Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis threw the viper back, freeing it from his grasp. The viper felt an avalanche of relief washing over it when that happened. It was still alive.

"I said, I won't kill you, but I still need to show you that you shouldn't go against me in the future," Gravis said.

CRRRRRR! CRK! Puchi!

A powerful force immobilized the viper's body. Then, it pulled at one of its bones inside its body, tearing it off. After that, identical to what Gravis had done to Shira, the bone shot out of the viper's body. After leaving its body, the bone only hovered above Gravis' opened hand.

The viper felt incredible pain and fear. What was this power? How did this beast manage to tear a bone right out of its body without even touching it? Not even their Lord had that ability.

When Shira saw that, she felt some satisfaction. She had gone through the same, and it felt good to her to see someone else go through her humiliation and pain.

Gravis just looked at the viper. "What's your name?" he asked.

"Silva," it said weakly.

"You're male judging by your name, right?" Gravis asked.

"Yes," Silva said.

"Alright," Gravis commented and slithered back to the Spire. None of the gathered beasts dared to get close to him. His display had intimidated them.

"As you all have heard by my discussion with Silva, it makes no difference if we break the laws or not. The Tribes have created these laws to keep their forces together. The land beasts don't want to lose their forces to the sea beasts and vice versa."

"They make everyone believe that there is only one enemy. Yet, that is not true. Plenty of Tribes on the so-called same side fight with each other, maybe even more than with the so-called enemy. When your Tribe gets annihilated by a Tribe from the same side, do you not consider them as enemies? They are ready to kill you. Therefore, they are your enemy."

very beginning, everyone is your enemy. There may be unions and alliances, but those exist only because they can't defeat each

the beasts were too stupid to realize the meaning behind Gravis' words. These members only followed the words of the powerful, and

They understood some concepts but weren't smart enough to realize that they didn't know much. These beasts believed themselves to be superior to others since they didn't have the ability to

into the conversation. After all, Shira and Silva kept quiet. However, that didn't change their opinion about the

kind," Gravis said. "Yet, I see no problem in that.

live and fight wherever we are, and when a beast becomes a Lord, it becomes completely unimportant where they fight. Water or no water,

alone won't accomplish much. You need to see and feel it for

beasts paid attention

territory. This will be the living space for the sea beasts. The Water Makers already know how the territory should look like and will start

all sea beasts while Silva will

the pangolin, Morn, will be the Elder. He is very wise and experienced and can give any land beasts guidance when they require it. The octopus, Orthar, will be the Oracle. This is the same

for the land beasts. Of

land beasts to reach the Spire without having

will create a hole that starts at the top of the Spire and reaches the bottom of the Abyss to make it easier for the upper echelons of each side to meet. I will live in a separate cave at sea level inside this hole. If something requires both sides to decide on something together, everyone will

allowed to fight to the death with one another. The fights will be duels, and both sides need to be at the same level of

attack without consent from any of those two, you will

all," Gravis said. Then, he lifted his arm to the sky and

Whoosh! SPLASH!

the water. The beasts

CRRRRR!

being created. This was the second Water Maker, the Common Fungus. It had lived its whole life

would prove itself useful in the Middle World, and it did. It had helped

earth around than Spirit Beasts. On top of that, it could work as an effective defense in an emergency in