Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis listened to their story with interest.

He learned a lot about how to manage a Sect from Manuel, and he had to laugh a lot when Dorian told of his exploits. Gravis could very well imagine the headache Manuel had while trying to handle someone like Dorian.

After they were done telling their story, over a day had passed.

Mortis had returned a couple of hours after Manuel started telling his story, and he simply sat at the table like everyone else.

"So? How did it go?" Gravis asked Mortis.

"It will take a while to close the gap, but she's definitely interested, even if she didn't immediately admit it," Mortis said.

Gravis nodded.

He had expected something like that. After all, Mortis was exactly the person that Joyce had been searching for. Even if Gravis wanted to chase Joyce, she would still choose Mortis over him.

After Manuel and Dorian were done retelling their story, it was Skye's turn.

Apparently, Skye had quickly become a pretty powerful beast, and she established her own Tribe.

She lorded over the Tribe for a long time, but at some point, Kingdoms became interested.

Yet, instead of simply joining a Kingdom, Skye wanted to fight a war.

It wasn't even a battle.

Skye very quickly lost, and she was forcefully enslaved as food.

She was used as a training partner for weaker beasts, but she was always stopped as soon as she tried to kill them.

Skye was attacked by beasts on her level for years without being allowed to really retaliate.

This had gone on for over 20 years, but Skye never gave up. She knew that her chance would come, eventually.

And eventually, it did.

Skye managed to comprehend the level two Law of Suppression, which she used to kill the beasts overseeing her captivity.

After that, she ran away.

Sadly, the Kingdoms were rather united in that part of the world, making it impossible for her to find refuge anywhere.

She felt like a wild animal that was hunted by a group of humans. No matter where she went, she would be quickly found and attacked.

Skye was on the run for a long time, and eventually, she managed to comprehend the level two Law of Freedom.

With the Law of Freedom and Law of Suppression combined, Skye managed to turn the tables somewhat.

The Law of Suppression increased her Battle-Strength, and the Law of Freedom allowed her to ignore the pressure of beasts above her Realm. This gave her the ability to fight with her full power against more powerful beasts.

Her story, at this point, became very similar to Dorian's story when he had just arrived in the middle world. Skye went through a lot of fights and, eventually, a lot of other beasts were willing to follow her.

her life. She was always able to carve out a place for

most other beasts, Skye didn't manage her beasts

responsibilities restricted her freedom, and she didn't want to have any responsibilities. The beasts were free to follow her or not.

most of the beasts still followed her, which eventually led to an impromptu nomadic

and her beasts traveled throughout the world, killing the strongest beasts they could find. However, they would never claim any land. They would simply kill the strong beasts, occupy their land for some years to check out

Empires didn't attack

Why?

the territory of an old Empire would become unoccupied. This meant that the Empires could expand their borders

that, no one wanted to attack Skye's Empire. Battling them meant using a lot of

Empire. They paid Skye resources so

Skye had to regain all her lost respect since no one

world, Skye eventually just walked around,

lived as free as it could get. She battled whomever she wanted. She went wherever she wanted. She did whatever she

Skye's story, he

and Skye truly had similar

valued freedom highly, just

that Skye was

for Stella, Liam,

difference between a beast

be just as free

his feelings for everyone close to

a human, Gravis couldn't do that. His friends and Stella were more important to Gravis than

would become powerful enough

had to

was time for Azure, Styr, Ferris, and Sary to tell their

had quickly met in the higher world,

similar to Manuel's story, but with more direct

one that assumed the

way, Styr and

mysterious, kind, and intelligent

an experienced, powerful, and

of his Sect by being kind to the Sect, bringing more resources

Tribe by impressing all the beasts with his

them, Manuel would seem like a Heaven-chosen talent, illuminating his

associated with the

would be associated with

the position Joyce had taken up in Manuel's Sect. Azure was the

was mostly busy helping beasts he liked or comprehending Laws, but most of the time, he

the beasts in the Tribe, and she personally

found Meadow, and she

most powerful being in the Tribe for a

the end, Meadow basically only sat in the Tribe, doing absolutely

not everything was smooth

Kingdom attacked

forces was incredible, but the Kingdom had

Styr wasn't stupid.