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."

me, but

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 attraction for any beast. It felt disgusting

explain it in more detail, because I still

I would suspect that you're fishing for compliments," Cynthia said but

the weaknesses in my own body," Cynthia slowly said as she scanned Gravis, which made

and I can see 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

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

more power with your arms. 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 become an obvious target

combat I have ever seen. I see no weaknesses at all. The only thing I could criticize is that you only have two arms. A second pair of arms could

his chin with his right claw. "Hm, so it's all about the

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

attractiveness of his weird lizard-body with a

his bearings back. "How could you even consider me as a mate? We are so different. I doubt we would even be able to produce offspring. How would such offspring even look like?"

she said. "As soon as we become Lords, there is no restriction regarding species anymore. Our bodies are powerful enough to force the conception of a new life,"

taken aback. "What?" he simply

in attraction. It's instinct.

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

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 could fit into a

can just mate with anything, the beasts would start looking really weird after some point," Gravis asked

these things, which felt unreal to her. "Because the offspring looks identical to the parent with the higher combat potential," she said like it was something