Lightning Is the Only Way

"RAAAAH!"

The lion looked towards the origin of the shout and saw a small beast charging at him clumsily.

More food had appeared.

The lion was a Low-Rank Demonic Beast, and it had realized that weak beasts appeared from the direction of the earth walls in random intervals. These beasts had no experience and became easy food for the lion. Staying here had proven quite fruitful.

The lion righted itself and charged at the approaching attacker. This fight would end quickly, just like all the other ones. As the attacker neared the lion, the lion lifted one of its claws to strike the opponent.

BANG! CRK!

The swipe hit, but for some reason, the lion wasn't powerful enough to throw the attacker to the side. Additionally, its claws broke on the attacker's scales. The lion had never experienced anything like this!

BANG!

The lion was thrown into the distance as a huge gash nearly tore its right front-leg off. The lion panicked, and after sliding for a couple of meters, it got up again.

BANG!

But not before the attacker reached it and started wailing on the lion with all kinds of random attacks. Yet, all of these attacks proved effective as chunks of flesh got thrown into the distance. The lion couldn't do anything as it was reduced to chunks by the attacks.

In less than a minute, the lion's life ended. Aris had made his first kill, and it had proven incredibly easy. After seeing that the lion stopped moving, Aris calmed down again and looked at the corpse. For some reason, he wasn't satisfied. He somehow felt disappointed.

Aris didn't know why he felt this way. He wanted food, and now he had food. Something inside him told him that he shouldn't eat the corpse. Yet, his hunger disagreed. So, Aris dug in and began to consume the corpse, but he didn't feel happy or fulfilled while doing so.

had been even bigger than him. Additionally, his size hadn't even

more! Something inside of him told

started walking into the forest in search of more prey. His hunger hadn't disappeared,

on his travel through the forest, but he ignored them. For some reason, he despised eating

CRK!

fell on top of Aris and bit him in the neck, but the attacker's teeth broke on the scales. Aris became panicked as he was attacked and

BANG!

a tree and broke it with the impact. Aris stood up, his panic replaced with fury, as he charged at his attacker. He quickly found his

had already received major injuries from the tail swipe. Aris arrived quickly and ended the panther's life before it could stand up

so hungry that it overwhelmed his inherent disgust for anything weak. With

corpses. All of these beasts were too weak! He hated that

was stronger than his drive for finding powerful prey.

powerful, but that he had been ambushed by too many weaklings! His

Boom! Boom! Boom!

looked into the distance. There, he saw an over ten-meter-long centipede. The centipede had already noticed Aris, but it ignored him. In the centipede's eyes, this beast simply appeared too weak. The centipede required prey on its own level. After all, it was a

boil. This centipede looked powerful! All tiredness vanished from his

BANG!

and he wasn't clumsy anymore. He had already realized that he could also

and turned to him. Then, it

wasn't as weak as all the others he had experienced. His brain scrambled to find a way out

centipede's teeth snapped shut, but it hadn't caught anything. Surprised, the centipede looked upward and saw the falling Aris. Aris had used way too much power in his jump and jumped too high. He was

CRACK!

scales cracked, but the attack hadn't injured him. Yet, he felt a crushing pressure on his chest as the teeth tried to break him

BANG! BANG! BANG!