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!

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

could still move, and he quickly

happened?" Silva asked in disbelief. "How did

only laughed weakly. "Honestly, I don't know," he said. "I only saw him raise his shear and knew that my death was about to come. In order to reduce the impact, I used my disguise ability to increase the area of my body. Like this, I wouldn't receive the

death come, my

realize?" Silva

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 thought, I managed to survive,

have seen a cultivator that managed to achieve a breakthrough

The fact that Gravis was here meant that the shark

shark is dead?" Silva

"Yes. I've been watching your fight for a while now. You managed to go through

three beasts

tell me more about what happened to me, Gravis?"

was in the Middle-Continent in the lower world, I was tempering my Will-Aura. I had a brief run-in with some Darkness Cultivators from

a breakthrough under my suppression. Of course, I still killed him," Gravis said as he had a heartfelt smile on his face. "You can't achieve a breakthrough in your Realm while inside a battle, but your will, experience, and

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

understand?" Orthar

was happy that Orthar had survived and also happy that Orthar managed to take a step that even Gravis himself hadn't been able to take yet.

"We haven't talked about that

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

he thought about his new understanding regarding disguise. "I think I get it," Orthar said. "I think I know more about changing my body's shape and its makeup. Somehow, I

of your body. Maybe you could also appear many times weaker or as more than one creature. A Law can

he continued thinking about his new comprehension. Gravis didn't bother Orthar anymore and turned to Silva. "This is the difference between fighting

know that the battle will become easier the more you manage to weaken your opponents.

silent for a while as he also thought about