Lightning Is the Only Way

After Silva left the Spire, he quickly called on every member of the Land Camp. There was no reason to wait for an attack. After all, no attack would come. Every second he wasted waiting would be a second where Shira increased her power.

Silva was done with being passive. It was time for him to become active and slaughter his enemies. As he gathered his camp, he walked past Shira without looking at her. Yet, Shira felt something different from Silva that made her narrow her eyes.

'Something has happened to that viper,' Shira thought. 'He is backed into a corner and realizes that he is about to die. He will strike with everything he has. I can't become careless now. As long as I continue suppressing him, he won't be able to live for long.'

After a while, all beasts of the Land Camp had gathered before the mountain range leading to the Hyena Tribe. Then, Silva turned to them with burning eyes.

"I have committed a mistake," he said slowly to his camp, surprising them. They had all thought that they had the best commander in existence. In their eyes, he had never committed a mistake.

"I have become too protective of you," Silva said. "By wanting to keep everyone alive, I have not given you a chance to rise to power. By disallowing you from dueling sea beasts without my consent, I have stunted your growth."

The beasts all remained silent as they listened to him.

"This won't happen again. Everyone wants to become powerful, and I have kept you from achieving that goal, fearing that you will die in the process. Yet, if I continue like this, none of you will ever achieve this goal. I have realized this, and I will do my best to rectify it."

The camp remained silent. Many of the beasts didn't have the mental faculties to process Silva's words, but the smarter ones managed to understand them. Yet, they weren't angry at their commander. By protecting their lives, he was keeping them alive, and as long as someone was alive, they could reach supreme power.

"For this war," Silva said, "I will only give you some basic commands and tactics. Everything else is up to you and your teamwork. As long as you all work together, no enemy can beat you. You should use your strengths to protect the weaknesses of your comrades. If no one can take advantage of your weaknesses, the weaknesses don't exist. Like this, you will all be powerful."

Nearly all of the beasts in the Land Camp were looking up to their commander. Because of that, his words resonated with them deeply. Their morale started increasing as their fighting will burned. The mood in the whole camp changed.

scared or nervous. Silva's commands always protected them, and only very few beasts died. Because of that, such a war had felt more like practice and less like a war. Yet, now, they felt

with everything you have. The more you kill, the more food you will get. The Oracle

to realize your dreams. Charge!" Silva shouted as he was the first to

roared in unison as their roars echoed throughout the horizons. They were all fired up and couldn't wait to

stronger defenses like tortoises, pangolins, rhinos, and such charged at the front. The beasts with incredible speed and attacking skills charged at the side while the beasts that could attack from range charged

while charging. "See which beasts are the greatest danger to your comrades and kill them. Beasts that are dangerous to your comrades might

intently and remembered the words of their commander. His fiery motivation was igniting their fighting instincts, and they started to become one coherent unit. This was

charging over the mountains, the beasts charged over a wide land-bridge. Orthar had already created this path for them. Since they were invading a land territory, they didn't

didn't order anything, but he also didn't need to. The fastest members of the army charged at the scouts to hunt them down.

invaders. On top of that, they had the

only felt more bloodlust as they saw their enemies. They only charged

second general of the hyenas

and simply remained at their positions.

hyenas threw their fireballs to the front, directly into the middle of

BANG! BANG! BANG!

blocked by walls that had been created by the Earth Movers. Seeing that his plan didn't work, the general changed his tactic. "Wood hyenas, create a powerful wall

CRRRRRRR!

in front of the charging army. An army without someone commanding them would charge right into the brambles and injure themselves. On top of that, the brambles would

the Earth Movers charged through the opened gap. Silva wasn't commanding them, but

CRRRRRR!

two as a pathway opened between the brambles. The majority of the army charged through that pathway. The enemy general gritted his teeth. "Attack!" he