Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis looked at the map, and as soon as he did, he was glad that he came back for it. If he had continued south, he wouldn't have reached the beasts' territory.

The map was very crude and not detailed at all, but it showed the positions of all the Peak Sects and the beasts' territory. However, that was it. There were no villages, cities, areas of interest or anything like that. It only showed these six things.

The five Peak Sects were placed all around the world, about the same distance between each one of them, except for one.

In the middle of the world was a gigantic forest, which was basically entirely blanked out. It took up around 20% of the map.

This was the beasts' territory.

The entire core of the map was nothing but beast territory. However, only 20% of the world belonged to the beast. Gravis had known that the humans probably had more territory than the beasts, but not by so much. There were probably many times more humans than beasts in this world.

The world was split into five regions. As previously stated, the core of the world was one region, and it belonged to the beasts. The other four regions were north, east, south, and west of the beasts' territories.

How were these areas split?

By gigantic rivers!

20% of the world belonged to the beast, but 10% of the world was also filled with water. There were four rivers coming out of the beasts' territory, which stretched across the entire map. These four rivers took up 10% of the entire map.

From the position of the beasts' territory, the rivers were at the northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast.

However, the rivers didn't perfectly leave at one corner and exit the map on a corner.

In actuality, the rivers were curved.

For example, the northwestern river came out of the northwestern corner of the beasts' territory, but as soon as it left the beasts' territory, it made a curve towards the west. It basically went from northwest to north-north-west and then to just directly west.

The northeastern river did the same thing, but it went more towards the east instead.

The same thing was mirrored with the southern rivers. They also stretched more towards the east and the west, respectively.

This meant that the five territories of the world didn't have the same size. Due to the rivers' curvature, the northern and southern territories were far bigger than the eastern and western territories. In fact, the northern territory was about 2.5 times the size of the western territory, for example.

The eastern and western territories had about the same size, same with the northern and southern territories.

So, to put the distribution of size into numbers.

belonged to the beasts in

belonged to the

world belonged

of the world belonged to

world belonged

of the world belonged

how does one distribute five Peak Sects across

that, two Sects shared the northern territory, while every other region had one

Elements Sect, and Gravis was currently

of the northern territory belonged to the All-Matter Sect. These two Sects shared the northern territory

though they shared one territory, their territory was still larger than the territories of the Peak Sects that owned the

that, he would have entered the territory of the Primordial Force Sect. Additionally, Gravis had been heading towards the core of

was glad that he had returned

territory belonged

Sect and Purist Sect were cut off from others. It was like they were on

cut off

in the southern

entire 25% of the southern world belonged entirely to the Life

was sure that it wasn't that simple. There was probably more to

beasts in this world, which meant that the gigantic rivers were also a massive danger for humans. Calling them rivers made them seem small, but one had to remember that these rivers

that the rivers had to be added to the Sects'

the northern rivers, but the Nine Elements Sect and the All-Matter

overwhelmed with their massive area. Taking care of the southern rivers would put a strain on

The Life Sect already needed to fully withstand the beasts' assault on a major territory on their own. They

the Life Sect was probably the most endangered Peak Sect. The northern territories had two Sects that probably worked closely together. The Laws of the Elements and the Laws of Matter were intrinsically connected. Understanding one of them helped with understanding the other. Additionally, both categories represented dead stuff that

northern territory was probably the safest territory

enough for each. Gravis had already heard about the ideology of the Purist Sect, which made him guess

dealt with their portion of assaults, which was the eastern front of the land beasts, southern front of sea beasts, and northern front of sea beats. Gravis even guessed that the Purist Sect probably claimed the entire southeastern river as their territory, allowing nearly

the Primordial Force Sect probably had close connections with the Nine Elements Sect to their north and the Life Sect to their south. However, this was a completely blind guess based on the map. Gravis had never come into contact with anyone

were probably also rather secure. Maybe not as much as the northern territory, but still quite

the southern territory

on Life and healing owned and defended an entire 25% of the

a

the body,' Gravis thought. 'I shouldn't immediately assign the status of healer to everyone from the Life Sect. They probably also have

a lot about the world from simply a single picture. Additionally, he now knew where he

had to go