Lightning Is the Only Way

"I won," Gravis said evenly as he looked at Cynthia.

Cynthia was taken aback as she heard Gravis' words. What did he mean by he won? She was about to kill him, and he said that he won? Did he expect that he would be able to fight her? Gravis might have an impressive Battle-Strength, but Cynthia was sure that he wouldn't be able to fight over a full Realm above himself.

Cynthia shook her head to regain her bearings. It didn't matter what Gravis said. She just had to kill him, and everything will return to normal.

BANG!

The ground below Cynthia exploded as she burst forward with ridiculous speed. The Red King's abode was made out of incredibly powerful ore, and not even Gravis would be able to damage it. Yet, Cynthia just randomly destroyed it by accelerating.

Instead of getting ready for battle, Gravis just continued sitting there. If he were to fight her, he wouldn't be able to survive. Her speed was just way too fast for him. He wouldn't even be able to react to any of her attacks.

BOOOOOOM

But it wasn't Gravis fighting her.

Cynthia got flung back as a powerful fireball exploded before her, and her skin received a tremendous amount of cuts and burns. If that fireball had hit her directly, she wouldn't be alive anymore.

Cynthia's eyes widened in shock, terror, and fear as she realized who had attacked. There was only one beast inside the Red Kingdom that outclassed her to such a degree.

A small, red hawk landed between Gravis and Cynthia as it looked at Cynthia with unending fury. One of his commanders had betrayed him!

"M-My King," Cynthia quivered in terror. Why was the Red King here? Didn't he say that he would be gone for a couple of days?

"Explain yourself, commander," the Red King said with an icy voice that didn't allow for any disobedience.

"My-My King, this beast has cl-clouded your mind! Please, you must see the

would be able to protect him, the Red King!? He was one of the most powerful level five Kings in existence! He could even resist Emperors for a while! How dare this weak beast assume that it could protect him from anything!?

commander?" the Red

that you would have never said! You

are a kind and benevolent King. You always wanted the best for us, and I believe in you," Cynthia said weakly and sadly. "Please, you must see reason, my King! This Lord has put thoughts in your mind about grandeur and power,

BOOOOOOOOM!

Cynthia was

Red King spat one word after the other. Gravis could hear

to be cruel and make sacrifices. The Red King knew these things and was ready to go through with these sacrifices. Otherwise,

and benevolence? Even Lords knew that power was everything, so how did this beast reach the power of a level three King while still believing in these childish and

insult. Being benevolent meant that he wasn't ready to give everything for power. If

many beasts and had enslaved so many others. The Red King was proud of himself, but he wasn't a hypocrite. He knew that he wasn't kind

and hypocritical. He just couldn't believe that there was a high-ranking beast inside his Kingdom with such a weak

behind the Red King,

to Gravis with burning eyes and glared at him. Gravis only looked back with his usual, even

some deep breaths to calm down. Gravis didn't interject since he wasn't

minutes passed in which the Red King glanced at the burned crater to his side. Nothing was left of Cynthia. Usually, he wouldn't have wasted a valuable corpse like that, but he

Subconsciously, he had already degraded Cynthia from commander

"I didn't," Gravis answered.

his brows and

Cynthia would betray you or not. After all, I only know her superficially. There was a 50% chance in my mind that she would change her mindset,

"And this 20% chance was enough for you to make a bet with me?" the

turned out to be true, I would

King sighed when he