Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis materialized some meters above the 'ground'. He immediately felt the absolutely smoldering air. Before he could even look at where he was, he started to fall. He quickly looked down into the brightly glowing lava below his feet. The very first thing he did when he realized in what situation he was currently in was panic. Then he realized that he should, theoretically, be able to survive this fall without any issue due to his elemental synchronicity.

Though, he didn't want to try his elemental synchronicity in such a dangerous scenario. 'Well, I don't have any choice right now,' he thought as he plummeted into the lava. It was hot, but not that hot. It felt more like a bath that was a little too hot for his liking. Yet, it was still manageable. He floated on the top for a while and looked around. He was in a humongous pool of lava. On the edge of said pool were towering walls of stone. Obviously, he was in a volcano.

It surely was 'great luck' that the portal dumped him on top of an active volcano. His exit point was chosen 'at random' after all. Gravis sneered. "At least I now know that Heaven's 'luck' doesn't take my elemental synchronicity into account," he said to himself.

Of course, he would materialize over an active volcano.

"Wait, is it getting warmer?" Gravis looked at the blinding lava and felt the heat rise. On top of that, the lava started bubbling at multiple places. Gravis' face whitened when he realized what was about to happen. "Really? A volcano that is about to erupt?" He immediately concentrated, and his body rose above the lava until he stood on top of it.

Even though he had his elemental synchronicity, a blast this strong would distribute his corpse upon the surrounding couple of kilometers, to multiple places. He had to flee, fast!

Gravis put his hand on the wall and tried to move upward. "Yes, it works!" he shouted as his hand stuck to the wall. He quickly climbed up the wall like an

Huge rocks flew through the air, and one of them carried Gravis. Multiple bones in his body broke in the explosion, and if he hadn't

soared through the air on the rock and didn't look forward to the landing. The rock spun in the air with Gravis holding on for dear life. He tried to judge if the rock's side with him on it would land first, but the rock was spinning too quickly. It would depend on his

widened, and he immediately gripped the rock and moved along its surface. It was challenging, and his arms hurt. His broken bones didn't help. Just when he managed to reach the other side, his previous position struck

falling for a couple of meters, but a fall from this height was not dangerous to him. Yet, it was not pleasant with all his broken bones. Gravis didn't relax and looked towards the sky. Then, he immediately

He quickly looked to the sky again, but no more rocks seemed to come toward his

KREEE!

loud screech and looked to its source. A two-meter tall, blue falcon was flying in front of the, now still, second rock. Under the rock was a broken tree, and if one looked closely, one could notice a slight amount of

would have, but his saber had vanished. During all the commotion, the saber had left Gravis. It could be anywhere. The bird charged

that. When lava touched his body, it would just slide off like viscous water. The bird was too angry at the presumed killer of its kids

BANG!

beside them. The bird flew around it and chased Gravis, who was full-on running by now. In no time at all, it reached him again and tried to strike him with its talons. Gravis quickly blocked with his left arm, redirecting its force to one direction, and ran into the other. His arm received some deep cuts, but that was better than losing his