Lightning Is the Only Way

Whoosh!

Jessy immediately fled into the distance after she managed to get a grasp on the situation. The plan had fallen flat, and her fellow spy, who had been even a bit more powerful than her, had died instantly. She couldn't stay here!

"Not so fast, dear," a voice came from behind her suddenly.

Jessy felt shocked, and fear raised its ugly head as she realized that she didn't recognize this beast's voice. The terrifying thing was that she hadn't felt the presence of this beast before. This meant that this beast was very likely even more powerful than her!

BRRR!

Thick walls of earth rose in front of her, cutting off her path of retreat. Just with her experience alone, Jessy was able to feel the hardness of these walls, and she knew that she wouldn't be able to crush through them in a timely manner.

Additionally, there was a bigger reason why she didn't continue. Right in front of her, on top of the newly raised wall, sat a beast casually.

"Why don't you listen to what I have to offer?" the small badger said casually.

This was the same badger that had welcomed Gravis when he had been in his first invasion. This badger was the master of the mantis that acted as the Commander of that one defensive line.

How did all of this happen?

When Gravis asked the Empress for an opponent, she had thought about something. In the last ten years, the number of spies had risen significantly. This gave her two options to consider.

managing to uncover them, or something

always had had so many spies, the battles wouldn't have been so even over the past few centuries. Spies gave an incredible amount of intelligence, which would

reason that made her come to this conclusion was the average outcome of the battles that had been happening over the past decade. For hundreds of years, the battles between the land beasts and sea beasts had been even. The land beasts won a battle, and then the

ten years ago. Right now, the sea beasts were winning more battles than they were losing, which hadn't happened in an incredible amount of time. The fact that the sea beasts won more battles broke the entire balance in the war. Something

sea beasts' higher number of victories wasn't their power. In actuality,

the sea beasts often had a minor edge in numbers and power. If that happened in only one battle, one could simply attribute that to bad

one explanation that the Empress could think of. There had to be a great Commander and

get away with not handling things perfectly. Yet, now, every

Gravis' tales and had asked him more about how humans fought wars. Gravis had told her more about how human societies functioned, and he also told her that the

attacked, they sent in about

To humans, everything was about resources and numbers. Humans weren't as willing to send in an army that would be about equally as powerful as an enemy. They would send in an army

conducting a war way more. It was almost like an

had told her and by how he had described the humans' way of thinking, she

conducting a war was safer than the beasts'. They would take way less risky battles but would immediately overwhelm a weaker force. Due to that, there would be many

The sudden increase of spies supported the fact that someone very

but feed them false information to lead the enemy into an ambush. Another usage of spies

have so many casualties, and all of this reeked of a traitor in the squad. The Empress was 90% confident that the silver wolf was a traitor. Yet, instead of confronting him,

enter the

bait the Empress could offer to the sea beasts. Gravis' Battle-Strength was monumental, and killing him would probably be worth about as much as killing an

there, the silver wolf wouldn't be able to do anything to him. Additionally, not the entire

or a level five King to help him.