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.

the sea beasts. 'They're really dead set on killing me. They have sent so many Kings to their deaths just for a chance

level one Emperors in this world, but beasts that can kill three levels above

powerful and get back to the Empire. Additionally, the

she transmitted with excitement. "You have done a great service to the land beasts. Please return to your comrades and wait for further instruction.

that his comrades had survived. He didn't know the name of any of the beasts that had fought alongside him in the invasion, but for some reason,

with someone against a common enemy 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

time 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 three

the same

refocus. The cat was already looking at him weirdly since he had remained silent for

can't miss them," she said. "Wait for my signal, and we will return. The battlefield is still unstable

has

you, which had forced him to move out of the defensive line. Our two level four Kings have then engaged him together

of powerful Kings that tried to kill me. Even two traitors have

Two traitors?

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

nodded once more to the cat and then flew to the west. The cat flew to the north to do whatever she had to deal

in a forest. As soon as he approached, the beasts

alive!" many of them shouted in

felt a bit embarrassed and also felt a bit distant from them. Obviously,

Whoop!

of the manta ray appeared in front of the beasts,

I've promised, this corpse is yours," Gravis

the beasts felt a bit apprehensive. "Are you sure you want to give us the whole corpse?" one of them asked. "This corpse is worth more than the entire enemy army that we have

had around 50 times the power of a level five Lord remaining. With the remaining circa 50 beasts, every beast would get the equivalent of one corpse