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.

want to stay in this squad anymore, believing it to be a place of death. Yet, they had made their choice, and they needed

critical lack of success of this striking squad was one of the reasons why the Empress had sent him here. With Gravis' power, the success

worry, I can understand," Gravis said

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

with misery!" the silver wolf shouted at his squad. "We just got a new member! We need to be happy for every new

in the past several years, and someone always dies. There's no reason to get close to someone who will soon die

"Oh, come on. It's not

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 I

depression polluting the atmosphere. His squad

not confident in keeping everyone alive, but we should be able

the group didn't echo Gravis' sentiment. They felt like beasts that had lost their will to fight. It was like they

Gravis!" the silver wolf shouted, trying to distract the squad from their negative thoughts. "How powerful

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

Something was wrong.

chance of killing a level four King or that he was confident in fighting

a bit when Gravis said that. It technically wasn't a lie, but it also wasn't stating

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

to have! I would have almost believed that you would say you would be confident