Lightning Is the Only Way

One King stepped forward into the arena, while five others followed him. All of these Kings had their candidates killed and wouldn't receive their rewards because of that. This made them incredibly angry since the reward was the only reason they were here to begin with.

The King who brought the best candidate received an incredible reward, while others still received a participation award. After all, they had brought powerful beasts to the Empire.

After the breeder had been chosen, all other candidates would join the Empire. None of the candidates were weak, and they were all valuable beasts. Because of that, all other Kings would still get something. Yet, if their candidate died, all of this wouldn't matter.

The remaining three Kings, who had their candidates killed, remained stationary and didn't say anything, as they simply watched.

"This beast has killed several candidates without your explicit consent, and therefore, has disre-"

"You dropped something," the Empress interrupted.

The King felt taken aback when the Empress interrupted him. He immediately took back his anger. "Yes, my Empress?" he asked deferentially.

SHING! BANG!

All six Kings exploded as ice spears penetrated their bodies. Only some icy dust remained of them.

"Your common sense," the Empress finished.

"Pfft."

genuinely shocked when they heard the sound of suppressed laughter coming from Gravis. They all looked

did this to intimidate every other King that harbored malice. What was so funny about that!? Did this beast's guts have no end? Was he not

wanted to make a joke, but he just didn't find it funny when some beasts were killed in the

present. Had the Empress just smiled? They had never seen her smile

evaluate this feeling of pride, but the white ape knew it. The Empress was proud of her own joke. The white ape wasn't a fan of that since he always tried to

turned to the Empress. "Yes?" he

by his even and casual reply. Meanwhile, the Red King only rolled his eyes in exasperation. This

Judging by the Red King's reaction, the white ape knew that this was Gravis' normal conduct. He wasn't just putting on

tried to appear intimidating and daring in front of the others, but the Red King's reaction showed him

this and started liking Gravis more. Contrary to expectation, she actually hated it when everyone was acting this subservient to her. Yet, there was nothing she could do against that. After all, by understanding the Law of Pride,

a pleasant surprise to

mate. Do you still

said, making the

furrowed brows. "You know that you are not on the cusp of understanding a new

"I

put your life

nodded again. "In my current situation, tempering seems like it's not worth the risk to you, but there is something valuable that I gain out of

at Gravis and then gazed at

to kill him, I will continue the search

five Lords gazed with battle-intent at Gravis. If one of them managed to kill Gravis, they would all have a chance to become a breeder of the Empress. This was the dream of every

he felt that. One singular level five Lord wasn't able to influence him in