Lightning Is the Only Way

A couple of days passed.

By now, the River Tribe had been in existence for slightly more than two weeks. Yet, in these two weeks, it went from a Tribe with no Lord to a powerful hegemon that devastated the surrounding thousands of kilometers.

Huge swathes of land were empty of any powerful beasts. Yet, weaker beasts that were usually ignored thrived.

Where did the weaker beasts come from?

Every Tribe left the weaker beasts alone. After all, eating them wouldn't increase the Tribe's power at all. Because of that, it was like there were two separate worlds. It was very similar to the world of cultivation and the mortals in the lower worlds.

The weaker beasts just lived with each other. Occasionally, they would notice a mighty beast pass them. Yet, these beasts would only ignore them. Sometimes, the weak beasts would also hear and see these powerful beasts fighting. Yet, these mighty beasts never interacted with the weaker beasts.

Only when a beast became a Spirit Beast would it be noticed by the Tribe. Basically 100% of the continent was occupied by Tribes, Kingdoms, and Empires. These weak beasts just didn't know about this. Because of that, every weaker beast was living inside the territory of an organization without their knowledge.

Yet, when strong beings fought, the weak would suffer. Due to that, there were still a lot of casualties among the weaker beasts. After all, who cared about them?

Because of the vast empty lands without any Tribes, these beasts thrived. No more fighting appeared around them. Sadly, these beasts were too stupid to realize the change. Even if they were smarter, they still wouldn't know the concept of a Tribe. To them, it just appeared like all the strong beasts had vanished.

Yet, what had the Lords of the River Tribe done in that time? How many Tribes had they killed?

In these couple of days, most Lords only killed a single Tribe. On top of that, three Lords from the River Tribe died in these fights. These fights were not without danger, after all. Ironically, due to that, the River Tribe had even fewer Lords than before.

These couple of days were too short for the recruits to reach the power of a Lord. Therefore, no new Lord had appeared inside the River Tribe. Yet, the surviving Lords had become more powerful, even though their level or Rank didn't increase.

As said before, most Lords only killed one Tribe in this short amount of time. After all, they needed to heal themselves, digest the prey, and think about their fights. Starting at the Unity Realm, there were no stupid beasts anymore. Therefore, they also reflected on their fights and what they could have done better.

were Morn, Orthar, and the panther from the Land Camp, who had made a name for himself inside

already left to kill a third Lord. This beast was

suspicious absence of Shira. Normally, she should have appeared at

but this single thing made a lump form inside Silva's

what Gravis' guidance had done for him and the Land Camp. If Shira followed Gravis' guidance, it

it often happened that they knew their opponent better than even themselves. Shira and Silva had noticed the other's weaknesses and tried to use these weaknesses

Shira wouldn't be able to make the Sea Camp rise by itself.

Camp appeared, the Land Camp would directly kill them. Therefore, there was only one

became powerful enough to directly kill Silva. Without Silva, the Land Camp would fall to Shira's machinations in due time. When Silva noticed this, he immediately decided that

killed three Lords. His third fight had been the most difficult by far. The Lord from that Tribe didn't only have above-average Battle-Strength,

as the Lord died, the other beasts stopped attacking him out of fear. Even though Silva had been on the

and healing, Silva noticed that his Battle-Strength was more powerful than he had thought. A couple of days ago, he would have firmly believed that he wouldn't be able to

he returned to

piece of shocking news reached him as soon

and not only that. She had immediately killed two of his Lords. The first one had average power in relation to the River Tribe's standards, but the second one

Shira had killed was the panther. Silva considered this panther as the most powerful beast inside the Land Camp. The fact that Shira had killed him shocked Silva immensely. He had also estimated that the panther had

such devastating things often happened suddenly. On top of that, Shira had

fights left until I become a level two Lord," she had said. "Any Lord from the Land Camp that kills one of my Lords will have to fight

rage exploded. Shira was easily powerful enough to become a level two Lord, but instead, she

needed to kill Shira. Yet, no beast inside the Land Camp was powerful enough to kill her,

beast fought without eating the carcass, it would constitute as mindless slaughter, and Gravis didn't like that. The beasts better eat

Shira would be forced to eat her enemies unless she wanted to go against Gravis. Of course, Silva knew that Shira wouldn't want

she wouldn't be able to challenge level one Lords anymore. This would force her to look on

On top of that, the road to