Lightning Is the Only Way

Cynthia looked at the regenerated Gravis with a slightly opened mouth. She seemed rather shocked by what she saw. "You look incredible," she commented.

Gravis blinked a couple of times out of confusion. Then, he pointed at himself with a questioning look. "Me? How do I look incredible?" he asked in genuine confusion. Where did that comment suddenly come from?

Cynthia looked back at Gravis with an annoyed expression. "Don't act like you don't know," she said.

Gravis shook his head in surprise again. "But I genuinely don't know. I really don't get it. No one has ever said something like that to me," Gravis said.

Cynthia was a bit taken aback. "No one?" she asked.

Gravis nodded. "Yes, no one. I really don't get it. You're some kind of cat, and I'm some kind of lizard thing. My body doesn't even conform to any general look of any other beast. How could something like this be incredible or attractive?" he asked.

Cynthia lifted one of her eyebrows in confusion. "So, you really don't know?"

Gravis groaned. "No, I don't," he said.

Cynthia looked at Gravis again and scanned his entire body. "The more powerful we beasts become, the more we realize the combat potential of different bodies. At the beginning of our journey, we mainly look at beasts that look similar to us, but at some point, we can only see the inadequacies of other bodies. This completely changes our tastes for a mate."

Gravis was still confused. "But you have fur, while I have scales. You walk on four legs, while I walk on two. You have paws, while I have hands. We both are nearly as far away from each other in terms of looks as it gets."

"That's why you look incredible," Cynthia said. "When you didn't have any arms and legs, you looked weak and vulnerable, something we powerful beasts despise. After all, we all want to reach supreme power, and mating with someone like that would produce weak offspring."

as your limbs have regenerated, all these weaknesses left. Yes, you look entirely different to me, but that

a cat out of his mind. He was a human, and he really didn't have any romantic interest in a cat. He hadn't felt any

you explain it in more detail, because I still don't

that you're not lying, I would suspect that you're fishing

own body," Cynthia slowly said as she scanned Gravis, which made him really uncomfortable. "Your scales are superior to my fur, which means your

that even if you lost that tail, you would still have no issues with your balance. You can use that tail more effectively than I can use mine. Your legs have claws

defensive weakness of your waist only exists in theory. Your claws, chest, and forward-leaning position keep your waist protected. Like this, your

Your arms are long, powerful and allow you to grab stuff. Additionally, you can injure your enemy with them. Your mouth has strong teeth and a powerful jaw, but your head isn't big enough to

see no weaknesses at all. The only thing I could criticize is that you only have two arms. A

so it's all about the power of the eventual

at Gravis like he asked a dumb question. "Of course. Power is everything. No powerful beast wants to have weak offspring. The more powerful our offspring, the better. Don't

felt uncomfortable with this whole topic. Talking about the sexual attractiveness of his weird lizard-body with a cat really wasn't something he had expected he would ever do.

are so different. I doubt

again like Gravis had asked a stupid question. "Of course we can mate," she said. "As soon as we become Lords, there is no restriction regarding species anymore. Our

was taken aback. "What?" he

you're just messing with me. Every beast knows that. After all, we all feel the change in attraction. It's instinct. You're a beast, so

After some seconds, his right claw went back to his face to scratch his chin. 'I've never heard about that before. Is this some kind of rule or Law that the highest Heaven put into place? I mean, it would probably increase the quality of the beasts without needing to increase their Energy consumption.

tempering. Yet, if every beast can mate with every other beast, how come I haven't seen a single really weird-looking beast before? All of the beasts I have seen previously

true, how come I've never seen some weird looking beast? If beasts can just mate with anything, the beasts would start looking

her. "Because the offspring looks identical to the parent with the higher combat potential," she said like it was