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.

was about as much time as a

you were told that you would get something you

even a year later, there

when you could get something even better

second reason was

was held. Every participant was a Peak Immortal King, and the

that tournament was held just

Who won the tournament?

tiger,

the next tournament 500

the ones that used the equipment from the Gravitas placed far higher

their own equipment. After

the years passed, and the

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

the beasts had enough and

couldn't allow the other beasts to

saw so many

was about

more beasts went to the Gravitas, the higher the pressure on the leadership of the beasts. After all, the leadership also didn't know the background of the Gravitas. Only Narcissus knew

was 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

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

years. Sadly, the beasts weren't willing to admit that they had essentially bought a useless Forging technique.

years, an

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

What issue?

Sect had

prices of all ores on the human side dropped by nearly 70% due to the overabundance

had mountains of

were already fully decked out in powerful equipment, and the frontlines were as safe for

on the eastern

fronts hadn't

the beasts a lot of important

of all, it was confirmed that their ore went to the

supporting something like that. The humans

beasts also became more powerful. Even more, the most important aspect was the techniques that Gravis was selling to them.

beasts couldn't