Lightning Is the Only Way

Shira had already known Gravis' plan. That's why she wasn't even a bit surprised when he said that. Instead, she grew angry and frustrated. 'I tried to kill this viper because he's going to be a powerful opponent. This will be troublesome,' she thought.

Meanwhile, the viper wasn't sure what it should think. It wasn't going to die? Also, what did that beast just say?

"Are you kidding me?" the viper transmitted to Gravis with an angry voice.

"No, I'm not," Gravis answered.

"Are you not fine with killing us now? Do you want to kill us all later? What's your goal in this?" the viper answered.

Gravis only smirked. "Oh, I know about your so-called established laws," Gravis said. "Let's go to the Spire. We can discuss all of this in public so that all beasts in the River Tribe will see that I'm serious."

Whoosh!

Gravis swam towards the Spire, and the viper watched. Meanwhile, Shira glared at the viper. "Don't get in my way, or you won't know how you died," she said before following Gravis.

The viper was still angry. What Gravis had proposed was akin to suicide! Yet, he followed the two of them.

Splash!

All three of them left the water. Gravis went to the Spire to climb it to a sufficient height where every beast could see him. Shira and the viper went to each of their camps and stood at the forefront of their groups.

The sea horde didn't show much respect for Shira. To them, she had only shown that she was intelligent. On top of that, they didn't know her for long. Lastly, she hadn't proven her strength. After all, nearly all survivors managed to kill a beast at their level, while Shira didn't win.

Meanwhile, the land beasts stood respectfully behind the viper, showing everyone that they acknowledged it as their leader. No beast dared to stand close to the viper.

When Shira saw that, her eyes narrowed further. 'Just you wait,' she thought with spite.

By now, all beasts had gathered in front of the Spire, and Gravis looked at them.

stay alive and join my Tribe, the

skeptical eyes at Gravis and then at the sea beasts with disdain. They weren't sure if

knew that Gravis was serious, but they also weren't the biggest fans of that development. They had only taken part in the battle to get some food, which, by the way, was still lying dead in the water. They'd rather go get their food instead of listening to

that it's against the laws for sea and land beasts to unite?" the viper transmitted with an angry voice to everyone around them.

at length with

will make everyone here the enemy of every sea and land Tribe

"I know. So?" he

taken aback. "What do you mean with so? This will kill all of

if we kept to the laws, the other Tribes wouldn't attempt to kill

but we wouldn't be the prime target for every Tribe in the surroundings," the viper shot back immediately. "This will give the surrounding Tribes a reason to band together and attack us as a

becoming more powerful. You say the laws are just a means to an end to find an arbitrary reason to attack us. Is that

viper remained silent for some seconds, thinking about Gravis' words. "Yes, it is," it said. "Yet, that doesn't change the reality of the

you some hypothetical situations," Gravis

the viper

an adjacent Tribe, will they attack us? Would breaking the laws make a difference in this situation?" Gravis

viper answered quickly. "When a resource of power is too weak to

"When we are stronger than an adjacent Tribe, will

in other Tribes to take us down. After all, we

that sound like the same situation as when we broke the

stopped. It wanted to counter that argument, but it couldn't. It wasn't some stupid beast that always believed it was right. The viper was this smart

view that honestly compared the relationships with other Tribes in both situations. Yet, even after half a minute, it saw

viper were still narrowed but for an entirely different reason. Now, they were narrowed because it was planning and going through all possible advantages and problems that such a merger would bring.

let it think some more if this were a private conversation, but it felt awkward waiting for it in this public setting. "If you're too weak, you will die. If you're strong,

of its thoughts and looked at

enemy is stronger than us, they won't search for help. They will just attack us immediately. If we break

of the viper. The viper was 200-meters-long but didn't use its full height to stand up. So, the viper and Gravis looked at each other's

the first time. It was rather shocked, not by how strong Gravis was, but by how weak Gravis