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.

previously, and they were only now managing to uncover them,

correct answer. If the sea beasts 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,

been happening over the past decade. For hundreds of years, the battles between the land beasts and sea beasts had been

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 like this

higher number of victories wasn't their power. In actuality, it was more about the place and the styles in

beasts often had a minor edge in numbers and power. If that happened in only one battle, one could simply attribute that to bad luck. Yet, that had been happening for a frightening number

one explanation that the Empress could think of. There had to be a great Commander and strategist in the sea beasts' ranks, someone that knew a lot more about war than nearly

the Empress started to change her approach. In the beginning, when the balance was still there, she could get away with not handling things perfectly. Yet, now, every decision had bigger and more far-reaching consequences. If this continued, the

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

the individual than about the greater collective. Due to that, when an Empire attacked, they sent in about as many troops

an army that would be about equally as powerful as an enemy. They would send in an army slightly stronger or overwhelmingly stronger, depending on what

fighting resembled the human way of conducting a war way more. It was almost like an experienced human

and traitors. Judging by what Gravis had told her and

would take way less risky battles but would immediately overwhelm a weaker force. Due to that, there would be many times fewer casualties in these wars. Of course, the drawback was that there wouldn't appear so many really outstanding humans. After all,

for beasts, their number wasn't nearly as high as if they were humans. The sudden increase of spies supported the fact that someone very familiar with the

them false information to lead the enemy into an ambush. Another usage

The striking squad had an unrealistically high death rate. Such an elite squad shouldn't have so many casualties, and all of this

enter the

beasts. Gravis' Battle-Strength was monumental, and killing him would probably

affinity towards lightning. As long as Gravis was there, the silver wolf wouldn't be able to do anything to him. Additionally, not the entire squad could be traitors. This meant that the silver wolf needed to get another companion

four King or a level five King to help him. If it were a level four King, Gravis could kill the wolf and get the opponent he wanted. If it were a