Lightning Is the Only Way

When Gravis saw the Emperor's reaction, he immediately contacted the Commander with a voice transmission. When the Commander heard Gravis' voice transmission, she first became shocked, but then her eyes narrowed. After that, she gave orders to the entire defensive line. Shortly after that, nearly all the corpses vanished into thin air.

"What is the meaning of this!?" the Emperor shouted. The Emperor was a bright red lizard, only three meters long. "I haven't given an order for an attack. Explain yourself, Commander."

The Commander looked at the Emperor coldly. "I have the right to call an attack without your permission. If you don't want to pay for the territory, an Empire beside yours will be glad to accept."

Suddenly, all Sub-Commanders and over 15 level four Kings scattered as they traveled to the land of the land beasts.

"Halt!" the Emperor shouted. "You will remain here!"

Yet, the beasts didn't stop.

"No worries," the Commander said. "I've sent them to contact the five closest Empires and a Judge."

"A Judge!? What is the meaning of this!?" the Emperor shouted aggressively.

What was a Judge?

A Judge was the equivalent to an Inquisitor but for Emperors. There were five of them in total in the land beasts' camp. Inquisitors killed traitorous Kings, and Judges killed traitorous Emperors. Of course, Judges were all very powerful for their Realm. The weakest of them was already an outstanding level two Emperor. Inquisitors also only followed the orders of Judges.

"If you're not a traitor, nothing will happen, Emperor," the Commander said. "Just let them go, and nothing will happen."

with fury at the Commander. Yet, he let all the beasts escape. He didn't stop a single

you've seen, I didn't stop any of them. Now, tell me, what was the reason

me," Gravis said with

time, the Emperor noticed that inconspicuous, tiny level three King. When he saw Gravis, he got confused. "You? Who are you!?"

Gravis," Gravis said with a

then his eyes narrowed. "The traitorous beast that killed

laughed. "I have received my punishment, which was a Realm-Stop for a century. The Empress of the

Sure, she can revoke your status as a traitor, but the punishment for killing an Inquisitor

shone a bit.

true?" Gravis asked the

you not to be a traitor, but the punishment for the killing

isn't as simple as it seems. Every beast knows about

am," Gravis said with a smirk. "Every powerful land beast knows of what I have done, but no Judge has ever appeared to give me punishment

said, it's due to nepotism," the Emperor said with disdain. "If you had gone to any other Emperor, you wouldn't be alive anymore. Yet, you just had the luck to go to the Empress of the Icy Pride Empire. Of course

line moving," Gravis said with

very afraid and panicked deep inside. Right now, he was probably deciding what he wanted to do. Should he keep up the disguise,

made a lot of sense. It took two beasts to make a defensive line stop moving. One of them needed to be the Commander of the

he arrived. Yet, as soon as he heard the Commander request Gravis to trigger

about any traitors as long as they didn't attack him or belonged to the Icy Pride Empire. He was a member

was a possibility that they

declare an attack. In the end, the Commander realized that it was herself that didn't allow her to temper herself and immediately declared