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.

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

of the reasons why the Empress had sent him here.

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

arrogant, but beasts didn't mind them. Additionally, weren't all of them the most elite of beasts? After all, they had all been mates to the Empress in the past. This was

being so self-absorbed with misery!" the silver wolf shouted at his squad. "We just got a new member! We need to be happy

so few successes in the past several years, and someone always dies. There's no reason

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

the most senior member in this squad, excluding you, and I have only been in two raids.

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

in keeping everyone alive, but we should be able to get through the

felt like beasts that had lost their will to fight. It was like they were on

the silver wolf shouted, trying to distract the squad from their negative thoughts.

but I haven't had the opportunity to confirm that thought

Something was wrong.

know how 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

also wasn't stating the whole truth.

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

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