Once people entered civilized society, they enjoyed the benefits brought by its rules—but they were also tamed by those same rules.
For example, Savage had originally been nothing more than a barbarian. In the age of the Neanderthals, there were certainly no luxury hotels or apartment buildings for him to live in. He could have lived in a cave, thrown together a treehouse in some forest, or even just slept under the open sky in an empty patch of land.
In primitive times, there had been absolutely nothing wrong with that. No one would have criticized him for sleeping in a cave. But in civilized society, even the lowest thugs in the Slums had single-story houses to live in. For the Great Monarch Savage to sleep in a cave seemed rather shabby.
Savage did not think of himself as a barbarian. He believed he was stronger than any human, so naturally, he could not accept being worse off than the very lowest rung of society.
That mindset constrained him and made him forget that he was not someone born of civilized society. He had no need to follow its rules. As long as his most basic needs for survival were met, there was no reason to care what kind of place he lived in.
Yet this prosperous, extravagant civilized society had corrupted the heart he had brought from the vast ancient wilderness. Though he told himself he could not fall behind others, he was in fact enjoying the luxurious life here as well.
Because of that, he did not want to live together with those poor people. Even if the conditions could not compare to the Sokworth Grand Hotel, they could not be too bad. Even if it was not a Presidential Suite, it at least needed two bedrooms, a