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.

join my Tribe, the River Tribe," Gravis

eyes at Gravis and then at the sea beasts with disdain. They weren't sure if Gravis actually meant that, and even if he did, they wouldn't join

the battle to get some food, which, by the way, was still lying dead in the water. They'd rather go get their food

and land beasts to unite?" the viper transmitted with an angry voice to everyone around them. This was a public

said. He had spoken at length with Shira about this topic when they were readying their

waited for Gravis to continue, but apparently, he was done speaking. This made the viper only angrier. "This will make everyone here the enemy of every sea and land Tribe out there.

"I

mean with so? This will kill all of us!" it shouted with anger

to the laws, the other

kill us, 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

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

said. "Yet, that doesn't change the reality of the situation.

some hypothetical situations," Gravis

viper

an adjacent Tribe, will they attack us?

the viper answered quickly. "When a resource of power is too weak to defend itself, it will be swallowed by the

stronger than an adjacent

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

that sound like the same situation as

stupid beast that always believed it was right.

eyes narrowed further in thinking. Now, it started thinking of this situation from a point of view that honestly compared the relationships with other Tribes in both situations. Yet, even after half a minute, it saw no

were narrowed because it was planning and going through all possible advantages and problems that

as he didn't see the viper reacting in a while. He would have 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, the weak will fear

was taken out of its thoughts and looked at Gravis, paying

it," Gravis said as he slithered down from the Spire. "If we break the laws, and the enemy is stronger than us, they won't search for help. They will just attack us immediately. If we break the laws, and the enemy is weaker than us,

but didn't use its full height to stand up. So, the viper and Gravis looked at each other's eyes from the same

the viper before, and it felt Gravis' power for the first time. It was rather shocked, not by how strong Gravis was, but by how weak Gravis was. This was obviously