Now, things were different.

Shang had thought that killing each other was completely forbidden, but apparently, it wasn't.

"And how does something like that go down?" Shang asked.

"Well," Lucin said before transforming into a Lightning Bolt again. "Let's continue on our way. I'll explain while we're traveling."

Shang didn't answer, and the two of them continued shooting into the distance.

"So, basically, in order to become as powerful as a Cloud, you need a lot of danger and actual fighting. Forever staying inside your little cave and meditating forever won't get you this kind of Battle-Strength. If it did, we would have a thousand times more Clouds than currently."

"In order to be outstanding, you must live an outstanding life. You must achieve things that others are too scared to do or can't do, no matter how much they try. One big component of that is actual fights to the death."

"We know that, and that's why we have created a perfect environment for just that. You ever heard about this weird story about that guy that wanted to make the most venomous insect?" Lucin asked.

"No," Shang answered.

"So, there was this guy, and he wanted to make the most venomous insect. One day, he had this genius idea of putting a hundred of the most venomous insects he could find into a pot and making them kill each other until only one was left, believing that the strongest insect would embody the power of all the insects it had killed, making it the most venomous."

"Of course, biology doesn't work like that, and he failed miserably. However, his experiment demonstrated a very real concept."

isn't necessarily very powerful. The word peerless means that the peerless in question simply doesn't have

how did these better geniuses become better? It was because, in order to become peerless, they needed to fight through many more peers

into an arena and only allow one of them to leave, what will happen? They will

other half have gained valuable knowledge regarding fighting life and death battles, making

the remaining 25 might have comprehended something that made them superior

even more died, but the ones that remained

that one guy has learned so much that the past him

to create one

how the Contender Department

in the Contender Department. Obviously, they can't all become King Contenders. In fact, chances are high that not even one of

eventually, and what then? We only have space for about 70 Thunders, and we got 110 potential Thunders in one generation of Archmages, which spans about

in

instead of simply ordering you all to kill each other, we are

you want more, you gotta join very dangerous missions, tournaments, tests, and similar. Additionally, if

we don't need to force you into dangerous situations. Since you are all geniuses, you are all used to risking your lives

we don't want is someone that kills another Cloud with borrowed strength. One-time Spells from a Mage Lord, an Ancestral Mage assassin, a powerful Ancestral Beast, and so on. If a Cloud is going to die, it will be in

Shang interjected with a question. "And you still get assassinations

yes," Lucin said with a sigh. "Imagine you have some kind of unresolvable enmity with another Cloud. You want to kill them no matter what, but whenever you challenge them to a duel, they decline. Whenever you join one of the big

but there's no way to kill that person

while everyone here can be considered a peerless genius amongst billions upon billions of people, there are still differences. You have a fivefold Spirit Sense. The others

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