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.

of the world belonged to the

belonged to the water

of the world belonged

world belonged to the

the world belonged

belonged to the western

the question was, how does one distribute five Peak Sects across

territory evenly was impossible. Because of that, two Sects shared the northern territory,

the northern territory belonged to the Nine Elements Sect, and Gravis was currently even further to the

All-Matter Sect. These two Sects shared the northern territory since it was

than the territories of the Peak Sects that owned the eastern and

If Gravis had continued to travel south, he would have arrived at the gigantic river. After that, he would have entered the territory of the Primordial Force

that he had returned

territory belonged

the map, he somehow felt that the Primordial Force Sect and Purist Sect were cut off

cut

was in the southern

the southern world belonged

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

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 were absolutely gigantic. One river was already many times

that the rivers had to be added to the

with the northern rivers, but the Nine Elements Sect and the All-Matter Sect probably did the majority of the

Life Sect was obviously overwhelmed with their massive area. Taking care of

one of these southern rivers. The Life Sect already needed to fully withstand

Sects that probably worked closely together. The Laws of the Elements and the Laws of Matter were intrinsically connected. Understanding one of them

territory was probably the

eastern territories were not as big, and one Peak Sect should be enough for each. Gravis had already heard about the ideology of the Purist Sect, which made him guess

Sect was probably not very interested in helping the other Peak Sects and simply 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

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

western territories were probably also rather secure. Maybe not as much as the

southern

Life and healing owned and defended an entire

was a lot of

of the body,' Gravis thought. 'I shouldn't immediately assign the status of healer to everyone from the Life Sect. They probably also have a ton of fearsome close-combat warriors with powerful

from simply a single

to go