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."

kind are blind to the truth. From the very beginning, everyone is your enemy. There may be unions and alliances, but those exist only because they can't defeat each other. As soon as one member of such an alliance becomes weaker, they

only followed the words of the powerful, and Gravis had proven that he was powerful. Therefore, convincing these beasts wasn't hard for

They understood some concepts but weren't smart enough to realize that they didn't know much. These beasts believed themselves to be

were, at least, smart enough to not butt into the conversation. After all, Shira and Silva kept quiet. However,

of you are still against allying with the other kind," Gravis said. "Yet, I see no problem in

reaching our power, the environment becomes unimportant. We can live and fight wherever we are, and when a beast becomes a

accomplish much. You need to see and feel it for yourself. Therefore, I'm going to end this speech

beasts paid attention

carve wide rivers through the territory. This will be the living space for the sea beasts. The Water Makers already know how the territory should look like

sea beasts while Silva will be the

any land beasts guidance when they require it. The octopus, Orthar, will be the Oracle. This is the same position as the Elder, but for sea beasts.

Spire will remain and will act as a status symbol and command center for the land beasts. Of

Of course, we will leave bridges for the land beasts to reach the Spire without having to go through the water. The Abyss will be the command center for the sea beasts and will house the Team Leaders, the

of the Abyss to make it easier for the upper echelons of each side to meet. I will live in a separate

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

need to request a duel from either the Elder or Oracle. If you attack without consent from any of those two, you will be killed. The

lifted his arm to the sky

Whoosh! SPLASH!

the water. The beasts had

CRRRRR!

Fungus. It had lived

fungus, he had believed that it would prove itself useful in the Middle World, and it did. It had helped in moving a lot of earth into the ocean,

On top of that, it could work