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."

different to me, but that is why

to get the mental image of mating with a cat out of his mind. He was a human, and he really didn't have any romantic interest in

it in more detail, because I

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

said as she scanned Gravis, which made him really uncomfortable. "Your scales are superior to my fur, which means your defense is better

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 legs have claws and have a form that gives

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

to grab stuff. Additionally, you can injure your enemy with them. Your mouth

sighed again. "All in all, you have the most effective body for 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 make you even more

right claw. "Hm, so it's all about the power of the eventual offspring,

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 you feel that?" she

attractiveness of his weird lizard-body with a cat really wasn't something he had expected he would ever do. This whole situation

even consider me as a mate? We are so different. I doubt we would even be able to produce offspring. How would

question. "Of course we can mate," she said. "As soon as we become Lords, there is no restriction regarding species anymore. Our bodies are powerful enough to force the

taken aback. "What?" he simply

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

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

mate with every other beast, how come I haven't

some weird looking beast? If beasts can just mate with anything, the

honestly didn't know about these things, which felt unreal to her. "Because the offspring looks identical to the parent with the higher combat potential," she said