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 ground. He was

He was nearly as heavily injured as Morn. Silva was the only one that could still move, and he quickly checked on Morn. After seeing that Morn wasn't in

"How did you

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

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

did you realize?" Silva asked

A disguise is more than just 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

opponents, your mind is under immense pressure," Gravis said as he appeared in front of them. "I have seen a cultivator that managed to achieve a breakthrough in his Will-Aura in the middle of a fight before. Something similar happened

was here meant that the shark was dead. On top of that, Gravis looked completely uninjured. At least they didn't have to deal with another powerful

shark is dead?" Silva

been watching your fight for a while now. You managed to go

beasts sighed

me more about what happened to

I 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 the Darkness Guild. Yet,

managed to achieve 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

there might come an opportunity for

did I understand?" Orthar

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. "You managed to comprehend

in confusion. "We haven't

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,

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

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

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

many opponents, you see progress and know that 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

remained silent for a while as he also thought about