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.

this world. Then, I will continue on my path. Yet, I have

about?" Gravis asked with a smirk. "I gotta

seconds, which surprised Gravis.

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 would fit better into a

in confusion. "What are

slowly as he looked into Gravis' eyes. "When you return to your homeworld, can you take

taken aback. Orthar wanted to return with Gravis to

into thought as he seriously considered this action. "It's not impossible," Gravis said. "The problem is that living in the highest world is many times more dangerous for you than remaining

humans and beasts in my homeworld. Beasts in human bodies may have been all around me in the city, but it is also possible that there were

would be disallowed to live in human society and would be forced to live in the wilderness. Yet, it's also possible that there is no

humans have Karmic Luck, while beasts don't. I can't tell this to any human since that would destroy their Karmic Luck, but I can tell

when he had been in

in his death against a human that would usually die to him. A randomly missing attack or a random interference from outside could make the entire difference between

hadn't known about the concept of Karmic Luck. In order to become

a human decided to attack Orthar, he would have no other choice than to fight back. The concept of Karmic Luck was inherently unfair, and if Orthar wanted to temper himself fairly against beings that also had no Karmic Luck, he would need to keep away

both cases, Orthar would only come into contact with beasts. This would defeat

moment, something happened that shocked Gravis immensely. He had never expected that

as a sense of his was awakened that he

Orthar's body gave off a particular feeling. Gravis knew

was the feeling of when someone's Karmic Luck

front of Gravis, Orthar received Karmic

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

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

to reach the highest world as possible. We're both unsure if the highest Heaven wants to use them as hostages later or if it truly

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

you want to show me that Orthar can also temper himself against humans in the highest world? You

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

at the confused Orthar. Yet,

Even if you want to take more hostages against

that you would want to hurt me by deceiving me right now. That's something that the idiotic lower Heaven

that you keep to your

going on?"