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.

the sea beasts had always had so many spies previously, and they were only now managing to uncover them, or something in the sea beasts' conduct had changed drastically in the

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

hundreds of years, the battles between the land beasts and sea beasts had been

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

reason for the sea beasts' higher number of victories wasn't their power. In actuality, it was

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.

of. There had to be a great Commander and strategist in the sea beasts' ranks, someone that knew a lot more about

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 sea beasts might gain an additional, huge chunk of the

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 strategies that the sea beasts used

the individual than about the greater collective. Due to that, when an Empire attacked, they sent in about as many troops as the enemy had. If they managed to come out victorious, they would get a lot more powerful

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,

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

Judging by what Gravis had told her and by how he had described the humans' way of

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

spies existed for beasts, their number wasn't nearly as high as if they were humans. The sudden increase of spies supported

the enemy into an ambush. Another usage of spies would be to use them to find

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

enter the

and killing him would probably be worth about as much as killing an Emperor. The sea

affinity towards lightning. As long as Gravis was there, the silver wolf wouldn't be able to do anything to him. Additionally,

of 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