He remembered the moment he became a "Tong", when many of his kind knelt before him, coronating him. At that time, he had killed another long-standing "Tong", and survived the onslaught of other "Tongs"! His name—Bone! It was then that it became a whispered word among his kind!
But in that world, "Tong" were not the rulers. They might be the rulers of small tribes in that world, but in larger tribes, there would never be only one "Tong"! In his place, "High Cliff", there were nearly forty "Tongs"!
In theory, under such circumstances, even though there were many "Tongs", they were almost akin to "rulers" as the top combat power, but this was not the case. "Tongs" might hold an absolute position, but they could lose their lives at any moment. They would suddenly turn into ashes, absorbed by the ground, or die when tentacles suddenly appeared and extracted the "stones" from their bodies.
"Tongs" were on guard for anomalies around them every moment!
