Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis took a deep breath to calm himself down. One of his friends, Silva, had been dead for many years now. Gravis had always hoped that Silva would be able to live his life in peace. Of course, that was only because of Gravis' emotions being optimistic. From the very beginning, Gravis knew that Silva had already become too powerful to escape the world.

A Spirit Beast in the ocean would have had no issues in living out their life in peace. Outside the continent, battles were only between single beasts and not between two organizations. If Silva had decided to live in the ocean, he would probably still be alive.

"He wasn't decisive enough in his choice," Gravis said, sadness in his voice.

"Correct," Orthar said. "He wasn't willing to commit to the path to power, but he also didn't abandon it. Land beasts have no issues living inside the vast ocean, and he should have gone to it. Yet, he had decided to live on land. My guess was that he had regrets regarding his path to power."

Gravis nodded. "I think so too. It was his own indecisiveness that killed him, which is very regrettable," Gravis said as he smiled bitterly, "Because, now, I don't have anyone that I can blame for his death but him."

Gravis took another deep breath. "So, every member of the River Tribe, except you and me, are dead, huh?" Gravis asked.

"Not entirely," Orthar said.

"Oh?" Gravis asked. "Who's still alive?"

"Liza," Orthar said.

Gravis remembered the hyena that had nearly killed Orthar. "Liza? She's still alive?"

"According to my spies, she has become a King and serves on a defensive line," Orthar said. "Yet, her potential is too weak. Her Battle-Strength has become very average, and she will have a huge issue in becoming more powerful. According to expectation, she won't be able to become a level five King."

Gravis sighed again. "Not everyone reaches the top, huh?" Gravis asked.

"Naturally," Orthar answered.

Then, silence reigned for some minutes as Gravis thought about his old River Tribe. From thousands of members, only three were still alive.

Yet, that was already incredible. The path to supreme power was perilous, and two members from an innocuous Tribe at the edges of the continent had become powerful enough to contest with Emperors. This ratio was already terrifying.

Orthar and Gravis talked for a couple more hours, and the mood recovered. Gravis had had a lot of his friends and companions die on his journey. This was nothing new to him. It still hurt when he heard of the death of one of his companions, but he had grown used to it.

"So, what do you plan to do now, Orthar?" Gravis asked.

remain in your Life Ring until the Light Ultimate has left this world. Then, I will continue on my path. Yet, I have developed a thought over our conversation that I'm not sure I should share," Orthar

you're not sure about?" Gravis asked with a smirk. "I gotta

for some seconds, which surprised Gravis. Apparently, Orthar took this

said slowly. "Beasts are too simple. Ever since I have met you, I have seen the ingenuity and far-reaching mindset humans can have. I have not seen this mindset in any beast, but I feel like I

confusion. "What are you getting at?" he

into Gravis' eyes. "When you

with Gravis

considered this action. "It's not impossible," Gravis said. "The problem is that living in the highest world is many times

homeworld. Beasts in human bodies may have been all around me in the city, but it is also possible that there were only humans. After all, I was too weak to feel the power of an Immortal

It could be that you would be disallowed to live in human society and would be forced to live in

tell this to any human since that would destroy their Karmic Luck, but I can tell you since you're a beast. After all, you don't have any Karmic Luck, to begin with,"

this world. After all, no being in this world had any Karmic Luck. Yet, Gravis didn't forget the enormous impact that Karmic Luck had had when he had been in the lower world. Just because this concept hadn't been relevant in this world didn't

Luck and how it might result in his death against a human that would usually die to him. A randomly missing attack or a random interference from

choice. He hadn't known about the concept of Karmic Luck. In order to become more powerful, it

fight back. The concept of Karmic Luck was inherently unfair, and if

there would be no difference between here and there. In both cases, Orthar would only come into contact with beasts. This would defeat the entire purpose of him wanting to

shocked Gravis immensely. He had never expected that something like this

at Orthar as a sense of his was awakened that he hadn't used in

body gave off a particular

feeling of when

now, in front of Gravis, Orthar received

plan, Heaven?' Gravis thought. 'Why are you giving Orthar

'This middle Heaven doesn't break the rules. This means that this Karmic Luck doesn't come from this middle Heaven

wants as many of my friends to reach the highest world as possible. We're both unsure if the highest Heaven wants to use them as hostages later or if

of his Life Ring. Orthar was confused about Gravis' sudden change of expression and emotions. These emotions made no sense

this it?" Gravis asked. "Do you want to show me that Orthar can also temper himself against humans in the highest world? You are ready to sacrifice

of your goal, but if your goal is to make me complacent with the status quo and no longer pursue supreme power, this won't work. If that is your goal, you won't be able

Yet, Orthar's Karmic Luck didn't reduce at

huh?" Gravis asked. "Fine, then I'm fine with this. Even if you want to take more hostages against me in the future, in exchange for a future of

that the idiotic lower Heaven would have done, not

I hope that you keep to your word,

what's going on?" Orthar