Lightning Is the Only Way

Years passed.

The number of customers from the beast side decreased over time, but that was to be expected. Gravis knew that a drought of customers would come as soon as he sold his Forging technique to the beasts.

First of all, Narcissus no longer sent beasts to the Gravitas. One had to remember that nearly all the past customers had only come under the orders of Narcissus. Now that the Gravitas had served several customers, the growth would come naturally. Of course, that would still take a long time.

The second and more significant reason was that the powerful beasts that were interested in equipment had heard from their Wave Leaders that the beasts would soon forge their own equipment.

The payment that the beasts gave the Gravitas didn't matter to the beasts. However, the reason why the beasts rather traded with other beasts was loyalty.

Gravis and that human that served them most of the time didn't feel trustworthy to the beasts. The Gravitas was on the edge of the human territory, and the fact that the Gravitas had a human was already suspicious.

The beasts would much rather buy expensive and worse equipment from their own camp than buy cheap, excellent equipment from a stranger.

So, over the next century, the Gravitas got maybe one customer per year.

It was a significant drop from the earlier one customer per day.

However, Gravis knew that he only had to wait. He was certain that the beasts wouldn't be able to forge useful equipment in the next 50,000 years.

So, Gravis waited for many years.

After a century, nothing much had changed.

After 500 years, everything was basically still the same. The only difference was that the customer base dropped even slightly more, but not by much.

And then, 1,000 years after Gravis had started waiting, everything changed.

The customer base suddenly exploded.

Now, there were over 30 customers per day!

Why were there suddenly so many customers when there had been nearly no customers for a millennium?

Two reasons.

The first reason was that the Forgers that the beasts wanted to create still weren't able to forge useful equipment. The beasts had heard that they only had to wait, and they could buy equipment from their own camp.

However, 1,000 years was a lot of time, even for Immortal Kings.

time as a

would get something you desperately

even a year later,

patience, especially when

second reason was a

a Peak Immortal King, and the

been perfectly timed since that tournament was held just a year after the Gravitas received

Who won the tournament?

silver tiger,

500 years later

won, but the ones that used the equipment from the

believed that they would soon get their own equipment. After all, their Wave Leaders had told them that their Forgers

years passed, and the

next tournament was about to arrive, and there was still no news

the beasts had enough

the

saw so

was about to

the leadership of the beasts. After all, the leadership also didn't know the background of the Gravitas. Only Narcissus knew the background, and he

transferred to the human side. Losing their ore was not an issue, but they didn't want the humans to get it. They knew that humans needed ore desperately, and the

time they saw a beast go to the Gravitas, they imagined

that they had

after eight years,

not foreseen, and this issue made it very hard for the Gravitas to continue earning

What issue?

Sect

by nearly 70% due to the overabundance

the Purist Sect now had mountains of ore that

out in powerful

on

other fronts hadn't changed at

leaders of the beasts a lot

confirmed that their ore went to

immediately asked Narcissus why he was supporting something like that. The humans were their enemies! Why would they

techniques that Gravis was selling to them. As long as they purchased all the techniques,

couldn't