Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis just looked at the Empress nervously. Now it was official. He was to be her mate. Yet, Gravis still didn't want to have any children, and he really wasn't sure how he should tell that fact to the Empress.

"Gravis," the Empress said, making Gravis' nervousness rise more. "Did you come from a lower world?" she asked.

Gravis was surprised when he heard that. How did she know? Yet, he quickly calmed down as he realized something. Of course, she would know about the lower worlds. After all, the beasts in many lower worlds would end up in this middle world.

"I came from a different world, yes," Gravis said.

The Empress sighed. "That's what I've thought. Usually, when you become a Spirit Beast, you get scouted by the Tribe, Kingdom, or Empire where you currently reside in. Then, they will teach you all the relevant information."

"Yet," the Empress said as she looked at Gravis more closely. "Even ascenders would be taught the basics. As you surely know, the ascenders appear randomly anywhere in our world, which means that they all get easily found by the Tribes. After all, the sudden appearance of a Lord inside one's territory will get noticed very quickly."

"For some reason," the Empress continued, "You haven't gone through any of that. I wonder, where have you materialized?" she asked.

Gravis wasn't sure how he should answer the question. Land beasts obviously had some enmity with sea beasts, and if he told her that he materialized in the ocean, she might think he was a sea beast. Would she kill him then?

Gravis sighed. 'Well, might as well ask, right?' Gravis thought.

"Before I tell you, could you please tell me why there is this enmity between sea beasts and land beasts going on? Also, could you please tell me what makes a land beast a land beast and a sea beast a sea beast?" Gravis asked.

After that question, the Empress quickly realized that Gravis counted himself as a sea beast. Yet, she didn't seem to mind much. "The generally accepted reason is that the sea beasts are different from us. They want to transform the land into sea, while we want to transform the sea into land. That's the official reason why we war with each other."

at all. As you know, Lords don't care where they live. Water and land make no difference. Therefore, this generally accepted reason for war doesn't really

genuine war where everyone tries to kill the other side

point, the sea beasts and land beasts started encroaching on the other's territory. Everyone acted like this was an affront to them, but in reality, they

there isn't really some deep enmity. The beasts simply established two about equally powerful parties so

no real definition for sea

Battle-Strength. At that point, they also become nearly indistinguishable from land beasts. In reality, there are no real

one of the two camps. As soon as you join, you will be part of that side. So, right now, you count as a land

secrets of the world, he realized that everything was

the lower world, but there was still one crucial factor that was different. In the lower world, the war between the Sects hadn't actually been a real one. Yet, the war in this middle world was a genuine one. Both

to fear their Sect getting eradicated. Yet, in this world, this danger was real. At first glance, this didn't seem much

the individual. Not everyone was ready to sacrifice themselves for supreme power, but many were ready to sacrifice themselves for their home. Silva was a good

in the lower world, he could've lived out his time in peace without fighting. Yet, here, this wasn't so easy. The sea beasts would want to attack his Tribe no matter what. Because of this whole dynamic, even someone as relatively peaceful as

They could decide if they wanted to become powerful or not. Yet, this choice didn't exist in

understood another thing, which had bothered him

made out of both sea beasts and land beasts, it would undermine the

possible to live together with the other party without any issue. Yet, we want to keep the war

on her throne. "Also, making such a Tribe is pointless,"

disagreed, but now he understood more about the world. "Because if the Tribe manages to conquer the world, no more enemies will be left. Yet, since we all need enemies, the beasts would just search for the next best reason to go to war,

will default back to this war. Why is that? That's because this war is the

tempering experience since everyone is their enemy. However, it's also very dangerous," she