Female Novel
Chapter 589
Gravis was happy that he could finally talk to Orthar again. Orthar had been his first friend in this world, and he still rememberedhow alone he had felt when Orthar and Silva had left. Back then, he had felt quite lonely again since he hadn't had any otherfriends or comrades.
Of course, ever since then, he had managed to make a lot of new friends. Azure, Styr, Ferris, and Meadow were all beings thatGravis counted as his friends. Additionally, he also had three wonderful children now.
"You have lived quite a high-profile life, Orthar," Gravis said. "I've seen your influence basically everywhere."
"The warfare amongst beast is simple, crude, and inefficient regarding the greater collective," Orthar answered. "Proving theeffectiveness of my strategies was easy and had little noteworthy opposition, except for the Light Ultimate."
Gravis chuckled a bit. "Makes sense. After all, for beasts, an individual's power has the same importance as the greatercollective's goal."
"Different strategies have their appropriate times to be used," Orthar said. "The sea beasts were outnumbered and still managedto survive due to them being valuable to the land beasts. However, betting their survival on the fact that this situation mightcontinue is foolish. Therefore, following the traditional strategy is more akin to stagnation than progress."
Orthar had always talked very logically and absent of emotion, which was something that Gravis quite enjoyed. It felt good tohear him talk again. "So, tell me. What happened after we parted ways?" Gravis asked with interest.novelbin
Right now, Gravis sat on the floor with Orthar standing or sitting in front of him. It was hard to judge if an octopus was sitting orstanding.
“After the River Tribe split up, | have taken most of the sea beasts to the ocean outside the continent. | still remembered the mapyou have shown me of this world, so | knew that there should be a part of the ocean stretching into the continent. | led the groupto that stretch," Orthar said.
“We met heavy opposition from the Tribes when we arrived, but that was only a minor hindrance. The power of the members ofthe River Tribe was beyond any Tribe we met, which allowed us to create a stable foothold.”
"My Tribe rapidly expanded, and | became more powerful along with it. This had gone on for five years until | was leading a levelfour Tribe. We wanted to expand further into the continent, but we met a powerful roadblock."
"Oh? Tell me," Gravis said, excited to hear about Orthar's story.
Orthar turned to the direction of the sea inside the Life Ring. "Access to the deeper regions of the ocean had been blocked by anassociation comprised of several level five Lords and their Tribes. No new Tribe was allowed to expand inward. The only way totravel in further was to split up the Tribe so that the level five Tribes could assimilate my Tribe."
"Interesting," Gravis said as he scratched his chin. "Such a far-reaching roadblock couldn't have happened if the Kingdoms orEmpires didn't allow it. However, | can see the advantage of such a roadblock."
Gravis also looked at the sea in the Life Ring. "The association was probably controlled by one or more Kingdoms. After splittingthe Tribes up into individual beasts, they would get a lot of new members. | expect that this roadblock mainly existed to get Lordsto live in the contested territories.”
"Correct," Orthar said. "Back then, | required level five Lords for tempering, but if | attacked one of them, the other level fiveLords would join the fight. | had the ability to take on two, maybe three, but there were over 20. Attacking would have beensuicide."
“But when attacking doesn't solve the issue, other tools are required. | ordered my Tribe to wait and left it. Joining one of theTribes wasn't an issue with my power, and as soon as | had secured my spot, | challenged the Tribe Leader and killed her."
"| took her position as the Tribe Leader and joined the association. Then, | fused my old Tribe with my new one and created aTribe more powerful than the other Tribes."
"When the association noticed, they sent three of the level five Lords to force me to hand over 80% of my forces. Of course, all ofthis was within my calculations. They didn't have the freedom to send many members to negotiate with me. Sending two Lordswould have already been enough in their eyes, but three also made not much of a difference."
“After a long and dangerous fight, | managed to comprehend a second level one Law and managed to emerge victoriously. Byconsuming the level five Lords, | have also become a level five Lord myself. With my newfound power, the association posed nodanger anymore."
"| invaded the other Tribes, killed half of the level five Lords, and forced the others into servitude. Then, | abandoned 90% of myterritories to keep the Tribe as small as possible. Making the Tribe too big would attract Kings."
Orthar had chosen a different path to Gravis. Back then, Gravis had let his Tribe attack anything wildly, while Orthar kepteverything under control and only attacked appropriate enemies.
There were a lot more difficult situations and complicated wars that Orthar told Gravis about. With Orthar's knowledge aboutadvanced warfare, he was winning every war. Yet, there was something that Gravis was a bit confused about.
"Why did you decide to win the battle instead of tempering your members?" Gravis asked.
"Their Battle-Strength doesn't concern me," Orthar answered. "The Tribe was a tool to increase my own power. The numbersand Realm of my servants took higher priority to their Battle-Strength."
Gravis lifted an eyebrow. "There surely have been members that realized that you were basically forcing them into mediocrity.Inexperienced beasts don't know the negative effect that only fighting against weak opponents has. Yet, your Tribe should havebeen already powerful enough that a significant number of beasts should have realized that."
“Every member that realized the danger was sent on a suicide mission or was disposed of discreetly," Orthar answered evenly.Gravis blinked a couple of times. "Including the previous members of the River Tribe?" he asked."| killed all previous members of the River Tribe before | even met the association,” Orthar answered directly.
Gravis took a deep breath and released it. "Why?"
"| had had this plan before | even reached the ocean, and they were a danger to my plan. Dangers must be dealt withimmediately," Orthar said.
Gravis looked at the sky. He stillremembered a lot of members fromthe River Tribe. He hadnyt bedA veryofose tdNnehy but such an end wastruly sad. Yet, Gravis alsoremembered that Orthar had alwaysbeen like this. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
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Gravis was not a fan of sacrificing comrades for his power at all. He had always given the River Tribe the freedom to choosetheir opponents and to become powerful.
In comparison, Orthar was a cold and logical machine. Yet, Gravis still considered him a friend, even if he disagreedwholeheartedly with Orthar's morals and ideals.
"So, what happened then?" Gravis asked, but his interest had been dampened by Orthar's display of ruthlessness.
"One year later, a level one Kingappeared to deal with the Tribe. |couldn't flee, so | as forced td figkeverything This had been the mostperilous fight in my life, and | onlymanaged to win after understandinga third level one Law." The content ison NovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
“After consuming the corpse, | realized that my evolution didn't happen. This corpse should have been more than enough for meto become a King, but my evolution just didn't occur.""The mandatory procreation," Gravis interjected.
"Correct. | hadn't come in contact with Kings before, which was why | didn't know about it. The inability to become a level oneKing forced me to re-evaluate my plan. So, | fled my Tribe and left it to die."
"Yet, two weeks later, a level three King found me. That's when my whole life changed."