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!

been stressing his body immensely, and after the pressure had vanished, he

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

disbelief. "How did you manage to survive

was about to come. In order to reduce the impact, I used my disguise ability to increase

knew that my death would arrive. Yet, as I saw my death come, my life flashed before my eyes. I thought about everything in my life and also thought about my disguise ability.

did you realize?" Silva

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 thought,

powerful 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

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

is

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

three beasts sighed

what happened to me, Gravis?" Orthar

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

under my suppression. Of course, I still killed him," Gravis said as he had a heartfelt smile on his face. "You can't

an opportunity for you to realize a new truth." Then, Gravis shrugged. "Sadly, I

understand?" Orthar asked in

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

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

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, you have comprehended

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

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

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

manage to weaken your opponents. By fighting against a more powerful opponent, you feel life-threatening danger until

remained silent for a while as he also thought