Chapter 588: The Competition (1/2)

No beast dared to answer. All these Emperors and Kings were very experienced and wouldn't fight a freak like Gravis. Gravis had played an Emperor to death. What could the Kings do against that guy?

”Ruler, I think Gravis should be disqualifie-”

BANG!

Well, there had to be at least one idiot among thousands of people or beasts. A King had spoken up but was quickly slapped to the ground by a level three Emperor.

”Shut up!” the Emperor shouted as he severely injured the King. This was his candidate, and he didn't want his candidate to die to his own stupidity, which was why he had severely injured him to shut him up. If he let Meadow do the punishment, he wouldn't even be able to find a piece of his candidate anywhere.

”Eh,” Meadow commented with an annoyed but dismissive tone. She had already grown a bit excited that an idiot had shown himself, but the Emperor had put a damper on things.

Several more seconds of silence passed.

”Alright, then Gravis is the winner. We're done here. You can all go,” Meadow said casually.

Yet, surprisingly, no one actually left. Instead, they looked with complicated and reluctant looks at Meadow.

”Meadow,” Sary said with a chuckle. ”Yes, we already have a winner, but the competition is also an excellent opportunity for the Kings to temper each other.”

”Eh?” Meadow said with an annoyed voice. Then, she groaned. ”Fine! Dickhead!” she shouted as she turned to the Lightning Ultimate. ”You go arrange the competition. I can't be arsed to do that shit.”

The Lightning Ultimate bowed respectfully to Meadow. ”Yes, ruler,” he said. Then, he turned to the Emperors and Kings with authority radiating from his being. ”Gather in camps according to your region,” he commanded.

The Ultimates, Emperors, and Gravis watched as the Kings split up into three regions. The sea Ultimates, especially, were interested in this event. They hadn't watched the competition of land Kings before.

Surprisingly, even though the western region had the most beasts in general, they had the least number of Kings. The absence of war did wonders for the growth of average beasts, but their most powerful beasts were less numerous.

The Lightning Ultimate made Kings from different regions fight each other. Most of the time, the northern and southern regions fought with each other, with the western region also getting a couple of fights.

Of course, there were rules. After the opponents were chosen, they both had to agree if they wanted to fight and if they wanted to fight to the death or not. If one of the two didn't want to fight their chosen opponent, they would lose the round and be disqualified.

If both were willing to fight, they had to decide if they wanted to fight to the death or stop when there was a clear victor. Most of the time, the parties came to a consensus, but in the rare cases that they couldn't come to one, a fight to the death would occur. Of course, before the fight started, they both had one more opportunity to pull out.

So, as long as one of them wanted to fight to the death, they would either fight to the death, or one beast would win without a fight. This rule was in place to see the mindset of the competitors. Someone willing to risk their life for supreme power was worth more than someone who wasn't willing to. Thus, they deserved an advantage in the competition.

Multiple days of fighting passed.

Around 30% of fights didn't take place since one of the two competitors conceded. Around 50% of fights were to the death, with the remaining 20% just being spars.

If this had been a competition between humans, such a ratio would not occur. The ratio for such a competition for humans would most likely be 10% not fighting, 10% fighting to the death, and 80% sparring. Yet, beasts were simply more direct and brutal in their path to supreme power.

Of course, if humans could eat other humans to advance their cultivation, the ratio might resemble the beasts' ratio in this competition more.

On the last day of the competition, something surprising happened. In the finale, the King from the western region managed to comprehend another level two Law. With this level two Law, this King had actually comprehended three!

Even if Gravis counted his Punishment Lightning as a level two Law, he would still only know two. This showed how incredible it was for a level five King to have comprehended three level two Laws.

Of course, this King won the competition.

”Who's that?” Gravis asked Azure, who had returned by now.

”This is the favorite for winning the competition,” Azure answered. ”He has been a King for over 2,000 years in an effort to win this competition and visit the Ultimate Law Comprehension Area. Of course, this year, he will also go home without being able to get there.”

Gravis nodded. ”Spending so long for this Law Comprehension Area. I honestly don't know if it's worth it or not.”

Azure didn't answer since she also didn't know if it was worth it or not.

The King was a brown and mighty gorilla. Obviously, he had an earth affinity. The gorilla consumed the corpse of his enemy and, surprisingly, became an Emperor. Apparently, this had been the last corpse he had needed to become an Emperor.

After he was finished evolving, he looked at Gravis.

Gravis only raised a questioning eyebrow.