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, or something in the sea beasts' conduct had

have been so even over the past few centuries. Spies gave an incredible amount of intelligence, which would allow the sea beasts to triumph

average outcome of the battles that had been happening over the past decade. For hundreds of years, the battles between the

changed a little more than 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

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

land beasts attacked, 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

had to be a great Commander and strategist in the sea beasts' ranks, someone that knew a lot more about war than nearly

change her approach. In the beginning, when the balance was still there, she could get away with not handling things perfectly. Yet, now,

about how human societies functioned, and he also

an Empire attacked, they sent in about as many troops as the enemy had. If

differently. 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 slightly stronger or overwhelmingly stronger, depending on what their goals and resources

human way of conducting a war way more. It was almost like an

how he would deal with spies and traitors. Judging by what Gravis had told her and by how he had described the humans' way of thinking, she saw that their war style had

force. Due to that, there would be many times fewer casualties in

The sudden increase of spies supported the fact

an ambush. Another usage of spies

a lot of talking, the Empress told Gravis her idea. The striking squad had an unrealistically high death rate. Such an elite squad shouldn't 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, she decided to change

enter

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

be able to do anything to him. Additionally, not the entire

that, the Empress would be sure that the silver wolf would either get a level four King or a level five King to help him. If it were a level four King, Gravis could kill the