Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis readied himself to leave, but he got interrupted by another question from the badger before he could.

"You're from the Icy Pride Empire, right?" the badger asked.

Gravis didn't want to talk right now, but the badger and the mantis have helped him, even if it was in a way that he didn't like. "Yes," Gravis answered.

"Hmm," the badger hummed. "According to your level and Battle-Strength, you're probably a mate to the Icy Pride Empress, correct?"

"My status says I'm a mate, yes," Gravis answered.

"Interesting," the badger answered. "Who knows, maybe we will see each other again." Then, the badger gestured towards the north with his head. "Go to the northern front line, and don't worry. If some sea beast tries to ambush you, I will kill them before they can react."

Gravis nodded and flew towards the north without saying anything. Meanwhile, the badger just rubbed his chin with a smirk. "Meeting one of the Empress' mates is rare indeed. What a nice day," the badger mumbled to himself.

Gravis didn't hear anything of the badger's mumblings as he flew to the north. The distance from here to the other defensive line was probably around 2000 kilometers, but that was nothing he couldn't clear in a couple of minutes.

A minute later, Gravis saw someone else enter into his Spirit Sense's range. It was a level two King, and by the looks of their body, it was a sea beast. Gravis narrowed his eyes and looked at the incoming beast.

CRR!

Suddenly, the earth beneath the King moved with insane speeds, and spikes of hardened earth penetrated the entire beast. The King was dead in less than a second. 'Sure enough, the badger wasn't lying,' Gravis thought.

BRRRR!

Then, the earth beneath the corpse rose and carried the corpse to the south. Gravis hadn't killed that beast, so he had no claim to the corpse.

he turned to the east, towards the territories of the sea beasts. 'They're really dead set on killing me. They have sent

sighed. 'Though, I guess it makes some sense. According to logic, there should be over 10,000 level one Emperors in this world, but beasts that can kill three levels above themselves are

reality. Right now, he needed to become more powerful and get back to the Empire. Additionally, the whole thing with the rule weighed heavier on his mind than some enemies

King cat contacted him. "Welcome back," she transmitted with excitement. "You have done a great service to the land beasts. Please return to your comrades and wait for further instruction. I will escort you back to the Icy Price Empire in a couple

of any of

had been with Old Man Lightning and Lasar in the Darkness Sect. Even in the Heaven's Trial, Gravis had been more of an onlooker and coach to the group instead

when two level three Lords had invaded the River Tribe's territory. Back then, the situation could be described as Gravis fighting together against a common enemy with Morn, Orthar, and Silva. Of course, it was still different in the sense that those

Gravis thought. 'We are all under the same banner, and because of that, I feel for my companions? Could

since he

said. "Wait for my signal, and we will return. The battlefield is still unstable right now, and we need to

guess our side has won

kill you, which had forced him to move out of the defensive line. Our two level four Kings

though?' Gravis thought with skepticism. 'There were still a couple of powerful Kings that tried to kill me. Even

Two traitors?

hippo, while the other traitor had been the beast that had shot the fire beam at him. Sea beasts with an affinity for fire were extremely rare. The chances of the attacker being a traitor was higher than a sea beast having a fire

the cat and then flew to the west. The

his companions sitting in a forest. As soon as he approached,

alive!" many of

embarrassed and also felt a bit distant

Whoop!

corpse of the manta ray appeared in front of the beasts, surprising

I've promised, this corpse is

bit apprehensive. "Are you sure you want to give us the whole corpse?" one of them asked. "This corpse is worth

around 50 times the power of a level five Lord remaining. With the remaining