Lightning Is the Only Way

Silence came over the area as everyone tried to process the fact that Orthar had died. His body was simply not powerful enough to survive such a shocking attack from the crab. Yet, Silva and Morn only had burning eyes as they looked at the crab. Then, they directly charged at it again. Such a wound was devastating to it, and it would surely weaken its Battle-Strength.

Orthar had given his life for this opportunity, and they wouldn't waste it!

Meanwhile, the crab started laughing loudly as it went into a defensive position. Its shears blocked all the attacks as it slowly retreated. It intended to gain some time to get some Energy back.

"Hahaha!" the crab laughed as it transmitted its laugh to everyone. "The annoying octopus is dead! I don't feel any attacks hitting my head anymore!" it transmitted to everyone.

Silva and Morn grew frustrated as they realized that it would become even more difficult to kill the crab. Now, it only needed to pay attention to them. They attacked with fervor, but as soon as the crab went into a defensive position, it was incomparably hard to hit it.

"AAAARRGGHHH!" the crab suddenly shouted in pain and panic.

"Do you feel it now, crab?" A transmission rang from inside the crab. To everyone's disbelief, that was Orthar's voice. But how?

"Impossible! You couldn't… have… sur…" the crab tried to say, but it seemed to grow more confused and abject as it continued. That was because Orthar had started attacking the crab's brain. Its mind stopped working, and after some more seconds, it fell over to the side.

The crab was dead.

Silva and Morn were still shocked. They had survived? Orthar had also survived? Were they dreaming?

Puchi!

A tiny hole appeared between some parts of the broken carapace. After that, a long and thin worm came out of the hole. After the worm left the hole, it transformed into Orthar. Yet, Orthar looked horrible. His whole body was deformed, and all his tentacles only hung loosely off of his body.

BOOOM!

as he just lay on the ground. He had been stressing his body immensely, and after the pressure had vanished, he collapsed to the

was nearly as heavily injured as Morn. Silva was the only one that could still move, and he

disbelief. "How

about to come. In order to reduce the impact, I used my disguise ability to increase the area of my body. Like this, I

laughed bitterly again. "Yet, that was only an empty dream. I knew that my death would arrive. Yet, as I saw my death come, my life flashed before

you realize?" Silva asked

acting as something else, but becoming something else. As soon as I realized that, I used this new knowledge to flatten my entire body. I moved all essential parts to the side, where the strike wouldn't be that powerful. And, who would have

under immense pressure," Gravis said as he appeared in front of them. "I have seen a cultivator

sighed in relief. The fact that Gravis was here meant that the shark was dead. On top of that, Gravis

shark is

"Yes. I've been watching your fight for a while

three beasts

tell me more about what happened to

I had a brief run-in with some Darkness Cultivators from the Darkness Guild. Yet,

he had a heartfelt smile on his face. "You can't achieve a breakthrough in your

deadly battle pushes all of your being to its absolute limits. When that isn't enough, there might come an opportunity for you to realize

understand?" Orthar

smiled happily at Orthar. He was happy that Orthar had survived and also happy that Orthar managed to take

Orthar asked in confusion. "We haven't talked about that yet. What

define how the world works. For example, you know that water always flows down, but you don't know enough about water to manipulate it in very complex ways. In order to do that, you need to comprehend the workings of the world. When you understood something, and when you can use this understanding to increase your power,

new understanding regarding disguise. "I think I get it," Orthar said. "I think I know more about

this, you could evade attacks by changing the shape of your body. Maybe you could also appear many times weaker or as more than one creature. A Law can increase your Battle-Strength

didn't answer anymore as he continued thinking about his new comprehension. Gravis didn't bother Orthar anymore and turned to Silva. "This is the difference between fighting something more powerful than you and fighting many equally powerful

the battle will become easier the more you manage to weaken your opponents. By fighting against a more powerful opponent, you feel life-threatening danger until the very end. This can push you much

for a while as he also thought about