Lightning Is the Only Way

A mighty thunder echoed throughout the area as a lightning bolt hit the ground between the two enemies. After the lightning bolt vanished, Gravis stepped out of it with a smirk.

The Matriarch looked at Gravis seriously. She had never seen anything even similar to that. It almost seemed like that the beast in front of her had been just lightning a second ago. Yet, that was obviously impossible.

Meanwhile, Orthar looked strangely at Gravis. "Gravis, why are you here?"

Gravis only smiled at Orthar. "I want you to go through genuine life and death tempering, but there is a difference between life and death tempering and suicide. Your chance of winning is zero if you fight her. I can feel her power," Gravis said.

Orthar took a shaky breath. He had been overwhelmed by the pressure of his enemy. Yet, he had believed that this was normal. Orthar had a lot of experience, but he hadn't fought many enemies that were a genuine threat to his life. He had just expected that this kind of pressure was normal for such dangerous fights.

"Well, if both of you come together, this might actually prove to be some sort of fight," the Matriarch said calmly as she looked at Gravis.

Orthar looked seriously at the Matriarch. "Gravis, do you want to fight together?" he asked.

Gravis only laughed a bit. "Even though I still have my Lightning Fork active, she won't be even a slight challenge to me."

Orthar was a bit taken aback. "But your body, Spirit, and lightning are only a third as powerful as your peak state. I do not doubt that you could easily win in your peak state, but I'm not sure that you can fight her with your Lightning Fork still being active."

Gravis only shook his head slightly. "Orthar, as soon as I regained Unity, I have not been the same as before. How can humans fight the beasts if their bodies are three times weaker than the enemy's body? That's because humans have a particular weapon that beasts don't have. Don't forget that I can move my centers of power around however I wish."

A look of realization appeared on Orthar's face. "Right. I apologize. I forgot about that," he said.

"It's okay. After all, I am the only human in this world. You wouldn't find another beast able to do what I can," Gravis answered.

"Are you two done yet?" the Matriarch answered impatiently. She had watched Gravis and Orthar converse and grew annoyed.

Orthar looked at the Matriarch and then distanced himself from them. There was no reason for him to get involved.

The Matriarch noticed Orthar's actions and narrowed her eyes. Then, she looked at the calm Gravis. "Your body is weak," she said. "You have, by far, the weakest body of any Lord I have ever seen. Yet, the octopus stepped aside. Are you really that foolish that you think you can beat me on your own?"

but if you continue to hunt for only weak Lords, your battle-strength

narrowed her eyes. "And what's that to you?" she asked with annoyance. She had also had similar thoughts. Yet, she had decided on her path. Such a

can tell you what it's got to do with me," Gravis said with a smirk. "I want to recruit you

eyes of the Matriarch widened in surprise. "You want to recruit me?" she asked

is different from other Tribes. My Tribe isn't about getting as many beasts as possible or about gaining as much territory as possible. My Tribe is all about

to Gravis' words and realized that he was actually serious. Then, she burst into

a weak Lord is talking about such grand ideas. Even if I were to consider joining your Tribe, you would first need to prove that you are more powerful than me," she

far beyond what other humans could. Even though he only had

able to put up a fight and maybe kill a beast at their equal power. Yet, what about Gravis' other strengths? His battle-strength, Will-Aura, Punishment Lightning, mindset, and some other things allowed him to even fight Early Rank Unity Beasts or level two Lords in the language of the beasts. And

if I'm able to suppress you in three different ways so that you won't even be able

at Gravis. Was this weak beast dreaming? How would that even be possible? "Sure. If you can do that, I'll do whatever you want,"

a sigh. "You're really lucky that you're not a level two Lord yet. If you were, I wouldn't even offer you to join my Tribe. If you

just directly eat

WHOOOOM!

the Unity Realm, the Will-Aura depended on the power of the Spirit. The Spirit was the medium that the Will-Aura used

it would be significantly weaker. Yet, since Gravis was back in the Unity Realm, he could just move

body. Her speed had been reduced by over 99%. Yet, she wasn't able to analyze all these

move, and Gravis just walked over to her until only a hundred meters were between them. This was

Whoop!

disappeared, and the Matriarch could finally move again. Feeling the control over her body returning, she quickly looked at Gravis with

BZZZZZZZ!

half of it in his hands. Destruction Lightning was already incredibly powerful for

life, and many of them had been way more powerful than her. With her experience, she judged that this lightning was about as intense as

be absolutely devastating to her. She didn't dare to get closer. All her instincts, heart, and mind were telling her that

second suppression,"

Whoop!

a level one Lord. The Matriarch had been too preoccupied with the pressure and lightning to notice that Gravis' body had become many times