Lightning Is the Only Way

The Inquisitor immediately exploded with anger.

"GRAVIS!" he shouted into the horizons with fury.

The Inquisitor had just made a difficult choice. He had decided to break the rules for the first time in his life for the greater good. Yet, just like Commander Rime's initial intervention, his gains had become void. However, he had already committed to his choice, and he couldn't back out now. Gravis must die!

The Inquisitor hadn't intended to fight Gravis directly. Fighting him directly gave Gravis a chance to survive and become even more powerful. The Inquisitor was sure that he was more powerful than Gravis, but he couldn't leave anything up to chance. He had to kill Gravis no matter what! It was for the greater good of the Icy Pride Empire!

Yet, Gravis seemed to have already anticipated that the Inquisitor would attack him. The control of the situation had escaped the Inquisitor's grasp, and now, he either had to find Gravis or wait for him here. Then, they would fight under Gravis' conditions, not his.

"How!?" the Inquisitor said to himself in rage, making the watching squad fearful of the future. They had no idea what they should do. On the one hand, Gravis had been willing to go to the Empress and confess to his actions. This didn't make him a traitor.

On the other hand, the Inquisitor had only wanted to protect the Icy Pride Empire from danger. Gravis' conduct and mindset didn't fit the usual beast and left a lot of room for uncertainty. The beasts weren't able to judge his personality based on their own experiences since Gravis simply didn't act like a beast.

What were they supposed to do? None of the two beasts were in the wrong here. Without a leader among the squad, they couldn't decide on a course of action. Should they help the Inquisitor and inform the defensive line? If they did that and Gravis managed to kill the Inquisitor, they would be next.

Should they help Gravis and report this to an Emperor in one of the close Empires so that they could intervene? If the Inquisitor saw them doing that, he might double-down on his actions and kill them so that no one could stop him from eradicating the danger to the Icy Pride Empire.

It didn't matter what they chose. Both choices could lead to their deaths. So, in the end, they made the only correct choice, which was to not choose at all. They would simply stay here and do absolutely nothing. This was the only way they could guarantee their survival.

for their lives. Yet, the Inquisitor quickly looked away, closed his

with shock and pain. 'I have just considered killing these members of our Empire to secure my opportunity to kill the traitor. They have done nothing wrong and have

thought back to his interactions with Gravis over the past minutes. When had Gravis managed to escape? The Inquisitor had kept a close watch

be faulted for not noticing how and when Gravis had left. The Inquisitor had seen that Gravis could transform into lightning, but he hadn't known about Gravis' ability to split into multiple versions of his. He couldn't have

part of his attack, but most of his power must have been gathered into one of the lightning bolts that shot into the distance! I don't have an affinity for lightning, so I can't judge the power of the lightning accurately. So that's

he realized that he had never been in control of the situation. It didn't matter what he chose. Gravis would have survived anyway. Additionally, they had talked for so long that Gravis had easily escaped the range of

said that he would return in about four hours. Even though I despise him, I am certain that he wouldn't lie about something

narrowed as a cold

he thought with

Gravis was many kilometers away. Had Gravis

No.

wouldn't attack him. Yet, Gravis had felt a feeling of danger from the Inquisitor ever since

had felt no such feeling from the Inquisitor.

any potential danger to his life, just like its name suggested. In order to judge something as dangerous or not dangerous, the Law of Danger took two criteria into

force. If someone weren't powerful enough to be a threat to Gravis' life, they wouldn't be

the being or force. If someone had no malicious

against Jessy, her

looked powerful but was only there to force Gravis to move in a different direction,