Lightning Is the Only Way

"We notice earth movement coast," an 80-meter-tall dung beetle transmitted to the gathered beasts. Yet, the beetle's imposing height couldn't intimidate anyone because, right now, it was lowering itself in front of the beasts standing before it.

The only thing that could be seen around the gathered beasts was some stone and the bright sky. The clouds were far below them, creating a picture where it looked like the gathered beasts were at the top of the world, away from the mundane life of mortals.

"This could be a sea invasion," a 200-meter-long viper said from the side. It was coiled together like a cobra, ready to strike. The red viper had some intimidating spires on its head, making it appear incredibly dangerous.

"A most humiliating incident, indeed," an absolutely enormous pangolin said from the side. This pangolin alone took up nearly half of the peak of the Spire. Together with its tail, it had an intimidating length of about 800 meters. If Gravis were to meet this pangolin, he would be impressed by its incredible size. This would be the biggest Spirit Beast he had ever met. One would even have to ask how it managed to get up this incredibly tall Spire.

BANG!

"Insolence!" the beast in the middle shouted as the stone cracked around it. This was the smallest beast of all the ones present. Yet, it sat in the center, at an elevated position.

It was a brown scorpion, only around ten-meters-long. Yet, it radiated an aura that would force every Spirit Beast to kneel before it deferentially. This was the Tribe Leader of the Sand Tribe, Crilas, the Sand Lord.

"Ever since my ancestors have been slain, we were forced to relocate time and time again," Crilas said. "We have fallen from grace, and now, even the lowest of the sea beasts dare to covet our lands!"

"All enemies look down upon us, but we've managed to persevere. We shall show them that, even though we have fallen from grace, we are still not something that some mere shrimp from the water can attack!"

Crilas stood up as he walked forward into the middle of the Spire, the other beasts all lowering their heads. "After we break this attack, we will gain new lands and more power. We will use that newfound power to reclaim our ancestors' territories. Immediately prepare for battle!" Crilas shouted.

The other beasts lowered their heads further. "Yes, my Lord," they said in unison. The viper immediately slithered away while the dung beetle also left. After a while, only the pangolin and Crilas were left.

"Do not underestimate an invasion from the sea," the pangolin said. "Our Tribe isn't very good at fighting the sea beasts. We must take care in the upcoming battle."

If anyone else had dared to speak to Crilas like that, they would have been killed and eaten by him. Yet, the pangolin was special.

said. "I won't

the pangolin said. Yet, strangely, it didn't move from its spot. It merely remained at the top of the

coming out of caves in the Spire and started readying themselves for battle. After some minutes, the whole Tribe had

appeared some kilometers high on

coast!" it shouted with

It would only take some minutes until they reached the coast 200-kilometers-away. A war was

no sign of an invasion.

looked with narrowed eyes at the

the sea

only around two-meters-long, incredibly small for Spirit Beasts. Then, the four lizards charged into the sea. They had the ability to camouflage themselves

several minutes, and just

"Report," the viper ordered.

nothing special," one of the lizards said. "53 viper-lengths, immediate depth. Over

So, it had told them that they should just inform it how many vipers the distance had. Of course, one viper-length was just as long

sea beasts?"

beasts. But, we found big cave," one of

big is the cave, and where is it?"

viper-lengths deep. Cave has size of five viper-lengths," the

the sea. Then, it looked at the ground. "Dung beetles, is there ground movement?"

seconds. Then, one of them stood up. "Weak ground movement,"

coast," the viper muttered to itself, "yet, now, there are

happening. Yet, there are no beasts. This can only mean that the beasts are somewhere else. One cave wouldn't be

that's not

Spire!" the viper shouted to everyone with urgency. All the beasts heard the urgency and ran