrath asked as he dropped the weights causing a localized hellquake.
Alan looked up at Wrath, he gave the Sin Demon a wide smile as he answered-
"Gluttony's placated, Envy and Greed are gonna start playing their economic games, the Goetia are on their way to having a structural change in representation in court- Everything's fitting into place, in a few months, the whole court of hell will be yours to rule"
Hearing Alan's response, Wrath grinned as he let out a hearty laugh!
"HA! Finally! That angel's system would be his own undoing! Giving power to the useless rabble? Now that the other sins are occupied and the Goetia are in my hands- HELL WILL BE UNDER MY COMPLETE CONTROL! My Brother! Celebrate with me! This is OUR Victory!"
Alan smiled as he joined Wrath in the heavy metal party that he started.
Back in the Pride Ring, Verosika layed on Alan's (main body) chest, unlike the other times she was not passed out from sex. She was still very much sane and awake as she cuddled in her lovers embrace.
She enjoyed the warmth and comfort he gave her when he suddenly smirked.
"Did something fun happen?"
She asked to which Alan replied, "You sure it's not a girl?"
Rolling her eyes Verosika replied, "That's your "all according to plan" look, so? What happened?"
Hearing Verosika's reply, Alan smiled as he was happy that his training had paid off. Verosika may not be strong, she may not be able to match a Sin demon or even a Goetia but-
Her ability to see through his expressions translated to her day to day life.
Unknown to Verosika, she had developed an extreme sense of emotional perception. Unlike other succubi who could only sense lust and other related feelings, Verosika could sense the whole spectrum of emotion if she so wanted.
'Now, all it takes is one little push'
Alan thought as he embraced the little succubi tighter-
"You don't need to worry about it, all you need to know is everything's falling into place"
"Mm-hm~"