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.

a lot of casualties in 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,

why the Empress had sent him here. With Gravis'

I can understand," Gravis said with a smile. "Don't worry, with me here, the success

them the most elite of beasts? After all, they had all been mates to the Empress in the past. This was the

the silver wolf shouted at his squad. "We just got a new member! We need to be

"We have had so few successes in the past several years, and someone always dies. There's

groaned. "Oh, come on. It's not that bad," the silver wolf

lizard answered. "I'm the 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

wolf found it quite difficult to establish a positive atmosphere with all this depression polluting the

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

felt like beasts that had lost their will to

trying to distract the squad from their negative thoughts. "How powerful are you?"

be able to fight a level three King, but I haven't had the opportunity to confirm that thought yet," Gravis

Something was wrong.

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 was

that. It technically wasn't a lie, but it also wasn't stating the whole truth. This could be seen as a small form of

closer his connection with his lightning got. By now, Gravis was able to transmit quite some complex concepts to his lightning, and it also became more

a good quality to have! I would have almost believed that you would say you would