Lightning Is the Only Way

This day was one of the busiest days Orthar and Morn ever had. They had to approve of every challenge, after all, and the challenges just kept on coming. It was almost like the Land Camp had gone crazy. Yet, those two only smirked.

The blood, death, and chaos inside the Tribe would increase the power of the Tribe tremendously. Only the beasts with the strongest Battle-Strength would be able to survive, and these beasts would, therefore, also have an above-average Battle-Strength for Lords. Every single Lord would have proven to be an elite beast!

This was different from other Tribes. Other Tribes only had a certain standard for Battle-Strength, and as long as a beast proved to fulfill that standard, they could fight the Prey. After all, Prey was there to be eaten, was it not? Because of that, the Battle-Strength of these Lords would be lower than the Battle-Strength of the Lords inside the River Tribe.

Shira grew nervous as one battle report after the next arrived at her side. She had no time to search for beasts that countered the beasts of her enemy. As soon as she found out about the weakness of one of her enemies, that beast had already won a second life and death battle.

Weaknesses and advantages could only help so much. As soon as a beast went through many life and death battles, it would become powerful and experienced enough to counteract these weaknesses. At that point, individual power easily outclassed the inherent weakness of that species.

Her heads started hurting as Shira's brains worked overtime. The advantage of having two heads also came with the benefit of increasing the processing speeds of her brains. Yet, this wasn't helpful at all right now. On top of that, her advantage of having more recruits had vanished.

All other land beasts were already residing inside other Tribes, but that fact wasn't true for the ocean. There was an endless amount of Spirit Beasts willing to join the River Tribe. Because of that, Shira always had more recruits than Silva.

Yet, on this day, an army of over 200 land beasts had arrived, and all these beasts were willing to join the River Tribe as new recruits. Obviously, these were the beasts of the Tribe that Liza had visited a day before. Without their Lord, they weren't willing to remain in that Tribe. After all, one invasion from the ocean, and all land beasts would die.

Like this, they all joined the River Tribe. Additionally, Shira couldn't control the battles of the recruits anymore. After all, Liza overlooked that department now.

As the day progressed, the Sea Camp became smaller and smaller. The Sea Camp still had their powerful members, but all the weaker ones were falling like flies. The Battle-Strength of the Land Camp clearly outclassed the Sea Camp.

Shira thought for a long time about this issue, but she just couldn't find a reason. She had no idea why every beast inside the Land Camp was so powerful.

more and more time passed, more and more of her Camp died to the Land Camp. By now, her Sea Camp only had around 50 remaining members. Of course, the Land Camp also had casualties, but those couldn't be compared to

this crazy slaughter gave rise to more Lords inside the Land Camp. By now, the

Lords had been killed by some panther from the Land

she had been assured of her victory over the Land Camp. Yet, as soon as Silva returned, her dream had transformed into a nightmare. If this continued, the whole Sea Camp would be

Land Camp that countered Shira's power. When that happened, it wouldn't only

twelve members were left inside the Land Camp. Yet, all twelve of these members had already become Lords. Like this, the slaughter stopped after Shira's last remaining

had each other, Shira, the Elder, the Oracle, and Gravis left to fight. No more sea beasts from the Sea Camp died. Yet, Shira only had around 20 left. On top of that, she was the only

despair. There were some beasts inside the Land Camp that could be a genuine danger to her life. The only reason why she hadn't been challenged yet, was that her venom was a strong deterrent. Even if a Lord won, they could very likely

a matter of time until a perfect counter to her became a

come the time when one of these two decided to challenge her. After all, they also needed food to become more powerful,

Sadly, she didn't realize the irony

couldn't find any solution to her current predicament. Without assets or power, her craftiness was nearly useless. She had relied on her craftiness for her

Tribe or join the Tribe of another beast. Both options had problems. If she established her own Tribe, she would need to completely rely on her own power. After all, there would be no other Lord inside

two Lord as a leader. Level one Lords wouldn't allow such a dangerous snake into their midst. On top of that, she would need to join as

travel a considerable distance into the continent. Of course, that meant that she had to go

Tribe's insane growth. The growth of the River Tribe completely shocked Shira. In just over a week, the Tribe went from

to be many times more powerful than now. At that point, she could probably only join as Prey, and

to counteract this possibility, she would need to travel such a vast distance that it would probably take over a year of travel via the ocean. Yet, if she did that, she would still

was no way out. In her mind, it didn't