But unlike most other conquerors who would kill any enemy that they conquer, the overlord was intelligent enough to recognise the importance of having powerful people around him, and that was why he always spared the lives of the most powerful warriors from these worlds, while allowing these powerful warriors to keep their close family and friends with him as well. By doing this, the Overlord not only acquired the strength of these warriors, but he also acquired their loyalty because the warriors would never dare to betray him while their family lived under the Overlord's command.
The Overlord had been carrying out this process of acquiring power for a long time, but recently, he had started to become more and more paranoid due to the sheer number of people that he had gathered from so many different worlds. The Overlord feared that there would soon be a warrior powerful and charismatic enough to kill him and steal his kingdoms from him, and the Overlord did not want that to happen.
