Chapter 382: Plans for the Future (1/2)

Gravis and the snake looked at each other. Meanwhile, all the other beasts waited for Gravis to speak up again. They noticed that Gravis was speaking with the snake but didn't know what they were talking about. Orthar also only watched.

Suddenly, Gravis smirked. ”You sure are crafty. You nearly got me there,” he transmitted.

The snake seemed to frown. ”I'm not lying,” it said.

”I know, and that's why you're so crafty. You're not lying. You're just not telling me all the relevant information,” Gravis said with a smirk.

The snake narrowed its eyes, but it felt nervous inside.

”If I were a ruler over a vast territory, and one beast showed incredible power by killing my underlings, I wouldn't directly kill it,” Gravis said. ”I would first ask it to join my empire. If it declines, then I would kill it.”

Gravis swam closer to the snake. ”Doesn't that sound logical and efficient?” he asked.

The snake only narrowed its eyes at him. Yet, it was sure that it would survive. Gravis had already shown that he was interested in its cleverness and ambition. Gravis wanted to use it, which gave the snake worth in Gravis' eyes. Due to that, the snake had taken the risk of trying to manipulate Gravis.

Whoom!

And with that, the snake was unable to move.

”If you want to follow me, I need to trust you,” Gravis said as he got closer. ”I am already willing to give you the majority of command. I am interested in you because you don't want to remain weak and want to further your power. Only by being this greedy will you put in more effort than anybody else.”

”Yet…”

CRRRRR! CRK!

The snake felt unreal pain as it felt something essential in its body getting yanked out. Suddenly, a bloody bone shot out of its mouth.

Seeing its own bone leaving its body, the snake became panicked. Its craftiness left it, and what replaced it were fear and terror.

”If I can't trust you, and you try to scheme against me, you're even more useless than a dumb rock,” Gravis said as he looked deeply into the snake's eyes.

The surrounding beasts were shocked as they watched. The snake was also a high-rank Spirit Beast, like them. The fact that this strange beast was able to tear a bone out of the snake without using its body horrified them.

”You can leave, or you can stay,” Gravis said as he held the bone. ”But if you want to follow me, you're not allowed to scheme against me. If that happens again…”

Whoop! CRRRRRK!

The corpse of the chieftain appeared, and Gravis tore the shell of the meat with his Spirit. Normally, his Spirit wouldn't be powerful enough to do that, but he had already prepared the corpse inside his Spirit Space. After all, there was an incredible amount of lightning inside his Spirit Space. Tearing some meat apart in there wasn't an issue.

”This will be you,” Gravis finished his monologue as he took a bite off the exposed meat. ”Understood?”

The snake was horrified when it saw how easily Gravis tore the corpse of a Lord apart. This strength was unreal! Wasn't this beast just a mid-rank Spirit Beast?

”I understand,” the snake said after some seconds. ”And I'm willing to follow you.”

Gravis smiled and retrieved his Will-Aura. ”Good,” he said. ”As long as you don't scheme against me, I won't mind. You can even ask my friend over there,” Gravis pointed at Orthar, ”to teach you some interesting knowledge. He knows a lot.”

The snake looked over and noticed the colossal octopus swimming near Gravis. Initially, it had believed that this was just another beast in the Horde. Apparently, it wasn't.

”Okay,” the snake said deferentially.

”Good. Do you have a name?” Gravis asked.

”Shira,” the snake answered.

Gravis nodded. ”By the sound of it, you're female, right?” Gravis asked.

Shira nodded.