Monument of Greed

The Monument of Greed was one of the original Monuments that existed in the void, representing Greed. The Monument of Greed acts as a central Antagonist for most of Monument 1 and gains several Apostles in following entries. It is initially defeated by Iso in Monument 1 and later the spirits of the dead are called upon in Monument 3 to kill its Apostle; Daemon who contracts with him to escape the Void. The Monument of Greed doesn't feature as a major antagonist for some time after this but has a litany of failed Apostles and is mentioned to still be a Voidal presence in Monument 5 . Since Monument 11; Reverie Under a Violet Blanket, the Monument of Greed hasn't been mentioned though it is thought that it might return after the ending of Monument 14 and the birth of the Proto-Monument.

The Monument of Greed was primarily focused on escaping the Void through Apostles and enticing Humans to weaken the Void Barrier as seen in Monument 1 . In Monument 3, as it had previously died and lost a large amount of power it was able to form a contract with an Apostle in a fairly good control ratio.

## Appearance

The Monument of Greed appears as a gigantic black figure with four extremely long limbs that appear almost metallic in nature. The Monument of Greed is very tall and spindly with a rattan poncho-style fabric of grey colouration acting as its only clothing, hiding its torso and upper halves of its legs and arms. Its head appears not unlike a giant three pronged shield with a single gigantic green eye that appears rather as a glowing drawing of an eye rather than an actual eyeball, as well as its mouth filled with sharp metallic teeth and a guillotine-like jaw.

The true height and weight of the Monument of Greed is unknown; in Monument Chapter 2 when it tries to pull itself into the gymnasium, its body takes up at least half of the room whereas in the finale and other instances of visiting the Monument of Greed in the void, its body is considerably larger, at least as big as the school itself. As it always crawls, its true standing height is unknown.

## Personality

As is to be expected, the Monument of Greed is a monument to its emotion: Greed. The Monument of Greed is incredibly self-centred and possessive, believing that nothing else matters except from itself and things can only exist if they serve a purpose to it; i.e. it wants them. Despite this greedy personality, the Monument of Greed is very conniving and strategic, playing multiple people, parties and other Monuments in order to get exactly what it wants; Total domain over the realms of the Void and Earth. To this end, the Monument of Greed plays on people's sense of self rather than avarice or greed alone, appealing to what they personally want, often disregarding others for it and offering contracts (With other Void entities) and future promises in return for servitude. Monument of Greed has appealed to the following when manipulating people; Vengeance, Power, Control, Confidence and even Fear.

It seemed to enjoy its time with its Apostle in Monument 3 despite the fact that it refused to share its power with anyone throughout Monument 1, the story with easily the most Apostles within it. Daemon and The Monument of Greed shared goals of violent removal of all obstacles in their way and an overpowering Greed with Daemon stealing other people's contracts and controlling them with Monument of Greed. An Apostle is often someone who shows a great deal of the emotion they are championing before contracting so the two are incredibly similar though it is unknown if one or both parties intended to betray one another in the end given the nature of the Greed Emotion.

## Plot

### Monument 1

In Monument 1, Monument of Greed plans to use the weakening of the Void - Earth barrier to pull itself into the material world and take dominion over it. It is unknown what kinds of rules and decrees it would make but given its heartless and treacherous attitudes towards its own kind as well as Humans, it goes without saying that it would have been very bad for Humanity.

The Monument of Greed exploits one of the widest tears in the Void in Chapter 2 attempting to pull itself into the gymnasium yet it cannot fully move itself through. This is more a matter of voidal mass rather than physical mass. Iso and the protagonists of Monument witness this event and Iso fights back against the weaker void entities that The Monument of Greed unleashes on them during the event. It taunts Iso with familiar language hinting at a previous relationship between the two, likely a distant and antagonistic one though not entirely unlikely due to Iso's own Contract.

The Monument of Greed maintains this goal throughout Monument 1, manipulating and killing several of its allied Monuments in Acts 2 and 3 and employing several Contractors to thwart the efforts of Iso and her team along the way. The Monument of Greed's presence is mostly background or takes place in the Void for a majority of Monument 1. In the finale, Iso and her companions face off against The Monument of Greed in the Void and mange to kill it, foiling its plans and setting it back from its point of power as seen in Monument 1 for a good few decades if not centuries.

### Monument 3

The Monument of Greed is only sometimes mentioned in Monument 2 and doesn't make a full return until Monument 3 wherein the departed from Monument 1 and 2 arrive in limbo to discover an upset of Void Contracts occurring in the transitional places of life and afterlife which is a notoriously much weaker boundary between the Void and Earth than the Void and Earth ever had with one another.

Though it isn't revealed until later, one of the departed, a Man called Daemon managed to form an Apostle Contract with The Monument of Greed and was using it to harvest other Contract abilities and add them to his own repertoire in order to return to the material world. The Monument of Greed doesn't speak much in its weakened post-death form though it and Daemon share many of the same beliefs and attitudes so it is likely that it would agree with most of what Daemon says and does throughout Monument 3.

The Monument of Greed and Daemon are defeated at the end of Monument 3 with a combination of Supermassive Black Hole's ability and Peper Steak's ability as well as the sacrifice of many of the departed. The duo take down many of the protagonists but are ultimately unable to stop their death due to their overconfidence.