Lightning Is the Only Way

"That's him, right?" a 500-meter-tall ape with powerful muscles asked the beast beside him.

The other beast was a skinny and long lizard, just a bit longer than the ape.

"According to the description, yes," the lizard answered.

Right now, they both looked down at Gravis, who was still sitting on top of the Spire. The two beasts were outside of Gravis' Spirit's range. Luckily, since they were level four Lords, their awareness reached further than Gravis'. Because of that, they could see him, while Gravis couldn't see them.

The ape looked around with furrowed brows. "I see no other beasts. Wasn't he supposed to be the Leader of some River Tribe or something?" the ape asked.

The lizard sneered. "According to intel, yes, but we received that intel several weeks ago. Some things might have changed. We can just ask him before we kill him."

The ape furrowed his brows further. "Don't forget what the Commander has ordered. According to what the two-headed snake has said, this beast has the ability to fight two levels higher than itself. I don't believe that shit, but our Commander wanted us to test it out."

"Sure, sure," the lizard commented nonchalantly. "We just need to test it and then kill him. After all, that's why both of us have been sent to this shitty backwater place."

The ape sneered and huffed. "Yeah, we're so far away from our home that the beasts here don't even know about our Kingdom. It's been a long while since some weaklings dared to question me. If our Commander hadn't said that we shouldn't waste food, I would have annihilated these weaklings."

The lizard only rolled his eyes. "Why do you care what some ants think about you? That's exactly what the Commander meant when she said that this is your biggest weakness. We stand above them. After all, only power matters."

The ape huffed again and crossed his arms. Yet, he seemed to have accepted the lizard's words. This showed that they respected their Commander quite a bit.

"Anyway, let's greet him," the lizard said with a bloodthirsty smirk.

The ape nodded.

shot at the Spire with quite some speed. Soon, Gravis noticed them

thing was that both beasts were relatively small for being level four Lords. This meant that they knew the advantage of having a small body,

been only about ten-meters-tall when they became level one Lords, quite small in comparison to other beasts. This showed that they

small size. This also means that they have been guided in their past. They probably

other thing that surprised Gravis was the ape. It wasn't his body that impressed him, but what he carried in his hands. The ape carried a thick and powerful tree-trunk in his

could use something other than their body to fight. Using something external like ore

power of the tree and guessed that it was the trunk of a Late Unity Plant. This meant that the trunk was probably even harder than all the saber's that Gravis had crafted. Gravis had a lot of

Then, he slowly stood up and readied himself. Two level four Lords had arrived, and both of them seemed to be quite experienced and

asked Gravis. "According to our intel, you

Gravis said slowly. "I knew that I had offended enemies above our ability to withstand. So, to protect my beasts, I disbanded the River Tribe and

each other in uncertainty. Then, the lizard turned back to Gravis. "Have they created another River Tribe somewhere else?" he asked with

as me," Gravis said. "The sea beasts and Land beasts have

again with a questioning look. In answer, the lizard only waved one of his claws dismissively. "I think we can consider the first part of our mission complete then. After all, our mission was to destroy the River

Sadly, the Commander had said that the lizard would make the calls during their mission. It wasn't that the lizard was stronger, but that he

the lizard said as he turned to Gravis with a grin. "That only leaves

grinned maliciously as he also

it was about to attack him. He only hoped that they took him lightly and that he could kill

BOOOOOM!

forward and slammed the tree into the Spire, right onto Gravis. The Spire completely broke apart with a mighty explosion since

Whooosh!

the ape and opened his mouth. A second later, the lightning bolt that had been there a second ago transformed into Gravis. Gravis only

with an attack from the side when it didn't pay attention, but the lizard had been too careful. His

the ape as he looked at Gravis. "You didn't take your