Female Novel
Chapter 529
Gravis was a bit surprised that the Emperor personally escorted him to the Icy Pride Empire. Yet, his reasoning was rather solid.After all, Gravis had just killed an Inquisitor, and no average level five King would be able to keep him at bay if he decided tobetray the land beasts.
Gravis didn't have anything against the Emperor escorting them since he didn't decide to betray the land beasts anyway. He hadalready made his promise, and he would go through with it.
After everything had been dealt with, the Emperor led the squad towards the Icy Pride Empire. Due to the squad's relatively slowspeed, they took just as much time to return as they took to get here. Gravis and the Emperor could have finished the journey ina single day, but due to the others, the journey took several days.
While they were traveling, the Emperor noticed Gravis’ body healing. When he noticed that, the Emperor released a sigh of relief.It wasn't that he was worried about Gravis, but that it would have been too weird if Gravis' body was actually just a head. Howwould he even fight? Would he simply float over to someone and bite them?
While Gravis had still been a head, he tried to land several more of his jokes, but the other beasts never seemed to react. Thatwas, until a fateful day when one member of the squad informed Gravis of something important.
They all understood his jokes, but they just didn't react to them since the jokes were so bad. Gravis was thoroughly shockedwhen he heard that. Yet, Gravis decided to accommodate their poor sense of humor and didn't try to land more jokes. This wholesituation was like playing the flute for a herd of swine. They just couldn't appreciate the talent and beauty of his jokes!
On their travels, Gravis also snagged an ore vein that had appeared along their path. This ore vein was, of course, a vein ofpeak Nascent Nourishing Rank materials. By forging this ore into weapons and armor, no level five King should be able todestroy it.
Yet, when Gravis thought that, he started to become uncertain. ‘By hardening this ore, it should be a whole level higher than alevel five King. Only something like the all-out attack of a Divine Beast should be able to destroy it.’
‘At least, that's how it's supposed to be,’ Gravis thought with furrowed brows. ‘The attacks of the Inquisitor had been so powerfulthat one of his spires would probably still destroy around two of my new shields. Just one of these spires had been as powerfulas an all-out attack by a level five Divine Beast King. He really had been a terrifying foe.’
Gravis decided to reevaluate the actual strength of his equipment. Such insanely powerful beasts as the Inquisitor surely wouldbecome more prominent as Gravis became more powerful.
Yet, if that were truly the case, why would such a classification for equipment still be prevalent in the highest world? The highestworld had beings many, many times more powerful than the most powerful being in this world, but the classification still held up.
‘Maybe it's the Law Comprehension materials?’ Gravis thought. ‘It could be that their quality rises explosively when the materialreaches that Realm. Eh, who cares? | need to be a level five King either way to forge such equipment.’
As they continued their journey, Gravis transformed all of the ore into more equipment for himself. Sadly, since he had becomemuch bigger, he couldn't create as many sets as he wanted.
"How much ore would | even need when I'm a level five King? | would be over a kilometer tall then! What when | become anEmperor?’ Gravis thought but then shook his head again, confusing the squad as they noticed his weird actions. ‘Let's deal with itwhen the time comes."
The journey was uneventful. No Empire they passed through along the way stopped them. After all, a Leader of an Empire wasleading the group.
Yet, the group still had to make some turns to evade some territories. Gravis remembered that they were not always flying in astraight line, and he actually didn't know why they did that. So, he decided to ask the Emperor.
"Those are private territories," the Emperor answered."What's that?" Gravis asked.
The Emperor was a bit confused that Gravis didn't know about that. How was it possible that a level three King didn't knowsomething as basic as that?
“Not every beast wants to create an Empire or become part of the war. Some outstanding Emperors decide that they wouldrather not involve themselves with the Empires and simply live in their private territories. The territories are not very large sinceonly these Emperors live in them, but they are still there. If we pass over their territory, they might very well decide to kill us," theEmperor explained.
This all made a lot of sense to Gravis. "And since they have the power to claim such territories while surrounded by Empiresmeans that they are powerful, right?" Gravis asked.
The Emperor nodded. "Yes. Even the weakest has the power of a level two Emperor. These private territories also exist for Kingsand Lords, but obviously, they don't have the power to claim a private territory that close to the core of the continent."
“How do these Emperors become more powerful?” Gravis asked. "After all, since no one dares to invade them, they wouldn'thave any other beasts to kill."
"They submit an application for tempering," the Emperor explained. "All Emperors want food very badly since it's difficult to findan enemy Emperor in battle. As soon as such an Emperor submits an application for tempering, the Emperors in the surroundingEmpires get asked if they are interested in fighting them."
“After every Emperor has been asked, a list with the interested ones will be sent to the Emperor in the private territory. ThatEmperor then chooses one of the Emperors, and they fight to the death," the Emperor explained.
"Interesting," Gravis commented. "I'm guessing that the sea beasts don't have such Emperors with private territories?" he asked.The eyebrows of the Emperor lifted in surprise as he looked at Gravis. "How did you know?"
“Well, their territory is way smaller than ours. Due to the size of their territories, they have probably a lower number of powerfulbeasts, which requires them to use all powerful beasts more efficiently," Gravis explained.
The Emperor nodded. "Yes, that's exactly the case, but that only counts for Emperors.""Only for Emperors?" Gravis asked."Yes. The number of sea beasts varies greatly with every increase in Realm," the Emperor explained.
Gravis thought about this for a bit and realized what the Emperor was getting at. "I think | get it," Gravis said. "The ocean is vast,and the sea beasts probably have many times more beasts below the Lord Realm than the land beasts."
“Not only that," the Emperor interjected. "They also have many more Lords than us. In regards to Kings, they have about asmany as us, but when it comes to Emperors, we have around double their number."
Gravis thought some more about thissituation and realized something. "So,even though the spategsierereshown inoredible p ogress andcountless victories in the last tenyears, all in all, the powerful elite ofus land beasts don't care about theirvictories, right?" The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
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The Emperor smirked. "Exactly. Lordsand Kings might die and have their
territories Oe‘ pereeors Wotldis safe. If thesea beasts ever manage to threatenthe core of the world, the fiveUltimates will get involved," theEmperor explained. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Gravis hadn't heard that word before. "Ultimates? Judging by the name, the Ultimates are probably level five Emperors, right?"
The Emperor chuckled a bit. "Exactly. We have five Ultimates, while the sea beasts only have two. To be quite frank, usEmperors are actually happy about the recent victories of the sea beasts."
Gravis' eyes shone with recognition. "Because if the sea beasts get more territory, they can make more Kings, and with moreKings come more Emperors. With that, there will be more food available for you."
The Emperor chuckled some more. "Exactly."
"That also explains why our Ultimatesdon't attack their Ultimates," Gravissaid while scratching (3 ctr! 'thoyghNifve Kill the Ultimates rightnow, the area of the sea beasts mightshrink considerably, making it harderfor more Ultimates to rise." Thecontent is on NovelDrama.Org! Readthe latest chapter there!
The Emperor only nodded with a smirk.'It's like rearing pigs,’ Gravis thought.
After this conversation, Gravis had no more questions, and everyone returned to fly in silence. Nothing else happened along thejourney, and before they knew it, they had arrived at the border of the Icy Pride Empire.