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.

of hours, even though the lion had been even

to sleep now. He wanted to hunt more! Something inside of

this feeling, Aris started walking into the forest in search of more prey. His

saw some small animals on his travel through the forest, but he ignored them. For some reason, he despised eating these small and

CRK!

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

BANG!

powerful hit. The attacker hit 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

a black panther who had already received major injuries from the tail swipe. Aris arrived quickly and

hungry but not so hungry that it overwhelmed his inherent disgust for anything weak. With that thought,

hours passed, but Aris never ate the corpses. All

tiredness was stronger than his drive for finding powerful prey. Without looking for any kind of shelter,

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

Boom! Boom! Boom!

centipede had already noticed Aris, but it ignored him. In the centipede's eyes, this beast simply appeared too weak.

his blood began to boil. This centipede looked

BANG!

charged at the centipede. By now, Aris had gotten used to walking and running, and he wasn't clumsy anymore. He had already realized that

and turned to him. Then, it snapped

that this attack wasn't as weak as all the others he had experienced. His brain scrambled to find a way out of this situation. Fortunately, he managed to come up with a solution

Aris had used way too much power in his jump and jumped too high. He was well above the head of the centipede, giving it enough time to react. After a second, the pincers already pointed towards Aris

CRACK!

evade in the air, and the pincers closed around him. Some of his scales cracked, but the attack hadn't

BANG! BANG! BANG!