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.

were only now managing to uncover them, or something in the sea beasts' conduct had changed

gave an incredible amount of intelligence, which would allow the sea beasts to triumph more. Because of that, the Empress

hundreds of years, the battles between the land beasts

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 didn't

In actuality, it was more about the place and the styles in which the battles have

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 luck.

There had to be a great Commander and strategist in the sea beasts' ranks, someone that

away with not handling things perfectly. Yet, now, every decision had bigger and more far-reaching consequences. If this continued, the sea beasts might gain an additional, huge chunk of

how humans fought wars. Gravis had told her more about how human societies functioned, and

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

that would be about equally as powerful as an enemy. They would send in

the human way of conducting a war way more. It was

told

would take way less risky battles but would immediately overwhelm a weaker force. Due to that, there would be many times fewer casualties

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 human way

the Empress that humans wouldn't directly kill the traitor or spy but feed them false information to lead the enemy into an ambush. Another usage of spies would be to use them to find even more spies. After all, the spies generally knew

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

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

be able to do anything to him. Additionally,

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 wolf and