Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis' body changed and began to grow violently. After around a minute, his body had reached a height of 400 meters, which was colossal for human standards, but small for beast standards. Gravis closed his eyes and felt the power of his new body, Spirit, and lightning.

'Most of my absorbed power has been used to kill the moray eel, but his death gave me even more Energy. My Lightning has already reached a power of 250% relative to my level, which should be the halfway mark to the next Realm. Another half and I will know my answer,' Gravis thought with narrowed eyes.

Gravis had absorbed a lot of corpses from level four Lords and level five Lords. He had basically cleaned up the whole battlefield. This was an incredible amount of Energy, even for him. If he hadn't used the Energy to kill the King, he would have been able to become a King. Of course, without using that Energy, he wouldn't have been able to kill the King in the first place. It was a necessary sacrifice.

By now, the fighting had calmed down, and the land beasts all looked at Gravis with stunned eyes. The mighty Lightning Crescent had blinded them, but a minute was more than enough to heal their eyes. Temporary blindness wasn't difficult for them to heal quickly.

Meanwhile, Gravis looked upward with furrowed brows. 'My Will-Aura has also increased, though not as much as I would have liked. As soon as I managed to absorb the corpses, my survival had been guaranteed. But hey, at least it increased, right?' Gravis thought as he tried to remain positive.

Gravis sighed, creating some bubbles. 'My Will-Aura has not increased faster than the progression of my Realm. This little growth only allows me to keep the relative strength of my Will-Aura equal to my new Realm.'

Then, Gravis turned to the beasts and looked at them. All the sea beasts had died, and some more corpses littered the seafloor. When Gravis had absorbed the corpses, the war hadn't ended yet.

"Sorry for absorbing your spoils, but without them, I wouldn't have been able to kill the moray eel," Gravis transmitted to the beasts.

The beasts were a bit taken aback.

"Hey!" an elephant transmitted to everyone as he swam forward. This was the same elephant that had told Gravis to move, back on the two mountains. "What are you talking about?" he asked. "Without you, we all would be dead!"

All the beasts nodded with victorious smiles. "Yeah! So what if we lose some corpses? That's still better than dying!" another beast shouted.

A lot of beasts agreed and transmitted similar thoughts to everyone else.

Gravis was taken aback when he heard them. Their thoughts all appeared genuine, and Gravis saw no falsehood in them. This meant that they really didn't mind that he ate nearly all the corpses.

Some seconds later, Gravis chuckled a bit. 'I forgot, these are beasts, not humans. Humans would have made a huge deal about this to gain more resources for themselves, but beasts don't think like that. They see that I have saved their lives, and they don't care about what I have taken from them. I really prefer the attitude of beasts over humans.'

with a smirk. "Then, let's gather the corpses and see who gets what. Even though I had to use up a lot of the corpses, there is still a lot to go around. We will just check who

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

him at absolutely insane speeds. His new Spirit Sense already managed to keep watch over the surrounding 160 kilometers, but the power was still

to see what was approaching. What he saw shocked and terrorized

of ice were shooting towards him from a distance. All the water around them froze as they left behind a vast tunnel made out of ice. Gravis felt their power, and he knew that he wouldn't be able to resist such

beasts but elemental attacks that had been created with the

just barely realized the approaching danger before it already arrived. In no time at all, the dragons were only 40 kilometers away from him. There was nothing he could

BOOOM! BOOM!

dragons crashed into the wall, nearly destroying it in

the world as the bodies of all

BOOOOM! BANG! BANG!

and gigantic arms, nearly five-kilometers-long caught the ice

suddenly appeared in front of him to block the attack. 'I'm not dead?' Gravis thought in

beast was a pangolin, around 50-kilometers-long. Yet, it had incredibly long and muscular arms

BOOM!

pangolin shot forward with astonishing speed. Gravis had barely been able

WHOOOOOM!

over the water's surface, just barely within Gravis' Spirit Sense.

WHOOM! WHOOM! WHOOM! WHOOM!

beasts shot past Gravis with insane speeds. All of them charged into the direction where the

to the defensive line!" the powerful voice from earlier echoed throughout

but quickly got back their bearings. Then, they

Whoooop!

corpses vanished suddenly, surprising all the

space! We will distribute them later!" Gravis shouted at the

but they couldn't hesitate now. In

What had happened?