Gravis and the snake looked at each other. Meanwhile, all the other beasts waited for Gravis to speak up again. They noticed that Gravis was speaking with the snake but didn't know what they were talking about. Orthar also only watched.

Suddenly, Gravis smirked. "You sure are crafty. You nearly got me there," he transmitted.

The snake seemed to frown. "I'm not lying," it said.

"I know, and that's why you're so crafty. You're not lying. You're just not telling me all the relevant information," Gravis said with a smirk.

The snake narrowed its eyes, but it felt nervous inside.

"If I were a ruler over a vast territory, and one beast showed incredible power by killing my underlings, I wouldn't directly kill it," Gravis said. "I would first ask it to join my empire. If it declines, then I would kill it."

Gravis swam closer to the snake. "Doesn't that sound logical and efficient?" he asked.

The snake only narrowed its eyes at him. Yet, it was sure that it would survive. Gravis had already shown that he was interested in its cleverness and ambition. Gravis wanted to use it, which gave the snake worth in Gravis' eyes. Due to that, the snake had taken the risk of trying to manipulate Gravis.

Whoom!

And with that, the snake was unable to move.

"If you want to follow me, I need to trust you," Gravis said as he got closer. "I am already willing to give you the majority of command. I am interested in you because you don't want to remain weak and want to further your power. Only by being this greedy will you put in more effort than anybody else."

"Yet…"

CRRRRR! CRK!

The snake felt unreal pain as it felt something essential in its body getting yanked out. Suddenly, a bloody bone shot out of its mouth.

Seeing its own bone leaving its body, the snake became panicked. Its craftiness left it, and what replaced it were fear and terror.

more useless than a dumb rock," Gravis said as he looked

surrounding beasts were shocked as they watched. The snake was also a high-rank Spirit Beast, like them. The fact that this

Gravis said as he held the bone. "But if you

Whoop! CRRRRRK!

of the meat with his Spirit. Normally, his Spirit wouldn't be powerful enough to do that, but he had already prepared the corpse inside his Spirit Space. After all, there was an incredible amount of lightning inside his Spirit Space. Tearing some meat apart

finished his monologue as he took a bite off the exposed meat.

of a Lord apart. This strength

said after some seconds. "And I'm willing to follow

and retrieved his Will-Aura. "Good," he said. "As long as you don't scheme against me, I won't mind. You can even ask my friend over there," Gravis pointed at Orthar, "to teach you some interesting

colossal octopus swimming near Gravis. Initially, it had believed that

snake

you have a name?"

"Shira," the snake answered.

sound of it,

Shira nodded.

to talk to my friend for a bit. After that, we can talk about our land invasion," Gravis

things you didn't like?" Orthar said after seeing what Gravis had done. "What you

the truth of the world. Power is the most important thing, and if I wanted to kill her, all her craftiness wouldn't save her. If I didn't plan on using her, I wouldn't have done

said. "You're planning on using her? What's

sighed. "Let me first tell you what we talked about," Gravis said. Then, he quickly told Orthar about his conversation with

a dangerous game, Gravis," Orthar commented. "The wild ambitions and greed of the snake may turn the Horde against you. If

said, "but do

"No," Orthar answered quickly.

me. Leading something like a Horde will only keep you behind.

now, I'm unsure why you want to establish a Horde," Orthar commented. "By entering the lands as prey,

free," Gravis said. "By joining a more powerful organization, I'll need to abide by the rules and

does make sense," Orthar commented, "but what about the danger of Shira turning the Horde against you? Wouldn't

perfection, but as soon as someone breaks the rules, it loses most of its

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