Lightning Is the Only Way

"Hi, I'm Gravis, and I will be part of your squad from now on!" Gravis introduced himself politely to a group of four beasts sitting in front of him.

"Hello, Gravis," a friendly but demotivated chorus came from the beasts.

Gravis only laughed when he heard that demotivated echo. "Oh, come on! Show some more spirit!" he said encouragingly.

Instead of answering, most of the beasts remained silent. Some of them even sighed.

"Gravis, I'm happy to have you in my team!" a small silver wolf said from in front of Gravis with friendliness as he stepped forward. "Don't mind the squad's lack of enthusiasm. We simply had a rough patch for the last couple of years with a lot of deaths. But hey, bad things can't keep happening forever! At some point, our luck will turn for the better!"

This was Gravis' new team.

The whole squad was made out of previous mates to the Empress. This meant that every single beast in here was mighty. Some of them were barely able to fight two levels above themselves in the King Realm. One had to understand that fighting two levels above oneself as a King was way more impressive than fighting two levels above oneself as a Lord.

So, even when all of the members were made out of previous mates to the Empress, not every member of the group could fight two levels above themselves. However, all of them could jump one level.

This was the Empire's elite striking squad. The squad would travel to one defensive line after the other and attack the enemy's defensive line together with their own defensive line. Of course, the sea beasts also had several such striking squads.

This squad was under the leadership of a silver wolf with the lightning element. The wolf was a level three King, and he could fight level four Kings without any issues. He was pretty powerful.

the fights. Because of that, all the members were disheartened. They didn't want to stay in this squad anymore, believing it to be a place of death. Yet, they had made their choice, and they needed to go

Empress had sent him

understand," Gravis said with a smile. "Don't worry, with me

arrogant, but beasts didn't mind them. Additionally, weren't all of them the most elite of beasts? After all, they had all been

misery!" the silver wolf shouted at his squad. "We just

point?" a red lizard said from the side with an annoyed tone. "We have had so few successes in the past several

come on. It's

most senior member in this squad, excluding you, and I have only been in two raids. Everyone that has joined this squad before me has already died. Chances are that

all this depression polluting the atmosphere. His squad needed to be motivated in order to bring out their full

it to you in our next raid," Gravis said. "I'm not confident in keeping everyone alive, but we should be able to get through

Gravis' sentiment. They felt like beasts that had lost their will to fight. It was

to distract the squad from

to fight a level three King, but I haven't had the

Something was wrong.

he would normally answer such a question. He would say something like that he had a 50% chance of killing a level four King or that he was confident in fighting a level four King. Yet, Gravis had said that he only thought that he SHOULD be able to fight a level three King. This

technically wasn't a lie, but it also wasn't stating the whole truth. This could be seen

got. By now, Gravis was able to transmit quite some complex concepts to his lightning, and it also became more reasonable in its demands. The lightning knew why Gravis said that and accepted Gravis' soft form of dishonesty, but only because of the current

impressed. "Not bad! You're not underestimating the powerful Kings. That's a good quality to have! I would have almost believed that you